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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 108 132
Rank change year-on-year -57 +24 +24
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 762 721 744
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.48% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 2.72% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 458 496
10th Percentile £325 £339 £313
25th Percentile £404 £401 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £720 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 33 42
10th Percentile £21.01 £22.54 £20.58
25th Percentile £35.56 £30.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.16% -42.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72.23 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.96 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year +101.71% -50.42% -

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 40,694 26,498 36,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.34% 91.04% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,533 17,004 23,615
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,106 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 May 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 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 16 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 May 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 -55 675 £488 +2.63% 394
London -43 356 £488 -2.50% 156
UK excluding London -60 313 £475 +2.70% 322
Work from Home -24 246 £488 +8.33% 143
North of England -59 97 £450 -2.70% 78
Midlands -30 66 £494 +19.70% 47
North West -27 54 £420 -9.19% 36
South East -33 53 £510 -7.27% 84
South West -21 48 £500 +5.26% 49
West Midlands -40 48 £500 +21.21% 27
Yorkshire -45 39 £459 +3.67% 28
East of England -36 27 £565 +2.73% 23
Scotland -12 23 £430 -4.44% 19
East Midlands -17 18 £488 +27.12% 20
North East -28 7 £420 -20.00% 17
Northern Ireland -1 2 £463 -8.64% 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 49 (6.43%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.62%) Apache
3 18 (2.36%) Confluence
4 16 (2.10%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.44%) Apache Superset
7 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.39%) CMS
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.26%) Luigi
9 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 111 (14.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.49%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.66%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.39%) iTrent
5 3 (0.39%) Primavera
6 2 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 351 (46.06%) Power Platform
2 154 (20.21%) Azure
3 136 (17.85%) AWS
4 54 (7.09%) GCP
5 46 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (5.91%) Snowflake
7 28 (3.67%) Serverless
8 26 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.02%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.76%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.49%) dbt
13 17 (2.23%) GitHub
13 17 (2.23%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.31%) Google Workspace
14 10 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.44%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.79%) Firewall
4 4 (0.52%) DNS
5 3 (0.39%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) DHCP
6 2 (0.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Modbus
7 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (45.54%) Power BI
2 178 (23.36%) Tableau
3 99 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (5.91%) Big Data
5 44 (5.77%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.25%) Metadata
7 37 (4.86%) Looker
8 36 (4.72%) Power Query
9 35 (4.59%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.81%) BigQuery
10 29 (3.81%) Hadoop
11 28 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (3.54%) Data Lake
13 20 (2.62%) NoSQL
14 16 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.84%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.84%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 57 (7.48%) Git
2 39 (5.12%) JIRA
3 12 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.44%) Eclipse
5 10 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.05%) MLflow
7 4 (0.52%) ERwin
7 4 (0.52%) GitLab
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.26%) JMeter
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) git-flow
10 1 (0.13%) Postman
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 240 (31.50%) Analytical Skills
2 238 (31.23%) Social Skills
3 199 (26.12%) Finance
4 73 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.48%) Banking
6 38 (4.99%) Retail
7 32 (4.20%) Marketing
8 28 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.10%) Publishing
11 14 (1.84%) Military
11 14 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.71%) Law
12 13 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.31%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.31%) Legal
13 10 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.05%) Front Office
15 8 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 198 (25.98%) Analyst
2 107 (14.04%) Data Analyst
2 107 (14.04%) Data Engineer
3 104 (13.65%) Developer
4 99 (12.99%) Senior
5 55 (7.22%) Data Scientist
6 50 (6.56%) Lead
7 47 (6.17%) Business Analyst
8 45 (5.91%) Consultant
9 36 (4.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 34 (4.46%) Architect
11 26 (3.41%) Power BI Developer
11 26 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
12 22 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 19 (2.49%) Designer
13 19 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.23%) SAP Consultant
14 17 (2.23%) Senior Data Scientist
14 17 (2.23%) Software Engineer
15 16 (2.10%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.04%) Pandas
2 45 (5.91%) React
3 35 (4.59%) Kafka
4 28 (3.67%) REST
5 26 (3.41%) Node.js
6 24 (3.15%) NumPy
7 23 (3.02%) scikit-learn
8 21 (2.76%) PySpark
9 18 (2.36%) .NET
10 16 (2.10%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (2.10%) JSON
10 16 (2.10%) Matplotlib
11 14 (1.84%) Web Services
12 13 (1.71%) CSS
12 13 (1.71%) HTML
12 13 (1.71%) Seaborn
12 13 (1.71%) TensorFlow
12 13 (1.71%) Vue
13 12 (1.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.96%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.54%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.05%) Derivative
12 8 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.05%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.92%) Life Science
13 7 (0.92%) NHS
13 7 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.81%) Windows
2 28 (3.67%) Linux
3 6 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.66%) Unix
4 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.39%) Android
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (49.48%) Business Intelligence
2 365 (47.90%) Data Visualisation
3 319 (41.86%) Analytics
4 232 (30.45%) Data Modelling
5 216 (28.35%) Decision-Making
6 198 (25.98%) Agile
6 198 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (20.87%) Actionable Insight
8 146 (19.16%) Data Pipeline
9 135 (17.72%) AI
10 131 (17.19%) Validation
11 130 (17.06%) Data Science
12 126 (16.54%) Data Governance
13 120 (15.75%) Data Analysis
13 120 (15.75%) ETL
14 116 (15.22%) Dashboard Development
15 112 (14.70%) Data Engineering
16 101 (13.25%) CI/CD
17 96 (12.60%) Machine Learning
18 94 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 379 (49.74%) SQL
2 287 (37.66%) Python
3 84 (11.02%) R
4 54 (7.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 49 (6.43%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.99%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.86%) Java
8 36 (4.72%) C#
9 23 (3.02%) PowerShell
10 20 (2.62%) C++
11 19 (2.49%) Scala
12 11 (1.44%) VBA
13 9 (1.18%) Perl
14 8 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.92%) Bash
15 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.79%) Rust
17 4 (0.52%) MATLAB
18 3 (0.39%) LookML
18 3 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 150 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 121 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 77 (10.10%) Degree
4 20 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.62%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.52%) CBAP
11 4 (0.52%) MBA
11 4 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
11 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) NCDA
13 2 (0.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.26%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (19.16%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.43%) QA
3 28 (3.67%) GDPR
4 24 (3.15%) PMO
5 22 (2.89%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.92%) SLA
8 5 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.52%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.26%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) P3O
11 2 (0.26%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.41%) Docker
2 14 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) HDFS
4 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.46%) Terraform
3 23 (3.02%) Grafana
4 18 (2.36%) Kibana
5 17 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.10%) Ansible
7 12 (1.57%) logstash
8 8 (1.05%) SCCM
9 7 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.39%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.26%) Cilium
11 2 (0.26%) Packer
11 2 (0.26%) vMotion
11 2 (0.26%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.63%) Databricks
3 47 (6.17%) Google
4 42 (5.51%) SAP
5 35 (4.59%) Oracle
6 26 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.10%) Sage
8 14 (1.84%) Adobe
9 13 (1.71%) Splunk
10 12 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.31%) Amplitude
12 9 (1.18%) Informatica
13 7 (0.92%) Remedy
14 6 (0.79%) Apple
14 6 (0.79%) Cognos
14 6 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.79%) VMware
15 5 (0.66%) BMC
15 5 (0.66%) Solace