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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 101 137
Rank change year-on-year -44 +36 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 815 761 747
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.77% 2.60% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.86% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 500 497
10th Percentile £328 £331 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -2.68%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 30 41
10th Percentile £18.98 £22.45 £20.50
25th Percentile £36.03 £26.06 £27.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -28.63% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.18 £57.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £60.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -47.27% -7.69%

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 39,056 26,574 37,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.71% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,707 17,203 24,522
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,310 1,024 2,401
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +31.90% -12.29% -8.47%

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 16 April 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 16 April 2026.

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 16 April 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 -46 713 £488 +2.63% 469
London -40 392 £490 -2.00% 176
UK excluding London -60 320 £475 +2.70% 363
Work from Home -13 266 £488 +2.63% 158
North of England -60 94 £459 -0.81% 104
Midlands -32 71 £500 +21.21% 71
North West -24 57 £420 -11.58% 59
South East -35 51 £500 - 97
West Midlands -36 51 £500 +19.40% 42
South West -26 41 £475 - 38
East of England -42 35 £545 +6.34% 32
Yorkshire -51 33 £478 +12.35% 27
Scotland -8 27 £463 - 10
East Midlands -19 20 £450 +22.62% 29
North East -22 7 £420 -13.85% 19
Northern Ireland 0 3 £463 +8.82% 9
Wales -19 1 - - 7

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 (6.01%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.94%) Apache
3 20 (2.45%) Confluence
4 19 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.35%) Apache Superset
7 7 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.74%) SAS
9 5 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.25%) Luigi
11 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
Applications
1 121 (14.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.47%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.25%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.12%) Blender
8 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.12%) Maya
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.37%) iTrent
4 3 (0.37%) Primavera
4 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 363 (44.54%) Power Platform
2 168 (20.61%) Azure
3 154 (18.90%) AWS
4 58 (7.12%) GCP
5 51 (6.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (4.91%) Serverless
7 35 (4.29%) Snowflake
8 30 (3.68%) Amazon S3
8 30 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.07%) Power Automate
11 22 (2.70%) dbt
12 18 (2.21%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.09%) GitHub
14 13 (1.60%) Google Workspace
15 12 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.84%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.74%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
5 2 (0.25%) SMS
5 2 (0.25%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) 2G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LTE
6 1 (0.12%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.12%) Modbus
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (44.42%) Power BI
2 178 (21.84%) Tableau
3 103 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.64%) Big Data
5 44 (5.40%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.03%) Metadata
7 40 (4.91%) Power Query
8 33 (4.05%) Looker
9 31 (3.80%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.68%) Hadoop
11 28 (3.44%) Data Lake
12 26 (3.19%) BigQuery
13 25 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (2.45%) NoSQL
15 19 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (1.96%) MySQL
18 15 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
18 15 (1.84%) Star Schema
19 14 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 59 (7.24%) Git
2 39 (4.79%) JIRA
3 18 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.72%) Eclipse
6 8 (0.98%) MLflow
7 4 (0.49%) ERwin
7 4 (0.49%) GitLab
8 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 287 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 247 (30.31%) Analytical Skills
3 229 (28.10%) Finance
4 91 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.48%) Banking
6 38 (4.66%) Retail
7 34 (4.17%) Marketing
8 24 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.33%) Publishing
11 18 (2.21%) Military
11 18 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.72%) Law
14 13 (1.60%) Front Office
14 13 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.23%) Legal
16 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.10%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 210 (25.77%) Analyst
2 125 (15.34%) Developer
3 113 (13.87%) Data Analyst
4 112 (13.74%) Senior
5 104 (12.76%) Data Engineer
6 57 (6.99%) Data Scientist
7 55 (6.75%) Lead
8 49 (6.01%) Business Analyst
9 48 (5.89%) Consultant
10 41 (5.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 38 (4.66%) Architect
12 33 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.68%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.82%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 22 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (1.84%) Designer
17 15 (1.84%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (1.84%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.75%) Pandas
2 48 (5.89%) React
3 35 (4.29%) Kafka
3 35 (4.29%) NumPy
4 33 (4.05%) scikit-learn
5 31 (3.80%) Node.js
6 30 (3.68%) REST
7 24 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 23 (2.82%) PySpark
9 22 (2.70%) Web Services
10 20 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (2.45%) Plotly
11 19 (2.33%) .NET
11 19 (2.33%) Vue
12 18 (2.21%) Matplotlib
13 15 (1.84%) JSON
13 15 (1.84%) Seaborn
13 15 (1.84%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.60%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.66%) Data Structures
2 36 (4.42%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 24 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 12 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.98%) PMI
11 7 (0.86%) Derivative
11 7 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.86%) Life Science
11 7 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.29%) Linux
2 27 (3.31%) Windows
3 11 (1.35%) Unix
4 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (49.82%) Business Intelligence
2 402 (49.33%) Data Visualisation
3 331 (40.61%) Analytics
4 236 (28.96%) Data Modelling
5 215 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (26.26%) Decision-Making
7 209 (25.64%) Agile
8 164 (20.12%) Actionable Insight
9 156 (19.14%) Data Analysis
10 143 (17.55%) Data Science
11 141 (17.30%) Data Pipeline
12 132 (16.20%) AI
13 128 (15.71%) Validation
14 121 (14.85%) Data Governance
15 117 (14.36%) Dashboard Development
15 117 (14.36%) ETL
16 109 (13.37%) Data Engineering
17 107 (13.13%) CI/CD
18 97 (11.90%) Machine Learning
19 95 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 392 (48.10%) SQL
2 293 (35.95%) Python
3 75 (9.20%) R
4 57 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 55 (6.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 41 (5.03%) C#
7 34 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 30 (3.68%) Java
9 25 (3.07%) C++
10 20 (2.45%) Scala
11 17 (2.09%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.60%) VBA
13 9 (1.10%) Perl
14 7 (0.86%) Bash
14 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.74%) PHP
15 6 (0.74%) Rust
15 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.61%) Groovy
17 4 (0.49%) LookML
Qualifications
1 167 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 137 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.08%) Degree
4 24 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.49%) CISM
12 4 (0.49%) CISSP
12 4 (0.49%) MBA
12 4 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
13 3 (0.37%) CBAP
13 3 (0.37%) CFA
13 3 (0.37%) PhD
13 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (18.04%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.26%) QA
3 29 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 26 (3.19%) GDPR
5 25 (3.07%) PMO
6 17 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.86%) SLA
8 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.61%) WCAG
9 4 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) NIST
10 2 (0.25%) PERC
11 1 (0.12%) Basel III
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (4.17%) Docker
2 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) HDFS
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.66%) Terraform
3 25 (3.07%) Kibana
4 21 (2.58%) Grafana
5 20 (2.45%) Ansible
6 18 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 17 (2.09%) logstash
8 7 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.61%) SCCM
10 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.12%) Istio
12 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.96%) Databricks
3 52 (6.38%) Google
4 40 (4.91%) Oracle
5 34 (4.17%) SAP
6 26 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.21%) Splunk
9 17 (2.09%) Sage
10 13 (1.60%) Adobe
11 10 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.10%) Cisco
13 8 (0.98%) Amplitude
13 8 (0.98%) Informatica
14 7 (0.86%) Cognos
14 7 (0.86%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.74%) AppDynamics
15 6 (0.74%) Apple
15 6 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
16 5 (0.61%) Solace