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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 112 128
Rank change year-on-year -59 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 798 786 789
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 2.43% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.69% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 482 512
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £715 £675 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £447 £465
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.87% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 46 56
10th Percentile £18.08 £23.75 £20.88
25th Percentile £28.50 £31.67 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £46.34 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.86% +35.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.75 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% -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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -62 717 £475 +2.43% 602
London -49 374 £488 -2.50% 268
UK excluding London -72 345 £464 +3.75% 454
Work from Home -31 256 £500 +13.06% 158
North of England -49 115 £445 - 104
Midlands -41 76 £525 +31.25% 68
South East -42 64 £470 -14.55% 101
North West -7 62 £444 -2.42% 55
West Midlands -51 55 £550 +31.34% 34
Yorkshire -47 48 £455 +12.35% 30
South West -26 45 £450 +10.02% 118
Scotland -20 27 £425 -5.56% 17
East of England -43 23 £520 -3.26% 33
East Midlands -7 21 £431 +15.00% 34
North East -35 7 £420 -6.67% 21

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 35 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.75%) Apache
4 13 (1.63%) Confluence
5 12 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.38%) Apache Superset
7 6 (0.75%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.63%) CMS
8 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.63%) SAS
9 4 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 119 (14.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.75%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.75%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.38%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.75%) Primavera
5 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) iTrent
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 399 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 168 (21.05%) Azure
3 133 (16.67%) AWS
4 54 (6.77%) Snowflake
5 51 (6.39%) GCP
6 43 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 37 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.01%) dbt
9 24 (3.01%) GitHub
9 24 (3.01%) Power Automate
9 24 (3.01%) Serverless
10 21 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.51%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.50%) Adobe Analytics
14 11 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.50%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.50%) Firewall
4 3 (0.38%) 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%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) Network Security
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (49.12%) Power BI
2 180 (22.56%) Tableau
3 103 (12.91%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.89%) Relational Database
5 54 (6.77%) Power Query
6 40 (5.01%) Big Data
7 38 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 35 (4.39%) Data Lake
9 33 (4.14%) Looker
10 32 (4.01%) Metadata
11 31 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (3.63%) BigQuery
13 23 (2.88%) Hadoop
14 20 (2.51%) NoSQL
15 18 (2.26%) Star Schema
16 16 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
17 15 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
18 11 (1.38%) PowerPivot
18 11 (1.38%) QlikView
18 11 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (6.52%) Git
2 39 (4.89%) JIRA
3 13 (1.63%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.50%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.75%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.38%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 256 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
2 250 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 202 (25.31%) Finance
4 85 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.52%) Banking
6 39 (4.89%) Marketing
7 37 (4.64%) Retail
8 27 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.13%) Military
12 14 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.50%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.38%) Law
15 10 (1.25%) Publishing
16 9 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.00%) Legal
18 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (27.44%) Analyst
2 130 (16.29%) Data Analyst
3 114 (14.29%) Developer
4 111 (13.91%) Data Engineer
5 86 (10.78%) Senior
6 54 (6.77%) Data Scientist
7 50 (6.27%) Lead
8 47 (5.89%) Consultant
9 44 (5.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 42 (5.26%) Business Analyst
11 33 (4.14%) Power BI Developer
12 31 (3.88%) Architect
13 29 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 27 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.26%) Designer
16 17 (2.13%) Performance Analyst
17 16 (2.01%) Data Manager
18 14 (1.75%) Data Architect
18 14 (1.75%) SAP Consultant
18 14 (1.75%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.51%) Pandas
2 43 (5.39%) React
3 35 (4.39%) Kafka
3 35 (4.39%) REST
4 25 (3.13%) NumPy
5 20 (2.51%) Node.js
5 20 (2.51%) PySpark
5 20 (2.51%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.38%) .NET
7 18 (2.26%) Web Services
8 16 (2.01%) AngularJS
8 16 (2.01%) JSON
9 15 (1.88%) CSS
10 14 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 12 (1.50%) Apache Avro
11 12 (1.50%) HTML
11 12 (1.50%) Spring
11 12 (1.50%) Spring Boot
12 11 (1.38%) FastAPI
12 11 (1.38%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.77%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 32 (4.01%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.13%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.13%) PKI
13 8 (1.00%) Life Science
13 8 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.88%) Clustering
14 7 (0.88%) Derivative
14 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.01%) Windows
2 27 (3.38%) Linux
3 10 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (52.88%) Business Intelligence
2 382 (47.87%) Data Visualisation
3 369 (46.24%) Analytics
4 238 (29.82%) Data Modelling
5 216 (27.07%) Decision-Making
6 208 (26.07%) Agile
7 195 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (21.68%) AI
9 155 (19.42%) Actionable Insight
10 154 (19.30%) Data Pipeline
11 146 (18.30%) Validation
12 141 (17.67%) Data Science
13 140 (17.54%) Data Analysis
14 137 (17.17%) ETL
15 134 (16.79%) Dashboard Development
16 130 (16.29%) Data Engineering
17 119 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 119 (14.91%) Data Governance
18 106 (13.28%) CI/CD
19 105 (13.16%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 405 (50.75%) SQL
2 304 (38.10%) Python
3 77 (9.65%) R
4 69 (8.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.89%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.14%) Java
7 37 (4.64%) TypeScript
8 36 (4.51%) C#
9 17 (2.13%) C++
10 16 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.50%) Scala
12 11 (1.38%) VBA
13 10 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.00%) Bash
14 8 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.50%) Cypher
15 4 (0.50%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.50%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.50%) Rust
16 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 173 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 133 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.65%) Degree
4 21 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.63%) Tableau Certification
9 4 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.38%) CBAP
10 3 (0.38%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.25%) ACCA
11 2 (0.25%) APMG
11 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.25%) NCDA
11 2 (0.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.52%) QA
3 30 (3.76%) GDPR
4 27 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.51%) PMO
6 9 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.50%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.38%) GMP
10 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 3 (0.38%) GxP
10 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (3.26%) Docker
2 15 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (4.14%) Terraform
2 32 (4.01%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.88%) Grafana
4 16 (2.01%) Ansible
4 16 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.50%) Kibana
6 8 (1.00%) logstash
6 8 (1.00%) SCCM
7 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.38%) Podman
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
9 2 (0.25%) vMotion
9 2 (0.25%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 135 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.15%) Databricks
3 47 (5.89%) SAP
4 45 (5.64%) Oracle
5 44 (5.51%) Google
6 24 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.38%) Adobe
8 15 (1.88%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.88%) Splunk
9 13 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.50%) Sage
11 11 (1.38%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.38%) Informatica
12 9 (1.13%) Remedy
13 8 (1.00%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.00%) Palantir
14 7 (0.88%) BMC
15 6 (0.75%) Solace
15 6 (0.75%) VMware
16 5 (0.63%) Foundry