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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 108 127
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 898 794 920
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.60% 2.19% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.54% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 472 604
10th Percentile £320 £325 £303
25th Percentile £400 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -6.30%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £619
90th Percentile £711 £774 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 49 78
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £22.76
25th Percentile £33.25 £28.50 £33.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.86% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.17
90th Percentile - - £64.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

All Process and 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 31,128 31,222 41,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.01% 86.14% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,470 18,786 28,146
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,032 1,099 1,610
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.09 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.77% +24.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £73.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £33.27 £43.90
% change year-on-year -32.37% -24.21% +48.26%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 +8 781 £475 -5.00% 1,603
London -6 407 £500 -9.09% 818
UK excluding London +20 405 £475 +5.56% 1,225
Work from Home -15 255 £475 -5.00% 812
North of England -19 112 £425 -5.56% 158
Midlands +20 82 £515 +26.65% 89
South East +18 68 £475 -1.25% 734
West Midlands +12 67 £525 +31.25% 45
Yorkshire +6 65 £450 - 49
Scotland +23 53 £500 +9.29% 68
North West -20 43 £408 -8.32% 95
East of England -14 42 £525 +5.00% 65
South West +9 40 £750 +57.89% 77
East Midlands -7 15 £393 -7.65% 43
Wales -3 6 £183 -67.56% 24
Northern Ireland -13 6 £600 +20.00% 22
North East -22 4 £413 -17.50% 16

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 40 (4.45%) Confluence
2 33 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 31 (3.45%) Apache
4 30 (3.34%) SharePoint
5 26 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.67%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.45%) SAS
8 8 (0.89%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.78%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.33%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.33%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 139 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.22%) Siemens NX
6 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.67%) Adobe Captivate
7 6 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.67%) Maya
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.33%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.22%) Maple
10 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.22%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.22%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.11%) Maximo
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 379 (42.20%) Power Platform
2 206 (22.94%) Azure
3 154 (17.15%) AWS
4 83 (9.24%) GCP
5 51 (5.68%) Snowflake
6 41 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (3.79%) Serverless
8 33 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (3.67%) dbt
9 31 (3.45%) Power Automate
10 30 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (3.01%) PowerApps
13 23 (2.56%) Amazon S3
14 22 (2.45%) GitHub
15 20 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
18 13 (1.45%) Figma
19 12 (1.34%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.23%) TCP/IP
2 18 (2.00%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.56%) Internet
4 4 (0.45%) 2G
4 4 (0.45%) 5G
5 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.33%) MQTT
5 3 (0.33%) SNMP
5 3 (0.33%) SSH
6 2 (0.22%) Firewall
6 2 (0.22%) LTE
6 2 (0.22%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.22%) SSL
6 2 (0.22%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) 4G
7 1 (0.11%) DSL
7 1 (0.11%) NAS
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (41.43%) Power BI
2 184 (20.49%) Tableau
3 105 (11.69%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (6.46%) Relational Database
5 46 (5.12%) Power Query
6 43 (4.79%) Big Data
7 35 (3.90%) BigQuery
7 35 (3.90%) Looker
8 34 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 33 (3.67%) Data Lake
10 30 (3.34%) Hadoop
11 26 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (2.56%) Metadata
13 19 (2.12%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.00%) Data Mining
14 18 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
15 17 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (6.12%) JIRA
2 53 (5.90%) Git
3 19 (2.12%) Visual Studio
4 18 (2.00%) Eclipse
5 16 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.78%) Gradle
6 7 (0.78%) Storybook
6 7 (0.78%) Xcode
7 6 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.67%) JUnit
8 4 (0.45%) MLflow
9 3 (0.33%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) webpack
10 2 (0.22%) GitLab
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.11%) Snyk
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 366 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 264 (29.40%) Analytical Skills
3 217 (24.16%) Finance
4 81 (9.02%) Banking
5 71 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (3.79%) Marketing
8 33 (3.67%) Manufacturing
9 27 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 25 (2.78%) Military
10 25 (2.78%) Retail
11 23 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.12%) Front Office
12 19 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.78%) Legal
14 14 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (1.56%) Publishing
15 13 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.34%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (28.84%) Analyst
2 161 (17.93%) Data Analyst
3 134 (14.92%) Developer
4 91 (10.13%) Senior
5 89 (9.91%) Data Engineer
6 78 (8.69%) Architect
7 53 (5.90%) Lead
8 48 (5.35%) Business Analyst
9 45 (5.01%) Data Scientist
10 44 (4.90%) Consultant
11 37 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 36 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (3.01%) Power BI Developer
14 26 (2.90%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.23%) Python Engineer
17 18 (2.00%) C# Software Engineer
17 18 (2.00%) Data Architect
17 18 (2.00%) Power BI Analyst
17 18 (2.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.12%) React
2 36 (4.01%) Pandas
3 29 (3.23%) scikit-learn
4 28 (3.12%) Node.js
4 28 (3.12%) NumPy
4 28 (3.12%) PySpark
5 27 (3.01%) CSS
6 26 (2.90%) Web Services
7 23 (2.56%) HTML
8 22 (2.45%) D3.js
8 22 (2.45%) REST
9 21 (2.34%) AngularJS
9 21 (2.34%) Kafka
10 15 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (1.67%) Plotly
11 14 (1.56%) Vue
12 13 (1.45%) OAuth
13 11 (1.22%) Django
13 11 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.24%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 29 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.12%) Cloud Native
5 23 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.45%) CMDB
10 13 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.00%) Animation
12 9 (1.00%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.89%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.89%) NHS
13 8 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.24%) Linux
2 42 (4.68%) Windows
3 27 (3.01%) Unix
4 8 (0.89%) Android
5 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (47.88%) Data Visualisation
2 405 (45.10%) Business Intelligence
3 322 (35.86%) Analytics
4 247 (27.51%) Data Modelling
5 227 (25.28%) Data Analysis
6 220 (24.50%) Decision-Making
7 213 (23.72%) Agile
8 209 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (16.26%) Actionable Insight
10 141 (15.70%) Data Science
11 133 (14.81%) ETL
12 129 (14.37%) Machine Learning
13 110 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
14 109 (12.14%) AI
15 98 (10.91%) Validation
16 97 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
17 95 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
18 94 (10.47%) Data Governance
19 93 (10.36%) CI/CD
20 92 (10.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 419 (46.66%) SQL
2 311 (34.63%) Python
3 62 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 51 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (5.57%) R
6 40 (4.45%) Java
7 38 (4.23%) C++
8 29 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 26 (2.90%) C#
10 20 (2.23%) Scala
11 14 (1.56%) Bash
12 10 (1.11%) PowerShell
13 8 (0.89%) Go
13 8 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.67%) VBA
16 5 (0.56%) PHP
17 4 (0.45%) C
17 4 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 151 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 120 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 112 (12.47%) Degree
4 41 (4.57%) Master's Degree
5 26 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.89%) CISSP
7 15 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.56%) CISM
9 12 (1.34%) PhD
10 10 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.78%) CFA
14 6 (0.67%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.56%) CBAP
15 5 (0.56%) CEH
16 4 (0.45%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (15.37%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.24%) Accessibility
3 36 (4.01%) QA
4 29 (3.23%) GDPR
5 8 (0.89%) PMO
6 6 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.67%) WCAG
7 5 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.45%) MiFID
8 4 (0.45%) NIST
8 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.33%) EMIR
9 3 (0.33%) GxP
9 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.22%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 31 (3.45%) Docker
2 12 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (4.34%) Terraform
2 26 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.34%) Kibana
4 15 (1.67%) Grafana
4 15 (1.67%) logstash
5 11 (1.22%) Ansible
6 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.45%) Argo
7 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) collectd
9 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.11%) QRadar
9 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 184 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.13%) Oracle
3 51 (5.68%) Databricks
4 43 (4.79%) Google
5 42 (4.68%) Splunk
6 29 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 27 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.78%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.23%) SAP
10 18 (2.00%) AppDynamics
11 17 (1.89%) Cisco
12 15 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
13 14 (1.56%) Foundry
14 13 (1.45%) OpenAI
15 11 (1.22%) Adobe
16 10 (1.11%) Autodesk
16 10 (1.11%) Centrify
16 10 (1.11%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.11%) Palantir
16 10 (1.11%) Siemens