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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 102 133
Rank change year-on-year -57 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 787 746 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 2.55% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.80% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 481 499
10th Percentile £331 £337 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £576
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.51% +1.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 31 42
10th Percentile £22.27 £22.00 £20.58
25th Percentile £44.06 £23.86 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £33.11 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.76% -44.82% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.18 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.00 £70.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £31.64 £61.00
% change year-on-year +105.44% -48.13% -6.15%

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 40,275 26,638 37,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.95% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,293 17,157 24,168
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,413 1,083 2,449
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.94 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.37% -25.49% +7.14%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -52 693 £493 +3.68% 416
London -44 361 £490 -2.00% 171
UK excluding London -63 326 £475 +4.51% 314
Work from Home -16 262 £488 +8.33% 189
North of England -38 104 £455 -1.62% 78
Midlands -43 66 £500 +21.21% 50
North West -22 58 £420 -10.40% 46
South East -24 56 £505 -8.18% 97
West Midlands -42 47 £500 +19.40% 29
South West -23 45 £475 - 38
Yorkshire -40 42 £469 +10.29% 19
East of England -44 32 £565 +21.64% 24
Scotland -11 24 £440 -2.22% 18
East Midlands -18 19 £488 +32.83% 21
North East -22 7 £420 -13.85% 13
Northern Ireland +2 2 £463 +8.82% 3

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 51 (6.48%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.67%) Apache
3 19 (2.41%) Confluence
4 16 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.40%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) R Markdown
Applications
1 120 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.14%) Chatbot
6 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.64%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
8 2 (0.25%) InDesign
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.13%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.13%) Maya
9 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) iTrent
5 3 (0.38%) Primavera
6 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 362 (46.00%) Power Platform
2 162 (20.58%) Azure
3 138 (17.53%) AWS
4 59 (7.50%) GCP
5 49 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 38 (4.83%) Snowflake
7 29 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (3.56%) Serverless
9 25 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (3.05%) Power Automate
11 22 (2.80%) Amazon S3
12 19 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (2.29%) GitHub
14 17 (2.16%) dbt
15 16 (2.03%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.52%) Google Workspace
17 10 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.91%) TCP/IP
2 14 (1.78%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.76%) Firewall
4 4 (0.51%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) Wireless
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) Network Security
6 2 (0.25%) PCoIP
6 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.13%) 5G
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) LAN
7 1 (0.13%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
7 1 (0.13%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (45.74%) Power BI
2 180 (22.87%) Tableau
3 100 (12.71%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 45 (5.72%) Big Data
6 41 (5.21%) Metadata
7 38 (4.83%) Power Query
8 34 (4.32%) Looker
8 34 (4.32%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.94%) Data Lake
9 31 (3.94%) Hadoop
10 29 (3.68%) BigQuery
11 27 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
12 22 (2.80%) NoSQL
13 16 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (1.91%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 59 (7.50%) Git
2 40 (5.08%) JIRA
3 15 (1.91%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.78%) Eclipse
5 12 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.02%) MLflow
7 4 (0.51%) ERwin
7 4 (0.51%) GitLab
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.13%) Flyway
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) NUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 264 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 246 (31.26%) Analytical Skills
3 212 (26.94%) Finance
4 81 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.50%) Banking
6 39 (4.96%) Retail
7 35 (4.45%) Marketing
8 25 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.29%) Military
12 15 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.91%) Publishing
13 14 (1.78%) Law
14 13 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.14%) Front Office
15 9 (1.14%) Legal
15 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.02%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 206 (26.18%) Analyst
2 111 (14.10%) Developer
3 110 (13.98%) Data Engineer
4 109 (13.85%) Data Analyst
5 103 (13.09%) Senior
6 57 (7.24%) Data Scientist
7 54 (6.86%) Lead
8 48 (6.10%) Business Analyst
9 44 (5.59%) Consultant
10 40 (5.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (4.45%) Architect
12 29 (3.68%) Power BI Developer
13 26 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
14 25 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 20 (2.54%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.29%) Data Business Analyst
17 18 (2.29%) Designer
18 17 (2.16%) Performance Analyst
18 17 (2.16%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.10%) Pandas
2 46 (5.84%) React
3 35 (4.45%) Kafka
4 29 (3.68%) Node.js
5 28 (3.56%) REST
6 27 (3.43%) NumPy
6 27 (3.43%) scikit-learn
7 23 (2.92%) PySpark
8 18 (2.29%) .NET
8 18 (2.29%) Matplotlib
9 17 (2.16%) Web Services
10 16 (2.03%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (2.03%) JSON
10 16 (2.03%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.91%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.91%) Seaborn
12 13 (1.65%) Vue
13 12 (1.52%) Apache Avro
13 12 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.35%) Data Structures
2 33 (4.19%) Algorithms
3 32 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
13 8 (1.02%) Derivative
13 8 (1.02%) PMI
14 7 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.89%) Life Science
14 7 (0.89%) NHS
14 7 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.45%) Linux
2 30 (3.81%) Windows
3 9 (1.14%) Unix
4 6 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.38%) Android
7 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (50.57%) Business Intelligence
2 377 (47.90%) Data Visualisation
3 325 (41.30%) Analytics
4 239 (30.37%) Data Modelling
5 214 (27.19%) Decision-Making
6 208 (26.43%) Agile
7 207 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (20.84%) Actionable Insight
9 147 (18.68%) Data Pipeline
10 138 (17.53%) Validation
11 137 (17.41%) AI
12 134 (17.03%) Data Analysis
13 131 (16.65%) Data Science
14 127 (16.14%) Data Governance
15 122 (15.50%) Dashboard Development
16 121 (15.37%) ETL
17 117 (14.87%) Data Engineering
18 105 (13.34%) CI/CD
19 98 (12.45%) Machine Learning
20 90 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 386 (49.05%) SQL
2 298 (37.87%) Python
3 82 (10.42%) R
4 55 (6.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 54 (6.86%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.21%) C#
7 38 (4.83%) Java
7 38 (4.83%) TypeScript
8 26 (3.30%) C++
9 22 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 21 (2.67%) Scala
11 13 (1.65%) VBA
12 9 (1.14%) Perl
13 7 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.76%) Bash
14 6 (0.76%) Rust
15 4 (0.51%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.51%) PHP
16 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 124 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.28%) Degree
4 22 (2.80%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.14%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.51%) CISM
12 4 (0.51%) CISSP
12 4 (0.51%) MBA
12 4 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.38%) CBAP
13 3 (0.38%) PhD
13 3 (0.38%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.61%) QA
3 27 (3.43%) GDPR
4 24 (3.05%) PMO
5 22 (2.80%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.25%) NIST
11 2 (0.25%) P3O
11 2 (0.25%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
12 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (3.94%) Docker
2 12 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.51%) HDFS
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.45%) Terraform
3 24 (3.05%) Grafana
4 18 (2.29%) Kibana
5 17 (2.16%) Ansible
5 17 (2.16%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.52%) logstash
7 7 (0.89%) SCCM
7 7 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.25%) Cilium
9 2 (0.25%) Packer
9 2 (0.25%) vMotion
9 2 (0.25%) vRealize
10 1 (0.13%) Cacti
10 1 (0.13%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.66%) Databricks
3 51 (6.48%) Google
4 41 (5.21%) SAP
5 37 (4.70%) Oracle
6 25 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.16%) Sage
9 15 (1.91%) Adobe
10 14 (1.78%) Splunk
11 10 (1.27%) Informatica
12 8 (1.02%) Amplitude
13 7 (0.89%) Cognos
14 6 (0.76%) Apple
14 6 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
14 6 (0.76%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.76%) Remedy
15 5 (0.64%) Solace
15 5 (0.64%) VMware