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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 111 126
Rank change year-on-year -62 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 805 792 783
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 2.42% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 2.68% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 486 511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £586 £575 £600
90th Percentile £710 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £447 £465
% change year-on-year +4.03% -3.87% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 46 55
10th Percentile £18.08 £23.75 £20.80
25th Percentile £28.50 £31.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £46.34 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -28.71% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +40.75%

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 44,845 29,559 36,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.12% 90.45% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,888 18,632 23,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,665 1,513 2,446
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +0.51%

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 13 July 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 13 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 15 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 13 July 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 -57 721 £475 +2.70% 555
London -48 376 £488 -2.50% 255
UK excluding London -72 347 £465 +4.03% 407
Work from Home -35 259 £500 +13.06% 161
North of England -45 115 £445 -0.45% 98
Midlands -29 78 £537 +34.25% 68
South East -60 64 £470 -14.55% 100
North West -21 62 £444 -1.33% 55
West Midlands -51 57 £550 +33.33% 35
Yorkshire -47 48 £455 +7.06% 27
South West -24 45 £450 +6.64% 84
Scotland -27 27 £425 -5.56% 13
East of England -40 23 £520 -0.95% 36
East Midlands -8 21 £431 +15.00% 33
North East -36 7 £420 -6.67% 18

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 34 (4.22%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.74%) Apache
4 13 (1.61%) Confluence
5 11 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.37%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.75%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.62%) CMS
7 5 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.62%) SAS
8 4 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
Applications
1 119 (14.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.75%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.75%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.37%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.75%) Primavera
5 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) iTrent
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 401 (49.81%) Power Platform
2 169 (20.99%) Azure
3 133 (16.52%) AWS
4 53 (6.58%) Snowflake
5 51 (6.34%) GCP
6 43 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (2.98%) dbt
9 24 (2.98%) GitHub
9 24 (2.98%) Power Automate
9 24 (2.98%) Serverless
10 21 (2.61%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.48%) PowerApps
12 16 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.49%) Adobe Analytics
14 11 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.49%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.50%) Firewall
3 4 (0.50%) HTTP
4 3 (0.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) 2G
5 2 (0.25%) 3G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) Modbus
6 1 (0.12%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (48.94%) Power BI
2 179 (22.24%) Tableau
3 102 (12.67%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.83%) Relational Database
5 54 (6.71%) Power Query
6 40 (4.97%) Big Data
7 36 (4.47%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.22%) Data Lake
9 32 (3.98%) Looker
9 32 (3.98%) Metadata
10 31 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (3.73%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.86%) Hadoop
13 19 (2.36%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.24%) Star Schema
15 17 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
17 11 (1.37%) PowerPivot
17 11 (1.37%) QlikView
17 11 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (6.46%) Git
2 39 (4.84%) JIRA
3 13 (1.61%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.49%) Eclipse
5 8 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) MLflow
7 5 (0.62%) GitLab
8 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.37%) ERwin
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.12%) Postman
11 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.12%) Storybook
11 1 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 259 (32.17%) Analytical Skills
2 255 (31.68%) Social Skills
3 202 (25.09%) Finance
4 87 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.45%) Banking
6 39 (4.84%) Marketing
7 37 (4.60%) Retail
8 29 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.24%) Military
11 15 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.37%) Law
14 10 (1.24%) Publishing
15 9 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.99%) Legal
17 7 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 220 (27.33%) Analyst
2 131 (16.27%) Data Analyst
3 115 (14.29%) Developer
4 111 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 84 (10.43%) Senior
6 54 (6.71%) Data Scientist
7 53 (6.58%) Lead
8 47 (5.84%) Consultant
9 43 (5.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 42 (5.22%) Business Analyst
11 33 (4.10%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.85%) Architect
13 29 (3.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 26 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.24%) Designer
16 17 (2.11%) Performance Analyst
17 16 (1.99%) Data Manager
18 14 (1.74%) Data Architect
18 14 (1.74%) Python Developer
18 14 (1.74%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.59%) Pandas
2 44 (5.47%) React
3 36 (4.47%) REST
4 34 (4.22%) Kafka
5 25 (3.11%) NumPy
6 21 (2.61%) PySpark
7 20 (2.48%) .NET
7 20 (2.48%) Node.js
7 20 (2.48%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.36%) Web Services
9 16 (1.99%) AngularJS
9 16 (1.99%) JSON
10 15 (1.86%) CSS
11 14 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.49%) Apache Avro
12 12 (1.49%) HTML
13 11 (1.37%) Seaborn
13 11 (1.37%) Spring
13 11 (1.37%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.70%) Data Structures
2 34 (4.22%) Cloud Native
3 32 (3.98%) Algorithms
4 24 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.12%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.12%) PKI
13 8 (0.99%) Life Science
13 8 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.87%) Clustering
14 7 (0.87%) Derivative
14 7 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.10%) Windows
2 27 (3.35%) Linux
3 11 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.87%) Unix
5 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (52.67%) Business Intelligence
2 385 (47.83%) Data Visualisation
3 372 (46.21%) Analytics
4 240 (29.81%) Data Modelling
5 218 (27.08%) Decision-Making
6 212 (26.34%) Agile
7 199 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (21.49%) AI
9 157 (19.50%) Actionable Insight
10 153 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
11 149 (18.51%) Validation
12 144 (17.89%) Data Science
13 142 (17.64%) Data Analysis
14 137 (17.02%) ETL
15 136 (16.89%) Dashboard Development
16 130 (16.15%) Data Engineering
17 123 (15.28%) Data Governance
18 122 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
19 107 (13.29%) CI/CD
19 107 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 410 (50.93%) SQL
2 306 (38.01%) Python
3 77 (9.57%) R
4 70 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.84%) JavaScript
6 42 (5.22%) Java
7 37 (4.60%) C#
7 37 (4.60%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.11%) C++
9 16 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.49%) Scala
11 10 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.24%) VBA
12 8 (0.99%) Bash
12 8 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.50%) Cypher
13 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.50%) Rust
14 3 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 177 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 136 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.68%) Degree
4 21 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.37%) CBAP
11 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.37%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) ACCA
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) CIMA
12 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (20.99%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.83%) QA
3 30 (3.73%) GDPR
4 27 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.48%) PMO
6 10 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.87%) SLA
8 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.50%) GMP
9 4 (0.50%) GxP
9 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 3 (0.37%) GRC
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%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (3.11%) Docker
2 15 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.35%) Terraform
2 31 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.86%) Grafana
4 16 (1.99%) Ansible
4 16 (1.99%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.61%) Kibana
6 8 (0.99%) logstash
6 8 (0.99%) SCCM
7 7 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.37%) Podman
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
9 2 (0.25%) vMotion
9 2 (0.25%) vRealize
10 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.12%) Istio
10 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 139 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 80 (9.94%) Databricks
3 47 (5.84%) Oracle
3 47 (5.84%) SAP
4 45 (5.59%) Google
5 24 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.36%) Adobe
7 16 (1.99%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.86%) Splunk
9 13 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.49%) Sage
11 11 (1.37%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.24%) Informatica
13 9 (1.12%) Remedy
14 8 (0.99%) Amplitude
14 8 (0.99%) Palantir
15 7 (0.87%) BMC
16 6 (0.75%) Solace
16 6 (0.75%) VMware
17 5 (0.62%) Foundry