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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 106 131
Rank change year-on-year -68 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 773 762 759
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 2.52% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.77% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 475 498
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £404 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -5.61% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £720 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.55% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 43 50
10th Percentile £19.05 £23.00 £21.18
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.64 £43.42
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% -23.67% +18.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.45 £65.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £48.09 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.81% -26.02% +18.18%

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 43,249 27,546 37,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 91.07% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,953 17,432 23,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,594 1,315 2,564
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.71 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +17.65%

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 26 June 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 26 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 15 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 26 June 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 -67 695 £486 +4.85% 407
London -39 366 £488 -2.50% 145
UK excluding London -86 330 £475 +5.56% 327
Work from Home -34 254 £500 +11.48% 103
North of England -46 115 £450 - 86
North West -18 65 £438 -5.30% 54
South East -42 62 £465 -15.45% 95
Midlands -58 62 £550 +37.50% 62
West Midlands -52 48 £550 +31.34% 29
South West -22 47 £475 +16.14% 41
Yorkshire -44 46 £459 +13.98% 22
Scotland -20 26 £425 -5.56% 10
East of England -46 22 £565 +2.73% 39
East Midlands -10 14 £544 +45.00% 33
North East -36 5 £448 -0.56% 12

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 34 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.81%) Confluence
5 13 (1.68%) Apache
6 11 (1.42%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.65%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.65%) CMS
7 5 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.65%) SAS
8 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 120 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.07%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.16%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.78%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.78%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.39%) InDesign
9 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.26%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.13%) Maya
10 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.91%) Primavera
3 7 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) iTrent
5 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 382 (49.42%) Power Platform
2 162 (20.96%) Azure
3 131 (16.95%) AWS
4 53 (6.86%) Snowflake
5 49 (6.34%) GCP
6 41 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.23%) Serverless
10 23 (2.98%) dbt
10 23 (2.98%) GitHub
11 21 (2.72%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.72%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.46%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.55%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.55%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.52%) DNS
3 4 (0.52%) Firewall
4 3 (0.39%) Wireless
5 2 (0.26%) 2G
5 2 (0.26%) 3G
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) 5G
5 2 (0.26%) DHCP
5 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
6 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (48.64%) Power BI
2 178 (23.03%) Tableau
3 101 (13.07%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (6.73%) Power Query
5 51 (6.60%) Relational Database
6 39 (5.05%) Big Data
7 35 (4.53%) Metadata
8 34 (4.40%) Data Lake
8 34 (4.40%) SQL Server
9 33 (4.27%) Looker
10 30 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (3.62%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.85%) Hadoop
13 21 (2.72%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (2.07%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.42%) PowerPivot
17 11 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (6.60%) Git
2 39 (5.05%) JIRA
3 13 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.55%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.03%) MLflow
6 5 (0.65%) GitLab
7 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.52%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 246 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 242 (31.31%) Social Skills
3 195 (25.23%) Finance
4 74 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.76%) Banking
6 40 (5.17%) Retail
7 37 (4.79%) Marketing
8 27 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.07%) Military
12 14 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.55%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.55%) Law
13 12 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.42%) Publishing
15 9 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.03%) Legal
17 7 (0.91%) Front Office
17 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 211 (27.30%) Analyst
2 124 (16.04%) Data Analyst
3 107 (13.84%) Data Engineer
4 106 (13.71%) Developer
5 85 (11.00%) Senior
6 49 (6.34%) Consultant
7 48 (6.21%) Data Scientist
8 45 (5.82%) Lead
9 41 (5.30%) Business Analyst
10 40 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 32 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
12 30 (3.88%) Architect
13 28 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 26 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (2.20%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.20%) Designer
15 17 (2.20%) SAP Consultant
16 16 (2.07%) Performance Analyst
17 14 (1.81%) Data Business Analyst
18 13 (1.68%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.08%) React
2 41 (5.30%) Pandas
3 35 (4.53%) Kafka
4 31 (4.01%) REST
5 24 (3.10%) NumPy
6 21 (2.72%) Node.js
7 19 (2.46%) PySpark
7 19 (2.46%) scikit-learn
8 18 (2.33%) .NET
9 17 (2.20%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.94%) CSS
10 15 (1.94%) JSON
10 15 (1.94%) Web Services
11 14 (1.81%) HTML
11 14 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (1.68%) Vue
13 12 (1.55%) Apache Avro
13 12 (1.55%) Matplotlib
14 11 (1.42%) FastAPI
14 11 (1.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.76%) Data Structures
2 31 (4.01%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.75%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.03%) Derivative
11 8 (1.03%) Life Science
11 8 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.03%) PKI
12 7 (0.91%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.91%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.62%) Windows
2 27 (3.49%) Linux
3 7 (0.91%) Unix
4 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.39%) Android
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (52.39%) Business Intelligence
2 373 (48.25%) Data Visualisation
3 353 (45.67%) Analytics
4 219 (28.33%) Data Modelling
5 211 (27.30%) Decision-Making
6 203 (26.26%) Agile
7 194 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (21.09%) AI
9 150 (19.40%) Data Pipeline
10 146 (18.89%) Actionable Insight
11 144 (18.63%) Validation
12 135 (17.46%) Data Science
13 130 (16.82%) ETL
14 129 (16.69%) Dashboard Development
14 129 (16.69%) Data Analysis
15 120 (15.52%) Data Engineering
16 117 (15.14%) Data Governance
17 113 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 104 (13.45%) CI/CD
19 99 (12.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 388 (50.19%) SQL
2 297 (38.42%) Python
3 75 (9.70%) R
4 66 (8.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.92%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.79%) Java
8 32 (4.14%) C#
9 17 (2.20%) C++
10 16 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.68%) Scala
12 10 (1.29%) VBA
13 9 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.03%) Bash
15 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.78%) Rust
17 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.52%) Perl
18 3 (0.39%) C
18 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 157 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 125 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.74%) Degree
4 20 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.39%) CBAP
11 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) APMG
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) IIBA
12 2 (0.26%) NCDA
12 2 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (20.70%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.99%) QA
3 29 (3.75%) GDPR
4 21 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.59%) PMO
6 10 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.91%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.52%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) P3O
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (3.10%) Docker
2 14 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (4.27%) Kubernetes
1 33 (4.27%) Terraform
2 24 (3.10%) Grafana
3 17 (2.20%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.94%) Ansible
5 11 (1.42%) Kibana
6 8 (1.03%) SCCM
7 7 (0.91%) logstash
7 7 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.26%) Cilium
8 2 (0.26%) Packer
8 2 (0.26%) vMotion
8 2 (0.26%) vRealize
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.13%) Podman
9 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 124 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 78 (10.09%) Databricks
3 48 (6.21%) SAP
4 45 (5.82%) Google
5 38 (4.92%) Oracle
6 23 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.46%) Adobe
8 15 (1.94%) Sage
8 15 (1.94%) Splunk
9 14 (1.81%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.42%) Informatica
12 10 (1.29%) Alteryx
13 8 (1.03%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.03%) Palantir
13 8 (1.03%) Remedy
14 6 (0.78%) Apple
14 6 (0.78%) BMC
14 6 (0.78%) VMware
15 5 (0.65%) Cognos