Visual Analytics Job Trends

Visual Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Visual Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 708 -
Rank change year-on-year +85 - -
Permanent jobs citing Visual Analytics 28 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.006% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £58,500 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 -
90th Percentile - £85,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Visual Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

Visual Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Visual Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK

Visual Analytics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visual Analytics

Visual Analytics
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Work from Home +100 26 £75,000 -
UK excluding London - 23 - - 3
England +89 16 £75,000 - 3
North of England - 11 - - 2
North West - 5 - -
North East - 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
South West - 2 - - 1
Wales - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
London +28 1 £75,000 -

Visual Analytics
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 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 25 (89.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) Power Platform
2 26 (92.86%) Azure
2 26 (92.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 24 (85.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (96.43%) Power BI
2 25 (89.29%) SQL Server
2 25 (89.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 24 (85.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
General
1 28 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (92.86%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (92.86%) Finance
3 12 (42.86%) Billing
3 12 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Analyst
1 12 (42.86%) Business Manager
1 12 (42.86%) Commercial Analyst
1 12 (42.86%) Insight Analyst
1 12 (42.86%) Insight Manager
2 2 (7.14%) Lead
2 2 (7.14%) Technical Leader
3 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Senior
3 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) JSON
1 2 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (3.57%) Pandas
2 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (85.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Analytics
2 27 (96.43%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (92.86%) Visualisation
4 25 (89.29%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (85.71%) Actionable Insight
5 24 (85.71%) Data Analysis
5 24 (85.71%) Decision-Making
5 24 (85.71%) Process Improvement
5 24 (85.71%) WFM
6 15 (53.57%) Data Modelling
7 13 (46.43%) AI
7 13 (46.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (46.43%) Data Analytics
8 12 (42.86%) Budgeting
8 12 (42.86%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 12 (42.86%) Data Collection
8 12 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
8 12 (42.86%) Proactive Monitoring
8 12 (42.86%) Storytelling
8 12 (42.86%) Workforce Productivity
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) SQL
2 24 (85.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (10.71%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.57%) R
5 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Degree
2 12 (42.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) MBA
3 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) Data Quality
2 12 (42.86%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft