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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 109 127
Rank change year-on-year -62 +18 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 791 759 776
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.54% 2.45% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.70% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 464 505
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.61% -2.00%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £588
90th Percentile £720 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +2.78% -0.55% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 45 53
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £29.23 £31.64 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% -28.95% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £67.00
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 43,739 28,136 37,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.86% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,189 17,763 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,627 1,381 2,550
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -58 713 £475 +1.33% 574
London -42 373 £488 -2.50% 265
UK excluding London -83 342 £463 +2.78% 387
Work from Home -33 252 £500 +11.86% 203
North of England -44 116 £450 - 97
Midlands -35 71 £520 +30.00% 66
North West -15 65 £438 -5.30% 60
South East -43 63 £470 -14.55% 113
West Midlands -49 51 £550 +31.34% 32
South West -24 46 £450 +4.77% 50
Yorkshire -43 46 £459 +13.98% 27
Scotland -20 27 £425 -5.56% 12
East of England -39 23 £520 -3.26% 39
East Midlands -13 20 £431 +15.00% 34
North East -34 6 £420 -6.67% 12

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 33 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.77%) Confluence
4 13 (1.64%) Apache
4 13 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
6 7 (0.88%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.63%) CMS
7 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 119 (15.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.14%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.76%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.76%) 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 21 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.76%) Primavera
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) iTrent
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
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%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 395 (49.94%) Power Platform
2 169 (21.37%) Azure
3 134 (16.94%) AWS
4 52 (6.57%) Snowflake
5 49 (6.19%) GCP
6 42 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 25 (3.16%) Serverless
10 24 (3.03%) GitHub
11 23 (2.91%) dbt
11 23 (2.91%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.65%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
16 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
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%) HTTP
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 (49.18%) Power BI
2 179 (22.63%) Tableau
3 103 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (6.83%) Power Query
5 52 (6.57%) Relational Database
6 39 (4.93%) Big Data
7 37 (4.68%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.30%) Data Lake
8 34 (4.30%) Metadata
9 32 (4.05%) Looker
10 31 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (3.54%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.78%) Hadoop
13 21 (2.65%) NoSQL
14 18 (2.28%) Star Schema
15 16 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.39%) PowerPivot
17 11 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (6.83%) Git
2 40 (5.06%) JIRA
3 13 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.88%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 254 (32.11%) Analytical Skills
2 246 (31.10%) Social Skills
3 203 (25.66%) Finance
4 81 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.59%) Banking
6 38 (4.80%) Marketing
6 38 (4.80%) Retail
7 27 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (2.28%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.15%) Military
11 14 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.39%) Law
14 10 (1.26%) Publishing
15 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.01%) Legal
17 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (27.18%) Analyst
2 127 (16.06%) Data Analyst
3 110 (13.91%) Developer
4 109 (13.78%) Data Engineer
5 84 (10.62%) Senior
6 53 (6.70%) Data Scientist
7 50 (6.32%) Lead
8 49 (6.19%) Consultant
9 43 (5.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 42 (5.31%) Business Analyst
11 34 (4.30%) Power BI Developer
12 33 (4.17%) Architect
13 29 (3.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 26 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (2.15%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.15%) Designer
16 16 (2.02%) Performance Analyst
16 16 (2.02%) SAP Consultant
17 14 (1.77%) Data Architect
17 14 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.69%) React
2 43 (5.44%) Pandas
3 34 (4.30%) Kafka
4 32 (4.05%) REST
5 26 (3.29%) NumPy
6 21 (2.65%) Node.js
6 21 (2.65%) scikit-learn
7 19 (2.40%) PySpark
8 18 (2.28%) .NET
9 17 (2.15%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.02%) Web Services
11 15 (1.90%) CSS
11 15 (1.90%) JSON
12 14 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (1.64%) HTML
14 12 (1.52%) Apache Avro
14 12 (1.52%) Vue
15 11 (1.39%) Matplotlib
15 11 (1.39%) PyTorch
15 11 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.59%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.01%) Derivative
11 8 (1.01%) Life Science
11 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.01%) PKI
12 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.67%) Windows
2 27 (3.41%) Linux
3 7 (0.88%) Unix
3 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.38%) Android
5 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (52.34%) Business Intelligence
2 380 (48.04%) Data Visualisation
3 360 (45.51%) Analytics
4 230 (29.08%) Data Modelling
5 214 (27.05%) Decision-Making
6 207 (26.17%) Agile
7 197 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (21.49%) AI
9 153 (19.34%) Actionable Insight
10 152 (19.22%) Data Pipeline
11 144 (18.20%) Validation
12 139 (17.57%) Data Science
13 137 (17.32%) Data Analysis
14 134 (16.94%) ETL
15 130 (16.43%) Dashboard Development
16 126 (15.93%) Data Engineering
17 118 (14.92%) Data Governance
18 117 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 105 (13.27%) CI/CD
19 105 (13.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 396 (50.06%) SQL
2 301 (38.05%) Python
3 77 (9.73%) R
4 70 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 48 (6.07%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.80%) Java
6 38 (4.80%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.17%) C#
8 17 (2.15%) C++
9 15 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.64%) Scala
11 10 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.26%) VBA
12 8 (1.01%) Bash
12 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.63%) Rust
14 4 (0.51%) Cypher
14 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 165 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 127 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.87%) Degree
4 22 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.01%) 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%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) IIBA
12 2 (0.25%) NCDA
12 2 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (20.86%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.57%) QA
3 30 (3.79%) GDPR
4 23 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.40%) PMO
6 9 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 4 (0.51%) WCAG
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
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
11 1 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.13%) GxP
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (3.03%) Docker
2 14 (1.77%) 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 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.92%) Terraform
3 23 (2.91%) Grafana
4 16 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.90%) Ansible
6 11 (1.39%) Kibana
7 8 (1.01%) SCCM
8 7 (0.88%) logstash
8 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.38%) Podman
10 2 (0.25%) Cilium
10 2 (0.25%) Packer
10 2 (0.25%) vMotion
10 2 (0.25%) vRealize
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 131 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.24%) Databricks
3 49 (6.19%) SAP
4 44 (5.56%) Google
5 41 (5.18%) Oracle
6 23 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.40%) Adobe
8 15 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.90%) Splunk
9 14 (1.77%) Sage
10 13 (1.64%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.39%) Informatica
12 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.01%) Palantir
12 8 (1.01%) Remedy
13 6 (0.76%) BMC
13 6 (0.76%) VMware
14 5 (0.63%) Apple
14 5 (0.63%) Cognos