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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 109 118
Rank change year-on-year -96 +9 +30
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 732 803 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 2.45% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.71% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 491 475
10th Percentile £324 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £397 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -6.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 48 57
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.74 £21.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.06 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +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 45,356 29,667 33,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 90.51% 85.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,834 18,495 21,131
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
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 2,855 1,741 1,763
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%
75th Percentile £67.94 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -42.17% +12.54%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -90 670 £488 +2.63% 476
UK excluding London -74 343 £475 +5.56% 378
London -68 327 £500 - 190
Work from Home -61 221 £500 +16.21% 148
North of England -70 101 £450 +4.65% 92
Midlands -39 83 £539 +6.21% 55
West Midlands -43 62 £550 +4.76% 28
South East -60 62 £458 -16.82% 112
North West -28 50 £473 +5.70% 49
South West -26 47 £450 - 52
Yorkshire -49 46 £466 +16.38% 31
East of England -23 34 £565 +5.12% 38
Scotland -36 23 £425 -5.56% 16
East Midlands -12 21 £375 -6.25% 27
North East -38 6 £410 -8.89% 14

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 19 (2.60%) Apache Spark
1 19 (2.60%) Confluence
2 11 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.37%) ArcGIS
4 9 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.09%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.82%) Apache
7 5 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) R Markdown
Applications
1 115 (15.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.09%) CPLEX
5 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.55%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.41%) InDesign
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 11 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.68%) Primavera
5 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.14%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 369 (50.41%) Power Platform
2 147 (20.08%) Azure
3 107 (14.62%) AWS
4 50 (6.83%) Snowflake
5 46 (6.28%) GCP
6 37 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.55%) GitHub
9 26 (3.55%) Power Automate
10 25 (3.42%) Serverless
11 22 (3.01%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.46%) Amazon S3
12 18 (2.46%) dbt
13 14 (1.91%) Google Analytics
14 13 (1.78%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.37%) SaaS
17 9 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.50%) Ethernet
1 11 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTP
3 3 (0.41%) VPN
3 3 (0.41%) Wireless
4 2 (0.27%) 2G
4 2 (0.27%) 3G
4 2 (0.27%) 4G
4 2 (0.27%) 5G
4 2 (0.27%) Broadband
4 2 (0.27%) DHCP
4 2 (0.27%) DNS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
4 2 (0.27%) Network Security
4 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) SNMP
5 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (49.45%) Power BI
2 143 (19.54%) Tableau
3 91 (12.43%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (7.92%) Power Query
5 47 (6.42%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.46%) Data Lake
7 32 (4.37%) Metadata
8 31 (4.23%) SQL Server
9 30 (4.10%) Big Data
10 25 (3.42%) Looker
10 25 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.14%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (2.05%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.91%) GIS
15 13 (1.78%) Qlik Sense
15 13 (1.78%) QlikView
15 13 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.64%) Parquet
17 11 (1.50%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 46 (6.28%) Git
2 44 (6.01%) JIRA
3 13 (1.78%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.64%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.82%) GitLab
6 5 (0.68%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.14%) Flyway
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.14%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.14%) Storybook
10 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.14%) Vite
General
1 248 (33.88%) Analytical Skills
2 242 (33.06%) Social Skills
3 165 (22.54%) Finance
4 74 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.06%) Banking
6 28 (3.83%) Marketing
7 25 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.14%) Retail
9 22 (3.01%) Military
10 21 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.64%) Law
13 12 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.09%) Local Government
16 8 (1.09%) Publishing
17 6 (0.82%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 187 (25.55%) Analyst
2 108 (14.75%) Developer
3 102 (13.93%) Data Analyst
4 99 (13.52%) Data Engineer
5 89 (12.16%) Senior
6 47 (6.42%) Lead
7 43 (5.87%) Consultant
8 39 (5.33%) Data Scientist
9 36 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 34 (4.64%) Architect
11 29 (3.96%) Business Analyst
11 29 (3.96%) Power BI Developer
12 25 (3.42%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.28%) Designer
14 21 (2.87%) Python Developer
15 19 (2.60%) Data Architect
15 19 (2.60%) Data Manager
16 18 (2.46%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 14 (1.91%) Performance Analyst
17 14 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.60%) Terraform
2 39 (5.33%) REST
3 34 (4.64%) Pandas
4 32 (4.37%) React
5 26 (3.55%) CSS
6 24 (3.28%) HTML
7 22 (3.01%) Kafka
8 21 (2.87%) PySpark
9 20 (2.73%) NumPy
10 18 (2.46%) Web Services
11 16 (2.19%) scikit-learn
12 14 (1.91%) Node.js
13 13 (1.78%) .NET
13 13 (1.78%) Flask
14 11 (1.50%) PyTorch
14 11 (1.50%) TensorFlow
15 10 (1.37%) JSON
15 10 (1.37%) Vue
16 9 (1.23%) AngularJS
16 9 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.87%) Algorithms
4 21 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.32%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.78%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.37%) PKI
10 10 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.23%) Clustering
11 9 (1.23%) Derivative
12 7 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.78%) Windows
2 23 (3.14%) Linux
3 13 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.82%) Unix
5 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Android
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (51.91%) Business Intelligence
2 356 (48.63%) Data Visualisation
3 349 (47.68%) Analytics
4 210 (28.69%) Data Modelling
5 190 (25.96%) Decision-Making
6 188 (25.68%) Agile
7 180 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (21.72%) AI
9 137 (18.72%) Data Analysis
10 130 (17.76%) Actionable Insight
11 125 (17.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 124 (16.94%) Validation
13 119 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (16.26%) ETL
14 115 (15.71%) Data Science
15 114 (15.57%) Data Pipeline
16 111 (15.16%) Data Governance
17 108 (14.75%) Dashboard Development
17 108 (14.75%) Data Engineering
18 96 (13.11%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 355 (48.50%) SQL
2 264 (36.07%) Python
3 68 (9.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 57 (7.79%) R
5 51 (6.97%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.60%) Java
7 37 (5.05%) C#
8 28 (3.83%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.32%) C++
10 16 (2.19%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.64%) Scala
12 11 (1.50%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.37%) VBA
14 8 (1.09%) Bash
15 5 (0.68%) Cypher
15 5 (0.68%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.55%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.55%) Rust
16 4 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 153 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 110 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.75%) Degree
4 22 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.68%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.55%) PhD
10 4 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 4 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.27%) APMG
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.14%) CISSP
13 1 (0.14%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (21.58%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.28%) QA
3 28 (3.83%) GDPR
4 23 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.32%) PMO
6 6 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.68%) GRC
7 5 (0.68%) WCAG
8 4 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.55%) GMP
8 4 (0.55%) GxP
8 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (3.14%) Docker
2 17 (2.32%) 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
Systems Management
1 17 (2.32%) Grafana
2 15 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.09%) SCCM
4 6 (0.82%) Ansible
4 6 (0.82%) Kibana
4 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.41%) Podman
6 2 (0.27%) Istio
6 2 (0.27%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.14%) logstash
7 1 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.14%) QRadar
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 137 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.56%) Databricks
3 44 (6.01%) Oracle
4 43 (5.87%) SAP
5 39 (5.33%) Google
6 31 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.87%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.19%) Adobe
9 13 (1.78%) Splunk
10 11 (1.50%) Alteryx
10 11 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.37%) Remedy
12 9 (1.23%) BMC
13 8 (1.09%) Palantir
14 7 (0.96%) Informatica
15 5 (0.68%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.68%) Foundry
15 5 (0.68%) SnapLogic
16 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
16 4 (0.55%) UiPath