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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 115 128
Rank change year-on-year -68 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 785 778 766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 2.39% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.64% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 467 500
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £397 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £447 £465
% change year-on-year +5.15% -3.87% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 43 51
10th Percentile £18.29 £24.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.88 £41.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.38 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -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 44,806 29,445 35,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.36% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,768 18,486 22,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
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 2,649 1,571 2,189
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.50% -40.00% -1.45%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -62 706 £475 +2.70% 369
UK excluding London -68 355 £470 +5.15% 254
London -53 354 £480 -4.00% 154
Work from Home -35 257 £500 +16.82% 110
North of England -44 114 £445 -0.45% 77
Midlands -20 84 £549 +35.56% 46
West Midlands -33 62 £550 +33.33% 27
South East -63 61 £475 -13.64% 70
North West -20 60 £444 -1.33% 41
Yorkshire -47 49 £455 +7.06% 20
South West -28 45 £450 +10.02% 37
East of England -30 30 £565 +2.73% 19
Scotland -28 28 £425 -5.56% 6
East Midlands -6 22 £431 +7.81% 19
North East -42 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 28 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.04%) Confluence
2 16 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.53%) Apache
4 11 (1.40%) Apache Superset
5 9 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.15%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.64%) CMS
6 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.64%) SAS
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 119 (15.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.76%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.51%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.64%) Primavera
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 389 (49.55%) Power Platform
2 161 (20.51%) Azure
3 121 (15.41%) AWS
4 54 (6.88%) Snowflake
5 44 (5.61%) GCP
6 41 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.31%) GitHub
10 25 (3.18%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.18%) Serverless
11 23 (2.93%) dbt
12 21 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.55%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (1.78%) Google Analytics
16 12 (1.53%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
18 10 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.66%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.53%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (48.66%) Power BI
2 172 (21.91%) Tableau
3 94 (11.97%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.75%) Power Query
5 52 (6.62%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.84%) Big Data
7 33 (4.20%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.08%) Looker
9 31 (3.95%) Metadata
9 31 (3.95%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.44%) BigQuery
11 26 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.29%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.91%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (1.91%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.66%) QlikView
15 11 (1.40%) GIS
15 11 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (6.62%) Git
2 39 (4.97%) JIRA
3 13 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) MLflow
7 5 (0.64%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 260 (33.12%) Analytical Skills
2 249 (31.72%) Social Skills
3 190 (24.20%) Finance
4 86 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.64%) Banking
6 39 (4.97%) Marketing
7 30 (3.82%) Retail
8 28 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.42%) Military
10 18 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.40%) Law
14 10 (1.27%) Publishing
15 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 218 (27.77%) Analyst
2 131 (16.69%) Data Analyst
3 109 (13.89%) Data Engineer
3 109 (13.89%) Developer
4 78 (9.94%) Senior
5 52 (6.62%) Lead
6 49 (6.24%) Data Scientist
7 43 (5.48%) Consultant
8 41 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 39 (4.97%) Business Analyst
10 32 (4.08%) Architect
11 31 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
12 28 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.55%) Designer
15 18 (2.29%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.17%) Performance Analyst
17 16 (2.04%) Data Architect
18 14 (1.78%) Python Developer
19 12 (1.53%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.48%) Pandas
2 38 (4.84%) React
3 36 (4.59%) REST
4 30 (3.82%) Kafka
5 23 (2.93%) NumPy
6 20 (2.55%) PySpark
7 19 (2.42%) Web Services
8 18 (2.29%) .NET
8 18 (2.29%) Node.js
8 18 (2.29%) scikit-learn
9 16 (2.04%) JSON
10 15 (1.91%) CSS
11 14 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (1.66%) Apache Avro
13 12 (1.53%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.53%) HTML
14 10 (1.27%) GeoJSON
14 10 (1.27%) Seaborn
15 9 (1.15%) FastAPI
15 9 (1.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.90%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.69%) Algorithms
4 23 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.40%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.27%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.27%) PKI
14 8 (1.02%) Clustering
14 8 (1.02%) Life Science
14 8 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.89%) Derivative
15 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.33%) Windows
2 27 (3.44%) Linux
3 12 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
5 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (52.61%) Business Intelligence
2 377 (48.03%) Data Visualisation
3 370 (47.13%) Analytics
4 236 (30.06%) Data Modelling
5 212 (27.01%) Agile
6 204 (25.99%) Decision-Making
7 194 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (21.15%) AI
9 147 (18.73%) Actionable Insight
10 145 (18.47%) Validation
11 142 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
12 139 (17.71%) Data Analysis
13 135 (17.20%) Data Science
14 133 (16.94%) Dashboard Development
15 132 (16.82%) ETL
16 123 (15.67%) Data Engineering
17 119 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
18 115 (14.65%) Data Governance
19 107 (13.63%) Stakeholder Management
20 103 (13.12%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 402 (51.21%) SQL
2 303 (38.60%) Python
3 73 (9.30%) R
4 66 (8.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.97%) Java
7 38 (4.84%) C#
8 33 (4.20%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.17%) C++
9 17 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.40%) Scala
11 10 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.15%) VBA
13 8 (1.02%) Bash
13 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.51%) Cypher
14 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.51%) Rust
15 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 175 (22.29%) Security Cleared
2 131 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.70%) Degree
4 23 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.64%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) CBAP
12 2 (0.25%) IIBA
12 2 (0.25%) NCDA
12 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (20.64%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.75%) QA
3 28 (3.57%) GDPR
4 27 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.55%) PMO
6 10 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.51%) GMP
9 4 (0.51%) GxP
9 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Basel III
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (2.68%) Docker
2 16 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.51%) 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 32 (4.08%) Terraform
2 26 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.93%) Grafana
4 16 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.78%) Ansible
6 11 (1.40%) Kibana
7 8 (1.02%) SCCM
8 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.76%) logstash
10 3 (0.38%) Podman
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 135 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 78 (9.94%) Databricks
3 46 (5.86%) SAP
4 44 (5.61%) Oracle
5 43 (5.48%) Google
6 25 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.55%) Adobe
8 19 (2.42%) Splunk
9 16 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.40%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.27%) Remedy
13 9 (1.15%) Sage
14 8 (1.02%) Amplitude
14 8 (1.02%) BMC
14 8 (1.02%) Palantir
15 7 (0.89%) Informatica
16 6 (0.76%) Solace
16 6 (0.76%) VMware
17 5 (0.64%) Foundry