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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 111 117
Rank change year-on-year -92 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 751 793 766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 2.41% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.66% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 482 477
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -7.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 46 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.67 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.23 £32.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +56.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.00% -23.08% +60.14%

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 45,525 29,831 33,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.51% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,003 18,596 21,236
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,834 1,716 1,828
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.71 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 August 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 August 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 15 August 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 -77 690 £485 +4.86% 1,220
UK excluding London -68 356 £475 +5.56% 693
London -66 331 £488 -2.50% 690
Work from Home -49 231 £500 +16.21% 467
North of England -54 105 £451 +4.88% 171
Midlands -30 85 £528 +17.33% 101
South East -58 66 £450 -14.29% 153
West Midlands -33 64 £550 +4.76% 60
North West -33 52 £473 +5.70% 91
South West -26 49 £450 - 94
Yorkshire -46 48 £471 +17.81% 58
East of England -25 35 £565 +2.73% 74
Scotland -34 23 £425 -6.85% 65
East Midlands -9 21 £375 -6.25% 41
North East -45 6 £410 -8.89% 23

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 22 (2.93%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.53%) Confluence
3 11 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.33%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.20%) Apache Superset
6 7 (0.93%) Apache
7 5 (0.67%) CMS
7 5 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.53%) SAS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 117 (15.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.07%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.53%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.40%) InDesign
9 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.27%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.67%) Primavera
4 4 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
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%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 378 (50.33%) Power Platform
2 153 (20.37%) Azure
3 114 (15.18%) AWS
4 49 (6.52%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.26%) GCP
6 38 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (3.99%) Serverless
9 28 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.73%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.33%) GitHub
11 23 (3.06%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.53%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.40%) dbt
14 14 (1.86%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.73%) Adobe Analytics
15 13 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.60%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.53%) HTTP
3 4 (0.53%) Wireless
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) 2G
5 2 (0.27%) 3G
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DHCP
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.27%) SNMP
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (49.53%) Power BI
2 150 (19.97%) Tableau
3 96 (12.78%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (7.86%) Power Query
5 52 (6.92%) Relational Database
6 37 (4.93%) Data Lake
7 34 (4.53%) Metadata
8 32 (4.26%) Big Data
9 31 (4.13%) SQL Server
10 26 (3.46%) Looker
10 26 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (2.93%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (2.00%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.86%) GIS
15 13 (1.73%) Qlik Sense
15 13 (1.73%) QlikView
15 13 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.60%) Parquet
17 11 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (6.13%) Git
2 45 (5.99%) JIRA
3 13 (1.73%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.60%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.07%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.93%) GitLab
7 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) MLflow
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 250 (33.29%) Analytical Skills
2 244 (32.49%) Social Skills
3 170 (22.64%) Finance
4 80 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.46%) Banking
6 34 (4.53%) Marketing
7 26 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (3.20%) Retail
9 21 (2.80%) Military
10 20 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.60%) Law
13 11 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.07%) Publishing
16 7 (0.93%) Local Government
17 6 (0.80%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 199 (26.50%) Analyst
2 114 (15.18%) Data Analyst
3 111 (14.78%) Developer
4 100 (13.32%) Data Engineer
5 86 (11.45%) Senior
6 51 (6.79%) Lead
7 42 (5.59%) Consultant
7 42 (5.59%) Data Scientist
8 37 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 33 (4.39%) Business Analyst
10 32 (4.26%) Architect
11 30 (3.99%) Power BI Developer
12 24 (3.20%) Designer
13 23 (3.06%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (2.80%) Python Developer
15 20 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 19 (2.53%) Data Architect
16 19 (2.53%) Data Manager
17 16 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
18 15 (2.00%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.19%) REST
2 36 (4.79%) Pandas
3 30 (3.99%) React
4 24 (3.20%) CSS
5 23 (3.06%) HTML
6 22 (2.93%) Kafka
6 22 (2.93%) NumPy
6 22 (2.93%) PySpark
7 19 (2.53%) Web Services
8 16 (2.13%) scikit-learn
9 15 (2.00%) Node.js
10 13 (1.73%) .NET
10 13 (1.73%) Flask
11 12 (1.60%) JSON
11 12 (1.60%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.60%) TensorFlow
12 10 (1.33%) Vue
13 9 (1.20%) SOAP
14 8 (1.07%) Middleware
14 8 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.86%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.73%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.73%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.33%) PKI
13 9 (1.20%) Clustering
14 8 (1.07%) Derivative
14 8 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.93%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.66%) Windows
2 24 (3.20%) Linux
3 13 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.93%) Unix
5 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Android
6 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (53.00%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (48.74%) Data Visualisation
3 360 (47.94%) Analytics
4 224 (29.83%) Data Modelling
5 200 (26.63%) Agile
6 196 (26.10%) Decision-Making
7 185 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (21.04%) AI
9 141 (18.77%) Data Analysis
10 132 (17.58%) Actionable Insight
11 129 (17.18%) Validation
12 123 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (16.38%) Data Science
13 121 (16.11%) Data Pipeline
13 121 (16.11%) ETL
14 120 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 113 (15.05%) Dashboard Development
15 113 (15.05%) Data Governance
16 110 (14.65%) Data Engineering
17 100 (13.32%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 373 (49.67%) SQL
2 274 (36.48%) Python
3 70 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (8.12%) R
5 52 (6.92%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.33%) Java
7 37 (4.93%) C#
8 26 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.26%) C++
9 17 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.73%) Scala
11 11 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.33%) VBA
13 8 (1.07%) Bash
14 5 (0.67%) Cypher
14 5 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.53%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 163 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 87 (11.58%) Degree
4 22 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.53%) PhD
9 4 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.40%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.27%) APMG
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (21.97%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.92%) QA
3 28 (3.73%) GDPR
4 22 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.53%) PMO
6 8 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.53%) GMP
7 4 (0.53%) GRC
7 4 (0.53%) GxP
7 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.53%) WCAG
8 2 (0.27%) Basel III
8 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.27%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) COBIT
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 26 (3.46%) Docker
2 18 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (5.73%) Terraform
2 20 (2.66%) Grafana
3 17 (2.26%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.20%) SCCM
5 8 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.93%) Ansible
6 7 (0.93%) Kibana
7 3 (0.40%) Podman
8 2 (0.27%) Istio
8 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 2 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.13%) logstash
9 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 138 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.45%) Databricks
3 49 (6.52%) Oracle
4 43 (5.73%) SAP
5 40 (5.33%) Google
6 31 (4.13%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.80%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.66%) Adobe
9 14 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.73%) Splunk
11 10 (1.33%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.33%) Remedy
12 9 (1.20%) BMC
13 8 (1.07%) Palantir
14 7 (0.93%) Informatica
15 6 (0.80%) Amplitude
16 5 (0.67%) Foundry
16 5 (0.67%) Sage
17 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
17 4 (0.53%) VMware