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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 102 136
Rank change year-on-year -60 +34 +22
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 792 735 722
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 2.52% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.77% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 455 483
10th Percentile £325 £316 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -3.65% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £719 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 39 42
10th Percentile £20.37 £22.41 £20.58
25th Percentile £28.50 £30.74 £41.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.36% -42.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.74 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £33.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +84.47% -47.88% -

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 41,613 26,489 36,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.00% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 16,933 23,595
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,489 1,111 2,517
10th Percentile £14.67 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.96 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% -0.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.55 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -57 705 £488 +2.63% 308
London -41 375 £488 -2.50% 102
UK excluding London -63 329 £475 +5.56% 289
Work from Home -16 260 £498 +10.56% 82
North of England -62 105 £450 -2.70% 78
Midlands -42 67 £500 +25.00% 42
North West -29 57 £416 -10.00% 38
South East -38 56 £500 -9.09% 84
West Midlands -49 51 £520 +26.06% 23
South West -19 49 £488 +2.63% 42
Yorkshire -52 44 £463 +14.20% 29
East of England -40 27 £565 -5.83% 22
Scotland -6 26 £409 -8.56% 16
East Midlands -21 16 £488 +30.00% 19
North East -28 7 £420 -20.00% 14
Northern Ireland +4 2 £463 +8.82% 2

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 46 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.53%) Apache
3 17 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.15%) Confluence
4 16 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.63%) CMS
6 5 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 123 (15.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.14%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.51%) Primavera
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) iTrent
5 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 373 (47.10%) Power Platform
2 160 (20.20%) Azure
3 135 (17.05%) AWS
4 53 (6.69%) Snowflake
5 51 (6.44%) GCP
6 44 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.28%) Serverless
8 25 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.03%) Power Automate
10 22 (2.78%) dbt
11 21 (2.65%) Amazon S3
12 20 (2.53%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.40%) GitHub
14 18 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.76%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) Network Security
6 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) 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
1 367 (46.34%) Power BI
2 187 (23.61%) Tableau
3 107 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 43 (5.43%) Big Data
5 43 (5.43%) Power Query
6 41 (5.18%) Metadata
7 38 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 36 (4.55%) Looker
9 30 (3.79%) Data Lake
10 29 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (3.41%) BigQuery
11 27 (3.41%) Hadoop
12 19 (2.40%) NoSQL
13 17 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
14 14 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
14 14 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.77%) Star Schema
15 12 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (6.82%) Git
2 39 (4.92%) JIRA
3 13 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 9 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.01%) MLflow
7 5 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 251 (31.69%) Analytical Skills
2 245 (30.93%) Social Skills
3 203 (25.63%) Finance
4 69 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.21%) Banking
6 39 (4.92%) Retail
7 35 (4.42%) Marketing
8 26 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.02%) Publishing
11 15 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.77%) Military
13 13 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.64%) Law
13 13 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.01%) Front Office
15 8 (1.01%) Legal
16 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 212 (26.77%) Analyst
2 118 (14.90%) Data Analyst
3 110 (13.89%) Data Engineer
4 107 (13.51%) Developer
5 97 (12.25%) Senior
6 51 (6.44%) Data Scientist
7 50 (6.31%) Lead
8 47 (5.93%) Business Analyst
8 47 (5.93%) Consultant
9 35 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.04%) Architect
11 28 (3.54%) Senior Data Engineer
12 26 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 25 (3.16%) Power BI Developer
14 20 (2.53%) Designer
15 18 (2.27%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
17 16 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
17 16 (2.02%) Software Engineer
18 15 (1.89%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.93%) Pandas
2 46 (5.81%) React
3 34 (4.29%) Kafka
4 31 (3.91%) REST
5 25 (3.16%) Node.js
6 24 (3.03%) NumPy
7 23 (2.90%) scikit-learn
8 21 (2.65%) PySpark
9 19 (2.40%) .NET
10 17 (2.15%) Matplotlib
11 16 (2.02%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (2.02%) HTML
11 16 (2.02%) JSON
12 15 (1.89%) Web Services
13 14 (1.77%) CSS
13 14 (1.77%) Seaborn
13 14 (1.77%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.64%) Vue
15 12 (1.52%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.69%) Data Structures
2 30 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.41%) Algorithms
4 26 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 15 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.01%) Derivative
11 8 (1.01%) Life Science
11 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.01%) PKI
11 8 (1.01%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.54%) Linux
2 27 (3.41%) Windows
3 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.76%) Unix
3 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.38%) Android
4 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 382 (48.23%) Data Visualisation
3 338 (42.68%) Analytics
4 233 (29.42%) Data Modelling
5 214 (27.02%) Decision-Making
6 209 (26.39%) Agile
7 206 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (19.70%) Actionable Insight
9 150 (18.94%) Data Pipeline
10 149 (18.81%) AI
11 137 (17.30%) Validation
12 133 (16.79%) Data Science
13 131 (16.54%) ETL
14 125 (15.78%) Dashboard Development
15 124 (15.66%) Data Analysis
16 120 (15.15%) Data Governance
17 118 (14.90%) Data Engineering
18 107 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 101 (12.75%) CI/CD
20 99 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 401 (50.63%) SQL
2 295 (37.25%) Python
3 82 (10.35%) R
4 58 (7.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 50 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.92%) Java
7 38 (4.80%) C#
8 36 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.40%) C++
11 17 (2.15%) Scala
12 10 (1.26%) VBA
13 9 (1.14%) Perl
14 8 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.88%) Bash
15 7 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.76%) Rust
17 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.38%) C
18 3 (0.38%) LookML
Qualifications
1 155 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 126 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.48%) Degree
4 22 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.14%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.51%) CBAP
12 4 (0.51%) MBA
12 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.25%) IIBA
14 2 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.19%) QA
3 29 (3.66%) GDPR
4 24 (3.03%) PMO
5 21 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) NIST
12 1 (0.13%) COBIT
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) P3O
12 1 (0.13%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.28%) Docker
2 13 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.51%) HDFS
4 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.42%) Kubernetes
1 35 (4.42%) Terraform
2 23 (2.90%) Grafana
3 18 (2.27%) Kibana
4 17 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.02%) Ansible
6 12 (1.52%) logstash
7 8 (1.01%) SCCM
8 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
9 2 (0.25%) vMotion
9 2 (0.25%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 119 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.73%) Databricks
3 47 (5.93%) Google
4 45 (5.68%) SAP
5 37 (4.67%) Oracle
6 22 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.02%) Sage
8 15 (1.89%) Adobe
9 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.64%) Splunk
10 11 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.26%) Amplitude
11 10 (1.26%) Informatica
12 8 (1.01%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.01%) Remedy
13 6 (0.76%) Apple
13 6 (0.76%) BMC
13 6 (0.76%) Cognos
13 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.76%) VMware