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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 99 126
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 863 790 796
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.33% 2.48% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.80% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 491 528
10th Percentile £342 £325 £313
25th Percentile £407 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £603
90th Percentile £738 £720 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +10.01% -4.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 34 58
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £27.30
25th Percentile £28.63 £23.16 £35.16
Median hourly rate £62.50 £42.93 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +45.59% -7.04% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £49.77
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%

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 32,585 28,260 37,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.84% 88.76% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,582 17,185 24,531
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,992 898 1,578
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.17
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.56 £18.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%
75th Percentile £55.89 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.76% -29.73% +46.88%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -17 749 £500 - 576
London -17 399 £500 -3.85% 155
UK excluding London -10 371 £500 +10.01% 536
Work from Home -22 254 £500 - 192
North of England -29 108 £425 -8.11% 119
Midlands +5 77 £515 +28.75% 80
West Midlands +8 63 £525 +29.23% 35
South East +5 56 £500 +29.70% 178
Yorkshire -15 52 £500 +17.65% 42
North West -31 51 £400 -13.51% 62
Scotland +20 46 £500 +1.27% 27
South West -10 42 £750 +57.89% 58
East of England -29 38 £525 +13.02% 59
East Midlands -24 14 £404 +13.41% 44
North East -20 7 £400 -25.58% 16
Northern Ireland -11 6 £531 +6.25% 9
Wales -8 4 - - 22

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 50 (5.79%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.75%) Confluence
3 40 (4.63%) Apache
4 28 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (2.32%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.74%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.27%) SAS
8 8 (0.93%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.93%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.58%) GeoServer
9 5 (0.58%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Luigi
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 123 (14.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.81%) Siemens NX
5 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.46%) Revit
7 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.35%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.12%) Blender
10 1 (0.12%) InDesign
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.12%) Simulink
10 1 (0.12%) SPSS
10 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (0.81%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Primavera
4 1 (0.12%) Actimize
4 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.12%) Endur
4 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.12%) iTrent
4 1 (0.12%) Maximo
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Summit
4 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 363 (42.06%) Power Platform
2 196 (22.71%) Azure
3 148 (17.15%) AWS
4 71 (8.23%) GCP
5 45 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (5.10%) Snowflake
7 32 (3.71%) Serverless
8 28 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (3.01%) Power Automate
10 23 (2.67%) dbt
10 23 (2.67%) PowerApps
11 20 (2.32%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.32%) GitHub
12 16 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.51%) Figma
15 12 (1.39%) Google Analytics
16 9 (1.04%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.62%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.35%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) NAS
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) SAN
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (41.95%) Power BI
2 163 (18.89%) Tableau
3 98 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (6.03%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.68%) Big Data
6 41 (4.75%) Power Query
7 37 (4.29%) Hadoop
8 32 (3.71%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.59%) Data Lake
10 30 (3.48%) Metadata
11 29 (3.36%) Looker
12 27 (3.13%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
14 20 (2.32%) Data Mining
14 20 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.62%) NoSQL
16 14 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (1.51%) Apache Hive
17 13 (1.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 59 (6.84%) Git
1 59 (6.84%) JIRA
2 18 (2.09%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.62%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.81%) Gradle
5 7 (0.81%) Storybook
5 7 (0.81%) Xcode
6 6 (0.70%) MLflow
7 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) ERwin
9 2 (0.23%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) JUnit
9 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.23%) webpack
10 1 (0.12%) git-flow
10 1 (0.12%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 333 (38.59%) Social Skills
2 231 (26.77%) Analytical Skills
3 220 (25.49%) Finance
4 77 (8.92%) Banking
5 73 (8.46%) Public Sector
6 30 (3.48%) Marketing
6 30 (3.48%) Retail
7 28 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.55%) Military
8 22 (2.55%) Publishing
9 20 (2.32%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.09%) Legal
11 17 (1.97%) Front Office
11 17 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.27%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (23.99%) Analyst
2 136 (15.76%) Developer
3 118 (13.67%) Data Analyst
4 97 (11.24%) Senior
5 89 (10.31%) Data Engineer
6 76 (8.81%) Architect
7 58 (6.72%) Data Scientist
8 49 (5.68%) Lead
9 48 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 46 (5.33%) Consultant
11 45 (5.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 35 (4.06%) Power BI Developer
12 35 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (3.13%) Software Engineer
14 26 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.43%) Report Analyst
16 20 (2.32%) Designer
17 18 (2.09%) Integration Architect
17 18 (2.09%) SQL Analyst
18 17 (1.97%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (4.98%) Pandas
2 40 (4.63%) React
3 36 (4.17%) scikit-learn
4 31 (3.59%) PySpark
5 30 (3.48%) NumPy
6 29 (3.36%) Node.js
7 24 (2.78%) REST
8 23 (2.67%) Kafka
9 20 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (2.32%) Plotly
9 20 (2.32%) Web Services
10 19 (2.20%) AngularJS
11 18 (2.09%) D3.js
12 17 (1.97%) OAuth
12 17 (1.97%) TensorFlow
13 16 (1.85%) HTML
13 16 (1.85%) Vue
14 13 (1.51%) CSS
14 13 (1.51%) Matplotlib
15 12 (1.39%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.68%) Algorithms
2 34 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 32 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 28 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.04%) CMDB
11 9 (1.04%) NHS
11 9 (1.04%) PMI
12 8 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.93%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.81%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.81%) Replication
14 6 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.37%) Linux
2 38 (4.40%) Windows
3 33 (3.82%) Unix
4 8 (0.93%) Android
5 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (47.28%) Data Visualisation
2 401 (46.47%) Business Intelligence
3 320 (37.08%) Analytics
4 227 (26.30%) Data Modelling
5 209 (24.22%) Decision-Making
6 208 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
7 199 (23.06%) Agile
8 193 (22.36%) Data Analysis
9 151 (17.50%) Data Science
10 149 (17.27%) Actionable Insight
11 129 (14.95%) Data Pipeline
12 121 (14.02%) Machine Learning
13 117 (13.56%) AI
14 116 (13.44%) ETL
15 110 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 105 (12.17%) Data Governance
17 98 (11.36%) Validation
18 97 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 91 (10.54%) DevOps
20 86 (9.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 392 (45.42%) SQL
2 298 (34.53%) Python
3 62 (7.18%) R
4 58 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 54 (6.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.29%) Java
7 33 (3.82%) C++
8 32 (3.71%) C#
9 29 (3.36%) TypeScript
10 28 (3.24%) Scala
11 18 (2.09%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.39%) Bash
13 10 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.04%) VBA
15 7 (0.81%) Go
15 7 (0.81%) Groovy
15 7 (0.81%) PHP
16 6 (0.70%) Perl
16 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 162 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 129 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 84 (9.73%) Degree
4 35 (4.06%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.09%) CISSP
8 15 (1.74%) CISM
9 13 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.39%) PhD
11 11 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.81%) CFA
13 7 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.58%) CBAP
14 5 (0.58%) CEH
14 5 (0.58%) MBA
14 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (14.37%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.29%) QA
4 31 (3.59%) GDPR
5 14 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.51%) PMO
7 7 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.35%) EMIR
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.23%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) PERC
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (4.17%) Docker
2 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (4.75%) Terraform
2 37 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.13%) Kibana
4 18 (2.09%) logstash
5 14 (1.62%) Ansible
6 12 (1.39%) Grafana
7 6 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.12%) Cacti
11 1 (0.12%) collectd
11 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.12%) QRadar
11 1 (0.12%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 143 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.30%) Databricks
3 56 (6.49%) Oracle
4 43 (4.98%) Google
5 39 (4.52%) Splunk
6 34 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 31 (3.59%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.32%) Cisco
10 19 (2.20%) AppDynamics
11 17 (1.97%) SAP
12 16 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
13 15 (1.74%) OpenAI
14 13 (1.51%) CyberArk
15 12 (1.39%) Centrify
15 12 (1.39%) Foundry
16 8 (0.93%) Alteryx
16 8 (0.93%) Palantir
17 7 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
17 7 (0.81%) Talend