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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 117 127
Rank change year-on-year -70 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 779 778 743
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 2.37% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.62% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 472 477
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -8.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £603
90th Percentile £700 £675 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.23% +0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 44 53
10th Percentile £20.31 £22.60 £21.40
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +40.75%

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 44,620 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,627 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,682 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.35 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -54 709 £475 +2.70% 444
London -44 359 £480 -3.03% 193
UK excluding London -73 351 £459 +1.94% 310
Work from Home -43 255 £500 +16.82% 147
North of England -53 110 £445 - 76
Midlands -46 77 £525 +27.27% 58
South East -50 68 £465 -15.45% 99
North West -25 56 £438 -2.01% 44
West Midlands -49 56 £550 +22.22% 37
Yorkshire -43 50 £469 +13.64% 20
South West -22 47 £450 - 42
East of England -27 31 £565 +2.73% 20
Scotland -34 25 £394 -12.50% 10
East Midlands -8 21 £375 -6.25% 21
North East -48 5 £400 -11.11% 14

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 26 (3.34%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.93%) Confluence
4 11 (1.41%) Apache
4 11 (1.41%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.28%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.64%) CMS
7 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 117 (15.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.03%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.03%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.77%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.51%) InDesign
9 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.26%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Maya
10 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.64%) Primavera
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) iTrent
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
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%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 385 (49.42%) Power Platform
2 161 (20.67%) Azure
3 115 (14.76%) AWS
4 54 (6.93%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.16%) GCP
6 39 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (3.72%) Serverless
10 27 (3.47%) GitHub
11 26 (3.34%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.57%) dbt
12 20 (2.57%) PowerApps
13 18 (2.31%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.54%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.54%) Ethernet
1 12 (1.54%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.51%) HTTP
3 3 (0.39%) DNS
3 3 (0.39%) Firewall
3 3 (0.39%) Wireless
4 2 (0.26%) 2G
4 2 (0.26%) 3G
4 2 (0.26%) 4G
4 2 (0.26%) 5G
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (48.52%) Power BI
2 164 (21.05%) Tableau
3 96 (12.32%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (7.19%) Power Query
5 53 (6.80%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.62%) Big Data
7 34 (4.36%) Looker
8 32 (4.11%) Data Lake
9 31 (3.98%) Metadata
9 31 (3.98%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.47%) BigQuery
10 27 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (2.18%) Star Schema
13 15 (1.93%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.67%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.67%) QlikView
16 12 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.54%) GIS
Development Applications
1 49 (6.29%) Git
2 40 (5.13%) JIRA
3 13 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.54%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.77%) GitLab
7 5 (0.64%) MLflow
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.39%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 266 (34.15%) Analytical Skills
2 257 (32.99%) Social Skills
3 187 (24.01%) Finance
4 83 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.83%) Banking
6 38 (4.88%) Marketing
7 32 (4.11%) Retail
8 26 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.57%) Military
10 18 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.41%) Law
14 10 (1.28%) Publishing
15 9 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 209 (26.83%) Analyst
2 125 (16.05%) Data Analyst
3 113 (14.51%) Developer
4 106 (13.61%) Data Engineer
5 84 (10.78%) Senior
6 53 (6.80%) Lead
7 49 (6.29%) Data Scientist
8 43 (5.52%) Consultant
9 40 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 36 (4.62%) Business Analyst
11 31 (3.98%) Architect
12 30 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
13 27 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.95%) Designer
15 20 (2.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.44%) Data Manager
17 17 (2.18%) Python Developer
18 16 (2.05%) Data Architect
18 16 (2.05%) Performance Analyst
19 14 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.26%) Pandas
2 37 (4.75%) REST
3 35 (4.49%) React
4 29 (3.72%) Kafka
5 24 (3.08%) NumPy
6 23 (2.95%) PySpark
7 21 (2.70%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.44%) CSS
8 19 (2.44%) Web Services
9 18 (2.31%) .NET
10 17 (2.18%) Node.js
11 16 (2.05%) HTML
11 16 (2.05%) JSON
12 13 (1.67%) Apache Avro
12 13 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (1.67%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.67%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.41%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.28%) GeoJSON
14 10 (1.28%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.96%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.98%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.47%) Algorithms
4 23 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 23 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.93%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.67%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.28%) PKI
13 9 (1.16%) Clustering
14 8 (1.03%) Life Science
14 8 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (1.03%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.90%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.49%) Windows
2 25 (3.21%) Linux
3 13 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.90%) Unix
5 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (52.76%) Business Intelligence
2 372 (47.75%) Analytics
2 372 (47.75%) Data Visualisation
3 238 (30.55%) Data Modelling
4 208 (26.70%) Agile
5 203 (26.06%) Decision-Making
6 194 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (20.92%) AI
8 148 (19.00%) Actionable Insight
9 143 (18.36%) Validation
10 142 (18.23%) Data Analysis
11 137 (17.59%) Data Science
12 135 (17.33%) Data Pipeline
13 125 (16.05%) Dashboard Development
13 125 (16.05%) ETL
14 122 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 118 (15.15%) Data Engineering
16 113 (14.51%) Data Governance
17 109 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
18 101 (12.97%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 399 (51.22%) SQL
2 303 (38.90%) Python
3 71 (9.11%) R
4 68 (8.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 48 (6.16%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.01%) C#
6 39 (5.01%) Java
7 30 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.31%) C++
9 17 (2.18%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.41%) Scala
11 10 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.90%) Bash
12 7 (0.90%) VBA
13 5 (0.64%) Cypher
13 5 (0.64%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.51%) Rust
15 3 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 170 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 125 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.30%) Degree
4 23 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.51%) PhD
10 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) APMG
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) CBAP
12 2 (0.26%) IIBA
12 2 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (21.44%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.42%) QA
3 27 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.47%) GDPR
4 20 (2.57%) PMO
5 10 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.90%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.51%) GMP
7 4 (0.51%) GxP
7 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.51%) WCAG
8 2 (0.26%) Basel III
8 2 (0.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (3.08%) Docker
2 18 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (4.24%) Terraform
2 23 (2.95%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.57%) Grafana
4 15 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.28%) SCCM
6 9 (1.16%) Ansible
7 8 (1.03%) Kibana
8 6 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.39%) Podman
10 2 (0.26%) logstash
10 2 (0.26%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) Cilium
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 137 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 79 (10.14%) Databricks
3 47 (6.03%) Oracle
3 47 (6.03%) SAP
4 41 (5.26%) Google
5 29 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.44%) Adobe
7 17 (2.18%) Splunk
8 16 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.41%) Alteryx
10 11 (1.41%) Remedy
11 9 (1.16%) BMC
12 8 (1.03%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.03%) Palantir
12 8 (1.03%) Sage
13 7 (0.90%) Informatica
14 6 (0.77%) Solace
15 5 (0.64%) Foundry
16 4 (0.51%) VMware