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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 107 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 926 802 906
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.59% 2.21% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.56% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 480 600
10th Percentile £322 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £619
90th Percentile £712 £775 £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 54 48 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £34.16 £27.88 £33.00
Median hourly rate £61.25 £49.34 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +6.84% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £64.50
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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
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 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +6 804 £475 -5.00% 896
UK excluding London +24 423 £475 +5.56% 497
London -6 413 £500 -9.09% 488
Work from Home -12 272 £488 -2.50% 439
North of England -21 118 £425 -5.56% 107
Midlands +11 82 £515 +26.65% 76
South East +22 71 £488 +1.35% 169
West Midlands +16 67 £525 +31.25% 46
Yorkshire -5 66 £450 - 32
Scotland +25 55 £500 -2.44% 28
East of England -11 49 £525 +23.53% 49
North West -28 48 £408 -8.32% 64
South West +3 40 £750 +57.89% 52
East Midlands -17 15 £393 -7.65% 30
Wales +1 6 £183 -67.56% 17
Northern Ireland -15 6 £600 +20.00% 11
North East -19 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 (4.43%) Confluence
2 35 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 33 (3.56%) Apache
4 31 (3.35%) SharePoint
5 29 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.62%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.40%) SAS
8 8 (0.86%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.76%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.32%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.32%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.22%) Apache Superset
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
1 144 (15.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.19%) 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 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.43%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.43%) Revit
9 3 (0.32%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.22%) Maple
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
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 (1.19%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 396 (42.76%) Power Platform
2 208 (22.46%) Azure
3 154 (16.63%) AWS
4 83 (8.96%) GCP
5 50 (5.40%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (3.56%) Serverless
9 31 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (3.35%) dbt
9 31 (3.35%) Power Automate
10 28 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (3.02%) PowerApps
11 23 (2.48%) Amazon S3
12 22 (2.38%) GitHub
13 21 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.40%) Figma
17 12 (1.30%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 23 (2.48%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.54%) Internet
4 4 (0.43%) 2G
4 4 (0.43%) 5G
4 4 (0.43%) SNMP
5 3 (0.32%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.32%) MQTT
5 3 (0.32%) 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%) NAS
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (42.01%) Power BI
2 187 (20.19%) Tableau
3 105 (11.34%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (6.48%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.40%) Power Query
6 46 (4.97%) Big Data
7 37 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.67%) SQL Server
9 33 (3.56%) BigQuery
9 33 (3.56%) Hadoop
9 33 (3.56%) Looker
10 26 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (2.70%) Metadata
12 20 (2.16%) Data Mining
12 20 (2.16%) NoSQL
13 17 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (1.62%) Geospatial Data
16 14 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (6.05%) JIRA
2 53 (5.72%) Git
3 24 (2.59%) Visual Studio
4 23 (2.48%) Eclipse
5 18 (1.94%) 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 (0.43%) MLflow
9 3 (0.32%) Postman
9 3 (0.32%) Selenium
9 3 (0.32%) webpack
10 1 (0.11%) git-flow
10 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.11%) Snyk
10 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 392 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 272 (29.37%) Analytical Skills
3 228 (24.62%) Finance
4 86 (9.29%) Banking
5 76 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 47 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 34 (3.67%) Marketing
8 30 (3.24%) Military
9 28 (3.02%) Investment Banking
10 27 (2.92%) Retail
11 21 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 19 (2.05%) Front Office
13 18 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.84%) Legal
15 14 (1.51%) Publishing
16 13 (1.40%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 258 (27.86%) Analyst
2 155 (16.74%) Data Analyst
3 145 (15.66%) Developer
4 94 (10.15%) Data Engineer
5 92 (9.94%) Senior
6 75 (8.10%) Architect
7 55 (5.94%) Lead
8 50 (5.40%) Business Analyst
9 49 (5.29%) Data Scientist
10 45 (4.86%) Consultant
11 44 (4.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 38 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (3.56%) Power BI Developer
14 31 (3.35%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (2.27%) C# Software Engineer
17 19 (2.05%) Python Engineer
18 18 (1.94%) Power BI Analyst
18 18 (1.94%) Report Analyst
18 18 (1.94%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.10%) Pandas
2 37 (4.00%) React
3 33 (3.56%) Node.js
3 33 (3.56%) scikit-learn
4 31 (3.35%) Web Services
5 30 (3.24%) NumPy
6 29 (3.13%) PySpark
7 25 (2.70%) CSS
8 24 (2.59%) REST
9 23 (2.48%) Kafka
10 22 (2.38%) D3.js
11 21 (2.27%) AngularJS
11 21 (2.27%) HTML
12 16 (1.73%) Plotly
13 15 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (1.51%) OAuth
14 14 (1.51%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.51%) Vue
15 11 (1.19%) Matplotlib
15 11 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.13%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.40%) CMDB
9 13 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.97%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.86%) Animation
13 8 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.86%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.86%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.86%) SCADA
14 7 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.13%) Linux
2 47 (5.08%) Windows
3 32 (3.46%) Unix
4 8 (0.86%) 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
1 439 (47.41%) Data Visualisation
2 427 (46.11%) Business Intelligence
3 333 (35.96%) Analytics
4 253 (27.32%) Data Modelling
5 230 (24.84%) Data Analysis
6 225 (24.30%) Agile
7 223 (24.08%) Decision-Making
8 215 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
9 152 (16.41%) Actionable Insight
10 147 (15.87%) Data Science
11 134 (14.47%) ETL
11 134 (14.47%) Machine Learning
12 120 (12.96%) AI
13 114 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
14 108 (11.66%) Validation
15 106 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 100 (10.80%) CI/CD
16 100 (10.80%) Data Governance
17 96 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
18 92 (9.94%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 427 (46.11%) SQL
2 321 (34.67%) Python
3 70 (7.56%) JavaScript
4 56 (6.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 53 (5.72%) R
6 45 (4.86%) C++
7 40 (4.32%) Java
8 33 (3.56%) C#
9 29 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.38%) Scala
11 14 (1.51%) Bash
12 10 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.86%) Go
14 8 (0.86%) PHP
15 7 (0.76%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.65%) VBA
17 5 (0.54%) Groovy
18 4 (0.43%) LookML
Qualifications
1 154 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 124 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 111 (11.99%) Degree
4 42 (4.54%) Master's Degree
5 26 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.94%) CISSP
7 15 (1.62%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.62%) CISM
8 13 (1.40%) PhD
9 10 (1.08%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.76%) CFA
11 7 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.54%) CBAP
12 5 (0.54%) CEH
13 4 (0.43%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (15.44%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.00%) QA
4 30 (3.24%) GDPR
5 8 (0.86%) 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 (0.43%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.43%) MiFID
9 4 (0.43%) NIST
9 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.32%) EMIR
10 3 (0.32%) GxP
10 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (4.00%) Docker
2 12 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (4.21%) Terraform
2 32 (3.46%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.27%) Kibana
4 19 (2.05%) Grafana
5 15 (1.62%) logstash
6 12 (1.30%) Ansible
7 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.43%) Argo
8 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.32%) 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
1 189 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.80%) Oracle
3 52 (5.62%) Databricks
4 43 (4.64%) Google
4 43 (4.64%) Splunk
5 30 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.81%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.05%) AppDynamics
8 19 (2.05%) Cisco
8 19 (2.05%) SAP
9 16 (1.73%) BiZZdesign
10 14 (1.51%) Foundry
11 13 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.30%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.19%) Centrify
14 10 (1.08%) Adobe
14 10 (1.08%) Palantir
14 10 (1.08%) Siemens
15 9 (0.97%) Autodesk