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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 95 130
Rank change year-on-year -49 +35 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 847 784 787
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.67% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 2.96% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 525 533
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £599 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +9.33% -3.23% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.93 £19.88
25th Percentile £26.23 £25.25 £27.37
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.23 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +93.95% -30.22% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £71.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.44% -31.49% -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 37,710 26,528 38,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.02% 90.44% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,926 17,086 24,905
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 926 2,329
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.98
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.32 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.72 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £31.76 £31.25
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.63% -10.71%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -43 736 £500 +5.26% 475
London -41 409 £500 -2.82% 177
UK excluding London -44 333 £492 +9.33% 399
Work from Home -14 282 £500 +6.10% 167
North of England -59 107 £475 +2.70% 99
Midlands -32 66 £500 +23.38% 71
North West -30 58 £420 -11.58% 52
South East -30 54 £500 +11.11% 134
West Midlands -41 51 £500 +21.21% 31
Yorkshire -36 46 £507 +21.50% 32
South West -26 36 £488 +2.63% 43
East of England -26 34 £500 +11.11% 23
Scotland +3 30 £450 - 15
East Midlands -24 15 £469 +31.67% 40
Northern Ireland 0 6 £531 +1.19% 10
North East -22 6 £438 -2.78% 16
Wales -10 3 - - 16

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 54 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.90%) Confluence
3 26 (3.07%) Apache
4 23 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.60%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.94%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.83%) Apache Superset
8 6 (0.71%) SAS
9 5 (0.59%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.59%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.59%) Smallworld
10 4 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) Luigi
13 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.12%) Drupal
13 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 124 (14.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.42%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.24%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.35%) Primavera
4 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.24%) iTrent
5 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Actimize
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 370 (43.68%) Power Platform
2 170 (20.07%) Azure
3 158 (18.65%) AWS
4 54 (6.38%) GCP
5 51 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (4.72%) Serverless
6 40 (4.72%) Snowflake
7 32 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (3.54%) Amazon S3
9 27 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 26 (3.07%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.83%) dbt
12 22 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.36%) PowerApps
14 18 (2.13%) GitHub
15 13 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (1.53%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.42%) Google Analytics
16 12 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.65%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.71%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) 2G
4 4 (0.47%) 5G
5 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.24%) DNS
6 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.24%) LTE
6 2 (0.24%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.24%) Network Security
6 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.24%) SAN
6 2 (0.24%) SMS
6 2 (0.24%) SNMP
6 2 (0.24%) VoIP
7 1 (0.12%) 4G
7 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.12%) SSH
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (43.57%) Power BI
2 169 (19.95%) Tableau
3 101 (11.92%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (5.67%) Big Data
5 44 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 39 (4.60%) Metadata
7 38 (4.49%) Power Query
8 34 (4.01%) Hadoop
9 32 (3.78%) Looker
10 29 (3.42%) SQL Server
11 28 (3.31%) Data Lake
12 24 (2.83%) BigQuery
13 21 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (2.24%) NoSQL
16 17 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
16 17 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
17 16 (1.89%) MySQL
18 15 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
19 12 (1.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (6.85%) Git
2 49 (5.79%) JIRA
3 18 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.65%) Eclipse
6 11 (1.30%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) ERwin
7 4 (0.47%) GitLab
8 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) git-flow
9 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) Vite
10 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 296 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 246 (29.04%) Analytical Skills
3 227 (26.80%) Finance
4 92 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 67 (7.91%) Banking
6 38 (4.49%) Retail
7 28 (3.31%) Marketing
8 26 (3.07%) Publishing
9 23 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.13%) Military
11 18 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.77%) Front Office
13 13 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.18%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.18%) Legal
16 9 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 216 (25.50%) Analyst
2 137 (16.17%) Developer
3 119 (14.05%) Data Analyst
4 110 (12.99%) Senior
5 96 (11.33%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.15%) Lead
7 56 (6.61%) Data Scientist
8 53 (6.26%) Architect
9 51 (6.02%) Consultant
10 47 (5.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 46 (5.43%) Business Analyst
12 37 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (4.01%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.72%) Software Engineer
14 23 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 21 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (2.36%) Designer
17 19 (2.24%) Data Business Analyst
18 16 (1.89%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.97%) Pandas
2 49 (5.79%) React
3 39 (4.60%) NumPy
4 37 (4.37%) scikit-learn
5 32 (3.78%) Node.js
6 31 (3.66%) Kafka
7 27 (3.19%) AngularJS
8 25 (2.95%) REST
9 23 (2.72%) Vue
10 22 (2.60%) PySpark
11 21 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
12 20 (2.36%) Matplotlib
12 20 (2.36%) Web Services
13 19 (2.24%) Plotly
14 18 (2.13%) .NET
14 18 (2.13%) TensorFlow
15 17 (2.01%) Seaborn
16 15 (1.77%) OAuth
17 13 (1.53%) JSON
17 13 (1.53%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.96%) Algorithms
2 39 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 32 (3.78%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (3.07%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.94%) PMI
13 7 (0.83%) Equities
13 7 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.37%) Linux
2 26 (3.07%) Windows
3 13 (1.53%) Unix
4 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (48.17%) Business Intelligence
2 406 (47.93%) Data Visualisation
3 333 (39.32%) Analytics
4 237 (27.98%) Data Modelling
5 231 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 227 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (24.68%) Agile
8 171 (20.19%) Actionable Insight
8 171 (20.19%) Data Analysis
9 144 (17.00%) Data Pipeline
10 141 (16.65%) Data Science
11 128 (15.11%) AI
12 124 (14.64%) ETL
13 119 (14.05%) Data Governance
14 118 (13.93%) Validation
15 111 (13.11%) Dashboard Development
15 111 (13.11%) Machine Learning
16 104 (12.28%) Data Engineering
17 98 (11.57%) CI/CD
18 94 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 391 (46.16%) SQL
2 295 (34.83%) Python
3 72 (8.50%) R
4 53 (6.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 52 (6.14%) JavaScript
6 37 (4.37%) C#
7 30 (3.54%) TypeScript
8 27 (3.19%) Java
9 25 (2.95%) C++
10 17 (2.01%) Scala
11 15 (1.77%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.30%) VBA
13 9 (1.06%) Perl
14 7 (0.83%) Bash
14 7 (0.83%) Groovy
15 6 (0.71%) PHP
16 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.47%) PromQL
17 4 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 165 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 90 (10.63%) Degree
4 38 (4.49%) Master's Degree
5 23 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.89%) CISM
7 16 (1.89%) CISSP
8 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.18%) PhD
8 10 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.47%) CBAP
11 4 (0.47%) CFA
11 4 (0.47%) MBA
11 4 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.43%) QA
3 44 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 26 (3.07%) GDPR
5 23 (2.72%) PMO
6 17 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.83%) SLA
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.24%) EMIR
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (4.37%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) HDFS
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.84%) Terraform
3 27 (3.19%) Kibana
4 20 (2.36%) Ansible
5 19 (2.24%) Grafana
6 18 (2.13%) logstash
7 17 (2.01%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.35%) SCCM
10 3 (0.35%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.24%) Cilium
11 2 (0.24%) vMotion
11 2 (0.24%) vRealize
12 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 131 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.50%) Databricks
3 50 (5.90%) Google
4 37 (4.37%) Oracle
5 25 (2.95%) SAP
6 22 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.13%) BiZZdesign
8 16 (1.89%) Sage
8 16 (1.89%) Splunk
9 13 (1.53%) CyberArk
10 12 (1.42%) Adobe
10 12 (1.42%) Centrify
11 9 (1.06%) Cisco
12 8 (0.94%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.94%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.83%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.83%) Informatica
13 7 (0.83%) MicroStrategy