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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 98 134
Rank change year-on-year -32 +36 +7
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 886 791 799
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.17% 2.57% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.86% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 516 534
10th Percentile £350 £328 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £580
90th Percentile £738 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 27 47
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £25.00
25th Percentile £23.03 £23.61 £41.88
Median hourly rate £54.50 £31.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +75.81% -32.87% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.25 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.41 £46.18
% change year-on-year +106.97% -31.99% -28.95%

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 35,362 27,619 38,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.73% 89.84% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,416 17,059 25,415
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 859 2,186
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.30 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -25 765 £500 +4.17% 470
London -23 424 £500 -3.85% 190
UK excluding London -25 358 £500 +11.11% 424
Work from Home -12 289 £500 - 141
North of England -47 112 £469 +1.35% 96
Midlands -19 69 £500 +25.31% 74
West Midlands -29 57 £500 +21.21% 36
North West -32 56 £420 -9.19% 50
Yorkshire -28 52 £514 +23.11% 33
South East -9 51 £500 +21.21% 150
South West -11 50 £680 +51.00% 44
Scotland +8 44 £475 +5.56% 15
East of England -35 28 £500 +10.13% 38
East Midlands -27 12 £423 +18.68% 37
North East -24 7 £425 -19.05% 13
Northern Ireland -7 6 £531 +6.25% 7
Wales -9 3 - - 14

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 55 (6.21%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.95%) Confluence
3 28 (3.16%) Apache
4 25 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.60%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.68%) SAS
8 5 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.45%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 120 (13.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.35%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.45%) Revit
7 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.23%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Blender
10 1 (0.11%) Maya
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.34%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.34%) Primavera
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.23%) iTrent
5 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 381 (43.00%) Power Platform
2 174 (19.64%) Azure
3 162 (18.28%) AWS
4 67 (7.56%) GCP
5 46 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.85%) Snowflake
7 37 (4.18%) Serverless
8 29 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.05%) dbt
10 27 (3.05%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.48%) PowerApps
13 17 (1.92%) GitHub
14 15 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.47%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.47%) Google Workspace
16 11 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.02%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) 2G
4 4 (0.45%) 5G
5 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.23%) LTE
6 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SMS
6 2 (0.23%) SNMP
6 2 (0.23%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) 4G
7 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.11%) SSH
7 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (42.89%) Power BI
2 175 (19.75%) Tableau
3 94 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.64%) Big Data
5 47 (5.30%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.51%) Hadoop
7 38 (4.29%) Looker
8 34 (3.84%) Metadata
9 33 (3.72%) Power Query
10 32 (3.61%) BigQuery
11 31 (3.50%) Data Lake
12 27 (3.05%) SQL Server
13 25 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (1.92%) NoSQL
16 16 (1.81%) Data Mining
16 16 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
16 16 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (6.21%) Git
2 48 (5.42%) JIRA
3 15 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.13%) MLflow
5 9 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.90%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.45%) ERwin
8 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.34%) GitLab
8 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.23%) git-flow
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.11%) Gradle
10 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Xcode
General
1 324 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 239 (26.98%) Finance
3 238 (26.86%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.93%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.92%) Banking
6 40 (4.51%) Retail
7 32 (3.61%) Marketing
8 24 (2.71%) Publishing
9 22 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.69%) Front Office
12 15 (1.69%) Military
13 14 (1.58%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.58%) Legal
13 14 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 226 (25.51%) Analyst
2 132 (14.90%) Data Analyst
3 129 (14.56%) Developer
4 103 (11.63%) Senior
5 95 (10.72%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.24%) Architect
7 66 (7.45%) Lead
8 65 (7.34%) Data Scientist
9 52 (5.87%) Consultant
10 50 (5.64%) Business Analyst
11 44 (4.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 38 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.61%) Power BI Developer
14 25 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
15 22 (2.48%) Designer
16 21 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.37%) Software Engineer
17 20 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 18 (2.03%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.53%) Pandas
2 45 (5.08%) React
3 37 (4.18%) scikit-learn
4 32 (3.61%) NumPy
5 30 (3.39%) Kafka
5 30 (3.39%) PySpark
6 27 (3.05%) Node.js
7 26 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (2.82%) REST
9 23 (2.60%) AngularJS
10 22 (2.48%) Vue
11 18 (2.03%) Plotly
11 18 (2.03%) TensorFlow
12 16 (1.81%) Matplotlib
12 16 (1.81%) OAuth
13 14 (1.58%) .NET
13 14 (1.58%) HTML
13 14 (1.58%) JSON
13 14 (1.58%) Web Services
14 12 (1.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.08%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.18%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.24%) PMI
10 10 (1.13%) NHS
11 9 (1.02%) CMDB
11 9 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.90%) Life Science
12 8 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.84%) Linux
2 22 (2.48%) Windows
3 17 (1.92%) Unix
4 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (47.74%) Data Visualisation
2 412 (46.50%) Business Intelligence
3 340 (38.37%) Analytics
4 235 (26.52%) Data Modelling
5 225 (25.40%) Decision-Making
6 221 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
7 217 (24.49%) Agile
8 177 (19.98%) Data Analysis
9 164 (18.51%) Actionable Insight
10 155 (17.49%) Data Science
11 146 (16.48%) Data Pipeline
12 129 (14.56%) AI
13 123 (13.88%) ETL
14 122 (13.77%) Machine Learning
15 117 (13.21%) Data Governance
16 112 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 108 (12.19%) Validation
18 107 (12.08%) Data Engineering
19 104 (11.74%) Dashboard Development
20 102 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 402 (45.37%) SQL
2 312 (35.21%) Python
3 68 (7.67%) R
4 56 (6.32%) JavaScript
5 47 (5.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (3.61%) Java
7 30 (3.39%) C#
8 28 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.60%) C++
10 22 (2.48%) Scala
11 17 (1.92%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.13%) Bash
12 10 (1.13%) VBA
13 8 (0.90%) Perl
13 8 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.79%) Groovy
14 7 (0.79%) PHP
15 4 (0.45%) C
15 4 (0.45%) LookML
15 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (19.98%) Security Cleared
2 144 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.05%) Degree
4 38 (4.29%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.03%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.81%) CISM
6 16 (1.81%) CISSP
7 13 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.24%) PhD
10 10 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.79%) CBAP
12 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.56%) MBA
13 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.45%) CFA
15 3 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (16.03%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.64%) Accessibility
3 45 (5.08%) QA
4 28 (3.16%) GDPR
5 20 (2.26%) PMO
6 18 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.68%) WCAG
8 5 (0.56%) SLA
9 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (4.29%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) HDFS
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (4.85%) Kubernetes
1 43 (4.85%) Terraform
2 32 (3.61%) Kibana
3 23 (2.60%) logstash
4 21 (2.37%) Ansible
5 20 (2.26%) Grafana
6 17 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.34%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) Cilium
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.23%) vMotion
10 2 (0.23%) vRealize
11 1 (0.11%) Argo
11 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 130 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.35%) Databricks
3 51 (5.76%) Google
4 38 (4.29%) Oracle
5 27 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.82%) Splunk
7 24 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.71%) SAP
8 18 (2.03%) BiZZdesign
9 13 (1.47%) Adobe
9 13 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.47%) Sage
10 12 (1.35%) Centrify
10 12 (1.35%) Cisco
11 11 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.13%) Foundry
13 9 (1.02%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.90%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.79%) Amplitude
15 7 (0.79%) Palantir