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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 95 130
Rank change year-on-year -42 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 867 799 797
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 2.66% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.94% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 541 540
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
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 36,580 27,136 38,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 90.25% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,208 17,123 25,158
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 £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.94% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,181 914 2,335
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +1.20% -8.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.46 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -19.54% +0.44% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -39 754 £500 +4.17% 566
London -30 421 £500 -3.85% 209
UK excluding London -41 344 £500 +11.11% 493
Work from Home -22 279 £500 +4.71% 185
North of England -52 105 £475 +2.70% 129
Midlands -35 68 £500 +25.31% 87
North West -40 55 £420 -11.58% 63
West Midlands -30 54 £500 +21.21% 42
South East -29 50 £500 +11.11% 143
Yorkshire -36 47 £507 +21.44% 47
South West -5 46 £625 +35.14% 46
Scotland +7 36 £475 +4.11% 18
East of England -31 35 £500 +10.13% 46
East Midlands -23 14 £525 +47.47% 44
Northern Ireland -5 6 £531 +6.25% 12
North East -15 6 £438 -10.26% 21
Wales -11 3 - - 28

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 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 35 (4.04%) Confluence
3 24 (2.77%) Apache
3 24 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.69%) SAS
7 5 (0.58%) GeoServer
7 5 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.58%) Smallworld
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 118 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.38%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.23%) InDesign
8 2 (0.23%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.23%) Revit
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.12%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 13 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) 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
1 370 (42.68%) Power Platform
2 166 (19.15%) Azure
3 159 (18.34%) AWS
4 59 (6.81%) GCP
5 47 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (4.84%) Snowflake
7 37 (4.27%) Serverless
8 30 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 26 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 25 (2.88%) dbt
12 23 (2.65%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (2.19%) PowerApps
14 16 (1.85%) GitHub
15 13 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.50%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.38%) Google Analytics
17 11 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.61%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.69%) Firewall
4 4 (0.46%) 2G
4 4 (0.46%) 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%) DSL
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (42.56%) Power BI
2 169 (19.49%) Tableau
3 99 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.65%) Big Data
5 43 (4.96%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.15%) Hadoop
7 35 (4.04%) Looker
7 35 (4.04%) Power Query
8 34 (3.92%) Metadata
9 32 (3.69%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.11%) BigQuery
10 27 (3.11%) SQL Server
11 25 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (2.08%) NoSQL
14 16 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
14 16 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.50%) Data Mining
16 13 (1.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 59 (6.81%) Git
2 49 (5.65%) JIRA
3 18 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.73%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.61%) Eclipse
6 10 (1.15%) MLflow
7 4 (0.46%) 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%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 318 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 236 (27.22%) Finance
3 233 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.19%) Banking
6 39 (4.50%) Retail
7 31 (3.58%) Marketing
8 24 (2.77%) Publishing
9 22 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.42%) Military
11 20 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.85%) Front Office
13 15 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.38%) Legal
15 12 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 223 (25.72%) Analyst
2 131 (15.11%) Developer
3 126 (14.53%) Data Analyst
4 106 (12.23%) Senior
5 92 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 67 (7.73%) Architect
6 67 (7.73%) Lead
7 58 (6.69%) Data Scientist
8 50 (5.77%) Consultant
9 47 (5.42%) Business Analyst
10 46 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 37 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
12 32 (3.69%) Power BI Developer
13 26 (3.00%) Software Engineer
14 24 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.54%) Designer
16 21 (2.42%) Senior Data Engineer
17 20 (2.31%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 20 (2.31%) Data Business Analyst
18 17 (1.96%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.88%) Pandas
2 49 (5.65%) React
3 35 (4.04%) scikit-learn
4 33 (3.81%) NumPy
5 31 (3.58%) Node.js
6 30 (3.46%) Kafka
7 27 (3.11%) PySpark
8 26 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (2.77%) AngularJS
9 24 (2.77%) REST
10 22 (2.54%) Vue
11 19 (2.19%) Web Services
12 18 (2.08%) Plotly
13 17 (1.96%) Matplotlib
13 17 (1.96%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.73%) OAuth
15 14 (1.61%) .NET
15 14 (1.61%) JSON
15 14 (1.61%) Seaborn
16 12 (1.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.84%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 27 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 23 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.92%) AI Agents
11 8 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (0.92%) PMI
12 7 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.81%) Equities
12 7 (0.81%) NHS
12 7 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.27%) Linux
2 26 (3.00%) Windows
3 13 (1.50%) 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
1 406 (46.83%) Business Intelligence
1 406 (46.83%) Data Visualisation
2 327 (37.72%) Analytics
3 234 (26.99%) Data Modelling
4 228 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
5 227 (26.18%) Decision-Making
6 208 (23.99%) Agile
7 176 (20.30%) Data Analysis
8 173 (19.95%) Actionable Insight
9 145 (16.72%) Data Pipeline
10 144 (16.61%) Data Science
11 128 (14.76%) AI
12 126 (14.53%) ETL
13 116 (13.38%) Machine Learning
14 114 (13.15%) Data Governance
15 113 (13.03%) Validation
16 105 (12.11%) Dashboard Development
17 104 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 102 (11.76%) Data Engineering
19 99 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 387 (44.64%) SQL
2 299 (34.49%) Python
3 67 (7.73%) R
4 60 (6.92%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (4.04%) C#
7 31 (3.58%) TypeScript
8 28 (3.23%) C++
8 28 (3.23%) Java
9 19 (2.19%) Scala
10 15 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.27%) VBA
12 9 (1.04%) Bash
12 9 (1.04%) Perl
13 7 (0.81%) Groovy
14 6 (0.69%) PHP
15 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.46%) C
16 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 174 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 140 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.61%) Degree
4 36 (4.15%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.85%) CISM
7 16 (1.85%) CISSP
8 11 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.27%) PhD
9 10 (1.15%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.04%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.46%) CBAP
13 4 (0.46%) CFA
13 4 (0.46%) MBA
13 4 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (16.84%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 47 (5.42%) QA
4 25 (2.88%) GDPR
5 20 (2.31%) PMO
6 17 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.81%) SLA
8 6 (0.69%) WCAG
9 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.46%) 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 19650
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
System Software
1 35 (4.04%) Docker
2 7 (0.81%) 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 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.73%) Terraform
3 32 (3.69%) Kibana
4 23 (2.65%) logstash
5 22 (2.54%) Ansible
6 18 (2.08%) Grafana
7 16 (1.85%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.35%) SCCM
11 2 (0.23%) Cilium
11 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.23%) vMotion
11 2 (0.23%) vRealize
12 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 129 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.30%) Databricks
3 50 (5.77%) Google
4 37 (4.27%) Oracle
5 24 (2.77%) SAP
6 23 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 22 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 21 (2.42%) Splunk
9 18 (2.08%) BiZZdesign
10 15 (1.73%) Sage
11 14 (1.61%) Adobe
12 13 (1.50%) CyberArk
13 12 (1.38%) Centrify
14 9 (1.04%) Cisco
15 8 (0.92%) Amplitude
15 8 (0.92%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.92%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.81%) Cognos
16 7 (0.81%) Informatica
16 7 (0.81%) MicroStrategy