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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 98 138
Rank change year-on-year -40 +40 +5
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 839 759 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.61% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.88% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 507 504
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £450 £459
% change year-on-year +6.67% -1.91% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 30 42
10th Percentile £18.33 £21.93 £20.58
25th Percentile £32.78 £25.25 £31.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.23 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +93.95% -30.22% -28.95%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £71.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.44% -31.49% -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 38,381 26,317 38,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.55% 90.50% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,335 17,078 24,751
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 968 2,345
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.12 £15.89
Median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.62 £31.50
% change year-on-year +14.32% -2.81% -12.50%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -45 738 £500 +5.26% 455
London -41 412 £500 - 160
UK excluding London -50 324 £480 +6.67% 379
Work from Home -20 273 £498 +8.39% 170
North of England -54 100 £469 +1.35% 87
Midlands -27 70 £500 +19.40% 80
North West -38 57 £420 -9.19% 46
South East -36 52 £500 +5.26% 118
West Midlands -41 51 £500 +17.65% 37
South West -28 40 £488 +2.63% 42
Yorkshire -48 40 £496 +18.80% 26
East of England -36 35 £525 +16.15% 25
Scotland -6 26 £463 +2.78% 15
East Midlands -15 19 £450 +22.62% 43
North East -20 6 £438 -2.78% 17
Northern Ireland -2 3 £463 +8.82% 9
Wales -15 1 - - 15

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 (5.84%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.10%) Confluence
3 25 (2.98%) Apache
4 21 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.38%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.31%) Apache Superset
7 7 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.72%) SAS
9 5 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.24%) Luigi
11 2 (0.24%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 123 (14.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 16 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.43%) Chatbot
5 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.24%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.36%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.36%) Primavera
4 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.24%) iTrent
5 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) ResourceLink
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
1 373 (44.46%) Power Platform
2 173 (20.62%) Azure
3 156 (18.59%) AWS
4 57 (6.79%) GCP
5 54 (6.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (4.77%) Snowflake
7 38 (4.53%) Serverless
8 30 (3.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 29 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (3.22%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.22%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (2.86%) dbt
12 19 (2.26%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.03%) GitHub
14 13 (1.55%) Google Workspace
15 12 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.31%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.72%) Firewall
4 4 (0.48%) 2G
4 4 (0.48%) 5G
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) LTE
5 2 (0.24%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.24%) Network Security
5 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.24%) SAN
5 2 (0.24%) SMS
5 2 (0.24%) SNMP
5 2 (0.24%) VoIP
5 2 (0.24%) Wireless
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (44.34%) Power BI
2 170 (20.26%) Tableau
3 106 (12.63%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.48%) Big Data
5 42 (5.01%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.77%) Metadata
7 39 (4.65%) Power Query
8 32 (3.81%) Looker
8 32 (3.81%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.69%) Hadoop
10 29 (3.46%) Data Lake
11 27 (3.22%) BigQuery
12 24 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (2.38%) NoSQL
13 20 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
14 19 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (1.91%) MySQL
17 15 (1.79%) Star Schema
18 14 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 58 (6.91%) Git
2 45 (5.36%) JIRA
3 18 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.67%) Eclipse
6 8 (0.95%) MLflow
7 4 (0.48%) ERwin
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
8 3 (0.36%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.24%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 297 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 252 (30.04%) Analytical Skills
3 223 (26.58%) Finance
4 95 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.51%) Banking
6 40 (4.77%) Retail
7 33 (3.93%) Marketing
8 23 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (2.62%) Publishing
10 21 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.15%) Military
11 18 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.79%) Law
13 14 (1.67%) Front Office
14 13 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.19%) Legal
17 9 (1.07%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 212 (25.27%) Analyst
2 129 (15.38%) Developer
3 113 (13.47%) Data Analyst
4 111 (13.23%) Senior
5 104 (12.40%) Data Engineer
6 62 (7.39%) Lead
7 55 (6.56%) Data Scientist
8 51 (6.08%) Architect
9 48 (5.72%) Business Analyst
10 47 (5.60%) Consultant
11 43 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 35 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (3.69%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.74%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.62%) Senior Data Engineer
16 20 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.26%) Data Business Analyst
17 19 (2.26%) Designer
18 16 (1.91%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.56%) Pandas
2 49 (5.84%) React
3 37 (4.41%) NumPy
4 34 (4.05%) Kafka
5 32 (3.81%) scikit-learn
6 31 (3.69%) Node.js
6 31 (3.69%) REST
7 27 (3.22%) AngularJS
8 23 (2.74%) Vue
9 22 (2.62%) PySpark
9 22 (2.62%) Web Services
10 21 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (2.50%) Plotly
11 20 (2.38%) Matplotlib
12 19 (2.26%) .NET
13 17 (2.03%) Seaborn
14 15 (1.79%) JSON
14 15 (1.79%) TensorFlow
15 13 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.43%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 39 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 36 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 27 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.95%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (0.95%) PMI
13 7 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.83%) Life Science
13 7 (0.83%) NHS
13 7 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.29%) Linux
2 27 (3.22%) Windows
3 12 (1.43%) Unix
4 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (49.58%) Data Visualisation
2 415 (49.46%) Business Intelligence
3 334 (39.81%) Analytics
4 241 (28.72%) Data Modelling
5 223 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (26.34%) Decision-Making
7 205 (24.43%) Agile
8 170 (20.26%) Actionable Insight
9 163 (19.43%) Data Analysis
10 143 (17.04%) Data Pipeline
11 137 (16.33%) Data Science
12 129 (15.38%) AI
13 127 (15.14%) ETL
14 125 (14.90%) Validation
15 121 (14.42%) Data Governance
16 116 (13.83%) Dashboard Development
17 108 (12.87%) Data Engineering
18 105 (12.51%) CI/CD
19 103 (12.28%) Machine Learning
20 98 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 398 (47.44%) SQL
2 292 (34.80%) Python
3 74 (8.82%) R
4 57 (6.79%) JavaScript
5 55 (6.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 40 (4.77%) C#
7 32 (3.81%) TypeScript
8 28 (3.34%) Java
9 25 (2.98%) C++
10 18 (2.15%) Scala
11 17 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.55%) VBA
13 9 (1.07%) Perl
14 7 (0.83%) Bash
15 6 (0.72%) Groovy
15 6 (0.72%) PHP
15 6 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.72%) Rust
15 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.48%) LookML
Qualifications
1 168 (20.02%) Security Cleared
2 134 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.77%) Degree
4 28 (3.34%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.31%) CISM
9 11 (1.31%) CISSP
10 9 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.83%) PhD
11 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.48%) CBAP
13 4 (0.48%) CFA
13 4 (0.48%) MBA
13 4 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (17.88%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.96%) QA
3 37 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.46%) GDPR
5 25 (2.98%) PMO
6 17 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.83%) SLA
8 6 (0.72%) WCAG
9 5 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.24%) EMIR
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (3.93%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) HDFS
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 36 (4.29%) Terraform
3 26 (3.10%) Kibana
4 20 (2.38%) Ansible
4 20 (2.38%) Grafana
5 18 (2.15%) logstash
5 18 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 4 (0.48%) SCCM
8 3 (0.36%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.24%) Cilium
9 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.24%) vMotion
9 2 (0.24%) vRealize
10 1 (0.12%) Cacti
10 1 (0.12%) collectd
10 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.06%) Databricks
3 52 (6.20%) Google
4 39 (4.65%) Oracle
5 28 (3.34%) SAP
6 26 (3.10%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.15%) Splunk
9 17 (2.03%) Sage
10 14 (1.67%) Adobe
11 13 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
12 10 (1.19%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.19%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.07%) Centrify
13 9 (1.07%) Cisco
14 8 (0.95%) Amplitude
14 8 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.83%) Cognos
15 7 (0.83%) Informatica
15 7 (0.83%) MicroStrategy