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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 100 139
Rank change year-on-year -75 +39 +16
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 764 737 721
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 2.55% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.80% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 456 481
10th Percentile £325 £315 £313
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £709 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 40 42
10th Percentile £21.72 £22.45 £20.58
25th Percentile £35.09 £31.60 £41.25
Median hourly rate £61.50 £34.74 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.03% -42.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69.28 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £34.98 £65.00
% change year-on-year +85.82% -46.18% -

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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +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 5 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 5 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 5 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 -66 681 £488 +4.84% 543
London -41 362 £488 -2.50% 240
UK excluding London -80 317 £475 +5.56% 373
Work from Home -20 255 £498 +10.93% 311
North of England -64 103 £444 -2.42% 104
Midlands -48 60 £525 +31.25% 59
North West -21 56 £420 -9.19% 57
South East -50 56 £500 -9.09% 100
South West -18 48 £475 - 53
West Midlands -49 47 £550 +33.33% 35
Yorkshire -50 42 £469 +17.19% 34
Scotland -8 26 £413 -7.72% 17
East of England -40 25 £565 -5.83% 30
East Midlands -26 13 £488 +30.00% 24
North East -33 6 £448 -8.21% 16
Northern Ireland +2 1 £463 +8.82% 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 42 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.36%) Apache
3 16 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.09%) Confluence
4 14 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.44%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.65%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.52%) SAS
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 122 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.36%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.79%) Primavera
5 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.39%) iTrent
6 3 (0.39%) 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%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
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%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 358 (46.86%) Power Platform
2 152 (19.90%) Azure
3 131 (17.15%) AWS
4 52 (6.81%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.28%) GCP
6 42 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (3.40%) Serverless
8 25 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (2.88%) dbt
11 21 (2.75%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.62%) GitHub
12 20 (2.62%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (2.09%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.70%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.57%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.79%) Firewall
4 4 (0.52%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) 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
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (46.07%) Power BI
2 176 (23.04%) Tableau
3 102 (13.35%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.15%) Relational Database
5 44 (5.76%) Power Query
6 41 (5.37%) Big Data
6 41 (5.37%) Metadata
7 36 (4.71%) SQL Server
8 32 (4.19%) Looker
9 29 (3.80%) Data Lake
10 27 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (3.40%) Hadoop
12 25 (3.27%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.49%) NoSQL
14 16 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.83%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
17 11 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (6.41%) Git
2 38 (4.97%) JIRA
3 13 (1.70%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.57%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.05%) MLflow
7 6 (0.79%) GitLab
8 4 (0.52%) ERwin
9 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.39%) 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%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 248 (32.46%) Analytical Skills
2 231 (30.24%) Social Skills
3 194 (25.39%) Finance
4 67 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.12%) Banking
6 37 (4.84%) Retail
7 36 (4.71%) Marketing
8 26 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.09%) Publishing
11 15 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.83%) Military
13 13 (1.70%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.70%) Law
14 12 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.05%) Front Office
16 8 (1.05%) Legal
17 6 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 206 (26.96%) Analyst
2 116 (15.18%) Data Analyst
3 108 (14.14%) Data Engineer
4 105 (13.74%) Developer
5 91 (11.91%) Senior
6 47 (6.15%) Lead
7 46 (6.02%) Consultant
8 45 (5.89%) Data Scientist
9 44 (5.76%) Business Analyst
10 35 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 31 (4.06%) Architect
12 27 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
13 26 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 25 (3.27%) Power BI Developer
15 20 (2.62%) Designer
16 17 (2.23%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.23%) SAP Consultant
17 15 (1.96%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (1.96%) Software Engineer
18 14 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.02%) React
2 45 (5.89%) Pandas
3 33 (4.32%) Kafka
4 30 (3.93%) REST
5 25 (3.27%) Node.js
6 23 (3.01%) NumPy
7 21 (2.75%) scikit-learn
8 20 (2.62%) PySpark
9 18 (2.36%) .NET
10 16 (2.09%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.09%) HTML
10 16 (2.09%) JSON
10 16 (2.09%) Matplotlib
11 15 (1.96%) Web Services
12 14 (1.83%) CSS
13 13 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (1.70%) Seaborn
13 13 (1.70%) TensorFlow
13 13 (1.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.94%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.93%) Cloud Native
3 26 (3.40%) Algorithms
3 26 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.05%) Derivative
11 8 (1.05%) Life Science
11 8 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.05%) PKI
11 8 (1.05%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.92%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.66%) Linux
1 28 (3.66%) Windows
2 6 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 6 (0.79%) Unix
2 6 (0.79%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.39%) Android
3 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (49.87%) Business Intelligence
2 362 (47.38%) Data Visualisation
3 325 (42.54%) Analytics
4 219 (28.66%) Data Modelling
5 206 (26.96%) Decision-Making
6 199 (26.05%) Agile
7 194 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (19.11%) AI
9 145 (18.98%) Actionable Insight
9 145 (18.98%) Data Pipeline
10 134 (17.54%) Validation
11 127 (16.62%) ETL
12 126 (16.49%) Dashboard Development
12 126 (16.49%) Data Science
13 117 (15.31%) Data Analysis
14 116 (15.18%) Data Governance
15 114 (14.92%) Data Engineering
16 105 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 100 (13.09%) CI/CD
18 95 (12.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 384 (50.26%) SQL
2 282 (36.91%) Python
3 74 (9.69%) R
4 55 (7.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (6.54%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.10%) Java
7 36 (4.71%) C#
7 36 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.75%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.49%) C++
10 16 (2.09%) Scala
11 9 (1.18%) Perl
11 9 (1.18%) VBA
12 7 (0.92%) Bash
12 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.79%) Rust
14 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.39%) C
15 3 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 154 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 126 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.47%) Degree
4 19 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.52%) MBA
11 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.39%) CBAP
12 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.26%) IIBA
13 2 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.26%) NCDA
13 2 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (19.63%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.54%) QA
3 26 (3.40%) GDPR
4 22 (2.88%) PMO
5 20 (2.62%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.92%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.52%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
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
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (3.27%) Docker
2 13 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.39%) HDFS
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (4.45%) Kubernetes
1 34 (4.45%) Terraform
2 24 (3.14%) Grafana
3 18 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.96%) Ansible
4 15 (1.96%) Kibana
5 9 (1.18%) logstash
6 8 (1.05%) SCCM
7 7 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.26%) Cilium
8 2 (0.26%) Packer
8 2 (0.26%) vMotion
8 2 (0.26%) vRealize
9 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 115 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.60%) Databricks
3 45 (5.89%) Google
3 45 (5.89%) SAP
4 34 (4.45%) Oracle
5 21 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.09%) Adobe
7 15 (1.96%) Sage
8 14 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.70%) Splunk
10 12 (1.57%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.31%) Informatica
12 8 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.05%) Amplitude
12 8 (1.05%) Remedy
13 6 (0.79%) Apple
13 6 (0.79%) BMC
13 6 (0.79%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.79%) VMware
14 5 (0.65%) Cognos