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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 103 113
Rank change year-on-year -108 +10 +28
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 729 831 770
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 2.54% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.81% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 518 452
10th Percentile £320 £325 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 46 53
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.44 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.41 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% - +56.46%

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 45,811 29,562 32,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.52% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,345 20,161
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £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 3,152 1,818 1,440
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.06 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.00% -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 21 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 21 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 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 -99 648 £480 +1.05% 1,819
UK excluding London -93 349 £470 +1.62% 966
London -83 311 £488 -2.50% 1,067
Work from Home -64 223 £500 +11.11% 706
North of England -64 100 £450 +9.76% 206
Midlands -43 83 £539 +6.21% 150
South East -56 67 £465 -11.43% 222
West Midlands -48 60 £565 +8.65% 91
North West -38 48 £525 +28.83% 96
South West -35 46 £450 -40.00% 117
Yorkshire -49 43 £451 +12.75% 79
East of England -43 29 £565 +5.12% 103
Scotland -48 29 £415 -17.00% 101
East Midlands -7 23 £375 -6.25% 59
North East -36 10 £410 -3.53% 33
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 45

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 (2.88%) Confluence
2 18 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.37%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.69%) Apache Superset
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%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 125 (17.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.82%) CPLEX
6 5 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.41%) InDesign
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.27%) Notion
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.69%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 383 (52.54%) Power Platform
2 134 (18.38%) Azure
3 100 (13.72%) AWS
4 56 (7.68%) Snowflake
5 50 (6.86%) GCP
6 37 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (3.98%) GitHub
8 28 (3.84%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.57%) PowerApps
10 25 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (3.16%) Serverless
12 21 (2.88%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (2.61%) dbt
15 17 (2.33%) Google Analytics
16 15 (2.06%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
17 11 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
18 10 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.37%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.82%) Wireless
3 5 (0.69%) HTTP
3 5 (0.69%) SNMP
4 4 (0.55%) Broadband
4 4 (0.55%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.55%) WAN
5 3 (0.41%) VPN
6 2 (0.27%) 2G
6 2 (0.27%) 3G
6 2 (0.27%) 4G
6 2 (0.27%) 5G
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (51.58%) Power BI
2 142 (19.48%) Tableau
3 76 (10.43%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (9.33%) Power Query
5 46 (6.31%) Relational Database
6 42 (5.76%) Data Lake
7 29 (3.98%) Metadata
8 28 (3.84%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.57%) Big Data
10 25 (3.43%) BigQuery
11 23 (3.16%) Looker
12 21 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
13 19 (2.61%) Qlik Sense
14 17 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (2.33%) Star Schema
15 15 (2.06%) QlikView
16 14 (1.92%) GIS
17 12 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
18 11 (1.51%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 46 (6.31%) Git
2 41 (5.62%) JIRA
3 11 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.37%) Eclipse
5 5 (0.69%) GitLab
5 5 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.41%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Storybook
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 261 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 259 (35.53%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (23.18%) Finance
4 83 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.09%) Banking
6 28 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.57%) Marketing
8 25 (3.43%) Military
9 24 (3.29%) Retail
10 20 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.78%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.51%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.23%) Law
16 9 (1.23%) Local Government
17 8 (1.10%) Publishing
17 8 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (26.89%) Analyst
2 112 (15.36%) Data Analyst
3 108 (14.81%) Developer
4 92 (12.62%) Data Engineer
5 83 (11.39%) Senior
6 43 (5.90%) Lead
7 41 (5.62%) Consultant
8 35 (4.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 33 (4.53%) Data Scientist
10 31 (4.25%) Architect
11 29 (3.98%) Power BI Developer
12 27 (3.70%) Business Analyst
13 26 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
14 24 (3.29%) Designer
15 19 (2.61%) Performance Analyst
16 18 (2.47%) Data Architect
16 18 (2.47%) Data Manager
17 17 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 16 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
19 15 (2.06%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.35%) REST
1 39 (5.35%) Terraform
2 26 (3.57%) CSS
2 26 (3.57%) React
3 25 (3.43%) Pandas
4 24 (3.29%) HTML
5 23 (3.16%) PySpark
6 20 (2.74%) Kafka
7 17 (2.33%) Web Services
8 14 (1.92%) NumPy
8 14 (1.92%) scikit-learn
9 12 (1.65%) .NET
10 10 (1.37%) Flask
10 10 (1.37%) JSON
10 10 (1.37%) Node.js
11 9 (1.23%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.23%) SOAP
11 9 (1.23%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.10%) Middleware
12 8 (1.10%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.23%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.53%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.84%) Onboarding
4 25 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.78%) Reference Data
11 12 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.37%) PKI
12 10 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.23%) Clustering
14 7 (0.96%) Driving Licence
14 7 (0.96%) Life Science
14 7 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.66%) Windows
2 20 (2.74%) Linux
3 14 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.82%) Unix
5 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (53.64%) Business Intelligence
2 364 (49.93%) Data Visualisation
3 356 (48.83%) Analytics
4 208 (28.53%) Data Modelling
5 199 (27.30%) Decision-Making
6 197 (27.02%) Agile
7 172 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (22.50%) AI
9 150 (20.58%) Data Analysis
10 141 (19.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 133 (18.24%) Actionable Insight
12 128 (17.56%) Validation
13 126 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (15.78%) Dashboard Development
15 113 (15.50%) Data Pipeline
16 112 (15.36%) Data Engineering
17 110 (15.09%) Data Governance
18 109 (14.95%) ETL
19 106 (14.54%) Data Science
20 95 (13.03%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 360 (49.38%) SQL
2 258 (35.39%) Python
3 71 (9.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (7.13%) JavaScript
5 51 (7.00%) R
6 40 (5.49%) Java
7 35 (4.80%) C#
8 23 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.92%) C++
11 13 (1.78%) Scala
12 12 (1.65%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.10%) Bash
14 8 (1.10%) VBA
15 6 (0.82%) Cypher
15 6 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
16 5 (0.69%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.41%) Go
17 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.39%) Degree
4 26 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.69%) PhD
11 4 (0.55%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.41%) PMP
12 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) APMG
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (24.42%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.17%) QA
3 29 (3.98%) GDPR
4 26 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.06%) PMO
6 10 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.96%) GMP
8 5 (0.69%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.69%) GRC
8 5 (0.69%) GxP
8 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.69%) WCAG
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) COBIT
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) IFRS
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (2.88%) Docker
2 17 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (2.33%) Grafana
2 14 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.23%) Kibana
4 8 (1.10%) SCCM
5 6 (0.82%) Ansible
6 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.55%) Podman
8 2 (0.27%) Istio
8 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 153 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.33%) Databricks
3 47 (6.45%) SAP
4 40 (5.49%) Oracle
5 39 (5.35%) Google
6 29 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.74%) Adobe
7 20 (2.74%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.47%) Splunk
9 14 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.65%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.65%) Palantir
11 10 (1.37%) Remedy
12 9 (1.23%) BMC
12 9 (1.23%) Informatica
13 6 (0.82%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.69%) Foundry
15 4 (0.55%) Ariba
15 4 (0.55%) UiPath
15 4 (0.55%) VMware