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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 94 135
Rank change year-on-year -31 +41 +12
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 876 814 820
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 2.59% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.90% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 512 548
10th Percentile £344 £325 £314
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% -3.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £599
90th Percentile £738 £719 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 33 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £25.29
25th Percentile £25.21 £22.72 £34.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £34.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -25.29% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £50.96
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £65.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £39.68 £46.18
% change year-on-year +63.81% -14.08% -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 33,770 28,023 38,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.35% 89.09% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,366 17,006 25,501
10th Percentile £305 £308 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,033 877 2,012
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.61% +10.63%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.78 £36.50
% change year-on-year -19.72% -15.67% +35.86%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -34 757 £500 - 444
London -20 409 £510 -2.39% 167
UK excluding London -8 367 £500 +11.11% 383
Work from Home -26 267 £500 - 177
North of England -57 106 £431 -6.76% 96
Midlands -5 79 £515 +32.77% 66
West Midlands +7 67 £520 +30.33% 31
South East -1 57 £500 +29.03% 137
North West -32 54 £403 -12.97% 60
Scotland +18 46 £500 +5.26% 20
Yorkshire -32 46 £522 +22.76% 30
South West -13 43 £750 +57.89% 37
East of England -34 34 £525 +16.15% 22
East Midlands -25 12 £423 +20.71% 35
North East -20 9 £425 -19.05% 7
Northern Ireland -9 6 £531 +6.25% 3
Wales -8 3 - - 10

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 51 (5.82%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.91%) Confluence
3 30 (3.42%) Apache
4 27 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.28%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.26%) SAS
7 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
7 8 (0.91%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.80%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.57%) Smallworld
10 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.23%) Luigi
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 123 (14.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.46%) Revit
7 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Blender
10 1 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) SPSS
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.34%) Primavera
4 2 (0.23%) iTrent
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
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 Applications
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
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 373 (42.58%) Power Platform
2 191 (21.80%) Azure
3 155 (17.69%) AWS
4 72 (8.22%) GCP
5 46 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.91%) Snowflake
7 31 (3.54%) Serverless
8 28 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (2.97%) dbt
9 26 (2.97%) Power Automate
10 25 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.63%) PowerApps
12 22 (2.51%) GitHub
13 15 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.48%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.37%) Figma
16 10 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
17 8 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.48%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.46%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) SAN
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Network Security
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (42.47%) Power BI
2 166 (18.95%) Tableau
3 99 (11.30%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.59%) Big Data
5 48 (5.48%) Relational Database
6 41 (4.68%) Power Query
7 38 (4.34%) Hadoop
8 35 (4.00%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.88%) Metadata
10 32 (3.65%) Data Lake
11 28 (3.20%) Looker
12 26 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (2.85%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (2.17%) Data Mining
15 18 (2.05%) NoSQL
16 16 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
17 15 (1.71%) MySQL
18 14 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (6.96%) JIRA
2 59 (6.74%) Git
3 18 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.48%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.80%) Gradle
6 7 (0.80%) MLflow
6 7 (0.80%) Storybook
6 7 (0.80%) Xcode
7 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.46%) ERwin
9 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.23%) GitLab
10 2 (0.23%) JUnit
10 2 (0.23%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) JMeter
11 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 227 (25.91%) Analytical Skills
3 222 (25.34%) Finance
4 78 (8.90%) Banking
5 75 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.65%) Retail
7 28 (3.20%) Marketing
8 24 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (2.51%) Publishing
10 21 (2.40%) Military
11 19 (2.17%) Investment Banking
12 18 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.05%) Legal
13 17 (1.94%) Front Office
14 15 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.03%) Law
17 9 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 210 (23.97%) Analyst
2 137 (15.64%) Developer
3 119 (13.58%) Data Analyst
4 101 (11.53%) Senior
5 89 (10.16%) Data Engineer
6 77 (8.79%) Architect
7 60 (6.85%) Data Scientist
8 54 (6.16%) Lead
9 51 (5.82%) Business Analyst
9 51 (5.82%) Consultant
10 46 (5.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
13 29 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (2.97%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.51%) Designer
16 19 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
16 19 (2.17%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.05%) Senior Data Engineer
17 18 (2.05%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.25%) React
2 44 (5.02%) Pandas
3 34 (3.88%) scikit-learn
4 31 (3.54%) Node.js
5 29 (3.31%) NumPy
5 29 (3.31%) PySpark
6 26 (2.97%) Kafka
7 25 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (2.74%) REST
9 22 (2.51%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.28%) OAuth
10 20 (2.28%) Plotly
11 19 (2.17%) Vue
12 18 (2.05%) Web Services
13 16 (1.83%) D3.js
13 16 (1.83%) HTML
13 16 (1.83%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.48%) CSS
14 13 (1.48%) Matplotlib
15 12 (1.37%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.14%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.26%) PMI
8 11 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.03%) CMDB
10 9 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.03%) Reference Data
11 8 (0.91%) NHS
12 7 (0.80%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.25%) Linux
2 32 (3.65%) Windows
3 25 (2.85%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
5 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (47.95%) Data Visualisation
2 405 (46.23%) Business Intelligence
3 323 (36.87%) Analytics
4 230 (26.26%) Data Modelling
5 218 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
6 217 (24.77%) Decision-Making
7 205 (23.40%) Agile
8 184 (21.00%) Data Analysis
9 154 (17.58%) Actionable Insight
10 150 (17.12%) Data Science
11 136 (15.53%) Data Pipeline
12 128 (14.61%) AI
13 127 (14.50%) ETL
14 125 (14.27%) Machine Learning
15 117 (13.36%) Data Governance
16 115 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
17 102 (11.64%) Validation
18 100 (11.42%) DevOps
19 96 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
20 95 (10.84%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 390 (44.52%) SQL
2 298 (34.02%) Python
3 60 (6.85%) JavaScript
3 60 (6.85%) R
4 53 (6.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (4.34%) Java
6 34 (3.88%) TypeScript
7 31 (3.54%) C#
8 29 (3.31%) Scala
9 27 (3.08%) C++
10 20 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.60%) Bash
12 13 (1.48%) VBA
13 9 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.91%) Perl
15 7 (0.80%) Go
15 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 7 (0.80%) PHP
16 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.46%) LookML
Qualifications
1 166 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 135 (15.41%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.25%) Degree
4 32 (3.65%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.28%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.17%) CISSP
7 18 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.83%) CISM
9 13 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.48%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.26%) PhD
11 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.03%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.80%) CFA
13 7 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.68%) CBAP
15 5 (0.57%) CEH
15 5 (0.57%) MBA
15 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (14.84%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.05%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.91%) QA
4 31 (3.54%) GDPR
5 15 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (1.71%) PMO
6 7 (0.80%) WCAG
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.34%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.23%) EMIR
10 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (4.57%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) HDFS
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (5.14%) Terraform
2 43 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.65%) Kibana
4 23 (2.63%) logstash
5 21 (2.40%) Ansible
6 15 (1.71%) Grafana
7 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
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%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 146 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.19%) Databricks
3 45 (5.14%) Google
3 45 (5.14%) Oracle
4 32 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 32 (3.65%) Splunk
5 29 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.17%) SAP
7 18 (2.05%) BiZZdesign
8 15 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.60%) Cisco
9 14 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.48%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.37%) Centrify
11 12 (1.37%) Foundry
12 11 (1.26%) AppDynamics
13 9 (1.03%) Sage
14 8 (0.91%) Informatica
14 8 (0.91%) Palantir
14 8 (0.91%) Talend