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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 103 139
Rank change year-on-year -55 +36 +14
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 790 755 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.57% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.83% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 493 484
10th Percentile £326 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £453
% change year-on-year +4.40% +0.55% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 32 38
10th Percentile £22.52 £22.00 £20.49
25th Percentile £41.25 £24.43 £31.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.81 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.88% -38.54% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £73.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £60.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -47.27% -7.69%

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 39,735 26,655 37,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.81% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,044 17,231 24,097
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,068 2,424
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £35.98
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.17% -0.07%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -49 694 £488 +2.63% 380
London -47 369 £490 -2.00% 166
UK excluding London -58 323 £475 +4.40% 316
Work from Home -21 256 £488 +5.41% 158
North of England -59 103 £450 -2.70% 68
Midlands -34 67 £488 +18.18% 51
North West -18 60 £420 -11.58% 43
South East -42 52 £500 - 123
West Midlands -42 47 £500 +19.40% 36
South West -32 42 £488 +2.63% 38
Yorkshire -52 40 £459 +7.94% 13
East of England -39 34 £565 +10.24% 19
Scotland -13 26 £450 - 6
East Midlands -22 20 £441 +20.23% 15
North East -24 6 £448 -0.56% 12
Northern Ireland +5 2 £463 +8.82% 7

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 47 (5.95%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.78%) Apache
3 18 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.15%) Confluence
5 16 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 121 (15.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (1.39%) Chatbot
6 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.13%) Blender
9 1 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.38%) iTrent
4 3 (0.38%) Primavera
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 360 (45.57%) Power Platform
2 162 (20.51%) Azure
3 135 (17.09%) AWS
4 58 (7.34%) GCP
5 49 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (4.56%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.80%) Serverless
8 29 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.16%) Power Automate
11 22 (2.78%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (2.28%) dbt
14 17 (2.15%) GitHub
14 17 (2.15%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.65%) Google Workspace
16 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.77%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.76%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
5 2 (0.25%) SMS
6 1 (0.13%) 5G
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) LTE
6 1 (0.13%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
6 1 (0.13%) VoIP
6 1 (0.13%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (45.44%) Power BI
2 180 (22.78%) Tableau
3 99 (12.53%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (5.44%) Big Data
5 39 (4.94%) Metadata
5 39 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.81%) Power Query
7 33 (4.18%) Looker
7 33 (4.18%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.67%) Data Lake
8 29 (3.67%) Hadoop
9 26 (3.29%) BigQuery
10 25 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (2.53%) NoSQL
12 18 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (1.90%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 58 (7.34%) Git
2 37 (4.68%) JIRA
3 15 (1.90%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.77%) Eclipse
5 13 (1.65%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.01%) MLflow
7 4 (0.51%) ERwin
7 4 (0.51%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) NUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 272 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 248 (31.39%) Analytical Skills
3 215 (27.22%) Finance
4 84 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.84%) Banking
6 39 (4.94%) Retail
7 36 (4.56%) Marketing
8 23 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.28%) Military
11 17 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.77%) Law
12 14 (1.77%) Publishing
13 13 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.39%) Front Office
15 10 (1.27%) Legal
16 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 211 (26.71%) Analyst
2 115 (14.56%) Developer
3 112 (14.18%) Data Analyst
4 102 (12.91%) Data Engineer
5 100 (12.66%) Senior
6 56 (7.09%) Data Scientist
7 52 (6.58%) Lead
8 48 (6.08%) Business Analyst
9 45 (5.70%) Consultant
10 40 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 34 (4.30%) Architect
12 29 (3.67%) Power BI Developer
13 28 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 22 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (2.78%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
16 18 (2.28%) Designer
17 17 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
18 16 (2.03%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.33%) Pandas
2 47 (5.95%) React
3 36 (4.56%) Kafka
4 30 (3.80%) NumPy
4 30 (3.80%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.67%) Node.js
6 28 (3.54%) REST
7 22 (2.78%) PySpark
8 20 (2.53%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.41%) .NET
10 18 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.28%) Matplotlib
11 17 (2.15%) Web Services
12 16 (2.03%) Vue
13 15 (1.90%) JSON
13 15 (1.90%) Seaborn
13 15 (1.90%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.65%) HTML
14 13 (1.65%) Plotly
14 13 (1.65%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.82%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.18%) Algorithms
3 32 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.01%) PMI
12 7 (0.89%) Derivative
12 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.89%) Life Science
12 7 (0.89%) NHS
12 7 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.56%) Linux
2 28 (3.54%) Windows
3 11 (1.39%) Unix
4 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (50.25%) Business Intelligence
2 381 (48.23%) Data Visualisation
3 321 (40.63%) Analytics
4 232 (29.37%) Data Modelling
5 213 (26.96%) Decision-Making
6 207 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
7 205 (25.95%) Agile
8 168 (21.27%) Actionable Insight
9 138 (17.47%) Data Analysis
10 137 (17.34%) Validation
11 136 (17.22%) Data Pipeline
12 134 (16.96%) AI
12 134 (16.96%) Data Science
13 124 (15.70%) Data Governance
14 120 (15.19%) Dashboard Development
15 115 (14.56%) ETL
16 110 (13.92%) Data Engineering
17 101 (12.78%) CI/CD
18 95 (12.03%) Machine Learning
19 90 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 380 (48.10%) SQL
2 296 (37.47%) Python
3 80 (10.13%) R
4 57 (7.22%) JavaScript
5 54 (6.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 42 (5.32%) C#
7 36 (4.56%) TypeScript
8 33 (4.18%) Java
9 25 (3.16%) C++
10 19 (2.41%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.28%) Scala
12 13 (1.65%) VBA
13 9 (1.14%) Perl
14 7 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.76%) Rust
15 6 (0.76%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.63%) Bash
17 4 (0.51%) Groovy
17 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 156 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 127 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.37%) Degree
4 22 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.14%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.51%) CISM
11 4 (0.51%) CISSP
11 4 (0.51%) MBA
11 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.38%) CBAP
12 3 (0.38%) PhD
12 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (17.47%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.96%) QA
3 26 (3.29%) GDPR
4 25 (3.16%) PMO
5 23 (2.91%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.63%) WCAG
9 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) NIST
11 2 (0.25%) P3O
11 2 (0.25%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (3.80%) Docker
2 9 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.51%) HDFS
4 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.18%) Terraform
3 23 (2.91%) Grafana
4 19 (2.41%) Kibana
5 17 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.03%) Ansible
7 14 (1.77%) logstash
8 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.63%) SCCM
10 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 131 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.37%) Databricks
3 51 (6.46%) Google
4 40 (5.06%) Oracle
5 39 (4.94%) SAP
6 24 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.15%) Sage
9 15 (1.90%) Splunk
10 14 (1.77%) Adobe
11 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
11 8 (1.01%) Informatica
12 7 (0.89%) Cognos
13 6 (0.76%) Apple
13 6 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
13 6 (0.76%) Cisco
13 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.63%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.63%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.63%) Solace