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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 113 120
Rank change year-on-year -86 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 740 791 763
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 2.40% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.65% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 482 477
10th Percentile £325 £307 £313
25th Percentile £400 £394 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -7.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £593 £570 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 46 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.67 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +48.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.50% -23.08% +56.46%

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 45,250 29,801 33,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.48% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,843 18,616 21,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £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 2,819 1,703 1,838
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +13.33%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -75 680 £480 +3.78% 1,187
UK excluding London -78 348 £475 +5.56% 667
London -75 330 £488 -2.50% 678
Work from Home -44 229 £500 +17.23% 446
North of England -53 102 £450 +5.26% 168
Midlands -36 84 £528 +26.09% 99
South East -52 64 £450 -18.18% 146
West Midlands -32 63 £550 +5.77% 57
North West -27 52 £473 +5.70% 86
South West -16 48 £463 +2.78% 87
Yorkshire -47 45 £471 +17.81% 60
East of England -27 35 £565 +2.73% 70
Scotland -28 22 £418 -8.49% 65
East Midlands -11 21 £375 -3.23% 42
North East -43 6 £410 -8.89% 24

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 22 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.30%) Confluence
3 11 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.35%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.22%) Apache Superset
6 8 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.95%) Apache
8 5 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.54%) SAS
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 112 (15.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.08%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.68%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.54%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.41%) InDesign
10 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.27%) Notion
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.68%) Primavera
4 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 371 (50.14%) Power Platform
2 154 (20.81%) Azure
3 111 (15.00%) AWS
4 51 (6.89%) Snowflake
5 46 (6.22%) GCP
6 38 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 38 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (3.78%) Serverless
8 27 (3.65%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.24%) GitHub
10 22 (2.97%) PowerApps
11 18 (2.43%) dbt
12 17 (2.30%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.76%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.62%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (1.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.62%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.54%) HTTP
3 4 (0.54%) Wireless
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) 2G
5 2 (0.27%) 3G
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DHCP
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.27%) SNMP
5 2 (0.27%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) Intranet
6 1 (0.14%) Modbus
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (49.32%) Power BI
2 147 (19.86%) Tableau
3 97 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (7.97%) Power Query
5 52 (7.03%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.86%) Data Lake
7 34 (4.59%) Metadata
8 32 (4.32%) Big Data
9 30 (4.05%) SQL Server
10 26 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (3.38%) Looker
12 21 (2.84%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.57%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (2.03%) Star Schema
15 13 (1.76%) GIS
15 13 (1.76%) QlikView
15 13 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.62%) Parquet
16 12 (1.62%) Qlik Sense
17 11 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (6.08%) Git
2 42 (5.68%) JIRA
3 13 (1.76%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.62%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.81%) GitLab
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
8 3 (0.41%) MLflow
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) git-flow
10 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 245 (33.11%) Analytical Skills
2 240 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 165 (22.30%) Finance
4 78 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.16%) Banking
6 34 (4.59%) Marketing
7 25 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.38%) Retail
8 21 (2.84%) Military
9 18 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.62%) Law
12 9 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.22%) Publishing
12 9 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.81%) Front Office
13 6 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 194 (26.22%) Analyst
2 112 (15.14%) Data Analyst
3 109 (14.73%) Developer
4 100 (13.51%) Data Engineer
5 81 (10.95%) Senior
6 50 (6.76%) Lead
7 43 (5.81%) Data Scientist
8 41 (5.54%) Consultant
9 37 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (4.46%) Architect
10 33 (4.46%) Business Analyst
11 30 (4.05%) Power BI Developer
12 24 (3.24%) Designer
13 22 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 20 (2.70%) Data Architect
15 19 (2.57%) Data Manager
15 19 (2.57%) Python Developer
16 14 (1.89%) Performance Analyst
16 14 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.14%) REST
2 37 (5.00%) Pandas
3 30 (4.05%) React
4 22 (2.97%) CSS
4 22 (2.97%) Kafka
4 22 (2.97%) NumPy
4 22 (2.97%) PySpark
5 20 (2.70%) HTML
6 19 (2.57%) Web Services
7 17 (2.30%) scikit-learn
8 15 (2.03%) Node.js
9 13 (1.76%) .NET
10 12 (1.62%) JSON
10 12 (1.62%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.62%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.49%) Flask
12 9 (1.22%) Matplotlib
12 9 (1.22%) SOAP
13 8 (1.08%) Middleware
13 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.97%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.76%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.76%) Reference Data
12 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.35%) PKI
14 9 (1.22%) Clustering
15 8 (1.08%) Derivative
15 8 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
16 7 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.59%) Windows
2 24 (3.24%) Linux
3 13 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.95%) Unix
5 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (52.84%) Business Intelligence
2 359 (48.51%) Data Visualisation
3 356 (48.11%) Analytics
4 223 (30.14%) Data Modelling
5 194 (26.22%) Agile
6 192 (25.95%) Decision-Making
7 183 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (21.35%) AI
9 134 (18.11%) Data Analysis
10 130 (17.57%) Actionable Insight
11 128 (17.30%) Validation
12 123 (16.62%) Data Science
13 121 (16.35%) Data Pipeline
14 120 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (16.22%) ETL
15 115 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
16 111 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
16 111 (15.00%) Data Governance
17 108 (14.59%) Data Engineering
18 96 (12.97%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 368 (49.73%) SQL
2 272 (36.76%) Python
3 69 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (8.24%) R
5 49 (6.62%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.27%) Java
7 37 (5.00%) C#
8 26 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.30%) C++
9 17 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.76%) Scala
11 11 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.08%) VBA
14 7 (0.95%) Bash
15 5 (0.68%) Cypher
15 5 (0.68%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.54%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 163 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.35%) Degree
4 23 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.54%) PhD
9 4 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.27%) APMG
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (22.03%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.89%) QA
3 27 (3.65%) GDPR
4 21 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.16%) PMO
6 8 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.54%) GMP
7 4 (0.54%) GRC
7 4 (0.54%) GxP
7 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.54%) WCAG
8 2 (0.27%) Basel III
8 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.27%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (3.24%) Docker
2 18 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (5.27%) Terraform
2 19 (2.57%) Grafana
3 16 (2.16%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.08%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.08%) SCCM
5 7 (0.95%) Ansible
5 7 (0.95%) Kibana
6 3 (0.41%) Podman
6 3 (0.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.27%) Istio
7 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 134 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.46%) Databricks
3 48 (6.49%) Oracle
4 43 (5.81%) SAP
5 39 (5.27%) Google
6 29 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.84%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.57%) Adobe
9 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.76%) Splunk
11 10 (1.35%) Remedy
12 9 (1.22%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.22%) BMC
13 8 (1.08%) Palantir
14 7 (0.95%) Informatica
15 5 (0.68%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.68%) Foundry
15 5 (0.68%) Sage
16 4 (0.54%) UiPath
16 4 (0.54%) Workday