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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 117 126
Rank change year-on-year -66 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 791 782 747
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 2.39% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.64% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 473 478
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £584 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £453
% change year-on-year +3.33% -0.55% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 44 53
10th Percentile £20.31 £22.60 £21.40
25th Percentile £29.96 £31.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -23.08% +40.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.00% -23.08% +40.75%

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 44,902 29,618 34,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.94% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,592 22,057
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,679 1,619 2,026
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.39 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% -41.25% -

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 28 July 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 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 15 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 28 July 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 -58 717 £475 +2.43% 386
London -48 362 £475 -5.00% 156
UK excluding London -66 357 £465 +3.33% 285
Work from Home -33 257 £500 +16.21% 132
North of England -49 112 £445 -0.22% 72
Midlands -36 81 £525 +27.27% 56
South East -55 67 £465 -15.45% 86
West Midlands -40 59 £550 +22.22% 36
North West -21 58 £444 -0.67% 41
Yorkshire -39 50 £459 +7.94% 19
South West -19 47 £450 - 40
East of England -30 31 £565 +2.73% 20
Scotland -31 26 £400 -11.11% 7
East Midlands -7 22 £431 +7.81% 20
North East -43 5 £400 -11.11% 14

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 28 (3.54%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.90%) Confluence
4 11 (1.39%) Apache
4 11 (1.39%) Apache Superset
5 10 (1.26%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.63%) CMS
7 5 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.51%) SAS
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 118 (14.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.14%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.01%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.76%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.51%) InDesign
9 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.25%) Notion
10 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Maya
10 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Primavera
5 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) iTrent
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 387 (48.93%) Power Platform
2 163 (20.61%) Azure
3 120 (15.17%) AWS
4 54 (6.83%) Snowflake
5 48 (6.07%) GCP
6 40 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (3.54%) Serverless
10 27 (3.41%) GitHub
11 26 (3.29%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.65%) dbt
13 20 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 19 (2.40%) Amazon S3
15 16 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.64%) Google Analytics
17 12 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
18 11 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.51%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) Firewall
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) Wireless
5 2 (0.25%) 2G
5 2 (0.25%) 3G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) DHCP
5 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Intranet
6 1 (0.13%) Modbus
6 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (48.04%) Power BI
2 167 (21.11%) Tableau
3 97 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (6.95%) Power Query
5 53 (6.70%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.80%) Big Data
7 34 (4.30%) Looker
8 33 (4.17%) Data Lake
9 31 (3.92%) Metadata
9 31 (3.92%) SQL Server
10 27 (3.41%) BigQuery
10 27 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (2.15%) Hadoop
12 17 (2.15%) Star Schema
13 14 (1.77%) NoSQL
13 14 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (1.64%) QlikView
15 12 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 49 (6.19%) Git
2 40 (5.06%) JIRA
3 13 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.76%) GitLab
7 5 (0.63%) MLflow
8 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Flyway
11 1 (0.13%) Gatling
11 1 (0.13%) git-flow
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 267 (33.75%) Analytical Skills
2 260 (32.87%) Social Skills
3 188 (23.77%) Finance
4 84 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.84%) Banking
6 38 (4.80%) Marketing
7 32 (4.05%) Retail
8 28 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.53%) Military
10 19 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.39%) Law
15 10 (1.26%) Publishing
16 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 212 (26.80%) Analyst
2 128 (16.18%) Data Analyst
3 113 (14.29%) Developer
4 108 (13.65%) Data Engineer
5 85 (10.75%) Senior
6 54 (6.83%) Lead
7 52 (6.57%) Data Scientist
8 43 (5.44%) Consultant
9 40 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 38 (4.80%) Business Analyst
11 31 (3.92%) Architect
12 30 (3.79%) Power BI Developer
13 27 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 22 (2.78%) Designer
15 21 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (2.40%) Data Manager
17 17 (2.15%) Performance Analyst
18 16 (2.02%) Data Architect
18 16 (2.02%) Python Developer
19 14 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.31%) Pandas
2 37 (4.68%) REST
3 36 (4.55%) React
4 30 (3.79%) Kafka
5 24 (3.03%) NumPy
6 22 (2.78%) PySpark
7 21 (2.65%) scikit-learn
8 19 (2.40%) Web Services
9 18 (2.28%) .NET
9 18 (2.28%) CSS
10 17 (2.15%) JSON
10 17 (2.15%) Node.js
11 15 (1.90%) HTML
12 14 (1.77%) Apache Avro
12 14 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (1.64%) PyTorch
13 13 (1.64%) TensorFlow
14 11 (1.39%) AngularJS
15 10 (1.26%) GeoJSON
15 10 (1.26%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.84%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.41%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.39%) PKI
12 9 (1.14%) Clustering
13 8 (1.01%) Life Science
13 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (1.01%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.55%) Windows
2 26 (3.29%) Linux
3 13 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.88%) Unix
5 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (52.34%) Business Intelligence
2 379 (47.91%) Data Visualisation
3 378 (47.79%) Analytics
4 242 (30.59%) Data Modelling
5 211 (26.68%) Agile
6 205 (25.92%) Decision-Making
7 198 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (20.73%) AI
9 149 (18.84%) Actionable Insight
10 145 (18.33%) Validation
11 143 (18.08%) Data Analysis
12 142 (17.95%) Data Science
13 140 (17.70%) Data Pipeline
14 128 (16.18%) Dashboard Development
14 128 (16.18%) ETL
15 123 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 123 (15.55%) Data Engineering
16 119 (15.04%) Data Governance
17 109 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
18 104 (13.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 405 (51.20%) SQL
2 308 (38.94%) Python
3 73 (9.23%) R
4 67 (8.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 47 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.93%) C#
6 39 (4.93%) Java
7 31 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.15%) C++
8 17 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.39%) Scala
10 10 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.26%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.88%) Bash
11 7 (0.88%) VBA
12 5 (0.63%) Cypher
12 5 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.51%) Gremlin
13 4 (0.51%) Rust
14 3 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 174 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 129 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 89 (11.25%) Degree
4 23 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 16 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.51%) PhD
10 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.25%) APMG
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.25%) CBAP
12 2 (0.25%) IIBA
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (21.24%) Data Quality
2 51 (6.45%) QA
3 28 (3.54%) GDPR
4 27 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.53%) PMO
6 11 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.88%) SLA
8 5 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.51%) GMP
9 4 (0.51%) GxP
9 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) Basel III
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (2.91%) Docker
2 18 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (4.17%) Terraform
2 26 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.65%) Grafana
4 17 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.39%) Ansible
5 11 (1.39%) Kibana
6 10 (1.26%) SCCM
7 7 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.63%) logstash
9 3 (0.38%) Podman
10 2 (0.25%) Cilium
10 2 (0.25%) Packer
11 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 136 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.99%) Databricks
3 47 (5.94%) Oracle
4 46 (5.82%) SAP
5 43 (5.44%) Google
6 29 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.53%) Adobe
8 18 (2.28%) Splunk
9 16 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.39%) Remedy
12 9 (1.14%) BMC
13 8 (1.01%) Amplitude
13 8 (1.01%) Palantir
13 8 (1.01%) Sage
14 7 (0.88%) Informatica
15 6 (0.76%) Solace
16 5 (0.63%) Foundry
17 4 (0.51%) VMware