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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 106 134
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 +23
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 775 719 740
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 2.50% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.74% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 452 496
10th Percentile £325 £330 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £581
90th Percentile £721 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 36 42
10th Percentile £21.51 £22.61 £20.58
25th Percentile £34.62 £31.10 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.71 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.85 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.96 £65.00
% change year-on-year +97.21% -49.29% -

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 41,043 26,226 36,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 91.02% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,708 16,839 23,557
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,067 2,473
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.26 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.94 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.31% -22.39% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.09 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.85 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.33% -32.93% +7.14%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -58 687 £488 +2.63% 447
London -38 363 £488 -2.50% 201
UK excluding London -62 319 £475 +5.56% 325
Work from Home -19 250 £488 +8.33% 156
North of England -63 99 £453 -2.16% 85
Midlands -52 66 £494 +23.44% 48
North West -27 55 £420 -9.19% 42
South East -37 55 £505 -3.81% 85
South West -18 49 £500 +5.26% 47
West Midlands -49 48 £500 +21.21% 29
Yorkshire -52 40 £463 +6.32% 30
East of England -45 27 £565 +2.73% 24
Scotland -9 24 £409 -9.17% 17
East Midlands -22 18 £488 +30.00% 19
North East -32 7 £420 -20.00% 16
Northern Ireland +1 2 £463 -8.64% 9

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 48 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.45%) Apache
3 18 (2.32%) Confluence
4 17 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.42%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.52%) CMS
9 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.39%) SAS
10 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.26%) Luigi
10 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 115 (14.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.16%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) iTrent
5 3 (0.39%) Primavera
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 359 (46.32%) Power Platform
2 155 (20.00%) Azure
3 137 (17.68%) AWS
4 54 (6.97%) GCP
5 46 (5.94%) Snowflake
6 45 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (3.48%) Serverless
8 26 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.10%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.71%) Amazon S3
11 19 (2.45%) dbt
11 19 (2.45%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.32%) GitHub
13 10 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 10 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.42%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.77%) Firewall
4 4 (0.52%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (45.68%) Power BI
2 181 (23.35%) Tableau
3 103 (13.29%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 45 (5.81%) Big Data
6 41 (5.29%) Metadata
7 39 (5.03%) Power Query
8 37 (4.77%) Looker
8 37 (4.77%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.74%) BigQuery
9 29 (3.74%) Hadoop
9 29 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (3.48%) Data Lake
11 20 (2.58%) NoSQL
12 16 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
13 14 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.81%) Star Schema
14 12 (1.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (7.35%) Git
2 40 (5.16%) JIRA
3 12 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.42%) Eclipse
5 10 (1.29%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.03%) MLflow
7 4 (0.52%) ERwin
7 4 (0.52%) GitLab
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) NUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 242 (31.23%) Analytical Skills
2 239 (30.84%) Social Skills
3 204 (26.32%) Finance
4 73 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.00%) Banking
6 38 (4.90%) Retail
7 31 (4.00%) Marketing
8 28 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.19%) Publishing
11 15 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.81%) Military
13 13 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.68%) Law
13 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.29%) Legal
16 9 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (1.03%) Front Office
17 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (26.32%) Analyst
2 114 (14.71%) Data Analyst
3 107 (13.81%) Data Engineer
3 107 (13.81%) Developer
4 100 (12.90%) Senior
5 55 (7.10%) Data Scientist
6 50 (6.45%) Lead
7 47 (6.06%) Business Analyst
8 45 (5.81%) Consultant
9 37 (4.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 34 (4.39%) Architect
11 27 (3.48%) Power BI Developer
12 26 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 20 (2.58%) Designer
15 19 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.19%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.19%) SAP Consultant
16 17 (2.19%) Senior Data Scientist
16 17 (2.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.06%) Pandas
2 46 (5.94%) React
3 35 (4.52%) Kafka
4 29 (3.74%) REST
5 26 (3.35%) Node.js
6 24 (3.10%) NumPy
7 23 (2.97%) scikit-learn
8 21 (2.71%) PySpark
9 18 (2.32%) .NET
10 16 (2.06%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (2.06%) JSON
10 16 (2.06%) Matplotlib
11 15 (1.94%) CSS
11 15 (1.94%) HTML
12 14 (1.81%) Web Services
13 13 (1.68%) Seaborn
13 13 (1.68%) TensorFlow
13 13 (1.68%) Vue
14 12 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.71%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.74%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 25 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.03%) Derivative
11 8 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.90%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.74%) Windows
2 28 (3.61%) Linux
3 6 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.65%) Unix
4 5 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.39%) Android
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (49.42%) Business Intelligence
2 374 (48.26%) Data Visualisation
3 324 (41.81%) Analytics
4 233 (30.06%) Data Modelling
5 216 (27.87%) Decision-Making
6 203 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (25.94%) Agile
8 158 (20.39%) Actionable Insight
9 146 (18.84%) Data Pipeline
10 140 (18.06%) AI
11 133 (17.16%) Validation
12 131 (16.90%) Data Science
13 127 (16.39%) Data Governance
14 124 (16.00%) ETL
15 122 (15.74%) Data Analysis
16 121 (15.61%) Dashboard Development
17 112 (14.45%) Data Engineering
18 101 (13.03%) CI/CD
19 97 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 97 (12.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 386 (49.81%) SQL
2 293 (37.81%) Python
3 84 (10.84%) R
4 56 (7.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (6.32%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.03%) Java
7 37 (4.77%) TypeScript
8 36 (4.65%) C#
9 23 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 20 (2.58%) C++
11 19 (2.45%) Scala
12 11 (1.42%) VBA
13 9 (1.16%) Perl
14 8 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.90%) Bash
15 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.77%) Rust
17 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.39%) C
18 3 (0.39%) LookML
Qualifications
1 149 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 119 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 79 (10.19%) Degree
4 21 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.52%) CBAP
12 4 (0.52%) MBA
12 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.26%) IIBA
14 2 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.26%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.32%) QA
3 29 (3.74%) GDPR
4 24 (3.10%) PMO
5 20 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.90%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.39%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) P3O
10 2 (0.26%) PERC
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.35%) Docker
2 14 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) HDFS
4 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.39%) Terraform
3 23 (2.97%) Grafana
4 18 (2.32%) Kibana
5 17 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.06%) Ansible
7 12 (1.55%) logstash
8 8 (1.03%) SCCM
9 7 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.39%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.26%) Cilium
11 2 (0.26%) Packer
11 2 (0.26%) vMotion
11 2 (0.26%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 115 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 83 (10.71%) Databricks
3 48 (6.19%) Google
4 43 (5.55%) SAP
5 36 (4.65%) Oracle
6 25 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.06%) Sage
8 14 (1.81%) Adobe
9 13 (1.68%) Splunk
10 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.29%) Amplitude
12 9 (1.16%) Informatica
13 7 (0.90%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.90%) Remedy
14 6 (0.77%) Apple
14 6 (0.77%) Cognos
14 6 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.77%) VMware
15 5 (0.65%) BMC