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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 100 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 874 786 819
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.36% 2.44% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 2.75% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 490 552
10th Percentile £343 £330 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year - -4.53% -2.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £725 £738 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +10.62% -4.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £29.31 £22.72 £35.32
Median hourly rate £63.75 £39.68 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.66% -14.08% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%

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 32,541 28,533 37,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.91% 88.47% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,569 17,345 24,861
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,000 921 1,535
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.76% -32.33% +55.17%

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 7 January 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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 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 -15 756 £500 - 988
London -21 402 £500 -4.76% 237
UK excluding London -1 374 £500 +10.62% 1,014
Work from Home -28 260 £500 - 815
North of England -30 110 £430 -7.03% 155
Midlands -4 73 £520 +26.06% 129
West Midlands -1 59 £525 +27.27% 68
South East 0 57 £500 +29.03% 285
North West -28 53 £405 -12.43% 59
Yorkshire -17 52 £500 +11.11% 57
Scotland +16 47 £500 +1.27% 96
South West +10 44 £750 +57.89% 84
East of England -27 39 £525 +15.64% 156
East Midlands -22 14 £404 +13.41% 60
North East -21 7 £400 -27.27% 39
Northern Ireland -14 6 £531 +6.25% 33
Wales -6 4 - - 91

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 49 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.69%) Confluence
3 40 (4.58%) Apache
4 27 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.17%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.72%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.26%) SAS
8 8 (0.92%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.92%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.57%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 126 (14.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.26%) Siemens NX
6 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.46%) Revit
8 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Blender
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.11%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) SPSS
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.26%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Primavera
5 1 (0.11%) Actimize
5 1 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Maximo
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 367 (41.99%) Power Platform
2 196 (22.43%) Azure
3 149 (17.05%) AWS
4 71 (8.12%) GCP
5 46 (5.26%) Snowflake
6 43 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (3.78%) Serverless
8 30 (3.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (3.09%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.75%) PowerApps
12 22 (2.52%) dbt
13 20 (2.29%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.29%) GitHub
14 16 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (1.49%) Figma
16 13 (1.49%) Google Analytics
17 10 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) HTTP
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (41.88%) Power BI
2 165 (18.88%) Tableau
3 100 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.61%) Big Data
6 44 (5.03%) Power Query
7 37 (4.23%) Hadoop
8 31 (3.55%) Data Lake
9 29 (3.32%) Metadata
10 28 (3.20%) Looker
10 28 (3.20%) SQL Server
11 24 (2.75%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (2.29%) Data Mining
13 20 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (1.60%) NoSQL
15 14 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (1.49%) Apache Hive
17 12 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 61 (6.98%) Git
2 57 (6.52%) JIRA
3 17 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.72%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.80%) Gradle
5 7 (0.80%) Storybook
5 7 (0.80%) Xcode
6 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.57%) MLflow
7 3 (0.34%) JUnit
7 3 (0.34%) Selenium
8 2 (0.23%) GitLab
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.23%) webpack
9 1 (0.11%) git-flow
9 1 (0.11%) Snyk
9 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 343 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 238 (27.23%) Analytical Skills
3 218 (24.94%) Finance
4 78 (8.92%) Banking
5 76 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.78%) Marketing
7 29 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (2.97%) Retail
9 24 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 23 (2.63%) Military
11 22 (2.52%) Publishing
12 21 (2.40%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.95%) Front Office
13 17 (1.95%) Legal
14 15 (1.72%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (24.83%) Analyst
2 136 (15.56%) Developer
3 124 (14.19%) Data Analyst
4 92 (10.53%) Senior
5 85 (9.73%) Data Engineer
6 80 (9.15%) Architect
7 58 (6.64%) Data Scientist
8 49 (5.61%) Business Analyst
8 49 (5.61%) Lead
9 47 (5.38%) Consultant
10 43 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
12 34 (3.89%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.20%) Software Engineer
14 26 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.29%) Designer
15 20 (2.29%) Report Analyst
16 18 (2.06%) Integration Architect
16 18 (2.06%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.06%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.38%) Pandas
2 39 (4.46%) React
3 36 (4.12%) scikit-learn
4 32 (3.66%) NumPy
5 30 (3.43%) Node.js
5 30 (3.43%) PySpark
6 25 (2.86%) REST
7 23 (2.63%) Kafka
8 21 (2.40%) Web Services
9 20 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (2.29%) Plotly
10 19 (2.17%) AngularJS
11 18 (2.06%) D3.js
11 18 (2.06%) HTML
12 17 (1.95%) OAuth
13 16 (1.83%) CSS
13 16 (1.83%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.72%) Vue
15 14 (1.60%) Matplotlib
16 11 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.84%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.43%) Cloud Native
4 27 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.03%) CMDB
11 9 (1.03%) NHS
11 9 (1.03%) PMI
12 8 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.92%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.80%) Reinsurance
13 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.41%) Linux
2 40 (4.58%) Windows
3 33 (3.78%) Unix
4 8 (0.92%) Android
5 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (46.91%) Data Visualisation
2 407 (46.57%) Business Intelligence
3 321 (36.73%) Analytics
4 238 (27.23%) Data Modelling
5 215 (24.60%) Decision-Making
6 207 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (23.00%) Data Analysis
8 199 (22.77%) Agile
9 150 (17.16%) Actionable Insight
9 150 (17.16%) Data Science
10 125 (14.30%) Machine Learning
11 124 (14.19%) Data Pipeline
12 118 (13.50%) ETL
13 115 (13.16%) AI
14 108 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 106 (12.13%) Data Governance
16 98 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (10.76%) Validation
18 87 (9.95%) DevOps
19 84 (9.61%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 395 (45.19%) SQL
2 302 (34.55%) Python
3 62 (7.09%) R
4 61 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.23%) Java
7 34 (3.89%) C#
7 34 (3.89%) C++
8 29 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 26 (2.97%) Scala
10 18 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.49%) Bash
12 10 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.92%) VBA
14 7 (0.80%) Go
14 7 (0.80%) Groovy
14 7 (0.80%) PHP
15 6 (0.69%) Perl
16 4 (0.46%) LookML
Qualifications
1 167 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 85 (9.73%) Degree
4 37 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.06%) CISSP
7 15 (1.72%) CISM
8 14 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.37%) PhD
10 11 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.80%) CFA
12 7 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.57%) CBAP
14 5 (0.57%) CEH
14 5 (0.57%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (14.53%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 36 (4.12%) QA
4 30 (3.43%) GDPR
5 14 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.49%) PMO
7 7 (0.80%) WCAG
8 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.34%) EMIR
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (4.12%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (4.58%) Terraform
2 33 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.09%) Kibana
4 18 (2.06%) logstash
5 14 (1.60%) Ansible
5 14 (1.60%) Grafana
6 7 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.46%) Argo
8 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.11%) Cacti
10 1 (0.11%) collectd
10 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.11%) QRadar
10 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 149 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.86%) Databricks
3 56 (6.41%) Oracle
4 41 (4.69%) Google
5 40 (4.58%) Splunk
6 34 (3.89%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.29%) Cisco
10 19 (2.17%) AppDynamics
11 16 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
12 15 (1.72%) SAP
13 14 (1.60%) OpenAI
14 13 (1.49%) CyberArk
15 12 (1.37%) Centrify
15 12 (1.37%) Foundry
16 10 (1.14%) Siemens
17 8 (0.92%) Adobe
17 8 (0.92%) Alteryx
17 8 (0.92%) Palantir