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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 109 118
Rank change year-on-year -105 +9 +27
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 723 799 776
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 2.44% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.70% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 487 469
10th Percentile £325 £317 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -6.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £561 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 54
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.68 £22.75
25th Percentile £28.25 £33.25 £42.48
Median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -23.08% +60.14%

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 45,469 29,582 33,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.43% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,813 18,412 20,921
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,891 1,754 1,674
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.92 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.80% -46.07% +6.25%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -95 660 £488 +3.45% 1,234
UK excluding London -89 334 £475 +5.56% 661
London -79 330 £488 -2.50% 741
Work from Home -57 218 £500 +11.48% 451
North of England -67 100 £451 +6.00% 155
Midlands -41 81 £539 +6.21% 89
South East -53 63 £470 -14.55% 151
West Midlands -53 60 £558 +6.19% 48
North West -34 51 £498 +18.45% 80
South West -8 46 £450 -1.64% 105
Yorkshire -51 44 £451 +12.75% 51
East of England -34 27 £565 +5.12% 63
Scotland -25 24 £418 -16.50% 62
East Midlands -11 21 £375 -6.25% 41
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 26

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 19 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.49%) Confluence
3 11 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.38%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.11%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.83%) Apache
8 5 (0.69%) CMS
8 5 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.28%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 117 (16.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.97%) CPLEX
5 7 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.55%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.41%) InDesign
9 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.28%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 10 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.69%) Primavera
3 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 371 (51.31%) Power Platform
2 146 (20.19%) Azure
3 105 (14.52%) AWS
4 51 (7.05%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.64%) GCP
6 38 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (3.87%) GitHub
8 28 (3.87%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.46%) Serverless
10 24 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (3.18%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.63%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.63%) dbt
13 13 (1.80%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.66%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.38%) SaaS
17 8 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) Wireless
2 4 (0.55%) Ethernet
2 4 (0.55%) HTTP
2 4 (0.55%) SNMP
2 4 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.41%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.41%) VPN
3 3 (0.41%) WAN
4 2 (0.28%) 2G
4 2 (0.28%) 3G
4 2 (0.28%) 4G
4 2 (0.28%) 5G
4 2 (0.28%) Broadband
4 2 (0.28%) DHCP
4 2 (0.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (50.35%) Power BI
2 151 (20.89%) Tableau
3 88 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (7.75%) Power Query
5 47 (6.50%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.67%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.43%) Metadata
8 30 (4.15%) Big Data
8 30 (4.15%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.46%) Looker
10 24 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.18%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (2.35%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.94%) GIS
14 14 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
15 13 (1.80%) Qlik Sense
15 13 (1.80%) QlikView
16 12 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (1.66%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 45 (6.22%) Git
2 40 (5.53%) JIRA
3 6 (0.83%) GitLab
4 5 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.55%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.41%) JMeter
7 2 (0.28%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.28%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.14%) Flyway
8 1 (0.14%) Gatling
8 1 (0.14%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) Storybook
8 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 256 (35.41%) Analytical Skills
2 237 (32.78%) Social Skills
3 160 (22.13%) Finance
4 80 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.58%) Banking
6 28 (3.87%) Marketing
7 24 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.18%) Retail
9 18 (2.49%) Military
10 15 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.38%) Law
13 10 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.24%) Local Government
14 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.11%) Publishing
16 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 190 (26.28%) Analyst
2 106 (14.66%) Data Analyst
3 105 (14.52%) Developer
4 96 (13.28%) Data Engineer
5 88 (12.17%) Senior
6 45 (6.22%) Lead
7 44 (6.09%) Consultant
8 38 (5.26%) Data Scientist
9 34 (4.70%) Architect
10 33 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 28 (3.87%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.87%) Power BI Developer
12 25 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.32%) Designer
14 21 (2.90%) Python Developer
15 19 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 19 (2.63%) Data Architect
15 19 (2.63%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.35%) Performance Analyst
17 15 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.53%) Terraform
2 38 (5.26%) REST
3 32 (4.43%) Pandas
4 31 (4.29%) React
5 26 (3.60%) CSS
6 24 (3.32%) HTML
7 22 (3.04%) Kafka
8 21 (2.90%) PySpark
9 19 (2.63%) NumPy
10 17 (2.35%) scikit-learn
11 15 (2.07%) .NET
12 13 (1.80%) Flask
13 11 (1.52%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.52%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.52%) Web Services
14 10 (1.38%) JSON
14 10 (1.38%) Vue
15 9 (1.24%) AngularJS
15 9 (1.24%) SOAP
16 8 (1.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.30%) Data Structures
2 29 (4.01%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 25 (3.46%) Onboarding
4 21 (2.90%) Algorithms
4 21 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.94%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.80%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.38%) PKI
11 9 (1.24%) Clustering
11 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.11%) NHS
13 7 (0.97%) Derivative
13 7 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.73%) Windows
2 15 (2.07%) Linux
3 13 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.83%) Unix
5 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (52.97%) Business Intelligence
2 361 (49.93%) Data Visualisation
3 353 (48.82%) Analytics
4 205 (28.35%) Data Modelling
5 193 (26.69%) Decision-Making
6 177 (24.48%) Agile
7 174 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
8 160 (22.13%) AI
9 139 (19.23%) Data Analysis
10 133 (18.40%) Actionable Insight
11 130 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 123 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (16.04%) ETL
14 115 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
15 114 (15.77%) Data Engineering
15 114 (15.77%) Data Science
15 114 (15.77%) Validation
16 113 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
17 110 (15.21%) Data Governance
18 93 (12.86%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 357 (49.38%) SQL
2 266 (36.79%) Python
3 66 (9.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (8.16%) R
5 43 (5.95%) JavaScript
6 42 (5.81%) Java
7 31 (4.29%) C#
8 25 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.66%) Scala
11 11 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.24%) Bash
12 9 (1.24%) C++
12 9 (1.24%) VBA
13 5 (0.69%) Cypher
13 5 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.55%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 149 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 105 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.34%) Degree
4 20 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.55%) PhD
9 4 (0.55%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.28%) APMG
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (22.68%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.78%) QA
3 29 (4.01%) GDPR
4 24 (3.32%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.35%) PMO
6 8 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.69%) GRC
7 5 (0.69%) WCAG
8 4 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.55%) GMP
8 4 (0.55%) GxP
8 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.28%) Basel III
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (3.32%) Docker
2 17 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (2.35%) Grafana
2 15 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.11%) SCCM
4 7 (0.97%) Ansible
5 6 (0.83%) Kibana
5 6 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.41%) Podman
7 2 (0.28%) Istio
7 2 (0.28%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.14%) QRadar
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 134 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.41%) Databricks
3 42 (5.81%) Oracle
4 40 (5.53%) SAP
5 33 (4.56%) Google
6 29 (4.01%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.77%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.07%) Adobe
8 15 (2.07%) Splunk
9 11 (1.52%) Alteryx
9 11 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.38%) Remedy
11 9 (1.24%) BMC
12 8 (1.11%) Palantir
13 6 (0.83%) Informatica
13 6 (0.83%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.69%) Foundry
15 4 (0.55%) Solace
15 4 (0.55%) VMware
15 4 (0.55%) Workday