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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 102 140
Rank change year-on-year -51 +38 +11
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 801 758 745
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.57% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.83% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 497 490
10th Percentile £325 £336 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £720 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £451
% change year-on-year +4.40% +0.83% -5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 30 41
10th Percentile £22.52 £21.93 £20.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.29 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -37.81% -18.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £60.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -47.27% -7.69%

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 39,369 26,799 37,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.74% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,829 17,326 24,410
10th Percentile £318 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,054 2,423
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £28.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -19.49% -6.17%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -50 702 £488 +2.63% 382
London -45 374 £492 -2.81% 128
UK excluding London -51 323 £475 +4.40% 333
Work from Home -15 259 £488 +5.41% 123
North of England -51 103 £438 -5.41% 90
Midlands -27 69 £500 +21.21% 60
North West -21 60 £420 -11.58% 53
South East -34 50 £500 - 87
West Midlands -40 49 £500 +19.40% 36
South West -26 43 £488 +2.63% 40
Yorkshire -44 39 £455 +7.06% 23
East of England -34 34 £565 +18.95% 28
Scotland -10 24 £463 +1.37% 13
East Midlands -19 20 £441 +20.23% 24
North East -23 7 £420 -6.67% 14
Northern Ireland +4 3 £463 +8.82% 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 47 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.87%) Apache
3 20 (2.50%) Confluence
4 19 (2.37%) SharePoint
5 17 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.37%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.50%) SAS
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
Applications
1 124 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.25%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.37%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.62%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.25%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.12%) Blender
8 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.12%) Maya
8 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.37%) iTrent
4 3 (0.37%) Primavera
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 363 (45.32%) Power Platform
2 165 (20.60%) Azure
3 138 (17.23%) AWS
4 58 (7.24%) GCP
5 50 (6.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (4.12%) Snowflake
7 32 (4.00%) Serverless
8 29 (3.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.12%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.37%) dbt
13 17 (2.12%) GitHub
13 17 (2.12%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.62%) Google Workspace
15 11 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.87%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.75%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.75%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
5 2 (0.25%) SMS
5 2 (0.25%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) 2G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LTE
6 1 (0.12%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.12%) Modbus
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (45.19%) Power BI
2 180 (22.47%) Tableau
3 100 (12.48%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (5.24%) Big Data
5 40 (4.99%) Metadata
5 40 (4.99%) Power Query
6 36 (4.49%) Relational Database
7 32 (4.00%) Looker
7 32 (4.00%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.75%) Data Lake
9 29 (3.62%) Hadoop
10 26 (3.25%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.50%) NoSQL
13 18 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
14 16 (2.00%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (6.87%) Git
2 38 (4.74%) JIRA
3 15 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.75%) Eclipse
5 13 (1.62%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.00%) MLflow
7 4 (0.50%) ERwin
7 4 (0.50%) GitLab
8 3 (0.37%) Selenium
8 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) git-flow
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 276 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 248 (30.96%) Analytical Skills
3 217 (27.09%) Finance
4 86 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.74%) Banking
6 38 (4.74%) Retail
7 36 (4.49%) Marketing
8 24 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.25%) Military
12 17 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.75%) Law
13 14 (1.75%) Publishing
14 13 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.50%) Front Office
16 10 (1.25%) Legal
17 9 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 216 (26.97%) Analyst
2 116 (14.48%) Developer
3 114 (14.23%) Data Analyst
4 107 (13.36%) Senior
5 102 (12.73%) Data Engineer
6 56 (6.99%) Data Scientist
7 52 (6.49%) Lead
8 49 (6.12%) Business Analyst
9 47 (5.87%) Consultant
10 41 (5.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (4.37%) Architect
12 32 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.75%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.87%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (2.75%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.25%) Data Business Analyst
17 17 (2.12%) Designer
18 16 (2.00%) Performance Analyst
18 16 (2.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.24%) Pandas
2 46 (5.74%) React
3 34 (4.24%) Kafka
4 30 (3.75%) NumPy
4 30 (3.75%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.62%) Node.js
6 28 (3.50%) REST
7 22 (2.75%) PySpark
8 21 (2.62%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (2.37%) .NET
11 18 (2.25%) Matplotlib
12 17 (2.12%) Vue
12 17 (2.12%) Web Services
13 15 (1.87%) JSON
13 15 (1.87%) Seaborn
13 15 (1.87%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.62%) HTML
14 13 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.62%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.49%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.12%) Algorithms
3 32 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.37%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.00%) PMI
13 7 (0.87%) Derivative
13 7 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.87%) Life Science
13 7 (0.87%) NHS
13 7 (0.87%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.49%) Linux
2 28 (3.50%) Windows
3 11 (1.37%) Unix
4 5 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (50.44%) Business Intelligence
2 389 (48.56%) Data Visualisation
3 322 (40.20%) Analytics
4 233 (29.09%) Data Modelling
5 214 (26.72%) Decision-Making
6 211 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (25.84%) Agile
8 168 (20.97%) Actionable Insight
9 143 (17.85%) Data Analysis
10 137 (17.10%) Data Pipeline
11 136 (16.98%) Validation
12 135 (16.85%) Data Science
13 133 (16.60%) AI
14 122 (15.23%) Data Governance
15 120 (14.98%) Dashboard Development
16 116 (14.48%) ETL
17 109 (13.61%) Data Engineering
18 102 (12.73%) CI/CD
19 95 (11.86%) Machine Learning
20 90 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 383 (47.82%) SQL
2 293 (36.58%) Python
3 79 (9.86%) R
4 57 (7.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 57 (7.12%) JavaScript
5 41 (5.12%) C#
6 35 (4.37%) TypeScript
7 32 (4.00%) Java
8 25 (3.12%) C++
9 19 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.37%) Scala
10 13 (1.62%) VBA
11 9 (1.12%) Perl
12 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.75%) Bash
13 6 (0.75%) Rust
13 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.50%) Groovy
14 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.50%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 159 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 131 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.24%) Degree
4 22 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.50%) CISM
10 4 (0.50%) CISSP
10 4 (0.50%) MBA
10 4 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.37%) CBAP
11 3 (0.37%) CFA
11 3 (0.37%) PhD
11 3 (0.37%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (17.35%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.99%) QA
3 25 (3.12%) GDPR
3 25 (3.12%) PMO
4 23 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.87%) SLA
7 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.62%) WCAG
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.25%) PERC
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.12%) P3O
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (3.87%) Docker
2 9 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) HDFS
4 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.24%) Terraform
3 23 (2.87%) Kibana
4 22 (2.75%) Grafana
5 18 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.00%) Ansible
6 16 (2.00%) logstash
7 7 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.62%) SCCM
9 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.25%) Cilium
10 2 (0.25%) vMotion
10 2 (0.25%) vRealize
11 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Istio
11 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.99%) Databricks
3 51 (6.37%) Google
4 39 (4.87%) Oracle
5 38 (4.74%) SAP
6 24 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.12%) Sage
8 17 (2.12%) Splunk
9 14 (1.75%) Adobe
10 8 (1.00%) Amplitude
10 8 (1.00%) Cisco
10 8 (1.00%) Informatica
11 7 (0.87%) Cognos
11 7 (0.87%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.75%) Apple
12 6 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (0.62%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.62%) AppDynamics