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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 102 141
Rank change year-on-year -43 +39 +13
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 814 757 746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.77% 2.58% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.84% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 494 495
10th Percentile £326 £331 £314
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -2.68%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £461 £450
% change year-on-year +3.09% +2.39% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 28 42
10th Percentile £19.98 £22.35 £20.58
25th Percentile £38.25 £25.94 £31.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.81 £48.09
Median % change year-on-year +84.88% -29.70% -26.02%
75th Percentile £70.36 £59.25 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £69.11 £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 39,116 26,622 37,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.70% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,735 17,238 24,535
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,028 2,411
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.96 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £33.07
% change year-on-year +39.13% -13.05% -7.64%

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 17 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 17 April 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 17 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 -46 711 £488 +2.63% 437
London -39 390 £490 -2.00% 156
UK excluding London -55 321 £475 +3.09% 346
Work from Home -16 261 £488 +2.63% 147
North of England -57 96 £453 -2.16% 99
Midlands -36 71 £500 +21.21% 68
North West -22 57 £420 -11.58% 56
West Midlands -36 51 £500 +19.40% 40
South East -38 50 £500 - 86
South West -29 41 £475 - 40
Yorkshire -47 35 £469 +10.29% 26
East of England -35 34 £565 +10.24% 33
Scotland -8 28 £463 - 11
East Midlands -18 20 £450 +22.62% 28
North East -23 7 £420 -13.85% 18
Northern Ireland +3 3 £463 +8.82% 8
Wales -14 1 - - 6

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 49 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.95%) Apache
3 20 (2.46%) Confluence
4 19 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.35%) Apache Superset
7 7 (0.86%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.74%) SAS
9 5 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.25%) Luigi
11 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.12%) CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 120 (14.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.47%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.37%) iTrent
4 3 (0.37%) Primavera
4 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 363 (44.59%) Power Platform
2 168 (20.64%) Azure
3 151 (18.55%) AWS
4 58 (7.13%) GCP
5 51 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 38 (4.67%) Serverless
7 36 (4.42%) Snowflake
8 29 (3.56%) Amazon S3
9 28 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 25 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.07%) Power Automate
11 22 (2.70%) dbt
12 18 (2.21%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.09%) GitHub
14 13 (1.60%) Google Workspace
15 11 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.84%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.74%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) LTE
6 1 (0.12%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.12%) Modbus
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (44.47%) Power BI
2 178 (21.87%) Tableau
3 102 (12.53%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.65%) Big Data
5 44 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.04%) Metadata
7 40 (4.91%) Power Query
8 32 (3.93%) Looker
9 31 (3.81%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.56%) Hadoop
11 28 (3.44%) Data Lake
12 26 (3.19%) BigQuery
13 24 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (2.46%) NoSQL
15 19 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (1.84%) MySQL
17 15 (1.84%) Star Schema
18 14 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
18 14 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (7.37%) Git
2 39 (4.79%) JIRA
3 16 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.72%) Eclipse
6 8 (0.98%) MLflow
7 4 (0.49%) ERwin
7 4 (0.49%) GitLab
8 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 285 (35.01%) Social Skills
2 248 (30.47%) Analytical Skills
3 226 (27.76%) Finance
4 90 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.25%) Banking
6 38 (4.67%) Retail
7 34 (4.18%) Marketing
8 24 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.21%) Military
10 18 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.21%) Publishing
11 16 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.72%) Law
13 13 (1.60%) Front Office
13 13 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.23%) Legal
15 9 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.11%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 214 (26.29%) Analyst
2 124 (15.23%) Developer
3 115 (14.13%) Data Analyst
4 111 (13.64%) Senior
5 104 (12.78%) Data Engineer
6 57 (7.00%) Data Scientist
7 54 (6.63%) Lead
8 50 (6.14%) Business Analyst
9 47 (5.77%) Consultant
10 41 (5.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 37 (4.55%) Architect
12 33 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (3.69%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.83%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (1.84%) Designer
17 15 (1.84%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (1.84%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.76%) Pandas
2 48 (5.90%) React
3 36 (4.42%) Kafka
4 35 (4.30%) NumPy
5 33 (4.05%) scikit-learn
6 31 (3.81%) REST
7 30 (3.69%) Node.js
8 23 (2.83%) AngularJS
8 23 (2.83%) PySpark
9 22 (2.70%) Web Services
10 20 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (2.46%) Plotly
11 19 (2.33%) .NET
11 19 (2.33%) Vue
12 18 (2.21%) Matplotlib
13 15 (1.84%) JSON
13 15 (1.84%) Seaborn
13 15 (1.84%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
14 13 (1.60%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.91%) Data Structures
2 36 (4.42%) Algorithms
3 34 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 24 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.98%) PMI
11 7 (0.86%) Derivative
11 7 (0.86%) Life Science
11 7 (0.86%) NHS
11 7 (0.86%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.30%) Linux
2 27 (3.32%) Windows
3 11 (1.35%) Unix
4 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (49.88%) Business Intelligence
2 399 (49.02%) Data Visualisation
3 329 (40.42%) Analytics
4 235 (28.87%) Data Modelling
5 215 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (26.29%) Decision-Making
7 210 (25.80%) Agile
8 164 (20.15%) Actionable Insight
9 154 (18.92%) Data Analysis
10 142 (17.44%) Data Science
11 140 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
12 133 (16.34%) AI
12 133 (16.34%) Validation
13 120 (14.74%) Data Governance
14 117 (14.37%) ETL
15 116 (14.25%) Dashboard Development
16 111 (13.64%) Data Engineering
17 105 (12.90%) CI/CD
18 98 (12.04%) Machine Learning
19 92 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 392 (48.16%) SQL
2 296 (36.36%) Python
3 76 (9.34%) R
4 57 (7.00%) JavaScript
5 55 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 41 (5.04%) C#
7 34 (4.18%) TypeScript
8 31 (3.81%) Java
9 25 (3.07%) C++
10 20 (2.46%) Scala
11 17 (2.09%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.60%) VBA
13 9 (1.11%) Perl
14 7 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.74%) Bash
15 6 (0.74%) PHP
15 6 (0.74%) Rust
15 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.61%) Groovy
17 4 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 165 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 136 (16.71%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.09%) Degree
4 23 (2.83%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.49%) CISM
10 4 (0.49%) CISSP
10 4 (0.49%) MBA
10 4 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.37%) CBAP
11 3 (0.37%) CFA
11 3 (0.37%) PhD
11 3 (0.37%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (17.94%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.63%) QA
3 27 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 26 (3.19%) GDPR
5 25 (3.07%) PMO
6 16 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.86%) SLA
8 5 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.61%) WCAG
9 4 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
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%) PERC
11 1 (0.12%) Basel III
11 1 (0.12%) GRC
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (4.05%) Docker
2 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) HDFS
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.42%) Terraform
3 24 (2.95%) Kibana
4 22 (2.70%) Grafana
5 18 (2.21%) Ansible
5 18 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.09%) logstash
7 7 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.61%) SCCM
9 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.25%) Cilium
10 2 (0.25%) vMotion
10 2 (0.25%) vRealize
11 1 (0.12%) Cacti
11 1 (0.12%) collectd
11 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 133 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.09%) Databricks
3 51 (6.27%) Google
4 40 (4.91%) Oracle
5 34 (4.18%) SAP
6 27 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.09%) Sage
8 17 (2.09%) Splunk
9 13 (1.60%) Adobe
10 8 (0.98%) Amplitude
10 8 (0.98%) Cisco
10 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.98%) Informatica
11 7 (0.86%) Cognos
11 7 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.74%) Apple
12 6 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (0.61%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.61%) Solace