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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 113 122
Rank change year-on-year -78 +9 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 762 784 747
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 2.38% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 2.63% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 481 468
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £611
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 44 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.50% -23.08% +40.75%

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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -68 696 £475 +2.70% 693
London -62 351 £475 -5.00% 329
UK excluding London -78 347 £473 +5.00% 449
Work from Home -45 249 £500 +17.23% 220
North of England -55 103 £450 +4.05% 118
Midlands -37 84 £522 +22.71% 75
South East -46 65 £450 -18.18% 125
West Midlands -42 63 £550 +6.80% 45
North West -32 52 £450 +0.67% 61
Yorkshire -51 46 £459 +14.69% 39
South West -28 45 £475 +2.15% 55
East of England -29 32 £565 +2.73% 46
Scotland -17 25 £394 -13.70% 23
East Midlands -3 21 £375 -6.25% 30
North East -41 6 £410 -8.89% 19

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 21 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.97%) Confluence
3 13 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.44%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.31%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.05%) Apache
6 8 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.66%) CMS
7 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.52%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 116 (15.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.05%) CPLEX
5 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.92%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.52%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.39%) InDesign
10 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.26%) Notion
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 14 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.66%) Primavera
4 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 385 (50.52%) Power Platform
2 156 (20.47%) Azure
3 114 (14.96%) AWS
4 51 (6.69%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.17%) GCP
6 39 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (3.81%) Serverless
9 28 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.67%) Power Automate
10 27 (3.54%) GitHub
11 22 (2.89%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.62%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.36%) dbt
14 16 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.57%) Google Analytics
16 11 (1.44%) Adobe Analytics
16 11 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.57%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.52%) HTTP
3 4 (0.52%) Wireless
4 2 (0.26%) 2G
4 2 (0.26%) 3G
4 2 (0.26%) 4G
4 2 (0.26%) 5G
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) DNS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
4 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.26%) SNMP
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (49.61%) Power BI
2 159 (20.87%) Tableau
3 94 (12.34%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (7.48%) Power Query
5 53 (6.96%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.33%) Big Data
6 33 (4.33%) Data Lake
6 33 (4.33%) Metadata
7 31 (4.07%) Looker
7 31 (4.07%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (3.28%) BigQuery
10 20 (2.62%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (2.10%) Star Schema
12 13 (1.71%) QlikView
12 13 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 12 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.57%) GIS
13 12 (1.57%) Parquet
13 12 (1.57%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 49 (6.43%) Git
2 40 (5.25%) JIRA
3 13 (1.71%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.57%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.79%) GitLab
7 5 (0.66%) MLflow
8 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.39%) JMeter
10 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.26%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 254 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 253 (33.20%) Social Skills
3 178 (23.36%) Finance
4 82 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.35%) Banking
6 35 (4.59%) Marketing
7 29 (3.81%) Retail
8 25 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.76%) Military
10 18 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.44%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.44%) Law
13 10 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.31%) Publishing
14 9 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.66%) Front Office
15 5 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 201 (26.38%) Analyst
2 118 (15.49%) Data Analyst
3 113 (14.83%) Developer
4 102 (13.39%) Data Engineer
5 80 (10.50%) Senior
6 51 (6.69%) Lead
7 47 (6.17%) Data Scientist
8 43 (5.64%) Consultant
9 39 (5.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 37 (4.86%) Business Analyst
11 31 (4.07%) Architect
11 31 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
12 26 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 22 (2.89%) Designer
14 20 (2.62%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.49%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.23%) Data Architect
16 17 (2.23%) Python Developer
17 15 (1.97%) Performance Analyst
18 13 (1.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.25%) Pandas
2 37 (4.86%) REST
3 31 (4.07%) React
4 24 (3.15%) Kafka
5 23 (3.02%) NumPy
6 21 (2.76%) PySpark
7 20 (2.62%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.49%) CSS
8 19 (2.49%) Web Services
9 17 (2.23%) .NET
10 16 (2.10%) HTML
10 16 (2.10%) Node.js
11 14 (1.84%) JSON
12 12 (1.57%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.57%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.44%) Apache Avro
13 11 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (1.31%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.31%) GeoJSON
14 10 (1.31%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.87%) Data Structures
2 31 (4.07%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.84%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.18%) Clustering
11 9 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.18%) PKI
11 9 (1.18%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.92%) Derivative
13 7 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.46%) Windows
2 24 (3.15%) Linux
3 13 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.92%) Unix
5 6 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (53.41%) Business Intelligence
2 368 (48.29%) Analytics
3 364 (47.77%) Data Visualisation
4 231 (30.31%) Data Modelling
5 202 (26.51%) Agile
6 198 (25.98%) Decision-Making
7 189 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (20.60%) AI
9 137 (17.98%) Actionable Insight
10 135 (17.72%) Data Analysis
10 135 (17.72%) Validation
11 131 (17.19%) Data Science
12 130 (17.06%) Data Pipeline
13 124 (16.27%) ETL
14 123 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 123 (16.14%) Dashboard Development
15 114 (14.96%) Data Engineering
15 114 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 110 (14.44%) Data Governance
17 96 (12.60%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 385 (50.52%) SQL
2 284 (37.27%) Python
3 68 (8.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (8.79%) R
5 48 (6.30%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.12%) C#
7 38 (4.99%) Java
8 26 (3.41%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.23%) C++
9 17 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.44%) Scala
11 10 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.31%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.92%) Bash
12 7 (0.92%) VBA
13 5 (0.66%) Cypher
13 5 (0.66%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.52%) Gremlin
14 4 (0.52%) Rust
14 4 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 169 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.89%) Degree
4 24 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.52%) PhD
9 4 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.26%) APMG
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.13%) PMP
12 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (21.92%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.56%) QA
3 25 (3.28%) GDPR
4 22 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.49%) PMO
6 9 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.66%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.52%) GMP
8 4 (0.52%) GxP
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (0.52%) WCAG
9 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 2 (0.26%) Basel III
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 24 (3.15%) Docker
2 18 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.72%) Terraform
2 20 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.49%) Grafana
4 12 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.05%) SCCM
6 7 (0.92%) Ansible
6 7 (0.92%) Kibana
7 5 (0.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.39%) Podman
9 2 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 133 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.32%) Databricks
3 49 (6.43%) Oracle
4 47 (6.17%) SAP
5 40 (5.25%) Google
6 30 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.36%) Adobe
9 16 (2.10%) Splunk
10 15 (1.97%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.44%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.44%) Remedy
12 9 (1.18%) BMC
13 8 (1.05%) Palantir
14 7 (0.92%) Amplitude
14 7 (0.92%) Informatica
14 7 (0.92%) Sage
15 5 (0.66%) Foundry
16 4 (0.52%) Brio
16 4 (0.52%) VMware