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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 103 136
Rank change year-on-year -46 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 805 759 739
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.58% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.84% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 496 487
10th Percentile £325 £336 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £453
% change year-on-year +4.40% +0.55% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 30 39
10th Percentile £22.52 £21.93 £20.49
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.29 £34.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -34.08% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £63.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £72.60
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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -53 704 £488 +2.63% 437
London -46 379 £491 -3.01% 161
UK excluding London -44 325 £475 +4.40% 351
Work from Home -19 255 £488 +5.41% 152
North of England -54 103 £438 -5.41% 99
Midlands -32 69 £500 +21.21% 64
North West -27 60 £420 -11.58% 58
South East -34 50 £500 - 87
West Midlands -37 49 £500 +19.40% 34
South West -34 41 £475 - 40
Yorkshire -46 39 £455 +5.81% 26
East of England -39 34 £565 +18.95% 30
Scotland -11 28 £463 +1.37% 16
East Midlands -21 20 £441 +20.23% 30
North East -23 7 £420 -6.67% 15
Northern Ireland +1 3 £463 +8.82% 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 49 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.98%) Apache
3 20 (2.48%) Confluence
4 19 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.37%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.50%) SAS
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 123 (15.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.49%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.37%) iTrent
4 3 (0.37%) Primavera
4 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 360 (44.72%) Power Platform
2 167 (20.75%) Azure
3 142 (17.64%) AWS
4 59 (7.33%) GCP
5 52 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (4.22%) Serverless
6 34 (4.22%) Snowflake
7 29 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.11%) Power Automate
10 24 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.48%) dbt
12 17 (2.11%) GitHub
12 17 (2.11%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.61%) Google Workspace
14 11 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.74%) 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%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
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
1 359 (44.60%) Power BI
2 180 (22.36%) Tableau
3 98 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (5.59%) Big Data
5 41 (5.09%) Metadata
6 40 (4.97%) Power Query
7 39 (4.84%) Relational Database
8 32 (3.98%) Looker
9 31 (3.85%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.73%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.60%) Hadoop
12 26 (3.23%) BigQuery
13 23 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (2.48%) NoSQL
15 19 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
16 18 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
17 16 (1.99%) Star Schema
18 14 (1.74%) Geospatial Data
18 14 (1.74%) MySQL
18 14 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (6.96%) Git
2 38 (4.72%) JIRA
3 15 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.74%) Eclipse
4 14 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.99%) MLflow
6 4 (0.50%) ERwin
6 4 (0.50%) GitLab
7 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.25%) Postman
8 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 279 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 247 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
3 222 (27.58%) Finance
4 89 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 56 (6.96%) Banking
6 38 (4.72%) Retail
7 35 (4.35%) Marketing
8 24 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.24%) Military
10 18 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.74%) Law
12 14 (1.74%) Publishing
13 13 (1.61%) Front Office
13 13 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.24%) Legal
15 9 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.12%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 218 (27.08%) Analyst
2 118 (14.66%) Developer
3 117 (14.53%) Data Analyst
4 107 (13.29%) Senior
5 103 (12.80%) Data Engineer
6 56 (6.96%) Data Scientist
7 52 (6.46%) Lead
8 50 (6.21%) Business Analyst
9 45 (5.59%) Consultant
10 40 (4.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (4.35%) Architect
12 32 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
13 29 (3.60%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (2.73%) Software Engineer
16 19 (2.36%) Data Business Analyst
17 17 (2.11%) Designer
18 16 (1.99%) Performance Analyst
19 15 (1.86%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.34%) Pandas
2 48 (5.96%) React
3 36 (4.47%) Kafka
4 31 (3.85%) NumPy
5 30 (3.73%) scikit-learn
6 29 (3.60%) Node.js
7 27 (3.35%) REST
8 23 (2.86%) PySpark
9 22 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 21 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (2.36%) .NET
11 19 (2.36%) Vue
12 18 (2.24%) Matplotlib
12 18 (2.24%) Web Services
13 16 (1.99%) Plotly
14 15 (1.86%) JSON
14 15 (1.86%) Seaborn
14 15 (1.86%) TensorFlow
15 13 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.61%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.09%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.10%) Algorithms
2 33 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 24 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.61%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.99%) PMI
11 7 (0.87%) Derivative
11 7 (0.87%) Life Science
11 7 (0.87%) NHS
11 7 (0.87%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.47%) Linux
2 28 (3.48%) 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
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (49.81%) Business Intelligence
2 390 (48.45%) Data Visualisation
3 323 (40.12%) Analytics
4 232 (28.82%) Data Modelling
5 211 (26.21%) Decision-Making
6 210 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (25.71%) Agile
8 169 (20.99%) Actionable Insight
9 147 (18.26%) Data Analysis
10 138 (17.14%) Data Pipeline
11 137 (17.02%) Data Science
11 137 (17.02%) Validation
12 131 (16.27%) AI
13 121 (15.03%) Data Governance
14 117 (14.53%) Dashboard Development
14 117 (14.53%) ETL
15 110 (13.66%) Data Engineering
16 103 (12.80%) CI/CD
17 96 (11.93%) Machine Learning
18 89 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 383 (47.58%) SQL
2 292 (36.27%) Python
3 80 (9.94%) R
4 57 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 41 (5.09%) C#
7 34 (4.22%) TypeScript
8 31 (3.85%) Java
9 25 (3.11%) C++
10 20 (2.48%) Scala
11 18 (2.24%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.61%) VBA
13 9 (1.12%) Perl
14 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.75%) Bash
15 6 (0.75%) Rust
15 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.50%) PHP
16 4 (0.50%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 161 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 134 (16.65%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.94%) Degree
4 22 (2.73%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.24%) 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
1 141 (17.52%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.83%) QA
3 25 (3.11%) GDPR
3 25 (3.11%) PMO
4 24 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.87%) SLA
7 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.62%) WCAG
8 4 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
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%) Basel III
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (3.98%) Docker
2 8 (0.99%) 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 45 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.22%) Terraform
3 24 (2.98%) Kibana
4 22 (2.73%) Grafana
5 18 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.11%) logstash
7 16 (1.99%) Ansible
8 7 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.62%) SCCM
10 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.12%) Cacti
12 1 (0.12%) collectd
12 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 133 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.07%) Databricks
3 51 (6.34%) Google
4 39 (4.84%) Oracle
5 36 (4.47%) SAP
6 27 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.11%) Sage
8 17 (2.11%) Splunk
9 13 (1.61%) Adobe
10 8 (0.99%) Amplitude
10 8 (0.99%) Cisco
10 8 (0.99%) 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