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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 105 126
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +27
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 925 820 908
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.58% 2.25% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.60% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 494 599
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £592 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £773 £715
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 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £33.88 £27.88 £33.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £49.34 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% +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 32,161 31,515 40,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.65% 86.38% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,137 18,969 27,555
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 2,122 1,120 1,583
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.23 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.48 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -31.42% -25.42% +42.74%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 0 803 £475 -5.00% 876
UK excluding London +27 422 £475 +5.56% 496
London -18 416 £500 -9.09% 494
Work from Home -20 273 £494 -1.25% 419
North of England -26 118 £425 -5.56% 86
Midlands +16 82 £515 +26.65% 83
South East +19 71 £488 +1.14% 182
West Midlands +19 67 £525 +31.25% 53
Yorkshire -5 66 £450 - 27
Scotland +23 56 £500 -2.44% 26
East of England -9 48 £525 +23.53% 49
North West -19 48 £408 -8.32% 50
South West -2 39 £750 +57.89% 55
East Midlands -11 15 £393 -7.65% 29
Wales 0 6 £183 -67.56% 16
Northern Ireland -14 6 £600 +20.00% 12
North East -21 4 £413 -8.33% 12

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 32 (3.46%) Apache
4 31 (3.35%) SharePoint
5 29 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.62%) WebLogic
7 13 (1.41%) 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%) CMS
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 145 (15.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (3.14%) 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%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.32%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.22%) Maple
10 2 (0.22%) Simulink
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
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%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.11%) Shopify
6 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 396 (42.81%) Power Platform
2 209 (22.59%) Azure
3 156 (16.86%) AWS
4 84 (9.08%) GCP
5 50 (5.41%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (3.57%) Serverless
9 31 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (3.35%) Power Automate
10 30 (3.24%) dbt
11 28 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (3.03%) PowerApps
12 23 (2.49%) Amazon S3
13 21 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (2.16%) GitHub
15 16 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (1.41%) Figma
18 12 (1.30%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 23 (2.49%) 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%) 4G
7 1 (0.11%) DSL
7 1 (0.11%) NAS
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
7 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (42.05%) Power BI
2 186 (20.11%) Tableau
3 106 (11.46%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (6.49%) Relational Database
5 51 (5.51%) Power Query
6 45 (4.86%) Big Data
7 37 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.68%) SQL Server
9 33 (3.57%) BigQuery
9 33 (3.57%) Hadoop
9 33 (3.57%) Looker
10 26 (2.81%) Metadata
10 26 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (2.16%) Data Mining
11 20 (2.16%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 56 (6.05%) JIRA
2 53 (5.73%) Git
3 24 (2.59%) Visual Studio
4 23 (2.49%) Eclipse
5 17 (1.84%) 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 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 271 (29.30%) Analytical Skills
3 227 (24.54%) Finance
4 86 (9.30%) Banking
5 77 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 47 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 35 (3.78%) Marketing
8 34 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 30 (3.24%) Military
10 28 (3.03%) Investment Banking
11 27 (2.92%) Retail
12 20 (2.16%) Front Office
12 20 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.84%) Legal
13 17 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.51%) Publishing
15 13 (1.41%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 257 (27.78%) Analyst
2 154 (16.65%) Data Analyst
3 145 (15.68%) Developer
4 94 (10.16%) Data Engineer
5 90 (9.73%) Senior
6 77 (8.32%) Architect
7 55 (5.95%) Lead
8 51 (5.51%) Business Analyst
9 49 (5.30%) Data Scientist
10 45 (4.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (4.76%) Consultant
12 38 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (3.68%) 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 (1.95%) Designer
18 18 (1.95%) Power BI Analyst
18 18 (1.95%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.11%) Pandas
1 38 (4.11%) React
2 33 (3.57%) Node.js
2 33 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 31 (3.35%) Web Services
4 30 (3.24%) NumPy
5 29 (3.14%) PySpark
6 24 (2.59%) CSS
6 24 (2.59%) REST
7 23 (2.49%) Kafka
8 22 (2.38%) D3.js
9 21 (2.27%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.16%) HTML
11 17 (1.84%) Plotly
12 14 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (1.51%) OAuth
12 14 (1.51%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.51%) Vue
13 11 (1.19%) Matplotlib
14 10 (1.08%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 30 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 26 (2.81%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 19 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.41%) CMDB
9 13 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (0.97%) Animation
12 9 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.97%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.86%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.86%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.86%) SCADA
14 7 (0.76%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.14%) 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
1 437 (47.24%) Data Visualisation
2 427 (46.16%) Business Intelligence
3 333 (36.00%) Analytics
4 253 (27.35%) Data Modelling
5 230 (24.86%) Data Analysis
6 223 (24.11%) Agile
7 222 (24.00%) Decision-Making
8 214 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
9 153 (16.54%) Actionable Insight
10 148 (16.00%) Data Science
11 135 (14.59%) ETL
12 133 (14.38%) Machine Learning
13 121 (13.08%) AI
14 114 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
15 105 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 105 (11.35%) Validation
16 99 (10.70%) Data Governance
17 98 (10.59%) CI/CD
18 95 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 91 (9.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 427 (46.16%) SQL
2 320 (34.59%) Python
3 70 (7.57%) JavaScript
4 57 (6.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 51 (5.51%) R
6 45 (4.86%) C++
7 40 (4.32%) Java
8 33 (3.57%) C#
9 29 (3.14%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.38%) Scala
11 14 (1.51%) Bash
12 11 (1.19%) 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
15 7 (0.76%) VBA
16 5 (0.54%) Groovy
17 4 (0.43%) LookML
Qualifications
1 155 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 125 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 111 (12.00%) Degree
4 42 (4.54%) Master's Degree
5 26 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.95%) CISSP
7 16 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.62%) CISM
9 13 (1.41%) PhD
10 10 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.76%) CFA
12 7 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.54%) CBAP
13 5 (0.54%) CEH
14 4 (0.43%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.95%) 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%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) GxP
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (3.89%) 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 (4.22%) Terraform
2 31 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.16%) Kibana
4 18 (1.95%) Grafana
5 14 (1.51%) logstash
6 12 (1.30%) Ansible
7 4 (0.43%) Argo
7 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Cacti
9 1 (0.11%) collectd
9 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.11%) QRadar
9 1 (0.11%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 189 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.49%) Oracle
3 52 (5.62%) Databricks
4 43 (4.65%) Google
4 43 (4.65%) Splunk
5 31 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.03%) 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 15 (1.62%) Foundry
11 13 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.30%) Adobe
12 12 (1.30%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.19%) Centrify
13 11 (1.19%) Palantir
14 10 (1.08%) Siemens
15 9 (0.97%) Autodesk