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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 108 125
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +28
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 883 798 944
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.62% 2.17% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.51% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 472 620
10th Percentile £325 £321 £300
25th Percentile £400 £405 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% -7.95%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £621
90th Percentile £708 £775 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 51 76
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.00 £21.31
25th Percentile £33.25 £31.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +35.34% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.51
90th Percentile - - £64.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

All Process and 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 30,417 31,751 42,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 86.14% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,927 19,078 28,622
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,950 1,157 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.71
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% -12.28% +22.14%
75th Percentile £42.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.82% -12.94% +53.26%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025. 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 +10 768 £475 -5.00% 1,019
UK excluding London +19 403 £475 +5.56% 782
London -6 396 £500 -9.09% 500
Work from Home -11 252 £463 -7.50% 585
North of England -24 112 £425 -5.56% 132
Midlands +10 79 £508 +26.88% 87
South East +30 70 £500 +4.17% 412
West Midlands +15 64 £525 +31.25% 48
Yorkshire -2 64 £450 - 40
Scotland +27 52 £500 +17.65% 43
East of England -10 42 £505 +1.00% 42
North West -31 42 £408 -6.27% 82
South West +10 40 £750 +57.89% 62
East Midlands -5 15 £405 -4.71% 37
Wales +3 6 £183 -67.56% 9
North East -17 6 £425 -15.00% 10
Northern Ireland -17 6 £600 +20.00% 2

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 38 (4.30%) Confluence
2 34 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.28%) Apache
3 29 (3.28%) SharePoint
4 24 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.59%) WebLogic
6 13 (1.47%) SAS
7 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
8 7 (0.79%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.45%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.34%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 127 (14.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.25%) Siemens NX
6 6 (0.68%) Adobe Captivate
6 6 (0.68%) Maya
6 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.45%) Revit
8 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.23%) Maple
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.23%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 363 (41.11%) Power Platform
2 198 (22.42%) Azure
3 151 (17.10%) AWS
4 83 (9.40%) GCP
5 52 (5.89%) Snowflake
6 38 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (3.74%) dbt
7 33 (3.74%) Serverless
8 31 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 30 (3.40%) Power Automate
10 29 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 29 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.94%) PowerApps
12 24 (2.72%) Amazon S3
13 21 (2.38%) GitHub
14 20 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (1.47%) Figma
18 11 (1.25%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 18 (2.04%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.57%) Internet
4 3 (0.34%) 2G
4 3 (0.34%) 5G
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) MQTT
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SNMP
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) LTE
6 1 (0.11%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (40.32%) Power BI
2 185 (20.95%) Tableau
3 107 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (6.46%) Relational Database
5 44 (4.98%) Big Data
5 44 (4.98%) Power Query
6 36 (4.08%) Looker
7 35 (3.96%) BigQuery
7 35 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.62%) Data Lake
8 32 (3.62%) Hadoop
9 25 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
11 22 (2.49%) Metadata
12 21 (2.38%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.15%) GIS
14 17 (1.93%) Data Mining
15 16 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 55 (6.23%) Git
2 54 (6.12%) JIRA
3 19 (2.15%) Visual Studio
4 18 (2.04%) Eclipse
5 15 (1.70%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.91%) JUnit
7 7 (0.79%) Gradle
7 7 (0.79%) Storybook
7 7 (0.79%) Xcode
8 4 (0.45%) GitLab
8 4 (0.45%) MLflow
9 3 (0.34%) Selenium
10 2 (0.23%) GDB
10 2 (0.23%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
10 2 (0.23%) webpack
11 1 (0.11%) git-flow
11 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 358 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 258 (29.22%) Analytical Skills
3 210 (23.78%) Finance
4 78 (8.83%) Banking
5 64 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (3.85%) Marketing
8 33 (3.74%) Manufacturing
9 27 (3.06%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.72%) Retail
10 24 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 22 (2.49%) Military
12 17 (1.93%) Front Office
13 16 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.70%) Legal
15 14 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.59%) Publishing
16 13 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (1.36%) Aerospace
18 10 (1.13%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 257 (29.11%) Analyst
2 161 (18.23%) Data Analyst
3 135 (15.29%) Developer
4 87 (9.85%) Data Engineer
5 84 (9.51%) Senior
6 78 (8.83%) Architect
7 49 (5.55%) Lead
8 47 (5.32%) Business Analyst
9 43 (4.87%) Data Scientist
10 42 (4.76%) Consultant
11 38 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 30 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (3.17%) Power BI Developer
14 24 (2.72%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (2.38%) Python Engineer
17 19 (2.15%) Data Architect
17 19 (2.15%) SQL Analyst
17 19 (2.15%) SQL Data Analyst
18 18 (2.04%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.08%) Pandas
1 36 (4.08%) React
2 29 (3.28%) CSS
3 28 (3.17%) Node.js
3 28 (3.17%) scikit-learn
4 26 (2.94%) NumPy
4 26 (2.94%) PySpark
4 26 (2.94%) Web Services
5 25 (2.83%) HTML
6 21 (2.38%) REST
7 19 (2.15%) AngularJS
7 19 (2.15%) D3.js
7 19 (2.15%) Kafka
8 13 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (1.47%) OAuth
8 13 (1.47%) Plotly
8 13 (1.47%) TensorFlow
9 12 (1.36%) Django
10 11 (1.25%) Matplotlib
10 11 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.59%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.93%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.47%) CMDB
10 13 (1.47%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.02%) Hedge funds
14 8 (0.91%) Animation
14 8 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.89%) Linux
2 41 (4.64%) Windows
3 25 (2.83%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
5 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (47.23%) Data Visualisation
2 385 (43.60%) Business Intelligence
3 302 (34.20%) Analytics
4 243 (27.52%) Data Modelling
5 222 (25.14%) Data Analysis
6 221 (25.03%) Decision-Making
7 210 (23.78%) Agile
7 210 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
8 142 (16.08%) Actionable Insight
9 137 (15.52%) Data Science
10 133 (15.06%) ETL
11 131 (14.84%) Machine Learning
12 105 (11.89%) Data Pipeline
13 104 (11.78%) AI
14 96 (10.87%) CI/CD
15 95 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 94 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (10.65%) Validation
17 93 (10.53%) DevOps
18 92 (10.42%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 416 (47.11%) SQL
2 307 (34.77%) Python
3 62 (7.02%) JavaScript
4 50 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 50 (5.66%) R
5 41 (4.64%) Java
6 37 (4.19%) C++
7 30 (3.40%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.72%) C#
9 20 (2.27%) Scala
10 12 (1.36%) Bash
11 10 (1.13%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.91%) Go
12 8 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.68%) PHP
14 6 (0.68%) VBA
15 5 (0.57%) LookML
16 4 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 143 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 112 (12.68%) Degree
3 110 (12.46%) SC Cleared
4 42 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 28 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.81%) CISSP
8 14 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.47%) CISM
9 13 (1.47%) PhD
10 10 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.79%) CFA
12 7 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.68%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.57%) CBAP
14 5 (0.57%) CEH
15 4 (0.45%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.74%) QA
4 27 (3.06%) GDPR
5 8 (0.91%) PMO
6 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.68%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.68%) WCAG
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.45%) MiFID
8 4 (0.45%) NIST
8 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.34%) EMIR
9 3 (0.34%) GxP
10 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (3.28%) Docker
2 11 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (3.96%) Terraform
2 25 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.15%) Kibana
4 16 (1.81%) Grafana
5 13 (1.47%) logstash
6 10 (1.13%) Ansible
7 4 (0.45%) Argo
7 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.11%) QRadar
9 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 172 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.02%) Oracle
3 52 (5.89%) Databricks
4 41 (4.64%) Google
4 41 (4.64%) Splunk
5 27 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.49%) SAP
8 20 (2.27%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.70%) AppDynamics
9 15 (1.70%) Cisco
10 14 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
11 13 (1.47%) Foundry
11 13 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.25%) Adobe
13 10 (1.13%) Autodesk
13 10 (1.13%) Palantir
13 10 (1.13%) Siemens
13 10 (1.13%) Talend
14 9 (1.02%) CyberArk