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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 92 132
Rank change year-on-year -40 +40 +11
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 885 808 797
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.65% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.95% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 543 534
10th Percentile £338 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £577
90th Percentile £738 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 27 52
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.70 £20.47
25th Percentile £27.94 £23.86 £31.69
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.81 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.49% -28.95% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.81 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -28.95% -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 35,946 27,398 38,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.59% 90.01% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,812 17,104 25,306
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £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 £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 887 2,267
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.48 £64.50 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.35 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.81% -7.16% -2.26%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -33 765 £500 +3.36% 655
London -32 421 £500 -3.85% 216
UK excluding London -31 360 £500 +11.11% 593
Work from Home -12 285 £500 +1.01% 222
North of England -47 108 £475 +2.70% 131
Midlands -20 67 £500 +25.31% 109
West Midlands -20 54 £500 +21.21% 50
North West -42 54 £420 -9.19% 62
South West -10 52 £665 +47.72% 64
Yorkshire -36 51 £507 +19.29% 51
South East -21 50 £500 +14.29% 179
Scotland +17 42 £475 +4.11% 21
East of England -31 37 £525 +15.64% 64
East Midlands -22 13 £450 +26.40% 57
Northern Ireland -4 6 £531 +6.25% 13
North East -17 6 £438 -16.67% 20
Wales -10 3 - - 30

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 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.84%) Confluence
3 24 (2.71%) Apache
3 24 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.68%) SAS
7 5 (0.56%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.56%) Smallworld
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Pig
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 118 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.36%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.23%) InDesign
8 2 (0.23%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.23%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) Blender
9 1 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.34%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.34%) Primavera
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.23%) iTrent
5 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 377 (42.60%) Power Platform
2 172 (19.44%) Azure
3 161 (18.19%) AWS
4 62 (7.01%) GCP
5 49 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.86%) Snowflake
7 38 (4.29%) Serverless
8 30 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (3.05%) dbt
11 24 (2.71%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.26%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.81%) GitHub
14 13 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.47%) Google Workspace
15 11 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (1.24%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.03%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.81%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.68%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) 2G
4 4 (0.45%) 5G
5 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.23%) LTE
6 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SMS
6 2 (0.23%) SNMP
6 2 (0.23%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) 4G
7 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.11%) SSH
7 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (42.49%) Power BI
2 166 (18.76%) Tableau
3 96 (10.85%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.54%) Big Data
5 45 (5.08%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.29%) Hadoop
7 34 (3.84%) Looker
7 34 (3.84%) Metadata
7 34 (3.84%) Power Query
8 33 (3.73%) Data Lake
9 28 (3.16%) BigQuery
10 26 (2.94%) SQL Server
11 25 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (1.92%) NoSQL
14 16 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
14 16 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (1.69%) Data Mining
16 14 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (6.55%) Git
2 48 (5.42%) JIRA
3 17 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.81%) Eclipse
4 16 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.13%) MLflow
6 4 (0.45%) ERwin
7 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.34%) GitLab
7 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.23%) git-flow
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 2 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.11%) NUnit
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 325 (36.72%) Social Skills
2 236 (26.67%) Finance
3 233 (26.33%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 74 (8.36%) Banking
6 40 (4.52%) Retail
7 30 (3.39%) Marketing
8 24 (2.71%) Publishing
9 22 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.49%) Military
10 21 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.81%) Front Office
12 16 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (1.47%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.36%) Legal
16 12 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 224 (25.31%) Analyst
2 131 (14.80%) Developer
3 130 (14.69%) Data Analyst
4 105 (11.86%) Senior
5 97 (10.96%) Data Engineer
6 71 (8.02%) Architect
7 68 (7.68%) Lead
8 62 (7.01%) Data Scientist
9 51 (5.76%) Consultant
10 47 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 46 (5.20%) Business Analyst
12 37 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (3.73%) Power BI Developer
14 28 (3.16%) Software Engineer
15 24 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.49%) Designer
16 22 (2.49%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (2.37%) Data Business Analyst
18 20 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 17 (1.92%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.88%) Pandas
2 46 (5.20%) React
3 37 (4.18%) scikit-learn
4 34 (3.84%) NumPy
5 33 (3.73%) Node.js
6 31 (3.50%) Kafka
7 30 (3.39%) PySpark
8 26 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (2.71%) REST
10 23 (2.60%) AngularJS
11 21 (2.37%) Vue
11 21 (2.37%) Web Services
12 18 (2.03%) Plotly
13 17 (1.92%) Matplotlib
13 17 (1.92%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.69%) OAuth
15 14 (1.58%) .NET
15 14 (1.58%) JSON
15 14 (1.58%) Seaborn
16 12 (1.36%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.97%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.07%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.05%) Data Structures
5 24 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.90%) CMDB
10 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (0.90%) Life Science
10 8 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (0.90%) PMI
11 7 (0.79%) NHS
11 7 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.41%) Linux
2 28 (3.16%) Windows
3 14 (1.58%) Unix
4 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (46.44%) Data Visualisation
2 409 (46.21%) Business Intelligence
3 334 (37.74%) Analytics
4 238 (26.89%) Data Modelling
5 226 (25.54%) Decision-Making
5 226 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (24.97%) Agile
7 177 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 168 (18.98%) Actionable Insight
9 151 (17.06%) Data Science
10 150 (16.95%) Data Pipeline
11 129 (14.58%) AI
12 128 (14.46%) ETL
13 120 (13.56%) Machine Learning
14 117 (13.22%) Data Governance
15 116 (13.11%) Validation
16 108 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 106 (11.98%) Data Engineering
18 104 (11.75%) Dashboard Development
19 99 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 392 (44.29%) SQL
2 310 (35.03%) Python
3 67 (7.57%) R
4 62 (7.01%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (4.29%) C#
7 30 (3.39%) Java
8 29 (3.28%) C++
8 29 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.37%) Scala
10 16 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.24%) VBA
12 9 (1.02%) Bash
13 8 (0.90%) Perl
14 7 (0.79%) Groovy
15 6 (0.68%) PHP
16 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.45%) C
17 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 181 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 148 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.28%) Degree
4 35 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.81%) CISM
8 16 (1.81%) CISSP
9 12 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.24%) PhD
11 10 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.56%) MBA
14 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.45%) CBAP
15 4 (0.45%) CFA
15 4 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 45 (5.08%) QA
4 27 (3.05%) GDPR
5 19 (2.15%) PMO
6 18 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.79%) SLA
8 6 (0.68%) WCAG
9 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (3.95%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) HDFS
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (4.86%) Terraform
2 42 (4.75%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.62%) Kibana
4 23 (2.60%) logstash
5 21 (2.37%) Ansible
6 20 (2.26%) Grafana
7 17 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.34%) SCCM
11 2 (0.23%) Cilium
11 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.23%) vMotion
11 2 (0.23%) vRealize
12 1 (0.11%) Argo
12 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 135 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.59%) Databricks
3 49 (5.54%) Google
4 35 (3.95%) Oracle
5 26 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.71%) SAP
7 22 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.37%) Splunk
9 18 (2.03%) BiZZdesign
10 14 (1.58%) Adobe
10 14 (1.58%) Sage
11 13 (1.47%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.36%) Centrify
13 9 (1.02%) Cisco
13 9 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.02%) Foundry
14 8 (0.90%) Amplitude
15 7 (0.79%) Informatica
15 7 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
15 7 (0.79%) OpenAI