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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 116 127
Rank change year-on-year -70 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 789 792 746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 2.40% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.66% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 477 477
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £585 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £459
% change year-on-year +2.78% -1.91% -0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 44 53
10th Percentile £20.31 £22.60 £21.40
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +40.75%

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 44,856 29,798 34,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.96% 90.42% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,719 22,071
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,670 1,616 2,026
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -40.46% -

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 July 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 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 15 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 July 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 -58 714 £475 +2.70% 384
London -45 359 £475 -5.00% 157
UK excluding London -69 357 £463 +2.78% 278
Work from Home -38 253 £500 +15.61% 130
North of England -50 112 £445 - 72
Midlands -34 83 £525 +27.27% 54
South East -60 65 £470 -14.55% 84
West Midlands -37 61 £550 +22.22% 36
North West -21 59 £450 +0.67% 42
Yorkshire -47 49 £455 +9.64% 19
South West -24 47 £450 - 37
East of England -29 31 £565 +2.73% 19
Scotland -20 26 £400 -11.11% 7
East Midlands -7 22 £431 +7.81% 18
North East -42 5 £400 -11.11% 13

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 28 (3.55%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.03%) Confluence
2 16 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.39%) Apache
3 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
4 10 (1.27%) ArcGIS
5 8 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.63%) CMS
6 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 120 (15.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.14%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.01%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.76%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.51%) InDesign
9 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.25%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Maya
10 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Primavera
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) iTrent
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 388 (49.18%) Power Platform
2 161 (20.41%) Azure
3 119 (15.08%) AWS
4 53 (6.72%) Snowflake
5 45 (5.70%) GCP
6 41 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (3.42%) Serverless
10 26 (3.30%) GitHub
10 26 (3.30%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.92%) dbt
12 21 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.65%) Google Analytics
16 12 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) 2G
5 2 (0.25%) 3G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (48.29%) Power BI
2 169 (21.42%) Tableau
3 96 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.97%) Power Query
5 52 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.82%) Big Data
7 33 (4.18%) Data Lake
7 33 (4.18%) Looker
8 32 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.93%) Metadata
10 27 (3.42%) BigQuery
11 26 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (2.15%) Hadoop
12 17 (2.15%) Star Schema
13 16 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.77%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.65%) QlikView
16 12 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 49 (6.21%) Git
2 41 (5.20%) JIRA
3 13 (1.65%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.63%) GitLab
6 5 (0.63%) MLflow
7 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.25%) JMeter
8 2 (0.25%) Selenium
8 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Flyway
9 1 (0.13%) git-flow
9 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.13%) Storybook
9 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 269 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
2 257 (32.57%) Social Skills
3 188 (23.83%) Finance
4 86 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.73%) Banking
6 38 (4.82%) Marketing
7 32 (4.06%) Retail
8 28 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.41%) Military
10 18 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.39%) Law
14 10 (1.27%) Publishing
15 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 215 (27.25%) Analyst
2 132 (16.73%) Data Analyst
3 109 (13.81%) Developer
4 107 (13.56%) Data Engineer
5 82 (10.39%) Senior
6 53 (6.72%) Lead
7 51 (6.46%) Data Scientist
8 42 (5.32%) Consultant
9 40 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 39 (4.94%) Business Analyst
11 33 (4.18%) Architect
12 30 (3.80%) Power BI Developer
13 26 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 22 (2.79%) Designer
15 20 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.41%) Data Manager
17 17 (2.15%) Performance Analyst
18 16 (2.03%) Data Architect
18 16 (2.03%) Python Developer
19 14 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.20%) Pandas
2 37 (4.69%) REST
3 36 (4.56%) React
4 30 (3.80%) Kafka
5 23 (2.92%) NumPy
6 21 (2.66%) PySpark
7 20 (2.53%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.41%) Web Services
9 17 (2.15%) .NET
9 17 (2.15%) CSS
9 17 (2.15%) JSON
9 17 (2.15%) Node.js
10 14 (1.77%) Apache Avro
10 14 (1.77%) HTML
10 14 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.52%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.52%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.39%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.27%) GeoJSON
13 10 (1.27%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.98%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.93%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.39%) PKI
12 9 (1.14%) Clustering
12 9 (1.14%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.01%) Life Science
13 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.89%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.44%) Windows
2 25 (3.17%) Linux
3 13 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
5 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (52.60%) Business Intelligence
2 382 (48.42%) Data Visualisation
3 375 (47.53%) Analytics
4 240 (30.42%) Data Modelling
5 210 (26.62%) Agile
6 204 (25.86%) Decision-Making
7 199 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (20.79%) AI
9 151 (19.14%) Actionable Insight
10 146 (18.50%) Validation
11 142 (18.00%) Data Analysis
12 141 (17.87%) Data Science
13 140 (17.74%) Data Pipeline
14 131 (16.60%) Dashboard Development
15 129 (16.35%) ETL
16 122 (15.46%) Data Engineering
17 121 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 119 (15.08%) Data Governance
19 108 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
20 103 (13.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 407 (51.58%) SQL
2 305 (38.66%) Python
3 72 (9.13%) R
4 67 (8.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 46 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.82%) C#
6 38 (4.82%) Java
7 31 (3.93%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.15%) C++
9 16 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.27%) Scala
10 10 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.01%) VBA
12 6 (0.76%) Bash
13 4 (0.51%) Cypher
13 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.51%) Rust
14 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 175 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 129 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 87 (11.03%) Degree
4 22 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.38%) PhD
11 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) CBAP
12 2 (0.25%) IIBA
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (21.29%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.72%) QA
3 28 (3.55%) GDPR
4 27 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.66%) PMO
6 11 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.51%) GMP
9 4 (0.51%) GxP
9 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Basel III
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (2.66%) Docker
2 17 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.06%) Terraform
2 24 (3.04%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.66%) Grafana
4 17 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.27%) Ansible
5 10 (1.27%) Kibana
5 10 (1.27%) SCCM
6 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (0.63%) logstash
8 3 (0.38%) Podman
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 136 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.89%) Databricks
3 46 (5.83%) SAP
4 45 (5.70%) Oracle
5 41 (5.20%) Google
6 28 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.53%) Adobe
8 18 (2.28%) Splunk
9 16 (2.03%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.39%) Remedy
12 9 (1.14%) BMC
13 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.01%) Palantir
13 8 (1.01%) Sage
14 7 (0.89%) Informatica
15 6 (0.76%) Solace
16 5 (0.63%) Foundry
17 4 (0.51%) VMware