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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 94 132
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 +14
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 881 814 815
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.25% 2.61% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.93% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 521 548
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £738 £720 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +10.62% -4.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 28 58
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.82 £25.10
25th Percentile £23.57 £24.05 £33.50
Median hourly rate £57.25 £31.91 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +79.44% -30.91% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.50 £52.27
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.81 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -28.95% -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 34,126 27,826 38,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.15% 89.30% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,616 16,956 25,656
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -3.47% -0.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,067 860 2,108
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.55 £61.31
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.88 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.03% -13.03% +18.89%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -29 760 £500 - 516
London -23 412 £523 - 221
UK excluding London -26 365 £500 +10.62% 415
Work from Home -34 269 £500 - 216
North of England -44 112 £450 -2.70% 99
Midlands -13 74 £507 +27.45% 77
West Midlands -3 62 £511 +25.72% 43
North West -32 58 £410 -11.35% 53
South East -6 57 £500 +21.21% 140
Yorkshire -30 49 £519 +22.00% 37
Scotland +17 45 £500 +12.36% 23
South West -11 45 £750 +62.16% 46
East of England -40 30 £513 +10.33% 20
East Midlands -24 12 £423 +20.71% 34
North East -21 8 £450 -14.29% 10
Northern Ireland -11 6 £531 +6.25% 4
Wales -7 3 - - 15

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 56 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.88%) Confluence
3 31 (3.52%) Apache
4 27 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.61%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
6 8 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.68%) SAS
9 5 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.57%) Smallworld
9 5 (0.57%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 123 (13.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.45%) Revit
7 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
7 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.23%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Blender
9 1 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.11%) Maya
9 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.34%) Primavera
4 2 (0.23%) iTrent
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Actimize
5 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.11%) Summit
5 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 374 (42.45%) Power Platform
2 192 (21.79%) Azure
3 152 (17.25%) AWS
4 69 (7.83%) GCP
5 48 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (4.99%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 30 (3.41%) Serverless
8 28 (3.18%) dbt
9 27 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (2.95%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.61%) PowerApps
12 21 (2.38%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.27%) GitHub
14 15 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.48%) Google Analytics
16 10 (1.14%) Figma
16 10 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (1.02%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.57%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) 2G
4 4 (0.45%) 5G
4 4 (0.45%) SNMP
5 3 (0.34%) Internet
5 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.34%) SSH
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.23%) LTE
6 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SMS
6 2 (0.23%) SSL
6 2 (0.23%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 373 (42.34%) Power BI
2 166 (18.84%) Tableau
3 98 (11.12%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (5.79%) Big Data
5 44 (4.99%) Relational Database
6 43 (4.88%) Hadoop
7 40 (4.54%) Power Query
8 33 (3.75%) Metadata
9 32 (3.63%) Data Lake
10 31 (3.52%) SQL Server
11 30 (3.41%) Looker
12 26 (2.95%) BigQuery
12 26 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (2.16%) Data Mining
15 18 (2.04%) NoSQL
16 16 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
17 15 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
18 13 (1.48%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 57 (6.47%) JIRA
2 56 (6.36%) Git
3 14 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.48%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.25%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.79%) MLflow
7 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.57%) Gradle
7 5 (0.57%) Storybook
7 5 (0.57%) Xcode
8 4 (0.45%) ERwin
9 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.23%) GitLab
10 2 (0.23%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.11%) JMeter
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 234 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 226 (25.65%) Finance
4 82 (9.31%) Banking
5 75 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 34 (3.86%) Retail
7 27 (3.06%) Marketing
8 22 (2.50%) Publishing
9 21 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (2.27%) Legal
11 19 (2.16%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.16%) Military
12 18 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.93%) Front Office
14 16 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.91%) Law
17 8 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 212 (24.06%) Analyst
2 136 (15.44%) Developer
3 121 (13.73%) Data Analyst
4 104 (11.80%) Senior
5 95 (10.78%) Data Engineer
6 77 (8.74%) Architect
7 62 (7.04%) Data Scientist
8 56 (6.36%) Lead
9 52 (5.90%) Consultant
10 49 (5.56%) Business Analyst
11 47 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 35 (3.97%) Power BI Developer
12 35 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.72%) Designer
14 24 (2.72%) Software Engineer
15 21 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (2.27%) Report Analyst
16 20 (2.27%) SQL Analyst
17 18 (2.04%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.33%) React
2 45 (5.11%) Pandas
3 34 (3.86%) scikit-learn
4 31 (3.52%) PySpark
5 30 (3.41%) Node.js
6 29 (3.29%) NumPy
7 28 (3.18%) Kafka
8 26 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
9 25 (2.84%) REST
10 21 (2.38%) AngularJS
11 20 (2.27%) Vue
12 19 (2.16%) OAuth
13 18 (2.04%) Plotly
14 17 (1.93%) TensorFlow
15 16 (1.82%) HTML
15 16 (1.82%) Web Services
16 13 (1.48%) CSS
16 13 (1.48%) D3.js
16 13 (1.48%) Matplotlib
17 12 (1.36%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.45%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.25%) PMI
10 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.02%) CMDB
11 9 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 8 (0.91%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.91%) Life Science
12 8 (0.91%) NHS
12 8 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.77%) Linux
2 26 (2.95%) Windows
3 21 (2.38%) Unix
4 6 (0.68%) Android
5 5 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (48.58%) Data Visualisation
2 404 (45.86%) Business Intelligence
3 330 (37.46%) Analytics
4 230 (26.11%) Data Modelling
5 222 (25.20%) Decision-Making
6 219 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
7 205 (23.27%) Agile
8 184 (20.89%) Data Analysis
9 161 (18.27%) Actionable Insight
10 151 (17.14%) Data Science
11 137 (15.55%) Data Pipeline
12 134 (15.21%) AI
13 122 (13.85%) ETL
14 121 (13.73%) Machine Learning
15 117 (13.28%) Data Governance
16 116 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
17 102 (11.58%) Validation
18 101 (11.46%) Data Engineering
19 96 (10.90%) DevOps
20 94 (10.67%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 388 (44.04%) SQL
2 309 (35.07%) Python
3 63 (7.15%) R
4 59 (6.70%) JavaScript
5 54 (6.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (4.31%) Java
7 35 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 30 (3.41%) C#
9 28 (3.18%) Scala
10 26 (2.95%) C++
11 20 (2.27%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.59%) Bash
13 13 (1.48%) VBA
14 9 (1.02%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.91%) Perl
16 7 (0.79%) Groovy
16 7 (0.79%) PHP
17 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.45%) Go
18 4 (0.45%) LookML
Qualifications
1 164 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 134 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 88 (9.99%) Degree
4 35 (3.97%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.16%) CISSP
8 18 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.82%) CISM
10 13 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.48%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.25%) PhD
12 10 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.79%) CBAP
14 7 (0.79%) CFA
14 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.57%) CEH
15 5 (0.57%) MBA
15 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (14.64%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.36%) Accessibility
3 44 (4.99%) QA
4 31 (3.52%) GDPR
5 16 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.70%) PMO
7 7 (0.79%) WCAG
8 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.34%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (4.09%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) HDFS
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (5.33%) Terraform
2 40 (4.54%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.63%) Kibana
4 24 (2.72%) logstash
5 23 (2.61%) Ansible
6 16 (1.82%) Grafana
7 11 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.23%) Cilium
10 2 (0.23%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.23%) vMotion
10 2 (0.23%) vRealize
11 1 (0.11%) Argo
11 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 147 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.95%) Databricks
3 45 (5.11%) Google
4 35 (3.97%) Oracle
5 32 (3.63%) Splunk
6 29 (3.29%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.29%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.04%) BiZZdesign
7 18 (2.04%) SAP
8 15 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.48%) CyberArk
10 12 (1.36%) Centrify
10 12 (1.36%) Cisco
10 12 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.36%) Foundry
11 10 (1.14%) Sage
12 9 (1.02%) Adobe
12 9 (1.02%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.91%) Palantir
14 7 (0.79%) Alteryx