Tableau Job Trends

Tableau
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Tableau skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 247 265
Rank change year-on-year +84 +18 -75
Permanent jobs citing Tableau 877 641 642
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.48% 6.72% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 359 228 445
10th Percentile - £38,350 £36,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +0.87% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £92,725 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Tableau falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,507 9,532 11,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.85% 17.81% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,164 5,324 8,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,775 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Tableau
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Tableau relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Tableau job vacancy trend in the UK

Tableau
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau

Tableau
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tableau over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Tableau in the UK

Tableau
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tableau within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +82 758 £47,500 -17.39% 266
UK excluding London +147 586 £40,000 -23.81% 251
London +21 262 £65,000 +4.00% 94
North of England +76 190 £40,000 -27.00% 58
Work from Home -16 168 £55,000 -5.17% 94
Midlands +71 103 £40,000 -8.57% 38
South East +65 94 £50,000 -13.04% 82
Yorkshire +32 86 £40,000 -15.79% 13
North West +51 80 £40,000 -27.27% 36
Scotland +40 66 £40,000 -30.43% 16
South West +34 60 £41,250 -10.81% 23
West Midlands +55 53 £40,000 -11.11% 23
East Midlands +11 50 £40,000 -5.88% 14
East of England +58 47 £40,000 -30.74% 17
North East +26 24 £40,000 -42.86% 9
Wales +30 21 £40,000 -20.00% 11
Northern Ireland -2 10 - - 8

Tableau
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 23 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 15 (1.71%) Confluence
5 11 (1.25%) Apache
6 5 (0.57%) IIS
7 4 (0.46%) SAS
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 524 (59.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.25%) Maya
5 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Notion
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.34%) SAP APO
3 3 (0.34%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.23%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.23%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.11%) Odoo
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle CRM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.11%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 602 (68.64%) Power Platform
2 359 (40.94%) Azure
3 275 (31.36%) Azure AI
4 93 (10.60%) Snowflake
5 62 (7.07%) AWS
6 50 (5.70%) GCP
7 43 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.53%) dbt
8 31 (3.53%) GitHub
9 20 (2.28%) Fivetran
10 17 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
10 17 (1.94%) OCI
11 16 (1.82%) Google Analytics
12 14 (1.60%) SaaS
13 13 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.37%) Boomi
14 12 (1.37%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 10 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
16 9 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.46%) VoIP
2 1 (0.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 600 (68.42%) Power BI
2 147 (16.76%) Data Mining
3 73 (8.32%) Looker
4 70 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (5.47%) BigQuery
6 38 (4.33%) Metadata
7 34 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 26 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (2.96%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.82%) Big Data
10 14 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
11 13 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
11 13 (1.48%) Hadoop
12 11 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
12 11 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
13 10 (1.14%) MySQL
13 10 (1.14%) QlikView
14 9 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.80%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.80%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (4.79%) Git
2 37 (4.22%) JIRA
3 20 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.57%) MLflow
6 4 (0.46%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.46%) ERwin
6 4 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.23%) JMeter
7 2 (0.23%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.23%) Selenium
7 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.11%) GitLab
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 455 (51.88%) Social Skills
2 387 (44.13%) Finance
3 369 (42.08%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (11.97%) Marketing
5 61 (6.96%) Banking
6 54 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (5.47%) Retail
8 41 (4.68%) Law
9 33 (3.76%) Games
10 31 (3.53%) Financial Institution
11 21 (2.39%) Legal
12 18 (2.05%) Publishing
13 17 (1.94%) Advertising
14 14 (1.60%) French Language
14 14 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.48%) Public Sector
16 12 (1.37%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 601 (68.53%) Analyst
2 519 (59.18%) Data Analyst
3 276 (31.47%) Junior
4 275 (31.36%) Junior Analyst
4 275 (31.36%) Junior Data Analyst
5 136 (15.51%) Trainee
6 123 (14.03%) Trainee Analyst
6 123 (14.03%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 113 (12.88%) Senior
8 51 (5.82%) Senior Analyst
9 40 (4.56%) Architect
10 32 (3.65%) Developer
10 32 (3.65%) Senior Architect
10 32 (3.65%) Senior Manager
11 30 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 29 (3.31%) Lead
13 25 (2.85%) Data Engineer
14 20 (2.28%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.17%) Report Analyst
16 17 (1.94%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.94%) OAuth
1 17 (1.94%) OAuth2
1 17 (1.94%) RESTful
1 17 (1.94%) SAML
2 12 (1.37%) Kafka
2 12 (1.37%) Pandas
2 12 (1.37%) PyTorch
2 12 (1.37%) TensorFlow
3 11 (1.25%) scikit-learn
4 10 (1.14%) NumPy
5 9 (1.03%) .NET
6 8 (0.91%) PySpark
7 5 (0.57%) Faiss
7 5 (0.57%) Hugging Face
7 5 (0.57%) Play Framework
7 5 (0.57%) vLLM
8 4 (0.46%) Matplotlib
8 4 (0.46%) Middleware
8 4 (0.46%) Seaborn
8 4 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 42 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.94%) FMCG
5 17 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.48%) Algorithms
6 13 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (0.91%) Blog
8 8 (0.91%) Podcast
9 7 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (0.80%) Hedge funds
9 7 (0.80%) Reinsurance
10 6 (0.68%) Fixed Income
11 5 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.57%) Freedom of Information Act
12 4 (0.46%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.82%) Linux
1 16 (1.82%) Windows
2 8 (0.91%) Unix
3 7 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (74.23%) Business Intelligence
2 407 (46.41%) AI
3 393 (44.81%) Analytics
4 259 (29.53%) Data Analysis
5 183 (20.87%) Data Analytics
6 174 (19.84%) Project Management
7 169 (19.27%) Visualisation
8 162 (18.47%) Decision-Making
9 149 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
10 147 (16.76%) Business Analysis
11 119 (13.57%) Data Visualisation
12 104 (11.86%) Data Science
13 103 (11.74%) Actionable Insight
14 88 (10.03%) Data Modelling
15 84 (9.58%) Agile
16 80 (9.12%) ETL
17 79 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 77 (8.78%) Mathematics
19 72 (8.21%) Migration
20 71 (8.10%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 692 (78.91%) SQL
2 639 (72.86%) Python
3 34 (3.88%) R
4 30 (3.42%) Java
5 17 (1.94%) PL/SQL
5 17 (1.94%) Shell Script
6 13 (1.48%) Scala
7 11 (1.25%) Bash
7 11 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.68%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.57%) Go
10 5 (0.57%) VBA
11 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.11%) ABAP
12 1 (0.11%) Bicep
12 1 (0.11%) C#
12 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 285 (32.50%) Azure Certification
2 176 (20.07%) Degree
3 39 (4.45%) Numerate Degree
4 26 (2.96%) CISA
4 26 (2.96%) CISSP
5 24 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.39%) CIMA
7 20 (2.28%) ACCA
7 20 (2.28%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.28%) PMP
8 14 (1.60%) CISM
9 13 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.37%) CRISC
11 10 (1.14%) Security Cleared
12 7 (0.80%) CompTIA CySA+
12 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.68%) HNC
13 6 (0.68%) MBA
14 5 (0.57%) AAT
14 5 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.51%) NIST
4 19 (2.17%) GDPR
5 18 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.60%) QA
7 13 (1.48%) GRC
8 12 (1.37%) COBIT
8 12 (1.37%) ITGC
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.23%) PSD2
12 1 (0.11%) GMP
12 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.11%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (1.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (2.62%) Terraform
2 17 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (0.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.57%) RSA Archer
4 4 (0.46%) Control-M
5 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 496 (56.56%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.61%) Salesforce
3 53 (6.04%) Google
4 50 (5.70%) Alteryx
5 46 (5.25%) Oracle
6 35 (3.99%) SAP
7 32 (3.65%) Bloomberg
8 28 (3.19%) Databricks
9 26 (2.96%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.85%) Verint
11 21 (2.39%) Anaplan
12 20 (2.28%) Genesys
13 19 (2.17%) Adobe
14 15 (1.71%) HubSpot
14 15 (1.71%) Informatica
15 13 (1.48%) MuleSoft
16 12 (1.37%) Dell
17 9 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 8 (0.91%) IBM
19 7 (0.80%) Progress