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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -85 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 749 789 760
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.40% 2.39% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.65% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 483 474
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £400 £397 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -7.50% -2.68%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £612
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 46 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.67 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +48.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.50% -23.08% +56.46%

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 45,292 29,826 33,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.48% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,883 18,657 21,289
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,827 1,696 1,836
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.51 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.84 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.47% -46.26% +17.24%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -69 689 £480 +3.78% 1,250
UK excluding London -73 348 £475 +5.56% 697
London -71 338 £480 -4.00% 706
Work from Home -53 233 £500 +17.23% 482
North of England -58 104 £456 +6.10% 181
Midlands -36 84 £528 +24.24% 104
South East -57 64 £450 -18.18% 151
West Midlands -35 63 £550 +5.77% 62
North West -28 53 £473 +5.70% 94
South West -19 47 £475 +5.56% 90
Yorkshire -45 46 £480 +20.00% 62
East of England -25 35 £565 +2.73% 75
East Midlands -3 21 £375 -6.25% 42
Scotland -26 21 £425 -6.85% 67
North East -43 6 £410 -8.89% 27

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 22 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.27%) Confluence
3 11 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.34%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.20%) Apache Superset
6 7 (0.93%) Apache
7 5 (0.67%) CMS
7 5 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.53%) SAS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 119 (15.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.07%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.80%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.53%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.40%) InDesign
9 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.27%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.67%) Primavera
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.13%) iTrent
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 375 (50.07%) Power Platform
2 155 (20.69%) Azure
3 117 (15.62%) AWS
4 51 (6.81%) Snowflake
5 44 (5.87%) GCP
6 39 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (4.27%) Serverless
9 28 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.74%) Power Automate
10 26 (3.47%) GitHub
11 23 (3.07%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.67%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.40%) dbt
14 16 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.74%) Google Analytics
16 12 (1.60%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.60%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.53%) HTTP
3 4 (0.53%) Wireless
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) 2G
5 2 (0.27%) 3G
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DHCP
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.27%) SNMP
5 2 (0.27%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (49.27%) Power BI
2 151 (20.16%) Tableau
3 94 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (7.88%) Power Query
5 52 (6.94%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.54%) Metadata
7 33 (4.41%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.27%) Big Data
9 30 (4.01%) SQL Server
10 25 (3.34%) Looker
10 25 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.54%) BigQuery
11 19 (2.54%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (2.00%) Star Schema
13 13 (1.74%) GIS
13 13 (1.74%) QlikView
13 13 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
14 12 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.60%) Parquet
14 12 (1.60%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (6.28%) Git
2 42 (5.61%) JIRA
3 13 (1.74%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.60%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.07%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) GitLab
7 5 (0.67%) MLflow
8 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
10 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.27%) Selenium
10 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 250 (33.38%) Analytical Skills
2 246 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 170 (22.70%) Finance
4 84 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.08%) Banking
6 34 (4.54%) Marketing
7 26 (3.47%) Retail
8 25 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.80%) Military
10 18 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.60%) Law
14 9 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.20%) Publishing
14 9 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.80%) Front Office
15 6 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 199 (26.57%) Analyst
2 114 (15.22%) Data Analyst
3 110 (14.69%) Developer
4 99 (13.22%) Data Engineer
5 80 (10.68%) Senior
6 52 (6.94%) Lead
7 45 (6.01%) Data Scientist
8 42 (5.61%) Consultant
9 37 (4.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (4.41%) Architect
10 33 (4.41%) Business Analyst
11 30 (4.01%) Power BI Developer
12 25 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 24 (3.20%) Designer
14 20 (2.67%) Data Architect
14 20 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.54%) Data Manager
15 19 (2.54%) Python Developer
16 16 (2.14%) Performance Analyst
17 14 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.21%) Pandas
2 36 (4.81%) REST
3 30 (4.01%) React
4 24 (3.20%) NumPy
5 22 (2.94%) CSS
5 22 (2.94%) PySpark
6 21 (2.80%) Kafka
7 20 (2.67%) HTML
8 19 (2.54%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.54%) Web Services
9 15 (2.00%) Node.js
10 13 (1.74%) .NET
11 12 (1.60%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.60%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.47%) Flask
12 11 (1.47%) JSON
13 10 (1.34%) Seaborn
14 9 (1.20%) Matplotlib
14 9 (1.20%) SOAP
15 8 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.88%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.34%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.74%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.47%) Reference Data
13 10 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.34%) PKI
14 9 (1.20%) Clustering
15 8 (1.07%) Derivative
15 8 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
16 7 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.54%) Windows
2 24 (3.20%) Linux
3 13 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.93%) Unix
5 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (52.60%) Business Intelligence
2 362 (48.33%) Data Visualisation
3 358 (47.80%) Analytics
4 224 (29.91%) Data Modelling
5 200 (26.70%) Agile
6 199 (26.57%) Decision-Making
7 188 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (20.69%) AI
9 134 (17.89%) Data Analysis
10 131 (17.49%) Actionable Insight
11 130 (17.36%) Validation
12 125 (16.69%) Data Science
13 123 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 123 (16.42%) Data Pipeline
14 121 (16.15%) ETL
15 117 (15.62%) Dashboard Development
16 116 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 109 (14.55%) Data Governance
18 108 (14.42%) Data Engineering
19 96 (12.82%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 373 (49.80%) SQL
2 273 (36.45%) Python
3 69 (9.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 62 (8.28%) R
5 50 (6.68%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.21%) Java
7 38 (5.07%) C#
8 26 (3.47%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.27%) C++
9 17 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.47%) Scala
11 10 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.07%) VBA
13 7 (0.93%) Bash
14 5 (0.67%) Cypher
14 5 (0.67%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.53%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 167 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 123 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.48%) Degree
4 23 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.53%) PhD
8 4 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 4 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.27%) APMG
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (21.90%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.81%) QA
3 27 (3.60%) GDPR
4 21 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.67%) PMO
6 8 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.53%) GMP
7 4 (0.53%) GRC
7 4 (0.53%) GxP
7 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.53%) WCAG
8 3 (0.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 26 (3.47%) Docker
2 18 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (5.07%) Terraform
2 19 (2.54%) Grafana
3 17 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.07%) SCCM
6 7 (0.93%) Ansible
6 7 (0.93%) Kibana
7 4 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.40%) Podman
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 2 (0.27%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 137 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.35%) Databricks
3 47 (6.28%) Oracle
4 44 (5.87%) SAP
5 38 (5.07%) Google
6 29 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.80%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.54%) Adobe
9 14 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.87%) Splunk
10 10 (1.34%) Remedy
11 9 (1.20%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.20%) BMC
12 8 (1.07%) Palantir
13 7 (0.93%) Informatica
14 6 (0.80%) Sage
15 5 (0.67%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.67%) Foundry
16 4 (0.53%) UiPath
16 4 (0.53%) Workday