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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 117 122
Rank change year-on-year -80 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 752 786 760
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 2.39% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.64% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 481 474
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £399 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £612
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 46 58
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.67 £21.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £32.69 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +48.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.50% -23.08% +56.46%

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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 August 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 August 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 11 August 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 -73 689 £475 +2.70% 738
UK excluding London -69 350 £475 +5.56% 465
London -68 339 £480 -4.00% 372
Work from Home -54 232 £500 +16.82% 257
North of England -61 104 £455 +5.81% 116
Midlands -41 85 £522 +22.71% 71
West Midlands -44 64 £550 +6.80% 44
South East -64 64 £450 -18.18% 121
North West -19 52 £473 +5.70% 60
Yorkshire -47 47 £471 +17.81% 40
South West -16 45 £463 +2.78% 58
East of England -26 35 £565 +2.73% 53
Scotland -28 24 £400 -13.51% 30
East Midlands -6 21 £375 -6.25% 27
North East -43 6 £410 -8.89% 17

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 (2.79%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.13%) Confluence
3 12 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.33%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.20%) Apache Superset
6 7 (0.93%) Apache
7 5 (0.66%) CMS
7 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.53%) SAS
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 121 (16.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.06%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.53%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.40%) InDesign
10 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.27%) Notion
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.66%) Primavera
5 4 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.13%) iTrent
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
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%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 378 (50.27%) Power Platform
2 154 (20.48%) Azure
3 115 (15.29%) AWS
4 52 (6.91%) Snowflake
5 44 (5.85%) GCP
6 39 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (4.12%) Serverless
9 28 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.72%) Power Automate
10 26 (3.46%) GitHub
11 23 (3.06%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.66%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.39%) dbt
14 16 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.73%) Google Analytics
16 12 (1.60%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.60%) Ethernet
2 11 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.53%) HTTP
3 4 (0.53%) Wireless
4 2 (0.27%) 2G
4 2 (0.27%) 3G
4 2 (0.27%) 4G
4 2 (0.27%) 5G
4 2 (0.27%) DHCP
4 2 (0.27%) DNS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
4 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
4 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) SNMP
4 2 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) Broadband
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) Intranet
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (49.47%) Power BI
2 154 (20.48%) Tableau
3 94 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (7.85%) Power Query
5 53 (7.05%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.52%) Metadata
7 33 (4.39%) Data Lake
8 32 (4.26%) Big Data
9 30 (3.99%) SQL Server
10 26 (3.46%) Looker
11 25 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (2.66%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (1.99%) Star Schema
15 13 (1.73%) GIS
15 13 (1.73%) QlikView
15 13 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.60%) Parquet
16 12 (1.60%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (6.25%) Git
2 41 (5.45%) JIRA
3 13 (1.73%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.60%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) GitLab
7 5 (0.66%) MLflow
8 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
10 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.27%) Selenium
10 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.13%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 252 (33.51%) Analytical Skills
2 248 (32.98%) Social Skills
3 173 (23.01%) Finance
4 86 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.31%) Banking
6 34 (4.52%) Marketing
7 26 (3.46%) Retail
8 25 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.79%) Military
10 18 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.60%) Law
13 9 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.20%) Publishing
13 9 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.80%) Front Office
14 6 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 202 (26.86%) Analyst
2 115 (15.29%) Data Analyst
3 110 (14.63%) Developer
4 99 (13.16%) Data Engineer
5 80 (10.64%) Senior
6 52 (6.91%) Lead
7 45 (5.98%) Data Scientist
8 42 (5.59%) Consultant
9 37 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 36 (4.79%) Business Analyst
11 34 (4.52%) Architect
12 30 (3.99%) Power BI Developer
13 25 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 24 (3.19%) Designer
15 20 (2.66%) Data Architect
15 20 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.53%) Data Manager
16 19 (2.53%) Python Developer
17 16 (2.13%) Performance Analyst
18 14 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.19%) Pandas
2 36 (4.79%) REST
3 31 (4.12%) React
4 23 (3.06%) NumPy
5 22 (2.93%) CSS
5 22 (2.93%) Kafka
6 21 (2.79%) PySpark
7 20 (2.66%) HTML
8 19 (2.53%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.53%) Web Services
9 15 (1.99%) Node.js
10 14 (1.86%) .NET
11 12 (1.60%) JSON
11 12 (1.60%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.60%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.46%) Flask
13 10 (1.33%) Seaborn
14 9 (1.20%) Matplotlib
14 9 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
14 9 (1.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.85%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.99%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.72%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.32%) Algorithms
5 21 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 16 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.73%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.46%) Reference Data
12 10 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.20%) Clustering
13 9 (1.20%) PKI
14 8 (1.06%) Derivative
14 8 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.52%) Windows
2 24 (3.19%) Linux
3 13 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.93%) Unix
5 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (52.79%) Business Intelligence
2 365 (48.54%) Data Visualisation
3 359 (47.74%) Analytics
4 226 (30.05%) Data Modelling
5 203 (26.99%) Agile
6 199 (26.46%) Decision-Making
7 190 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (20.61%) AI
9 137 (18.22%) Data Analysis
10 131 (17.42%) Actionable Insight
10 131 (17.42%) Validation
11 126 (16.76%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (16.76%) Data Science
12 123 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (16.36%) ETL
13 118 (15.69%) Dashboard Development
13 118 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 109 (14.49%) Data Engineering
14 109 (14.49%) Data Governance
15 96 (12.77%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 378 (50.27%) SQL
2 275 (36.57%) Python
3 69 (9.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 62 (8.24%) R
5 50 (6.65%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.19%) Java
7 38 (5.05%) C#
8 26 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.26%) C++
9 17 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.46%) Scala
11 10 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.06%) VBA
13 7 (0.93%) Bash
14 5 (0.66%) Cypher
14 5 (0.66%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.53%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 168 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 122 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.30%) Degree
4 23 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.53%) PhD
9 4 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 4 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.27%) APMG
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.13%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (21.81%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.78%) QA
3 27 (3.59%) GDPR
4 21 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.66%) PMO
6 8 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.66%) SLA
8 4 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.53%) GMP
8 4 (0.53%) GRC
8 4 (0.53%) GxP
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 4 (0.53%) WCAG
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 26 (3.46%) Docker
2 18 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.53%) 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 38 (5.05%) Terraform
2 19 (2.53%) Grafana
3 18 (2.39%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.06%) SCCM
6 7 (0.93%) Ansible
6 7 (0.93%) Kibana
7 4 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.40%) Podman
9 2 (0.27%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 137 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.31%) Databricks
3 49 (6.52%) Oracle
4 44 (5.85%) SAP
5 39 (5.19%) Google
6 30 (3.99%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.79%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.53%) Adobe
9 15 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.99%) Splunk
10 11 (1.46%) Alteryx
11 10 (1.33%) Remedy
12 9 (1.20%) BMC
13 8 (1.06%) Palantir
14 7 (0.93%) Informatica
15 6 (0.80%) Sage
16 5 (0.66%) Amplitude
16 5 (0.66%) Foundry
17 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
17 4 (0.53%) UiPath