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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 107 109
Rank change year-on-year -99 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 747 845 815
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 2.55% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.82% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 531 477
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £706 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £451 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -4.15% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 54
10th Percentile £22.03 £18.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £32.88 £40.07
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.96% -3.85% +56.46%

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 46,102 30,004 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.46% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,718 18,629 19,703
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,326 1,885 1,303
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £65.00 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.25
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.02% -2.94%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -99 655 £475 -3.06% 1,801
UK excluding London -94 354 £451 -4.15% 901
London -84 323 £484 -3.25% 1,041
Work from Home -74 228 £503 +11.67% 732
North of England -77 98 £438 +3.06% 186
Midlands -33 84 £542 +6.85% 145
West Midlands -39 65 £550 +4.76% 101
South East -59 65 £400 -23.81% 218
South West -23 46 £475 -36.67% 88
North West -44 46 £500 +22.70% 99
Yorkshire -55 40 £476 +6.26% 60
Scotland -38 36 £423 -11.05% 98
East of England -42 28 £515 -1.90% 90
East Midlands -16 19 £362 -9.38% 44
North East -33 13 £350 -17.65% 27
Wales -13 3 £356 +13.55% 25
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 60

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 20 (2.68%) Apache Spark
1 20 (2.68%) Confluence
2 13 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.34%) ArcGIS
4 9 (1.20%) Apache
5 5 (0.67%) CMS
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.40%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 126 (16.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (0.80%) CPLEX
4 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.40%) InDesign
6 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.27%) Notion
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 393 (52.61%) Power Platform
2 131 (17.54%) Azure
3 102 (13.65%) AWS
4 58 (7.76%) Snowflake
5 45 (6.02%) GCP
6 35 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.15%) GitHub
8 27 (3.61%) Power Automate
8 27 (3.61%) PowerApps
9 22 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.68%) Google Analytics
11 18 (2.41%) dbt
11 18 (2.41%) Serverless
12 16 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (2.01%) Adobe Analytics
13 15 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.34%) Figma
15 10 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.34%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.34%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.67%) HTTP
2 5 (0.67%) SNMP
3 4 (0.54%) Broadband
3 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.54%) WAN
3 4 (0.54%) Wireless
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
6 1 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (51.67%) Power BI
2 141 (18.88%) Tableau
3 74 (9.91%) Power Query
4 67 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (5.49%) Data Lake
5 41 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.82%) Metadata
7 26 (3.48%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.35%) Big Data
9 22 (2.95%) BigQuery
9 22 (2.95%) Looker
10 21 (2.81%) Qlik Sense
11 17 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (1.87%) GIS
13 14 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.87%) QlikView
13 14 (1.87%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (1.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (5.62%) Git
2 40 (5.35%) JIRA
3 11 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.34%) Eclipse
4 10 (1.34%) GitLab
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.27%) MLflow
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Gradle
9 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.13%) Storybook
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
9 1 (0.13%) Xcode
General
1 270 (36.14%) Analytical Skills
2 267 (35.74%) Social Skills
3 162 (21.69%) Finance
4 94 (12.58%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.90%) Banking
6 28 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.35%) Military
8 23 (3.08%) Marketing
9 21 (2.81%) Manufacturing
9 21 (2.81%) Retail
10 15 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.87%) Local Government
12 12 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.34%) Publishing
15 9 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 205 (27.44%) Analyst
2 117 (15.66%) Data Analyst
3 113 (15.13%) Developer
4 79 (10.58%) Senior
5 77 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 49 (6.56%) Lead
7 42 (5.62%) Consultant
8 41 (5.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 39 (5.22%) Data Scientist
10 33 (4.42%) Power BI Developer
11 27 (3.61%) Architect
12 26 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (3.35%) Business Analyst
14 24 (3.21%) Designer
15 23 (3.08%) Performance Analyst
16 18 (2.41%) Report Analyst
17 17 (2.28%) Data Architect
17 17 (2.28%) Data Manager
18 16 (2.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 15 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.09%) REST
2 37 (4.95%) Terraform
3 27 (3.61%) React
4 25 (3.35%) CSS
4 25 (3.35%) HTML
5 24 (3.21%) Pandas
6 23 (3.08%) PySpark
7 18 (2.41%) Kafka
8 16 (2.14%) NumPy
8 16 (2.14%) Web Services
9 14 (1.87%) scikit-learn
10 10 (1.34%) .NET
10 10 (1.34%) Flask
10 10 (1.34%) JSON
10 10 (1.34%) Node.js
11 9 (1.20%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.07%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.07%) Redux
12 8 (1.07%) SOAP
13 7 (0.94%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.96%) Data Structures
2 36 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 22 (2.95%) Cloud Native
4 22 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (2.28%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.74%) Reference Data
11 10 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.20%) NHS
12 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.07%) Clustering
13 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.07%) PKI
14 7 (0.94%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.28%) Windows
2 22 (2.95%) Linux
3 12 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.80%) Unix
5 4 (0.54%) Android
5 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (53.95%) Business Intelligence
2 365 (48.86%) Data Visualisation
3 360 (48.19%) Analytics
4 216 (28.92%) Data Modelling
5 214 (28.65%) Decision-Making
6 201 (26.91%) Agile
7 174 (23.29%) AI
8 165 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (21.42%) Data Analysis
10 153 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 140 (18.74%) Actionable Insight
12 129 (17.27%) Validation
13 128 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (17.14%) Dashboard Development
14 113 (15.13%) Data Governance
14 113 (15.13%) Data Pipeline
15 108 (14.46%) Data Engineering
15 108 (14.46%) Data Science
16 105 (14.06%) ETL
17 99 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 362 (48.46%) SQL
2 256 (34.27%) Python
3 77 (10.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 47 (6.29%) JavaScript
4 47 (6.29%) R
5 40 (5.35%) Java
6 32 (4.28%) C#
7 21 (2.81%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.74%) C++
10 10 (1.34%) Bash
10 10 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.20%) Scala
12 6 (0.80%) Cypher
12 6 (0.80%) Gremlin
12 6 (0.80%) VBA
13 5 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.54%) Korn
15 3 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 165 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.78%) Degree
4 32 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.94%) PhD
11 5 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.67%) PMP
12 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.27%) APMG
14 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (26.51%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.89%) QA
3 25 (3.35%) GDPR
4 24 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.14%) PMO
6 12 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.94%) GMP
8 5 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.67%) GRC
8 5 (0.67%) GxP
8 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.54%) WCAG
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) Basel III
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) CDISC
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (2.81%) Docker
2 13 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.27%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (2.28%) Grafana
2 16 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.47%) Kibana
4 8 (1.07%) Ansible
5 7 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.80%) SCCM
7 4 (0.54%) Podman
8 3 (0.40%) Argo
8 3 (0.40%) logstash
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 2 (0.27%) Packer
9 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 148 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.97%) Databricks
3 46 (6.16%) SAP
4 40 (5.35%) Oracle
5 39 (5.22%) Google
6 24 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.68%) Adobe
8 19 (2.54%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.41%) Splunk
10 15 (2.01%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.87%) Palantir
12 11 (1.47%) Alteryx
13 8 (1.07%) Informatica
13 8 (1.07%) Remedy
14 7 (0.94%) BMC
14 7 (0.94%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.67%) Foundry
16 4 (0.54%) Cloudera
16 4 (0.54%) VMware
16 4 (0.54%) Workday