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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 103 117
Rank change year-on-year -106 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 735 830 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.52% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.78% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 519 457
10th Percentile £320 £330 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £459
% change year-on-year +2.70% +0.82% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 46 53
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.44 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.41 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -19.23% +48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% - +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 45,960 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,897 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,123 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.69% -47.67% +1.18%

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 18 September 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 18 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 18 September 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 -98 657 £488 +2.63% 1,478
UK excluding London -93 353 £475 +2.70% 830
London -84 316 £488 -2.50% 820
Work from Home -66 224 £500 +11.11% 565
North of England -60 100 £450 +5.88% 168
Midlands -38 86 £549 +8.28% 135
South East -55 66 £470 -14.55% 201
West Midlands -44 62 £550 +5.77% 74
South West -28 48 £450 -40.00% 96
North West -38 48 £525 +28.83% 78
Yorkshire -45 43 £451 +6.12% 65
Scotland -44 29 £420 -16.00% 82
East of England -45 29 £565 +5.12% 94
East Midlands -7 24 £400 - 61
North East -42 10 £410 -3.53% 27
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 36

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 21 (2.86%) Confluence
2 18 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.36%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.82%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.68%) Apache
6 5 (0.68%) CMS
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.27%) SAS
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 126 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.82%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.41%) InDesign
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.27%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.68%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 384 (52.24%) Power Platform
2 140 (19.05%) Azure
3 102 (13.88%) AWS
4 55 (7.48%) Snowflake
5 51 (6.94%) GCP
6 40 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.22%) GitHub
8 29 (3.95%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.67%) PowerApps
10 25 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (3.40%) Serverless
11 22 (2.99%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.59%) dbt
14 17 (2.31%) Google Analytics
15 15 (2.04%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.36%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.82%) Wireless
3 5 (0.68%) HTTP
3 5 (0.68%) SNMP
4 4 (0.54%) Broadband
4 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.54%) WAN
5 3 (0.41%) VPN
6 2 (0.27%) 2G
6 2 (0.27%) 3G
6 2 (0.27%) 4G
6 2 (0.27%) 5G
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (51.29%) Power BI
2 142 (19.32%) Tableau
3 76 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (9.12%) Power Query
5 46 (6.26%) Relational Database
6 42 (5.71%) Data Lake
7 29 (3.95%) Metadata
8 28 (3.81%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.54%) Big Data
10 25 (3.40%) BigQuery
11 24 (3.27%) Looker
12 22 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (2.59%) Oracle Reports
14 17 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (2.31%) Qlik Sense
14 17 (2.31%) Star Schema
15 15 (2.04%) QlikView
16 14 (1.90%) GIS
17 12 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
18 11 (1.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 47 (6.39%) Git
2 43 (5.85%) JIRA
3 11 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.36%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.82%) GitLab
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 260 (35.37%) Analytical Skills
2 259 (35.24%) Social Skills
3 167 (22.72%) Finance
4 85 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.16%) Banking
6 27 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.54%) Marketing
8 25 (3.40%) Military
9 24 (3.27%) Retail
10 20 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.77%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.22%) Law
16 9 (1.22%) Local Government
17 8 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (26.94%) Analyst
2 111 (15.10%) Developer
3 110 (14.97%) Data Analyst
4 93 (12.65%) Data Engineer
5 87 (11.84%) Senior
6 44 (5.99%) Lead
7 43 (5.85%) Consultant
8 35 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 33 (4.49%) Data Scientist
10 31 (4.22%) Architect
11 29 (3.95%) Business Analyst
11 29 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
12 26 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.27%) Designer
14 19 (2.59%) Performance Analyst
15 18 (2.45%) Data Architect
15 18 (2.45%) Data Manager
15 18 (2.45%) Python Developer
16 17 (2.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 17 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.44%) Terraform
2 39 (5.31%) REST
3 28 (3.81%) React
4 27 (3.67%) Pandas
5 26 (3.54%) CSS
6 24 (3.27%) HTML
7 23 (3.13%) PySpark
8 20 (2.72%) Kafka
9 17 (2.31%) Web Services
10 16 (2.18%) NumPy
11 14 (1.90%) .NET
11 14 (1.90%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.63%) Flask
13 11 (1.50%) Node.js
14 10 (1.36%) JSON
15 9 (1.22%) PyTorch
15 9 (1.22%) SOAP
15 9 (1.22%) TensorFlow
15 9 (1.22%) Vue
16 8 (1.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.16%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 22 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.77%) Reference Data
11 12 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.36%) PKI
12 10 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.22%) Clustering
14 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.95%) Driving Licence
15 7 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.63%) Windows
2 21 (2.86%) Linux
3 14 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.95%) Unix
5 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (53.47%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (49.80%) Data Visualisation
3 360 (48.98%) Analytics
4 206 (28.03%) Data Modelling
5 198 (26.94%) Decision-Making
6 196 (26.67%) Agile
7 175 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (22.72%) AI
9 152 (20.68%) Data Analysis
10 141 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 133 (18.10%) Actionable Insight
12 131 (17.82%) Validation
13 127 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (15.78%) Dashboard Development
15 114 (15.51%) Data Pipeline
16 112 (15.24%) Data Engineering
17 111 (15.10%) Data Governance
18 109 (14.83%) ETL
19 108 (14.69%) Data Science
20 97 (13.20%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 359 (48.84%) SQL
2 262 (35.65%) Python
3 69 (9.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (7.07%) JavaScript
4 52 (7.07%) R
5 41 (5.58%) Java
6 37 (5.03%) C#
7 23 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.45%) PowerShell
9 14 (1.90%) C++
10 13 (1.77%) Scala
11 12 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.22%) VBA
14 8 (1.09%) Bash
15 6 (0.82%) Cypher
15 6 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
16 5 (0.68%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.41%) Go
17 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 155 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.02%) Degree
4 25 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.68%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) APMG
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) PMP
13 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.14%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (24.08%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.39%) QA
3 29 (3.95%) GDPR
4 27 (3.67%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.18%) PMO
6 10 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.95%) GMP
8 5 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.68%) GRC
8 5 (0.68%) GxP
8 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.68%) WCAG
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (2.99%) Docker
2 17 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (2.31%) Grafana
2 14 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.22%) Kibana
4 8 (1.09%) SCCM
5 6 (0.82%) Ansible
6 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.54%) Podman
8 2 (0.27%) Istio
8 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 153 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.52%) Databricks
3 45 (6.12%) SAP
4 40 (5.44%) Oracle
5 39 (5.31%) Google
6 30 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.72%) Adobe
7 20 (2.72%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.45%) Splunk
9 14 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.63%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.36%) Palantir
11 10 (1.36%) Remedy
12 9 (1.22%) BMC
12 9 (1.22%) Informatica
13 6 (0.82%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.68%) Foundry
15 4 (0.54%) Ariba
15 4 (0.54%) UiPath
15 4 (0.54%) VMware