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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 97 132
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 853 781 779
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.98% 2.66% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.94% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 528 528
10th Percentile £326 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £599 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 26 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.63 £19.88
25th Percentile £26.74 £23.29 £27.37
Median hourly rate £61.25 £32.96 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +85.83% -28.63% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.85 £71.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.81 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -28.95% -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 37,130 26,538 38,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.00% 90.38% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,530 17,031 25,049
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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £745 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,210 919 2,337
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.62 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% +0.83% -10.07%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -39 742 £500 +5.16% 554
London -33 414 £500 -2.91% 202
UK excluding London -46 333 £475 +5.56% 479
Work from Home -12 283 £500 +5.26% 186
North of England -54 109 £475 +2.70% 119
Midlands -29 63 £500 +25.00% 81
North West -36 58 £420 -11.58% 64
South East -23 53 £500 +11.11% 151
West Midlands -45 50 £500 +21.21% 35
Yorkshire -30 48 £500 +22.70% 39
South West -21 39 £488 +2.63% 47
East of England -32 34 £500 +11.11% 39
Scotland +5 29 £450 - 20
East Midlands -24 13 £525 +47.47% 46
Northern Ireland -5 6 £531 +6.25% 12
North East -18 6 £438 -2.78% 17
Wales -13 3 - - 21

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 54 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.87%) Confluence
3 25 (2.93%) Apache
4 23 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.46%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.94%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.70%) SAS
8 5 (0.59%) Apache Superset
8 5 (0.59%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.59%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Luigi
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 125 (14.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.41%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.23%) InDesign
10 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Blender
10 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.12%) Maya
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.12%) Revit
10 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.35%) Primavera
4 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.23%) iTrent
5 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
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
Cloud Services
1 372 (43.61%) Power Platform
2 170 (19.93%) Azure
3 156 (18.29%) AWS
4 56 (6.57%) GCP
5 53 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (4.81%) Snowflake
7 37 (4.34%) Serverless
8 30 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 28 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 24 (2.81%) dbt
12 23 (2.70%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (2.23%) PowerApps
14 17 (1.99%) GitHub
15 13 (1.52%) Google Workspace
16 12 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (1.41%) Google Analytics
17 11 (1.29%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.88%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.64%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.70%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) 2G
4 4 (0.47%) 5G
5 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 2 (0.23%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.23%) LTE
6 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.23%) Network Security
6 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 2 (0.23%) SMS
6 2 (0.23%) SNMP
6 2 (0.23%) VoIP
7 1 (0.12%) DSL
7 1 (0.12%) Internet
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (43.49%) Power BI
2 174 (20.40%) Tableau
3 102 (11.96%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (5.63%) Big Data
5 44 (5.16%) Relational Database
6 39 (4.57%) Metadata
7 38 (4.45%) Power Query
8 34 (3.99%) Hadoop
9 33 (3.87%) Looker
10 30 (3.52%) Data Lake
11 29 (3.40%) SQL Server
12 24 (2.81%) BigQuery
13 20 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (2.23%) NoSQL
14 19 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (2.11%) Geospatial Data
15 18 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (1.76%) MySQL
16 15 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
17 13 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 59 (6.92%) Git
2 47 (5.51%) JIRA
3 18 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.76%) Visual Studio
5 14 (1.64%) Eclipse
6 11 (1.29%) MLflow
7 4 (0.47%) ERwin
8 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.35%) GitLab
8 3 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.23%) git-flow
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) NUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 307 (35.99%) Social Skills
2 245 (28.72%) Analytical Skills
3 229 (26.85%) Finance
4 92 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.62%) Banking
6 38 (4.45%) Retail
7 29 (3.40%) Marketing
8 26 (3.05%) Publishing
9 22 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.34%) Military
11 20 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.76%) Front Office
13 14 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.41%) Legal
15 11 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (1.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 222 (26.03%) Analyst
2 133 (15.59%) Developer
3 125 (14.65%) Data Analyst
4 105 (12.31%) Senior
5 95 (11.14%) Data Engineer
6 70 (8.21%) Lead
7 55 (6.45%) Data Scientist
8 54 (6.33%) Architect
9 49 (5.74%) Consultant
10 47 (5.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 46 (5.39%) Business Analyst
12 36 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (3.99%) Power BI Developer
14 26 (3.05%) Software Engineer
15 23 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 21 (2.46%) Senior Data Engineer
18 20 (2.34%) Designer
19 19 (2.23%) Data Business Analyst
20 16 (1.88%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.68%) Pandas
2 48 (5.63%) React
3 37 (4.34%) NumPy
3 37 (4.34%) scikit-learn
4 31 (3.63%) Kafka
5 30 (3.52%) Node.js
6 24 (2.81%) PySpark
6 24 (2.81%) REST
7 23 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (2.46%) Vue
9 20 (2.34%) Matplotlib
9 20 (2.34%) Web Services
10 18 (2.11%) Plotly
10 18 (2.11%) TensorFlow
11 17 (1.99%) Seaborn
12 15 (1.76%) .NET
12 15 (1.76%) OAuth
13 13 (1.52%) JSON
13 13 (1.52%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.04%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 33 (3.87%) Data Structures
4 28 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 17 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.94%) Life Science
12 8 (0.94%) PMI
13 7 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.22%) Linux
2 26 (3.05%) Windows
3 12 (1.41%) Unix
4 5 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (48.30%) Business Intelligence
2 409 (47.95%) Data Visualisation
3 332 (38.92%) Analytics
4 240 (28.14%) Data Modelling
5 231 (27.08%) Decision-Making
6 227 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (24.74%) Agile
8 176 (20.63%) Data Analysis
9 172 (20.16%) Actionable Insight
10 145 (17.00%) Data Pipeline
11 140 (16.41%) Data Science
12 128 (15.01%) ETL
13 125 (14.65%) AI
14 119 (13.95%) Data Governance
15 116 (13.60%) Validation
16 112 (13.13%) Dashboard Development
16 112 (13.13%) Machine Learning
17 103 (12.08%) Data Engineering
18 95 (11.14%) CI/CD
19 92 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 399 (46.78%) SQL
2 298 (34.94%) Python
3 70 (8.21%) R
4 56 (6.57%) JavaScript
5 52 (6.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (4.10%) C#
7 31 (3.63%) TypeScript
8 27 (3.17%) C++
9 26 (3.05%) Java
10 17 (1.99%) Scala
11 14 (1.64%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.29%) VBA
13 9 (1.06%) Perl
14 7 (0.82%) Bash
14 7 (0.82%) Groovy
15 6 (0.70%) PHP
16 5 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.47%) C
17 4 (0.47%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 170 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 135 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.02%) Degree
4 38 (4.45%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.88%) CISM
7 16 (1.88%) CISSP
8 11 (1.29%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.17%) PhD
9 10 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.47%) CBAP
12 4 (0.47%) CFA
12 4 (0.47%) MBA
12 4 (0.47%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (18.87%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.51%) QA
3 45 (5.28%) Accessibility
4 26 (3.05%) GDPR
5 21 (2.46%) PMO
6 17 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.82%) SLA
8 5 (0.59%) WCAG
9 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) EMIR
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 37 (4.34%) Docker
2 7 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) HDFS
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.69%) Terraform
3 27 (3.17%) Kibana
4 20 (2.34%) Ansible
5 19 (2.23%) Grafana
6 18 (2.11%) logstash
7 17 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.35%) SCCM
11 2 (0.23%) Cilium
11 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.23%) vMotion
11 2 (0.23%) vRealize
12 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 130 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.44%) Databricks
3 51 (5.98%) Google
4 38 (4.45%) Oracle
5 26 (3.05%) SAP
6 23 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.11%) BiZZdesign
9 16 (1.88%) Sage
9 16 (1.88%) Splunk
10 13 (1.52%) Adobe
10 13 (1.52%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.41%) Centrify
12 9 (1.06%) Cisco
13 8 (0.94%) Amplitude
13 8 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.94%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.82%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.82%) Cognos
14 7 (0.82%) Foundry