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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 100 141
Rank change year-on-year -41 +41 +14
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 826 766 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.80% 2.61% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.88% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 504 494
10th Percentile £330 £331 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -2.68%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £459 £450
% change year-on-year +3.49% +2.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 30 39
10th Percentile £18.98 £22.45 £20.49
25th Percentile £36.03 £26.06 £27.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -28.63% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.18 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £73.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £55.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -42.47% -15.38%

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 39,015 26,568 37,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.69% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,668 17,198 24,355
10th Percentile £316 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,023 2,389
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.92 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.45 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.78 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -6.91% -8.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.20 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.28% -12.12% -8.65%

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 15 April 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 15 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 17 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 15 April 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 -39 725 £488 +2.63% 408
London -36 399 £490 -2.00% 133
UK excluding London -50 325 £475 +3.49% 349
Work from Home -18 270 £488 +3.45% 129
North of England -58 96 £459 -0.81% 98
Midlands -26 71 £500 +21.21% 67
North West -29 59 £420 -11.58% 54
South East -31 53 £500 - 89
West Midlands -38 51 £500 +19.40% 39
South West -26 41 £475 - 40
East of England -34 36 £545 +6.34% 30
Yorkshire -49 33 £478 +12.35% 25
Scotland -7 27 £463 - 13
East Midlands -16 20 £450 +22.62% 28
North East -25 7 £420 -6.67% 20
Northern Ireland 0 3 £463 +8.82% 10
Wales -15 1 - - 7

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 49 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.91%) Apache
3 20 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.42%) Confluence
3 20 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.33%) Apache Superset
5 7 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.73%) SAS
7 5 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.24%) Luigi
9 2 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.24%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 122 (14.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.18%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.57%) Chatbot
5 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.24%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.36%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.36%) iTrent
4 3 (0.36%) Primavera
5 2 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 369 (44.67%) Power Platform
2 172 (20.82%) Azure
3 158 (19.13%) AWS
4 61 (7.38%) GCP
5 51 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (4.84%) Serverless
7 39 (4.72%) Snowflake
8 30 (3.63%) Amazon S3
8 30 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.03%) dbt
10 25 (3.03%) Power Automate
11 18 (2.18%) PowerApps
12 17 (2.06%) GitHub
13 13 (1.57%) Google Workspace
14 12 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.82%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.69%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.73%) Firewall
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) 2G
5 2 (0.24%) 5G
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) LTE
5 2 (0.24%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.24%) Network Security
5 2 (0.24%) SAN
5 2 (0.24%) SMS
5 2 (0.24%) SNMP
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (44.55%) Power BI
2 179 (21.67%) Tableau
3 108 (13.08%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.57%) Big Data
5 44 (5.33%) Relational Database
6 41 (4.96%) Metadata
7 40 (4.84%) Power Query
8 33 (4.00%) Looker
9 32 (3.87%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.63%) Hadoop
11 29 (3.51%) Data Lake
12 26 (3.15%) BigQuery
13 25 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (2.42%) NoSQL
14 20 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
15 19 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (1.94%) MySQL
16 16 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
17 15 (1.82%) Star Schema
18 14 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 60 (7.26%) Git
2 39 (4.72%) JIRA
3 18 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.69%) Eclipse
6 8 (0.97%) MLflow
7 4 (0.48%) ERwin
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
8 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) git-flow
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 295 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 252 (30.51%) Analytical Skills
3 228 (27.60%) Finance
4 92 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.38%) Banking
6 40 (4.84%) Retail
7 34 (4.12%) Marketing
8 24 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.30%) Publishing
11 18 (2.18%) Military
11 18 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.69%) Front Office
13 14 (1.69%) Law
14 13 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.21%) Legal
17 9 (1.09%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 211 (25.54%) Analyst
2 130 (15.74%) Developer
3 114 (13.80%) Data Analyst
4 111 (13.44%) Senior
5 104 (12.59%) Data Engineer
6 57 (6.90%) Data Scientist
7 56 (6.78%) Lead
8 49 (5.93%) Business Analyst
9 48 (5.81%) Consultant
10 42 (5.08%) Architect
11 41 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 33 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.63%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.78%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 22 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.30%) Data Business Analyst
17 16 (1.94%) Designer
17 16 (1.94%) Senior Data Scientist
18 15 (1.82%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.66%) Pandas
2 50 (6.05%) React
3 35 (4.24%) Kafka
3 35 (4.24%) NumPy
4 33 (4.00%) scikit-learn
5 31 (3.75%) Node.js
6 30 (3.63%) REST
7 26 (3.15%) AngularJS
8 23 (2.78%) PySpark
9 22 (2.66%) Web Services
10 21 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (2.54%) Plotly
10 21 (2.54%) Vue
11 19 (2.30%) .NET
12 18 (2.18%) Matplotlib
13 15 (1.82%) JSON
13 15 (1.82%) Seaborn
13 15 (1.82%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.96%) Data Structures
2 37 (4.48%) Algorithms
3 36 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 27 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 24 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 15 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.09%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (0.97%) PMI
12 7 (0.85%) Derivative
12 7 (0.85%) Life Science
12 7 (0.85%) NHS
12 7 (0.85%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.36%) Linux
2 27 (3.27%) Windows
3 12 (1.45%) Unix
4 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 411 (49.76%) Data Visualisation
3 337 (40.80%) Analytics
4 242 (29.30%) Data Modelling
5 221 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
6 218 (26.39%) Decision-Making
7 212 (25.67%) Agile
8 169 (20.46%) Actionable Insight
9 160 (19.37%) Data Analysis
10 145 (17.55%) Data Science
11 142 (17.19%) Data Pipeline
12 137 (16.59%) AI
13 129 (15.62%) Validation
14 122 (14.77%) Data Governance
15 120 (14.53%) ETL
16 119 (14.41%) Dashboard Development
17 110 (13.32%) Data Engineering
18 106 (12.83%) CI/CD
19 103 (12.47%) Machine Learning
20 97 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 396 (47.94%) SQL
2 293 (35.47%) Python
3 76 (9.20%) R
4 59 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 55 (6.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 41 (4.96%) C#
7 33 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 29 (3.51%) Java
9 25 (3.03%) C++
10 21 (2.54%) Scala
11 17 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.57%) VBA
13 9 (1.09%) Perl
14 7 (0.85%) Bash
14 7 (0.85%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.73%) PHP
15 6 (0.73%) Rust
15 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.61%) Groovy
17 4 (0.48%) LookML
Qualifications
1 170 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 139 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 77 (9.32%) Degree
4 24 (2.91%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.09%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.48%) CISM
12 4 (0.48%) CISSP
12 4 (0.48%) MBA
12 4 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.36%) CBAP
13 3 (0.36%) CFA
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (18.16%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.30%) QA
3 30 (3.63%) Accessibility
4 26 (3.15%) GDPR
5 25 (3.03%) PMO
6 17 (2.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.85%) SLA
8 6 (0.73%) WCAG
9 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (4.12%) Docker
2 8 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) HDFS
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.60%) Terraform
3 26 (3.15%) Kibana
4 21 (2.54%) Grafana
5 20 (2.42%) Ansible
6 18 (2.18%) logstash
6 18 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.61%) SCCM
9 3 (0.36%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.24%) Cilium
10 2 (0.24%) vMotion
10 2 (0.24%) vRealize
11 1 (0.12%) Cacti
11 1 (0.12%) collectd
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 135 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.96%) Databricks
3 52 (6.30%) Google
4 41 (4.96%) Oracle
5 34 (4.12%) SAP
6 27 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.18%) Splunk
9 17 (2.06%) Sage
10 13 (1.57%) Adobe
11 10 (1.21%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.09%) Cisco
13 8 (0.97%) Amplitude
13 8 (0.97%) Informatica
14 7 (0.85%) Cognos
14 7 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (0.85%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.73%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.73%) Apple
15 6 (0.73%) BiZZdesign