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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 98 135
Rank change year-on-year -29 +37 +4
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 898 792 800
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.58% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.87% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 516 536
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £580
90th Percentile £738 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £25.10
25th Percentile £23.57 £23.61 £42.19
Median hourly rate £54.75 £31.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +76.61% -32.87% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.25 £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.41 £46.18
% change year-on-year +106.97% -31.99% -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 35,563 27,597 38,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.83% 89.79% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,526 17,059 25,424
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 855 2,176
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £60.46 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.29 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.62% -10.60% -

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -29 776 £500 +5.26% 509
London -24 425 £500 -3.85% 204
UK excluding London -23 368 £500 +11.11% 453
Work from Home -19 292 £500 +1.01% 167
North of England -42 116 £463 - 100
Midlands -22 69 £500 +25.31% 75
North West -34 60 £413 -10.81% 51
South East -4 57 £500 +25.39% 156
West Midlands -21 57 £500 +21.21% 36
Yorkshire -30 52 £514 +20.94% 35
South West -10 50 £680 +46.92% 47
Scotland +15 44 £475 +5.56% 17
East of England -34 28 £500 +10.13% 50
East Midlands -24 12 £423 +18.68% 37
North East -23 7 £425 -19.05% 14
Northern Ireland -7 6 £531 +6.25% 8
Wales -7 3 - - 15

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 55 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.90%) Confluence
3 28 (3.12%) Apache
4 25 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (2.56%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.67%) SAS
8 5 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 5 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.56%) Smallworld
9 4 (0.45%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Luigi
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 120 (13.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.22%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.45%) Revit
7 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Blender
10 1 (0.11%) Maya
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.33%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.33%) Primavera
5 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.22%) iTrent
5 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 383 (42.65%) Power Platform
2 183 (20.38%) Azure
3 162 (18.04%) AWS
4 68 (7.57%) GCP
5 46 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (4.79%) Snowflake
7 37 (4.12%) Serverless
8 29 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (3.12%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.01%) dbt
10 27 (3.01%) Power Automate
11 25 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (2.45%) PowerApps
14 20 (2.23%) GitHub
15 15 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (1.45%) Google Analytics
17 12 (1.34%) Google Workspace
18 11 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.22%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.00%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) 2G
4 4 (0.45%) 5G
5 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.22%) DNS
6 2 (0.22%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.22%) LTE
6 2 (0.22%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.22%) Network Security
6 2 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.22%) SAN
6 2 (0.22%) SMS
6 2 (0.22%) SNMP
6 2 (0.22%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) DSL
7 1 (0.11%) Internet
7 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (42.54%) Power BI
2 175 (19.49%) Tableau
3 94 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.57%) Big Data
5 48 (5.35%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.45%) Hadoop
7 38 (4.23%) Looker
8 34 (3.79%) Metadata
9 33 (3.67%) Power Query
10 32 (3.56%) BigQuery
11 31 (3.45%) Data Lake
12 27 (3.01%) SQL Server
13 25 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (2.00%) NoSQL
16 16 (1.78%) Data Mining
16 16 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
16 16 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (6.24%) Git
2 49 (5.46%) JIRA
3 15 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.11%) MLflow
5 9 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.89%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.45%) ERwin
7 4 (0.45%) Gradle
7 4 (0.45%) Storybook
7 4 (0.45%) Xcode
8 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.33%) GitLab
8 3 (0.33%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.22%) git-flow
9 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 328 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 239 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (26.50%) Finance
4 88 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 79 (8.80%) Banking
6 39 (4.34%) Retail
7 32 (3.56%) Marketing
8 24 (2.67%) Publishing
9 22 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.00%) Legal
12 16 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.67%) Front Office
13 15 (1.67%) Military
14 14 (1.56%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 227 (25.28%) Analyst
2 132 (14.70%) Data Analyst
2 132 (14.70%) Developer
3 103 (11.47%) Senior
4 96 (10.69%) Data Engineer
5 79 (8.80%) Architect
6 65 (7.24%) Data Scientist
6 65 (7.24%) Lead
7 52 (5.79%) Consultant
8 51 (5.68%) Business Analyst
9 44 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 38 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (3.56%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (2.56%) Designer
14 22 (2.45%) Data Business Analyst
15 21 (2.34%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (2.34%) Software Engineer
16 20 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 18 (2.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.57%) Pandas
2 45 (5.01%) React
3 37 (4.12%) scikit-learn
4 32 (3.56%) NumPy
5 30 (3.34%) Kafka
5 30 (3.34%) PySpark
6 27 (3.01%) Node.js
7 26 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (2.78%) REST
9 23 (2.56%) AngularJS
10 22 (2.45%) Vue
11 19 (2.12%) OAuth
12 18 (2.00%) Plotly
12 18 (2.00%) TensorFlow
13 16 (1.78%) Matplotlib
14 14 (1.56%) .NET
14 14 (1.56%) HTML
14 14 (1.56%) JSON
14 14 (1.56%) Web Services
15 12 (1.34%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.01%) Algorithms
2 37 (4.12%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.12%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.22%) PMI
11 10 (1.11%) CMDB
11 10 (1.11%) NHS
12 9 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.89%) Life Science
13 8 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.79%) Linux
2 22 (2.45%) Windows
3 17 (1.89%) Unix
4 5 (0.56%) Android
4 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (48.33%) Data Visualisation
2 420 (46.77%) Business Intelligence
3 343 (38.20%) Analytics
4 237 (26.39%) Data Modelling
5 226 (25.17%) Decision-Making
6 220 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
7 218 (24.28%) Agile
8 181 (20.16%) Data Analysis
9 165 (18.37%) Actionable Insight
10 155 (17.26%) Data Science
11 147 (16.37%) Data Pipeline
12 135 (15.03%) AI
13 124 (13.81%) Machine Learning
14 123 (13.70%) ETL
15 117 (13.03%) Data Governance
16 113 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
17 109 (12.14%) Dashboard Development
18 108 (12.03%) Validation
19 107 (11.92%) Data Engineering
20 101 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 404 (44.99%) SQL
2 314 (34.97%) Python
3 68 (7.57%) R
4 57 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 47 (5.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 33 (3.67%) Java
7 31 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 30 (3.34%) C#
9 23 (2.56%) C++
9 23 (2.56%) Scala
10 17 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.11%) Bash
11 10 (1.11%) VBA
12 8 (0.89%) Perl
12 8 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.78%) Groovy
13 7 (0.78%) PHP
14 4 (0.45%) C
14 4 (0.45%) LookML
14 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 145 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.91%) Degree
4 38 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.78%) CISM
7 16 (1.78%) CISSP
8 13 (1.45%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.22%) PhD
11 10 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.78%) CBAP
13 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.56%) MBA
14 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.45%) CFA
16 3 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (15.81%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.90%) Accessibility
3 45 (5.01%) QA
4 28 (3.12%) GDPR
5 20 (2.23%) PMO
6 18 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.67%) WCAG
8 5 (0.56%) SLA
9 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) EMIR
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.22%) NIST
11 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) PERC
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (4.23%) Docker
2 7 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) HDFS
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (4.90%) Terraform
2 43 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.56%) Kibana
4 23 (2.56%) logstash
5 21 (2.34%) Ansible
6 20 (2.23%) Grafana
7 17 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.33%) SCCM
11 2 (0.22%) Cilium
11 2 (0.22%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.22%) vMotion
11 2 (0.22%) vRealize
12 1 (0.11%) Argo
12 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 132 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.24%) Databricks
3 50 (5.57%) Google
4 38 (4.23%) Oracle
5 30 (3.34%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.78%) Splunk
8 24 (2.67%) SAP
9 18 (2.00%) BiZZdesign
10 15 (1.67%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.45%) Adobe
11 13 (1.45%) CyberArk
11 13 (1.45%) Sage
12 12 (1.34%) Centrify
12 12 (1.34%) Cisco
13 11 (1.22%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.11%) Foundry
15 8 (0.89%) AppDynamics
16 7 (0.78%) Amplitude
16 7 (0.78%) Palantir