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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 99 138
Rank change year-on-year -54 +39 +13
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 806 755 739
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.56% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.83% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 492 487
10th Percentile £326 £335 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £588 £582 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £453
% change year-on-year +4.40% +0.55% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 39
10th Percentile £20.37 £21.93 £20.49
25th Percentile £40.31 £23.29 £34.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £32.96 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.62% -34.08% -23.08%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £63.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.37 £72.60
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 39,258 26,720 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 90.74% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,768 17,301 24,236
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,041 2,413
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -17.14% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -49 705 £488 +2.63% 438
London -43 382 £491 -3.01% 162
UK excluding London -59 323 £475 +4.40% 350
Work from Home -22 256 £488 +5.41% 149
North of England -49 101 £450 -2.70% 98
Midlands -32 69 £500 +21.21% 65
North West -32 60 £420 -11.58% 59
South East -37 50 £500 - 89
West Midlands -41 49 £500 +19.40% 34
South West -27 41 £475 - 40
Yorkshire -56 37 £463 +8.82% 25
East of England -38 34 £565 +18.95% 30
Scotland -9 28 £463 +1.37% 13
East Midlands -20 20 £441 +20.23% 31
North East -18 7 £420 -6.67% 14
Northern Ireland +3 3 £463 +8.82% 15

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 49 (6.08%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.98%) Apache
3 20 (2.48%) Confluence
4 19 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 18 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.36%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.50%) SAS
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) Luigi
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 121 (15.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.49%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.12%) Blender
9 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.37%) iTrent
4 3 (0.37%) Primavera
4 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Actimize
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 361 (44.79%) Power Platform
2 166 (20.60%) Azure
3 143 (17.74%) AWS
4 58 (7.20%) GCP
5 52 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (4.22%) Serverless
6 34 (4.22%) Snowflake
7 29 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 26 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.10%) Power Automate
10 24 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (2.48%) dbt
12 18 (2.23%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.11%) GitHub
14 13 (1.61%) Google Workspace
15 11 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.74%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.74%) Firewall
4 3 (0.37%) 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
5 2 (0.25%) SNMP
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) LTE
6 1 (0.12%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.12%) Modbus
6 1 (0.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (44.67%) Power BI
2 179 (22.21%) Tableau
3 98 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.71%) Big Data
5 41 (5.09%) Metadata
6 40 (4.96%) Power Query
6 40 (4.96%) Relational Database
7 32 (3.97%) Looker
8 31 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 30 (3.72%) Data Lake
10 29 (3.60%) Hadoop
11 26 (3.23%) BigQuery
12 23 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (2.48%) NoSQL
14 19 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (1.99%) Star Schema
17 14 (1.74%) Geospatial Data
17 14 (1.74%) MySQL
17 14 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (6.95%) Git
2 38 (4.71%) JIRA
3 15 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.74%) Eclipse
4 14 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.99%) MLflow
6 4 (0.50%) ERwin
6 4 (0.50%) GitLab
7 3 (0.37%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.25%) Postman
8 2 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 280 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 247 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
3 225 (27.92%) Finance
4 89 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.07%) Banking
6 37 (4.59%) Retail
7 35 (4.34%) Marketing
8 24 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.23%) Military
10 18 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (1.99%) Publishing
13 14 (1.74%) Law
14 13 (1.61%) Front Office
14 13 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.24%) Legal
16 9 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.12%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 215 (26.67%) Analyst
2 119 (14.76%) Developer
3 116 (14.39%) Data Analyst
4 108 (13.40%) Senior
5 103 (12.78%) Data Engineer
6 57 (7.07%) Data Scientist
7 53 (6.58%) Lead
8 50 (6.20%) Business Analyst
9 46 (5.71%) Consultant
10 40 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (4.34%) Architect
12 32 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
13 29 (3.60%) Power BI Developer
14 23 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 23 (2.85%) Senior Data Engineer
15 22 (2.73%) Software Engineer
16 19 (2.36%) Data Business Analyst
17 16 (1.99%) Designer
18 15 (1.86%) Performance Analyst
18 15 (1.86%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.33%) Pandas
2 48 (5.96%) React
3 36 (4.47%) Kafka
4 31 (3.85%) NumPy
5 30 (3.72%) scikit-learn
6 29 (3.60%) Node.js
7 27 (3.35%) REST
8 23 (2.85%) PySpark
9 22 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (2.36%) .NET
11 19 (2.36%) Vue
12 18 (2.23%) Matplotlib
12 18 (2.23%) Web Services
13 16 (1.99%) Plotly
14 15 (1.86%) JSON
14 15 (1.86%) Seaborn
14 15 (1.86%) TensorFlow
15 13 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.61%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.96%) Data Structures
2 34 (4.22%) Algorithms
3 33 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 24 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 23 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.61%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 8 (0.99%) PMI
11 7 (0.87%) Derivative
11 7 (0.87%) Life Science
11 7 (0.87%) NHS
11 7 (0.87%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.34%) Linux
2 27 (3.35%) Windows
3 11 (1.36%) Unix
4 5 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (49.63%) Business Intelligence
2 391 (48.51%) Data Visualisation
3 323 (40.07%) Analytics
4 233 (28.91%) Data Modelling
5 213 (26.43%) Decision-Making
6 212 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (25.93%) Agile
8 169 (20.97%) Actionable Insight
9 150 (18.61%) Data Analysis
10 139 (17.25%) Data Science
11 138 (17.12%) Data Pipeline
12 137 (17.00%) Validation
13 133 (16.50%) AI
14 122 (15.14%) Data Governance
15 117 (14.52%) ETL
16 115 (14.27%) Dashboard Development
17 110 (13.65%) Data Engineering
18 103 (12.78%) CI/CD
19 97 (12.03%) Machine Learning
20 90 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 385 (47.77%) SQL
2 291 (36.10%) Python
3 78 (9.68%) R
4 57 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 41 (5.09%) C#
7 34 (4.22%) TypeScript
8 31 (3.85%) Java
9 25 (3.10%) C++
10 20 (2.48%) Scala
11 17 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.61%) VBA
13 9 (1.12%) Perl
14 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.74%) Rust
15 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.62%) Bash
16 5 (0.62%) Groovy
17 4 (0.50%) PHP
17 4 (0.50%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 161 (19.98%) Security Cleared
2 134 (16.63%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.18%) Degree
4 23 (2.85%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.50%) CISM
11 4 (0.50%) CISSP
11 4 (0.50%) MBA
11 4 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.37%) CBAP
12 3 (0.37%) CFA
12 3 (0.37%) PhD
12 3 (0.37%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (17.87%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.82%) QA
3 26 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.23%) GDPR
4 25 (3.10%) PMO
5 16 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.87%) SLA
7 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.62%) WCAG
8 4 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.25%) NIST
9 2 (0.25%) PERC
10 1 (0.12%) Basel III
10 1 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (3.97%) Docker
2 8 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) HDFS
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.22%) Terraform
3 23 (2.85%) Kibana
4 22 (2.73%) Grafana
5 18 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.11%) logstash
7 16 (1.99%) Ansible
8 7 (0.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.62%) SCCM
10 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.25%) Cilium
11 2 (0.25%) vMotion
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.12%) Istio
12 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 131 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.06%) Databricks
3 51 (6.33%) Google
4 40 (4.96%) Oracle
5 36 (4.47%) SAP
6 27 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.11%) Sage
8 17 (2.11%) Splunk
9 13 (1.61%) Adobe
10 8 (0.99%) Amplitude
10 8 (0.99%) Cisco
10 8 (0.99%) Informatica
11 7 (0.87%) Cognos
11 7 (0.87%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.74%) Apple
12 6 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (0.62%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.62%) AppDynamics