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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 114 126
Rank change year-on-year -59 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 796 780 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 2.40% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.66% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 476 511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £710 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £447 £465
% change year-on-year +6.26% -3.87% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 46 55
10th Percentile £18.13 £23.75 £20.80
25th Percentile £28.87 £31.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £48.09 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% -26.02% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -61 712 £475 +2.70% 535
London -43 366 £486 -2.75% 147
UK excluding London -78 348 £475 +6.26% 501
Work from Home -34 263 £500 +15.61% 308
North of England -47 114 £450 +0.67% 133
Midlands -37 76 £550 +37.50% 83
South East -49 65 £470 -14.55% 117
North West -16 61 £450 -0.55% 61
West Midlands -52 55 £550 +33.33% 41
Yorkshire -50 48 £455 +7.06% 47
South West -23 45 £450 +6.64% 49
Scotland -21 28 £425 -5.56% 45
East of England -38 26 £565 +7.62% 55
East Midlands -6 21 £431 +15.00% 42
North East -41 7 £420 -6.67% 27

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 32 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.63%) Apache
3 13 (1.63%) Confluence
4 11 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.38%) Apache Superset
5 8 (1.01%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.63%) CMS
6 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.63%) SAS
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 118 (14.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.75%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.75%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.50%) 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 18 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.75%) Primavera
4 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) iTrent
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 398 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 165 (20.73%) Azure
3 129 (16.21%) AWS
4 53 (6.66%) Snowflake
5 47 (5.90%) GCP
6 41 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.27%) GitHub
10 25 (3.14%) Power Automate
11 24 (3.02%) Serverless
12 23 (2.89%) dbt
13 21 (2.64%) Amazon S3
14 20 (2.51%) PowerApps
15 16 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.51%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
17 11 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
18 10 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.51%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.50%) Firewall
3 4 (0.50%) 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%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (49.12%) Power BI
2 172 (21.61%) Tableau
3 98 (12.31%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.91%) Power Query
5 53 (6.66%) Relational Database
6 39 (4.90%) Big Data
7 33 (4.15%) Data Lake
7 33 (4.15%) Looker
7 33 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.77%) Metadata
9 29 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (3.39%) BigQuery
11 22 (2.76%) Hadoop
12 17 (2.14%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (2.14%) Star Schema
13 16 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (1.38%) GIS
14 11 (1.38%) QlikView
14 11 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (6.66%) Git
2 37 (4.65%) JIRA
3 13 (1.63%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.51%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) ERwin
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 255 (32.04%) Analytical Skills
2 251 (31.53%) Social Skills
3 194 (24.37%) Finance
4 88 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.41%) Banking
6 39 (4.90%) Marketing
7 33 (4.15%) Retail
8 28 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.39%) Military
10 18 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.51%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.38%) Law
14 10 (1.26%) Publishing
15 9 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.88%) Legal
16 7 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 221 (27.76%) Analyst
2 131 (16.46%) Data Analyst
3 114 (14.32%) Developer
4 107 (13.44%) Data Engineer
5 81 (10.18%) Senior
6 54 (6.78%) Lead
7 52 (6.53%) Data Scientist
8 47 (5.90%) Consultant
9 42 (5.28%) Business Analyst
9 42 (5.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.02%) Power BI Developer
11 30 (3.77%) Architect
11 30 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 23 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (2.51%) Designer
14 17 (2.14%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.14%) Performance Analyst
15 14 (1.76%) Data Architect
15 14 (1.76%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (1.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.65%) Pandas
2 42 (5.28%) React
3 37 (4.65%) REST
4 32 (4.02%) Kafka
5 25 (3.14%) NumPy
6 20 (2.51%) .NET
6 20 (2.51%) Node.js
6 20 (2.51%) PySpark
7 19 (2.39%) scikit-learn
7 19 (2.39%) Web Services
8 16 (2.01%) JSON
9 15 (1.88%) AngularJS
9 15 (1.88%) CSS
10 14 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.51%) Apache Avro
11 12 (1.51%) HTML
12 11 (1.38%) FastAPI
12 11 (1.38%) Seaborn
13 10 (1.26%) GeoJSON
13 10 (1.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.02%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.89%) Algorithms
4 23 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.51%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.26%) PKI
11 9 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.01%) Clustering
12 8 (1.01%) Life Science
12 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.88%) Derivative
13 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.27%) Windows
2 27 (3.39%) Linux
3 12 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (52.76%) Business Intelligence
2 382 (47.99%) Data Visualisation
3 368 (46.23%) Analytics
4 239 (30.03%) Data Modelling
5 215 (27.01%) Decision-Making
6 207 (26.01%) Agile
7 193 (24.25%) Problem-Solving
8 168 (21.11%) AI
9 149 (18.72%) Actionable Insight
10 147 (18.47%) Data Pipeline
11 145 (18.22%) Validation
12 142 (17.84%) Data Analysis
13 139 (17.46%) Data Science
14 135 (16.96%) ETL
15 134 (16.83%) Dashboard Development
16 123 (15.45%) Data Engineering
17 122 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 122 (15.33%) Data Governance
18 107 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
19 105 (13.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 403 (50.63%) SQL
2 305 (38.32%) Python
3 75 (9.42%) R
4 69 (8.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.15%) Java
7 37 (4.65%) C#
8 36 (4.52%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.14%) C++
9 17 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.38%) Scala
11 10 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.26%) VBA
12 8 (1.01%) Bash
12 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.50%) Cypher
13 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.50%) Rust
14 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 177 (22.24%) Security Cleared
2 134 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.55%) Degree
4 20 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.38%) CBAP
11 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) ACCA
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (20.98%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.78%) QA
3 29 (3.64%) GDPR
4 27 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.64%) PMO
6 10 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.50%) GMP
9 4 (0.50%) GxP
9 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (2.89%) Docker
2 16 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (4.15%) Terraform
2 28 (3.52%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.89%) Grafana
4 16 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.88%) Ansible
6 12 (1.51%) Kibana
7 8 (1.01%) SCCM
8 7 (0.88%) logstash
8 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.38%) Podman
10 2 (0.25%) Cilium
10 2 (0.25%) Packer
10 2 (0.25%) vMotion
10 2 (0.25%) vRealize
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 137 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.92%) Databricks
3 47 (5.90%) SAP
4 46 (5.78%) Oracle
5 42 (5.28%) Google
6 25 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.51%) Adobe
8 16 (2.01%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.88%) Splunk
10 13 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.38%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.38%) Sage
12 10 (1.26%) Remedy
13 9 (1.13%) Informatica
14 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
14 8 (1.01%) BMC
14 8 (1.01%) Palantir
15 6 (0.75%) Solace
15 6 (0.75%) VMware
16 5 (0.63%) Foundry