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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 99 136
Rank change year-on-year -25 +37 +7
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 903 793 794
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.57% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.86% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 516 533
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £580
90th Percentile £738 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 27 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £25.10
25th Percentile £24.12 £23.61 £42.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +77.42% -32.87% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.25 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.41 £46.18
% change year-on-year +106.97% -31.99% -28.95%

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 35,472 27,688 38,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.86% 89.76% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,461 17,051 25,269
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,140 862 2,156
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.64 £32.50 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% -6.52% -0.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% -13.00% -

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -28 781 £500 +5.26% 602
London -29 429 £500 -3.61% 282
UK excluding London -20 368 £500 +11.11% 466
Work from Home -17 290 £500 +4.17% 187
North of England -41 117 £463 - 112
Midlands -20 70 £500 +25.31% 78
South East -5 59 £500 +25.39% 153
North West -28 59 £413 -10.81% 56
West Midlands -14 58 £507 +22.91% 39
Yorkshire -29 54 £514 +20.94% 43
South West -6 49 £715 +54.54% 45
Scotland +13 44 £475 +5.56% 21
East of England -37 27 £500 +10.13% 49
East Midlands -26 12 £423 +18.68% 39
North East -19 7 £425 -19.05% 13
Northern Ireland -6 6 £531 +11.84% 7
Wales -6 3 - - 14

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 57 (6.31%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.88%) Confluence
3 30 (3.32%) Apache
4 25 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.55%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.66%) SAS
9 5 (0.55%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.55%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.55%) Smallworld
10 4 (0.44%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.22%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.22%) Luigi
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 120 (13.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.11%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.44%) Revit
7 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Blender
10 1 (0.11%) Maya
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.33%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.33%) Primavera
5 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.22%) iTrent
5 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 384 (42.52%) Power Platform
2 186 (20.60%) Azure
3 164 (18.16%) AWS
4 71 (7.86%) GCP
5 46 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 37 (4.10%) Serverless
8 29 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.10%) Amazon S3
10 27 (2.99%) dbt
10 27 (2.99%) Power Automate
11 25 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (2.33%) PowerApps
14 20 (2.21%) GitHub
15 15 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (1.44%) Google Analytics
17 11 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
17 11 (1.22%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.00%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.55%) Firewall
4 4 (0.44%) 2G
4 4 (0.44%) 5G
5 3 (0.33%) Internet
5 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.22%) LTE
6 2 (0.22%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.22%) Network Security
6 2 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.22%) SAN
6 2 (0.22%) SMS
6 2 (0.22%) SNMP
6 2 (0.22%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.11%) SSH
7 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (42.41%) Power BI
2 176 (19.49%) Tableau
3 96 (10.63%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (5.76%) Big Data
5 47 (5.20%) Relational Database
6 41 (4.54%) Hadoop
7 38 (4.21%) Looker
8 34 (3.77%) Metadata
8 34 (3.77%) Power Query
9 32 (3.54%) BigQuery
10 30 (3.32%) Data Lake
10 30 (3.32%) SQL Server
11 26 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (1.99%) NoSQL
14 16 (1.77%) Data Mining
14 16 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
14 16 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (6.20%) Git
2 49 (5.43%) JIRA
3 15 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.11%) MLflow
4 10 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.00%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.44%) ERwin
6 4 (0.44%) Gradle
6 4 (0.44%) Storybook
6 4 (0.44%) Xcode
7 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.33%) GitLab
7 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.22%) git-flow
8 2 (0.22%) Postman
8 2 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 325 (35.99%) Social Skills
2 241 (26.69%) Analytical Skills
3 237 (26.25%) Finance
4 87 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 81 (8.97%) Banking
6 38 (4.21%) Retail
7 32 (3.54%) Marketing
8 24 (2.66%) Publishing
9 22 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.99%) Legal
12 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.77%) Military
12 16 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.66%) Front Office
14 14 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.22%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 229 (25.36%) Analyst
2 135 (14.95%) Data Analyst
3 134 (14.84%) Developer
4 102 (11.30%) Senior
5 99 (10.96%) Data Engineer
6 78 (8.64%) Architect
7 67 (7.42%) Data Scientist
8 64 (7.09%) Lead
9 52 (5.76%) Consultant
10 51 (5.65%) Business Analyst
11 44 (4.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
14 31 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (2.55%) Designer
16 22 (2.44%) Data Business Analyst
16 22 (2.44%) Software Engineer
17 21 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
18 19 (2.10%) Report Analyst
18 19 (2.10%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.54%) Pandas
2 46 (5.09%) React
3 37 (4.10%) scikit-learn
4 32 (3.54%) NumPy
5 30 (3.32%) Kafka
5 30 (3.32%) PySpark
6 28 (3.10%) Node.js
7 27 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (2.88%) REST
9 23 (2.55%) AngularJS
10 22 (2.44%) Vue
11 19 (2.10%) OAuth
12 18 (1.99%) Plotly
12 18 (1.99%) TensorFlow
13 16 (1.77%) Matplotlib
14 15 (1.66%) Web Services
15 14 (1.55%) .NET
15 14 (1.55%) HTML
15 14 (1.55%) JSON
16 12 (1.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.09%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.32%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (1.66%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.22%) PMI
11 10 (1.11%) CMDB
11 10 (1.11%) NHS
12 9 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.89%) Life Science
13 8 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.89%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.21%) Linux
2 23 (2.55%) Windows
3 19 (2.10%) Unix
4 5 (0.55%) Android
4 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (47.84%) Data Visualisation
2 421 (46.62%) Business Intelligence
3 340 (37.65%) Analytics
4 238 (26.36%) Data Modelling
5 225 (24.92%) Decision-Making
6 222 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
7 219 (24.25%) Agile
8 182 (20.16%) Data Analysis
9 166 (18.38%) Actionable Insight
10 157 (17.39%) Data Science
11 148 (16.39%) Data Pipeline
12 137 (15.17%) AI
13 126 (13.95%) Machine Learning
14 123 (13.62%) ETL
15 116 (12.85%) Data Governance
16 113 (12.51%) Stakeholder Management
17 111 (12.29%) Dashboard Development
18 109 (12.07%) Validation
19 107 (11.85%) Data Engineering
20 98 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 406 (44.96%) SQL
2 318 (35.22%) Python
3 69 (7.64%) R
4 59 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 48 (5.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (3.77%) Java
7 32 (3.54%) TypeScript
8 31 (3.43%) C#
9 24 (2.66%) C++
9 24 (2.66%) Scala
10 19 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.44%) Bash
12 10 (1.11%) VBA
13 8 (0.89%) Perl
13 8 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.78%) Groovy
14 7 (0.78%) PHP
15 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.44%) C
16 4 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 179 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 145 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.08%) Degree
4 38 (4.21%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.88%) CISSP
9 16 (1.77%) CISM
10 14 (1.55%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.44%) PMI Certification
12 11 (1.22%) PhD
13 10 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.78%) CBAP
15 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.55%) MBA
16 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.44%) CFA
18 3 (0.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (15.84%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.87%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.98%) QA
4 29 (3.21%) GDPR
5 19 (2.10%) PMO
6 18 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.66%) WCAG
8 5 (0.55%) SLA
9 4 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.33%) NIST
10 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) PERC
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (4.21%) Docker
2 6 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.55%) HDFS
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (5.09%) Terraform
2 43 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.65%) Kibana
4 24 (2.66%) logstash
5 23 (2.55%) Ansible
6 20 (2.21%) Grafana
7 17 (1.88%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Cilium
10 2 (0.22%) SCCM
10 2 (0.22%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.22%) vMotion
10 2 (0.22%) vRealize
11 1 (0.11%) Cacti
11 1 (0.11%) collectd
11 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 133 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.97%) Databricks
3 49 (5.43%) Google
4 38 (4.21%) Oracle
5 32 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.21%) Splunk
7 26 (2.88%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.66%) SAP
9 18 (1.99%) BiZZdesign
10 16 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.44%) Adobe
11 13 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 13 (1.44%) Sage
12 12 (1.33%) Centrify
12 12 (1.33%) Cisco
13 11 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.22%) Foundry
14 8 (0.89%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.89%) Palantir
15 7 (0.78%) Amplitude