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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 99 135
Rank change year-on-year -37 +36 +8
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 843 764 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 2.63% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.91% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 517 518
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 45
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.93 £19.29
25th Percentile £27.25 £25.25 £26.24
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.23 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +93.95% -30.22% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £71.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.44% -31.49% -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 37,825 26,281 38,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.77% 90.55% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,952 17,099 24,858
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 950 2,347
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £18.75 £20.49 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.91
90th Percentile £76.40 £77.22 £71.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -3.60% +0.44% -13.10%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -44 736 £500 +5.26% 455
London -34 412 £500 -2.58% 160
UK excluding London -53 329 £488 +8.33% 379
Work from Home -23 279 £500 +8.11% 170
North of England -53 104 £475 +2.70% 87
Midlands -32 69 £500 +21.21% 80
North West -27 55 £420 -9.19% 46
South East -31 52 £500 +11.11% 118
West Midlands -36 52 £500 +19.40% 37
Yorkshire -34 46 £500 +21.95% 26
South West -26 37 £488 +2.63% 42
East of England -32 34 £500 +10.62% 25
Scotland -4 28 £475 +5.56% 15
East Midlands -18 17 £469 +27.72% 43
Northern Ireland -1 6 £531 +1.19% 9
North East -19 6 £438 -2.78% 17
Wales -15 2 - - 15

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 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.80%) Confluence
3 26 (3.08%) Apache
4 22 (2.61%) SharePoint
5 21 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.95%) Apache Superset
7 7 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.71%) SAS
9 5 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.24%) Luigi
11 2 (0.24%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 125 (14.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.42%) Chatbot
5 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.24%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.36%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.36%) Primavera
4 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.24%) iTrent
5 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) Actimize
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 368 (43.65%) Power Platform
2 169 (20.05%) Azure
3 155 (18.39%) AWS
4 60 (7.12%) GCP
5 50 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 39 (4.63%) Snowflake
7 36 (4.27%) Serverless
8 29 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 26 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.08%) Power Automate
10 24 (2.85%) dbt
11 22 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.37%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.02%) GitHub
14 13 (1.54%) Google Workspace
15 12 (1.42%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.78%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.66%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.71%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) 2G
4 4 (0.47%) 5G
5 3 (0.36%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.24%) DNS
6 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.24%) Internet
6 2 (0.24%) LTE
6 2 (0.24%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.24%) Network Security
6 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.24%) SAN
6 2 (0.24%) SMS
6 2 (0.24%) SNMP
6 2 (0.24%) VoIP
6 2 (0.24%) Wireless
7 1 (0.12%) DSL
7 1 (0.12%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (43.53%) Power BI
2 169 (20.05%) Tableau
3 102 (12.10%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (5.58%) Big Data
5 45 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 39 (4.63%) Power Query
7 38 (4.51%) Metadata
8 33 (3.91%) Hadoop
8 33 (3.91%) Looker
9 30 (3.56%) SQL Server
10 28 (3.32%) BigQuery
10 28 (3.32%) Data Lake
11 22 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.37%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (1.90%) MySQL
16 15 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
17 14 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
17 14 (1.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (6.76%) Git
2 51 (6.05%) JIRA
3 18 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.78%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.66%) Eclipse
6 8 (0.95%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) ERwin
7 4 (0.47%) GitLab
8 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 301 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 252 (29.89%) Analytical Skills
3 229 (27.16%) Finance
4 92 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.71%) Banking
6 40 (4.74%) Retail
7 32 (3.80%) Marketing
8 24 (2.85%) Publishing
9 23 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.14%) Military
11 18 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.78%) Front Office
13 13 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.30%) Law
16 10 (1.19%) Legal
16 10 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 216 (25.62%) Analyst
2 132 (15.66%) Developer
3 115 (13.64%) Data Analyst
4 110 (13.05%) Senior
5 99 (11.74%) Data Engineer
6 65 (7.71%) Lead
7 56 (6.64%) Data Scientist
8 53 (6.29%) Architect
9 48 (5.69%) Consultant
10 47 (5.58%) Business Analyst
11 44 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.80%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.73%) Software Engineer
14 23 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.49%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (2.37%) Designer
17 18 (2.14%) Data Business Analyst
18 16 (1.90%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.00%) Pandas
2 48 (5.69%) React
3 39 (4.63%) NumPy
4 34 (4.03%) scikit-learn
5 32 (3.80%) Kafka
6 31 (3.68%) Node.js
7 28 (3.32%) REST
8 27 (3.20%) AngularJS
9 23 (2.73%) Vue
10 21 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (2.49%) Web Services
11 20 (2.37%) Matplotlib
11 20 (2.37%) Plotly
11 20 (2.37%) PySpark
12 18 (2.14%) .NET
13 17 (2.02%) Seaborn
14 15 (1.78%) JSON
14 15 (1.78%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.66%) OAuth
16 13 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.74%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.51%) Algorithms
3 34 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 27 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.95%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.95%) PMI
13 7 (0.83%) Equities
13 7 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.83%) Life Science
13 7 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.27%) Linux
2 26 (3.08%) Windows
3 13 (1.54%) Unix
4 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (48.75%) Business Intelligence
2 409 (48.52%) Data Visualisation
3 333 (39.50%) Analytics
4 238 (28.23%) Data Modelling
5 228 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
6 226 (26.81%) Decision-Making
7 209 (24.79%) Agile
8 170 (20.17%) Actionable Insight
9 169 (20.05%) Data Analysis
10 142 (16.84%) Data Pipeline
11 137 (16.25%) Data Science
12 126 (14.95%) AI
13 121 (14.35%) ETL
13 121 (14.35%) Validation
14 117 (13.88%) Data Governance
15 115 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
16 106 (12.57%) Data Engineering
17 104 (12.34%) Machine Learning
18 99 (11.74%) CI/CD
19 96 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 396 (46.98%) SQL
2 293 (34.76%) Python
3 74 (8.78%) R
4 54 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 54 (6.41%) JavaScript
5 38 (4.51%) C#
6 30 (3.56%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.32%) Java
8 26 (3.08%) C++
9 18 (2.14%) Scala
10 16 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.42%) VBA
12 9 (1.07%) Perl
13 7 (0.83%) Bash
14 6 (0.71%) Groovy
14 6 (0.71%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 4 (0.47%) LookML
16 4 (0.47%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 161 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 128 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.56%) Degree
4 35 (4.15%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.90%) CISM
7 16 (1.90%) CISSP
8 11 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.19%) PhD
9 10 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CBAP
13 4 (0.47%) CFA
13 4 (0.47%) MBA
13 4 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (17.79%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.58%) QA
3 39 (4.63%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.32%) GDPR
5 25 (2.97%) PMO
6 17 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.83%) SLA
8 6 (0.71%) WCAG
9 5 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.24%) EMIR
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 33 (3.91%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) HDFS
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.27%) Terraform
3 26 (3.08%) Kibana
4 20 (2.37%) Ansible
5 19 (2.25%) Grafana
6 18 (2.14%) logstash
6 18 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.47%) SCCM
8 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.36%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.24%) Cilium
10 2 (0.24%) vMotion
10 2 (0.24%) vRealize
11 1 (0.12%) Cacti
11 1 (0.12%) collectd
11 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.54%) Databricks
3 55 (6.52%) Google
4 37 (4.39%) Oracle
5 27 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 26 (3.08%) SAP
7 22 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.14%) BiZZdesign
8 18 (2.14%) Splunk
9 17 (2.02%) Sage
10 14 (1.66%) Adobe
11 13 (1.54%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.42%) Centrify
13 10 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.07%) Cisco
15 8 (0.95%) Amplitude
15 8 (0.95%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.83%) Cognos
16 7 (0.83%) Informatica
16 7 (0.83%) MicroStrategy