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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 105 131
Rank change year-on-year -56 +26 +30
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 780 741 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 2.52% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.77% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 479 498
10th Percentile £334 £334 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £579
90th Percentile £729 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £457 £450
% change year-on-year +3.94% +1.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 29 42
10th Percentile £23.03 £22.41 £20.58
25th Percentile £43.13 £26.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.16% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.74 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £65.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -51.32% -

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 40,197 26,741 37,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.94% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,242 17,210 23,886
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,094 2,440
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.44 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.25 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -28.95% +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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -57 689 £489 +2.89% 380
London -45 360 £488 -0.51% 168
UK excluding London -54 323 £475 +3.94% 273
Work from Home -16 257 £488 +8.33% 155
North of England -60 97 £459 -0.81% 71
Midlands -35 66 £500 +21.21% 45
South East -35 55 £500 -9.09% 80
North West -32 54 £438 -5.41% 43
South West -23 48 £500 +5.26% 38
West Midlands -42 47 £500 +19.40% 26
Yorkshire -45 39 £463 +7.56% 14
East of England -37 34 £565 +18.95% 15
Scotland -8 24 £430 -4.44% 18
East Midlands -21 19 £488 +27.12% 19
North East -23 7 £420 -13.85% 14
Northern Ireland +2 2 £463 -8.64% 1

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 50 (6.41%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.69%) Apache
3 18 (2.31%) Confluence
4 16 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.41%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.38%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.38%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 114 (14.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.15%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) iTrent
5 3 (0.38%) Primavera
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
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
1 357 (45.77%) Power Platform
2 157 (20.13%) Azure
3 137 (17.56%) AWS
4 56 (7.18%) GCP
5 48 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 39 (5.00%) Snowflake
7 28 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (3.59%) Serverless
8 26 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.08%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.69%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.31%) GitHub
13 17 (2.18%) dbt
13 17 (2.18%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.54%) Google Workspace
15 11 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.18%) TCP/IP
2 16 (2.05%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.77%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) 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
1 354 (45.38%) Power BI
2 179 (22.95%) Tableau
3 100 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.03%) Relational Database
5 46 (5.90%) Big Data
6 40 (5.13%) Metadata
7 39 (5.00%) Power Query
8 34 (4.36%) Looker
8 34 (4.36%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.97%) Hadoop
10 30 (3.85%) Data Lake
11 28 (3.59%) BigQuery
12 27 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (2.69%) NoSQL
14 15 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (1.92%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 60 (7.69%) Git
2 39 (5.00%) JIRA
3 17 (2.18%) Visual Studio
4 16 (2.05%) Eclipse
5 12 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.03%) MLflow
7 4 (0.51%) ERwin
7 4 (0.51%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) NUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 260 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 241 (30.90%) Analytical Skills
3 206 (26.41%) Finance
4 79 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.56%) Banking
6 38 (4.87%) Retail
7 32 (4.10%) Marketing
8 27 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.31%) Military
10 18 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.92%) Publishing
12 14 (1.79%) Law
13 13 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.15%) Front Office
16 9 (1.15%) Legal
17 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (25.77%) Analyst
2 112 (14.36%) Developer
3 110 (14.10%) Data Engineer
4 106 (13.59%) Data Analyst
5 100 (12.82%) Senior
6 56 (7.18%) Data Scientist
7 53 (6.79%) Lead
8 49 (6.28%) Business Analyst
9 43 (5.51%) Consultant
10 41 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (4.49%) Architect
12 31 (3.97%) Power BI Developer
13 25 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
14 23 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
15 22 (2.82%) Software Engineer
16 21 (2.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 18 (2.31%) Data Business Analyst
17 18 (2.31%) Designer
18 17 (2.18%) SAP Consultant
19 16 (2.05%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.03%) Pandas
2 46 (5.90%) React
3 35 (4.49%) Kafka
4 31 (3.97%) Node.js
5 28 (3.59%) REST
6 26 (3.33%) NumPy
6 26 (3.33%) scikit-learn
7 23 (2.95%) PySpark
8 19 (2.44%) Web Services
9 18 (2.31%) .NET
10 17 (2.18%) Matplotlib
11 16 (2.05%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (2.05%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.92%) JSON
12 15 (1.92%) PyTorch
13 14 (1.79%) Seaborn
14 13 (1.67%) Vue
15 12 (1.54%) CSS
15 12 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.54%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.97%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.03%) Derivative
12 8 (1.03%) PMI
13 7 (0.90%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.90%) Life Science
13 7 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.36%) Linux
2 33 (4.23%) Windows
3 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.77%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (49.74%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (46.92%) Data Visualisation
3 320 (41.03%) Analytics
4 238 (30.51%) Data Modelling
5 212 (27.18%) Decision-Making
6 208 (26.67%) Agile
7 202 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (21.03%) Actionable Insight
9 148 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
10 138 (17.69%) Validation
11 137 (17.56%) AI
12 128 (16.41%) Data Analysis
12 128 (16.41%) Data Governance
12 128 (16.41%) Data Science
13 120 (15.38%) ETL
14 117 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
15 116 (14.87%) Data Engineering
16 107 (13.72%) CI/CD
17 96 (12.31%) Machine Learning
18 91 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 379 (48.59%) SQL
2 290 (37.18%) Python
3 81 (10.38%) R
4 56 (7.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 55 (7.05%) JavaScript
6 43 (5.51%) C#
7 38 (4.87%) TypeScript
8 37 (4.74%) Java
9 27 (3.46%) C++
10 22 (2.82%) PowerShell
11 20 (2.56%) Scala
12 13 (1.67%) VBA
13 9 (1.15%) Perl
14 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.77%) Bash
15 6 (0.77%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.38%) Groovy
17 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 126 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.36%) Degree
4 21 (2.69%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.28%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.51%) CBAP
12 4 (0.51%) MBA
12 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.38%) CISM
13 3 (0.38%) CISSP
13 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.26%) PhD
14 2 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (18.21%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.67%) QA
3 28 (3.59%) GDPR
4 24 (3.08%) PMO
5 22 (2.82%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.90%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) P3O
11 2 (0.26%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (3.59%) Docker
2 12 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.51%) HDFS
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.49%) Terraform
3 22 (2.82%) Grafana
4 18 (2.31%) Kibana
5 17 (2.18%) Ansible
5 17 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.54%) logstash
7 7 (0.90%) SCCM
7 7 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.26%) Cilium
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 2 (0.26%) vMotion
9 2 (0.26%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.87%) Databricks
3 49 (6.28%) Google
4 42 (5.38%) SAP
5 36 (4.62%) Oracle
6 24 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.05%) Sage
8 15 (1.92%) Adobe
9 14 (1.79%) Splunk
10 13 (1.67%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.28%) Informatica
12 8 (1.03%) Amplitude
13 6 (0.77%) Apple
13 6 (0.77%) Cognos
13 6 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.77%) Remedy
14 5 (0.64%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.64%) Solace
14 5 (0.64%) VMware