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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 94 137
Rank change year-on-year -31 +43 +10
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 863 816 830
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.25% 2.63% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.94% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 515 558
10th Percentile £344 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £594
90th Percentile £738 £723 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +10.01% -4.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.11 £25.19
25th Percentile £23.03 £24.63 £34.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £33.66 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +76.79% -27.12% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £52.04
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £66.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £35.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +84.40% -23.67% -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 33,490 27,717 39,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.15% 89.21% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,205 16,795 25,884
10th Percentile £305 £307 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.06% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,020 865 2,103
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.98 £35.25
% change year-on-year -20.23% -12.12% +21.55%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -37 746 £500 - 539
London -23 401 £511 -2.39% 228
UK excluding London -19 362 £500 +10.01% 422
Work from Home -22 267 £500 - 236
North of England -47 106 £438 -5.41% 103
Midlands -8 79 £515 +29.40% 78
West Midlands +4 67 £525 +29.23% 41
South East 0 57 £500 +25.00% 145
North West -36 53 £405 -12.43% 60
Yorkshire -33 47 £522 +22.76% 36
Scotland +16 45 £500 +11.11% 22
South West -14 42 £750 +57.89% 43
East of England -37 31 £525 +15.64% 22
East Midlands -20 12 £423 +20.71% 37
North East -20 9 £425 -19.05% 8
Northern Ireland -8 6 £531 +6.25% 5
Wales -6 3 - - 11

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 52 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.98%) Confluence
3 29 (3.36%) Apache
4 27 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.32%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.16%) SAS
7 8 (0.93%) Apache Pig
7 8 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.70%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.58%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.58%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 2 (0.23%) Luigi
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.12%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 123 (14.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.46%) Revit
9 3 (0.35%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Blender
11 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.12%) InDesign
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.12%) SPSS
11 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.35%) Primavera
4 2 (0.23%) iTrent
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) Actimize
5 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.12%) Maximo
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.12%) Summit
5 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 372 (43.11%) Power Platform
2 185 (21.44%) Azure
3 150 (17.38%) AWS
4 68 (7.88%) GCP
5 47 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (4.87%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.48%) Serverless
8 28 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.01%) dbt
9 26 (3.01%) Power Automate
10 23 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (2.67%) PowerApps
11 21 (2.43%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.32%) GitHub
13 15 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.51%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.16%) Figma
16 9 (1.04%) Amazon SageMaker
17 8 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.51%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.27%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.35%) Internet
4 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.35%) SAN
4 3 (0.35%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Network Security
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (42.99%) Power BI
2 164 (19.00%) Tableau
3 95 (11.01%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.79%) Big Data
5 44 (5.10%) Relational Database
6 41 (4.75%) Power Query
7 38 (4.40%) Hadoop
8 33 (3.82%) Metadata
9 32 (3.71%) SQL Server
10 31 (3.59%) Data Lake
11 27 (3.13%) Looker
12 26 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (2.78%) BigQuery
14 22 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (2.09%) Data Mining
16 16 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.85%) NoSQL
16 16 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
18 13 (1.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 61 (7.07%) JIRA
2 58 (6.72%) Git
3 18 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.51%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.27%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.81%) MLflow
7 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.58%) Gradle
7 5 (0.58%) Storybook
7 5 (0.58%) Xcode
8 4 (0.46%) ERwin
9 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.23%) GitLab
10 2 (0.23%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.12%) git-flow
11 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
11 1 (0.12%) Vite
11 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 315 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 221 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
3 217 (25.14%) Finance
4 78 (9.04%) Banking
5 73 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.59%) Retail
7 27 (3.13%) Marketing
8 22 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.55%) Publishing
9 19 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.20%) Military
10 18 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (2.09%) Legal
11 17 (1.97%) Front Office
12 15 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.93%) Law
15 8 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 209 (24.22%) Analyst
2 134 (15.53%) Developer
3 118 (13.67%) Data Analyst
4 99 (11.47%) Senior
5 89 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 77 (8.92%) Architect
7 59 (6.84%) Data Scientist
8 54 (6.26%) Lead
9 52 (6.03%) Consultant
10 51 (5.91%) Business Analyst
11 46 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 35 (4.06%) Power BI Developer
12 35 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.78%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.55%) Designer
16 19 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
16 19 (2.20%) Report Analyst
16 19 (2.20%) Senior Data Engineer
17 18 (2.09%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (4.98%) Pandas
1 43 (4.98%) React
2 33 (3.82%) scikit-learn
3 29 (3.36%) Node.js
3 29 (3.36%) PySpark
4 28 (3.24%) NumPy
5 26 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (2.78%) REST
7 23 (2.67%) Kafka
8 20 (2.32%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.20%) Vue
10 18 (2.09%) OAuth
10 18 (2.09%) Plotly
11 16 (1.85%) HTML
11 16 (1.85%) TensorFlow
11 16 (1.85%) Web Services
12 13 (1.51%) CSS
12 13 (1.51%) D3.js
12 13 (1.51%) Matplotlib
13 12 (1.39%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.21%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 17 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.27%) PMI
8 11 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.04%) CMDB
10 9 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.04%) Reference Data
11 8 (0.93%) NHS
12 7 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.81%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.98%) Linux
2 27 (3.13%) Windows
3 22 (2.55%) Unix
4 6 (0.70%) Android
5 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (48.09%) Data Visualisation
2 401 (46.47%) Business Intelligence
3 321 (37.20%) Analytics
4 226 (26.19%) Data Modelling
5 216 (25.03%) Decision-Making
6 214 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
7 205 (23.75%) Agile
8 181 (20.97%) Data Analysis
9 153 (17.73%) Actionable Insight
10 145 (16.80%) Data Science
11 135 (15.64%) Data Pipeline
12 124 (14.37%) AI
13 123 (14.25%) ETL
14 119 (13.79%) Machine Learning
15 116 (13.44%) Data Governance
16 115 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
17 99 (11.47%) Validation
18 98 (11.36%) DevOps
19 95 (11.01%) Data Engineering
20 93 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 382 (44.26%) SQL
2 292 (33.84%) Python
3 58 (6.72%) JavaScript
3 58 (6.72%) R
4 53 (6.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 36 (4.17%) Java
6 31 (3.59%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.48%) C#
8 29 (3.36%) Scala
9 25 (2.90%) C++
10 20 (2.32%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.62%) Bash
12 13 (1.51%) VBA
13 9 (1.04%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.93%) Perl
15 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 7 (0.81%) PHP
16 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.46%) Go
17 4 (0.46%) LookML
Qualifications
1 162 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.50%) Degree
4 33 (3.82%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.20%) CISSP
8 18 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.85%) CISM
10 13 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.51%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.27%) PhD
12 10 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.04%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.81%) CFA
14 7 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.70%) CBAP
16 5 (0.58%) CEH
16 5 (0.58%) MBA
16 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (15.06%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.91%) Accessibility
3 43 (4.98%) QA
4 31 (3.59%) GDPR
5 15 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (1.74%) PMO
6 7 (0.81%) WCAG
7 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.35%) NIST
10 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.23%) EMIR
10 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (4.63%) Docker
2 6 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) HDFS
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (5.45%) Terraform
2 41 (4.75%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.82%) Kibana
4 24 (2.78%) logstash
5 22 (2.55%) Ansible
6 15 (1.74%) Grafana
7 8 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.23%) vMotion
9 2 (0.23%) vRealize
10 1 (0.12%) Cacti
10 1 (0.12%) collectd
10 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.12%) QRadar
10 1 (0.12%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 142 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.42%) Databricks
3 43 (4.98%) Google
4 41 (4.75%) Oracle
5 32 (3.71%) Salesforce
6 31 (3.59%) Splunk
7 29 (3.36%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.20%) SAP
9 18 (2.09%) BiZZdesign
10 15 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.51%) Cisco
11 13 (1.51%) CyberArk
11 13 (1.51%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.39%) Centrify
12 12 (1.39%) Foundry
13 10 (1.16%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.16%) Sage
14 8 (0.93%) Adobe
14 8 (0.93%) Palantir
14 8 (0.93%) Talend