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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 126 123
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 1,000 1,422 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.85% 2.13% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.50% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 486 757 1,006
10th Percentile £36,450 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +9.14% -0.74%
75th Percentile £73,938 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £107,500 £88,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.75% +15.50% -

All Process and 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 45,707 56,896 47,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 85.15% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,910 29,661 36,781
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,001 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.94%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -23 849 £57,500 -12.55% 440
UK excluding London +16 562 £47,500 -17.75% 396
London -33 371 £70,000 -9.68% 196
Work from Home -23 292 £57,500 -20.69% 214
South East +21 184 £49,000 -24.62% 180
North of England -5 104 £45,000 -14.29% 51
Midlands +44 93 £45,000 -18.18% 67
Scotland +16 83 £51,250 -35.94% 12
North West +35 63 £43,750 -20.15% 34
South West -13 54 £40,000 -27.27% 47
West Midlands +36 50 £52,250 -5.00% 37
East Midlands +26 43 £42,500 -24.78% 30
East of England +16 33 £57,500 -20.69% 39
Yorkshire -19 29 £45,000 -7.69% 10
North East +16 12 £55,000 +10.00% 9
Wales +5 8 £41,250 -13.16% 10
Northern Ireland +1 5 - - 4

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 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 37 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 32 (3.20%) Confluence
4 20 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.60%) Apache
6 6 (0.60%) Camunda
6 6 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
7 5 (0.50%) CMS
7 5 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.50%) WordPress
8 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.30%) SAS
8 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.20%) R Markdown
9 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
Applications
1 187 (18.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.50%) AutoCAD
4 13 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.80%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.60%) Trello
8 4 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.20%) Blender
10 2 (0.20%) Civil 3D
10 2 (0.20%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.20%) Maya
10 2 (0.20%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.20%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 54 (5.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.50%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.20%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.10%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 445 (44.50%) Power Platform
2 221 (22.10%) Azure
3 128 (12.80%) AWS
4 83 (8.30%) GCP
5 70 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (6.70%) Snowflake
8 55 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 41 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (3.80%) Power Automate
11 34 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 32 (3.20%) PowerApps
13 30 (3.00%) GitHub
14 29 (2.90%) Google Analytics
15 25 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (2.10%) Fivetran
16 21 (2.10%) Serverless
17 20 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (2.00%) Figma
18 19 (1.90%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.70%) Firewall
1 7 (0.70%) LAN
1 7 (0.70%) WAN
2 6 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (0.40%) Internet
4 3 (0.30%) Modbus
5 2 (0.20%) MQTT
5 2 (0.20%) Profibus
5 2 (0.20%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.10%) ADSL
6 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.10%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (44.30%) Power BI
2 204 (20.40%) Tableau
3 93 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 64 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (6.10%) BigQuery
6 50 (5.00%) Looker
7 49 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (4.30%) Metadata
9 41 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 38 (3.80%) Data Lake
11 37 (3.70%) NoSQL
12 30 (3.00%) Data Mining
13 28 (2.80%) Big Data
14 26 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (2.50%) Spark SQL
16 24 (2.40%) BusinessObjects
17 23 (2.30%) Delta Lake
17 23 (2.30%) MySQL
17 23 (2.30%) Relational Database
18 19 (1.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 100 (10.00%) JIRA
2 53 (5.30%) eCATT
3 22 (2.20%) Git
3 22 (2.20%) MLflow
3 22 (2.20%) NeoLoad
4 12 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.00%) JUnit
6 8 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.60%) webpack
8 5 (0.50%) Vite
9 3 (0.30%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.20%) Selenium
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) Ant
11 1 (0.10%) GitLab
11 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.10%) Maven
11 1 (0.10%) RStudio
11 1 (0.10%) WebDriver
General
1 437 (43.70%) Finance
2 395 (39.50%) Social Skills
3 347 (34.70%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (20.30%) Law
5 190 (19.00%) Marketing
6 178 (17.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 108 (10.80%) Banking
8 90 (9.00%) Manufacturing
9 89 (8.90%) Presentation Skills
10 73 (7.30%) Influencing Skills
11 62 (6.20%) Retail
12 49 (4.90%) Public Sector
13 40 (4.00%) Front Office
14 37 (3.70%) Legal
15 31 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (2.80%) Advertising
17 22 (2.20%) French Language
18 19 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (1.80%) Games
20 15 (1.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 302 (30.20%) Analyst
2 215 (21.50%) Senior
3 142 (14.20%) Developer
4 129 (12.90%) Data Analyst
5 110 (11.00%) Lead
6 104 (10.40%) Software Engineer
7 64 (6.40%) Senior Analyst
8 59 (5.90%) Data Engineer
9 50 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 50 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 46 (4.60%) Data Scientist
11 38 (3.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 35 (3.50%) Senior Developer
13 29 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 29 (2.90%) Insight Analyst
14 27 (2.70%) Performance Analyst
14 27 (2.70%) Python Engineer
15 26 (2.60%) Operations Engineer
15 26 (2.60%) Python Software Engineer
16 24 (2.40%) Commercial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.90%) React
2 55 (5.50%) PySpark
3 40 (4.00%) Spring
4 36 (3.60%) CSS
4 36 (3.60%) Pandas
5 35 (3.50%) scikit-learn
6 34 (3.40%) Kafka
7 33 (3.30%) NumPy
8 30 (3.00%) REST
9 28 (2.80%) PyTorch
10 25 (2.50%) TensorFlow
11 24 (2.40%) Spring Boot
12 23 (2.30%) HTML
13 21 (2.10%) FIX Protocol
13 21 (2.10%) Highcharts JS
13 21 (2.10%) WebSockets
14 19 (1.90%) AngularJS
14 19 (1.90%) Keras
14 19 (1.90%) Lambda Expressions
14 19 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.10%) Algorithms
2 62 (6.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 39 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 37 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 36 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 25 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.40%) Blog
10 21 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (2.00%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.40%) FMCG
13 13 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.10%) Reinsurance
14 11 (1.10%) Social Media
15 10 (1.00%) IoT
15 10 (1.00%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.90%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.00%) Unix
2 13 (1.30%) Linux
3 12 (1.20%) Windows
4 6 (0.60%) Android
5 5 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (46.30%) Data Visualisation
2 461 (46.10%) Business Intelligence
3 441 (44.10%) Analytics
4 313 (31.30%) Decision-Making
5 291 (29.10%) Agile
6 278 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (25.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (25.00%) AI
9 212 (21.20%) Data Analysis
10 202 (20.20%) Data Science
11 201 (20.10%) Machine Learning
12 186 (18.60%) Actionable Insight
13 160 (16.00%) CI/CD
14 149 (14.90%) ETL
15 148 (14.80%) Data Modelling
15 148 (14.80%) Software Engineering
16 139 (13.90%) Data Analytics
17 126 (12.60%) Data Engineering
18 121 (12.10%) DevOps
19 118 (11.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 473 (47.30%) SQL
2 388 (38.80%) Python
3 91 (9.10%) JavaScript
4 87 (8.70%) Java
5 59 (5.90%) R
6 51 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (3.60%) TypeScript
8 35 (3.50%) C#
9 20 (2.00%) VBA
10 16 (1.60%) Scala
11 15 (1.50%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.80%) Bash
13 8 (0.80%) C++
14 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.40%) Ruby
16 3 (0.30%) Bicep
16 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.20%) ABAP
17 2 (0.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 290 (29.00%) Degree
2 57 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 57 (5.70%) Master's Degree
3 45 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 40 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 35 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.30%) CISSP
7 22 (2.20%) CISA
8 21 (2.10%) PhD
9 20 (2.00%) CISM
10 17 (1.70%) ACCA
10 17 (1.70%) CIMA
11 16 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.60%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (1.20%) CRISC
12 12 (1.20%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (1.10%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.00%) MBA
15 8 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.60%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (10.80%) Data Quality
2 58 (5.80%) QA
3 36 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 36 (3.60%) GDPR
4 27 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (1.50%) NIST
6 12 (1.20%) COBIT
6 12 (1.20%) GRC
6 12 (1.20%) ITGC
7 10 (1.00%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.40%) PMO
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) EMIR
11 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.10%) MiFID
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (5.10%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.20%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.20%) HDFS
4 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 54 (5.40%) Terraform
3 50 (5.00%) HP ALM
4 20 (2.00%) Kubeflow
5 14 (1.40%) Ansible
6 10 (1.00%) Grafana
7 7 (0.70%) Kibana
8 6 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.50%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.40%) CASB
10 4 (0.40%) logstash
11 3 (0.30%) Argo
11 3 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.20%) Oozie
Vendors
1 187 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 102 (10.20%) Databricks
3 97 (9.70%) SAP
4 90 (9.00%) Google
5 52 (5.20%) Oracle
6 50 (5.00%) HP
7 29 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.40%) Adobe
9 23 (2.30%) Alteryx
10 19 (1.90%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.70%) Qualtrics
11 17 (1.70%) Splunk
12 13 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.10%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.00%) Adaptive Insights
14 10 (1.00%) Workday
15 8 (0.80%) Cisco
16 7 (0.70%) ESRI
16 7 (0.70%) Progress
17 6 (0.60%) Informatica