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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 101 126
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +23
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 862 782 810
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.35% 2.45% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.76% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 487 545
10th Percentile £343 £328 £313
25th Percentile £408 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -2.88%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £728 £738 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +10.62% -4.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £29.31 £22.72 £35.32
Median hourly rate £63.75 £39.68 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.66% -14.08% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.75% - -28.95%

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 32,247 28,287 37,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.55% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,360 17,181 24,724
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,986 908 1,544
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +22.16%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.79 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.86% -33.10% +65.14%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -15 745 £500 - 632
London -19 394 £500 -4.76% 202
UK excluding London -7 371 £500 +10.62% 534
Work from Home -26 258 £500 - 229
North of England -35 111 £430 -7.03% 105
Midlands -1 73 £520 +30.00% 93
West Midlands +3 59 £525 +29.23% 49
South East +2 55 £500 +29.03% 174
North West -34 54 £405 -12.43% 51
Yorkshire -13 52 £500 +11.11% 40
Scotland +13 46 £500 +1.27% 24
South West -1 43 £750 +57.89% 57
East of England -30 39 £525 +15.64% 67
East Midlands -19 14 £404 +13.41% 43
North East -20 7 £400 -27.27% 14
Northern Ireland -13 6 £531 +6.25% 9
Wales -6 4 - - 20

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 48 (5.57%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.76%) Confluence
3 40 (4.64%) Apache
4 27 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.20%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.74%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.28%) SAS
8 9 (1.04%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.93%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.58%) GeoServer
10 5 (0.58%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Luigi
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.12%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 122 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.28%) Siemens NX
6 6 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.46%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.46%) Revit
8 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.35%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.12%) Blender
11 1 (0.12%) InDesign
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.12%) Simulink
11 1 (0.12%) SPSS
11 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.28%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) Primavera
5 1 (0.12%) Actimize
5 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.12%) Endur
5 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.12%) iTrent
5 1 (0.12%) Maximo
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 359 (41.65%) Power Platform
2 193 (22.39%) Azure
3 147 (17.05%) AWS
4 69 (8.00%) GCP
5 44 (5.10%) Snowflake
6 42 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (3.83%) Serverless
8 27 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (3.13%) Power Automate
9 24 (2.78%) PowerApps
10 21 (2.44%) dbt
11 20 (2.32%) Amazon S3
11 20 (2.32%) GitHub
12 16 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (1.51%) Figma
14 13 (1.51%) Google Analytics
15 10 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.86%) TCP/IP
2 15 (1.74%) Ethernet
3 4 (0.46%) 2G
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) SNMP
4 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.35%) SSH
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 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) DSL
6 1 (0.12%) NAS
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (41.53%) Power BI
2 160 (18.56%) Tableau
3 97 (11.25%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.80%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.68%) Big Data
6 42 (4.87%) Power Query
7 37 (4.29%) Hadoop
8 29 (3.36%) Data Lake
9 28 (3.25%) Looker
9 28 (3.25%) Metadata
10 27 (3.13%) SQL Server
11 24 (2.78%) BigQuery
12 22 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (2.32%) Data Mining
13 20 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (1.51%) Apache Hive
16 13 (1.51%) NoSQL
17 12 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (6.73%) Git
2 57 (6.61%) JIRA
3 17 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.97%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.74%) Eclipse
5 7 (0.81%) Gradle
5 7 (0.81%) Storybook
5 7 (0.81%) Xcode
6 6 (0.70%) MLflow
7 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 2 (0.23%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) JUnit
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.23%) webpack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.12%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) Vite
General
1 333 (38.63%) Social Skills
2 233 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
3 216 (25.06%) Finance
4 78 (9.05%) Banking
5 73 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.71%) Marketing
7 29 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.02%) Retail
9 23 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 23 (2.67%) Military
10 22 (2.55%) Publishing
11 21 (2.44%) Investment Banking
12 17 (1.97%) Front Office
12 17 (1.97%) Legal
13 15 (1.74%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 211 (24.48%) Analyst
2 136 (15.78%) Developer
3 120 (13.92%) Data Analyst
4 92 (10.67%) Senior
5 84 (9.74%) Data Engineer
6 80 (9.28%) Architect
7 56 (6.50%) Data Scientist
8 49 (5.68%) Business Analyst
8 49 (5.68%) Lead
9 46 (5.34%) Consultant
10 44 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (4.06%) Power BI Developer
11 35 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
12 28 (3.25%) Software Engineer
13 26 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.32%) Designer
14 20 (2.32%) Report Analyst
15 18 (2.09%) Integration Architect
15 18 (2.09%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.09%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.22%) Pandas
2 38 (4.41%) React
3 36 (4.18%) scikit-learn
4 32 (3.71%) NumPy
5 30 (3.48%) Node.js
6 29 (3.36%) PySpark
7 25 (2.90%) REST
8 21 (2.44%) Kafka
8 21 (2.44%) Web Services
9 20 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (2.32%) Plotly
10 18 (2.09%) AngularJS
10 18 (2.09%) D3.js
11 17 (1.97%) OAuth
11 17 (1.97%) TensorFlow
12 16 (1.86%) HTML
13 15 (1.74%) Vue
14 14 (1.62%) Matplotlib
15 13 (1.51%) CSS
16 11 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.68%) Algorithms
2 38 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 27 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 22 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.04%) CMDB
12 9 (1.04%) NHS
12 9 (1.04%) PMI
13 8 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.93%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.81%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.81%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.50%) Linux
2 40 (4.64%) Windows
3 33 (3.83%) Unix
4 8 (0.93%) Android
5 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (46.98%) Data Visualisation
2 398 (46.17%) Business Intelligence
3 314 (36.43%) Analytics
4 227 (26.33%) Data Modelling
5 209 (24.25%) Decision-Making
6 205 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
7 195 (22.62%) Agile
8 193 (22.39%) Data Analysis
9 147 (17.05%) Data Science
10 143 (16.59%) Actionable Insight
11 123 (14.27%) Data Pipeline
11 123 (14.27%) Machine Learning
12 114 (13.23%) ETL
13 111 (12.88%) AI
14 108 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 104 (12.06%) Data Governance
16 97 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (10.90%) Validation
18 86 (9.98%) DevOps
19 82 (9.51%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 387 (44.90%) SQL
2 297 (34.45%) Python
3 62 (7.19%) R
4 58 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 53 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.18%) Java
7 34 (3.94%) C#
7 34 (3.94%) C++
8 28 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 26 (3.02%) Scala
10 18 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.51%) Bash
12 10 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.93%) VBA
14 7 (0.81%) Go
14 7 (0.81%) Groovy
14 7 (0.81%) PHP
15 6 (0.70%) Perl
15 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 165 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 130 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.63%) Degree
4 36 (4.18%) Master's Degree
5 21 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.09%) CISSP
7 17 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.74%) CISM
9 14 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.39%) PhD
11 11 (1.28%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.81%) CFA
13 7 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.58%) CBAP
14 5 (0.58%) CEH
14 5 (0.58%) MBA
14 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (14.27%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.29%) QA
4 29 (3.36%) GDPR
5 14 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.51%) PMO
7 7 (0.81%) WCAG
8 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.35%) EMIR
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.35%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.23%) GxP
11 2 (0.23%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (3.94%) Docker
2 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (4.64%) Terraform
2 34 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.13%) Kibana
4 18 (2.09%) logstash
5 14 (1.62%) Ansible
6 13 (1.51%) Grafana
7 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.46%) Argo
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) SysTrack
11 1 (0.12%) Cacti
11 1 (0.12%) collectd
11 1 (0.12%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.12%) QRadar
11 1 (0.12%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 145 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 59 (6.84%) Databricks
3 55 (6.38%) Oracle
4 41 (4.76%) Google
5 39 (4.52%) Splunk
6 34 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.71%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.32%) Cisco
10 19 (2.20%) AppDynamics
11 16 (1.86%) BiZZdesign
11 16 (1.86%) SAP
12 14 (1.62%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.51%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.39%) Centrify
14 12 (1.39%) Foundry
15 10 (1.16%) Siemens
16 8 (0.93%) Adobe
16 8 (0.93%) Alteryx
16 8 (0.93%) Palantir