Visualisation Contract Job Trends

Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Visualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 109 136
Rank change year-on-year -54 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 785 709 743
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.48% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.73% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 441 503
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £579
90th Percentile £722 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 37 41
10th Percentile £21.77 £22.31 £20.50
25th Percentile £32.28 £30.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69.28 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.48 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £32.96 £65.00
% change year-on-year +93.42% -49.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Visualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Visualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Visualisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -56 699 £488 +2.63% 464
London -43 374 £488 -2.50% 211
UK excluding London -69 322 £475 +5.56% 327
Work from Home -20 254 £488 +8.33% 158
North of England -57 102 £459 -0.81% 88
Midlands -49 65 £500 +25.00% 48
North West -25 57 £420 -9.19% 42
South East -38 55 £500 -4.76% 84
South West -18 49 £500 +5.26% 46
West Midlands -44 49 £500 +19.40% 28
Yorkshire -46 41 £475 +9.20% 33
East of England -38 27 £565 -5.83% 27
Scotland -6 25 £430 -4.44% 21
East Midlands -27 16 £488 +30.00% 20
North East -29 7 £420 -20.00% 16
Northern Ireland +2 2 £463 -8.64% 5

Visualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 48 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.42%) Apache
3 18 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.17%) Confluence
5 16 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.40%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.51%) CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) SAS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 119 (15.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.15%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) iTrent
5 3 (0.38%) Primavera
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 371 (47.26%) Power Platform
2 163 (20.76%) Azure
3 135 (17.20%) AWS
4 54 (6.88%) Snowflake
5 52 (6.62%) GCP
6 47 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (3.44%) Serverless
8 26 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.31%) Power Automate
9 21 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 21 (2.68%) dbt
9 21 (2.68%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.42%) GitHub
11 18 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.27%) Google Analytics
12 10 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.40%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.76%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) Network Security
6 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (46.62%) Power BI
2 187 (23.82%) Tableau
3 106 (13.50%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.11%) Relational Database
5 44 (5.61%) Big Data
6 43 (5.48%) Power Query
7 41 (5.22%) Metadata
8 38 (4.84%) SQL Server
9 37 (4.71%) Looker
10 30 (3.82%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
12 28 (3.57%) BigQuery
13 27 (3.44%) Hadoop
14 20 (2.55%) NoSQL
15 17 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
16 14 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
16 14 (1.78%) Star Schema
17 12 (1.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (7.39%) Git
2 39 (4.97%) JIRA
3 12 (1.53%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.40%) Eclipse
5 10 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.02%) MLflow
7 5 (0.64%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 248 (31.59%) Analytical Skills
2 243 (30.96%) Social Skills
3 206 (26.24%) Finance
4 69 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.03%) Banking
6 39 (4.97%) Retail
7 34 (4.33%) Marketing
8 27 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.17%) Publishing
11 15 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.66%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.66%) Law
12 13 (1.66%) Military
12 13 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.15%) Legal
14 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.02%) Front Office
15 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (26.88%) Analyst
2 118 (15.03%) Data Analyst
3 110 (14.01%) Data Engineer
4 109 (13.89%) Developer
5 99 (12.61%) Senior
6 52 (6.62%) Data Scientist
7 50 (6.37%) Lead
8 47 (5.99%) Business Analyst
9 46 (5.86%) Consultant
10 38 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 33 (4.20%) Architect
12 28 (3.57%) Power BI Developer
12 28 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 20 (2.55%) Designer
15 17 (2.17%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.17%) SAP Consultant
15 17 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.17%) Software Engineer
16 15 (1.91%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.11%) Pandas
2 47 (5.99%) React
3 35 (4.46%) Kafka
4 30 (3.82%) REST
5 26 (3.31%) Node.js
6 25 (3.18%) NumPy
7 24 (3.06%) scikit-learn
8 22 (2.80%) PySpark
9 19 (2.42%) .NET
10 17 (2.17%) Matplotlib
11 16 (2.04%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.04%) CSS
11 16 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (2.04%) HTML
11 16 (2.04%) JSON
12 14 (1.78%) Seaborn
12 14 (1.78%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.78%) Web Services
13 13 (1.66%) Vue
14 12 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.88%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.69%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.44%) Algorithms
3 27 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.02%) Derivative
11 8 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.02%) PKI
11 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.69%) Windows
2 28 (3.57%) Linux
3 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.64%) Unix
5 4 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (50.32%) Business Intelligence
2 382 (48.66%) Data Visualisation
3 333 (42.42%) Analytics
4 236 (30.06%) Data Modelling
5 215 (27.39%) Decision-Making
6 210 (26.75%) Agile
7 204 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (20.13%) Actionable Insight
9 151 (19.24%) Data Pipeline
10 148 (18.85%) AI
11 136 (17.32%) Validation
12 134 (17.07%) Data Science
13 128 (16.31%) ETL
14 126 (16.05%) Data Governance
15 125 (15.92%) Data Analysis
16 124 (15.80%) Dashboard Development
17 117 (14.90%) Data Engineering
18 102 (12.99%) CI/CD
18 102 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
19 99 (12.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 400 (50.96%) SQL
2 297 (37.83%) Python
3 84 (10.70%) R
4 59 (7.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (6.24%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.97%) Java
7 37 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 36 (4.59%) C#
9 22 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 20 (2.55%) C++
11 19 (2.42%) Scala
12 10 (1.27%) VBA
13 9 (1.15%) Perl
14 7 (0.89%) Bash
14 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.76%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.38%) LookML
17 3 (0.38%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 150 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 120 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.32%) Degree
4 22 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.51%) CBAP
11 4 (0.51%) MBA
11 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.25%) IIBA
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.37%) QA
3 29 (3.69%) GDPR
4 24 (3.06%) PMO
5 21 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) NIST
11 2 (0.25%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.31%) Docker
2 14 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.51%) HDFS
4 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.46%) Terraform
3 23 (2.93%) Grafana
4 18 (2.29%) Kibana
5 17 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.04%) Ansible
7 12 (1.53%) logstash
8 8 (1.02%) SCCM
9 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.25%) Cilium
10 2 (0.25%) Packer
10 2 (0.25%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.25%) vMotion
10 2 (0.25%) vRealize
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 88 (11.21%) Databricks
3 48 (6.11%) Google
4 46 (5.86%) SAP
5 37 (4.71%) Oracle
6 24 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.04%) Sage
8 15 (1.91%) Adobe
9 13 (1.66%) Splunk
10 12 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.27%) Amplitude
11 10 (1.27%) Informatica
12 8 (1.02%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.02%) Remedy
13 6 (0.76%) Apple
13 6 (0.76%) BMC
13 6 (0.76%) Cognos
13 6 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.76%) VMware