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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 106 136
Rank change year-on-year -60 +30 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 792 723 740
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.51% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.76% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 448 503
10th Percentile £325 £315 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £579
90th Percentile £720 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 38 41
10th Percentile £22.52 £22.36 £20.50
25th Percentile £28.50 £30.37 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £69.11 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £33.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +90.33% -48.47% -

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 41,377 26,173 36,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 91.02% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,864 16,755 23,656
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,096 2,500
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.65 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £74.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 29 May 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 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 29 May 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 -52 704 £488 +2.63% 311
London -42 374 £488 -2.50% 104
UK excluding London -62 329 £475 +5.56% 288
Work from Home -14 259 £488 +8.33% 87
North of England -55 104 £450 -2.70% 80
Midlands -41 68 £500 +25.00% 42
North West -16 57 £416 -11.20% 38
South East -31 56 £500 -4.76% 82
West Midlands -47 52 £515 +22.99% 23
South West -18 49 £488 +2.63% 42
Yorkshire -48 43 £463 +11.45% 31
East of England -37 27 £565 -13.08% 20
Scotland -8 26 £409 -9.17% 16
East Midlands -22 16 £488 +30.00% 19
North East -32 7 £420 -20.00% 14
Northern Ireland +1 2 £463 +8.82% 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 46 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.53%) Apache
3 18 (2.27%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.15%) Confluence
5 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.63%) CMS
6 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 122 (15.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.14%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.51%) Primavera
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) iTrent
5 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 374 (47.22%) Power Platform
2 161 (20.33%) Azure
3 135 (17.05%) AWS
4 53 (6.69%) Snowflake
5 51 (6.44%) GCP
6 45 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 26 (3.28%) Power Automate
7 26 (3.28%) Serverless
8 22 (2.78%) dbt
8 22 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 21 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 19 (2.40%) GitHub
11 18 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.76%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) Network Security
6 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (46.46%) Power BI
2 186 (23.48%) Tableau
3 107 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 44 (5.56%) Power Query
6 43 (5.43%) Big Data
7 41 (5.18%) Metadata
8 38 (4.80%) SQL Server
9 36 (4.55%) Looker
10 30 (3.79%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (3.41%) BigQuery
12 27 (3.41%) Hadoop
13 19 (2.40%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.77%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (7.07%) Git
2 39 (4.92%) JIRA
3 13 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.01%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 251 (31.69%) Analytical Skills
2 245 (30.93%) Social Skills
3 203 (25.63%) Finance
4 69 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.21%) Banking
6 39 (4.92%) Retail
7 35 (4.42%) Marketing
8 27 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.02%) Publishing
11 15 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.77%) Military
13 13 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.64%) Law
13 13 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.01%) Front Office
15 8 (1.01%) Legal
16 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 212 (26.77%) Analyst
2 118 (14.90%) Data Analyst
3 110 (13.89%) Data Engineer
3 110 (13.89%) Developer
4 95 (11.99%) Senior
5 51 (6.44%) Data Scientist
6 50 (6.31%) Lead
7 47 (5.93%) Business Analyst
8 46 (5.81%) Consultant
9 38 (4.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.04%) Architect
11 28 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
11 28 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 26 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 20 (2.53%) Designer
14 18 (2.27%) Data Manager
14 18 (2.27%) Software Engineer
15 17 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
16 16 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
17 15 (1.89%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.93%) Pandas
1 47 (5.93%) React
2 34 (4.29%) Kafka
3 31 (3.91%) REST
4 27 (3.41%) Node.js
5 24 (3.03%) NumPy
6 23 (2.90%) scikit-learn
7 21 (2.65%) PySpark
8 19 (2.40%) .NET
9 17 (2.15%) Matplotlib
10 16 (2.02%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.02%) CSS
10 16 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (2.02%) HTML
10 16 (2.02%) JSON
11 15 (1.89%) Web Services
12 14 (1.77%) Seaborn
12 14 (1.77%) TensorFlow
13 13 (1.64%) Vue
14 12 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.69%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.41%) Algorithms
3 27 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.01%) Derivative
9 8 (1.01%) Life Science
9 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.01%) PKI
9 8 (1.01%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
10 7 (0.88%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.79%) Linux
2 29 (3.66%) Windows
3 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.76%) Unix
3 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.38%) Android
4 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (50.13%) Business Intelligence
2 383 (48.36%) Data Visualisation
3 337 (42.55%) Analytics
4 236 (29.80%) Data Modelling
5 216 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 211 (26.64%) Agile
7 205 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (19.70%) Actionable Insight
9 150 (18.94%) Data Pipeline
10 149 (18.81%) AI
11 137 (17.30%) Validation
12 133 (16.79%) Data Science
13 131 (16.54%) ETL
14 124 (15.66%) Dashboard Development
14 124 (15.66%) Data Analysis
15 121 (15.28%) Data Governance
16 118 (14.90%) Data Engineering
17 105 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (13.01%) CI/CD
19 98 (12.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 403 (50.88%) SQL
2 297 (37.50%) Python
3 84 (10.61%) R
4 61 (7.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.92%) Java
7 38 (4.80%) C#
8 37 (4.67%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.65%) C++
9 21 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.15%) Scala
11 10 (1.26%) VBA
12 9 (1.14%) Perl
13 8 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.88%) Bash
14 7 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.76%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.38%) LookML
17 3 (0.38%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 153 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 124 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.48%) Degree
4 22 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.14%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.51%) CBAP
11 4 (0.51%) MBA
11 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.25%) IIBA
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (19.70%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.19%) QA
3 29 (3.66%) GDPR
4 24 (3.03%) PMO
5 21 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) NIST
12 1 (0.13%) Basel III
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.28%) Docker
2 13 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.51%) HDFS
4 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.42%) Kubernetes
1 35 (4.42%) Terraform
2 23 (2.90%) Grafana
3 18 (2.27%) Kibana
4 17 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.02%) Ansible
6 12 (1.52%) logstash
7 8 (1.01%) SCCM
8 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
9 2 (0.25%) vMotion
9 2 (0.25%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 120 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.86%) Databricks
3 47 (5.93%) Google
4 45 (5.68%) SAP
5 37 (4.67%) Oracle
6 22 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.02%) Sage
8 15 (1.89%) Adobe
9 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.64%) Splunk
10 10 (1.26%) Amplitude
10 10 (1.26%) Informatica
11 9 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.01%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.01%) Remedy
13 6 (0.76%) Apple
13 6 (0.76%) BMC
13 6 (0.76%) Cognos
13 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.76%) VMware