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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 103 119
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 +30
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 896 849 916
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.45% 2.36% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.70% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 520 609
10th Percentile £342 £325 £309
25th Percentile £406 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £731 £765 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 49 73
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £22.57
25th Percentile £32.00 £28.50 £33.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +13.69% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £63.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £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 32,497 31,445 39,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.04% 87.40% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,429 19,051 26,476
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,092 1,104 1,536
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.25 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -29.71% -25.97% +36.12%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -4 774 £500 - 1,613
London -17 406 £500 -9.09% 178
UK excluding London +6 398 £500 +11.11% 1,945
Work from Home -35 256 £500 - 1,902
North of England -31 112 £445 -1.11% 360
Midlands +7 75 £525 +27.27% 319
South East +14 66 £500 +3.73% 358
West Midlands +7 61 £525 +27.27% 201
Yorkshire -2 59 £500 +11.11% 80
Scotland +25 54 £500 -3.61% 224
North West -27 49 £418 -3.97% 203
East of England -16 47 £525 +16.15% 227
South West -6 40 £750 +57.89% 233
East Midlands -12 14 £410 -3.53% 117
Wales -10 5 - - 161
Northern Ireland -14 4 £613 +22.50% 73
North East -21 4 £413 -17.50% 77

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 40 (4.46%) Apache Spark
1 40 (4.46%) Confluence
2 33 (3.68%) Apache
3 28 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 27 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.67%) WebLogic
6 13 (1.45%) SAS
7 8 (0.89%) Apache Pig
8 7 (0.78%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.33%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.22%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 129 (14.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.23%) Siemens NX
6 7 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.33%) Maya
9 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.33%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.22%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.23%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
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
1 390 (43.53%) Power Platform
2 207 (23.10%) Azure
3 157 (17.52%) AWS
4 77 (8.59%) GCP
5 48 (5.36%) Snowflake
6 41 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (3.68%) Power Automate
8 32 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (3.46%) PowerApps
9 31 (3.46%) Serverless
10 26 (2.90%) dbt
11 25 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.23%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.12%) GitHub
14 18 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (1.67%) Google Analytics
17 13 (1.45%) Figma
18 10 (1.12%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.68%) TCP/IP
2 22 (2.46%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.45%) 2G
3 4 (0.45%) 5G
3 4 (0.45%) Internet
3 4 (0.45%) SNMP
4 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.33%) MQTT
4 3 (0.33%) SSH
5 2 (0.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.22%) LTE
5 2 (0.22%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.22%) SSL
5 2 (0.22%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (43.19%) Power BI
2 184 (20.54%) Tableau
3 103 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 51 (5.69%) Power Query
6 46 (5.13%) Big Data
7 35 (3.91%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.79%) Hadoop
9 31 (3.46%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.35%) Looker
11 27 (3.01%) BigQuery
12 24 (2.68%) Metadata
12 24 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (2.23%) Data Mining
14 19 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (1.90%) NoSQL
17 14 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 12 (1.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (6.36%) Git
2 54 (6.03%) JIRA
3 24 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 22 (2.46%) Eclipse
5 16 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.78%) Gradle
6 7 (0.78%) Storybook
6 7 (0.78%) Xcode
7 6 (0.67%) JUnit
8 5 (0.56%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.45%) MLflow
9 4 (0.45%) Selenium
10 3 (0.33%) webpack
11 2 (0.22%) Postman
12 1 (0.11%) git-flow
12 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.11%) Snyk
12 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 376 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 248 (27.68%) Analytical Skills
3 225 (25.11%) Finance
4 79 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 77 (8.59%) Banking
6 39 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 33 (3.68%) Marketing
8 30 (3.35%) Military
9 25 (2.79%) Investment Banking
10 23 (2.57%) Retail
11 19 (2.12%) Front Office
11 19 (2.12%) Legal
12 18 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.67%) Publishing
14 14 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.45%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 237 (26.45%) Analyst
2 140 (15.63%) Developer
3 139 (15.51%) Data Analyst
4 93 (10.38%) Senior
5 87 (9.71%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.15%) Architect
7 59 (6.58%) Data Scientist
8 52 (5.80%) Lead
9 47 (5.25%) Business Analyst
10 46 (5.13%) Consultant
11 45 (5.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 39 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (4.02%) Power BI Developer
14 33 (3.68%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.23%) C# Software Engineer
17 19 (2.12%) Python Engineer
18 18 (2.01%) Integration Architect
18 18 (2.01%) Power BI Analyst
18 18 (2.01%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.46%) Pandas
2 39 (4.35%) React
3 35 (3.91%) scikit-learn
4 33 (3.68%) Node.js
5 32 (3.57%) NumPy
6 29 (3.24%) Web Services
7 26 (2.90%) PySpark
8 21 (2.34%) Kafka
9 20 (2.23%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.23%) CSS
9 20 (2.23%) D3.js
9 20 (2.23%) REST
10 17 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (1.90%) Plotly
11 15 (1.67%) OAuth
12 14 (1.56%) HTML
12 14 (1.56%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.56%) Vue
13 12 (1.34%) Matplotlib
14 11 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.25%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.23%) CMDB
11 11 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.00%) Hedge funds
14 8 (0.89%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.89%) SCADA
15 7 (0.78%) Animation
15 7 (0.78%) NHS
16 6 (0.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 64 (7.14%) Linux
2 48 (5.36%) Windows
3 32 (3.57%) Unix
4 8 (0.89%) Android
5 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.22%) 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
1 427 (47.66%) Data Visualisation
2 425 (47.43%) Business Intelligence
3 338 (37.72%) Analytics
4 250 (27.90%) Data Modelling
5 218 (24.33%) Decision-Making
6 217 (24.22%) Data Analysis
7 214 (23.88%) Agile
8 205 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
9 157 (17.52%) Actionable Insight
10 152 (16.96%) Data Science
11 138 (15.40%) Machine Learning
12 124 (13.84%) AI
13 122 (13.62%) ETL
14 117 (13.06%) Data Pipeline
15 111 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 102 (11.38%) Data Governance
17 100 (11.16%) Validation
18 97 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
19 95 (10.60%) CI/CD
20 88 (9.82%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 407 (45.42%) SQL
2 317 (35.38%) Python
3 66 (7.37%) JavaScript
4 62 (6.92%) R
5 61 (6.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 44 (4.91%) C++
7 36 (4.02%) Java
8 35 (3.91%) C#
9 30 (3.35%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.46%) Scala
11 13 (1.45%) Bash
12 12 (1.34%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.12%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.00%) VBA
15 8 (0.89%) Go
15 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.78%) Groovy
16 7 (0.78%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.78%) PHP
17 4 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 158 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 125 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 100 (11.16%) Degree
4 42 (4.69%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.12%) CISSP
7 18 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.79%) CISM
9 14 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.56%) PhD
10 11 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.78%) CFA
15 6 (0.67%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.67%) CBAP
15 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.56%) CEH
17 4 (0.45%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (14.73%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.91%) QA
4 33 (3.68%) GDPR
5 8 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.78%) PMO
6 7 (0.78%) WCAG
7 6 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.45%) MiFID
9 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.33%) EMIR
10 3 (0.33%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (3.91%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (3.91%) Terraform
2 30 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.57%) Kibana
4 18 (2.01%) Grafana
5 17 (1.90%) logstash
6 13 (1.45%) Ansible
7 4 (0.45%) Argo
7 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.11%) Cacti
9 1 (0.11%) collectd
9 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) QRadar
9 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 178 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.58%) Oracle
3 56 (6.25%) Databricks
4 44 (4.91%) Google
5 43 (4.80%) Splunk
6 33 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.35%) Salesforce
8 26 (2.90%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.23%) SAP
10 19 (2.12%) AppDynamics
10 19 (2.12%) Cisco
11 17 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
12 15 (1.67%) Foundry
13 13 (1.45%) CyberArk
13 13 (1.45%) OpenAI
14 12 (1.34%) Centrify
15 11 (1.23%) Palantir
16 10 (1.12%) Adobe
16 10 (1.12%) Siemens
17 9 (1.00%) Bloomberg