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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 103 132
Rank change year-on-year -67 +29 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 780 758 748
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 2.56% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.81% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 473 491
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £463 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -5.61% -2.00%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £575
90th Percentile £708 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 42 46
10th Percentile £19.05 £22.75 £20.88
25th Percentile £31.50 £31.64 £41.56
Median hourly rate £60.50 £42.57 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.12% -29.05% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +35.34% -28.95% +4.00%

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 42,574 26,968 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 91.03% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,549 17,103 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,556 1,231 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.01
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -68 701 £488 +3.17% 466
London -44 368 £488 -2.50% 192
UK excluding London -70 329 £475 +5.56% 335
Work from Home -17 260 £488 +8.70% 164
North of England -51 112 £444 -2.42% 91
North West -21 61 £435 -5.95% 62
South East -39 61 £475 -13.64% 90
Midlands -54 61 £520 +30.00% 60
West Midlands -51 49 £538 +28.36% 30
South West -22 46 £475 +10.59% 49
Yorkshire -48 46 £459 +14.69% 21
Scotland -14 27 £413 -8.03% 10
East of England -42 26 £565 +2.73% 30
East Midlands -26 12 £488 +30.00% 28
North East -37 6 £448 -0.56% 10

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 39 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.18%) Confluence
3 16 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.79%) Apache
6 11 (1.41%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.64%) CMS
7 5 (0.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 124 (15.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.15%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.51%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.26%) InDesign
9 2 (0.26%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.13%) Maya
10 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.03%) Primavera
4 7 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) iTrent
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.26%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 377 (48.33%) Power Platform
2 158 (20.26%) Azure
3 132 (16.92%) AWS
4 55 (7.05%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.03%) GCP
6 41 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.33%) Serverless
9 24 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (2.95%) dbt
11 21 (2.69%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.69%) GitHub
12 19 (2.44%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (2.18%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.41%) SaaS
16 10 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.54%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.77%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (47.56%) Power BI
2 179 (22.95%) Tableau
3 104 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (6.67%) Power Query
5 51 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 42 (5.38%) Big Data
6 42 (5.38%) Metadata
7 35 (4.49%) Data Lake
7 35 (4.49%) SQL Server
8 31 (3.97%) Looker
9 30 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
10 26 (3.33%) BigQuery
11 25 (3.21%) Hadoop
12 21 (2.69%) NoSQL
13 17 (2.18%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (1.92%) Star Schema
15 13 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (1.41%) MySQL
16 11 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (6.54%) Git
2 39 (5.00%) JIRA
3 13 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.54%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.03%) MLflow
7 6 (0.77%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 254 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
2 243 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 192 (24.62%) Finance
4 72 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.08%) Banking
6 38 (4.87%) Retail
7 35 (4.49%) Marketing
8 27 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.18%) Publishing
11 16 (2.05%) Military
12 15 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.67%) Law
13 13 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.03%) Front Office
16 8 (1.03%) Legal
17 7 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (26.79%) Analyst
2 117 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 112 (14.36%) Developer
4 107 (13.72%) Data Engineer
5 85 (10.90%) Senior
6 48 (6.15%) Consultant
6 48 (6.15%) Data Scientist
7 47 (6.03%) Lead
8 43 (5.51%) Business Analyst
9 40 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 33 (4.23%) Architect
11 32 (4.10%) Power BI Developer
12 27 (3.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 26 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (2.31%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.18%) SAP Consultant
16 16 (2.05%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (1.92%) Designer
18 14 (1.79%) Software Engineer
19 13 (1.67%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.03%) React
2 42 (5.38%) Pandas
3 35 (4.49%) Kafka
4 30 (3.85%) REST
5 24 (3.08%) Node.js
5 24 (3.08%) NumPy
6 21 (2.69%) PySpark
7 20 (2.56%) scikit-learn
8 17 (2.18%) .NET
9 16 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.05%) HTML
10 15 (1.92%) JSON
10 15 (1.92%) Web Services
11 14 (1.79%) CSS
11 14 (1.79%) Matplotlib
11 14 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (1.67%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.67%) Seaborn
12 13 (1.67%) TensorFlow
12 13 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.31%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.59%) Algorithms
4 25 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.03%) Derivative
13 8 (1.03%) Life Science
13 8 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (1.03%) PKI
14 7 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.59%) Linux
1 28 (3.59%) Windows
2 7 (0.90%) Unix
3 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.38%) Android
4 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (51.41%) Business Intelligence
2 378 (48.46%) Data Visualisation
3 342 (43.85%) Analytics
4 225 (28.85%) Data Modelling
5 212 (27.18%) Decision-Making
6 206 (26.41%) Agile
7 200 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (20.26%) AI
9 149 (19.10%) Data Pipeline
10 145 (18.59%) Actionable Insight
11 137 (17.56%) Validation
12 130 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
12 130 (16.67%) Data Science
12 130 (16.67%) ETL
13 122 (15.64%) Data Analysis
14 117 (15.00%) Data Engineering
15 115 (14.74%) Data Governance
16 110 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 102 (13.08%) CI/CD
18 96 (12.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 393 (50.38%) SQL
2 292 (37.44%) Python
3 77 (9.87%) R
4 62 (7.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (6.41%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.26%) Java
7 38 (4.87%) C#
8 37 (4.74%) TypeScript
9 22 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.44%) C++
11 16 (2.05%) Scala
12 10 (1.28%) VBA
13 9 (1.15%) Perl
13 9 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.90%) Bash
14 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.77%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.38%) PromQL
17 3 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 159 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 131 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.64%) Degree
4 19 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.51%) MBA
10 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
10 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.38%) CBAP
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) APMG
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.26%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (19.74%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.79%) QA
3 27 (3.46%) GDPR
4 22 (2.82%) PMO
5 20 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.90%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.26%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 25 (3.21%) Docker
2 14 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) HDFS
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.23%) Terraform
3 24 (3.08%) Grafana
4 17 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.92%) Ansible
6 13 (1.67%) Kibana
7 8 (1.03%) SCCM
8 7 (0.90%) logstash
8 7 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.26%) Cilium
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
9 2 (0.26%) vMotion
9 2 (0.26%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
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
1 125 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 80 (10.26%) Databricks
3 46 (5.90%) SAP
4 45 (5.77%) Google
5 37 (4.74%) Oracle
6 21 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.31%) Adobe
8 15 (1.92%) Sage
8 15 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.79%) Splunk
10 12 (1.54%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.41%) Informatica
12 9 (1.15%) Alteryx
13 8 (1.03%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.03%) Remedy
14 6 (0.77%) Apple
14 6 (0.77%) BMC
14 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.77%) VMware
15 5 (0.64%) Cognos