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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 113 126
Rank change year-on-year -65 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 789 784 781
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 2.41% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.67% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 474 510
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £583 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £449 £465
% change year-on-year +5.91% -3.55% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 46 55
10th Percentile £18.13 £23.75 £20.80
25th Percentile £28.87 £31.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £48.09 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% -26.02% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -59 705 £475 +2.15% 390
London -47 361 £485 -3.00% 133
UK excluding London -74 346 £475 +5.91% 319
Work from Home -34 261 £500 +13.70% 112
North of England -53 114 £450 +0.33% 86
Midlands -43 75 £550 +37.50% 57
South East -49 64 £470 -14.55% 88
North West -23 61 £450 -0.55% 42
West Midlands -45 54 £550 +33.33% 31
Yorkshire -47 48 £455 +7.06% 28
South West -20 45 £450 +6.64% 40
Scotland -24 28 £425 -5.56% 11
East of England -35 26 £565 +2.73% 29
East Midlands -6 21 £431 +15.00% 26
North East -39 7 £420 -6.67% 18

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 31 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.52%) Apache
3 12 (1.52%) Confluence
4 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
5 9 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.01%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.63%) CMS
7 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 118 (14.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.14%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.76%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.51%) InDesign
7 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.25%) Notion
8 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.63%) Primavera
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 396 (50.19%) Power Platform
2 163 (20.66%) Azure
3 127 (16.10%) AWS
4 52 (6.59%) Snowflake
5 46 (5.83%) GCP
6 41 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.17%) GitHub
9 25 (3.17%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.04%) Serverless
11 22 (2.79%) dbt
12 21 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
16 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (1.27%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) 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%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (49.30%) Power BI
2 172 (21.80%) Tableau
3 96 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.97%) Power Query
5 52 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.82%) Big Data
7 33 (4.18%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.06%) Looker
8 32 (4.06%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.68%) Metadata
10 28 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (3.42%) BigQuery
12 21 (2.66%) Hadoop
13 17 (2.15%) Star Schema
14 16 (2.03%) NoSQL
14 16 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.52%) QlikView
17 11 (1.39%) GIS
17 11 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (6.72%) Git
2 36 (4.56%) JIRA
3 13 (1.65%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) ERwin
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 254 (32.19%) Analytical Skills
2 249 (31.56%) Social Skills
3 192 (24.33%) Finance
4 89 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.35%) Banking
6 39 (4.94%) Marketing
7 32 (4.06%) Retail
8 28 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.41%) Military
10 18 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.39%) Law
14 10 (1.27%) Publishing
15 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.89%) Legal
16 7 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 222 (28.14%) Analyst
2 132 (16.73%) Data Analyst
3 111 (14.07%) Developer
4 105 (13.31%) Data Engineer
5 80 (10.14%) Senior
6 54 (6.84%) Lead
7 51 (6.46%) Data Scientist
8 47 (5.96%) Consultant
9 42 (5.32%) Business Analyst
10 40 (5.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 31 (3.93%) Power BI Developer
12 30 (3.80%) Architect
12 30 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.53%) Designer
15 17 (2.15%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.15%) Performance Analyst
16 14 (1.77%) Data Architect
16 14 (1.77%) Python Developer
16 14 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.58%) Pandas
2 42 (5.32%) React
3 37 (4.69%) REST
4 31 (3.93%) Kafka
5 24 (3.04%) NumPy
6 20 (2.53%) .NET
6 20 (2.53%) Node.js
6 20 (2.53%) PySpark
7 19 (2.41%) scikit-learn
7 19 (2.41%) Web Services
8 15 (1.90%) AngularJS
8 15 (1.90%) CSS
8 15 (1.90%) JSON
9 14 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (1.52%) Apache Avro
10 12 (1.52%) HTML
11 11 (1.39%) FastAPI
11 11 (1.39%) Seaborn
12 10 (1.27%) GeoJSON
12 10 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.86%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.93%) Algorithms
2 31 (3.93%) Cloud Native
3 23 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.27%) PKI
12 9 (1.14%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.01%) Clustering
13 8 (1.01%) Life Science
13 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.89%) Derivative
14 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.31%) Windows
2 27 (3.42%) Linux
3 12 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
5 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (52.85%) Business Intelligence
2 379 (48.04%) Data Visualisation
3 366 (46.39%) Analytics
4 237 (30.04%) Data Modelling
5 215 (27.25%) Decision-Making
6 208 (26.36%) Agile
7 193 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (21.17%) AI
9 151 (19.14%) Actionable Insight
10 144 (18.25%) Data Pipeline
10 144 (18.25%) Validation
11 141 (17.87%) Data Analysis
12 137 (17.36%) Data Science
13 134 (16.98%) Dashboard Development
13 134 (16.98%) ETL
14 121 (15.34%) Data Governance
15 120 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 120 (15.21%) Data Engineering
16 108 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
17 104 (13.18%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 401 (50.82%) SQL
2 304 (38.53%) Python
3 76 (9.63%) R
4 68 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.96%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.94%) Java
7 37 (4.69%) C#
8 36 (4.56%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.15%) C++
9 17 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.39%) Scala
11 10 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.27%) VBA
12 8 (1.01%) Bash
12 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.51%) Cypher
13 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.51%) Rust
14 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 177 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 134 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.52%) Degree
4 20 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.38%) CBAP
11 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) IIBA
12 2 (0.25%) NCDA
12 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (21.04%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.84%) QA
3 29 (3.68%) GDPR
4 27 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.53%) PMO
6 10 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 6 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.51%) GMP
9 4 (0.51%) GxP
9 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (2.79%) Docker
2 16 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.51%) 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 32 (4.06%) Terraform
2 27 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.92%) Grafana
4 16 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.90%) Ansible
6 11 (1.39%) Kibana
7 8 (1.01%) SCCM
8 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.76%) logstash
10 3 (0.38%) Podman
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 137 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 79 (10.01%) Databricks
3 47 (5.96%) SAP
4 45 (5.70%) Oracle
5 42 (5.32%) Google
6 25 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.53%) Adobe
8 16 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.90%) Splunk
10 13 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.39%) Sage
12 10 (1.27%) Remedy
13 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.01%) BMC
13 8 (1.01%) Informatica
13 8 (1.01%) Palantir
14 6 (0.76%) Solace
14 6 (0.76%) VMware
15 5 (0.63%) Foundry