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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 117 130
Rank change year-on-year -71 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 786 774 736
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 2.35% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.60% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 469 469
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -8.20% -
75th Percentile £586 £571 £601
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 55
10th Percentile £22.98 £22.60 £21.55
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.94 £43.72
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% +42.58%

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 45,324 29,743 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,013 18,657 21,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 1,640 1,941
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.32 £17.80
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 £23.57 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.55% -42.44% +2.35%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -60 716 £475 +3.26% 634
London -45 366 £480 -3.03% 319
UK excluding London -76 352 £459 +1.94% 391
Work from Home -33 254 £500 +17.65% 259
North of England -50 110 £450 +1.12% 100
Midlands -37 77 £532 +28.97% 65
South East -48 68 £465 -15.45% 112
North West -27 57 £438 -2.01% 57
West Midlands -50 56 £550 +22.22% 44
Yorkshire -39 49 £469 +13.64% 28
South West -23 48 £450 -1.64% 50
East of England -28 31 £565 +2.73% 33
Scotland -27 25 £394 -12.50% 11
East Midlands -11 21 £375 -6.25% 21
North East -41 5 £400 -11.11% 17

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 (3.18%) 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 (1.27%) 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 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 117 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.02%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.02%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.76%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.51%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) 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 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.27%) 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 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) 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
1 388 (49.36%) Power Platform
2 163 (20.74%) Azure
3 116 (14.76%) AWS
4 54 (6.87%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.11%) GCP
6 40 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (3.69%) Serverless
10 28 (3.56%) Power Automate
11 27 (3.44%) GitHub
12 22 (2.80%) PowerApps
13 20 (2.54%) dbt
14 19 (2.42%) Amazon S3
15 16 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.53%) Google Analytics
17 11 (1.40%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
17 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 (0.25%) 2G
4 2 (0.25%) 3G
4 2 (0.25%) 4G
4 2 (0.25%) 5G
4 2 (0.25%) DHCP
4 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.25%) SNMP
4 2 (0.25%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (48.47%) Power BI
2 165 (20.99%) Tableau
3 97 (12.34%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (7.25%) Power Query
5 53 (6.74%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.45%) Big Data
7 34 (4.33%) Looker
8 33 (4.20%) Data Lake
9 31 (3.94%) Metadata
9 31 (3.94%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.44%) BigQuery
10 27 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (2.16%) Star Schema
13 15 (1.91%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
16 12 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.53%) GIS
16 12 (1.53%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 50 (6.36%) Git
2 40 (5.09%) JIRA
3 13 (1.65%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) 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 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 267 (33.97%) Analytical Skills
2 260 (33.08%) Social Skills
3 189 (24.05%) Finance
4 85 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.76%) Banking
6 38 (4.83%) Marketing
7 32 (4.07%) Retail
8 26 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.67%) Military
10 19 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.40%) Law
15 10 (1.27%) Publishing
16 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 210 (26.72%) Analyst
2 125 (15.90%) Data Analyst
3 116 (14.76%) Developer
4 106 (13.49%) Data Engineer
5 84 (10.69%) Senior
6 54 (6.87%) Lead
7 49 (6.23%) Data Scientist
8 44 (5.60%) Consultant
9 40 (5.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 36 (4.58%) Business Analyst
11 31 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
12 30 (3.82%) Architect
13 27 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.93%) Designer
15 20 (2.54%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.42%) Data Manager
17 17 (2.16%) Python Developer
18 16 (2.04%) Data Architect
18 16 (2.04%) Performance Analyst
19 14 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.22%) Pandas
2 37 (4.71%) REST
3 35 (4.45%) React
4 29 (3.69%) Kafka
5 24 (3.05%) NumPy
6 23 (2.93%) PySpark
7 21 (2.67%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.42%) CSS
8 19 (2.42%) Web Services
9 18 (2.29%) .NET
10 17 (2.16%) Node.js
11 16 (2.04%) HTML
11 16 (2.04%) JSON
12 13 (1.65%) Apache Avro
12 13 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (1.65%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.65%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.40%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.27%) GeoJSON
14 10 (1.27%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.02%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.44%) Algorithms
4 23 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.67%) 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 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.65%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.27%) 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 (4.45%) Windows
2 25 (3.18%) 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
1 414 (52.67%) Business Intelligence
2 376 (47.84%) Analytics
2 376 (47.84%) Data Visualisation
3 240 (30.53%) Data Modelling
4 207 (26.34%) Agile
5 204 (25.95%) Decision-Making
6 195 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (20.99%) AI
8 148 (18.83%) Actionable Insight
9 144 (18.32%) Validation
10 143 (18.19%) Data Analysis
11 137 (17.43%) Data Science
12 135 (17.18%) Data Pipeline
13 127 (16.16%) Dashboard Development
13 127 (16.16%) ETL
14 124 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 118 (15.01%) Data Engineering
16 112 (14.25%) Data Governance
17 109 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
18 103 (13.10%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 399 (50.76%) SQL
2 304 (38.68%) Python
3 72 (9.16%) R
4 69 (8.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (6.23%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.96%) C#
6 39 (4.96%) Java
7 30 (3.82%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.29%) C++
9 17 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.40%) Scala
11 10 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.27%) 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
1 171 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 126 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 89 (11.32%) Degree
4 23 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.16%) 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 (0.25%) 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
1 169 (21.50%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.49%) QA
3 27 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.44%) GDPR
4 20 (2.54%) PMO
5 10 (1.27%) 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 (0.25%) Basel III
8 2 (0.25%) GRC
8 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 24 (3.05%) Docker
2 18 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) 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 (4.07%) Terraform
2 23 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.54%) Grafana
4 15 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.27%) SCCM
6 8 (1.02%) Ansible
7 7 (0.89%) Kibana
8 6 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.38%) Podman
10 2 (0.25%) 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
1 138 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.92%) Databricks
3 48 (6.11%) Oracle
4 47 (5.98%) SAP
5 42 (5.34%) Google
6 29 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.42%) Adobe
8 18 (2.29%) Splunk
9 17 (2.16%) 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 (0.76%) Solace
16 5 (0.64%) Foundry
17 4 (0.51%) VMware