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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 104 134
Rank change year-on-year -54 +30 +27
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 768 733 747
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.52% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.77% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 471 498
10th Percentile £328 £335 £313
25th Percentile £406 £401 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £722 £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 45 31 42
10th Percentile £21.51 £22.50 £20.58
25th Percentile £36.50 £28.13 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.16% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.71 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £65.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -51.32% -

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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 May 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 -64 679 £488 +2.63% 439
London -53 361 £488 -1.52% 189
UK excluding London -58 311 £475 +3.49% 324
Work from Home -12 253 £488 +8.33% 157
North of England -56 95 £459 -0.81% 90
Midlands -41 64 £500 +21.21% 49
North West -22 53 £441 -4.59% 46
South East -36 53 £505 -8.18% 84
South West -18 48 £500 +5.26% 44
West Midlands -46 46 £500 +21.21% 24
Yorkshire -51 38 £459 +5.46% 31
East of England -43 29 £565 +2.73% 26
Scotland -8 23 £430 -4.44% 20
East Midlands -18 18 £488 +27.12% 25
North East -24 7 £420 -20.00% 15
Northern Ireland -1 2 £463 -8.64% 2

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 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.60%) Apache
3 17 (2.21%) Confluence
4 16 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.43%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.39%) CMS
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 112 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.47%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.17%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) iTrent
5 3 (0.39%) Primavera
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 351 (45.70%) Power Platform
2 153 (19.92%) Azure
3 137 (17.84%) AWS
4 55 (7.16%) GCP
5 47 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (5.60%) Snowflake
7 28 (3.65%) Serverless
8 27 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.99%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.73%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.47%) dbt
13 18 (2.34%) GitHub
14 16 (2.08%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.30%) Google Workspace
15 10 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.56%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.78%) Firewall
4 4 (0.52%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (45.31%) Power BI
2 178 (23.18%) Tableau
3 99 (12.89%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (5.86%) Big Data
4 45 (5.86%) Relational Database
5 40 (5.21%) Metadata
6 37 (4.82%) Looker
7 36 (4.69%) Power Query
7 36 (4.69%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.91%) Hadoop
9 29 (3.78%) BigQuery
10 28 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (3.52%) Data Lake
12 20 (2.60%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
14 14 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.82%) Star Schema
15 12 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (7.55%) Git
2 38 (4.95%) JIRA
3 13 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.56%) Eclipse
5 11 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.04%) MLflow
7 4 (0.52%) ERwin
7 4 (0.52%) GitLab
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 243 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 239 (31.12%) Analytical Skills
3 202 (26.30%) Finance
4 78 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.55%) Banking
6 38 (4.95%) Retail
7 33 (4.30%) Marketing
8 28 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.08%) Publishing
11 15 (1.95%) Military
12 14 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.69%) Law
14 10 (1.30%) Legal
14 10 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.17%) Front Office
15 9 (1.17%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (26.30%) Analyst
2 110 (14.32%) Data Engineer
3 108 (14.06%) Data Analyst
4 104 (13.54%) Developer
5 102 (13.28%) Senior
6 55 (7.16%) Data Scientist
7 50 (6.51%) Lead
8 49 (6.38%) Business Analyst
9 43 (5.60%) Consultant
10 36 (4.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 34 (4.43%) Architect
12 26 (3.39%) Power BI Developer
12 26 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
14 21 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 19 (2.47%) Designer
15 19 (2.47%) Software Engineer
16 17 (2.21%) Data Business Analyst
16 17 (2.21%) SAP Consultant
16 17 (2.21%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.99%) Pandas
1 46 (5.99%) React
2 34 (4.43%) Kafka
3 29 (3.78%) REST
4 27 (3.52%) Node.js
5 24 (3.13%) NumPy
6 23 (2.99%) scikit-learn
7 21 (2.73%) PySpark
8 18 (2.34%) .NET
9 16 (2.08%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (2.08%) Matplotlib
10 15 (1.95%) JSON
10 15 (1.95%) Web Services
11 13 (1.69%) CSS
11 13 (1.69%) HTML
11 13 (1.69%) Seaborn
11 13 (1.69%) TensorFlow
11 13 (1.69%) Vue
12 12 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.51%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.52%) Algorithms
4 23 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.17%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.04%) Derivative
12 8 (1.04%) PMI
13 7 (0.91%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.91%) Life Science
13 7 (0.91%) NHS
13 7 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.91%) Linux
1 30 (3.91%) Windows
2 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.78%) Unix
3 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
3 5 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.39%) Android
4 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (49.35%) Business Intelligence
2 364 (47.40%) Data Visualisation
3 320 (41.67%) Analytics
4 233 (30.34%) Data Modelling
5 214 (27.86%) Decision-Making
6 198 (25.78%) Agile
7 197 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (20.70%) Actionable Insight
9 146 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
10 132 (17.19%) AI
10 132 (17.19%) Validation
11 129 (16.80%) Data Science
12 124 (16.15%) Data Governance
13 123 (16.02%) Data Analysis
14 119 (15.49%) ETL
15 118 (15.36%) Dashboard Development
16 113 (14.71%) Data Engineering
17 102 (13.28%) CI/CD
18 95 (12.37%) Machine Learning
19 89 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 380 (49.48%) SQL
2 293 (38.15%) Python
3 86 (11.20%) R
4 51 (6.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.95%) C#
6 38 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.82%) Java
8 23 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 22 (2.86%) C++
10 19 (2.47%) Scala
11 13 (1.69%) VBA
12 9 (1.17%) Perl
13 8 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.78%) Bash
15 6 (0.78%) Rust
16 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.39%) C
17 3 (0.39%) LookML
Qualifications
1 153 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.90%) Degree
4 20 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.52%) CBAP
11 4 (0.52%) MBA
11 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) IIBA
13 2 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.26%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (18.62%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.51%) QA
3 28 (3.65%) GDPR
4 24 (3.13%) PMO
5 22 (2.86%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.91%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.52%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
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%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) P3O
11 2 (0.26%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (3.65%) Docker
2 14 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) HDFS
4 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
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 38 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.43%) Terraform
3 22 (2.86%) Grafana
4 18 (2.34%) Kibana
5 17 (2.21%) Ansible
5 17 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.56%) logstash
7 7 (0.91%) SCCM
7 7 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.39%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.26%) Cilium
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 2 (0.26%) vMotion
9 2 (0.26%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 115 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 80 (10.42%) Databricks
3 47 (6.12%) Google
4 42 (5.47%) SAP
5 35 (4.56%) Oracle
6 25 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.08%) Sage
8 15 (1.95%) Adobe
9 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.69%) Splunk
10 10 (1.30%) Amplitude
11 9 (1.17%) Informatica
12 7 (0.91%) Remedy
13 6 (0.78%) Apple
13 6 (0.78%) Cognos
13 6 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.78%) VMware
14 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.65%) BMC
14 5 (0.65%) Solace