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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 104 117
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +32
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 875 846 933
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.45% 2.35% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.70% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 516 618
10th Percentile £340 £325 £304
25th Percentile £405 £404 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £725 £758 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +10.13% -4.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 48 73
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £22.57
25th Percentile £37.09 £30.00 £33.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +13.69% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £63.50
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 31,830 31,370 40,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.08% 87.18% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,997 18,966 27,094
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% -3.00%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,072 1,117 1,558
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -23.99% +24.04%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -30.37% -25.97% +36.12%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -9 756 £500 -0.05% 382
London -15 397 £500 -9.09% 143
UK excluding London +5 389 £500 +10.13% 342
Work from Home -32 255 £500 - 216
North of England -25 111 £438 -2.78% 63
Midlands -5 69 £525 +27.27% 56
South East +10 66 £500 +2.35% 129
Yorkshire -8 60 £492 +9.33% 16
West Midlands +8 57 £525 +27.27% 29
Scotland +25 54 £500 -3.61% 9
North West -26 47 £410 -5.69% 39
East of England -16 46 £525 +16.15% 37
South West +2 39 £750 +57.89% 45
East Midlands -12 12 £410 -3.53% 26
Wales -7 5 - - 9
Northern Ireland -15 4 £613 +22.50% 2
North East -19 4 £413 -8.33% 9

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 39 (4.46%) Apache Spark
1 39 (4.46%) Confluence
2 33 (3.77%) Apache
3 28 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (2.97%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.71%) WebLogic
6 13 (1.49%) SAS
7 8 (0.91%) Apache Pig
8 7 (0.80%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.34%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.34%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) PowerFactory
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 128 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.26%) Siemens NX
5 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.46%) Revit
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Captivate
8 3 (0.34%) Maya
8 3 (0.34%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.34%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Maple
9 2 (0.23%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.26%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.46%) 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%) 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
1 377 (43.09%) Power Platform
2 202 (23.09%) Azure
3 154 (17.60%) AWS
4 78 (8.91%) GCP
5 49 (5.60%) Snowflake
6 40 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 31 (3.54%) Serverless
9 30 (3.43%) Power Automate
10 27 (3.09%) dbt
10 27 (3.09%) PowerApps
11 26 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.29%) Amazon S3
14 19 (2.17%) GitHub
15 17 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (1.60%) Google Analytics
18 13 (1.49%) Figma
19 10 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 22 (2.51%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.34%) MQTT
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) LTE
5 2 (0.23%) Mobile Backhaul
5 2 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) VoIP
6 1 (0.11%) 4G
6 1 (0.11%) DNS
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) NAS
6 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (42.74%) Power BI
2 177 (20.23%) Tableau
3 100 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (6.63%) Relational Database
5 48 (5.49%) Power Query
6 46 (5.26%) Big Data
7 35 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.89%) Hadoop
9 31 (3.54%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.31%) Looker
11 28 (3.20%) BigQuery
12 24 (2.74%) Metadata
12 24 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (2.29%) Data Mining
14 17 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (1.94%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
18 11 (1.26%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 54 (6.17%) Git
2 53 (6.06%) JIRA
3 24 (2.74%) Visual Studio
4 22 (2.51%) Eclipse
5 15 (1.71%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.80%) Gradle
6 7 (0.80%) Storybook
6 7 (0.80%) Xcode
7 6 (0.69%) JUnit
8 5 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.46%) MLflow
9 4 (0.46%) Selenium
10 3 (0.34%) webpack
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 1 (0.11%) git-flow
12 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.11%) Snyk
12 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 364 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 245 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 217 (24.80%) Finance
4 79 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 76 (8.69%) Banking
6 39 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 33 (3.77%) Marketing
8 30 (3.43%) Military
9 25 (2.86%) Investment Banking
10 22 (2.51%) Retail
11 19 (2.17%) Front Office
11 19 (2.17%) Legal
12 18 (2.06%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.71%) Publishing
14 14 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.49%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 234 (26.74%) Analyst
2 138 (15.77%) Data Analyst
3 137 (15.66%) Developer
4 88 (10.06%) Senior
5 87 (9.94%) Data Engineer
6 72 (8.23%) Architect
7 54 (6.17%) Data Scientist
8 51 (5.83%) Lead
9 46 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 44 (5.03%) Consultant
11 43 (4.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 38 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (3.89%) Power BI Developer
14 32 (3.66%) Software Engineer
15 21 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.29%) C# Software Engineer
17 19 (2.17%) Python Engineer
18 18 (2.06%) Integration Architect
18 18 (2.06%) Power BI Analyst
18 18 (2.06%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.46%) Pandas
1 39 (4.46%) React
2 34 (3.89%) scikit-learn
3 33 (3.77%) Node.js
4 31 (3.54%) NumPy
5 29 (3.31%) Web Services
6 26 (2.97%) PySpark
7 21 (2.40%) CSS
8 20 (2.29%) AngularJS
8 20 (2.29%) D3.js
8 20 (2.29%) Kafka
8 20 (2.29%) REST
9 17 (1.94%) Plotly
10 15 (1.71%) HTML
10 15 (1.71%) OAuth
11 14 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (1.60%) TensorFlow
11 14 (1.60%) Vue
12 11 (1.26%) Matplotlib
13 10 (1.14%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.31%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.37%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.26%) CMDB
10 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.03%) Hedge funds
13 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.91%) SCADA
14 7 (0.80%) Animation
14 7 (0.80%) NHS
15 6 (0.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 64 (7.31%) Linux
2 48 (5.49%) Windows
3 32 (3.66%) Unix
4 8 (0.91%) Android
5 7 (0.80%) 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
1 414 (47.31%) Data Visualisation
2 412 (47.09%) Business Intelligence
3 327 (37.37%) Analytics
4 241 (27.54%) Data Modelling
5 213 (24.34%) Data Analysis
6 210 (24.00%) Decision-Making
7 208 (23.77%) Agile
8 199 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
9 149 (17.03%) Actionable Insight
10 146 (16.69%) Data Science
11 135 (15.43%) Machine Learning
12 121 (13.83%) AI
12 121 (13.83%) ETL
13 116 (13.26%) Data Pipeline
14 108 (12.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 99 (11.31%) Data Governance
16 97 (11.09%) Validation
17 96 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 94 (10.74%) CI/CD
19 86 (9.83%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 398 (45.49%) SQL
2 311 (35.54%) Python
3 67 (7.66%) JavaScript
4 56 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 56 (6.40%) R
5 44 (5.03%) C++
6 36 (4.11%) Java
7 33 (3.77%) C#
8 30 (3.43%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.40%) Scala
10 13 (1.49%) Bash
11 12 (1.37%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.91%) Go
13 8 (0.91%) VBA
14 7 (0.80%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.80%) PHP
14 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.57%) Groovy
16 4 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 157 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 125 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.97%) Degree
4 40 (4.57%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.06%) CISSP
7 17 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.71%) CISM
9 14 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.49%) PhD
11 10 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.80%) CFA
13 7 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.69%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.57%) CBAP
15 5 (0.57%) CEH
16 4 (0.46%) ACCA
16 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 54 (6.17%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.89%) QA
4 31 (3.54%) GDPR
5 8 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.80%) WCAG
7 6 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.69%) PMO
8 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.46%) MiFID
9 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.34%) EMIR
10 3 (0.34%) NIST
10 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (3.89%) Docker
2 11 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (4.00%) Terraform
2 28 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.29%) Kibana
4 18 (2.06%) Grafana
5 14 (1.60%) logstash
6 12 (1.37%) Ansible
7 4 (0.46%) Argo
7 4 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.11%) Cacti
9 1 (0.11%) collectd
9 1 (0.11%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
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
1 175 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.51%) Oracle
3 54 (6.17%) Databricks
4 43 (4.91%) Google
4 43 (4.91%) Splunk
5 33 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 30 (3.43%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.97%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.29%) SAP
9 19 (2.17%) AppDynamics
9 19 (2.17%) Cisco
10 16 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
11 15 (1.71%) Foundry
12 13 (1.49%) OpenAI
13 12 (1.37%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.26%) Centrify
14 11 (1.26%) Palantir
15 10 (1.14%) Adobe
15 10 (1.14%) Siemens
16 9 (1.03%) Bloomberg