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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 108 118
Rank change year-on-year -95 +10 +28
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 740 793 765
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 2.41% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.67% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 480 474
10th Percentile £325 £312 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 47 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.70 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £32.88 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +56.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.00% -23.08% +60.14%

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 45,374 29,740 33,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.47% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,514 21,188
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,725 1,782
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +19.72%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -83 680 £488 +5.41% 469
UK excluding London -69 353 £475 +5.56% 382
London -73 326 £488 -2.50% 186
Work from Home -43 228 £500 +16.21% 156
North of England -69 105 £451 +4.88% 84
Midlands -35 85 £528 +17.33% 62
West Midlands -35 64 £550 +4.76% 37
South East -66 64 £458 -16.82% 116
North West -30 52 £473 +5.70% 40
South West -18 48 £450 - 52
Yorkshire -47 48 £471 +17.81% 31
East of England -30 35 £565 +2.73% 38
Scotland -29 23 £425 -6.85% 14
East Midlands -12 21 £375 -6.25% 25
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 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 22 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.57%) Confluence
3 11 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.35%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.22%) Apache Superset
6 7 (0.95%) Apache
7 5 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.54%) SAS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 118 (15.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.08%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.41%) InDesign
9 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.27%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.68%) Primavera
4 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 374 (50.54%) Power Platform
2 150 (20.27%) Azure
3 109 (14.73%) AWS
4 48 (6.49%) Snowflake
5 46 (6.22%) GCP
6 38 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (3.78%) Serverless
9 27 (3.65%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.38%) GitHub
11 23 (3.11%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.43%) Amazon S3
12 18 (2.43%) dbt
13 13 (1.76%) Adobe Analytics
13 13 (1.76%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.62%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.54%) HTTP
3 4 (0.54%) Wireless
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) 2G
5 2 (0.27%) 3G
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) Broadband
5 2 (0.27%) DHCP
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.27%) SNMP
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (49.73%) Power BI
2 147 (19.86%) Tableau
3 94 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (7.97%) Power Query
5 48 (6.49%) Relational Database
6 37 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.32%) Big Data
7 32 (4.32%) Metadata
8 31 (4.19%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (3.24%) Looker
11 21 (2.84%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.57%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (2.03%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.89%) GIS
15 13 (1.76%) Qlik Sense
15 13 (1.76%) QlikView
15 13 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.62%) Parquet
17 11 (1.49%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 46 (6.22%) Git
1 46 (6.22%) JIRA
2 13 (1.76%) Visual Studio
3 12 (1.62%) Eclipse
4 8 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.95%) GitLab
6 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.41%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.14%) Flyway
9 1 (0.14%) Gatling
9 1 (0.14%) git-flow
9 1 (0.14%) MLflow
9 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.14%) Storybook
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 248 (33.51%) Analytical Skills
2 245 (33.11%) Social Skills
3 169 (22.84%) Finance
4 77 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.97%) Banking
6 28 (3.78%) Marketing
7 26 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (3.24%) Retail
9 21 (2.84%) Military
9 21 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.76%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.62%) Law
13 11 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.08%) Publishing
16 7 (0.95%) Local Government
17 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 190 (25.68%) Analyst
2 110 (14.86%) Developer
3 106 (14.32%) Data Analyst
4 98 (13.24%) Data Engineer
5 86 (11.62%) Senior
6 50 (6.76%) Lead
7 43 (5.81%) Consultant
8 41 (5.54%) Data Scientist
9 37 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.32%) Architect
11 30 (4.05%) Power BI Developer
12 29 (3.92%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.24%) Designer
14 23 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (2.84%) Python Developer
16 19 (2.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 19 (2.57%) Data Architect
16 19 (2.57%) Data Manager
17 15 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
18 14 (1.89%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.27%) REST
2 34 (4.59%) Pandas
3 30 (4.05%) React
4 24 (3.24%) CSS
5 23 (3.11%) HTML
6 22 (2.97%) Kafka
6 22 (2.97%) PySpark
7 20 (2.70%) NumPy
8 19 (2.57%) Web Services
9 16 (2.16%) scikit-learn
10 14 (1.89%) Node.js
11 13 (1.76%) .NET
11 13 (1.76%) Flask
12 12 (1.62%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.62%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.49%) JSON
14 10 (1.35%) Vue
15 9 (1.22%) SOAP
16 8 (1.08%) Middleware
16 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.84%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.92%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.11%) Algorithms
4 21 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.76%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.35%) PKI
13 9 (1.22%) Clustering
13 9 (1.22%) Derivative
14 7 (0.95%) Driving Licence
14 7 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.73%) Windows
2 24 (3.24%) Linux
3 13 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.95%) Unix
5 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Android
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (52.57%) Business Intelligence
2 361 (48.78%) Data Visualisation
3 358 (48.38%) Analytics
4 216 (29.19%) Data Modelling
5 196 (26.49%) Decision-Making
6 195 (26.35%) Agile
7 186 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (21.49%) AI
9 137 (18.51%) Data Analysis
10 133 (17.97%) Actionable Insight
11 128 (17.30%) Validation
12 125 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 120 (16.22%) Data Science
15 119 (16.08%) ETL
16 117 (15.81%) Data Pipeline
17 114 (15.41%) Data Governance
18 110 (14.86%) Data Engineering
19 108 (14.59%) Dashboard Development
20 100 (13.51%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 364 (49.19%) SQL
2 269 (36.35%) Python
3 70 (9.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (7.97%) R
5 51 (6.89%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.54%) Java
7 38 (5.14%) C#
8 26 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.30%) C++
10 16 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.76%) Scala
12 11 (1.49%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.35%) VBA
14 8 (1.08%) Bash
15 5 (0.68%) Cypher
15 5 (0.68%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.54%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 158 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 115 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 87 (11.76%) Degree
4 21 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.68%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.54%) PhD
10 4 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 4 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) APMG
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (21.89%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.62%) QA
3 28 (3.78%) GDPR
4 22 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.43%) PMO
6 7 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.68%) GRC
8 4 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.54%) GMP
8 4 (0.54%) GxP
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (0.54%) WCAG
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (3.51%) Docker
2 18 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (5.81%) Terraform
2 18 (2.43%) Grafana
3 17 (2.30%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.22%) SCCM
5 7 (0.95%) Ansible
5 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.81%) Kibana
7 3 (0.41%) Podman
8 2 (0.27%) Istio
8 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 2 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 139 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.19%) Databricks
3 46 (6.22%) Oracle
4 43 (5.81%) SAP
5 39 (5.27%) Google
6 33 (4.46%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.84%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.16%) Adobe
9 13 (1.76%) Splunk
10 11 (1.49%) Alteryx
10 11 (1.49%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.35%) Remedy
12 9 (1.22%) BMC
13 8 (1.08%) Palantir
14 7 (0.95%) Informatica
15 5 (0.68%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.68%) Foundry
15 5 (0.68%) Sage
16 4 (0.54%) UiPath
16 4 (0.54%) Workday