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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 102 113
Rank change year-on-year -112 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 721 839 794
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.33% 2.56% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.82% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 521 462
10th Percentile £313 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £580 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £451 £463 £451
% change year-on-year -2.49% +2.49% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 49 53
10th Percentile £21.08 £21.33 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.67% -1.92% +52.94%

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 45,850 29,737 32,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.62% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,722 18,491 19,844
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,854 1,372
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.00 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 28 September 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 -106 640 £475 - 1,386
UK excluding London -88 346 £451 -2.49% 769
London -84 306 £484 -3.25% 757
Work from Home -62 221 £500 +11.11% 592
North of England -67 101 £439 +5.15% 155
Midlands -39 80 £549 +8.28% 121
South East -54 68 £452 -17.91% 183
West Midlands -47 59 £558 +7.21% 83
North West -48 48 £513 +25.77% 77
South West -33 44 £450 -40.00% 84
Yorkshire -53 42 £480 +20.00% 58
East of England -36 29 £565 +7.62% 86
Scotland -49 28 £410 -18.00% 76
East Midlands -10 21 £375 -6.25% 38
North East -32 12 £375 -11.76% 20
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 46
Wales -17 2 £356 +13.55% 30

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 22 (3.05%) Confluence
2 18 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.39%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.69%) CMS
5 5 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.55%) Apache
6 4 (0.55%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 120 (16.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (0.83%) CPLEX
4 6 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.42%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.42%) InDesign
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.28%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.28%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.69%) Primavera
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 378 (52.43%) Power Platform
2 127 (17.61%) Azure
3 97 (13.45%) AWS
4 55 (7.63%) Snowflake
5 46 (6.38%) GCP
6 38 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (4.16%) GitHub
8 27 (3.74%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.47%) PowerApps
10 24 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (3.19%) Amazon S3
12 22 (3.05%) Serverless
13 19 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.64%) Google Analytics
14 18 (2.50%) dbt
15 14 (1.94%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.39%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.39%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.69%) HTTP
2 5 (0.69%) SNMP
2 5 (0.69%) Wireless
3 4 (0.55%) Broadband
3 4 (0.55%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.55%) WAN
4 3 (0.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) 2G
5 2 (0.28%) 3G
5 2 (0.28%) 4G
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) DNS
5 2 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (51.46%) Power BI
2 141 (19.56%) Tableau
3 74 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (9.15%) Power Query
5 44 (6.10%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.55%) Data Lake
7 27 (3.74%) Metadata
8 26 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.47%) Big Data
10 24 (3.33%) BigQuery
11 21 (2.91%) Looker
12 20 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (2.64%) Qlik Sense
14 17 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (2.08%) QlikView
15 15 (2.08%) Star Schema
16 14 (1.94%) GIS
17 12 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
18 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 44 (6.10%) Git
2 41 (5.69%) JIRA
3 11 (1.53%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.39%) Eclipse
5 5 (0.69%) GitLab
5 5 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.42%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) Selenium
8 2 (0.28%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Flyway
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Xcode
General
1 259 (35.92%) Social Skills
2 251 (34.81%) Analytical Skills
3 161 (22.33%) Finance
4 88 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.18%) Banking
6 27 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.47%) Military
8 23 (3.19%) Retail
9 22 (3.05%) Marketing
10 20 (2.77%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.80%) Local Government
13 12 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.53%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.11%) Publishing
18 7 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 198 (27.46%) Analyst
2 112 (15.53%) Data Analyst
3 110 (15.26%) Developer
4 83 (11.51%) Data Engineer
5 80 (11.10%) Senior
6 41 (5.69%) Lead
7 40 (5.55%) Consultant
8 38 (5.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 36 (4.99%) Data Scientist
10 30 (4.16%) Power BI Developer
11 28 (3.88%) Architect
12 26 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (3.47%) Business Analyst
13 25 (3.47%) Designer
14 22 (3.05%) Performance Analyst
15 17 (2.36%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.36%) Data Manager
16 16 (2.22%) Report Analyst
17 15 (2.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 15 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.27%) REST
2 37 (5.13%) Terraform
3 27 (3.74%) React
4 26 (3.61%) Pandas
5 25 (3.47%) CSS
6 23 (3.19%) HTML
6 23 (3.19%) PySpark
7 18 (2.50%) Kafka
8 16 (2.22%) Web Services
9 15 (2.08%) NumPy
10 14 (1.94%) scikit-learn
11 11 (1.53%) .NET
12 10 (1.39%) Flask
12 10 (1.39%) Node.js
13 9 (1.25%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.25%) TensorFlow
14 8 (1.11%) JSON
14 8 (1.11%) Redux
14 8 (1.11%) SOAP
15 7 (0.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.49%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.22%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.80%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.25%) PKI
13 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.11%) Clustering
14 8 (1.11%) NHS
15 7 (0.97%) Derivative
15 7 (0.97%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.58%) Windows
2 20 (2.77%) Linux
3 13 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.83%) Unix
5 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.55%) Android
7 3 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (53.54%) Business Intelligence
2 360 (49.93%) Data Visualisation
3 357 (49.51%) Analytics
4 203 (28.16%) Data Modelling
5 201 (27.88%) Decision-Making
6 195 (27.05%) Agile
7 169 (23.44%) AI
8 162 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
9 149 (20.67%) Data Analysis
10 145 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 137 (19.00%) Actionable Insight
12 123 (17.06%) Validation
13 118 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (16.23%) Dashboard Development
15 109 (15.12%) Data Engineering
15 109 (15.12%) Data Governance
15 109 (15.12%) Data Pipeline
15 109 (15.12%) Data Science
16 107 (14.84%) ETL
17 94 (13.04%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 355 (49.24%) SQL
2 251 (34.81%) Python
3 72 (9.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 49 (6.80%) JavaScript
4 49 (6.80%) R
5 37 (5.13%) Java
6 35 (4.85%) C#
7 23 (3.19%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.80%) C++
9 13 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.53%) Scala
11 10 (1.39%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.11%) Bash
13 6 (0.83%) Cypher
13 6 (0.83%) VBA
14 5 (0.69%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
15 3 (0.42%) Go
15 3 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.37%) Degree
4 28 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.83%) PhD
11 4 (0.55%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.42%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) PMP
12 3 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.28%) APMG
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.28%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (25.10%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.10%) QA
3 26 (3.61%) GDPR
4 25 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.80%) PMO
6 11 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.97%) GMP
8 5 (0.69%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.69%) GRC
8 5 (0.69%) GxP
8 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.55%) WCAG
10 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.28%) Basel III
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) NIST
12 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (3.05%) Docker
2 15 (2.08%) 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
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.08%) Grafana
2 13 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.25%) Kibana
4 7 (0.97%) SCCM
5 6 (0.83%) Ansible
6 4 (0.55%) Podman
6 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.28%) Istio
7 2 (0.28%) Packer
7 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) logstash
8 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 148 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.88%) Databricks
3 44 (6.10%) SAP
4 38 (5.27%) Oracle
5 37 (5.13%) Google
6 25 (3.47%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.64%) Adobe
7 19 (2.64%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.36%) Splunk
9 14 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.66%) Palantir
11 11 (1.53%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.25%) Informatica
12 9 (1.25%) Remedy
13 8 (1.11%) BMC
14 6 (0.83%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.69%) Foundry
16 4 (0.55%) Ariba
16 4 (0.55%) UiPath
16 4 (0.55%) VMware