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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 105 127
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 918 813 917
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.60% 2.22% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.58% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 488 604
10th Percentile £319 £325 £302
25th Percentile £400 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -2.20% -5.32%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £619
90th Percentile £716 £771 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 48 77
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £22.72
25th Percentile £33.25 £27.88 £33.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £49.34 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% +6.84% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

All Process and 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 31,719 31,545 41,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.82% 86.25% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,853 18,987 28,148
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 1,115 1,613
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.22% +23.80%
75th Percentile £44.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.93 £43.83
% change year-on-year -33.30% -22.58% +48.56%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 17 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 16 November 2025. 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 +3 797 £475 -5.00% 884
UK excluding London +26 419 £475 +5.56% 497
London -8 410 £500 -9.09% 482
Work from Home -10 267 £488 -2.50% 456
North of England -16 116 £425 -5.56% 102
Midlands +9 82 £515 +26.65% 74
South East +18 71 £500 +4.17% 185
West Midlands +17 67 £525 +31.25% 44
Yorkshire -5 65 £450 - 32
Scotland +21 55 £500 +1.27% 27
East of England -10 47 £525 +23.53% 44
North West -26 47 £405 -8.89% 59
South West +7 40 £750 +57.89% 50
East Midlands -7 15 £393 -7.65% 30
Wales +4 6 £183 -67.56% 15
Northern Ireland -15 6 £600 +20.00% 11
North East -23 4 £413 -8.33% 13

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 41 (4.47%) Confluence
2 35 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 33 (3.59%) Apache
4 30 (3.27%) SharePoint
5 29 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.63%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.42%) SAS
8 8 (0.87%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.76%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.33%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.33%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 141 (15.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.20%) Siemens NX
6 7 (0.76%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.54%) Adobe Captivate
7 5 (0.54%) Maya
8 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.44%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.44%) Revit
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.33%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.22%) Maple
10 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.22%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.20%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.11%) Maximo
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 387 (42.16%) Power Platform
2 206 (22.44%) Azure
3 153 (16.67%) AWS
4 83 (9.04%) GCP
5 50 (5.45%) Snowflake
6 39 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 33 (3.59%) Serverless
8 32 (3.49%) Power Automate
9 31 (3.38%) dbt
10 30 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (3.05%) PowerApps
12 23 (2.51%) Amazon S3
13 21 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (2.29%) GitHub
14 16 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.42%) Figma
17 12 (1.31%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.61%) TCP/IP
2 22 (2.40%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.54%) Internet
4 4 (0.44%) 2G
4 4 (0.44%) 5G
4 4 (0.44%) SNMP
5 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.33%) MQTT
5 3 (0.33%) SSH
6 2 (0.22%) Firewall
6 2 (0.22%) LTE
6 2 (0.22%) Mobile Backhaul
6 2 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.22%) SSL
6 2 (0.22%) VoIP
7 1 (0.11%) DNS
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) LAN
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (41.39%) Power BI
2 187 (20.37%) Tableau
3 106 (11.55%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.34%) Power Query
6 45 (4.90%) Big Data
7 36 (3.92%) Data Lake
8 33 (3.59%) BigQuery
8 33 (3.59%) Looker
8 33 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 32 (3.49%) Hadoop
10 26 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (2.72%) Metadata
12 21 (2.29%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.07%) Data Mining
14 17 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
17 14 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (6.10%) JIRA
2 52 (5.66%) Git
3 23 (2.51%) Visual Studio
4 22 (2.40%) Eclipse
5 17 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.76%) Gradle
6 7 (0.76%) Storybook
6 7 (0.76%) Xcode
7 6 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.65%) JUnit
8 4 (0.44%) MLflow
9 3 (0.33%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) webpack
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
11 1 (0.11%) git-flow
11 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.11%) Snyk
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 384 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 268 (29.19%) Analytical Skills
3 225 (24.51%) Finance
4 85 (9.26%) Banking
5 72 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.01%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (3.81%) Marketing
8 34 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 29 (3.16%) Military
10 28 (3.05%) Investment Banking
11 27 (2.94%) Retail
12 21 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.07%) Front Office
14 18 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (1.85%) Legal
16 14 (1.53%) Publishing
17 13 (1.42%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 255 (27.78%) Analyst
2 157 (17.10%) Data Analyst
3 145 (15.80%) Developer
4 91 (9.91%) Data Engineer
5 90 (9.80%) Senior
6 76 (8.28%) Architect
7 55 (5.99%) Lead
8 49 (5.34%) Data Scientist
9 48 (5.23%) Business Analyst
10 45 (4.90%) Consultant
11 43 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 36 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.49%) Power BI Developer
14 29 (3.16%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.18%) C# Software Engineer
17 19 (2.07%) Python Engineer
18 18 (1.96%) Power BI Analyst
18 18 (1.96%) Report Analyst
18 18 (1.96%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.14%) Pandas
2 37 (4.03%) React
3 33 (3.59%) scikit-learn
4 32 (3.49%) Node.js
5 30 (3.27%) NumPy
5 30 (3.27%) Web Services
6 29 (3.16%) PySpark
7 26 (2.83%) CSS
8 23 (2.51%) Kafka
8 23 (2.51%) REST
9 22 (2.40%) D3.js
9 22 (2.40%) HTML
10 21 (2.29%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (1.63%) Plotly
12 14 (1.53%) OAuth
12 14 (1.53%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.53%) Vue
13 12 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
14 11 (1.20%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.19%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 29 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.18%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.42%) CMDB
9 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.98%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.87%) Animation
13 8 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.87%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.87%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.87%) SCADA
14 7 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.97%) Linux
2 46 (5.01%) Windows
3 31 (3.38%) Unix
4 8 (0.87%) Android
5 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (47.49%) Data Visualisation
2 420 (45.75%) Business Intelligence
3 333 (36.27%) Analytics
4 250 (27.23%) Data Modelling
5 229 (24.95%) Data Analysis
6 224 (24.40%) Agile
7 221 (24.07%) Decision-Making
8 214 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
9 151 (16.45%) Actionable Insight
10 147 (16.01%) Data Science
11 134 (14.60%) ETL
11 134 (14.60%) Machine Learning
12 119 (12.96%) AI
13 114 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
14 106 (11.55%) Validation
15 102 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 98 (10.68%) CI/CD
16 98 (10.68%) Data Governance
17 97 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 91 (9.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 421 (45.86%) SQL
2 315 (34.31%) Python
3 70 (7.63%) JavaScript
4 55 (5.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 51 (5.56%) R
6 43 (4.68%) C++
7 40 (4.36%) Java
8 31 (3.38%) C#
9 29 (3.16%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.40%) Scala
11 14 (1.53%) Bash
12 10 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.87%) Go
14 8 (0.87%) PHP
15 7 (0.76%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.65%) VBA
17 5 (0.54%) Groovy
18 4 (0.44%) C
Qualifications
1 151 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 121 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 111 (12.09%) Degree
4 42 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 26 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.96%) CISSP
7 15 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.63%) CISM
8 14 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.42%) PhD
10 10 (1.09%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.76%) CFA
13 6 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.54%) CBAP
14 5 (0.54%) CEH
15 4 (0.44%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (15.58%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.10%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.03%) QA
4 29 (3.16%) GDPR
5 8 (0.87%) PMO
6 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.65%) WCAG
8 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.44%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.44%) MiFID
9 4 (0.44%) NIST
9 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.33%) EMIR
10 3 (0.33%) GxP
10 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (3.81%) Docker
2 12 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (4.14%) Terraform
2 30 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.29%) Kibana
4 18 (1.96%) Grafana
5 15 (1.63%) logstash
6 11 (1.20%) Ansible
7 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.44%) Argo
8 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.11%) Cacti
10 1 (0.11%) collectd
10 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.11%) QRadar
10 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
10 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 188 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.97%) Oracle
3 52 (5.66%) Databricks
4 43 (4.68%) Google
4 43 (4.68%) Splunk
5 30 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.83%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.07%) AppDynamics
8 19 (2.07%) Cisco
8 19 (2.07%) SAP
9 16 (1.74%) BiZZdesign
10 14 (1.53%) Foundry
11 13 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.31%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.20%) Centrify
14 10 (1.09%) Adobe
14 10 (1.09%) Palantir
14 10 (1.09%) Siemens
15 9 (0.98%) Autodesk