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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 104 126
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 877 813 846
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 2.40% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.72% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 496 566
10th Percentile £350 £325 £311
25th Percentile £406 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.66%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £616
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 47 42 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £29.58
25th Percentile £30.63 £24.59 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.93 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.41% -7.04% -28.95%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 - £69.20
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 32,705 29,929 38,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.13% 88.30% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 18,254 25,497
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,080 971 1,514
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.43
25th Percentile £17.54 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%
75th Percentile £50.19 £62.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +40.63%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -13 754 £500 - 839
London -17 400 £500 -4.76% 314
UK excluding London +1 375 £500 +11.11% 628
Work from Home -26 256 £500 - 306
North of England -36 110 £438 -2.78% 108
Midlands -4 73 £520 +26.06% 100
West Midlands +2 59 £525 +27.27% 59
South East -8 57 £500 +25.00% 225
Yorkshire -12 56 £507 +12.67% 51
North West -28 51 £405 -7.95% 49
Scotland +24 50 £500 +1.27% 30
South West -6 41 £750 +57.89% 81
East of England -28 40 £525 +16.15% 75
East Midlands -17 14 £404 +13.41% 37
Northern Ireland -12 6 £531 +6.25% 8
North East -18 5 £400 -27.27% 9
Wales -9 4 - - 16

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 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 40 (4.56%) Apache
3 38 (4.33%) Confluence
4 27 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.17%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.71%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.25%) SAS
8 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.80%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 128 (14.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.25%) Siemens NX
5 10 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.46%) Revit
9 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Blender
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.11%) Simulink
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 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.46%) 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%) Primavera
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
1 377 (42.99%) Power Platform
2 196 (22.35%) Azure
3 152 (17.33%) AWS
4 77 (8.78%) GCP
5 50 (5.70%) Snowflake
6 44 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.65%) Power Automate
8 31 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 31 (3.53%) Serverless
9 28 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (3.19%) PowerApps
10 25 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (2.85%) dbt
11 20 (2.28%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.17%) GitHub
13 16 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.48%) Figma
14 13 (1.48%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 17 (1.94%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.46%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) 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%) HTTP
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (42.76%) Power BI
2 172 (19.61%) Tableau
3 103 (11.74%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.27%) Relational Database
5 48 (5.47%) Big Data
5 48 (5.47%) Power Query
6 37 (4.22%) Hadoop
7 33 (3.76%) Data Lake
8 31 (3.53%) SQL Server
9 28 (3.19%) Looker
10 26 (2.96%) BigQuery
11 25 (2.85%) Metadata
12 23 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (2.28%) Data Mining
15 18 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.60%) NoSQL
16 14 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (1.48%) Apache Hive
17 13 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 59 (6.73%) Git
2 53 (6.04%) JIRA
3 19 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 17 (1.94%) Eclipse
4 17 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.80%) Gradle
5 7 (0.80%) Storybook
5 7 (0.80%) Xcode
6 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.46%) MLflow
8 3 (0.34%) JUnit
8 3 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) webpack
10 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.11%) git-flow
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 353 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 239 (27.25%) Analytical Skills
3 221 (25.20%) Finance
4 79 (9.01%) Banking
5 78 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.65%) Marketing
6 32 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (2.85%) Manufacturing
7 25 (2.85%) Military
8 23 (2.62%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.62%) Retail
9 21 (2.39%) Publishing
10 20 (2.28%) Front Office
11 19 (2.17%) Legal
12 16 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.71%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 221 (25.20%) Analyst
2 136 (15.51%) Developer
3 130 (14.82%) Data Analyst
4 95 (10.83%) Senior
5 89 (10.15%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.55%) Architect
7 59 (6.73%) Data Scientist
8 52 (5.93%) Lead
9 47 (5.36%) Business Analyst
10 46 (5.25%) Consultant
11 43 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 41 (4.68%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (3.99%) Power BI Developer
14 29 (3.31%) Software Engineer
15 24 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (2.39%) Designer
17 19 (2.17%) Report Analyst
18 18 (2.05%) Integration Architect
19 17 (1.94%) Python Engineer
19 17 (1.94%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.36%) Pandas
2 35 (3.99%) React
2 35 (3.99%) scikit-learn
3 32 (3.65%) NumPy
4 31 (3.53%) Node.js
4 31 (3.53%) PySpark
5 24 (2.74%) REST
6 23 (2.62%) Web Services
7 21 (2.39%) Kafka
8 20 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (2.17%) D3.js
9 19 (2.17%) Plotly
10 18 (2.05%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.94%) CSS
11 17 (1.94%) HTML
12 15 (1.71%) OAuth
12 15 (1.71%) TensorFlow
13 13 (1.48%) Matplotlib
13 13 (1.48%) Vue
14 11 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.04%) Algorithms
2 39 (4.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.85%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.03%) CMDB
10 9 (1.03%) NHS
11 8 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.91%) Hedge funds
11 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.91%) PMI
12 7 (0.80%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.73%) Linux
2 43 (4.90%) Windows
3 33 (3.76%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
5 7 (0.80%) 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
1 417 (47.55%) Business Intelligence
2 410 (46.75%) Data Visualisation
3 324 (36.94%) Analytics
4 245 (27.94%) Data Modelling
5 213 (24.29%) Decision-Making
6 206 (23.49%) Data Analysis
6 206 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
7 197 (22.46%) Agile
8 153 (17.45%) Actionable Insight
9 149 (16.99%) Data Science
10 126 (14.37%) Machine Learning
11 125 (14.25%) Data Pipeline
12 124 (14.14%) ETL
13 116 (13.23%) AI
14 108 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 106 (12.09%) Data Governance
16 94 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (10.60%) Validation
18 88 (10.03%) Dashboard Development
19 84 (9.58%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 407 (46.41%) SQL
2 314 (35.80%) Python
3 61 (6.96%) R
4 60 (6.84%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.22%) C#
7 36 (4.10%) C++
7 36 (4.10%) Java
8 27 (3.08%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.62%) Scala
10 17 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.48%) Bash
12 10 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.03%) VBA
14 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.80%) Go
15 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 7 (0.80%) PHP
16 5 (0.57%) Perl
17 4 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 164 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 130 (14.82%) SC Cleared
3 85 (9.69%) Degree
4 38 (4.33%) Master's Degree
5 24 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.28%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.05%) CISSP
8 15 (1.71%) CISM
9 13 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.37%) PhD
11 11 (1.25%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.91%) CFA
14 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.80%) 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
1 133 (15.17%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.27%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.99%) QA
4 32 (3.65%) GDPR
5 12 (1.37%) PMO
6 11 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.80%) WCAG
8 6 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) MiFID
10 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) Basel III
12 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.23%) GxP
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (4.22%) 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 (4.22%) Terraform
2 32 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.85%) Kibana
4 19 (2.17%) logstash
5 15 (1.71%) Grafana
6 14 (1.60%) Ansible
7 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.46%) 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 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.96%) Databricks
3 58 (6.61%) Oracle
4 42 (4.79%) Google
5 40 (4.56%) Splunk
6 32 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.42%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.62%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.28%) Cisco
10 19 (2.17%) AppDynamics
11 16 (1.82%) BiZZdesign
11 16 (1.82%) SAP
12 15 (1.71%) Foundry
12 15 (1.71%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.48%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.37%) Centrify
15 11 (1.25%) Palantir
16 10 (1.14%) Bloomberg
16 10 (1.14%) Siemens
17 8 (0.91%) Alteryx