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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 96 132
Rank change year-on-year -38 +36 +12
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 858 792 798
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.03% 2.66% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.95% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 542 540
10th Percentile £331 £326 £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 £575
90th Percentile £738 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 26 51
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.63 £20.47
25th Percentile £26.74 £23.29 £31.69
Median hourly rate £61.25 £33.66 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +81.99% -27.12% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.81 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -28.95% -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 36,399 26,862 38,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 90.27% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,113 17,118 25,178
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,154 913 2,346
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.52 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -18.86% +0.83% -10.00%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -40 746 £500 +4.17% 618
London -32 418 £500 -3.85% 214
UK excluding London -41 339 £500 +11.11% 542
Work from Home -20 276 £500 +5.26% 193
North of England -51 105 £475 +2.70% 135
Midlands -27 66 £500 +25.31% 86
North West -31 55 £420 -11.58% 66
West Midlands -29 52 £500 +21.21% 46
South East -29 50 £500 +11.11% 156
Yorkshire -33 47 £507 +21.44% 52
South West -17 45 £600 +29.73% 56
Scotland +6 35 £475 +4.11% 17
East of England -39 34 £500 +10.13% 63
East Midlands -25 14 £525 +47.47% 40
Northern Ireland -3 6 £531 +6.25% 13
North East -17 6 £438 -10.26% 19
Wales -10 3 - - 31

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 54 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.96%) Confluence
3 24 (2.80%) Apache
4 23 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.45%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.93%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.70%) SAS
8 5 (0.58%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.58%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 118 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.40%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.23%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.35%) Primavera
4 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.23%) iTrent
5 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 369 (43.01%) Power Platform
2 164 (19.11%) Azure
3 155 (18.07%) AWS
4 56 (6.53%) GCP
5 47 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (4.78%) Snowflake
7 36 (4.20%) Serverless
8 29 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (3.15%) Amazon S3
10 26 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (2.80%) dbt
12 23 (2.68%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (2.21%) PowerApps
14 16 (1.86%) GitHub
15 13 (1.52%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (1.40%) Google Analytics
17 11 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.63%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.70%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) 2G
4 4 (0.47%) 5G
5 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.23%) LTE
6 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SMS
6 2 (0.23%) SNMP
6 2 (0.23%) VoIP
7 1 (0.12%) 4G
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Modbus
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (42.89%) Power BI
2 167 (19.46%) Tableau
3 98 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.71%) Big Data
5 42 (4.90%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.20%) Hadoop
7 35 (4.08%) Power Query
8 34 (3.96%) Looker
8 34 (3.96%) Metadata
9 30 (3.50%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.15%) SQL Server
11 25 (2.91%) BigQuery
12 24 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (2.10%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.86%) Geospatial Data
15 16 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
16 14 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
17 13 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (1.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 59 (6.88%) Git
2 48 (5.59%) JIRA
3 18 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.63%) Eclipse
6 10 (1.17%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) ERwin
8 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.35%) GitLab
8 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.23%) git-flow
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 314 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 236 (27.51%) Finance
3 232 (27.04%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.28%) Banking
6 39 (4.55%) Retail
7 30 (3.50%) Marketing
8 23 (2.68%) Publishing
9 22 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.45%) Military
11 20 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.86%) Front Office
13 14 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.40%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.40%) Legal
14 12 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 223 (25.99%) Analyst
2 131 (15.27%) Developer
3 126 (14.69%) Data Analyst
4 106 (12.35%) Senior
5 91 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.81%) Lead
7 65 (7.58%) Architect
8 57 (6.64%) Data Scientist
9 48 (5.59%) Consultant
10 47 (5.48%) Business Analyst
11 46 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.73%) Power BI Developer
14 26 (3.03%) Software Engineer
15 24 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.56%) Designer
17 21 (2.45%) Senior Data Engineer
18 20 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 20 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
19 17 (1.98%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.94%) Pandas
2 49 (5.71%) React
3 35 (4.08%) scikit-learn
4 33 (3.85%) NumPy
5 31 (3.61%) Node.js
6 30 (3.50%) Kafka
7 27 (3.15%) PySpark
8 25 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (2.80%) AngularJS
9 24 (2.80%) REST
10 22 (2.56%) Vue
11 19 (2.21%) Web Services
12 18 (2.10%) Plotly
13 17 (1.98%) Matplotlib
13 17 (1.98%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.75%) OAuth
15 14 (1.63%) .NET
15 14 (1.63%) JSON
15 14 (1.63%) Seaborn
16 12 (1.40%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.90%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 27 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.93%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.93%) PMI
13 7 (0.82%) Equities
13 7 (0.82%) Life Science
13 7 (0.82%) NHS
13 7 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.31%) Linux
2 26 (3.03%) Windows
3 13 (1.52%) Unix
4 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (47.09%) Data Visualisation
2 403 (46.97%) Business Intelligence
3 324 (37.76%) Analytics
4 231 (26.92%) Data Modelling
5 227 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
6 225 (26.22%) Decision-Making
7 207 (24.13%) Agile
8 175 (20.40%) Data Analysis
9 172 (20.05%) Actionable Insight
10 143 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 140 (16.32%) Data Science
12 126 (14.69%) AI
12 126 (14.69%) ETL
13 114 (13.29%) Machine Learning
14 113 (13.17%) Validation
15 112 (13.05%) Data Governance
16 105 (12.24%) Dashboard Development
17 103 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 100 (11.66%) Data Engineering
19 97 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 385 (44.87%) SQL
2 296 (34.50%) Python
3 66 (7.69%) R
4 60 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (4.08%) C#
7 31 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 28 (3.26%) C++
8 28 (3.26%) Java
9 19 (2.21%) Scala
10 15 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.28%) VBA
12 9 (1.05%) Bash
12 9 (1.05%) Perl
13 7 (0.82%) Groovy
14 6 (0.70%) PHP
15 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.47%) C
16 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 173 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 139 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.61%) Degree
4 35 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.86%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.86%) CISM
7 16 (1.86%) CISSP
8 11 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.17%) PhD
9 10 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CBAP
13 4 (0.47%) CFA
13 4 (0.47%) MBA
13 4 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 47 (5.48%) QA
4 25 (2.91%) GDPR
5 20 (2.33%) PMO
6 17 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.82%) SLA
8 6 (0.70%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 35 (4.08%) Docker
2 7 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) HDFS
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.78%) Terraform
3 31 (3.61%) Kibana
4 22 (2.56%) Ansible
4 22 (2.56%) logstash
5 18 (2.10%) Grafana
6 16 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.35%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) Cilium
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.23%) vMotion
10 2 (0.23%) vRealize
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.39%) Databricks
3 50 (5.83%) Google
4 37 (4.31%) Oracle
5 23 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.68%) SAP
6 22 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.45%) Splunk
8 18 (2.10%) BiZZdesign
9 15 (1.75%) Sage
10 14 (1.63%) Adobe
11 13 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 12 (1.40%) Centrify
13 9 (1.05%) Cisco
14 8 (0.93%) Amplitude
14 8 (0.93%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.82%) Cognos
15 7 (0.82%) Informatica
15 7 (0.82%) MicroStrategy