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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 103 109
Rank change year-on-year -110 +6 +28
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 742 844 805
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.55% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.81% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 526 472
10th Percentile £313 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £451 £464 £451
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.77% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 53
10th Percentile £22.03 £18.50 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.96% -3.85% +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 46,356 30,019 32,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.58% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,940 18,640 19,751
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
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 £632 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,287 1,869 1,348
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -102 652 £475 - 1,901
UK excluding London -96 356 £451 -2.86% 1,198
London -79 316 £480 -4.00% 998
Work from Home -69 224 £500 +11.11% 849
North of England -70 102 £438 +3.06% 245
Midlands -43 82 £539 +6.21% 176
South East -58 66 £419 -23.82% 280
West Midlands -40 62 £550 +5.77% 118
North West -42 48 £500 +22.70% 114
South West -30 46 £450 -40.00% 122
Yorkshire -54 42 £480 +16.36% 93
Scotland -39 34 £420 -16.00% 147
East of England -39 29 £565 +7.62% 126
East Midlands -13 20 £362 -9.38% 58
North East -38 13 £350 -17.65% 40
Wales -15 3 £356 +13.55% 49
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 70

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 (2.96%) Confluence
2 19 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.35%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.67%) CMS
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 124 (16.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (0.81%) CPLEX
4 6 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.40%) InDesign
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) Actimize
5 1 (0.13%) iTrent
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 391 (52.70%) Power Platform
2 129 (17.39%) Azure
3 98 (13.21%) AWS
4 57 (7.68%) Snowflake
5 47 (6.33%) GCP
6 38 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.18%) GitHub
8 27 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 27 (3.64%) PowerApps
9 23 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 21 (2.83%) Serverless
12 20 (2.70%) Google Analytics
13 18 (2.43%) dbt
14 16 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (2.02%) Adobe Analytics
16 13 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
18 11 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
19 10 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.35%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.67%) HTTP
2 5 (0.67%) SNMP
2 5 (0.67%) Wireless
3 4 (0.54%) Broadband
3 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.54%) WAN
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) 2G
5 2 (0.27%) 3G
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DHCP
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (51.75%) Power BI
2 142 (19.14%) Tableau
3 71 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (9.57%) Power Query
4 43 (5.80%) Relational Database
5 42 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 32 (4.31%) Metadata
7 25 (3.37%) Big Data
8 24 (3.23%) BigQuery
8 24 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.96%) Looker
10 20 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
11 18 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (2.02%) QlikView
12 15 (2.02%) Star Schema
13 14 (1.89%) GIS
14 10 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
14 10 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (5.93%) Git
2 41 (5.53%) JIRA
3 11 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.35%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.81%) GitLab
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) fastlane
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Vite
10 1 (0.13%) Xcode
General
1 270 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 267 (35.98%) Analytical Skills
3 164 (22.10%) Finance
4 94 (12.67%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.95%) Banking
6 27 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.37%) Military
8 23 (3.10%) Retail
9 22 (2.96%) Marketing
10 21 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.75%) Local Government
13 13 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.21%) Publishing
18 6 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 207 (27.90%) Analyst
2 119 (16.04%) Data Analyst
3 115 (15.50%) Developer
4 82 (11.05%) Data Engineer
5 81 (10.92%) Senior
6 44 (5.93%) Lead
7 41 (5.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 41 (5.53%) Consultant
8 38 (5.12%) Data Scientist
9 33 (4.45%) Power BI Developer
10 28 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
11 27 (3.64%) Architect
12 26 (3.50%) Business Analyst
13 25 (3.37%) Designer
14 23 (3.10%) Performance Analyst
15 19 (2.56%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.29%) Data Architect
16 17 (2.29%) Report Analyst
17 15 (2.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 15 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.99%) Terraform
2 35 (4.72%) REST
3 27 (3.64%) React
4 26 (3.50%) CSS
4 26 (3.50%) Pandas
5 24 (3.23%) HTML
6 22 (2.96%) PySpark
7 18 (2.43%) Kafka
8 16 (2.16%) NumPy
9 15 (2.02%) scikit-learn
9 15 (2.02%) Web Services
10 10 (1.35%) .NET
10 10 (1.35%) Flask
10 10 (1.35%) Node.js
11 9 (1.21%) JSON
11 9 (1.21%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.21%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.08%) Redux
13 7 (0.94%) SOAP
13 7 (0.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 35 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.96%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.75%) Reference Data
10 11 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.21%) NHS
13 8 (1.08%) PKI
14 7 (0.94%) Clustering
14 7 (0.94%) Derivative
14 7 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.31%) Windows
2 21 (2.83%) Linux
3 12 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.81%) Unix
5 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.54%) Android
7 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (54.18%) Business Intelligence
2 366 (49.33%) Data Visualisation
3 362 (48.79%) Analytics
4 217 (29.25%) Data Modelling
5 216 (29.11%) Decision-Making
6 201 (27.09%) Agile
7 173 (23.32%) AI
8 170 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
9 156 (21.02%) Data Analysis
10 151 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 140 (18.87%) Actionable Insight
12 129 (17.39%) Validation
13 127 (17.12%) Dashboard Development
14 126 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (15.23%) Data Governance
16 110 (14.82%) Data Pipeline
16 110 (14.82%) Data Science
17 109 (14.69%) ETL
18 108 (14.56%) Data Engineering
19 98 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 365 (49.19%) SQL
2 254 (34.23%) Python
3 77 (10.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 48 (6.47%) JavaScript
4 48 (6.47%) R
5 36 (4.85%) Java
6 34 (4.58%) C#
7 21 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.75%) C++
10 11 (1.48%) Scala
10 11 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.21%) Bash
11 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.81%) Cypher
12 6 (0.81%) VBA
13 5 (0.67%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.54%) Korn
15 3 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 159 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.32%) Degree
4 31 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.81%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.54%) PMP
11 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.27%) APMG
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.27%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (26.15%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.06%) QA
3 25 (3.37%) GDPR
4 24 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.02%) PMO
6 12 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.94%) GMP
8 5 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.67%) GRC
8 5 (0.67%) GxP
8 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.54%) WCAG
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) Basel III
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS
12 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (2.96%) Docker
2 14 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) 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 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (2.02%) Grafana
2 14 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.35%) Kibana
4 7 (0.94%) Ansible
4 7 (0.94%) SCCM
5 4 (0.54%) Podman
5 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.27%) Argo
6 2 (0.27%) Istio
6 2 (0.27%) logstash
6 2 (0.27%) Packer
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.36%) Databricks
3 46 (6.20%) SAP
4 39 (5.26%) Google
5 37 (4.99%) Oracle
6 24 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.70%) Adobe
8 19 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.43%) Splunk
10 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.75%) Palantir
12 11 (1.48%) Alteryx
13 9 (1.21%) Informatica
14 8 (1.08%) Remedy
15 7 (0.94%) BMC
16 6 (0.81%) SnapLogic
17 5 (0.67%) Foundry
17 5 (0.67%) Workday
18 4 (0.54%) Ariba
18 4 (0.54%) VMware