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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 113 126
Rank change year-on-year -66 +13 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 797 785 787
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 2.43% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.68% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 480 512
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £715 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £447 £465
% change year-on-year +5.15% -3.87% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 46 55
10th Percentile £18.08 £23.75 £20.80
25th Percentile £28.50 £31.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £46.34 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -28.71% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +40.75%

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 44,833 29,276 36,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.19% 90.47% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,910 18,456 23,540
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,489 2,488
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 10 July 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 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 15 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 10 July 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 -52 716 £480 +2.40% 451
London -47 373 £488 -2.50% 175
UK excluding London -80 345 £470 +5.15% 348
Work from Home -33 256 £500 +11.48% 129
North of England -52 115 £445 -0.45% 89
Midlands -36 77 £537 +34.25% 64
South East -46 63 £475 -13.64% 99
North West -9 62 £444 -2.42% 51
West Midlands -52 56 £550 +31.34% 33
Yorkshire -43 48 £455 +7.06% 23
South West -23 45 £450 +6.64% 44
Scotland -26 27 £425 -5.56% 11
East of England -51 23 £520 -0.95% 36
East Midlands -8 21 £431 +15.00% 31
North East -40 7 £420 -6.67% 17

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 35 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.76%) Apache
4 13 (1.63%) Confluence
5 12 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.38%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.75%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.63%) CMS
8 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.63%) SAS
9 4 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 118 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.75%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.75%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.38%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.75%) Primavera
5 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) iTrent
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 398 (49.94%) Power Platform
2 168 (21.08%) Azure
3 133 (16.69%) AWS
4 54 (6.78%) Snowflake
5 51 (6.40%) GCP
6 43 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.01%) dbt
9 24 (3.01%) GitHub
9 24 (3.01%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.01%) Serverless
10 21 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.51%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.51%) Adobe Analytics
14 11 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.51%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.50%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) 2G
5 2 (0.25%) 3G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (49.06%) Power BI
2 179 (22.46%) Tableau
3 103 (12.92%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 54 (6.78%) Power Query
6 40 (5.02%) Big Data
7 38 (4.77%) SQL Server
8 35 (4.39%) Data Lake
9 32 (4.02%) Looker
9 32 (4.02%) Metadata
10 31 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (3.64%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.89%) Hadoop
13 20 (2.51%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.26%) Star Schema
15 16 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.38%) PowerPivot
17 11 (1.38%) QlikView
17 11 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (6.52%) Git
2 39 (4.89%) JIRA
3 13 (1.63%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.51%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.38%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 255 (31.99%) Analytical Skills
2 250 (31.37%) Social Skills
3 202 (25.35%) Finance
4 85 (10.66%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.53%) Banking
6 39 (4.89%) Marketing
7 37 (4.64%) Retail
8 27 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.13%) Military
12 14 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.38%) Law
15 10 (1.25%) Publishing
16 9 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.00%) Legal
18 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 218 (27.35%) Analyst
2 129 (16.19%) Data Analyst
3 113 (14.18%) Developer
4 111 (13.93%) Data Engineer
5 85 (10.66%) Senior
6 54 (6.78%) Data Scientist
7 50 (6.27%) Lead
8 47 (5.90%) Consultant
9 43 (5.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 42 (5.27%) Business Analyst
11 33 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.89%) Architect
13 29 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 27 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.26%) Designer
16 17 (2.13%) Performance Analyst
17 16 (2.01%) Data Manager
18 14 (1.76%) Data Architect
18 14 (1.76%) Python Developer
18 14 (1.76%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.52%) Pandas
2 43 (5.40%) React
3 35 (4.39%) Kafka
3 35 (4.39%) REST
4 25 (3.14%) NumPy
5 20 (2.51%) Node.js
5 20 (2.51%) PySpark
5 20 (2.51%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.38%) .NET
7 18 (2.26%) Web Services
8 16 (2.01%) AngularJS
8 16 (2.01%) JSON
9 15 (1.88%) CSS
10 14 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.51%) Apache Avro
11 12 (1.51%) HTML
11 12 (1.51%) Spring
11 12 (1.51%) Spring Boot
12 11 (1.38%) FastAPI
12 11 (1.38%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.78%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 32 (4.02%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.13%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.13%) PKI
13 8 (1.00%) Life Science
13 8 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.88%) Clustering
14 7 (0.88%) Derivative
14 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.02%) Windows
2 27 (3.39%) Linux
3 10 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (52.70%) Business Intelligence
2 380 (47.68%) Data Visualisation
3 369 (46.30%) Analytics
4 236 (29.61%) Data Modelling
5 215 (26.98%) Decision-Making
6 207 (25.97%) Agile
7 195 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
8 172 (21.58%) AI
9 155 (19.45%) Actionable Insight
10 154 (19.32%) Data Pipeline
11 146 (18.32%) Validation
12 141 (17.69%) Data Science
13 140 (17.57%) Data Analysis
14 137 (17.19%) ETL
15 134 (16.81%) Dashboard Development
16 130 (16.31%) Data Engineering
17 120 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 119 (14.93%) Data Governance
19 106 (13.30%) CI/CD
20 105 (13.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 404 (50.69%) SQL
2 304 (38.14%) Python
3 77 (9.66%) R
4 69 (8.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.14%) Java
7 37 (4.64%) TypeScript
8 36 (4.52%) C#
9 17 (2.13%) C++
10 16 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.51%) Scala
12 10 (1.25%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.25%) VBA
13 8 (1.00%) Bash
13 8 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.50%) Cypher
14 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.50%) Rust
15 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 174 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 134 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.66%) Degree
4 21 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
9 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.38%) CBAP
10 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.25%) ACCA
11 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.25%) CIMA
11 2 (0.25%) NCDA
11 2 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (21.08%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.52%) QA
3 30 (3.76%) GDPR
4 27 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.51%) PMO
6 9 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.38%) GMP
10 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (3.26%) Docker
2 15 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (4.27%) Terraform
2 32 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.89%) Grafana
4 16 (2.01%) Ansible
4 16 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.51%) Kibana
6 8 (1.00%) logstash
6 8 (1.00%) SCCM
7 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.38%) Podman
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
9 2 (0.25%) vMotion
9 2 (0.25%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 135 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.16%) Databricks
3 47 (5.90%) SAP
4 45 (5.65%) Oracle
5 44 (5.52%) Google
6 24 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.38%) Adobe
8 16 (2.01%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.88%) Splunk
10 13 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.51%) Sage
12 11 (1.38%) Alteryx
12 11 (1.38%) Informatica
13 9 (1.13%) Remedy
14 8 (1.00%) Amplitude
14 8 (1.00%) Palantir
15 7 (0.88%) BMC
16 6 (0.75%) Solace
16 6 (0.75%) VMware
17 5 (0.63%) Foundry