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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 155 109
Rank change year-on-year -126 -46 +25
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 752 1,020 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 2.08% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 2.35% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 428 509 755
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,350
25th Percentile £39,587 £42,500 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £55,400 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -14.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,750 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -14.47% +14.00%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -104 687 £51,356 -6.82% 1,584
UK excluding London -136 429 £45,000 -7.69% 969
London -110 282 £67,500 +3.85% 812
Work from Home -76 242 £55,000 -4.35% 648
North of England -20 147 £42,500 -10.99% 203
North West +3 105 £40,000 -17.53% 97
Midlands -55 88 £50,000 +11.11% 167
South East -87 86 £46,500 -5.10% 229
South West -83 50 £42,500 -15.00% 110
West Midlands -55 46 £45,000 -14.29% 104
East Midlands -37 42 £70,000 +64.71% 63
Yorkshire -42 30 £52,500 +7.69% 77
Wales -57 23 £66,000 +50.00% 34
Scotland -70 18 £75,000 +11.22% 93
East of England -43 16 £50,000 -17.21% 101
North East -62 12 £41,919 -1.37% 30
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 44

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 25 (3.32%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.93%) SAS
4 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.53%) Apache
5 4 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.53%) WinCC
6 2 (0.27%) Appian
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 107 (14.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.86%) EPLAN
4 8 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.66%) Blender
5 5 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.53%) CATIA
6 4 (0.53%) Maya
7 3 (0.40%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.27%) InDesign
8 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.27%) Revit
8 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.27%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) Windchill
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 399 (53.06%) Power Platform
2 184 (24.47%) Azure
3 122 (16.22%) AWS
4 72 (9.57%) GCP
5 43 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (5.45%) dbt
7 39 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (4.65%) Snowflake
9 33 (4.39%) SaaS
10 32 (4.26%) Google Analytics
11 28 (3.72%) Microsoft Purview
12 25 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (3.06%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
14 19 (2.53%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.99%) GitHub
16 13 (1.73%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.60%) Azure Databricks
18 11 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 10 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.13%) Profibus
2 7 (0.93%) Broadband
3 6 (0.80%) 5G
3 6 (0.80%) Internet
3 6 (0.80%) Modbus
4 4 (0.53%) MQTT
4 4 (0.53%) VLAN
5 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.40%) Wireless
6 2 (0.27%) HTTP
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.27%) SNMP
6 2 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.13%) DHCP
7 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.13%) PPP
7 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (53.06%) Power BI
2 185 (24.60%) Tableau
3 79 (10.51%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (7.71%) Looker
5 45 (5.98%) Power Query
6 41 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 34 (4.52%) Data Lake
8 29 (3.86%) Metadata
9 26 (3.46%) Big Data
9 26 (3.46%) Data Mining
9 26 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (2.79%) Amazon QuickSight
11 21 (2.79%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.53%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (2.26%) GIS
14 15 (1.99%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (1.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (5.59%) Git
2 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.93%) JIRA
4 4 (0.53%) GitLab
4 4 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.27%) ERwin
6 2 (0.27%) MLflow
6 2 (0.27%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) Vite
7 1 (0.13%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.13%) fastlane
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.13%) Storybook
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.13%) Xcode
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 355 (47.21%) Analytical Skills
2 328 (43.62%) Social Skills
3 248 (32.98%) Finance
4 89 (11.84%) Marketing
5 67 (8.91%) Law
5 67 (8.91%) Retail
6 66 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (7.18%) Public Sector
8 47 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (4.92%) Military
10 36 (4.79%) Back Office
10 36 (4.79%) Banking
11 34 (4.52%) Telecoms
12 29 (3.86%) Manufacturing
13 23 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (3.06%) Legal
14 19 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.99%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.86%) Local Government
17 12 (1.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 206 (27.39%) Analyst
2 125 (16.62%) Senior
3 114 (15.16%) Data Analyst
4 80 (10.64%) Lead
5 72 (9.57%) Developer
6 63 (8.38%) Data Engineer
7 38 (5.05%) Consultant
8 35 (4.65%) Data Manager
8 35 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
9 34 (4.52%) Data Scientist
10 32 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 31 (4.12%) Analytics Manager
12 26 (3.46%) Senior Data Analyst
13 23 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 21 (2.79%) Performance Analyst
15 20 (2.66%) Architect
16 18 (2.39%) Data Consultant
17 17 (2.26%) Power BI Analyst
18 16 (2.13%) Automation Engineer
18 16 (2.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.26%) PySpark
2 25 (3.32%) .NET
3 23 (3.06%) Terraform
4 22 (2.93%) CSS
5 19 (2.53%) Kafka
5 19 (2.53%) Pandas
5 19 (2.53%) React
6 18 (2.39%) PyTorch
7 16 (2.13%) HTML
8 15 (1.99%) scikit-learn
9 13 (1.73%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.46%) jQuery
10 11 (1.46%) Streamlit
11 10 (1.33%) Ajax
11 10 (1.33%) CSS3
11 10 (1.33%) HTML5
11 10 (1.33%) LESS
11 10 (1.33%) NumPy
11 10 (1.33%) REST
11 10 (1.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.05%) Onboarding
2 49 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 39 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 32 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.93%) SCADA
6 20 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.66%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.99%) Blog
8 14 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.46%) NHS
11 10 (1.33%) Robotics
12 8 (1.06%) Clustering
12 8 (1.06%) Educational Technology
12 8 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.06%) Social Media
13 7 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.46%) Linux
2 6 (0.80%) Windows
3 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.40%) Unix
3 3 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) CentOS
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (56.78%) Data Visualisation
2 418 (55.59%) Business Intelligence
3 402 (53.46%) Analytics
4 289 (38.43%) Decision-Making
5 238 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
6 233 (30.98%) AI
7 197 (26.20%) Data Analysis
8 196 (26.06%) Actionable Insight
9 185 (24.60%) Data Modelling
10 167 (22.21%) Machine Learning
11 157 (20.88%) Data Science
12 156 (20.74%) Agile
13 155 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 126 (16.76%) Data Engineering
15 123 (16.36%) Data Governance
16 109 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 108 (14.36%) Data Analytics
18 106 (14.10%) Dashboard Development
19 99 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
20 89 (11.84%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 396 (52.66%) SQL
2 320 (42.55%) Python
3 52 (6.91%) R
4 47 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 47 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 43 (5.72%) C#
6 28 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.79%) C++
8 20 (2.66%) Java
9 19 (2.53%) Scala
10 16 (2.13%) Ladder Logic
11 14 (1.86%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.93%) C
14 6 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.66%) Bash
15 5 (0.66%) Go
15 5 (0.66%) Rust
15 5 (0.66%) VBA
16 4 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 161 (21.41%) Degree
2 86 (11.44%) Security Cleared
3 56 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 16 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.60%) HNC
7 12 (1.60%) HND
7 12 (1.60%) Numerate Degree
8 11 (1.46%) Chartered Engineer
8 11 (1.46%) Postgraduate
9 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.66%) PhD
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.27%) ACCA
12 2 (0.27%) CIMA
12 2 (0.27%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (27.53%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.45%) GDPR
3 31 (4.12%) QA
4 28 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.60%) IEC 61131
7 6 (0.80%) PMO
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.53%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.27%) NEBOSH
9 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) PERC
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (3.32%) Docker
2 6 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Ceph
3 1 (0.13%) Lustre
3 1 (0.13%) NFS
3 1 (0.13%) Samba
3 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.66%) Ansible
3 4 (0.53%) EnCase
3 4 (0.53%) FTK
4 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.13%) Consul
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) logstash
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 149 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 78 (10.37%) Databricks
3 62 (8.24%) Google
4 24 (3.19%) SAP
5 20 (2.66%) Siemens
6 10 (1.33%) Oracle
7 8 (1.06%) SYSPRO
7 8 (1.06%) YouTube
8 7 (0.93%) Informatica
8 7 (0.93%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.80%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (0.66%) Hotjar
10 5 (0.66%) IBM
10 5 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.53%) AVEVA
11 4 (0.53%) Cellebrite
11 4 (0.53%) Nuix
11 4 (0.53%) Relativity