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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 102 141
Rank change year-on-year -52 +39 +9
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 800 760 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.57% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.84% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 498 485
10th Percentile £326 £336 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £721 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £453
% change year-on-year +4.40% +0.55% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 32 40
10th Percentile £22.52 £22.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £24.43 £37.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.81 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.88% -37.40% -16.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £71.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £60.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -47.27% -7.69%

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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 25 April 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 25 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 25 April 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 -46 701 £490 +3.16% 347
London -44 372 £495 -1.00% 108
UK excluding London -52 326 £475 +4.40% 318
Work from Home -16 261 £488 +5.41% 203
North of England -54 103 £450 -2.70% 85
Midlands -25 69 £500 +21.21% 56
North West -24 60 £420 -11.58% 46
South East -44 52 £500 - 88
West Midlands -37 49 £500 +19.40% 32
South West -35 43 £488 +2.63% 40
Yorkshire -50 40 £459 +7.94% 25
East of England -47 34 £565 +18.95% 24
Scotland -6 25 £450 -1.37% 10
East Midlands -19 20 £441 +20.23% 24
North East -23 6 £448 -0.56% 14
Northern Ireland +4 3 £463 +8.82% 14

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 47 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.88%) Apache
3 19 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 18 (2.25%) Confluence
5 17 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.38%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.50%) SAS
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 124 (15.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 18 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.38%) Chatbot
6 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.13%) Blender
9 1 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.38%) iTrent
4 3 (0.38%) Primavera
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 363 (45.38%) Power Platform
2 164 (20.50%) Azure
3 137 (17.13%) AWS
4 58 (7.25%) GCP
5 50 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 35 (4.38%) Snowflake
7 31 (3.88%) Serverless
8 29 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.13%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.88%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.38%) dbt
14 17 (2.13%) GitHub
14 17 (2.13%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.63%) Google Workspace
16 11 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.88%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.75%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.75%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
5 2 (0.25%) SMS
5 2 (0.25%) SNMP
6 1 (0.13%) 5G
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) LTE
6 1 (0.13%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (45.25%) Power BI
2 179 (22.38%) Tableau
3 100 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (5.38%) Big Data
5 40 (5.00%) Metadata
5 40 (5.00%) Power Query
6 39 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 33 (4.13%) Looker
7 33 (4.13%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.75%) Data Lake
9 29 (3.63%) Hadoop
10 26 (3.25%) BigQuery
11 25 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.50%) NoSQL
13 18 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
14 16 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (2.00%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (7.25%) Git
2 38 (4.75%) JIRA
3 15 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.75%) Eclipse
5 13 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.00%) MLflow
7 4 (0.50%) ERwin
7 4 (0.50%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 275 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 249 (31.13%) Analytical Skills
3 217 (27.13%) Finance
4 85 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.75%) Banking
6 39 (4.88%) Retail
7 36 (4.50%) Marketing
8 24 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.38%) Military
10 19 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.75%) Law
12 14 (1.75%) Publishing
13 13 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.38%) Front Office
15 10 (1.25%) Legal
16 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (26.75%) Analyst
2 115 (14.38%) Data Analyst
2 115 (14.38%) Developer
3 104 (13.00%) Data Engineer
4 103 (12.88%) Senior
5 56 (7.00%) Data Scientist
6 53 (6.63%) Lead
7 49 (6.13%) Business Analyst
8 47 (5.88%) Consultant
9 40 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 34 (4.25%) Architect
11 30 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
12 29 (3.63%) Power BI Developer
13 23 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 22 (2.75%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.38%) Data Business Analyst
16 18 (2.25%) Designer
17 17 (2.13%) SAP Consultant
18 16 (2.00%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.25%) Pandas
2 47 (5.88%) React
3 36 (4.50%) Kafka
4 30 (3.75%) NumPy
4 30 (3.75%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.63%) Node.js
6 28 (3.50%) REST
7 22 (2.75%) PySpark
8 20 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.38%) .NET
10 18 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.25%) Matplotlib
11 17 (2.13%) Web Services
12 16 (2.00%) Vue
13 15 (1.88%) JSON
13 15 (1.88%) Seaborn
13 15 (1.88%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.63%) HTML
14 13 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.63%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.75%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.13%) Algorithms
3 31 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.00%) Derivative
11 8 (1.00%) PMI
12 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.88%) Life Science
12 7 (0.88%) NHS
12 7 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.50%) Linux
2 28 (3.50%) Windows
3 11 (1.38%) Unix
4 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (50.63%) Business Intelligence
2 385 (48.13%) Data Visualisation
3 326 (40.75%) Analytics
4 234 (29.25%) Data Modelling
5 216 (27.00%) Decision-Making
6 208 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (25.88%) Agile
8 169 (21.13%) Actionable Insight
9 141 (17.63%) Data Analysis
10 138 (17.25%) Data Pipeline
11 137 (17.13%) Validation
12 134 (16.75%) AI
12 134 (16.75%) Data Science
13 125 (15.63%) Data Governance
14 121 (15.13%) Dashboard Development
15 116 (14.50%) ETL
16 111 (13.88%) Data Engineering
17 100 (12.50%) CI/CD
18 95 (11.88%) Machine Learning
19 91 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 384 (48.00%) SQL
2 297 (37.13%) Python
3 80 (10.00%) R
4 57 (7.13%) JavaScript
5 56 (7.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 42 (5.25%) C#
7 36 (4.50%) TypeScript
8 33 (4.13%) Java
9 25 (3.13%) C++
10 19 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.25%) Scala
12 13 (1.63%) VBA
13 9 (1.13%) Perl
14 7 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.75%) Bash
15 6 (0.75%) Rust
15 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.50%) Groovy
16 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.50%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 159 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 130 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.38%) Degree
4 22 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.50%) CISM
10 4 (0.50%) CISSP
10 4 (0.50%) MBA
10 4 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.38%) CBAP
11 3 (0.38%) PhD
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.75%) QA
3 26 (3.25%) GDPR
4 25 (3.13%) PMO
5 23 (2.88%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.63%) WCAG
9 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) NIST
10 2 (0.25%) P3O
10 2 (0.25%) PERC
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (3.88%) Docker
2 9 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) HDFS
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.25%) Terraform
3 24 (3.00%) Grafana
4 19 (2.38%) Kibana
5 18 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.00%) Ansible
7 14 (1.75%) logstash
8 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.63%) SCCM
10 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.38%) Databricks
3 51 (6.38%) Google
4 39 (4.88%) Oracle
4 39 (4.88%) SAP
5 24 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.13%) Sage
7 17 (2.13%) Splunk
8 14 (1.75%) Adobe
9 8 (1.00%) Amplitude
9 8 (1.00%) Cisco
9 8 (1.00%) Informatica
10 7 (0.88%) Cognos
10 7 (0.88%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.75%) Apple
11 6 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.63%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.63%) AppDynamics