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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 114 118
Rank change year-on-year -93 +4 +23
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 724 796 781
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.43% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.69% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 485 474
10th Percentile £324 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £613
90th Percentile £700 £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 52 48 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £29.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.25 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -23.08% +52.94%

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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
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 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -85 661 £488 +5.41% 381
UK excluding London -82 335 £475 +5.56% 226
London -72 328 £488 -2.50% 207
Work from Home -60 217 £500 +15.61% 144
North of England -70 99 £451 +6.00% 55
Midlands -42 83 £539 +12.54% 28
West Midlands -52 62 £558 +6.19% 14
South East -67 62 £458 -16.82% 47
North West -37 50 £495 +15.12% 29
South West -23 45 £450 -1.64% 53
Yorkshire -46 44 £466 +16.38% 22
East of England -37 30 £565 +5.12% 14
Scotland -33 23 £425 -5.56% 19
East Midlands -9 21 £375 -6.25% 14
North East -44 6 £410 -8.89% 4

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 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.49%) Confluence
3 11 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.38%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.10%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.83%) 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 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.28%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 117 (16.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.97%) 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 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.28%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 10 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.69%) Primavera
3 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 372 (51.38%) Power Platform
2 147 (20.30%) Azure
3 104 (14.36%) AWS
4 50 (6.91%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.63%) GCP
6 38 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (4.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (3.87%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.59%) GitHub
10 25 (3.45%) Serverless
11 23 (3.18%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.49%) Amazon S3
12 18 (2.49%) dbt
13 13 (1.80%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.66%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.38%) SaaS
17 8 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Ethernet
1 4 (0.55%) HTTP
1 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
1 4 (0.55%) Wireless
2 3 (0.41%) SNMP
2 3 (0.41%) VPN
3 2 (0.28%) 2G
3 2 (0.28%) 3G
3 2 (0.28%) 4G
3 2 (0.28%) 5G
3 2 (0.28%) Broadband
3 2 (0.28%) DHCP
3 2 (0.28%) DNS
3 2 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) Network Security
3 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
3 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (50.41%) Power BI
2 149 (20.58%) Tableau
3 90 (12.43%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (7.60%) Power Query
5 46 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.52%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.42%) Metadata
8 30 (4.14%) Big Data
8 30 (4.14%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.45%) Looker
10 24 (3.31%) BigQuery
10 24 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.62%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (2.07%) Star Schema
13 14 (1.93%) GIS
14 13 (1.80%) Qlik Sense
14 13 (1.80%) QlikView
14 13 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
15 12 (1.66%) Parquet
16 11 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 47 (6.49%) Git
2 42 (5.80%) JIRA
3 5 (0.69%) GitLab
3 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.55%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.41%) JMeter
6 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.14%) Flyway
7 1 (0.14%) Gatling
7 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.14%) JUnit
7 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.14%) MLflow
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 253 (34.94%) Analytical Skills
2 240 (33.15%) Social Skills
3 160 (22.10%) Finance
4 79 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.43%) Banking
6 28 (3.87%) Marketing
7 24 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.04%) Retail
9 17 (2.35%) Military
10 15 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.38%) Law
13 10 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.10%) Local Government
15 8 (1.10%) Publishing
16 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (26.38%) Analyst
2 106 (14.64%) Developer
3 105 (14.50%) Data Analyst
4 99 (13.67%) Data Engineer
5 87 (12.02%) Senior
6 47 (6.49%) Lead
7 43 (5.94%) Consultant
8 38 (5.25%) Data Scientist
9 34 (4.70%) Architect
10 33 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 29 (4.01%) Business Analyst
12 28 (3.87%) Power BI Developer
13 25 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (3.31%) Designer
15 21 (2.90%) Python Developer
16 19 (2.62%) Data Architect
16 19 (2.62%) Data Manager
17 18 (2.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 16 (2.21%) Performance Analyst
19 14 (1.93%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.52%) Terraform
2 38 (5.25%) REST
3 32 (4.42%) Pandas
4 30 (4.14%) React
5 26 (3.59%) CSS
6 24 (3.31%) HTML
7 21 (2.90%) Kafka
7 21 (2.90%) PySpark
8 19 (2.62%) NumPy
9 17 (2.35%) scikit-learn
10 14 (1.93%) .NET
11 13 (1.80%) Flask
12 11 (1.52%) PyTorch
12 11 (1.52%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.52%) Web Services
13 10 (1.38%) JSON
13 10 (1.38%) Vue
14 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.24%) SOAP
15 8 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.29%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.80%) Reference Data
12 10 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.38%) PKI
13 9 (1.24%) Clustering
13 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.10%) NHS
15 7 (0.97%) Derivative
15 7 (0.97%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.73%) Windows
2 14 (1.93%) Linux
3 13 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.83%) 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
1 382 (52.76%) Business Intelligence
2 359 (49.59%) Data Visualisation
3 353 (48.76%) Analytics
4 206 (28.45%) Data Modelling
5 191 (26.38%) Decision-Making
6 178 (24.59%) Agile
7 176 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (22.10%) AI
9 139 (19.20%) Data Analysis
10 133 (18.37%) Actionable Insight
11 128 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 121 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (16.44%) ETL
14 117 (16.16%) Validation
15 115 (15.88%) Data Pipeline
16 113 (15.61%) Dashboard Development
16 113 (15.61%) Data Science
17 111 (15.33%) Data Governance
18 110 (15.19%) Data Engineering
19 93 (12.85%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 357 (49.31%) SQL
2 267 (36.88%) Python
3 67 (9.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 60 (8.29%) R
5 43 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.66%) Java
7 30 (4.14%) C#
8 26 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.21%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.66%) Scala
11 11 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.24%) C++
12 9 (1.24%) VBA
13 8 (1.10%) Bash
14 5 (0.69%) Cypher
15 4 (0.55%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 148 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 104 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.33%) Degree
4 20 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.55%) PhD
9 4 (0.55%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.28%) APMG
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.14%) PMP
12 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (22.38%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.63%) QA
3 28 (3.87%) GDPR
4 26 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.35%) PMO
6 8 (1.10%) 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 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 23 (3.18%) Docker
2 17 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (2.21%) Grafana
2 15 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.10%) SCCM
4 6 (0.83%) Ansible
4 6 (0.83%) Kibana
5 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.41%) Podman
7 2 (0.28%) Istio
7 2 (0.28%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.14%) QRadar
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 132 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.08%) Databricks
3 44 (6.08%) Oracle
4 41 (5.66%) SAP
5 36 (4.97%) Google
6 31 (4.28%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.90%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.07%) Adobe
9 14 (1.93%) Splunk
10 11 (1.52%) Alteryx
10 11 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.38%) Remedy
12 9 (1.24%) BMC
13 8 (1.10%) Palantir
14 7 (0.97%) 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