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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 114 120
Rank change year-on-year -94 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 724 799 768
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.44% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.70% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 485 455
10th Percentile £325 £318 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -5.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £620
90th Percentile £700 £675 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 49 51
10th Percentile £19.62 £22.68 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £33.25 £43.72
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -23.08% +60.14%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 September 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 September 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 1 September 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 -91 657 £488 +2.63% 1,298
UK excluding London -83 338 £475 +5.56% 690
London -79 324 £494 -1.25% 788
Work from Home -40 222 £500 +14.29% 516
North of England -63 99 £451 +9.88% 152
Midlands -45 82 £550 +8.28% 97
South East -52 66 £470 -14.55% 147
West Midlands -48 61 £558 +6.19% 53
North West -44 50 £498 +22.09% 91
South West -18 47 £450 -5.26% 103
Yorkshire -46 44 £451 +12.75% 42
East of England -39 26 £565 +5.12% 75
Scotland -33 25 £420 -16.00% 70
East Midlands -8 21 £375 -6.25% 44
North East -46 6 £410 -6.29% 20

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 19 (2.62%) Apache Spark
1 19 (2.62%) Confluence
2 13 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.38%) ArcGIS
4 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.10%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.83%) Apache
7 5 (0.69%) CMS
7 5 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.28%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 118 (16.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.97%) CPLEX
6 5 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.41%) InDesign
8 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.28%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.69%) Primavera
4 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 374 (51.66%) Power Platform
2 143 (19.75%) Azure
3 101 (13.95%) AWS
4 51 (7.04%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.63%) GCP
6 38 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (4.01%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.73%) GitHub
10 26 (3.59%) Serverless
11 25 (3.45%) PowerApps
12 22 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.62%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.62%) dbt
14 12 (1.66%) Adobe Analytics
14 12 (1.66%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.38%) SaaS
17 8 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) HTTP
1 5 (0.69%) Wireless
2 4 (0.55%) Ethernet
2 4 (0.55%) SNMP
2 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.41%) Broadband
3 3 (0.41%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.41%) VPN
3 3 (0.41%) WAN
4 2 (0.28%) 2G
4 2 (0.28%) 3G
4 2 (0.28%) 4G
4 2 (0.28%) 5G
4 2 (0.28%) DHCP
4 2 (0.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (50.69%) Power BI
2 147 (20.30%) Tableau
3 85 (11.74%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (8.01%) Power Query
5 48 (6.63%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.52%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.42%) Metadata
8 30 (4.14%) Big Data
8 30 (4.14%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.31%) Looker
9 24 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (3.18%) BigQuery
11 20 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (2.07%) Star Schema
13 14 (1.93%) GIS
14 13 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
15 12 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (1.66%) Parquet
15 12 (1.66%) Qlik Sense
15 12 (1.66%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 45 (6.22%) Git
2 40 (5.52%) JIRA
3 6 (0.83%) GitLab
4 5 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.55%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.41%) JMeter
7 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.28%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.28%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.14%) Flyway
8 1 (0.14%) Gatling
8 1 (0.14%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) Storybook
8 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 260 (35.91%) Analytical Skills
2 240 (33.15%) Social Skills
3 159 (21.96%) Finance
4 82 (11.33%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.43%) Banking
6 27 (3.73%) Marketing
7 24 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.18%) Retail
9 19 (2.62%) Military
10 15 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.38%) Law
13 10 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.24%) Local Government
14 9 (1.24%) Publishing
14 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (26.66%) Analyst
2 109 (15.06%) Data Analyst
3 106 (14.64%) Developer
4 95 (13.12%) Data Engineer
5 86 (11.88%) Senior
6 46 (6.35%) Lead
7 43 (5.94%) Consultant
8 38 (5.25%) Data Scientist
9 33 (4.56%) Architect
9 33 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 28 (3.87%) Power BI Developer
11 27 (3.73%) Business Analyst
12 24 (3.31%) Designer
12 24 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (2.76%) Python Developer
14 19 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 19 (2.62%) Data Architect
14 19 (2.62%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.35%) Performance Analyst
16 15 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.52%) REST
2 39 (5.39%) Terraform
3 32 (4.42%) Pandas
4 28 (3.87%) React
5 26 (3.59%) CSS
6 24 (3.31%) HTML
7 22 (3.04%) Kafka
7 22 (3.04%) PySpark
8 19 (2.62%) NumPy
9 18 (2.49%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.21%) .NET
11 13 (1.80%) Flask
12 12 (1.66%) Web Services
13 11 (1.52%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.52%) TensorFlow
14 10 (1.38%) JSON
14 10 (1.38%) SOAP
15 9 (1.24%) Middleware
15 9 (1.24%) Vue
16 8 (1.10%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.29%) Data Structures
2 31 (4.28%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.80%) Reference Data
10 11 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.38%) PKI
12 9 (1.24%) Clustering
12 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.10%) NHS
14 7 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.87%) Windows
2 14 (1.93%) Linux
2 14 (1.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.83%) Unix
4 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (53.04%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (50.55%) Data Visualisation
3 354 (48.90%) Analytics
4 208 (28.73%) Data Modelling
5 193 (26.66%) Decision-Making
6 179 (24.72%) Agile
7 173 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (21.96%) AI
9 143 (19.75%) Data Analysis
10 131 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 130 (17.96%) Actionable Insight
12 124 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (16.02%) Data Pipeline
13 116 (16.02%) Validation
14 114 (15.75%) Data Engineering
14 114 (15.75%) Data Science
15 113 (15.61%) Dashboard Development
15 113 (15.61%) ETL
16 111 (15.33%) Data Governance
17 96 (13.26%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 355 (49.03%) SQL
2 263 (36.33%) Python
3 66 (9.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 58 (8.01%) R
5 43 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.66%) Java
7 32 (4.42%) C#
8 23 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.66%) Scala
11 11 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.24%) VBA
13 8 (1.10%) Bash
13 8 (1.10%) C++
14 5 (0.69%) Cypher
14 5 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.55%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.55%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 108 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.19%) Degree
4 20 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.55%) PhD
10 4 (0.55%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.28%) APMG
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.14%) IIBA
13 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (23.34%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.91%) QA
3 29 (4.01%) GDPR
4 25 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.35%) PMO
6 8 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.97%) GMP
8 5 (0.69%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.69%) GRC
8 5 (0.69%) GxP
8 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.69%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (3.18%) Docker
2 17 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.35%) Grafana
2 14 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.10%) SCCM
4 6 (0.83%) Ansible
4 6 (0.83%) Kibana
4 6 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.41%) Podman
6 2 (0.28%) Istio
6 2 (0.28%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) Argo
7 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.14%) logstash
7 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.14%) QRadar
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 138 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.53%) Databricks
3 42 (5.80%) Oracle
4 40 (5.52%) SAP
5 32 (4.42%) Google
6 29 (4.01%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.07%) Adobe
9 14 (1.93%) Splunk
10 13 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.52%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.38%) Remedy
13 9 (1.24%) BMC
14 8 (1.10%) Palantir
15 6 (0.83%) Informatica
15 6 (0.83%) SnapLogic
16 5 (0.69%) Foundry
17 4 (0.55%) Solace
17 4 (0.55%) UiPath
17 4 (0.55%) VMware