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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 107 118
Rank change year-on-year -100 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 743 832 772
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 2.52% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.79% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 509 455
10th Percentile £320 £324 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £694 £688 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -3.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 50 51
10th Percentile £20.35 £22.76 £24.50
25th Percentile £28.25 £33.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -23.08% +56.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.67 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.37% -13.46% +60.14%

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 46,202 29,871 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.47% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,118 18,549 20,447
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,059 1,786 1,512
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.37% +8.72%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -92 667 £488 +2.63% 713
UK excluding London -88 347 £475 +5.56% 469
London -79 328 £488 -2.50% 366
Work from Home -67 223 £500 +15.61% 275
North of England -71 98 £451 +8.02% 90
Midlands -37 85 £549 +8.23% 74
South East -45 71 £470 -14.55% 124
West Midlands -43 63 £550 +4.76% 36
North West -31 49 £525 +28.83% 43
South West -34 47 £450 -18.18% 69
Yorkshire -52 43 £466 +16.38% 32
Scotland -38 26 £420 -16.00% 42
East of England -51 25 £565 +5.12% 50
East Midlands -6 22 £375 -6.25% 38
North East -45 7 £400 -5.88% 16
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 11

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 21 (2.83%) Confluence
2 19 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.35%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.21%) Apache Superset
6 6 (0.81%) Apache
7 5 (0.67%) CMS
7 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 127 (17.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.94%) CPLEX
5 7 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.67%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.40%) InDesign
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.13%) iTrent
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 389 (52.36%) Power Platform
2 147 (19.78%) Azure
3 104 (14.00%) AWS
4 55 (7.40%) Snowflake
5 50 (6.73%) GCP
6 41 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (4.17%) GitHub
8 30 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (4.04%) Power Automate
9 27 (3.63%) PowerApps
10 26 (3.50%) Serverless
11 22 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (2.69%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.56%) dbt
14 15 (2.02%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
16 12 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
17 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
18 10 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.81%) Wireless
2 5 (0.67%) HTTP
2 5 (0.67%) SNMP
3 4 (0.54%) Broadband
3 4 (0.54%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.54%) WAN
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) 2G
5 2 (0.27%) 3G
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) 5G
5 2 (0.27%) DHCP
5 2 (0.27%) DNS
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (51.41%) Power BI
2 152 (20.46%) Tableau
3 82 (11.04%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (8.61%) Power Query
5 48 (6.46%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.38%) Data Lake
7 31 (4.17%) Metadata
8 30 (4.04%) Big Data
8 30 (4.04%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.36%) Looker
10 24 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (3.10%) BigQuery
12 21 (2.83%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (2.29%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.88%) GIS
14 14 (1.88%) Qlik Sense
15 13 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (1.62%) Parquet
16 12 (1.62%) QlikView
16 12 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (6.33%) Git
2 42 (5.65%) JIRA
3 6 (0.81%) GitLab
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.54%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.40%) JMeter
7 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.13%) MLflow
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) Storybook
8 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 271 (36.47%) Analytical Skills
2 252 (33.92%) Social Skills
3 162 (21.80%) Finance
4 87 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.94%) Banking
6 28 (3.77%) Marketing
7 27 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.10%) Retail
9 19 (2.56%) Military
10 16 (2.15%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.48%) Publishing
15 10 (1.35%) Local Government
16 9 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.21%) Law
16 9 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 199 (26.78%) Analyst
2 112 (15.07%) Data Analyst
3 110 (14.80%) Developer
4 97 (13.06%) Data Engineer
5 91 (12.25%) Senior
6 45 (6.06%) Consultant
6 45 (6.06%) Lead
7 38 (5.11%) Data Scientist
8 34 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 31 (4.17%) Architect
10 28 (3.77%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.77%) Power BI Developer
11 26 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
12 24 (3.23%) Designer
13 20 (2.69%) Python Developer
14 19 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 18 (2.42%) Data Architect
15 18 (2.42%) Data Manager
15 18 (2.42%) Performance Analyst
16 17 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.52%) REST
2 39 (5.25%) Terraform
3 33 (4.44%) Pandas
4 28 (3.77%) React
5 26 (3.50%) CSS
6 24 (3.23%) HTML
7 22 (2.96%) Kafka
7 22 (2.96%) PySpark
8 20 (2.69%) NumPy
9 19 (2.56%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.15%) .NET
11 13 (1.75%) Flask
12 12 (1.62%) Web Services
13 11 (1.48%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.48%) TensorFlow
14 10 (1.35%) JSON
14 10 (1.35%) SOAP
15 9 (1.21%) Middleware
15 9 (1.21%) Vue
16 8 (1.08%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.08%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.63%) Cloud Native
4 26 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.83%) Algorithms
6 21 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (2.02%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.75%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.35%) PKI
13 10 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.21%) Clustering
15 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.08%) NHS
16 7 (0.94%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.77%) Windows
2 14 (1.88%) Linux
2 14 (1.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.81%) Unix
4 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (53.70%) Business Intelligence
2 377 (50.74%) Data Visualisation
3 364 (48.99%) Analytics
4 209 (28.13%) Data Modelling
5 207 (27.86%) Decision-Making
6 189 (25.44%) Agile
7 178 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
8 168 (22.61%) AI
9 154 (20.73%) Data Analysis
10 138 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 136 (18.30%) Actionable Insight
12 128 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (16.42%) Dashboard Development
13 122 (16.42%) Validation
14 118 (15.88%) Data Pipeline
15 117 (15.75%) Data Science
16 115 (15.48%) Data Engineering
17 113 (15.21%) Data Governance
18 112 (15.07%) ETL
19 99 (13.32%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 368 (49.53%) SQL
2 274 (36.88%) Python
3 71 (9.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 59 (7.94%) R
5 44 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.52%) Java
7 32 (4.31%) C#
8 23 (3.10%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.56%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.62%) Scala
10 12 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.21%) VBA
13 8 (1.08%) Bash
13 8 (1.08%) C++
14 6 (0.81%) Cypher
14 6 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (0.67%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.54%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 158 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.34%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.44%) Degree
4 24 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.54%) PhD
9 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.27%) APMG
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.27%) PMP
11 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (23.69%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.59%) QA
3 29 (3.90%) GDPR
4 27 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.15%) PMO
6 10 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.94%) GMP
8 5 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.67%) GRC
8 5 (0.67%) GxP
8 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.67%) WCAG
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 23 (3.10%) Docker
2 17 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (2.42%) Grafana
2 14 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.08%) SCCM
4 7 (0.94%) Kibana
5 6 (0.81%) Ansible
5 6 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.54%) Podman
7 2 (0.27%) Istio
7 2 (0.27%) Packer
7 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.13%) Argo
8 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.13%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.13%) QRadar
8 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 150 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.69%) Databricks
3 43 (5.79%) SAP
4 42 (5.65%) Oracle
5 36 (4.85%) Google
6 30 (4.04%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.69%) Dynatrace
8 18 (2.42%) Adobe
9 17 (2.29%) Splunk
10 13 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.48%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.35%) Palantir
12 10 (1.35%) Remedy
13 9 (1.21%) BMC
14 7 (0.94%) Informatica
15 6 (0.81%) SnapLogic
16 5 (0.67%) Foundry
17 4 (0.54%) Ariba
17 4 (0.54%) Solace
17 4 (0.54%) VMware