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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 97 128
Rank change year-on-year -21 +31 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 881 808 871
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.40% 2.39% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.71% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 496 584
10th Percentile £350 £325 £311
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year - -4.08% -3.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £758 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 40 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.11 £27.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £24.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +61.96% -16.44% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £48.44
90th Percentile £70.43 - £68.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%

All Process and 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 32,441 29,813 38,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.26% 88.27% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,403 18,181 25,776
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 968 1,481
10th Percentile £14.53 £15.62 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.90% +25.31%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.02 £73.83 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £30.88 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.89% -31.39% +44.18%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -12 756 £500 - 863
London -21 400 £500 -4.76% 327
UK excluding London +5 381 £500 +11.11% 632
Work from Home -28 249 £500 - 358
North of England -22 112 £438 -2.78% 107
Midlands -6 73 £525 +27.27% 108
West Midlands +4 59 £525 +27.27% 66
Yorkshire -10 59 £500 +11.11% 46
South East +1 58 £500 +25.00% 216
Scotland +25 51 £500 +1.27% 27
North West -26 50 £405 -7.95% 51
East of England -21 42 £525 +16.15% 89
South West +1 40 £750 +57.89% 84
East Midlands -15 14 £404 +13.41% 40
Northern Ireland -14 6 £531 +6.25% 4
Wales -6 5 - - 10
North East -17 5 £400 -27.27% 11

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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 40 (4.54%) Apache
3 37 (4.20%) Confluence
4 29 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.16%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.70%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.25%) SAS
8 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.79%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.34%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 126 (14.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.25%) Siemens NX
5 9 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.23%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Blender
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) Maya
11 1 (0.11%) SPSS
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 382 (43.36%) Power Platform
2 198 (22.47%) Azure
3 156 (17.71%) AWS
4 80 (9.08%) GCP
5 49 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 44 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.63%) Power Automate
8 31 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 31 (3.52%) Serverless
9 28 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (3.18%) PowerApps
10 27 (3.06%) dbt
11 25 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.27%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.16%) GitHub
14 18 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.59%) Google Analytics
17 13 (1.48%) Figma
18 10 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.16%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.93%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.45%) 2G
3 4 (0.45%) 5G
3 4 (0.45%) Firewall
3 4 (0.45%) Internet
3 4 (0.45%) SNMP
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) MQTT
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) LAN
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (43.13%) Power BI
2 179 (20.32%) Tableau
3 105 (11.92%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (6.47%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.68%) Power Query
6 49 (5.56%) Big Data
7 39 (4.43%) Hadoop
8 33 (3.75%) Data Lake
9 30 (3.41%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.29%) Looker
11 27 (3.06%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (2.38%) Metadata
14 20 (2.27%) Data Mining
15 18 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (1.48%) Apache Hive
17 13 (1.48%) NoSQL
18 12 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (6.70%) Git
2 52 (5.90%) JIRA
3 19 (2.16%) Visual Studio
4 17 (1.93%) Eclipse
4 17 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.79%) Gradle
5 7 (0.79%) Storybook
5 7 (0.79%) Xcode
6 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.45%) MLflow
8 3 (0.34%) JUnit
8 3 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) webpack
10 1 (0.11%) git-flow
10 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.11%) Snyk
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 357 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 241 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
3 218 (24.74%) Finance
4 78 (8.85%) Banking
4 78 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 33 (3.75%) Marketing
6 32 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
7 29 (3.29%) Manufacturing
8 25 (2.84%) Military
9 23 (2.61%) Investment Banking
10 21 (2.38%) Retail
11 20 (2.27%) Front Office
12 19 (2.16%) Legal
13 17 (1.93%) Publishing
14 16 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.70%) Aerospace
16 14 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (1.59%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (25.31%) Analyst
2 135 (15.32%) Developer
3 130 (14.76%) Data Analyst
4 96 (10.90%) Senior
5 91 (10.33%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.51%) Architect
7 59 (6.70%) Data Scientist
8 52 (5.90%) Lead
9 46 (5.22%) Business Analyst
9 46 (5.22%) Consultant
10 43 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (3.97%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.18%) Software Engineer
14 24 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.38%) Designer
16 19 (2.16%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.04%) Integration Architect
18 17 (1.93%) Power BI Analyst
18 17 (1.93%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.56%) Pandas
2 38 (4.31%) scikit-learn
3 35 (3.97%) React
4 34 (3.86%) NumPy
5 31 (3.52%) Node.js
5 31 (3.52%) PySpark
6 24 (2.72%) REST
7 23 (2.61%) Web Services
8 21 (2.38%) Kafka
9 19 (2.16%) D3.js
9 19 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.16%) Plotly
10 18 (2.04%) AngularJS
10 18 (2.04%) TensorFlow
11 17 (1.93%) CSS
11 17 (1.93%) HTML
12 16 (1.82%) Matplotlib
13 15 (1.70%) OAuth
14 13 (1.48%) Vue
15 12 (1.36%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.58%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.18%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.02%) CMDB
10 9 (1.02%) NHS
11 8 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.91%) Hedge funds
11 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.79%) Reinsurance
12 7 (0.79%) Replication
12 7 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.81%) Linux
2 43 (4.88%) Windows
3 33 (3.75%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
5 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (47.67%) Business Intelligence
2 410 (46.54%) Data Visualisation
3 325 (36.89%) Analytics
4 247 (28.04%) Data Modelling
5 219 (24.86%) Decision-Making
6 210 (23.84%) Data Analysis
7 205 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
8 196 (22.25%) Agile
9 157 (17.82%) Actionable Insight
10 152 (17.25%) Data Science
11 131 (14.87%) Machine Learning
12 127 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
13 126 (14.30%) ETL
14 120 (13.62%) AI
15 108 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 106 (12.03%) Data Governance
17 95 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 94 (10.67%) Validation
19 87 (9.88%) Dashboard Development
19 87 (9.88%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 407 (46.20%) SQL
2 320 (36.32%) Python
3 64 (7.26%) R
4 59 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 58 (6.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (4.31%) C++
7 33 (3.75%) C#
7 33 (3.75%) Java
8 27 (3.06%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.61%) Scala
10 13 (1.48%) Bash
11 12 (1.36%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.02%) VBA
14 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.79%) Go
15 7 (0.79%) Groovy
15 7 (0.79%) PHP
16 5 (0.57%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 164 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 129 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.10%) Degree
4 42 (4.77%) Master's Degree
5 24 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.04%) CISSP
8 17 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.70%) CISM
10 14 (1.59%) PhD
11 13 (1.48%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.14%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.91%) CFA
14 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.57%) CBAP
16 5 (0.57%) CEH
17 3 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (15.55%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.24%) Accessibility
3 36 (4.09%) QA
4 32 (3.63%) GDPR
5 11 (1.25%) PMO
6 10 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.79%) WCAG
8 6 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.45%) MiFID
10 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) Basel III
12 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) NIST
12 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (4.20%) Docker
2 10 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (4.20%) Terraform
2 32 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.84%) Kibana
4 19 (2.16%) logstash
5 15 (1.70%) Grafana
6 14 (1.59%) Ansible
7 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.45%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.11%) Cacti
11 1 (0.11%) collectd
11 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.11%) QRadar
11 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 156 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.81%) Databricks
3 58 (6.58%) Oracle
4 43 (4.88%) Google
5 40 (4.54%) Splunk
6 32 (3.63%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.41%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.61%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.27%) Cisco
10 19 (2.16%) AppDynamics
11 16 (1.82%) BiZZdesign
11 16 (1.82%) SAP
12 15 (1.70%) Foundry
12 15 (1.70%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.48%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.36%) Centrify
15 11 (1.25%) Palantir
16 10 (1.14%) Bloomberg
16 10 (1.14%) Siemens
17 9 (1.02%) Adobe