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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 97 137
Rank change year-on-year -28 +40 +4
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 888 791 803
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.60% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.90% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 514 537
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £583
90th Percentile £738 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 27 52
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £25.47
25th Percentile £23.03 £23.61 £42.19
Median hourly rate £54.50 £31.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +75.81% -32.87% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £55.13
90th Percentile £80.95 £64.25 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.41 £46.18
% change year-on-year +106.97% -31.99% -28.95%

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 34,951 27,281 38,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.91% 89.56% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,148 16,723 25,428
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.59% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,114 833 2,148
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -12.06% +7.63%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -29 767 £500 +5.26% 415
London -23 429 £508 -2.40% 195
UK excluding London -31 359 £500 +11.11% 343
Work from Home -27 281 £500 +2.56% 153
North of England -45 113 £455 -1.62% 76
Midlands -21 71 £500 +27.31% 62
West Midlands -14 59 £507 +26.75% 35
North West -33 57 £409 -11.62% 40
South East -4 53 £500 +21.21% 130
Yorkshire -21 52 £515 +21.06% 30
South West -16 47 £750 +62.16% 37
Scotland +14 45 £475 +5.56% 14
East of England -39 28 £513 +12.89% 19
East Midlands -23 12 £423 +18.68% 27
North East -17 7 £425 -19.05% 6
Northern Ireland -8 6 £531 +11.84% 5
Wales -10 3 - - 9

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 54 (6.08%) Apache Spark
2 39 (4.39%) Confluence
3 30 (3.38%) Apache
4 25 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.59%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.79%) Apache Pig
7 7 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.45%) SAS
9 4 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 122 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.13%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.45%) Revit
7 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.23%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Blender
10 1 (0.11%) Maya
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.34%) Primavera
4 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.23%) iTrent
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Actimize
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Maximo
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 381 (42.91%) Power Platform
2 183 (20.61%) Azure
3 157 (17.68%) AWS
4 67 (7.55%) GCP
5 45 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (4.73%) Snowflake
7 33 (3.72%) Serverless
8 27 (3.04%) dbt
9 26 (2.93%) Amazon S3
9 26 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (2.82%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.36%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.25%) GitHub
13 15 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (1.35%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (1.24%) Google Workspace
16 9 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.01%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) 2G
4 4 (0.45%) 5G
5 3 (0.34%) Internet
5 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.34%) SNMP
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.23%) LTE
6 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SMS
6 2 (0.23%) SSH
6 2 (0.23%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) 4G
7 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (42.79%) Power BI
2 175 (19.71%) Tableau
3 91 (10.25%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.63%) Big Data
5 44 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 41 (4.62%) Hadoop
7 35 (3.94%) Looker
8 34 (3.83%) Power Query
9 32 (3.60%) Metadata
10 31 (3.49%) BigQuery
11 30 (3.38%) Data Lake
11 30 (3.38%) SQL Server
12 26 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (2.03%) Data Mining
14 18 (2.03%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
15 16 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
16 14 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
17 13 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 54 (6.08%) Git
2 51 (5.74%) JIRA
3 12 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.01%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.01%) MLflow
6 4 (0.45%) ERwin
6 4 (0.45%) Gradle
6 4 (0.45%) Storybook
6 4 (0.45%) Xcode
7 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.23%) GitLab
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 2 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 325 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 243 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (26.80%) Finance
4 84 (9.46%) Banking
4 84 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 38 (4.28%) Retail
6 26 (2.93%) Marketing
7 24 (2.70%) Publishing
8 22 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.14%) Legal
10 18 (2.03%) Front Office
10 18 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.80%) Military
11 16 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 221 (24.89%) Analyst
2 130 (14.64%) Data Analyst
2 130 (14.64%) Developer
3 105 (11.82%) Senior
4 98 (11.04%) Data Engineer
5 78 (8.78%) Architect
6 66 (7.43%) Data Scientist
7 61 (6.87%) Lead
8 51 (5.74%) Consultant
9 50 (5.63%) Business Analyst
10 43 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 37 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
12 31 (3.49%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (2.59%) Designer
14 22 (2.48%) Software Engineer
15 21 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.14%) Data Business Analyst
16 19 (2.14%) Report Analyst
16 19 (2.14%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.74%) Pandas
2 45 (5.07%) React
3 38 (4.28%) scikit-learn
4 33 (3.72%) NumPy
5 30 (3.38%) Kafka
5 30 (3.38%) PySpark
6 27 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
6 27 (3.04%) Node.js
7 25 (2.82%) REST
8 23 (2.59%) AngularJS
9 22 (2.48%) Vue
10 18 (2.03%) OAuth
10 18 (2.03%) Plotly
11 17 (1.91%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.69%) Matplotlib
13 14 (1.58%) .NET
13 14 (1.58%) HTML
13 14 (1.58%) Web Services
14 13 (1.46%) JSON
15 12 (1.35%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.41%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.15%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 17 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.24%) PMI
13 10 (1.13%) CMDB
13 10 (1.13%) NHS
14 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.90%) Life Science
14 8 (0.90%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.17%) Linux
2 23 (2.59%) Windows
3 19 (2.14%) Unix
4 5 (0.56%) Android
4 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (48.09%) Data Visualisation
2 409 (46.06%) Business Intelligence
3 331 (37.27%) Analytics
4 229 (25.79%) Data Modelling
5 224 (25.23%) Decision-Making
6 222 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (23.54%) Agile
8 181 (20.38%) Data Analysis
9 164 (18.47%) Actionable Insight
10 155 (17.45%) Data Science
11 142 (15.99%) Data Pipeline
12 137 (15.43%) AI
13 124 (13.96%) Machine Learning
14 120 (13.51%) ETL
15 114 (12.84%) Data Governance
15 114 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 106 (11.94%) Validation
17 104 (11.71%) Data Engineering
18 103 (11.60%) Dashboard Development
19 94 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 401 (45.16%) SQL
2 315 (35.47%) Python
3 65 (7.32%) R
4 57 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 47 (5.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.17%) Java
7 31 (3.49%) TypeScript
8 30 (3.38%) C#
9 26 (2.93%) Scala
10 24 (2.70%) C++
11 18 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.46%) Bash
13 10 (1.13%) VBA
14 8 (0.90%) Perl
14 8 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.79%) Groovy
15 7 (0.79%) PHP
16 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.45%) C
17 4 (0.45%) LookML
Qualifications
1 171 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 138 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.02%) Degree
4 37 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.14%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.03%) CISSP
7 16 (1.80%) CISM
8 13 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.46%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.24%) PhD
10 10 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.01%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.79%) CBAP
12 7 (0.79%) CFA
12 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.56%) MBA
13 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.45%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (15.32%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.84%) QA
4 30 (3.38%) GDPR
5 19 (2.14%) PMO
6 18 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.68%) WCAG
8 5 (0.56%) SLA
9 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.34%) NIST
10 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (3.94%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) HDFS
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (5.07%) Terraform
2 40 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.72%) Kibana
4 24 (2.70%) logstash
5 22 (2.48%) Ansible
6 17 (1.91%) Grafana
7 15 (1.69%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Cilium
10 2 (0.23%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.23%) vMotion
10 2 (0.23%) vRealize
11 1 (0.11%) Cacti
11 1 (0.11%) collectd
11 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 136 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.00%) Databricks
3 48 (5.41%) Google
4 33 (3.72%) Oracle
5 31 (3.49%) Splunk
6 29 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 27 (3.04%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.48%) SAP
9 18 (2.03%) BiZZdesign
10 16 (1.80%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.46%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.35%) Centrify
12 12 (1.35%) Cisco
12 12 (1.35%) Foundry
12 12 (1.35%) Sage
13 11 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.01%) Adobe
15 8 (0.90%) Alteryx
15 8 (0.90%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.90%) Palantir