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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 109 129
Rank change year-on-year -59 +20 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 784 762 774
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 2.44% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.68% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 467 505
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.61% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £720 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +2.78% -3.23% +0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 45 53
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £29.23 £31.64 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% -28.95% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% -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 43,799 28,390 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.78% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,227 17,909 23,638
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,638 1,396 2,532
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +8.91%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -57 705 £475 - 534
London -40 369 £488 -2.50% 237
UK excluding London -79 338 £463 +2.78% 373
Work from Home -32 251 £500 +11.86% 176
North of England -50 113 £450 - 95
Midlands -46 71 £520 +30.00% 68
North West -9 63 £444 -4.00% 58
South East -46 62 £465 -15.45% 109
West Midlands -53 51 £550 +31.34% 34
South West -16 46 £450 +4.77% 47
Yorkshire -51 46 £459 +13.98% 26
Scotland -18 27 £425 -5.56% 10
East of England -39 23 £520 -3.26% 36
East Midlands -9 20 £431 +15.00% 34
North East -42 5 £420 -6.67% 13

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 33 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.66%) Apache
3 13 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.66%) Confluence
4 11 (1.40%) Apache Superset
5 6 (0.77%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.64%) CMS
6 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.64%) SAS
7 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 119 (15.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.77%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.77%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.38%) InDesign
7 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.26%) Notion
8 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.13%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.77%) Primavera
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) iTrent
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 393 (50.13%) Power Platform
2 168 (21.43%) Azure
3 133 (16.96%) AWS
4 52 (6.63%) Snowflake
5 49 (6.25%) GCP
6 42 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.06%) GitHub
9 24 (3.06%) Serverless
10 23 (2.93%) dbt
10 23 (2.93%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.68%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.55%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.53%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.66%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.53%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.26%) 2G
5 2 (0.26%) 3G
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) 5G
5 2 (0.26%) DHCP
5 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.26%) HTTP
5 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (49.36%) Power BI
2 178 (22.70%) Tableau
3 102 (13.01%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (6.89%) Power Query
5 53 (6.76%) Relational Database
6 39 (4.97%) Big Data
7 37 (4.72%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.34%) Data Lake
9 32 (4.08%) Looker
9 32 (4.08%) Metadata
10 30 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (3.57%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.81%) Hadoop
13 21 (2.68%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.30%) Star Schema
15 16 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (1.40%) QlikView
17 11 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (6.89%) Git
2 38 (4.85%) JIRA
3 13 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.02%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.89%) MLflow
7 5 (0.64%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.26%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 253 (32.27%) Analytical Skills
2 243 (30.99%) Social Skills
3 201 (25.64%) Finance
4 81 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.53%) Banking
6 38 (4.85%) Marketing
7 37 (4.72%) Retail
8 26 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.17%) Military
12 14 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.53%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.40%) Law
15 10 (1.28%) Publishing
16 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.02%) Legal
18 7 (0.89%) Front Office
18 7 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (27.17%) Analyst
2 127 (16.20%) Data Analyst
3 109 (13.90%) Data Engineer
3 109 (13.90%) Developer
4 84 (10.71%) Senior
5 53 (6.76%) Data Scientist
6 51 (6.51%) Lead
7 48 (6.12%) Consultant
8 43 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 41 (5.23%) Business Analyst
10 34 (4.34%) Power BI Developer
11 32 (4.08%) Architect
12 29 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 26 (3.32%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (2.17%) Designer
15 16 (2.04%) Data Manager
15 16 (2.04%) Performance Analyst
16 15 (1.91%) SAP Consultant
17 14 (1.79%) Data Architect
17 14 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.61%) React
2 43 (5.48%) Pandas
3 34 (4.34%) Kafka
4 33 (4.21%) REST
5 26 (3.32%) NumPy
6 21 (2.68%) scikit-learn
7 20 (2.55%) Node.js
8 19 (2.42%) .NET
8 19 (2.42%) PySpark
9 17 (2.17%) AngularJS
9 17 (2.17%) Web Services
10 15 (1.91%) CSS
10 15 (1.91%) JSON
11 14 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (1.66%) HTML
13 12 (1.53%) Apache Avro
13 12 (1.53%) Vue
14 11 (1.40%) Matplotlib
14 11 (1.40%) Seaborn
14 11 (1.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.65%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.83%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.15%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.02%) Derivative
12 8 (1.02%) Life Science
12 8 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.02%) PKI
13 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.83%) Windows
2 27 (3.44%) Linux
3 8 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
5 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (52.55%) Business Intelligence
2 378 (48.21%) Data Visualisation
3 359 (45.79%) Analytics
4 229 (29.21%) Data Modelling
5 211 (26.91%) Decision-Making
6 203 (25.89%) Agile
7 195 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (21.68%) AI
9 152 (19.39%) Data Pipeline
10 151 (19.26%) Actionable Insight
11 143 (18.24%) Validation
12 139 (17.73%) Data Science
13 135 (17.22%) Data Analysis
14 134 (17.09%) ETL
15 130 (16.58%) Dashboard Development
16 126 (16.07%) Data Engineering
17 117 (14.92%) Data Governance
18 115 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 105 (13.39%) Machine Learning
20 104 (13.27%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 395 (50.38%) SQL
2 301 (38.39%) Python
3 77 (9.82%) R
4 70 (8.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.99%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.85%) Java
7 37 (4.72%) TypeScript
8 34 (4.34%) C#
9 17 (2.17%) C++
10 15 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.53%) Scala
12 10 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.28%) VBA
13 8 (1.02%) Bash
13 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.64%) Rust
15 4 (0.51%) Cypher
15 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 166 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 128 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.84%) Degree
4 22 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.64%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.38%) CBAP
11 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) APMG
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) NCDA
12 2 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.26%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (20.92%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.76%) QA
3 30 (3.83%) GDPR
4 23 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.42%) PMO
6 8 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 4 (0.51%) WCAG
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.26%) GMP
10 2 (0.26%) GxP
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (3.06%) Docker
2 14 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.95%) Terraform
3 23 (2.93%) Grafana
4 16 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.91%) Ansible
6 10 (1.28%) Kibana
7 8 (1.02%) SCCM
8 7 (0.89%) logstash
8 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.38%) Podman
10 2 (0.26%) Cilium
10 2 (0.26%) Packer
10 2 (0.26%) vMotion
10 2 (0.26%) 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
1 129 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.33%) Databricks
3 48 (6.12%) SAP
4 43 (5.48%) Google
5 42 (5.36%) Oracle
6 23 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.42%) Adobe
8 15 (1.91%) Splunk
9 13 (1.66%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.66%) Sage
9 13 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.40%) Alteryx
10 11 (1.40%) Informatica
11 8 (1.02%) Amplitude
11 8 (1.02%) Palantir
11 8 (1.02%) Remedy
12 6 (0.77%) BMC
12 6 (0.77%) VMware
13 5 (0.64%) Apple
13 5 (0.64%) Cognos