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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 99 136
Rank change year-on-year -23 +37 +6
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 903 792 773
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.58% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.87% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 524 520
10th Percentile £344 £330 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £580
90th Percentile £738 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 27 45
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £24.81
25th Percentile £26.74 £22.72 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.25 £31.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +97.58% -32.87% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +116.67% -35.04% -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 35,955 27,589 38,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.76% 89.91% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,818 17,125 24,933
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £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 £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 864 2,185
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.99 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £32.66 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -1.24% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.18 £71.90
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -30 782 £500 +2.56% 452
London -25 430 £500 -3.85% 176
UK excluding London -24 368 £500 +11.11% 415
Work from Home -17 293 £500 +0.50% 142
North of England -46 112 £475 +2.70% 89
Midlands -18 70 £500 +25.31% 77
West Midlands -18 57 £500 +21.21% 40
North West -34 57 £420 -9.19% 42
South West -10 53 £680 +51.00% 40
Yorkshire -33 52 £514 +20.94% 33
South East -17 51 £500 +21.21% 143
Scotland +19 44 £475 +4.11% 14
East of England -25 34 £500 +10.13% 43
East Midlands -26 13 £450 +26.40% 36
Northern Ireland -6 6 £531 +6.25% 6
North East -18 6 £438 -16.67% 14
Wales -8 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 55 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.88%) Confluence
3 28 (3.10%) Apache
4 25 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.55%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.66%) SAS
8 5 (0.55%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.55%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Pig
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 121 (13.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.33%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
6 4 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.44%) Revit
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.33%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.22%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Blender
9 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.11%) Maya
9 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.33%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.33%) 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%) Actimize
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 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
1 383 (42.41%) Power Platform
2 175 (19.38%) Azure
3 164 (18.16%) AWS
4 66 (7.31%) GCP
5 47 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 38 (4.21%) Serverless
8 30 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 27 (2.99%) dbt
10 26 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 25 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (2.33%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.99%) GitHub
14 15 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.44%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.44%) Google Workspace
16 11 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.77%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.55%) Firewall
4 4 (0.44%) 2G
4 4 (0.44%) 5G
5 3 (0.33%) 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
1 382 (42.30%) Power BI
2 174 (19.27%) Tableau
3 95 (10.52%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.54%) Big Data
5 47 (5.20%) Relational Database
6 39 (4.32%) Hadoop
7 38 (4.21%) Looker
8 35 (3.88%) Metadata
9 34 (3.77%) Power Query
10 32 (3.54%) Data Lake
11 31 (3.43%) BigQuery
12 27 (2.99%) SQL Server
13 25 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (1.88%) NoSQL
16 16 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
16 16 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
17 15 (1.66%) Data Mining
18 14 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
18 14 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (6.20%) Git
2 48 (5.32%) JIRA
3 17 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 16 (1.77%) Eclipse
4 16 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.11%) MLflow
6 4 (0.44%) ERwin
7 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.33%) GitLab
7 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.22%) git-flow
8 2 (0.22%) Postman
8 2 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) Gradle
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Xcode
General
1 329 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 244 (27.02%) Finance
3 242 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.75%) Public Sector
5 78 (8.64%) Banking
6 40 (4.43%) Retail
7 32 (3.54%) Marketing
8 24 (2.66%) Publishing
9 22 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.44%) Military
10 21 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.77%) Front Office
12 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.55%) Investment Banking
13 14 (1.55%) Legal
13 14 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 228 (25.25%) Analyst
2 134 (14.84%) Data Analyst
3 133 (14.73%) Developer
4 104 (11.52%) Senior
5 94 (10.41%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.08%) Architect
7 66 (7.31%) Lead
8 65 (7.20%) Data Scientist
9 53 (5.87%) Consultant
10 48 (5.32%) Business Analyst
11 46 (5.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
14 28 (3.10%) Software Engineer
15 25 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.44%) Designer
17 21 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
17 21 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
18 20 (2.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 18 (1.99%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.76%) Pandas
2 47 (5.20%) React
3 37 (4.10%) scikit-learn
4 35 (3.88%) Node.js
5 34 (3.77%) NumPy
6 31 (3.43%) Kafka
7 30 (3.32%) PySpark
8 26 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (2.88%) REST
9 23 (2.55%) AngularJS
10 22 (2.44%) Vue
11 21 (2.33%) Web Services
12 18 (1.99%) Plotly
12 18 (1.99%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.88%) Matplotlib
13 17 (1.88%) OAuth
14 14 (1.55%) .NET
14 14 (1.55%) HTML
14 14 (1.55%) JSON
14 14 (1.55%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.87%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.22%) PMI
10 10 (1.11%) NHS
11 9 (1.00%) CMDB
11 9 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.89%) Life Science
12 8 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.76%) Linux
2 31 (3.43%) Windows
3 17 (1.88%) Unix
4 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Android
6 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (47.18%) Data Visualisation
2 416 (46.07%) Business Intelligence
3 342 (37.87%) Analytics
4 240 (26.58%) Data Modelling
5 228 (25.25%) Agile
6 227 (25.14%) Decision-Making
6 227 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (19.71%) Data Analysis
8 168 (18.60%) Actionable Insight
9 157 (17.39%) Data Science
10 147 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
11 132 (14.62%) AI
12 124 (13.73%) ETL
13 121 (13.40%) Machine Learning
14 117 (12.96%) Data Governance
15 116 (12.85%) Validation
16 111 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
17 107 (11.85%) Data Engineering
18 104 (11.52%) Dashboard Development
19 102 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 403 (44.63%) SQL
2 314 (34.77%) Python
3 67 (7.42%) R
4 65 (7.20%) JavaScript
5 47 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (4.21%) C#
7 31 (3.43%) C++
7 31 (3.43%) Java
8 30 (3.32%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.33%) Scala
10 17 (1.88%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.22%) VBA
12 9 (1.00%) Bash
13 8 (0.89%) Perl
13 8 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.78%) Groovy
14 7 (0.78%) PHP
15 4 (0.44%) C
15 4 (0.44%) LookML
15 4 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 183 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 150 (16.61%) SC Cleared
3 95 (10.52%) Degree
4 39 (4.32%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.77%) CISM
8 16 (1.77%) CISSP
9 13 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.22%) PhD
11 10 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.78%) CBAP
13 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.55%) MBA
14 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.44%) CFA
15 4 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (15.95%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.98%) QA
4 28 (3.10%) GDPR
5 20 (2.21%) PMO
6 18 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.66%) WCAG
8 5 (0.55%) SLA
9 4 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) EMIR
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
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 37 (4.10%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.55%) HDFS
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (4.76%) Terraform
2 42 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.54%) Kibana
4 23 (2.55%) logstash
5 21 (2.33%) Ansible
6 20 (2.21%) Grafana
7 17 (1.88%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.33%) 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
1 138 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.08%) Databricks
3 52 (5.76%) Google
4 38 (4.21%) Oracle
5 27 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.77%) SAP
7 24 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.66%) Splunk
8 18 (1.99%) BiZZdesign
9 14 (1.55%) Adobe
9 14 (1.55%) Sage
10 13 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.33%) Centrify
11 12 (1.33%) Cisco
12 11 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.11%) Foundry
14 9 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.89%) Amplitude
15 8 (0.89%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.78%) Palantir