Visualisation Contracts

Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Visualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Visualisation over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 140 152
Rank change year-on-year +39 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 750 745 1,040
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.57% 1.71% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 1.98% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 488 639
10th Percentile £337 £313 £335
25th Percentile £400 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.40% -4.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +0.55% -4.74% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 40 64
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.50 £26.13
25th Percentile £24.43 £37.88 £43.56
Median hourly rate £33.81 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.21% -11.54% +36.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.93 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -47.27% -7.69% +36.84%

All Process and 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Visualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visualisation.

Daily rate trend for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visualisation.

Hourly rate trend for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +41 650 £475 -5.00% 1,258
London +38 401 £500 - 724
UK excluding London +48 275 £455 +0.55% 607
Work from Home +18 247 £463 -7.13% 655
North of England +35 87 £463 +2.21% 170
North West +17 46 £475 +2.43% 103
East of England +42 42 £513 +13.89% 75
South West +55 38 £475 -9.52% 69
Midlands +9 35 £413 -5.71% 106
Scotland +1 35 £450 -4.26% 56
South East +32 32 £500 +8.11% 118
Yorkshire +18 30 £430 -14.00% 53
West Midlands +8 29 £419 -18.29% 66
North East 0 11 £450 +8.43% 16
Wales +7 7 £318 +98.44% 11
East Midlands +5 6 £367 -8.25% 37
Northern Ireland -9 2 £425 +6.25% 13

Visualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.87%) Confluence
3 27 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 22 (2.93%) Apache
4 22 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (2.40%) SAS
6 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.53%) nginx
7 3 (0.40%) R Markdown
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.13%) TPMS
Applications
1 96 (12.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.73%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 8 (1.07%) Sketch
7 6 (0.80%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.67%) SketchUp
9 4 (0.53%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.27%) Notepad++
12 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.13%) SPSS
12 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
3 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.27%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) FastStats
4 1 (0.13%) FastStats PeopleStage
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 322 (42.93%) Power Platform
2 163 (21.73%) Azure
3 158 (21.07%) AWS
4 71 (9.47%) GCP
5 58 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 35 (4.67%) Snowflake
7 34 (4.53%) Amazon S3
8 28 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (3.73%) GitHub
8 28 (3.73%) Serverless
9 26 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (3.47%) dbt
10 23 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.93%) Azure Machine Learning
12 19 (2.53%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (2.27%) OCI
13 17 (2.27%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.13%) Adobe Analytics
15 15 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.07%) DNS
2 7 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.53%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.53%) NAS
3 4 (0.53%) SAN
3 4 (0.53%) Wireless
4 3 (0.40%) DHCP
4 3 (0.40%) DOCSIS
4 3 (0.40%) Network Security
4 3 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.27%) Firewall
5 2 (0.27%) VLAN
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (42.80%) Power BI
2 221 (29.47%) Tableau
3 125 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (6.13%) Big Data
6 45 (6.00%) Relational Database
7 39 (5.20%) Data Lake
7 39 (5.20%) SQL Server
8 37 (4.93%) Hadoop
9 34 (4.53%) Metadata
10 32 (4.27%) BigQuery
11 31 (4.13%) NoSQL
12 27 (3.60%) Data Mining
13 26 (3.47%) MongoDB
14 25 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
14 25 (3.33%) Power Query
15 23 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (3.07%) Looker
16 21 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (5.73%) JIRA
2 30 (4.00%) Git
3 12 (1.60%) GitLab
4 10 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.93%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.53%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.53%) ERwin
7 4 (0.53%) JUnit
7 4 (0.53%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.40%) JMeter
8 3 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.40%) Postman
8 3 (0.40%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.40%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) TestNG
8 3 (0.40%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.27%) Babel
9 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 293 (39.07%) Social Skills
2 208 (27.73%) Analytical Skills
3 174 (23.20%) Finance
4 71 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.13%) Banking
6 40 (5.33%) Marketing
7 32 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (4.13%) Retail
9 30 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.73%) Front Office
12 12 (1.60%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.60%) Military
13 11 (1.47%) Local Government
14 10 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.33%) Legal
14 10 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 190 (25.33%) Analyst
2 144 (19.20%) Developer
3 108 (14.40%) Data Analyst
4 91 (12.13%) Data Engineer
5 85 (11.33%) Senior
6 60 (8.00%) Data Scientist
7 54 (7.20%) Architect
8 37 (4.93%) Lead
9 35 (4.67%) Business Analyst
10 33 (4.40%) Consultant
10 33 (4.40%) Data Architect
11 30 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
12 29 (3.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 28 (3.73%) Senior Developer
14 22 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 21 (2.80%) Report Analyst
16 19 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.53%) Software Engineer
17 16 (2.13%) Data Manager
17 16 (2.13%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (8.67%) React
2 42 (5.60%) Pandas
3 37 (4.93%) TensorFlow
4 36 (4.80%) NumPy
4 36 (4.80%) scikit-learn
5 33 (4.40%) PyTorch
6 31 (4.13%) Plotly
7 24 (3.20%) Node.js
8 21 (2.80%) Matplotlib
9 19 (2.53%) CSS
10 18 (2.40%) PySpark
10 18 (2.40%) REST
11 16 (2.13%) HTML
11 16 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (2.13%) Seaborn
12 15 (2.00%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.60%) Kafka
13 12 (1.60%) SciPy
14 11 (1.47%) RESTful
15 10 (1.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.93%) Algorithms
2 24 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 21 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.73%) Fixed Income
8 12 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.33%) Derivative
9 10 (1.33%) NHS
9 10 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 9 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.07%) IoT
11 8 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.07%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.93%) Replication
13 6 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.80%) Linux
2 13 (1.73%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Unix
4 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.13%) SUSE
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (57.47%) Data Visualisation
2 333 (44.40%) Business Intelligence
3 274 (36.53%) Analytics
4 227 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
5 211 (28.13%) Data Analysis
6 196 (26.13%) Data Modelling
7 184 (24.53%) Decision-Making
8 156 (20.80%) Data Science
9 155 (20.67%) Agile
10 133 (17.73%) Actionable Insight
11 130 (17.33%) ETL
12 122 (16.27%) Machine Learning
13 110 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
14 104 (13.87%) Data Governance
15 83 (11.07%) CI/CD
15 83 (11.07%) Data Integration
16 82 (10.93%) Artificial Intelligence
17 78 (10.40%) Data Engineering
18 75 (10.00%) Data Analytics
19 70 (9.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 374 (49.87%) SQL
2 267 (35.60%) Python
3 80 (10.67%) JavaScript
4 73 (9.73%) R
5 44 (5.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 27 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 26 (3.47%) Java
8 20 (2.67%) C#
9 15 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.87%) Scala
11 13 (1.73%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.47%) C++
13 10 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.20%) VBA
15 6 (0.80%) Bash
15 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.53%) Go
16 4 (0.53%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.40%) C
17 3 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 141 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 107 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 104 (13.87%) Degree
4 26 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.13%) PhD
7 7 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.53%) PMP
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.40%) CEH
11 3 (0.40%) CISSP
11 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.27%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.80%) Accessibility
2 36 (4.80%) QA
3 33 (4.40%) GDPR
4 18 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.53%) WCAG
9 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.40%) PMO
10 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) NIST
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (3.07%) Docker
2 5 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (4.67%) Terraform
2 31 (4.13%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.13%) Kibana
4 11 (1.47%) Grafana
5 7 (0.93%) Ansible
6 6 (0.80%) logstash
6 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.67%) SCCM
8 4 (0.53%) Istio
8 4 (0.53%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
10 2 (0.27%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.13%) Argo
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.13%) Rancher
11 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 113 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.47%) Databricks
3 63 (8.40%) Oracle
4 51 (6.80%) Google
5 32 (4.27%) Adobe
5 32 (4.27%) SAP
6 25 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.00%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.73%) Splunk
10 9 (1.20%) Informatica
11 8 (1.07%) Talend
12 7 (0.93%) Ab Initio
12 7 (0.93%) Ariba
12 7 (0.93%) Teradata
13 6 (0.80%) Foundry
13 6 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.80%) Palantir
13 6 (0.80%) Veritas
14 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace