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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 110 118
Rank change year-on-year -99 +8 +29
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 728 811 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.46% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.72% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 494 473
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £574 £613
90th Percentile £701 £675 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 49 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.77 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +42.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +48.57%

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 45,360 29,849 33,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.48% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,797 18,603 21,010
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% -3.67%
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 2,875 1,763 1,706
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +7.39%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -87 666 £488 +3.17% 464
UK excluding London -87 342 £475 +5.56% 370
London -71 324 £500 - 187
Work from Home -64 219 £500 +14.94% 151
North of England -65 100 £450 +5.88% 90
Midlands -35 82 £539 +6.21% 53
West Midlands -39 62 £558 +6.19% 26
South East -65 62 £458 -16.82% 110
North West -34 50 £473 +9.88% 48
South West -19 48 £450 - 56
Yorkshire -46 45 £466 +16.38% 32
East of England -33 34 £565 +5.12% 36
Scotland -35 23 £425 -5.56% 17
East Midlands -7 20 £375 -6.25% 27
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 12

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 19 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.47%) Confluence
3 11 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.37%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.10%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.82%) Apache
8 5 (0.69%) CMS
8 5 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 114 (15.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.10%) CPLEX
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.55%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.41%) InDesign
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 11 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.69%) Primavera
5 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 366 (50.27%) Power Platform
2 145 (19.92%) Azure
3 107 (14.70%) AWS
4 50 (6.87%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.46%) GCP
6 37 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (3.57%) GitHub
8 26 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.43%) Serverless
10 22 (3.02%) PowerApps
11 18 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.47%) dbt
12 13 (1.79%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.65%) Adobe Analytics
14 11 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.37%) SaaS
16 9 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.51%) Ethernet
1 11 (1.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTP
3 3 (0.41%) VPN
3 3 (0.41%) Wireless
4 2 (0.27%) 2G
4 2 (0.27%) 3G
4 2 (0.27%) 4G
4 2 (0.27%) 5G
4 2 (0.27%) Broadband
4 2 (0.27%) DHCP
4 2 (0.27%) DNS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
4 2 (0.27%) Network Security
4 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) SNMP
5 1 (0.14%) Intranet
5 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (49.31%) Power BI
2 144 (19.78%) Tableau
3 89 (12.23%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (7.55%) Power Query
5 46 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 39 (5.36%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.40%) Metadata
8 30 (4.12%) Big Data
8 30 (4.12%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (3.30%) Looker
11 23 (3.16%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (2.06%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.92%) GIS
15 13 (1.79%) Qlik Sense
15 13 (1.79%) QlikView
15 13 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.65%) Parquet
17 11 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 46 (6.32%) Git
2 42 (5.77%) JIRA
3 13 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.65%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.82%) GitLab
6 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 246 (33.79%) Analytical Skills
2 241 (33.10%) Social Skills
3 161 (22.12%) Finance
4 75 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.24%) Banking
6 28 (3.85%) Marketing
7 24 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.16%) Military
9 22 (3.02%) Retail
10 21 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.92%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.65%) Law
13 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.10%) Local Government
16 8 (1.10%) Publishing
17 7 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (25.41%) Analyst
2 106 (14.56%) Developer
3 101 (13.87%) Data Analyst
4 99 (13.60%) Data Engineer
5 89 (12.23%) Senior
6 47 (6.46%) Lead
7 42 (5.77%) Consultant
8 39 (5.36%) Data Scientist
9 34 (4.67%) Architect
9 34 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 29 (3.98%) Business Analyst
10 29 (3.98%) Power BI Developer
11 25 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
12 24 (3.30%) Designer
13 21 (2.88%) Python Developer
14 19 (2.61%) Data Architect
14 19 (2.61%) Data Manager
15 18 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 14 (1.92%) Data Consultant
16 14 (1.92%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.63%) Terraform
2 39 (5.36%) REST
3 32 (4.40%) Pandas
3 32 (4.40%) React
4 26 (3.57%) CSS
5 24 (3.30%) HTML
6 22 (3.02%) Kafka
7 21 (2.88%) PySpark
8 19 (2.61%) NumPy
9 18 (2.47%) Web Services
10 16 (2.20%) scikit-learn
11 14 (1.92%) Node.js
12 13 (1.79%) .NET
12 13 (1.79%) Flask
13 11 (1.51%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.51%) TensorFlow
14 10 (1.37%) JSON
14 10 (1.37%) Vue
15 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
15 9 (1.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.97%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.88%) Algorithms
4 21 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.79%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.37%) PKI
11 9 (1.24%) Clustering
11 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.10%) Derivative
13 7 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.95%) Windows
2 23 (3.16%) Linux
3 13 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.82%) Unix
5 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Android
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (51.79%) Business Intelligence
2 356 (48.90%) Data Visualisation
3 349 (47.94%) Analytics
4 206 (28.30%) Data Modelling
5 188 (25.82%) Decision-Making
6 187 (25.69%) Agile
7 176 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (21.84%) AI
9 135 (18.54%) Data Analysis
10 130 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
11 126 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 124 (17.03%) Validation
13 119 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (16.21%) ETL
15 114 (15.66%) Data Science
16 113 (15.52%) Data Pipeline
17 110 (15.11%) Data Governance
18 109 (14.97%) Dashboard Development
19 108 (14.84%) Data Engineering
20 96 (13.19%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 351 (48.21%) SQL
2 263 (36.13%) Python
3 67 (9.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 58 (7.97%) R
5 51 (7.01%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.63%) Java
7 37 (5.08%) C#
8 28 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.34%) C++
10 16 (2.20%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.65%) Scala
12 11 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.37%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.24%) VBA
15 8 (1.10%) Bash
16 5 (0.69%) Cypher
16 5 (0.69%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.55%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.55%) Rust
17 4 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 154 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 110 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.54%) Degree
4 21 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.55%) PhD
10 4 (0.55%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 4 (0.55%) 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%) PMP
13 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (21.57%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.32%) QA
3 28 (3.85%) GDPR
4 24 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.34%) PMO
6 7 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.69%) GRC
7 5 (0.69%) WCAG
8 4 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.55%) GMP
8 4 (0.55%) GxP
8 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
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%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 23 (3.16%) Docker
2 17 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.55%) 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 17 (2.34%) Grafana
2 15 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.10%) SCCM
4 6 (0.82%) Ansible
4 6 (0.82%) Kibana
4 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.41%) Podman
6 2 (0.27%) Istio
6 2 (0.27%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.14%) logstash
7 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.14%) QRadar
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 135 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.62%) Databricks
3 44 (6.04%) Oracle
4 42 (5.77%) SAP
5 37 (5.08%) Google
6 31 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.06%) Adobe
9 13 (1.79%) Splunk
10 11 (1.51%) Alteryx
10 11 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.37%) Remedy
12 9 (1.24%) BMC
13 8 (1.10%) Palantir
14 7 (0.96%) Informatica
15 5 (0.69%) Foundry
15 5 (0.69%) SnapLogic
16 4 (0.55%) Solace
16 4 (0.55%) VMware
16 4 (0.55%) Workday