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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 114 128
Rank change year-on-year -69 +14 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 795 793 754
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 2.41% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.66% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 477 486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +3.06% -0.55% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 44 51
10th Percentile £20.31 £22.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -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 45,137 29,773 34,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.43% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,973 18,705 22,228
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,607 2,050
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.33 £17.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.09% -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -63 719 £475 +2.70% 381
London -55 361 £480 -4.00% 158
UK excluding London -67 359 £464 +3.06% 273
Work from Home -30 258 £500 +15.61% 125
North of England -53 113 £445 - 73
Midlands -32 84 £537 +30.18% 48
South East -63 65 £470 -14.55% 82
West Midlands -38 62 £550 +22.22% 30
North West -19 60 £450 +0.67% 43
Yorkshire -46 49 £455 +9.64% 19
South West -20 47 £450 - 39
East of England -35 31 £565 +2.73% 19
Scotland -29 26 £400 -11.11% 8
East Midlands -8 22 £431 +7.81% 18
North East -45 5 £400 -11.11% 13

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 28 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.01%) Confluence
2 16 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.38%) Apache
3 11 (1.38%) Apache Superset
4 10 (1.26%) ArcGIS
5 8 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.63%) CMS
6 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.50%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 120 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.01%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.75%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.50%) InDesign
9 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.25%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Maya
10 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Primavera
5 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) iTrent
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 391 (49.18%) Power Platform
2 163 (20.50%) Azure
3 122 (15.35%) AWS
4 52 (6.54%) Snowflake
5 45 (5.66%) GCP
6 41 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 27 (3.40%) Serverless
10 26 (3.27%) GitHub
10 26 (3.27%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.89%) dbt
12 21 (2.64%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.52%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.64%) Google Analytics
16 12 (1.51%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.51%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.50%) Firewall
3 4 (0.50%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) 2G
5 2 (0.25%) 3G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (48.30%) Power BI
2 171 (21.51%) Tableau
3 95 (11.95%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (7.04%) Power Query
5 52 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.78%) Big Data
7 34 (4.28%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.03%) Looker
8 32 (4.03%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.90%) Metadata
10 27 (3.40%) BigQuery
11 26 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (2.26%) Star Schema
13 17 (2.14%) Hadoop
14 16 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.76%) NoSQL
15 14 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.64%) QlikView
17 12 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (1.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 51 (6.42%) Git
2 41 (5.16%) JIRA
3 13 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.51%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.63%) GitLab
6 5 (0.63%) MLflow
7 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.25%) JMeter
8 2 (0.25%) Selenium
8 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Flyway
9 1 (0.13%) git-flow
9 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.13%) Storybook
9 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 267 (33.58%) Analytical Skills
2 257 (32.33%) Social Skills
3 190 (23.90%) Finance
4 87 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.67%) Banking
6 38 (4.78%) Marketing
7 31 (3.90%) Retail
8 28 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.39%) Military
10 18 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.38%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.38%) Law
14 10 (1.26%) Publishing
15 9 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 215 (27.04%) Analyst
2 132 (16.60%) Data Analyst
3 111 (13.96%) Developer
4 109 (13.71%) Data Engineer
5 82 (10.31%) Senior
6 53 (6.67%) Lead
7 52 (6.54%) Data Scientist
8 43 (5.41%) Consultant
9 41 (5.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 39 (4.91%) Business Analyst
11 34 (4.28%) Architect
12 31 (3.90%) Power BI Developer
13 26 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 21 (2.64%) Designer
15 20 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.39%) Data Manager
17 17 (2.14%) Performance Analyst
18 16 (2.01%) Data Architect
18 16 (2.01%) Python Developer
19 14 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.41%) Pandas
2 38 (4.78%) React
2 38 (4.78%) REST
3 30 (3.77%) Kafka
4 23 (2.89%) NumPy
5 21 (2.64%) PySpark
6 20 (2.52%) scikit-learn
7 19 (2.39%) Web Services
8 18 (2.26%) .NET
8 18 (2.26%) Node.js
9 17 (2.14%) CSS
9 17 (2.14%) JSON
10 14 (1.76%) Apache Avro
10 14 (1.76%) HTML
10 14 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.51%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.51%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.51%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.38%) FastAPI
13 10 (1.26%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.05%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.52%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.01%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.38%) PKI
12 9 (1.13%) Clustering
12 9 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.01%) Life Science
13 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.40%) Windows
2 25 (3.14%) Linux
3 13 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (52.33%) Business Intelligence
2 384 (48.30%) Data Visualisation
3 376 (47.30%) Analytics
4 243 (30.57%) Data Modelling
5 212 (26.67%) Agile
6 204 (25.66%) Decision-Making
7 200 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (21.01%) AI
9 149 (18.74%) Actionable Insight
10 147 (18.49%) Validation
11 143 (17.99%) Data Analysis
12 141 (17.74%) Data Pipeline
12 141 (17.74%) Data Science
13 134 (16.86%) Dashboard Development
14 131 (16.48%) ETL
15 122 (15.35%) Data Engineering
16 121 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 119 (14.97%) Data Governance
18 107 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
19 104 (13.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 409 (51.45%) SQL
2 310 (38.99%) Python
3 72 (9.06%) R
4 68 (8.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.91%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.78%) C#
6 38 (4.78%) Java
7 33 (4.15%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.14%) C++
9 16 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.26%) Scala
10 10 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.01%) VBA
12 6 (0.75%) Bash
13 4 (0.50%) Cypher
13 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.50%) Rust
14 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 178 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 132 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 87 (10.94%) Degree
4 22 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.38%) PhD
11 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) CBAP
12 2 (0.25%) IIBA
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (21.01%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.67%) QA
3 28 (3.52%) GDPR
4 27 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.64%) PMO
6 11 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.50%) GMP
9 4 (0.50%) GxP
9 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Basel III
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (2.64%) Docker
2 17 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.03%) Terraform
2 24 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.64%) Grafana
4 17 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.26%) Ansible
5 10 (1.26%) Kibana
5 10 (1.26%) SCCM
6 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (0.63%) logstash
8 3 (0.38%) Podman
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 138 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.56%) Databricks
3 47 (5.91%) SAP
4 45 (5.66%) Oracle
5 42 (5.28%) Google
6 28 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.52%) Adobe
8 18 (2.26%) Splunk
9 16 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.38%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.38%) Remedy
12 9 (1.13%) BMC
12 9 (1.13%) Sage
13 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.01%) Palantir
14 7 (0.88%) Informatica
15 6 (0.75%) Solace
16 5 (0.63%) Foundry
17 4 (0.50%) VMware