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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 98 136
Rank change year-on-year -31 +38 +8
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 893 803 789
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.62% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.92% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 535 529
10th Percentile £334 £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 £708 £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 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.70 £20.50
25th Percentile £27.94 £23.86 £33.50
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 £58.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.25 £65.70
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 36,087 27,535 38,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 89.98% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,916 17,126 25,279
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £739 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -1.83% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 888 2,215
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% -4.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.47
90th Percentile £72.71 £75.08 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -26 773 £500 +4.17% 441
London -32 423 £500 -3.85% 166
UK excluding London -33 366 £500 +11.11% 408
Work from Home -15 287 £500 +5.26% 132
North of England -47 111 £475 +2.70% 85
Midlands -24 68 £500 +25.31% 78
West Midlands -19 55 £500 +21.21% 40
North West -41 55 £420 -9.19% 41
South West -10 53 £680 +51.00% 44
Yorkshire -32 53 £507 +19.29% 31
South East -19 51 £500 +19.40% 139
Scotland +13 42 £475 +5.56% 12
East of England -25 37 £525 +15.64% 41
East Midlands -19 13 £450 +26.40% 37
Northern Ireland -6 6 £531 +6.25% 6
North East -18 6 £438 -16.67% 13
Wales -10 3 - - 17

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 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.81%) Confluence
3 25 (2.80%) Apache
4 24 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.46%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.67%) SAS
8 5 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Pig
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Luigi
10 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 119 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.34%) 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 (0.22%) InDesign
8 2 (0.22%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.22%) 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 (1.46%) 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 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.22%) iTrent
5 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
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 EBS R12
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
1 381 (42.67%) Power Platform
2 174 (19.48%) Azure
3 162 (18.14%) AWS
4 62 (6.94%) GCP
5 49 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.82%) Snowflake
7 38 (4.26%) Serverless
8 30 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (3.02%) dbt
11 26 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 17 (1.90%) GitHub
14 13 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.46%) Google Workspace
15 12 (1.34%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.02%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.79%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.67%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) 2G
4 4 (0.45%) 5G
5 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.22%) LTE
6 2 (0.22%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.22%) Network Security
6 2 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.22%) SAN
6 2 (0.22%) SMS
6 2 (0.22%) SNMP
6 2 (0.22%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) DSL
7 1 (0.11%) Internet
7 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (42.55%) Power BI
2 168 (18.81%) Tableau
3 96 (10.75%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.49%) Big Data
5 45 (5.04%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.26%) Hadoop
7 35 (3.92%) Looker
7 35 (3.92%) Power Query
8 34 (3.81%) Metadata
9 33 (3.70%) Data Lake
10 28 (3.14%) BigQuery
11 26 (2.91%) SQL Server
12 25 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (1.90%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
15 16 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (1.68%) Data Mining
17 14 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (6.49%) Git
2 49 (5.49%) JIRA
3 17 (1.90%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.79%) Eclipse
4 16 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.12%) MLflow
6 4 (0.45%) ERwin
7 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.34%) GitLab
7 3 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.22%) git-flow
8 2 (0.22%) Postman
8 2 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
9 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 328 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 236 (26.43%) Finance
3 235 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 75 (8.40%) Banking
6 40 (4.48%) Retail
7 31 (3.47%) Marketing
8 24 (2.69%) Publishing
9 22 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.46%) Military
10 21 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.79%) Front Office
12 16 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (1.46%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.34%) Legal
16 12 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 226 (25.31%) Analyst
2 133 (14.89%) Developer
3 131 (14.67%) Data Analyst
4 105 (11.76%) Senior
5 98 (10.97%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.17%) Architect
7 68 (7.61%) Lead
8 62 (6.94%) Data Scientist
9 51 (5.71%) Consultant
10 47 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 46 (5.15%) Business Analyst
12 37 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
14 28 (3.14%) Software Engineer
15 25 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.46%) Designer
16 22 (2.46%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
18 20 (2.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 18 (2.02%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.82%) Pandas
2 46 (5.15%) React
3 37 (4.14%) scikit-learn
4 34 (3.81%) NumPy
5 33 (3.70%) Node.js
6 31 (3.47%) Kafka
7 30 (3.36%) PySpark
8 26 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (2.69%) REST
10 23 (2.58%) AngularJS
11 21 (2.35%) Vue
11 21 (2.35%) Web Services
12 18 (2.02%) Plotly
13 17 (1.90%) Matplotlib
13 17 (1.90%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.79%) OAuth
15 14 (1.57%) .NET
15 14 (1.57%) JSON
15 14 (1.57%) Seaborn
16 12 (1.34%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.93%) Algorithms
2 36 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 25 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.90%) CMDB
11 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.90%) Life Science
11 8 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (0.90%) PMI
12 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.48%) Linux
2 29 (3.25%) Windows
3 15 (1.68%) Unix
4 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.34%) Android
5 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (46.47%) Data Visualisation
2 413 (46.25%) Business Intelligence
3 337 (37.74%) Analytics
4 240 (26.88%) Data Modelling
5 229 (25.64%) Decision-Making
5 229 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 223 (24.97%) Agile
7 178 (19.93%) Data Analysis
8 167 (18.70%) Actionable Insight
9 152 (17.02%) Data Science
10 151 (16.91%) Data Pipeline
11 130 (14.56%) AI
12 129 (14.45%) ETL
13 120 (13.44%) Machine Learning
14 118 (13.21%) Data Governance
15 116 (12.99%) Validation
16 109 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
17 107 (11.98%) Data Engineering
18 105 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
19 101 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 395 (44.23%) SQL
2 312 (34.94%) Python
3 67 (7.50%) R
4 62 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 50 (5.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (4.26%) C#
7 30 (3.36%) Java
7 30 (3.36%) TypeScript
8 29 (3.25%) C++
9 21 (2.35%) Scala
10 16 (1.79%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.23%) VBA
12 9 (1.01%) Bash
13 8 (0.90%) Perl
14 7 (0.78%) Groovy
15 6 (0.67%) PHP
16 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.45%) C
17 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 184 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 150 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.19%) Degree
4 35 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.79%) CISM
8 16 (1.79%) CISSP
9 13 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.23%) PhD
11 10 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.67%) 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
1 148 (16.57%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 45 (5.04%) QA
4 27 (3.02%) GDPR
5 20 (2.24%) PMO
6 18 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.78%) SLA
8 6 (0.67%) WCAG
9 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) EMIR
11 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.22%) NIST
11 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) PERC
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (3.92%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) HDFS
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (4.82%) Terraform
2 42 (4.70%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.58%) Kibana
4 23 (2.58%) logstash
5 21 (2.35%) Ansible
6 20 (2.24%) Grafana
7 17 (1.90%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.34%) SCCM
11 2 (0.22%) Cilium
11 2 (0.22%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.22%) vMotion
11 2 (0.22%) 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 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.51%) Databricks
3 50 (5.60%) Google
4 36 (4.03%) Oracle
5 27 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.80%) SAP
7 23 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.46%) Splunk
9 18 (2.02%) BiZZdesign
10 14 (1.57%) Adobe
10 14 (1.57%) Sage
11 13 (1.46%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.34%) Centrify
13 10 (1.12%) Cisco
13 10 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.12%) Foundry
14 8 (0.90%) Amplitude
14 8 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.78%) Informatica
15 7 (0.78%) Palantir