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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 104 128
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 +19
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 882 799 838
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.38% 2.43% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.75% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 495 562
10th Percentile £343 £327 £313
25th Percentile £405 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year - -4.08% -3.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +10.62% -4.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 37 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £29.12
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £39.68 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +63.81% -14.08% -28.95%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £49.31
90th Percentile £82.25 - £69.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.75% - -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 32,669 29,037 38,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.09% 88.41% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,654 17,656 25,324
10th Percentile £304 £306 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £722 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 941 1,546
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.79 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.72% -31.60% +43.91%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -12 763 £500 - 512
London -23 405 £497 -5.29% 227
UK excluding London -7 377 £500 +10.62% 361
Work from Home -19 262 £500 - 230
North of England -23 113 £430 -7.03% 54
Midlands -1 73 £520 +26.06% 55
West Midlands -4 59 £525 +27.27% 39
South East +7 58 £500 +29.03% 151
North West -31 55 £403 -12.97% 27
Yorkshire -20 53 £507 +12.67% 20
Scotland +23 47 £500 +1.27% 18
South West -1 42 £750 +57.89% 46
East of England -25 40 £525 +15.64% 44
East Midlands -17 14 £404 +13.41% 16
North East -16 7 £400 -27.27% 8
Northern Ireland -15 6 £531 +6.25% 2
Wales -7 4 - - 6

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 49 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.65%) Confluence
3 40 (4.54%) Apache
4 27 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (2.04%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.70%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.25%) SAS
8 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.91%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.57%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 128 (14.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.25%) Siemens NX
6 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.45%) Revit
8 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Blender
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.11%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) SPSS
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.25%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.23%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 372 (42.18%) Power Platform
2 198 (22.45%) Azure
3 151 (17.12%) AWS
4 73 (8.28%) GCP
5 47 (5.33%) Snowflake
6 43 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (3.74%) Serverless
8 31 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (3.29%) Power Automate
10 28 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (2.83%) PowerApps
13 22 (2.49%) dbt
14 20 (2.27%) Amazon S3
14 20 (2.27%) GitHub
15 16 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (1.47%) Figma
17 13 (1.47%) Google Analytics
18 10 (1.13%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.93%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.81%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.45%) 2G
3 4 (0.45%) 5G
3 4 (0.45%) Internet
3 4 (0.45%) SNMP
4 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) Network Security
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (42.06%) Power BI
2 168 (19.05%) Tableau
3 101 (11.45%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (5.78%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.56%) Big Data
6 44 (4.99%) Power Query
7 37 (4.20%) Hadoop
8 32 (3.63%) Data Lake
9 30 (3.40%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.29%) Metadata
11 28 (3.17%) Looker
12 24 (2.72%) BigQuery
13 22 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (2.27%) Data Mining
14 20 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (1.47%) Apache Hive
17 13 (1.47%) MySQL
17 13 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (6.80%) Git
2 58 (6.58%) JIRA
3 18 (2.04%) Visual Studio
4 17 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.81%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.79%) Gradle
6 7 (0.79%) Storybook
6 7 (0.79%) Xcode
7 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.57%) MLflow
8 3 (0.34%) JUnit
8 3 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.23%) webpack
10 1 (0.11%) git-flow
10 1 (0.11%) Snyk
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 351 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 239 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
3 223 (25.28%) Finance
4 81 (9.18%) Banking
5 76 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.74%) Marketing
7 30 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (3.06%) Retail
9 24 (2.72%) Manufacturing
9 24 (2.72%) Military
10 22 (2.49%) Investment Banking
10 22 (2.49%) Publishing
11 18 (2.04%) Front Office
11 18 (2.04%) Legal
12 15 (1.70%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (24.72%) Analyst
2 139 (15.76%) Developer
3 124 (14.06%) Data Analyst
4 91 (10.32%) Senior
5 85 (9.64%) Data Engineer
6 78 (8.84%) Architect
7 59 (6.69%) Data Scientist
8 51 (5.78%) Lead
9 49 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 46 (5.22%) Consultant
11 43 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 36 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
14 29 (3.29%) Software Engineer
15 25 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.27%) Designer
16 20 (2.27%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.04%) Integration Architect
17 18 (2.04%) Python Engineer
17 18 (2.04%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.33%) Pandas
2 39 (4.42%) React
3 36 (4.08%) scikit-learn
4 33 (3.74%) NumPy
5 32 (3.63%) Node.js
6 31 (3.51%) PySpark
7 24 (2.72%) REST
8 22 (2.49%) Kafka
8 22 (2.49%) Web Services
9 20 (2.27%) Plotly
10 19 (2.15%) AngularJS
10 19 (2.15%) D3.js
10 19 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (2.04%) HTML
12 17 (1.93%) CSS
12 17 (1.93%) OAuth
13 16 (1.81%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.59%) Matplotlib
14 14 (1.59%) Vue
15 11 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.90%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 29 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 28 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.02%) CMDB
11 9 (1.02%) NHS
11 9 (1.02%) PMI
12 8 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 8 (0.91%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.79%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.46%) Linux
2 41 (4.65%) Windows
3 33 (3.74%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
5 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (46.83%) Business Intelligence
2 409 (46.37%) Data Visualisation
3 325 (36.85%) Analytics
4 238 (26.98%) Data Modelling
5 217 (24.60%) Decision-Making
6 209 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
7 205 (23.24%) Data Analysis
8 204 (23.13%) Agile
9 152 (17.23%) Actionable Insight
10 151 (17.12%) Data Science
11 127 (14.40%) Machine Learning
12 124 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
13 119 (13.49%) ETL
14 118 (13.38%) AI
15 107 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 106 (12.02%) Data Governance
17 98 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 96 (10.88%) Validation
19 86 (9.75%) CI/CD
19 86 (9.75%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 398 (45.12%) SQL
2 306 (34.69%) Python
3 62 (7.03%) JavaScript
3 62 (7.03%) R
4 55 (6.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 37 (4.20%) Java
6 36 (4.08%) C#
7 35 (3.97%) C++
8 30 (3.40%) TypeScript
9 26 (2.95%) Scala
10 18 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.47%) Bash
12 10 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.02%) VBA
14 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.79%) Go
15 7 (0.79%) Groovy
15 7 (0.79%) PHP
16 6 (0.68%) Perl
17 4 (0.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 165 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 131 (14.85%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.75%) Degree
4 38 (4.31%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.04%) CISSP
8 15 (1.70%) CISM
9 13 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.36%) PhD
11 11 (1.25%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.91%) CFA
14 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.57%) CBAP
16 5 (0.57%) CEH
16 5 (0.57%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.20%) QA
4 30 (3.40%) GDPR
5 14 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.47%) PMO
7 7 (0.79%) WCAG
8 5 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.34%) EMIR
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (4.08%) Docker
2 9 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (4.42%) Terraform
2 33 (3.74%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.06%) Kibana
4 18 (2.04%) logstash
5 14 (1.59%) Ansible
6 13 (1.47%) Grafana
7 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.45%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.11%) Cacti
11 1 (0.11%) collectd
11 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.11%) QRadar
11 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 155 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.92%) Databricks
3 57 (6.46%) Oracle
4 42 (4.76%) Google
5 40 (4.54%) Splunk
6 34 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.63%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.61%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.27%) Cisco
10 19 (2.15%) AppDynamics
11 16 (1.81%) BiZZdesign
11 16 (1.81%) SAP
12 15 (1.70%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.47%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.36%) Centrify
14 12 (1.36%) Foundry
15 10 (1.13%) Siemens
16 8 (0.91%) Bloomberg
16 8 (0.91%) Palantir
16 8 (0.91%) Talend