Visualisation Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Visualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visualisation over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Visualisation UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	197	302	299
Rank change year-on-year	+105	-3
Contract jobs citing Visualisation	605	414	408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.28%	0.77%	0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.52%	0.92%	0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	385	259	243
Median daily rate	£475	£448	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.14%	-0.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£302	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£608	£674	£650
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£445	£406
% change year-on-year	-4.49%	+9.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	9	7
Median hourly rate	£33.50	£22.50	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+48.88%	+12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£24.30	£15.73	£15.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.70	£39.40	£57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	£24.68	£57.75
% change year-on-year	-	-57.26%

Visualisation is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39792	44999	44543
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.45%	83.35%	80.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	25913	29844	28605
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1055	1094	1232
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.00	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+16.07%	+1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£54.00	£48.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Visualisation as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Visualisation in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Visualisation.

Contractor daily rate trend for Visualisation in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Visualisation over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visualisation.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Visualisation in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Visualisation over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

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Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+103	583	£475	+5.55%	181
London	+122	411	£500	+11.73%	92
City of London	+41	70	£575	+35.29%	25
South East	+12	64	£413	-8.33%	18
East Midlands	+15	28	£400	+25.49%	4
West Midlands	+24	25	£480	+20.00%	10
Berkshire	+34	19	£425	+6.25%	1
Scotland	+29	15	£475	+18.75%	12
Northamptonshire	-	14	£475	-
West Sussex	+27	13	£600	+20.00%	1
East of England	+4	13	£411	-11.61%	9
Worthing	-	12	£600	-
North East	+65	11	£360	-4.00%	3
Hampshire	+17	11	£450	-5.26%	2
North West	-2	11	£406	-18.75%	22
Surrey	+4	10	£384	-33.28%	2
Yorkshire	+4	9	£475	+5.55%	11
Edinburgh	+21	8	£425	-	5
Shropshire	+14	8	£510	-
South West	-4	8	£350	-3.44%	11
Newcastle upon Tyne	+62	7	£355	-5.33%	2
Tyne and Wear	+62	7	£355	-5.33%	2
Telford	+15	7	£510	-
East Sussex	+6	7	£330	-	1
Brighton	+5	7	£330	-	1
Northampton	-	7	£475	-
Derby	-	7	£400	-	1
Derbyshire	-	7	£400	-	1
Sheffield	-1	6	£475	-32.14%	2
South Yorkshire	-7	6	£475	-32.14%	2

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Visualisation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Visualisation.

1	663 (59.25%)	Data Visualisation
2	400 (35.75%)	SQL
3	352 (31.46%)	Analytics
4	325 (29.04%)	Agile Software Development
5	309 (27.61%)	Business Intelligence
6	277 (24.75%)	JavaScript
7	267 (23.86%)	Finance
8	244 (21.81%)	Tableau
9	234 (20.91%)	Python
10	218 (19.48%)	HTML
11	195 (17.43%)	CSS
12	185 (16.53%)	User Experience
13	172 (15.37%)	Analytical Skills
14	170 (15.19%)	R
15	169 (15.10%)	Big Data

16	159 (14.21%)	Data Modelling
17	143 (12.78%)	Data Warehouse
18	137 (12.24%)	Java
19	132 (11.80%)	Microsoft
20	131 (11.71%)	SQL Server
21	129 (11.53%)	D3.js
22	128 (11.44%)	Data Analysis
23	125 (11.17%)	Power BI
24	124 (11.08%)	Scrum
25	123 (10.99%)	QlikView
26	118 (10.55%)	Degree
26	118 (10.55%)	Data Analytics
27	117 (10.46%)	Hadoop
28	116 (10.37%)	Relational Database
29	115 (10.28%)	ETL

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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	85 (7.60%)	SAS
2	66 (5.90%)	Apache Spark
3	23 (2.06%)	Apache
4	17 (1.52%)	Apache Pig
5	15 (1.34%)	SharePoint
6	14 (1.25%)	CMS
7	13 (1.16%)	Confluence
7	13 (1.16%)	JBoss
8	12 (1.07%)	Drupal
8	12 (1.07%)	Elasticsearch
8	12 (1.07%)	WebLogic
9	9 (0.80%)	Sitecore CMS
10	6 (0.54%)	SharePoint 2013
10	6 (0.54%)	Skype for Business
11	5 (0.45%)	Adobe Experience Manager
11	5 (0.45%)	Apache Solr
11	5 (0.45%)	Exchange Server 2010
11	5 (0.45%)	Exchange Server 2013
11	5 (0.45%)	Office Communications Server
11	5 (0.45%)	SharePoint 2010

Applications
1	86 (7.69%)	Microsoft Excel
2	40 (3.57%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	31 (2.77%)	SPSS
4	25 (2.23%)	Spreadsheet
5	22 (1.97%)	Photoshop
6	21 (1.88%)	Microsoft Office
7	14 (1.25%)	Adobe Illustrator
8	9 (0.80%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
9	8 (0.71%)	OmniGraffle
10	7 (0.63%)	AutoCAD
11	6 (0.54%)	Microsoft Project
12	5 (0.45%)	MS Visio
13	4 (0.36%)	InVision
14	3 (0.27%)	3ds Max
14	3 (0.27%)	UserZoom
15	2 (0.18%)	Flinto
15	2 (0.18%)	InDesign
15	2 (0.18%)	Stata
16	1 (0.089%)	Adobe After Effects
16	1 (0.089%)	Adobe Premiere

Business Applications
1	19 (1.70%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	4 (0.36%)	Adobe Campaign
3	3 (0.27%)	Dynamics AX
3	3 (0.27%)	HFM
3	3 (0.27%)	Oracle Applications
3	3 (0.27%)	SessionCam
4	2 (0.18%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
4	2 (0.18%)	iTrent
4	2 (0.18%)	Oracle BPM
4	2 (0.18%)	SAP MDG
4	2 (0.18%)	SAP MDM
4	2 (0.18%)	SAP R/3
5	1 (0.089%)	Cognos Planning
5	1 (0.089%)	Cognos TM1
5	1 (0.089%)	Dynamics NAV
5	1 (0.089%)	FastStats
5	1 (0.089%)	NetSuite
5	1 (0.089%)	Oracle ERP
5	1 (0.089%)	SAP BPC

Cloud Services
1	58 (5.18%)	Microsoft Azure
2	30 (2.68%)	Amazon AWS
2	30 (2.68%)	Google Analytics
3	18 (1.61%)	GitHub
4	16 (1.43%)	Office 365
5	10 (0.89%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	8 (0.71%)	Amazon EC2
7	7 (0.63%)	SaaS
8	6 (0.54%)	Adobe Analytics
9	4 (0.36%)	IaaS
10	3 (0.27%)	Amazon ElastiCache
10	3 (0.27%)	Amazon S3
10	3 (0.27%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	3 (0.27%)	Google Tag Manager
11	2 (0.18%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
11	2 (0.18%)	Azure Active Directory
12	1 (0.089%)	Azure Machine Learning
12	1 (0.089%)	Force.com
12	1 (0.089%)	IBM Cloud
12	1 (0.089%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	74 (6.61%)	HTTP
2	12 (1.07%)	LDAP
3	7 (0.63%)	Network Security
4	6 (0.54%)	Skype
5	5 (0.45%)	DHCP
5	5 (0.45%)	DNS
6	4 (0.36%)	Firewall
7	3 (0.27%)	Internet
7	3 (0.27%)	MVNO
8	2 (0.18%)	DSL
8	2 (0.18%)	FTP
8	2 (0.18%)	Peer-to-Peer Networking
8	2 (0.18%)	SAN
8	2 (0.18%)	VPN
9	1 (0.089%)	Broadband
9	1 (0.089%)	LAN
9	1 (0.089%)	MPLS
9	1 (0.089%)	TCP/IP
9	1 (0.089%)	WAN
9	1 (0.089%)	WLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	169 (15.10%)	Big Data
2	143 (12.78%)	Data Warehouse
3	131 (11.71%)	SQL Server
4	125 (11.17%)	Power BI
5	123 (10.99%)	QlikView
6	117 (10.46%)	Hadoop
7	116 (10.37%)	Relational Database
8	64 (5.72%)	SQL Server Integration Services
9	59 (5.27%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	55 (4.92%)	BusinessObjects
11	48 (4.29%)	Qlik Sense
12	44 (3.93%)	Data Mining
13	43 (3.84%)	Apache Hive
14	42 (3.75%)	NoSQL
15	37 (3.31%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
16	29 (2.59%)	MySQL
17	27 (2.41%)	MongoDB
18	24 (2.14%)	Spotfire
19	23 (2.06%)	Azure SQL Database
20	22 (1.97%)	Apache Cassandra

Development Applications
1	105 (9.38%)	Git (software)
2	58 (5.18%)	JIRA
3	38 (3.40%)	Subversion
4	22 (1.97%)	Jenkins
5	19 (1.70%)	JUnit
5	19 (1.70%)	Talend Open Studio
6	18 (1.61%)	Team Foundation Server
7	14 (1.25%)	Axure RP
7	14 (1.25%)	Grunt
8	12 (1.07%)	Mockito
8	12 (1.07%)	Selenium
9	9 (0.80%)	Bitbucket
9	9 (0.80%)	Jasmine
9	9 (0.80%)	Visual Studio
10	8 (0.71%)	Ant
10	8 (0.71%)	Mocha
10	8 (0.71%)	WebDriver
11	7 (0.63%)	Gradle
11	7 (0.63%)	JMeter
11	7 (0.63%)	Maven

General
1	267 (23.86%)	Finance
2	82 (7.33%)	Marketing
3	76 (6.79%)	Banking
4	67 (5.99%)	Retail
5	58 (5.18%)	Telecoms
6	33 (2.95%)	Manufacturing
7	31 (2.77%)	Front Office
8	20 (1.79%)	Electronics
9	17 (1.52%)	Publishing
10	14 (1.25%)	Investment Banking
11	11 (0.98%)	Legal
12	10 (0.89%)	Games
12	10 (0.89%)	Retail Banking
13	8 (0.71%)	Advertising
14	7 (0.63%)	Financial Institution
15	5 (0.45%)	Back Office
15	5 (0.45%)	Pharmaceutical
16	4 (0.36%)	Military
17	3 (0.27%)	Automotive
17	3 (0.27%)	Corporate Banking

Job Titles
1	461 (41.20%)	Developer
2	175 (15.64%)	Analyst
3	128 (11.44%)	Designer
4	92 (8.22%)	Consultant
5	82 (7.33%)	Data Analyst
6	66 (5.90%)	Business Intelligence Developer
7	64 (5.72%)	UX Designer
8	61 (5.45%)	Data Scientist
9	58 (5.18%)	JavaScript Developer
10	50 (4.47%)	Architect
11	47 (4.20%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12	45 (4.02%)	Angular Developer
13	43 (3.84%)	UI Designer
14	42 (3.75%)	Business Analyst
14	42 (3.75%)	Java Developer
15	40 (3.57%)	UI Developer
16	38 (3.40%)	Senior Developer
17	37 (3.31%)	Tableau Developer
18	36 (3.22%)	Python Developer
19	35 (3.13%)	SQL Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	218 (19.48%)	HTML
2	195 (17.43%)	CSS
3	129 (11.53%)	D3.js
4	89 (7.95%)	AngularJS
5	81 (7.24%)	HTML5
6	52 (4.65%)	React
7	46 (4.11%)	CSS3
8	43 (3.84%)	Node.js
9	42 (3.75%)	RESTful
10	40 (3.57%)	XML
11	39 (3.49%)	jQuery
12	38 (3.40%)	JSON
13	35 (3.13%)	.NET
14	32 (2.86%)	REST
15	30 (2.68%)	Web Services
16	29 (2.59%)	Kafka
17	28 (2.50%)	Highcharts JS
18	25 (2.23%)	Angular 2
19	23 (2.06%)	Redux
19	23 (2.06%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	185 (16.53%)	User Experience
2	172 (15.37%)	Analytical Skills
3	61 (5.45%)	Algorithms
4	55 (4.92%)	Computer Science
5	38 (3.40%)	Data Structures
6	35 (3.13%)	Fintech
7	34 (3.04%)	Management Information System
8	30 (2.68%)	Greenfield Project
9	22 (1.97%)	Enterprise Software
9	22 (1.97%)	Private Cloud
10	17 (1.52%)	Fixed Income
11	15 (1.34%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	15 (1.34%)	Graphic Design
11	15 (1.34%)	Hedge funds
12	14 (1.25%)	Mobile App
13	12 (1.07%)	Derivative
13	12 (1.07%)	Equities
14	10 (0.89%)	CMDB
15	9 (0.80%)	NHS
15	9 (0.80%)	W3C

Operating Systems
1	93 (8.31%)	Linux
2	70 (6.26%)	Unix
3	51 (4.56%)	Mac OS X
4	15 (1.34%)	Windows
5	10 (0.89%)	Apple iOS
6	9 (0.80%)	Android
7	6 (0.54%)	Windows Server 2008
8	5 (0.45%)	Windows Server
8	5 (0.45%)	Windows Server 2003
9	1 (0.089%)	AIX
9	1 (0.089%)	CentOS
9	1 (0.089%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	1 (0.089%)	Solaris
9	1 (0.089%)	Windows Server 2012

Processes & Methodologies
1	663 (59.25%)	Data Visualisation
2	352 (31.46%)	Analytics
3	325 (29.04%)	Agile Software Development
4	309 (27.61%)	Business Intelligence
5	159 (14.21%)	Data Modelling
6	128 (11.44%)	Data Analysis
7	124 (11.08%)	Scrum
8	118 (10.55%)	Data Analytics
9	115 (10.28%)	ETL
10	102 (9.12%)	Web Development
11	93 (8.31%)	Machine Learning
12	85 (7.60%)	Stakeholder Management
12	85 (7.60%)	TDD
13	84 (7.51%)	Responsive Web Design
14	83 (7.42%)	Dashboard Development
15	80 (7.15%)	Web Design
16	74 (6.61%)	Configuration Management
17	66 (5.90%)	Statistics
18	65 (5.81%)	Data Management
19	64 (5.72%)	Wireframes

Programming Languages
1	400 (35.75%)	SQL
2	277 (24.75%)	JavaScript
3	234 (20.91%)	Python
4	170 (15.19%)	R
5	137 (12.24%)	Java
6	68 (6.08%)	Scala
7	52 (4.65%)	Ruby
8	46 (4.11%)	C#
9	43 (3.84%)	VBA
10	33 (2.95%)	T-SQL
11	30 (2.68%)	C++
12	28 (2.50%)	PL/SQL
13	26 (2.32%)	ES6
14	20 (1.79%)	TypeScript
15	19 (1.70%)	PHP
16	15 (1.34%)	MATLAB
17	14 (1.25%)	Groovy
18	10 (0.89%)	Go
18	10 (0.89%)	Perl
19	9 (0.80%)	C

Qualifications
1	118 (10.55%)	Degree
2	76 (6.79%)	Security Cleared
3	51 (4.56%)	SC Cleared
4	21 (1.88%)	Computer Science Degree
5	15 (1.34%)	PhD
6	11 (0.98%)	BPSS Clearance
6	11 (0.98%)	Numerate Degree
7	10 (0.89%)	BC Cleared
7	10 (0.89%)	Master's Degree
8	9 (0.80%)	CCA
9	8 (0.71%)	DV Cleared
10	6 (0.54%)	Postgraduate
11	5 (0.45%)	MCSE
11	5 (0.45%)	Microsoft Certification
12	4 (0.36%)	CCNA
12	4 (0.36%)	Cisco Certification
12	4 (0.36%)	CTC Cleared
13	3 (0.27%)	CCNP
14	2 (0.18%)	Oracle Certification
15	1 (0.089%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	49 (4.38%)	Data Quality
2	15 (1.34%)	QA
3	9 (0.80%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	8 (0.71%)	WCAG
5	5 (0.45%)	PMO
6	4 (0.36%)	Actionable Recommendations
7	2 (0.18%)	IFRS
7	2 (0.18%)	IFRS 9
8	1 (0.089%)	ISO/IEC 15288
8	1 (0.089%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	1 (0.089%)	SLA

System Software
1	11 (0.98%)	Docker
2	9 (0.80%)	Active Directory
3	7 (0.63%)	HDFS
4	6 (0.54%)	Hyper-V
5	5 (0.45%)	Apache Flume
6	3 (0.27%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	2 (0.18%)	Apache ZooKeeper
8	1 (0.089%)	KVM
8	1 (0.089%)	Virtual Machines
8	1 (0.089%)	vSphere
8	1 (0.089%)	Xen
8	1 (0.089%)	XenApp
8	1 (0.089%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	21 (1.88%)	Kibana
2	13 (1.16%)	Puppet
3	12 (1.07%)	Grafana
3	12 (1.07%)	logstash
4	6 (0.54%)	Ansible
5	5 (0.45%)	Opscode Chef
6	4 (0.36%)	Kubernetes
7	3 (0.27%)	Graphite
7	3 (0.27%)	HP Fortify
7	3 (0.27%)	StatsD
8	2 (0.18%)	Hadoop YARN
8	2 (0.18%)	Oozie
9	1 (0.089%)	Ambari
9	1 (0.089%)	Cisco Prime
9	1 (0.089%)	Mesos
9	1 (0.089%)	Rundeck
9	1 (0.089%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	244 (21.81%)	Tableau
2	132 (11.80%)	Microsoft
3	84 (7.51%)	Oracle
4	64 (5.72%)	SAP
5	63 (5.63%)	Adobe
6	38 (3.40%)	Google
7	27 (2.41%)	Teradata
8	26 (2.32%)	Splunk
9	21 (1.88%)	Cognos
10	19 (1.70%)	Talend
11	18 (1.61%)	Greenplum
12	16 (1.43%)	Cisco
12	16 (1.43%)	MicroStrategy
13	15 (1.34%)	Alteryx
14	14 (1.25%)	Informatica
15	13 (1.16%)	IBM
16	11 (0.98%)	Salesforce.com
17	10 (0.89%)	AppDynamics
17	10 (0.89%)	MapR
17	10 (0.89%)	SnapLogic