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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 104 129
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 879 812 878
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.41% 2.37% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.69% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 497 586
10th Percentile £350 £325 £308
25th Percentile £410 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.53% -2.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £620
90th Percentile £725 £756 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 44 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £25.98
25th Percentile £30.31 £24.76 £34.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% - -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.81
90th Percentile £67.50 - £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £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 32,245 30,148 39,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.48% 87.93% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,297 18,397 26,233
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
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 2,086 1,007 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.85 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.99% -27.21% +39.06%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -11 751 £500 - 843
London -23 397 £500 -5.66% 167
UK excluding London +4 385 £500 +11.11% 798
Work from Home -26 254 £500 - 485
North of England -24 112 £438 -2.78% 148
Midlands -4 72 £525 +29.23% 153
South East +16 60 £500 +23.08% 230
West Midlands +2 59 £525 +27.27% 79
Yorkshire -10 59 £500 +11.11% 69
Scotland +21 53 £500 +1.27% 41
North West -22 50 £405 -10.99% 71
East of England -20 45 £525 +15.64% 116
South West -5 39 £750 +57.89% 96
East Midlands -15 13 £413 +15.87% 67
Wales -7 5 - - 19
Northern Ireland -15 5 £600 +20.00% 10
North East -22 5 £400 -27.27% 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 44 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 38 (4.32%) Apache
3 37 (4.21%) Confluence
4 28 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.39%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.71%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.25%) SAS
8 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.80%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.34%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 125 (14.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.25%) Siemens NX
5 10 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.46%) Revit
9 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.23%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Blender
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) Maya
11 1 (0.11%) SPSS
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
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
1 383 (43.57%) Power Platform
2 199 (22.64%) Azure
3 154 (17.52%) AWS
4 78 (8.87%) GCP
5 48 (5.46%) Snowflake
6 43 (4.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 32 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 32 (3.64%) Serverless
8 28 (3.19%) PowerApps
9 26 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (2.96%) dbt
10 25 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.28%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.16%) GitHub
13 18 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (1.59%) Google Analytics
16 13 (1.48%) Figma
17 10 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.39%) TCP/IP
2 19 (2.16%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.34%) Internet
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) MQTT
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) 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
1 381 (43.34%) Power BI
2 181 (20.59%) Tableau
3 103 (11.72%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (6.71%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.57%) Power Query
6 47 (5.35%) Big Data
7 36 (4.10%) Hadoop
8 33 (3.75%) Data Lake
9 32 (3.64%) Looker
10 30 (3.41%) SQL Server
11 28 (3.19%) BigQuery
12 24 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
13 22 (2.50%) Metadata
14 21 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (2.05%) Data Mining
16 14 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (1.48%) NoSQL
17 13 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 12 (1.37%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 58 (6.60%) Git
2 52 (5.92%) JIRA
3 21 (2.39%) Visual Studio
4 19 (2.16%) Eclipse
5 16 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.80%) Gradle
6 7 (0.80%) Storybook
6 7 (0.80%) Xcode
7 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.46%) MLflow
8 4 (0.46%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) JUnit
9 3 (0.34%) webpack
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 1 (0.11%) git-flow
11 1 (0.11%) GitLab
11 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
11 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 360 (40.96%) Social Skills
2 239 (27.19%) Analytical Skills
3 221 (25.14%) Finance
4 78 (8.87%) Banking
5 76 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 35 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (3.64%) Marketing
8 30 (3.41%) Manufacturing
9 27 (3.07%) Military
10 24 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.73%) Retail
11 19 (2.16%) Front Office
11 19 (2.16%) Legal
12 15 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.71%) Publishing
12 15 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 231 (26.28%) Analyst
2 138 (15.70%) Data Analyst
3 135 (15.36%) Developer
4 96 (10.92%) Senior
5 91 (10.35%) Data Engineer
6 72 (8.19%) Architect
7 58 (6.60%) Data Scientist
8 49 (5.57%) Lead
9 46 (5.23%) Business Analyst
10 45 (5.12%) Consultant
11 43 (4.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 40 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (3.87%) Power BI Developer
14 30 (3.41%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (2.16%) Designer
17 18 (2.05%) Integration Architect
17 18 (2.05%) Python Engineer
18 17 (1.93%) C# Software Engineer
18 17 (1.93%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.12%) Pandas
2 36 (4.10%) React
3 35 (3.98%) scikit-learn
4 32 (3.64%) NumPy
5 30 (3.41%) Node.js
6 28 (3.19%) PySpark
7 26 (2.96%) Web Services
8 22 (2.50%) REST
9 20 (2.28%) D3.js
9 20 (2.28%) Kafka
10 19 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (2.05%) AngularJS
12 17 (1.93%) Plotly
13 16 (1.82%) CSS
14 15 (1.71%) OAuth
14 15 (1.71%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.59%) Matplotlib
15 14 (1.59%) Vue
16 13 (1.48%) HTML
17 11 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.83%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 16 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.48%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.25%) CMDB
9 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.02%) NHS
12 8 (0.91%) Hedge funds
12 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.80%) Reinsurance
13 7 (0.80%) Replication
13 7 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.05%) Linux
2 45 (5.12%) Windows
3 32 (3.64%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
5 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 420 (47.78%) Business Intelligence
2 413 (46.99%) Data Visualisation
3 334 (38.00%) Analytics
4 250 (28.44%) Data Modelling
5 217 (24.69%) Decision-Making
6 214 (24.35%) Data Analysis
7 204 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 199 (22.64%) Agile
9 162 (18.43%) Actionable Insight
10 151 (17.18%) Data Science
11 133 (15.13%) Machine Learning
12 126 (14.33%) Data Pipeline
12 126 (14.33%) ETL
13 119 (13.54%) AI
14 108 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 105 (11.95%) Data Governance
16 96 (10.92%) Validation
17 95 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 88 (10.01%) CI/CD
19 86 (9.78%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 408 (46.42%) SQL
2 321 (36.52%) Python
3 63 (7.17%) R
4 61 (6.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 39 (4.44%) C++
6 32 (3.64%) C#
7 30 (3.41%) Java
8 27 (3.07%) TypeScript
9 22 (2.50%) Scala
10 13 (1.48%) Bash
11 11 (1.25%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.02%) VBA
14 8 (0.91%) Go
14 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.80%) Groovy
15 7 (0.80%) PHP
16 5 (0.57%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.46%) LookML
Qualifications
1 160 (18.20%) Security Cleared
2 126 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 93 (10.58%) Degree
4 42 (4.78%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.05%) CISSP
7 17 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.71%) CISM
10 14 (1.59%) PhD
11 12 (1.37%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.91%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.80%) CFA
16 6 (0.68%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 5 (0.57%) CBAP
17 5 (0.57%) CEH
18 3 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (15.81%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.26%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.87%) QA
4 32 (3.64%) GDPR
5 10 (1.14%) PMO
6 9 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.80%) WCAG
8 6 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) MiFID
10 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
12 2 (0.23%) GxP
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (4.10%) Docker
2 10 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.23%) HDFS
3 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (4.10%) Terraform
2 31 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.84%) Kibana
4 19 (2.16%) logstash
5 16 (1.82%) Grafana
6 14 (1.59%) Ansible
7 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.11%) Cacti
11 1 (0.11%) collectd
11 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.11%) QRadar
11 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 161 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.83%) Databricks
3 58 (6.60%) Oracle
4 43 (4.89%) Google
5 40 (4.55%) Splunk
6 34 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.41%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.62%) Dynatrace
9 19 (2.16%) AppDynamics
9 19 (2.16%) Cisco
10 16 (1.82%) BiZZdesign
10 16 (1.82%) SAP
11 15 (1.71%) Foundry
12 13 (1.48%) CyberArk
12 13 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 12 (1.37%) Centrify
14 11 (1.25%) Palantir
15 10 (1.14%) Bloomberg
15 10 (1.14%) Siemens
16 8 (0.91%) Alteryx