Visualisation Job Trends

Visualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Visualisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 104 92
Rank change year-on-year -94 -12 +38
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 854 1,164 2,628
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 2.87% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 3.07% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 552 637 1,369
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,500 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,125 £110,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,588 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.26% +5.00% +1.28%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,873 37,939 76,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.17% 93.46% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 36,505 22,139 57,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Visualisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Visualisation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Visualisation

Visualisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Visualisation over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Visualisation in the UK

Visualisation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Visualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 27 March 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 -80 768 £60,000 -1.22% 455
UK excluding London -68 507 £46,588 -11.26% 379
London -77 291 £70,000 -15.15% 160
Work from Home -81 277 £58,750 +2.17% 170
South East +1 153 £57,500 -2.54% 118
North of England -49 147 £40,000 -15.79% 87
Midlands -55 85 £42,500 -22.73% 80
North West -27 83 £40,000 -11.11% 46
West Midlands -18 58 £43,250 -24.78% 37
Yorkshire -68 50 £40,000 -15.79% 26
South West -87 42 £48,373 +13.82% 42
East of England -16 37 £57,500 -17.86% 25
Scotland -51 31 £57,500 +27.78% 15
East Midlands -70 27 £40,000 -20.00% 43
North East -23 14 £37,500 -44.44% 17
Wales -18 6 £38,500 -23.00% 15
Northern Ireland -37 6 - - 9

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 54 (6.32%) Jupyter
2 44 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (3.51%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.81%) Confluence
6 21 (2.46%) Apache
7 8 (0.94%) WordPress
8 6 (0.70%) SAS
9 5 (0.59%) IIS
10 4 (0.47%) CMS
11 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 174 (20.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.32%) Chatbot
3 32 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.05%) CATIA
6 6 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.70%) Trello
7 5 (0.59%) Blender
7 5 (0.59%) Maya
8 4 (0.47%) 3ds Max
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.47%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) Houdini
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (4.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.76%) SAP PM
3 9 (1.05%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 396 (46.37%) Power Platform
2 196 (22.95%) Azure
3 142 (16.63%) AWS
4 80 (9.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 60 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (7.03%) Cloud Computing
6 56 (6.56%) GCP
7 51 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (5.39%) Power Automate
8 46 (5.39%) PowerApps
9 45 (5.27%) Snowflake
10 41 (4.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 38 (4.45%) dbt
12 27 (3.16%) GitHub
13 23 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (2.46%) Google Analytics
15 19 (2.22%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.87%) Serverless
17 13 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) Broadband
1 7 (0.82%) Modbus
2 5 (0.59%) MQTT
3 2 (0.23%) Firewall
3 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.23%) Wireless
4 1 (0.12%) ADSL
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (46.25%) Power BI
2 139 (16.28%) Tableau
3 71 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (7.49%) SQL Server
5 41 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (3.51%) BigQuery
9 29 (3.40%) Metadata
10 26 (3.04%) Looker
11 23 (2.69%) BusinessObjects
12 22 (2.58%) Power Query
13 21 (2.46%) Data Lake
13 21 (2.46%) MySQL
14 20 (2.34%) Big Data
15 18 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (1.87%) NoSQL
16 16 (1.87%) Relational Database
17 15 (1.76%) Data Mining
18 14 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 69 (8.08%) JIRA
2 54 (6.32%) Visual Studio Code
3 42 (4.92%) Git
4 39 (4.57%) eCATT
5 18 (2.11%) NeoLoad
6 9 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
6 9 (1.05%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.59%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.47%) GitLab
9 3 (0.35%) MLflow
9 3 (0.35%) Vite
10 2 (0.23%) ESLint
10 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 2 (0.23%) Storybook
11 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.12%) RStudio
11 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 305 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 300 (35.13%) Social Skills
3 299 (35.01%) Finance
4 131 (15.34%) Manufacturing
5 116 (13.58%) Marketing
6 78 (9.13%) Retail
7 77 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
9 60 (7.03%) Public Sector
10 57 (6.67%) Law
11 56 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (4.33%) Legal
13 35 (4.10%) Banking
14 32 (3.75%) Front Office
15 23 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (2.22%) Telecoms
17 16 (1.87%) Billing
18 15 (1.76%) Back Office
18 15 (1.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 193 (22.60%) Analyst
2 127 (14.87%) Developer
3 122 (14.29%) Senior
4 88 (10.30%) Data Analyst
5 65 (7.61%) Data Engineer
6 60 (7.03%) Data Scientist
7 56 (6.56%) Trainee
8 51 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (5.97%) Lead
8 51 (5.97%) Programmer
8 51 (5.97%) Trainee Programmer
9 38 (4.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 38 (4.45%) Consultant
10 33 (3.86%) React Developer
11 31 (3.63%) Data Manager
12 27 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 26 (3.04%) Architect
14 24 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (2.69%) Junior
15 23 (2.69%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.49%) Pandas
1 64 (7.49%) scikit-learn
2 59 (6.91%) Matplotlib
3 58 (6.79%) NumPy
4 56 (6.56%) Streamlit
5 54 (6.32%) Hugging Face
6 52 (6.09%) React
7 31 (3.63%) Kafka
8 30 (3.51%) WebSockets
9 27 (3.16%) PySpark
10 22 (2.58%) CSS
11 21 (2.46%) HTML
12 18 (2.11%) Highcharts JS
13 17 (1.99%) FIX Protocol
13 17 (1.99%) OpenFin
14 16 (1.87%) HTML5 Canvas
15 12 (1.41%) PyTorch
16 11 (1.29%) JSON
17 10 (1.17%) REST
18 9 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.42%) Algorithms
2 46 (5.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 45 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 29 (3.40%) Fixed Income
6 28 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.93%) Blog
8 21 (2.46%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.76%) IoT
10 13 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.52%) Social Media
11 11 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.17%) SCADA
13 9 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (0.70%) Anti-Piracy
16 6 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
17 5 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.41%) Linux
2 9 (1.05%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Android
3 5 (0.59%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (52.69%) Data Visualisation
2 404 (47.31%) Business Intelligence
3 403 (47.19%) Analytics
4 266 (31.15%) Decision-Making
5 239 (27.99%) AI
6 223 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (24.47%) Data Analysis
8 175 (20.49%) Machine Learning
9 168 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 166 (19.44%) Data Modelling
11 150 (17.56%) Data Science
12 145 (16.98%) ETL
13 137 (16.04%) Actionable Insight
14 133 (15.57%) Agile
15 117 (13.70%) Data Analytics
15 117 (13.70%) Data Management
16 116 (13.58%) Data Governance
17 106 (12.41%) Data Engineering
18 91 (10.66%) Workflow
19 89 (10.42%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 370 (43.33%) SQL
2 355 (41.57%) Python
3 82 (9.60%) JavaScript
4 66 (7.73%) R
5 64 (7.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 39 (4.57%) VBA
7 32 (3.75%) Java
8 29 (3.40%) C#
9 27 (3.16%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.87%) Scala
11 13 (1.52%) C++
12 12 (1.41%) Bash
13 9 (1.05%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.70%) Julia
16 5 (0.59%) C
16 5 (0.59%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.59%) Ruby
16 5 (0.59%) VB
16 5 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 215 (25.18%) Degree
2 66 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 60 (7.03%) AWS Certification
4 54 (6.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 53 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 39 (4.57%) Master's Degree
7 26 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (2.34%) DBS Check
10 19 (2.22%) MBA
11 17 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.64%) Azure Certification
13 13 (1.52%) APMP
14 12 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (1.17%) DV Cleared
15 10 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
16 9 (1.05%) PhD
17 6 (0.70%) ACCA
17 6 (0.70%) CIMA
18 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (17.10%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.68%) QA
3 29 (3.40%) GDPR
4 26 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.17%) Good Clinical Practice
7 9 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.59%) PMO
9 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
9 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) EMIR
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (2.22%) Docker
2 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.57%) HP ALM
2 17 (1.99%) Terraform
3 14 (1.64%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.94%) Grafana
4 8 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.59%) SCCM
6 3 (0.35%) Ansible
6 3 (0.35%) Argo
7 2 (0.23%) Kibana
7 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.23%) logstash
7 2 (0.23%) MOM
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 197 (23.07%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.12%) SAP
3 48 (5.62%) Google
4 44 (5.15%) Databricks
5 39 (4.57%) HP
6 25 (2.93%) Oracle
7 21 (2.46%) Adobe
8 20 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 18 (2.11%) IBM
10 11 (1.29%) Qualtrics
11 10 (1.17%) Alteryx
12 8 (0.94%) Informatica
13 6 (0.70%) Cognos
13 6 (0.70%) Talend
13 6 (0.70%) VMware
14 5 (0.59%) BT
14 5 (0.59%) Epicor
14 5 (0.59%) ESRI
14 5 (0.59%) Infor
14 5 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud