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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 108 113
Rank change year-on-year -101 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 740 846 788
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.56% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.82% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 526 456
10th Percentile £313 £325 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 51 53
10th Percentile £21.71 £18.50 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.96% -3.85% +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 46,382 29,970 32,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.66% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,008 18,622 19,630
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,245 1,858 1,349
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.64 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.01% -48.10% +1.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -102 654 £475 - 1,938
UK excluding London -92 358 £465 +0.54% 1,113
London -79 313 £480 -4.00% 1,055
Work from Home -71 223 £500 +11.11% 765
North of England -73 103 £438 +3.06% 229
Midlands -44 83 £528 +4.14% 170
South East -57 68 £452 -17.91% 282
West Midlands -37 62 £550 +5.77% 114
North West -39 49 £500 +22.70% 110
South West -29 46 £450 -40.00% 122
Yorkshire -54 42 £480 +12.94% 87
Scotland -38 31 £415 -17.00% 111
East of England -41 30 £565 +7.62% 122
East Midlands -10 21 £375 -6.25% 56
North East -30 13 £350 -17.65% 33
Wales -17 3 £356 +13.55% 45
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 47

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%) Confluence
2 19 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.35%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
5 5 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 122 (16.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.81%) CPLEX
5 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.41%) InDesign
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.68%) Primavera
5 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 389 (52.57%) Power Platform
2 132 (17.84%) Azure
3 97 (13.11%) AWS
4 57 (7.70%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.35%) GCP
6 38 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.19%) GitHub
8 29 (3.92%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.65%) PowerApps
10 26 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (2.97%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.84%) Serverless
13 20 (2.70%) Google Analytics
14 19 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (2.43%) dbt
16 15 (2.03%) Adobe Analytics
17 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
18 11 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
19 10 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.35%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.68%) HTTP
2 5 (0.68%) SNMP
2 5 (0.68%) Wireless
3 4 (0.54%) Broadband
3 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.54%) WAN
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
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%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (51.62%) Power BI
2 140 (18.92%) Tableau
3 72 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (9.46%) Power Query
5 44 (5.95%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.41%) Data Lake
7 29 (3.92%) Metadata
8 26 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.38%) Big Data
10 24 (3.24%) BigQuery
11 22 (2.97%) Looker
12 20 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
13 18 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (2.16%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (2.03%) QlikView
15 15 (2.03%) Star Schema
16 14 (1.89%) GIS
17 12 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
18 10 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 45 (6.08%) Git
2 41 (5.54%) JIRA
3 11 (1.49%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.35%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.81%) GitLab
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.14%) fastlane
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) Gradle
10 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 268 (36.22%) Social Skills
2 260 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
3 163 (22.03%) Finance
4 94 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.97%) Banking
6 27 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.38%) Military
8 23 (3.11%) Retail
9 22 (2.97%) Marketing
10 21 (2.84%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.76%) Local Government
13 13 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.22%) Publishing
17 6 (0.81%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 205 (27.70%) Analyst
2 117 (15.81%) Data Analyst
3 115 (15.54%) Developer
4 84 (11.35%) Data Engineer
5 82 (11.08%) Senior
6 43 (5.81%) Lead
7 41 (5.54%) Consultant
8 40 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 37 (5.00%) Data Scientist
10 32 (4.32%) Power BI Developer
11 28 (3.78%) Architect
11 28 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.38%) Designer
13 23 (3.11%) Performance Analyst
14 17 (2.30%) Data Architect
14 17 (2.30%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.30%) Report Analyst
15 15 (2.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.00%) REST
1 37 (5.00%) Terraform
2 27 (3.65%) React
3 26 (3.51%) Pandas
4 25 (3.38%) CSS
5 23 (3.11%) HTML
5 23 (3.11%) PySpark
6 19 (2.57%) Kafka
7 16 (2.16%) NumPy
8 15 (2.03%) scikit-learn
8 15 (2.03%) Web Services
9 11 (1.49%) .NET
10 10 (1.35%) Flask
10 10 (1.35%) Node.js
11 9 (1.22%) JSON
11 9 (1.22%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.22%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.08%) Redux
13 7 (0.95%) SOAP
13 7 (0.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.43%) Data Structures
2 36 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.16%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.16%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.03%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.76%) Reference Data
10 11 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.22%) NHS
12 9 (1.22%) PKI
13 8 (1.08%) Clustering
14 7 (0.95%) Derivative
14 7 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.46%) Windows
2 21 (2.84%) Linux
3 13 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.81%) Unix
5 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.54%) Android
7 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (54.05%) Business Intelligence
2 369 (49.86%) Data Visualisation
3 364 (49.19%) Analytics
4 215 (29.05%) Data Modelling
5 214 (28.92%) Decision-Making
6 200 (27.03%) Agile
7 170 (22.97%) AI
8 168 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
9 152 (20.54%) Data Analysis
10 149 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 141 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
12 129 (17.43%) Validation
13 125 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (16.89%) Dashboard Development
14 111 (15.00%) Data Governance
15 110 (14.86%) Data Pipeline
15 110 (14.86%) ETL
16 109 (14.73%) Data Engineering
17 108 (14.59%) Data Science
18 96 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 364 (49.19%) SQL
2 252 (34.05%) Python
3 77 (10.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 48 (6.49%) JavaScript
4 48 (6.49%) R
5 37 (5.00%) Java
6 35 (4.73%) C#
7 22 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.76%) C++
9 13 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.49%) Scala
11 9 (1.22%) Bash
11 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.81%) Cypher
12 6 (0.81%) VBA
13 5 (0.68%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.41%) Go
14 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 158 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 117 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.35%) Degree
4 31 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.81%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.54%) PMP
11 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.27%) APMG
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.27%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (26.08%) Data Quality
2 44 (5.95%) QA
3 25 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.38%) GDPR
4 15 (2.03%) PMO
5 11 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.95%) GMP
7 5 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.68%) GRC
7 5 (0.68%) GxP
7 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (0.54%) WCAG
9 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.27%) Basel III
10 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (2.97%) Docker
2 15 (2.03%) 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
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.03%) Grafana
2 14 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.35%) Kibana
4 7 (0.95%) Ansible
4 7 (0.95%) SCCM
5 4 (0.54%) Podman
5 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.27%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Istio
6 2 (0.27%) logstash
6 2 (0.27%) Packer
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.65%) Databricks
3 46 (6.22%) SAP
4 39 (5.27%) Google
5 37 (5.00%) Oracle
6 25 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.70%) Adobe
8 19 (2.57%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.43%) Splunk
10 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.76%) Palantir
12 11 (1.49%) Alteryx
13 9 (1.22%) Informatica
13 9 (1.22%) Remedy
14 8 (1.08%) BMC
15 6 (0.81%) SnapLogic
16 5 (0.68%) Foundry
17 4 (0.54%) Ariba
17 4 (0.54%) UiPath
17 4 (0.54%) VMware