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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 101 114
Rank change year-on-year -105 +13 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 741 833 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.55% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.82% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 447
10th Percentile £316 £325 £317
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £694 £700 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +0.54% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 46 53
10th Percentile £21.08 £22.44 £24.57
25th Percentile £28.50 £33.41 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.40 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.31% - +52.94%

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 46,309 29,588 32,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.49% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,063 18,372 19,750
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,189 1,818 1,403
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 23 September 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 23 September 2026.

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 23 September 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 -94 657 £475 - 1,563
UK excluding London -92 355 £465 +0.54% 944
London -81 316 £485 -3.00% 810
Work from Home -72 226 £500 +11.11% 622
North of England -73 101 £445 +6.59% 197
Midlands -46 83 £539 +6.16% 160
South East -55 68 £465 -11.43% 224
West Midlands -42 60 £565 +7.62% 100
South West -32 47 £450 -40.00% 107
North West -40 47 £525 +28.05% 92
Yorkshire -54 44 £451 +12.75% 75
Scotland -41 30 £410 -18.00% 93
East of England -45 30 £565 +7.62% 96
East Midlands -12 23 £375 -6.25% 60
North East -33 11 £400 -5.88% 31
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 44
Wales -15 2 £356 -16.18% 35

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 22 (2.97%) Confluence
2 19 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.35%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.67%) Apache Superset
5 5 (0.67%) CMS
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 130 (17.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.94%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.81%) CPLEX
6 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.40%) InDesign
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.27%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.27%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.13%) iTrent
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 393 (53.04%) Power Platform
2 136 (18.35%) Azure
3 103 (13.90%) AWS
4 57 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 51 (6.88%) GCP
6 39 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (3.91%) GitHub
8 28 (3.78%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.51%) PowerApps
10 25 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (3.24%) Amazon S3
12 23 (3.10%) Serverless
13 20 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (2.56%) dbt
15 18 (2.43%) Google Analytics
16 16 (2.16%) Adobe Analytics
17 11 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
17 11 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
18 10 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.35%) Ethernet
1 10 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.81%) Wireless
3 5 (0.67%) HTTP
3 5 (0.67%) SNMP
4 4 (0.54%) Broadband
4 4 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.54%) WAN
5 3 (0.40%) VPN
6 2 (0.27%) 2G
6 2 (0.27%) 3G
6 2 (0.27%) 4G
6 2 (0.27%) 5G
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (52.09%) Power BI
2 146 (19.70%) Tableau
3 76 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (9.18%) Power Query
5 47 (6.34%) Relational Database
6 42 (5.67%) Data Lake
7 29 (3.91%) Metadata
8 28 (3.78%) SQL Server
9 26 (3.51%) Big Data
9 26 (3.51%) BigQuery
10 23 (3.10%) Looker
11 21 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
12 19 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (2.56%) Qlik Sense
13 17 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (2.29%) Star Schema
14 15 (2.02%) QlikView
15 14 (1.89%) GIS
16 12 (1.62%) Parquet
16 12 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (6.21%) Git
2 43 (5.80%) JIRA
3 11 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.35%) Eclipse
5 5 (0.67%) GitLab
5 5 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) Flyway
9 1 (0.13%) Gatling
9 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.13%) JUnit
9 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 269 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 262 (35.36%) Analytical Skills
3 172 (23.21%) Finance
4 89 (12.01%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.10%) Banking
6 28 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.51%) Marketing
8 25 (3.37%) Military
9 24 (3.24%) Retail
10 20 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.75%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.62%) Local Government
15 11 (1.48%) Aerospace
15 11 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.08%) Law
16 8 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 203 (27.40%) Analyst
2 114 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 111 (14.98%) Developer
4 92 (12.42%) Data Engineer
5 83 (11.20%) Senior
6 42 (5.67%) Consultant
6 42 (5.67%) Lead
7 38 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 35 (4.72%) Data Scientist
9 31 (4.18%) Architect
10 30 (4.05%) Power BI Developer
11 28 (3.78%) Business Analyst
12 26 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
13 24 (3.24%) Designer
14 21 (2.83%) Performance Analyst
15 18 (2.43%) Data Architect
15 18 (2.43%) Data Manager
16 17 (2.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 17 (2.29%) Report Analyst
17 16 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.26%) REST
1 39 (5.26%) Terraform
2 26 (3.51%) CSS
2 26 (3.51%) Pandas
2 26 (3.51%) React
3 24 (3.24%) HTML
4 23 (3.10%) PySpark
5 20 (2.70%) Kafka
6 16 (2.16%) Web Services
7 15 (2.02%) NumPy
8 14 (1.89%) scikit-learn
9 12 (1.62%) .NET
10 10 (1.35%) Flask
10 10 (1.35%) JSON
10 10 (1.35%) Node.js
11 9 (1.21%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.21%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.08%) Plotly
12 8 (1.08%) Redux
12 8 (1.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.10%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 26 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 23 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.29%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 15 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.75%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.35%) PKI
13 10 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.21%) Clustering
15 8 (1.08%) NHS
16 7 (0.94%) Derivative
16 7 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.59%) Windows
2 20 (2.70%) Linux
3 14 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.81%) Unix
5 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Android
6 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (54.39%) Business Intelligence
2 370 (49.93%) Data Visualisation
3 363 (48.99%) Analytics
4 211 (28.48%) Data Modelling
5 205 (27.67%) Decision-Making
6 201 (27.13%) Agile
7 171 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (22.54%) AI
9 154 (20.78%) Data Analysis
10 144 (19.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 138 (18.62%) Actionable Insight
12 129 (17.41%) Validation
13 128 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (16.19%) Dashboard Development
15 114 (15.38%) Data Engineering
15 114 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
16 112 (15.11%) Data Governance
17 111 (14.98%) ETL
18 108 (14.57%) Data Science
19 97 (13.09%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 370 (49.93%) SQL
2 262 (35.36%) Python
3 74 (9.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 53 (7.15%) R
5 52 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.40%) Java
7 36 (4.86%) C#
8 23 (3.10%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.89%) C++
11 13 (1.75%) Scala
11 13 (1.75%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.35%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.08%) Bash
13 8 (1.08%) VBA
14 6 (0.81%) Cypher
14 6 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
15 5 (0.67%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.40%) Go
16 3 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 154 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 112 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.20%) Degree
4 27 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.67%) PhD
11 4 (0.54%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.40%) PMP
12 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.27%) APMG
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (24.97%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.07%) QA
3 30 (4.05%) GDPR
4 26 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.16%) PMO
6 10 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.94%) GMP
8 5 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.67%) GRC
8 5 (0.67%) GxP
8 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 5 (0.67%) WCAG
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (2.97%) Docker
2 17 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (2.29%) Grafana
2 15 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.21%) Kibana
4 8 (1.08%) SCCM
5 6 (0.81%) Ansible
6 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.54%) Podman
8 2 (0.27%) Istio
8 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.13%) Argo
9 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.13%) logstash
9 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 154 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.18%) Databricks
3 47 (6.34%) SAP
4 41 (5.53%) Google
5 38 (5.13%) Oracle
6 29 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.83%) Adobe
8 20 (2.70%) Dynatrace
9 19 (2.56%) Splunk
10 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.62%) Alteryx
11 12 (1.62%) Palantir
12 10 (1.35%) Remedy
13 9 (1.21%) BMC
13 9 (1.21%) Informatica
14 6 (0.81%) SnapLogic
15 5 (0.67%) Foundry
16 4 (0.54%) Ariba
16 4 (0.54%) UiPath
16 4 (0.54%) VMware