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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 103 137
Rank change year-on-year -70 +34 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 765 750 736
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 2.55% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 2.81% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 461 489
10th Percentile £329 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -3.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £713 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 40 42
10th Percentile £21.21 £22.45 £20.58
25th Percentile £34.62 £31.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £36.24 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.94% -39.60% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £36.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +69.06% -43.12% +3.17%

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 41,920 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.71% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,154 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,513 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% +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 10 June 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 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 10 June 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 -64 687 £488 +5.41% 367
London -50 367 £488 -2.50% 136
UK excluding London -75 317 £475 +5.56% 288
Work from Home -20 256 £488 +8.70% 137
North of England -63 105 £438 -3.74% 86
Midlands -58 61 £520 +30.00% 46
North West -23 56 £420 -9.19% 56
South East -53 56 £500 -9.09% 82
West Midlands -46 48 £550 +33.33% 32
South West -15 45 £475 +7.47% 43
Yorkshire -52 44 £463 +15.63% 23
Scotland -17 26 £413 -8.03% 6
East of England -35 26 £565 +2.73% 21
East Midlands -29 13 £488 +30.00% 14
North East -28 6 £448 -8.21% 9
Northern Ireland 0 1 £463 +8.82% 9

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 41 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.22%) Confluence
3 16 (2.09%) Apache
3 16 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.44%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.65%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.52%) SAS
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 121 (15.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.05%) Primavera
4 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.39%) iTrent
6 3 (0.39%) 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 ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 365 (47.71%) Power Platform
2 155 (20.26%) Azure
3 132 (17.25%) AWS
4 52 (6.80%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.27%) GCP
6 43 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.53%) Serverless
8 24 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (3.01%) dbt
10 22 (2.88%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.75%) GitHub
12 19 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (2.35%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.09%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.44%) Adobe Analytics
16 10 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.31%) SaaS
16 10 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.70%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.57%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.78%) Firewall
4 4 (0.52%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (46.93%) Power BI
2 176 (23.01%) Tableau
3 102 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 47 (6.14%) Power Query
6 42 (5.49%) Big Data
7 41 (5.36%) Metadata
8 35 (4.58%) SQL Server
9 33 (4.31%) Data Lake
10 32 (4.18%) Looker
11 28 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (3.27%) BigQuery
12 25 (3.27%) Hadoop
13 19 (2.48%) NoSQL
14 16 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.83%) Star Schema
16 11 (1.44%) MySQL
16 11 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (6.67%) Git
2 39 (5.10%) JIRA
3 13 (1.70%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.57%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.05%) MLflow
7 6 (0.78%) GitLab
8 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.52%) ERwin
9 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 250 (32.68%) Analytical Skills
2 235 (30.72%) Social Skills
3 195 (25.49%) Finance
4 68 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.97%) Banking
6 37 (4.84%) Retail
7 36 (4.71%) Marketing
8 27 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.09%) Publishing
11 14 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.83%) Military
12 13 (1.70%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.70%) Law
12 13 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.05%) Front Office
14 8 (1.05%) Legal
15 7 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (26.41%) Analyst
2 112 (14.64%) Data Analyst
3 108 (14.12%) Data Engineer
4 106 (13.86%) Developer
5 86 (11.24%) Senior
6 47 (6.14%) Consultant
6 47 (6.14%) Lead
7 46 (6.01%) Data Scientist
8 43 (5.62%) Business Analyst
9 36 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.18%) Architect
11 27 (3.53%) Power BI Developer
12 26 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 26 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (2.35%) Designer
14 17 (2.22%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.22%) SAP Consultant
15 15 (1.96%) Performance Analyst
16 14 (1.83%) Software Engineer
17 13 (1.70%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.14%) React
2 42 (5.49%) Pandas
3 33 (4.31%) Kafka
4 30 (3.92%) REST
5 25 (3.27%) Node.js
6 22 (2.88%) NumPy
7 21 (2.75%) scikit-learn
8 20 (2.61%) PySpark
9 18 (2.35%) .NET
10 17 (2.22%) HTML
11 16 (2.09%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.09%) JSON
12 15 (1.96%) CSS
12 15 (1.96%) Web Services
13 14 (1.83%) Matplotlib
13 14 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.70%) Seaborn
14 13 (1.70%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.70%) Vue
15 12 (1.57%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.80%) Data Structures
2 31 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (3.27%) Algorithms
5 22 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.05%) Derivative
12 8 (1.05%) Life Science
12 8 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.05%) PKI
13 7 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.66%) Linux
1 28 (3.66%) Windows
2 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.78%) Unix
2 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.39%) Android
3 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (50.72%) Business Intelligence
2 368 (48.10%) Data Visualisation
3 332 (43.40%) Analytics
4 220 (28.76%) Data Modelling
5 207 (27.06%) Decision-Making
6 205 (26.80%) Agile
7 197 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (19.87%) AI
9 144 (18.82%) Data Pipeline
10 142 (18.56%) Actionable Insight
11 135 (17.65%) Validation
12 126 (16.47%) Dashboard Development
12 126 (16.47%) Data Science
13 125 (16.34%) ETL
14 119 (15.56%) Data Engineering
15 116 (15.16%) Data Governance
16 115 (15.03%) Data Analysis
17 108 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 104 (13.59%) CI/CD
19 93 (12.16%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 388 (50.72%) SQL
2 285 (37.25%) Python
3 75 (9.80%) R
4 57 (7.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 51 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.23%) Java
7 37 (4.84%) C#
7 37 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 22 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.48%) C++
10 16 (2.09%) Scala
11 10 (1.31%) VBA
12 9 (1.18%) Perl
12 9 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.92%) Bash
13 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.78%) Rust
15 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.39%) C
16 3 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 157 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 129 (16.86%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.72%) Degree
4 19 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.52%) MBA
10 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.39%) CBAP
11 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) APMG
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) IIBA
12 2 (0.26%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (19.48%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.80%) QA
3 27 (3.53%) GDPR
4 22 (2.88%) PMO
5 20 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.92%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.52%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) P3O
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (3.14%) Docker
2 14 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.39%) HDFS
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 35 (4.58%) Terraform
2 33 (4.31%) Kubernetes
3 24 (3.14%) Grafana
4 17 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.96%) Ansible
6 13 (1.70%) Kibana
7 8 (1.05%) SCCM
8 7 (0.92%) logstash
8 7 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.26%) Cilium
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 2 (0.26%) vMotion
9 2 (0.26%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 120 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.59%) Databricks
3 46 (6.01%) SAP
4 45 (5.88%) Google
5 35 (4.58%) Oracle
6 21 (2.75%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.48%) Adobe
8 15 (1.96%) Sage
9 14 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.70%) Splunk
11 12 (1.57%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.31%) Informatica
13 8 (1.05%) Alteryx
13 8 (1.05%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.05%) Remedy
14 6 (0.78%) Apple
14 6 (0.78%) BMC
14 6 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.78%) VMware
15 5 (0.65%) Cognos