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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 106 118
Rank change year-on-year -99 +12 +20
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 734 822 773
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.51% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.78% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 505 453
10th Percentile £320 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £465
% change year-on-year +3.26% -1.08% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 49 53
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.68 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.38 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +60.14%

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 45,698 29,594 32,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.53% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,784 18,388 20,318
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £726 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,048 1,782 1,485
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +7.50%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -96 658 £488 +2.63% 1,590
UK excluding London -88 349 £475 +3.26% 855
London -80 320 £488 -2.50% 939
Work from Home -67 223 £503 +14.86% 771
North of England -74 95 £451 +6.00% 199
Midlands -33 86 £549 +8.28% 124
South East -43 69 £465 -15.45% 194
West Midlands -42 62 £550 +4.76% 67
North West -41 48 £525 +28.83% 96
South West -35 46 £450 -40.00% 112
Yorkshire -49 41 £451 +9.33% 72
East of England -46 30 £565 +5.12% 88
Scotland -44 28 £415 -17.00% 87
East Midlands -8 24 £375 -6.25% 57
North East -38 7 £400 -5.88% 32
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 36

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 21 (2.86%) Confluence
2 17 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.36%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.95%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.68%) Apache
7 5 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 125 (17.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.95%) CPLEX
5 7 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.41%) InDesign
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.68%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 382 (52.04%) Power Platform
2 141 (19.21%) Azure
3 99 (13.49%) AWS
4 55 (7.49%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.40%) GCP
6 41 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.36%) GitHub
8 30 (4.09%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.68%) PowerApps
10 26 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (3.54%) Serverless
11 21 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (2.59%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.59%) dbt
13 15 (2.04%) Google Analytics
14 13 (1.77%) Adobe Analytics
15 12 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.36%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.82%) Wireless
3 5 (0.68%) HTTP
3 5 (0.68%) SNMP
4 4 (0.54%) Broadband
4 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.54%) WAN
5 3 (0.41%) VPN
6 2 (0.27%) 2G
6 2 (0.27%) 3G
6 2 (0.27%) 4G
6 2 (0.27%) 5G
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 375 (51.09%) Power BI
2 144 (19.62%) Tableau
3 79 (10.76%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (8.72%) Power Query
5 48 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.59%) Data Lake
7 29 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.81%) Big Data
8 28 (3.81%) Metadata
9 25 (3.41%) Looker
10 24 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.13%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.59%) Oracle Reports
13 18 (2.45%) Star Schema
14 15 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
15 14 (1.91%) GIS
16 13 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (1.77%) QlikView
17 12 (1.63%) Parquet
17 12 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (6.54%) Git
2 42 (5.72%) JIRA
3 11 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.36%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.82%) GitLab
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 260 (35.42%) Analytical Skills
2 254 (34.60%) Social Skills
3 160 (21.80%) Finance
4 84 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.17%) Banking
6 27 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.54%) Marketing
8 25 (3.41%) Military
9 24 (3.27%) Retail
10 18 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.77%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.23%) Law
13 9 (1.23%) Local Government
14 8 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 195 (26.57%) Analyst
2 112 (15.26%) Developer
3 110 (14.99%) Data Analyst
4 90 (12.26%) Data Engineer
4 90 (12.26%) Senior
5 44 (5.99%) Consultant
6 43 (5.86%) Lead
7 37 (5.04%) Data Scientist
8 35 (4.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 31 (4.22%) Architect
10 28 (3.81%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.81%) Power BI Developer
11 26 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 24 (3.27%) Designer
13 19 (2.59%) Python Developer
14 18 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 18 (2.45%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.45%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.32%) Performance Analyst
15 17 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.45%) REST
1 40 (5.45%) Terraform
2 29 (3.95%) React
3 28 (3.81%) Pandas
4 26 (3.54%) CSS
5 24 (3.27%) HTML
6 23 (3.13%) PySpark
7 22 (3.00%) Kafka
8 18 (2.45%) NumPy
9 17 (2.32%) Web Services
10 15 (2.04%) .NET
10 15 (2.04%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.77%) Flask
12 12 (1.63%) Node.js
13 10 (1.36%) JSON
14 9 (1.23%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.23%) SOAP
14 9 (1.23%) TensorFlow
14 9 (1.23%) Vue
15 8 (1.09%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.17%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.36%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 26 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.59%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.77%) Reference Data
11 13 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.36%) PKI
13 10 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.23%) Clustering
15 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.95%) Driving Licence
16 7 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.63%) Windows
2 20 (2.72%) Linux
3 14 (1.91%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.82%) Unix
5 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (53.41%) Business Intelligence
2 368 (50.14%) Data Visualisation
3 355 (48.37%) Analytics
4 205 (27.93%) Data Modelling
5 200 (27.25%) Decision-Making
6 192 (26.16%) Agile
7 174 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (22.62%) AI
9 151 (20.57%) Data Analysis
10 138 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 135 (18.39%) Actionable Insight
12 129 (17.57%) Validation
13 127 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (16.08%) Dashboard Development
15 115 (15.67%) Data Pipeline
16 112 (15.26%) Data Science
17 111 (15.12%) Data Engineering
18 109 (14.85%) ETL
19 108 (14.71%) Data Governance
20 98 (13.35%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 356 (48.50%) SQL
2 265 (36.10%) Python
3 71 (9.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 56 (7.63%) R
5 52 (7.08%) JavaScript
6 42 (5.72%) Java
7 38 (5.18%) C#
8 24 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.91%) C++
11 12 (1.63%) Scala
11 12 (1.63%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.23%) VBA
14 8 (1.09%) Bash
15 6 (0.82%) Cypher
15 6 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
16 5 (0.68%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.54%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 156 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.40%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.04%) Degree
4 25 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.54%) PhD
10 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) APMG
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.27%) PMP
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (22.89%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.68%) QA
3 28 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.81%) GDPR
4 15 (2.04%) PMO
5 10 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.95%) GMP
7 5 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.68%) GRC
7 5 (0.68%) GxP
7 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.68%) WCAG
8 2 (0.27%) Basel III
8 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) P3O
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (3.27%) Docker
2 17 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) 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 17 (2.32%) Grafana
2 15 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.09%) SCCM
4 7 (0.95%) Kibana
5 6 (0.82%) Ansible
6 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.54%) Podman
8 2 (0.27%) Istio
8 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.14%) QRadar
9 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 156 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.54%) Databricks
3 44 (5.99%) SAP
4 40 (5.45%) Oracle
5 34 (4.63%) Google
6 30 (4.09%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.72%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.45%) Adobe
9 17 (2.32%) Splunk
10 13 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.50%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.36%) Palantir
12 10 (1.36%) Remedy
13 9 (1.23%) BMC
14 7 (0.95%) Informatica
15 6 (0.82%) SnapLogic
16 5 (0.68%) Foundry
17 4 (0.54%) Ariba
17 4 (0.54%) Solace
17 4 (0.54%) VMware