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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 119 130
Rank change year-on-year -72 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 784 773 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 2.36% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.61% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 467 472
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -8.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +1.94% -0.55% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 44 54
10th Percentile £22.98 £22.60 £21.48
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.94 £42.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -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% +44.44%

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 45,107 29,668 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.46% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,893 18,635 21,816
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,744 1,629 1,969
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.66 £17.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.48% +0.81%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -60 714 £475 +3.37% 475
London -44 364 £480 -2.54% 205
UK excluding London -67 352 £459 +1.94% 330
Work from Home -31 254 £500 +17.65% 155
North of England -53 110 £450 +2.27% 84
Midlands -38 77 £532 +28.97% 61
South East -48 68 £465 -15.45% 102
North West -30 57 £438 -2.01% 47
West Midlands -51 56 £550 +22.22% 40
Yorkshire -52 49 £469 +13.64% 25
South West -25 48 £450 -1.64% 43
East of England -30 31 £565 +2.73% 29
Scotland -23 25 £394 -13.70% 7
East Midlands -8 21 £375 -6.25% 21
North East -45 5 £400 -11.11% 14

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 25 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.91%) Confluence
4 11 (1.40%) Apache
4 11 (1.40%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.28%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.64%) CMS
7 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 117 (14.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.02%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.02%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.77%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.51%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.64%) Primavera
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 387 (49.36%) Power Platform
2 162 (20.66%) Azure
3 116 (14.80%) AWS
4 54 (6.89%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.12%) GCP
6 40 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (3.70%) Serverless
10 27 (3.44%) GitHub
10 27 (3.44%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.68%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.55%) dbt
13 19 (2.42%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.53%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.40%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.53%) Ethernet
1 12 (1.53%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.51%) HTTP
2 4 (0.51%) Wireless
3 3 (0.38%) DNS
3 3 (0.38%) Firewall
4 2 (0.26%) 2G
4 2 (0.26%) 3G
4 2 (0.26%) 4G
4 2 (0.26%) 5G
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.26%) SNMP
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (48.47%) Power BI
2 165 (21.05%) Tableau
3 97 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (7.27%) Power Query
5 53 (6.76%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.46%) Big Data
7 34 (4.34%) Looker
8 33 (4.21%) Data Lake
9 31 (3.95%) Metadata
9 31 (3.95%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.44%) BigQuery
10 27 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (2.17%) Star Schema
13 15 (1.91%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.66%) NoSQL
16 12 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.53%) GIS
16 12 (1.53%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 50 (6.38%) Git
2 40 (5.10%) JIRA
3 13 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.77%) GitLab
7 5 (0.64%) MLflow
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 267 (34.06%) Analytical Skills
2 258 (32.91%) Social Skills
3 188 (23.98%) Finance
4 85 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.78%) Banking
6 38 (4.85%) Marketing
7 32 (4.08%) Retail
8 26 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.68%) Military
10 18 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.40%) Law
14 10 (1.28%) Publishing
15 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 210 (26.79%) Analyst
2 125 (15.94%) Data Analyst
3 115 (14.67%) Developer
4 106 (13.52%) Data Engineer
5 84 (10.71%) Senior
6 54 (6.89%) Lead
7 49 (6.25%) Data Scientist
8 44 (5.61%) Consultant
9 40 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 36 (4.59%) Business Analyst
11 31 (3.95%) Architect
11 31 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
12 27 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 23 (2.93%) Designer
14 20 (2.55%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.42%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.17%) Python Developer
17 16 (2.04%) Data Architect
17 16 (2.04%) Performance Analyst
18 14 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.23%) Pandas
2 37 (4.72%) REST
3 35 (4.46%) React
4 29 (3.70%) Kafka
5 24 (3.06%) NumPy
6 23 (2.93%) PySpark
7 21 (2.68%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.42%) CSS
8 19 (2.42%) Web Services
9 18 (2.30%) .NET
10 17 (2.17%) Node.js
11 16 (2.04%) HTML
11 16 (2.04%) JSON
12 13 (1.66%) Apache Avro
12 13 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (1.66%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.66%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.40%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.28%) GeoJSON
14 10 (1.28%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.04%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.44%) Algorithms
4 23 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.28%) PKI
14 9 (1.15%) Clustering
15 8 (1.02%) Life Science
15 8 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (1.02%) Reference Data
16 7 (0.89%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.46%) Windows
2 25 (3.19%) Linux
3 13 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
5 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (52.68%) Business Intelligence
2 376 (47.96%) Data Visualisation
3 375 (47.83%) Analytics
4 240 (30.61%) Data Modelling
5 207 (26.40%) Agile
6 204 (26.02%) Decision-Making
7 194 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (20.92%) AI
9 148 (18.88%) Actionable Insight
10 144 (18.37%) Validation
11 143 (18.24%) Data Analysis
12 137 (17.47%) Data Science
13 135 (17.22%) Data Pipeline
14 127 (16.20%) Dashboard Development
14 127 (16.20%) ETL
15 123 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 118 (15.05%) Data Engineering
17 112 (14.29%) Data Governance
18 109 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
19 102 (13.01%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 399 (50.89%) SQL
2 304 (38.78%) Python
3 72 (9.18%) R
4 69 (8.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.97%) C#
6 39 (4.97%) Java
7 30 (3.83%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.30%) C++
9 17 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.40%) Scala
11 10 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.89%) Bash
12 7 (0.89%) VBA
13 5 (0.64%) Cypher
13 5 (0.64%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.51%) Rust
14 4 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 170 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 125 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 89 (11.35%) Degree
4 23 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.51%) PhD
10 4 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) APMG
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) CBAP
12 2 (0.26%) IIBA
12 2 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (21.56%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.51%) QA
3 27 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.44%) GDPR
4 20 (2.55%) PMO
5 10 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.89%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.51%) GMP
7 4 (0.51%) GxP
7 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.51%) WCAG
8 2 (0.26%) Basel III
8 2 (0.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (3.06%) Docker
2 18 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (3.95%) Terraform
2 22 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.55%) Grafana
4 15 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.28%) SCCM
6 8 (1.02%) Ansible
7 7 (0.89%) Kibana
8 6 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.38%) Podman
10 2 (0.26%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) Cilium
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) logstash
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 137 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.95%) Databricks
3 48 (6.12%) Oracle
4 47 (5.99%) SAP
5 41 (5.23%) Google
6 29 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.42%) Adobe
8 18 (2.30%) Splunk
9 16 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.91%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.40%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.40%) Remedy
12 9 (1.15%) BMC
13 8 (1.02%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.02%) Palantir
13 8 (1.02%) Sage
14 7 (0.89%) Informatica
15 6 (0.77%) Solace
16 5 (0.64%) Foundry
17 4 (0.51%) VMware