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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 103 139
Rank change year-on-year -49 +36 +13
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 811 754 743
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 2.56% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.82% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 491 493
10th Percentile £327 £335 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.15%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £577
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £451
% change year-on-year +4.40% +0.83% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 40
10th Percentile £19.98 £21.93 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.25 £23.29 £37.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £48.09
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -31.46% -26.02%
75th Percentile £70.36 £57.50 £62.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £71.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £60.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -47.27% -7.69%

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 39,218 26,699 37,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.74% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,782 17,291 24,442
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,336 1,037 2,416
10th Percentile £14.93 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.74 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.33 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £71.81
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.53% -17.50% -

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -49 709 £488 +2.63% 435
London -37 388 £490 -4.39% 161
UK excluding London -61 322 £475 +4.40% 343
Work from Home -20 259 £488 +5.41% 149
North of England -60 98 £450 -2.70% 100
Midlands -32 70 £500 +21.21% 64
North West -31 57 £420 -11.58% 56
West Midlands -39 51 £500 +19.40% 36
South East -30 50 £500 - 86
South West -24 41 £475 - 40
Yorkshire -48 37 £463 +8.82% 28
East of England -37 34 £565 +18.95% 32
Scotland -7 28 £463 +1.37% 14
East Midlands -18 19 £441 +20.23% 28
North East -19 7 £420 -6.67% 17
Northern Ireland +3 3 £463 +8.82% 8
Wales -13 1 - - 6

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 49 (6.04%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.96%) Apache
3 20 (2.47%) Confluence
4 19 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.36%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.74%) SAS
8 5 (0.62%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.25%) Luigi
11 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
Applications
1 121 (14.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.48%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.37%) iTrent
4 3 (0.37%) Primavera
4 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 360 (44.39%) Power Platform
2 167 (20.59%) Azure
3 147 (18.13%) AWS
4 58 (7.15%) GCP
5 52 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (4.56%) Serverless
7 36 (4.44%) Snowflake
8 29 (3.58%) Amazon S3
8 29 (3.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (3.08%) Power Automate
12 22 (2.71%) dbt
13 18 (2.22%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.10%) GitHub
15 13 (1.60%) Google Workspace
16 11 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.73%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.74%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
5 2 (0.25%) SMS
5 2 (0.25%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) 2G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LTE
6 1 (0.12%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.12%) Modbus
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (44.27%) Power BI
2 179 (22.07%) Tableau
3 101 (12.45%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.67%) Big Data
5 41 (5.06%) Metadata
5 41 (5.06%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.93%) Power Query
7 32 (3.95%) Looker
8 31 (3.82%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.58%) Data Lake
9 29 (3.58%) Hadoop
10 26 (3.21%) BigQuery
11 24 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.47%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
14 18 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.97%) Star Schema
16 15 (1.85%) MySQL
17 14 (1.73%) Geospatial Data
17 14 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (7.03%) Git
2 39 (4.81%) JIRA
3 15 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.73%) Eclipse
5 8 (0.99%) MLflow
6 4 (0.49%) ERwin
6 4 (0.49%) GitLab
7 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.25%) Postman
8 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) JMeter
9 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 282 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 246 (30.33%) Analytical Skills
3 225 (27.74%) Finance
4 89 (10.97%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.03%) Banking
6 37 (4.56%) Retail
7 35 (4.32%) Marketing
8 24 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.22%) Military
10 18 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (1.97%) Publishing
12 14 (1.73%) Law
13 13 (1.60%) Front Office
13 13 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.23%) Legal
15 9 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.11%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 216 (26.63%) Analyst
2 121 (14.92%) Developer
3 117 (14.43%) Data Analyst
4 110 (13.56%) Senior
5 104 (12.82%) Data Engineer
6 57 (7.03%) Data Scientist
7 53 (6.54%) Lead
8 50 (6.17%) Business Analyst
9 47 (5.80%) Consultant
10 41 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.44%) Architect
12 33 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.84%) Senior Data Engineer
14 23 (2.84%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.34%) Data Business Analyst
16 16 (1.97%) Designer
17 15 (1.85%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (1.85%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.41%) Pandas
2 48 (5.92%) React
3 36 (4.44%) Kafka
4 32 (3.95%) NumPy
5 31 (3.82%) scikit-learn
6 29 (3.58%) Node.js
7 28 (3.45%) REST
8 23 (2.84%) PySpark
9 22 (2.71%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (2.34%) .NET
11 19 (2.34%) Vue
11 19 (2.34%) Web Services
12 18 (2.22%) Matplotlib
13 17 (2.10%) Plotly
14 15 (1.85%) JSON
14 15 (1.85%) Seaborn
14 15 (1.85%) TensorFlow
15 13 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.60%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.93%) Data Structures
2 34 (4.19%) Algorithms
2 34 (4.19%) Cloud Native
3 24 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.99%) PMI
11 7 (0.86%) Derivative
11 7 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.86%) Life Science
11 7 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.32%) Linux
2 27 (3.33%) Windows
3 11 (1.36%) Unix
4 5 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (49.69%) Business Intelligence
2 395 (48.71%) Data Visualisation
3 324 (39.95%) Analytics
4 234 (28.85%) Data Modelling
5 213 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
6 212 (26.14%) Decision-Making
7 208 (25.65%) Agile
8 167 (20.59%) Actionable Insight
9 150 (18.50%) Data Analysis
10 140 (17.26%) Data Pipeline
10 140 (17.26%) Data Science
11 136 (16.77%) Validation
12 131 (16.15%) AI
13 120 (14.80%) Data Governance
14 117 (14.43%) ETL
15 116 (14.30%) Dashboard Development
16 111 (13.69%) Data Engineering
17 105 (12.95%) CI/CD
18 97 (11.96%) Machine Learning
19 91 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 389 (47.97%) SQL
2 292 (36.00%) Python
3 78 (9.62%) R
4 57 (7.03%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 41 (5.06%) C#
7 34 (4.19%) TypeScript
8 31 (3.82%) Java
9 25 (3.08%) C++
10 20 (2.47%) Scala
11 17 (2.10%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.60%) VBA
13 9 (1.11%) Perl
14 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.74%) Rust
15 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.62%) Bash
16 5 (0.62%) Groovy
16 5 (0.62%) PHP
17 4 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 164 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 136 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.12%) Degree
4 23 (2.84%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.49%) CISM
11 4 (0.49%) CISSP
11 4 (0.49%) MBA
11 4 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CBAP
12 3 (0.37%) CFA
12 3 (0.37%) PhD
12 3 (0.37%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (17.63%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.78%) QA
3 26 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.21%) GDPR
4 25 (3.08%) PMO
5 16 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.86%) SLA
7 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.62%) WCAG
8 4 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.25%) PERC
10 1 (0.12%) Basel III
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (3.95%) Docker
2 8 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) HDFS
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (5.55%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.32%) Terraform
3 24 (2.96%) Kibana
4 22 (2.71%) Grafana
5 18 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.10%) Ansible
6 17 (2.10%) logstash
7 7 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.62%) SCCM
9 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.25%) Cilium
10 2 (0.25%) vMotion
10 2 (0.25%) vRealize
11 1 (0.12%) Cacti
11 1 (0.12%) collectd
11 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 133 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.00%) Databricks
3 51 (6.29%) Google
4 40 (4.93%) Oracle
5 34 (4.19%) SAP
6 27 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.10%) Sage
8 17 (2.10%) Splunk
9 13 (1.60%) Adobe
10 8 (0.99%) Amplitude
10 8 (0.99%) Cisco
10 8 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.99%) Informatica
11 7 (0.86%) Cognos
11 7 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.74%) Apple
12 6 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (0.62%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.62%) AppDynamics