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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 103 112
Rank change year-on-year -104 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 737 843 786
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 2.57% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.83% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 523 455
10th Percentile £313 £325 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £578 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £451 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.49% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 50 53
10th Percentile £21.40 £21.68 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.96% -3.85% +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 46,343 29,774 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.67% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,026 18,502 19,486
10th Percentile £325 £296 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,222 1,849 1,345
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.27 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.98% -48.10% +1.18%

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 30 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 30 September 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 30 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 -101 652 £475 - 1,614
UK excluding London -85 355 £451 -2.49% 894
London -86 312 £480 -4.00% 871
Work from Home -75 224 £500 +11.11% 674
North of England -79 102 £438 +3.06% 183
Midlands -37 81 £549 +8.28% 136
South East -55 68 £452 -17.91% 215
West Midlands -46 60 £558 +7.21% 96
South West -31 48 £450 -40.00% 104
North West -42 48 £513 +25.77% 90
Yorkshire -56 42 £480 +16.36% 69
Scotland -37 31 £415 -17.00% 91
East of England -41 29 £565 +7.62% 103
East Midlands -12 21 £375 -6.25% 40
North East -32 13 £350 -17.65% 24
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 48
Wales -16 2 £356 +13.55% 26

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 (2.99%) Confluence
2 19 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.36%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
5 5 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.54%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 122 (16.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
3 7 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.81%) CPLEX
5 5 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.41%) InDesign
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
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
9 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.68%) Primavera
5 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 387 (52.51%) Power Platform
2 131 (17.77%) Azure
3 98 (13.30%) AWS
4 55 (7.46%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.38%) GCP
6 38 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (4.07%) GitHub
8 29 (3.93%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 24 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (3.12%) Amazon S3
12 22 (2.99%) Serverless
13 20 (2.71%) Google Analytics
14 19 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (2.44%) dbt
16 15 (2.04%) Adobe Analytics
17 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
18 11 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
19 10 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.36%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.68%) HTTP
2 5 (0.68%) SNMP
2 5 (0.68%) Wireless
3 4 (0.54%) Broadband
3 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.54%) WAN
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
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%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (51.56%) Power BI
2 143 (19.40%) Tableau
3 74 (10.04%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (9.50%) Power Query
5 44 (5.97%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.43%) Data Lake
7 28 (3.80%) Metadata
8 26 (3.53%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.39%) Big Data
10 24 (3.26%) BigQuery
11 21 (2.85%) Looker
12 20 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.71%) Qlik Sense
13 19 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (2.04%) QlikView
15 15 (2.04%) Star Schema
16 14 (1.90%) GIS
17 12 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
18 10 (1.36%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 44 (5.97%) Git
2 41 (5.56%) JIRA
3 11 (1.49%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.36%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.81%) GitLab
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.41%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) Gradle
10 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 264 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 257 (34.87%) Analytical Skills
3 163 (22.12%) Finance
4 93 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.01%) Banking
6 27 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.39%) Military
8 23 (3.12%) Retail
9 22 (2.99%) Marketing
10 20 (2.71%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.76%) Local Government
12 13 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.63%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.22%) Publishing
16 6 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 203 (27.54%) Analyst
2 115 (15.60%) Data Analyst
3 114 (15.47%) Developer
4 83 (11.26%) Data Engineer
5 80 (10.85%) Senior
6 42 (5.70%) Consultant
6 42 (5.70%) Lead
7 40 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 36 (4.88%) Data Scientist
9 32 (4.34%) Power BI Developer
10 28 (3.80%) Architect
11 26 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
12 25 (3.39%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.39%) Designer
13 23 (3.12%) Performance Analyst
14 17 (2.31%) Data Architect
14 17 (2.31%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.31%) Report Analyst
15 15 (2.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.16%) REST
2 37 (5.02%) Terraform
3 27 (3.66%) React
4 26 (3.53%) Pandas
5 25 (3.39%) CSS
6 24 (3.26%) PySpark
7 23 (3.12%) HTML
8 19 (2.58%) Kafka
9 16 (2.17%) Web Services
10 15 (2.04%) NumPy
11 14 (1.90%) scikit-learn
12 11 (1.49%) .NET
13 10 (1.36%) Flask
13 10 (1.36%) Node.js
14 9 (1.22%) JSON
14 9 (1.22%) PyTorch
14 9 (1.22%) TensorFlow
15 8 (1.09%) Redux
15 8 (1.09%) SOAP
16 7 (0.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.60%) Data Structures
2 35 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.12%) Cloud Native
5 22 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.76%) Reference Data
11 12 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.22%) PKI
14 8 (1.09%) Clustering
14 8 (1.09%) NHS
15 7 (0.95%) Derivative
15 7 (0.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.48%) Windows
2 21 (2.85%) Linux
3 13 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.81%) Unix
5 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.54%) Android
7 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (53.87%) Business Intelligence
2 368 (49.93%) Data Visualisation
3 365 (49.53%) Analytics
4 212 (28.77%) Data Modelling
5 209 (28.36%) Decision-Making
6 197 (26.73%) Agile
7 170 (23.07%) AI
8 165 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
9 151 (20.49%) Data Analysis
10 148 (20.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 140 (19.00%) Actionable Insight
12 125 (16.96%) Validation
13 122 (16.55%) Dashboard Development
14 121 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 112 (15.20%) Data Governance
16 110 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
17 109 (14.79%) Data Engineering
17 109 (14.79%) Data Science
18 108 (14.65%) ETL
19 95 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 364 (49.39%) SQL
2 252 (34.19%) Python
3 77 (10.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (6.65%) R
5 48 (6.51%) JavaScript
6 37 (5.02%) Java
7 35 (4.75%) C#
8 22 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.76%) C++
10 13 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.49%) Scala
12 10 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.22%) Bash
14 6 (0.81%) Cypher
14 6 (0.81%) VBA
15 5 (0.68%) Gremlin
15 5 (0.68%) Search Processing Language
16 3 (0.41%) Go
16 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 162 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 121 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.40%) Degree
4 31 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.81%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.54%) PMP
11 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.27%) APMG
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.27%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (25.51%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.11%) QA
3 26 (3.53%) GDPR
4 25 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.04%) PMO
6 11 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.95%) GMP
8 5 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.68%) GRC
8 5 (0.68%) GxP
8 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.54%) WCAG
10 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) Basel III
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) NIST
12 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (2.99%) Docker
2 15 (2.04%) 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
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.04%) Grafana
2 14 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.36%) Kibana
4 7 (0.95%) Ansible
4 7 (0.95%) SCCM
5 4 (0.54%) Podman
5 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.27%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Istio
6 2 (0.27%) logstash
6 2 (0.27%) Packer
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.82%) Databricks
3 46 (6.24%) SAP
4 39 (5.29%) Google
5 38 (5.16%) Oracle
6 25 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.71%) Adobe
8 19 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.44%) Splunk
10 14 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.76%) Palantir
12 11 (1.49%) Alteryx
13 9 (1.22%) Informatica
13 9 (1.22%) Remedy
14 8 (1.09%) BMC
15 6 (0.81%) SnapLogic
16 5 (0.68%) Foundry
17 4 (0.54%) Ariba
17 4 (0.54%) UiPath
17 4 (0.54%) VMware