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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 115 126
Rank change year-on-year -69 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 778 782 766
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.48% 2.40% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.65% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 467 500
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £397 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -8.50% -
75th Percentile £582 £575 £600
90th Percentile £699 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £447 £465
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.87% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 43 51
10th Percentile £20.80 £24.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.88 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -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 44,825 29,480 35,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,802 18,519 22,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £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 2,641 1,572 2,187
10th Percentile £14.82 £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 £68.50 £50.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.95%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -62 700 £475 +3.26% 458
London -55 353 £475 -5.00% 213
UK excluding London -68 349 £463 +3.47% 295
Work from Home -29 256 £500 +16.82% 159
North of England -50 110 £440 -1.57% 82
Midlands -31 82 £525 +29.63% 49
South East -53 61 £475 -13.64% 85
West Midlands -36 60 £550 +33.33% 30
North West -22 58 £444 -1.33% 45
Yorkshire -46 47 £453 +5.23% 22
South West -27 45 £450 +10.02% 45
East of England -28 30 £565 +2.73% 23
Scotland -29 27 £413 -8.33% 9
East Midlands -7 22 £431 +7.81% 19
North East -37 6 £410 -8.89% 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 28 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.93%) Confluence
4 12 (1.54%) Apache
5 11 (1.41%) Apache Superset
6 9 (1.16%) ArcGIS
7 8 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.64%) CMS
8 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.51%) SAS
10 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 117 (15.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.77%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.77%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.51%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) 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 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.64%) Primavera
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) 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%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 386 (49.61%) Power Platform
2 159 (20.44%) Azure
3 118 (15.17%) AWS
4 53 (6.81%) Snowflake
5 43 (5.53%) GCP
6 40 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.21%) GitHub
9 25 (3.21%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.08%) Serverless
11 23 (2.96%) dbt
12 20 (2.57%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.57%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.80%) Google Analytics
15 12 (1.54%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.54%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.39%) Wireless
5 2 (0.26%) 2G
5 2 (0.26%) 3G
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) 5G
5 2 (0.26%) DHCP
5 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 379 (48.71%) Power BI
2 170 (21.85%) Tableau
3 95 (12.21%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.81%) Power Query
5 52 (6.68%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.88%) Big Data
7 33 (4.24%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.11%) Looker
9 31 (3.98%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.86%) Metadata
11 27 (3.47%) BigQuery
12 26 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (2.19%) Hadoop
14 15 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (1.93%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.80%) NoSQL
16 13 (1.67%) QlikView
17 12 (1.54%) Parquet
18 11 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (6.56%) Git
2 38 (4.88%) JIRA
3 13 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.54%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.64%) GitLab
6 5 (0.64%) MLflow
7 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.26%) JMeter
8 2 (0.26%) Selenium
8 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Flyway
9 1 (0.13%) git-flow
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.13%) Storybook
9 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 260 (33.42%) Analytical Skills
2 248 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 189 (24.29%) Finance
4 85 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.71%) Banking
6 38 (4.88%) Marketing
7 30 (3.86%) Retail
8 28 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.44%) Military
10 18 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.41%) Law
14 10 (1.29%) Publishing
15 9 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 216 (27.76%) Analyst
2 132 (16.97%) Data Analyst
3 109 (14.01%) Developer
4 108 (13.88%) Data Engineer
5 79 (10.15%) Senior
6 51 (6.56%) Lead
7 49 (6.30%) Data Scientist
8 43 (5.53%) Consultant
9 41 (5.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 39 (5.01%) Business Analyst
11 31 (3.98%) Architect
11 31 (3.98%) Power BI Developer
12 27 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
14 19 (2.44%) Designer
15 18 (2.31%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.19%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (1.93%) Data Architect
18 14 (1.80%) Python Developer
19 13 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.53%) Pandas
2 38 (4.88%) React
3 36 (4.63%) REST
4 30 (3.86%) Kafka
5 23 (2.96%) NumPy
6 20 (2.57%) PySpark
7 19 (2.44%) Web Services
8 18 (2.31%) .NET
8 18 (2.31%) Node.js
8 18 (2.31%) scikit-learn
9 17 (2.19%) JSON
10 15 (1.93%) CSS
11 14 (1.80%) Apache Avro
11 14 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (1.54%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.54%) HTML
13 10 (1.29%) GeoJSON
13 10 (1.29%) Matplotlib
13 10 (1.29%) Seaborn
13 10 (1.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.97%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.73%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.60%) Algorithms
4 23 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (2.06%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.29%) PKI
13 8 (1.03%) Clustering
13 8 (1.03%) Life Science
13 8 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.24%) Windows
2 26 (3.34%) Linux
3 12 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.90%) Unix
5 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (52.70%) Business Intelligence
2 376 (48.33%) Data Visualisation
3 370 (47.56%) Analytics
4 237 (30.46%) Data Modelling
5 209 (26.86%) Agile
6 201 (25.84%) Decision-Making
7 195 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (21.34%) AI
9 148 (19.02%) Actionable Insight
10 144 (18.51%) Validation
11 141 (18.12%) Data Pipeline
12 139 (17.87%) Data Analysis
13 135 (17.35%) Data Science
14 133 (17.10%) Dashboard Development
14 133 (17.10%) ETL
15 122 (15.68%) Data Engineering
16 120 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 115 (14.78%) Data Governance
18 105 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
19 101 (12.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 398 (51.16%) SQL
2 301 (38.69%) Python
3 73 (9.38%) R
4 66 (8.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.01%) Java
7 38 (4.88%) C#
8 33 (4.24%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.19%) C++
10 16 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.29%) Scala
11 10 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.03%) VBA
13 7 (0.90%) Bash
14 4 (0.51%) Cypher
14 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.51%) Rust
15 3 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 174 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 130 (16.71%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.54%) Degree
4 22 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.26%) ACCA
12 2 (0.26%) APMG
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) CBAP
12 2 (0.26%) CIMA
12 2 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (20.82%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.81%) QA
3 28 (3.60%) GDPR
4 27 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.57%) PMO
6 10 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.90%) 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 (0.26%) Basel III
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (2.44%) Docker
2 16 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (3.73%) Terraform
2 24 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.83%) Grafana
4 16 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.41%) Ansible
6 10 (1.29%) Kibana
7 8 (1.03%) SCCM
8 7 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.64%) logstash
10 3 (0.39%) Podman
11 2 (0.26%) Cilium
11 2 (0.26%) Packer
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
12 1 (0.13%) vMotion
12 1 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 134 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.77%) Databricks
3 46 (5.91%) SAP
4 44 (5.66%) Oracle
5 43 (5.53%) Google
6 25 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.57%) Adobe
8 19 (2.44%) Splunk
9 16 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 14 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.41%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.29%) Remedy
13 9 (1.16%) Sage
14 8 (1.03%) Amplitude
14 8 (1.03%) BMC
14 8 (1.03%) Palantir
15 7 (0.90%) Informatica
16 6 (0.77%) Solace
17 5 (0.64%) Foundry
17 5 (0.64%) VMware