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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 97 131
Rank change year-on-year -42 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 848 784 779
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.65% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.93% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 531 528
10th Percentile £328 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £599 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 26 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.63 £19.88
25th Percentile £26.74 £23.29 £27.37
Median hourly rate £61.25 £32.96 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +85.83% -28.63% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.85 £71.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.81 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -28.95% -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 37,084 26,717 38,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.01% 90.37% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,485 17,170 25,048
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £745 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,212 916 2,333
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.26 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.79 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.85% +0.83% -10.00%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -42 738 £500 +4.71% 475
London -34 411 £500 -2.91% 156
UK excluding London -46 332 £475 +5.56% 452
Work from Home -18 282 £500 +5.26% 152
North of England -50 109 £475 +2.70% 109
Midlands -30 64 £500 +25.00% 70
North West -43 58 £420 -11.58% 60
South East -28 52 £500 +11.11% 148
West Midlands -41 51 £500 +21.21% 30
Yorkshire -34 48 £500 +21.95% 33
South West -23 39 £488 +2.63% 46
East of England -34 33 £500 +11.11% 41
Scotland +3 29 £450 - 18
East Midlands -22 13 £525 +47.47% 40
Northern Ireland -1 6 £531 +6.25% 11
North East -18 6 £438 -2.78% 17
Wales -10 3 - - 21

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 55 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.89%) Confluence
3 25 (2.95%) Apache
4 22 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.48%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.94%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.71%) SAS
8 5 (0.59%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.59%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.59%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 122 (14.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.65%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.42%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.24%) InDesign
10 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.12%) Blender
10 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.12%) Maya
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.12%) Revit
10 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.35%) Primavera
4 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.24%) iTrent
5 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 373 (43.99%) Power Platform
2 169 (19.93%) Azure
3 157 (18.51%) AWS
4 57 (6.72%) GCP
5 52 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (4.83%) Snowflake
7 37 (4.36%) Serverless
8 30 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.30%) Amazon S3
9 28 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (2.83%) dbt
11 23 (2.71%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.24%) PowerApps
13 18 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (1.89%) GitHub
15 13 (1.53%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (1.42%) Google Analytics
17 11 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.65%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.71%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) 2G
4 4 (0.47%) 5G
5 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.24%) DNS
6 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
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
7 1 (0.12%) 4G
7 1 (0.12%) Modbus
7 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (43.87%) Power BI
2 173 (20.40%) Tableau
3 103 (12.15%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (5.66%) Big Data
5 42 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.48%) Metadata
7 37 (4.36%) Power Query
8 34 (4.01%) Hadoop
9 32 (3.77%) Looker
10 30 (3.54%) Data Lake
11 28 (3.30%) SQL Server
12 24 (2.83%) BigQuery
13 20 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (2.12%) Geospatial Data
14 18 (2.12%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.12%) Oracle Reports
14 18 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (1.77%) MySQL
15 15 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 57 (6.72%) Git
2 47 (5.54%) JIRA
3 18 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.65%) Eclipse
6 10 (1.18%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) ERwin
8 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.35%) GitLab
8 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.24%) git-flow
9 2 (0.24%) Postman
9 2 (0.24%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 306 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 243 (28.66%) Analytical Skills
3 230 (27.12%) Finance
4 91 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.67%) Banking
6 38 (4.48%) Retail
7 30 (3.54%) Marketing
8 26 (3.07%) Publishing
9 22 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.36%) Military
11 20 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.77%) Front Office
13 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.42%) Legal
15 11 (1.30%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 221 (26.06%) Analyst
2 131 (15.45%) Developer
3 125 (14.74%) Data Analyst
4 103 (12.15%) Senior
5 95 (11.20%) Data Engineer
6 70 (8.25%) Lead
7 56 (6.60%) Architect
8 54 (6.37%) Data Scientist
9 49 (5.78%) Consultant
10 47 (5.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 46 (5.42%) Business Analyst
12 36 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (4.01%) Power BI Developer
14 26 (3.07%) Software Engineer
15 24 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 21 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
18 20 (2.36%) Designer
19 19 (2.24%) Data Business Analyst
20 16 (1.89%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.60%) Pandas
2 47 (5.54%) React
3 37 (4.36%) scikit-learn
4 35 (4.13%) NumPy
5 30 (3.54%) Node.js
6 29 (3.42%) Kafka
7 25 (2.95%) PySpark
8 24 (2.83%) REST
9 23 (2.71%) AngularJS
10 21 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (2.48%) Matplotlib
10 21 (2.48%) Vue
11 20 (2.36%) Web Services
12 19 (2.24%) Plotly
12 19 (2.24%) TensorFlow
13 16 (1.89%) Seaborn
14 15 (1.77%) .NET
14 15 (1.77%) OAuth
15 14 (1.65%) PyTorch
16 13 (1.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.72%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.25%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.54%) Data Structures
4 28 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.94%) Life Science
12 8 (0.94%) PMI
13 7 (0.83%) Equities
13 7 (0.83%) NHS
13 7 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.25%) Linux
2 26 (3.07%) Windows
3 12 (1.42%) Unix
4 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (48.58%) Business Intelligence
2 409 (48.23%) Data Visualisation
3 331 (39.03%) Analytics
4 239 (28.18%) Data Modelling
5 228 (26.89%) Decision-Making
6 226 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
7 210 (24.76%) Agile
8 176 (20.75%) Data Analysis
9 171 (20.17%) Actionable Insight
10 144 (16.98%) Data Pipeline
11 139 (16.39%) Data Science
12 128 (15.09%) ETL
13 123 (14.50%) AI
14 119 (14.03%) Data Governance
15 114 (13.44%) Validation
16 111 (13.09%) Machine Learning
17 110 (12.97%) Dashboard Development
18 102 (12.03%) Data Engineering
19 93 (10.97%) CI/CD
20 92 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 396 (46.70%) SQL
2 297 (35.02%) Python
3 68 (8.02%) R
4 56 (6.60%) JavaScript
5 51 (6.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (4.13%) C#
7 30 (3.54%) TypeScript
8 27 (3.18%) C++
9 25 (2.95%) Java
10 17 (2.00%) Scala
11 14 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.30%) VBA
13 9 (1.06%) Perl
14 7 (0.83%) Bash
14 7 (0.83%) Groovy
15 6 (0.71%) PHP
16 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.47%) C
17 4 (0.47%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 167 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 133 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 93 (10.97%) Degree
4 37 (4.36%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.89%) CISM
7 16 (1.89%) CISSP
8 11 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.18%) PhD
9 10 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.47%) CBAP
12 4 (0.47%) CFA
12 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.47%) MBA
12 4 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (18.63%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.54%) QA
3 44 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 26 (3.07%) GDPR
5 21 (2.48%) PMO
6 17 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.83%) SLA
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
11 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (4.13%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) HDFS
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.72%) Terraform
3 27 (3.18%) Kibana
4 20 (2.36%) Ansible
5 19 (2.24%) Grafana
6 18 (2.12%) logstash
7 17 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.35%) SCCM
11 2 (0.24%) Cilium
11 2 (0.24%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.24%) vMotion
11 2 (0.24%) vRealize
12 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 128 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.49%) Databricks
3 52 (6.13%) Google
4 39 (4.60%) Oracle
5 26 (3.07%) SAP
6 23 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.12%) BiZZdesign
9 16 (1.89%) Sage
9 16 (1.89%) Splunk
10 13 (1.53%) Adobe
10 13 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.42%) Centrify
12 9 (1.06%) Cisco
13 8 (0.94%) Amplitude
13 8 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.94%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.83%) Cognos
14 7 (0.83%) Foundry
14 7 (0.83%) Informatica