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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 116 130
Rank change year-on-year -57 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 793 775 779
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 2.43% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.68% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 474 505
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.61% -2.00%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £588
90th Percentile £712 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £447 £453
% change year-on-year +3.75% -1.22% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 46 56
10th Percentile £18.08 £23.75 £20.88
25th Percentile £28.50 £31.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £46.34 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.86% +35.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +40.75%

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 44,398 28,953 36,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.10% 90.63% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,615 18,257 23,517
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,640 1,439 2,494
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +1.65%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -59 713 £475 +2.15% 509
London -49 371 £488 -2.50% 195
UK excluding London -74 344 £464 +3.75% 392
Work from Home -26 255 £500 +14.29% 242
North of England -51 115 £450 +1.12% 97
Midlands -42 74 £525 +31.25% 73
South East -51 64 £470 -14.55% 110
North West -13 63 £444 -2.42% 54
West Midlands -47 53 £550 +31.34% 38
Yorkshire -39 47 £459 +13.27% 27
South West -27 45 £450 +10.02% 52
Scotland -24 27 £425 -5.56% 14
East of England -44 23 £520 -3.26% 37
East Midlands -7 21 £431 +15.00% 35
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 18

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 35 (4.41%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.77%) Apache
4 13 (1.64%) Confluence
5 12 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.76%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.63%) CMS
8 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.63%) SAS
9 4 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 119 (15.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.76%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.76%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.38%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.76%) Primavera
5 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) iTrent
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 398 (50.19%) Power Platform
2 168 (21.19%) Azure
3 133 (16.77%) AWS
4 53 (6.68%) Snowflake
5 50 (6.31%) GCP
6 42 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.03%) dbt
9 24 (3.03%) GitHub
9 24 (3.03%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.03%) Serverless
10 21 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.52%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.51%) Adobe Analytics
14 11 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.51%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.50%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) 2G
5 2 (0.25%) 3G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) Network Security
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (49.43%) Power BI
2 180 (22.70%) Tableau
3 101 (12.74%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.94%) Power Query
4 55 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 40 (5.04%) Big Data
6 39 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 34 (4.29%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.04%) Looker
8 32 (4.04%) Metadata
9 31 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (3.53%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.90%) Hadoop
12 20 (2.52%) NoSQL
13 18 (2.27%) Star Schema
14 16 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (1.39%) QlikView
16 11 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (6.56%) Git
2 38 (4.79%) JIRA
3 13 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.51%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.50%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 254 (32.03%) Analytical Skills
2 246 (31.02%) Social Skills
3 202 (25.47%) Finance
4 83 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.57%) Banking
6 39 (4.92%) Marketing
7 37 (4.67%) Retail
8 27 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.14%) Military
12 14 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.39%) Law
15 10 (1.26%) Publishing
16 9 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.01%) Legal
18 7 (0.88%) Front Office
18 7 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 217 (27.36%) Analyst
2 129 (16.27%) Data Analyst
3 113 (14.25%) Developer
4 111 (14.00%) Data Engineer
5 85 (10.72%) Senior
6 53 (6.68%) Data Scientist
7 50 (6.31%) Lead
8 47 (5.93%) Consultant
9 44 (5.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 41 (5.17%) Business Analyst
11 34 (4.29%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.91%) Architect
13 29 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 27 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.27%) Designer
16 16 (2.02%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.02%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (1.89%) SAP Consultant
18 14 (1.77%) Python Developer
18 14 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.42%) Pandas
2 42 (5.30%) React
3 35 (4.41%) REST
4 34 (4.29%) Kafka
5 25 (3.15%) NumPy
6 20 (2.52%) Node.js
6 20 (2.52%) PySpark
6 20 (2.52%) scikit-learn
7 19 (2.40%) .NET
8 18 (2.27%) Web Services
9 16 (2.02%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.89%) CSS
10 15 (1.89%) JSON
11 14 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.51%) Apache Avro
12 12 (1.51%) HTML
13 11 (1.39%) Seaborn
13 11 (1.39%) Spring
13 11 (1.39%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.57%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.16%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.91%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.13%) PKI
14 8 (1.01%) Life Science
14 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.88%) Clustering
15 7 (0.88%) Derivative
15 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.04%) Windows
2 27 (3.40%) Linux
3 10 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (52.84%) Business Intelligence
2 381 (48.05%) Data Visualisation
3 364 (45.90%) Analytics
4 235 (29.63%) Data Modelling
5 212 (26.73%) Decision-Making
6 205 (25.85%) Agile
7 196 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (21.56%) AI
9 153 (19.29%) Data Pipeline
10 152 (19.17%) Actionable Insight
11 147 (18.54%) Validation
12 140 (17.65%) Data Science
13 139 (17.53%) Data Analysis
14 134 (16.90%) ETL
15 130 (16.39%) Dashboard Development
16 128 (16.14%) Data Engineering
17 118 (14.88%) Data Governance
18 116 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 105 (13.24%) CI/CD
19 105 (13.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 402 (50.69%) SQL
2 303 (38.21%) Python
3 77 (9.71%) R
4 70 (8.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.92%) Java
7 36 (4.54%) C#
7 36 (4.54%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.14%) C++
9 16 (2.02%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.51%) Scala
11 11 (1.39%) VBA
12 10 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.01%) Bash
13 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.50%) Cypher
14 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.50%) Rust
15 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 171 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 131 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.72%) Degree
4 21 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
9 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.38%) CBAP
10 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.25%) IIBA
11 2 (0.25%) NCDA
11 2 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (21.19%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.56%) QA
3 30 (3.78%) GDPR
4 24 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.52%) PMO
6 8 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 6 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.38%) GMP
10 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (3.28%) Docker
2 15 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.04%) Kubernetes
1 32 (4.04%) Terraform
2 23 (2.90%) Grafana
3 16 (2.02%) Ansible
3 16 (2.02%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.51%) Kibana
5 8 (1.01%) logstash
5 8 (1.01%) SCCM
6 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.38%) Podman
8 2 (0.25%) Cilium
8 2 (0.25%) Packer
8 2 (0.25%) vMotion
8 2 (0.25%) vRealize
9 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.21%) Databricks
3 48 (6.05%) SAP
4 44 (5.55%) Oracle
5 43 (5.42%) Google
6 24 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.40%) Adobe
8 15 (1.89%) Splunk
9 14 (1.77%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.64%) Sage
10 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.39%) Informatica
12 9 (1.13%) Remedy
13 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.01%) Palantir
14 7 (0.88%) BMC
15 6 (0.76%) VMware
16 5 (0.63%) Foundry
16 5 (0.63%) Workday