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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 106 124
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 +28
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 885 812 878
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.40% 2.38% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.70% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 497 589
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -3.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £756 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 43 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £25.98
25th Percentile £30.31 £24.67 £34.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% - -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.81
90th Percentile £70.36 - £67.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £54.34 £46.18
% change year-on-year +19.62% +17.67% -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 32,565 30,055 38,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.34% 88.19% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,467 18,359 26,012
10th Percentile £300 £306 £307
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,103 978 1,503
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -13 760 £500 - 334
London -17 402 £500 -4.76% 129
UK excluding London +5 383 £500 +11.11% 294
Work from Home -31 251 £500 - 162
North of England -26 112 £438 -2.78% 54
Midlands -4 73 £525 +27.27% 46
West Midlands +4 59 £525 +27.27% 29
Yorkshire -16 59 £500 +11.11% 19
South East +1 58 £500 +25.00% 111
Scotland +25 51 £500 +1.27% 13
North West -22 50 £405 -7.95% 29
East of England -24 44 £525 +16.15% 34
South West -1 40 £750 +57.89% 40
East Midlands -16 14 £404 +13.41% 17
Northern Ireland -14 6 £531 +6.25% 1
Wales -3 5 - - 7
North East -19 5 £400 -27.27% 7

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 49 (5.54%) Apache Spark
2 40 (4.52%) Apache
3 37 (4.18%) Confluence
4 29 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.15%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.69%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.24%) SAS
8 8 (0.90%) Apache Pig
9 7 (0.79%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.34%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 126 (14.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.24%) Siemens NX
5 9 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.45%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.23%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Blender
11 1 (0.11%) InDesign
11 1 (0.11%) Maya
11 1 (0.11%) SPSS
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Maximo
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 382 (43.16%) Power Platform
2 199 (22.49%) Azure
3 157 (17.74%) AWS
4 80 (9.04%) GCP
5 49 (5.54%) Snowflake
6 44 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.62%) Power Automate
7 32 (3.62%) Serverless
8 31 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (3.16%) PowerApps
10 27 (3.05%) dbt
11 26 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (2.26%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.15%) GitHub
14 18 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.58%) Google Analytics
17 13 (1.47%) Figma
18 10 (1.13%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.26%) TCP/IP
2 18 (2.03%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.45%) 2G
3 4 (0.45%) 5G
3 4 (0.45%) Firewall
3 4 (0.45%) Internet
3 4 (0.45%) SNMP
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) MQTT
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) LAN
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SMS
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (42.94%) Power BI
2 179 (20.23%) Tableau
3 106 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (6.55%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.65%) Big Data
5 50 (5.65%) Power Query
6 39 (4.41%) Hadoop
7 34 (3.84%) Data Lake
8 30 (3.39%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.28%) Looker
10 27 (3.05%) BigQuery
11 24 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
12 22 (2.49%) Metadata
13 21 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (2.26%) Data Mining
15 18 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (1.47%) Apache Hive
17 13 (1.47%) NoSQL
18 12 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (6.67%) Git
2 52 (5.88%) JIRA
3 20 (2.26%) Visual Studio
4 18 (2.03%) Eclipse
5 17 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.79%) Gradle
6 7 (0.79%) Storybook
6 7 (0.79%) Xcode
7 5 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.45%) MLflow
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) JUnit
9 3 (0.34%) webpack
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 1 (0.11%) git-flow
11 1 (0.11%) GitLab
11 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
11 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 359 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 241 (27.23%) Analytical Skills
3 218 (24.63%) Finance
4 78 (8.81%) Banking
4 78 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 33 (3.73%) Marketing
5 33 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
6 29 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 26 (2.94%) Military
8 23 (2.60%) Investment Banking
9 21 (2.37%) Retail
10 20 (2.26%) Front Office
11 19 (2.15%) Legal
12 17 (1.92%) Publishing
13 16 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.69%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (1.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 223 (25.20%) Analyst
2 136 (15.37%) Developer
3 130 (14.69%) Data Analyst
4 98 (11.07%) Senior
5 92 (10.40%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.47%) Architect
7 60 (6.78%) Data Scientist
8 52 (5.88%) Lead
9 46 (5.20%) Business Analyst
9 46 (5.20%) Consultant
10 43 (4.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (3.95%) Power BI Developer
13 29 (3.28%) Software Engineer
14 24 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.37%) Designer
16 19 (2.15%) Report Analyst
17 18 (2.03%) Integration Architect
18 17 (1.92%) Power BI Analyst
18 17 (1.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.54%) Pandas
2 38 (4.29%) scikit-learn
3 36 (4.07%) React
4 34 (3.84%) NumPy
5 32 (3.62%) Node.js
6 31 (3.50%) PySpark
7 25 (2.82%) Web Services
8 24 (2.71%) REST
9 21 (2.37%) Kafka
10 20 (2.26%) D3.js
11 19 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (2.15%) Plotly
12 18 (2.03%) AngularJS
12 18 (2.03%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.92%) CSS
13 17 (1.92%) HTML
14 16 (1.81%) Matplotlib
15 15 (1.69%) OAuth
16 14 (1.58%) Vue
17 12 (1.36%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.55%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 29 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 29 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 20 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.24%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.02%) CMDB
10 9 (1.02%) NHS
11 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.90%) Hedge funds
11 8 (0.90%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.79%) Reinsurance
12 7 (0.79%) Replication
12 7 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.89%) Linux
2 44 (4.97%) Windows
3 33 (3.73%) Unix
4 8 (0.90%) Android
5 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 420 (47.46%) Business Intelligence
2 411 (46.44%) Data Visualisation
3 327 (36.95%) Analytics
4 248 (28.02%) Data Modelling
5 219 (24.75%) Decision-Making
6 210 (23.73%) Data Analysis
7 206 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
8 197 (22.26%) Agile
9 157 (17.74%) Actionable Insight
10 153 (17.29%) Data Science
11 132 (14.92%) Machine Learning
12 128 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
13 127 (14.35%) ETL
14 121 (13.67%) AI
15 109 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 106 (11.98%) Data Governance
17 96 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 95 (10.73%) Validation
19 88 (9.94%) Data Engineering
20 87 (9.83%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 408 (46.10%) SQL
2 321 (36.27%) Python
3 64 (7.23%) R
4 61 (6.89%) JavaScript
5 58 (6.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 39 (4.41%) C++
7 34 (3.84%) C#
8 33 (3.73%) Java
9 27 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 23 (2.60%) Scala
11 13 (1.47%) Bash
12 12 (1.36%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 9 (1.02%) VBA
15 8 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.79%) Go
16 7 (0.79%) Groovy
16 7 (0.79%) PHP
17 5 (0.56%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 166 (18.76%) Security Cleared
2 131 (14.80%) SC Cleared
3 90 (10.17%) Degree
4 42 (4.75%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.03%) CISSP
8 17 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.69%) CISM
10 14 (1.58%) PhD
11 13 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.13%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.90%) CFA
14 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.56%) CBAP
16 5 (0.56%) CEH
17 3 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 36 (4.07%) QA
4 32 (3.62%) GDPR
5 11 (1.24%) PMO
6 10 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.79%) WCAG
8 6 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.45%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.45%) MiFID
10 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) Basel III
12 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) NIST
12 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (4.18%) Docker
2 10 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (4.18%) Terraform
2 32 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.82%) Kibana
4 19 (2.15%) logstash
5 15 (1.69%) Grafana
6 14 (1.58%) Ansible
7 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.45%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.11%) Cacti
11 1 (0.11%) collectd
11 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.11%) QRadar
11 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 157 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.78%) Databricks
3 59 (6.67%) Oracle
4 43 (4.86%) Google
5 40 (4.52%) Splunk
6 32 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.39%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.26%) Cisco
10 19 (2.15%) AppDynamics
11 16 (1.81%) BiZZdesign
11 16 (1.81%) SAP
12 15 (1.69%) Foundry
12 15 (1.69%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.47%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.36%) Centrify
15 11 (1.24%) Palantir
16 10 (1.13%) Bloomberg
16 10 (1.13%) Siemens
17 9 (1.02%) Adobe