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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 121 101
Rank change year-on-year -59 -20 +25
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 837 1,243 2,080
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.45% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.67% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 472 647 1,338
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,438 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.39% -2.45%

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 51,976 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.87% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,795 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -54 751 £60,000 -7.69% 489
UK excluding London -21 463 £50,000 -4.76% 384
London -58 320 £70,000 -17.65% 222
Work from Home -51 275 £57,500 -11.54% 186
South East +12 169 £58,750 -9.62% 131
North of England -29 108 £45,000 - 90
Midlands -28 75 £44,695 -18.74% 76
North West +20 63 £45,000 -3.74% 49
West Midlands -4 51 £47,085 -14.39% 41
South West -23 38 £48,750 +14.71% 42
Scotland -39 34 £57,500 +27.78% 22
Yorkshire -49 34 £51,000 +13.33% 33
East of England +16 30 £57,500 -19.30% 15
East Midlands -25 24 £40,000 -29.20% 35
North East -1 11 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Wales 0 6 £38,500 -18.95% 11
Northern Ireland -25 4 - - 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 43 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.11%) Confluence
4 21 (2.51%) Apache Spark
5 20 (2.39%) Apache
6 19 (2.27%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.84%) WordPress
8 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 4 (0.48%) CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.36%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 197 (23.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.91%) Chatbot
3 16 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.79%) AutoCAD
5 10 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.08%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.72%) Trello
8 5 (0.60%) Blender
8 5 (0.60%) Maya
9 4 (0.48%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.36%) CATIA
10 3 (0.36%) CINEMA 4D
10 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.24%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 51 (6.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.08%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 417 (49.82%) Power Platform
2 199 (23.78%) Azure
3 99 (11.83%) AWS
4 76 (9.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (7.29%) GCP
7 57 (6.81%) Snowflake
8 47 (5.62%) Power Automate
9 45 (5.38%) PowerApps
10 43 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 24 (2.87%) Google Analytics
13 22 (2.63%) Adobe Analytics
13 22 (2.63%) GitHub
14 21 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
15 20 (2.39%) dbt
15 20 (2.39%) Figma
16 19 (2.27%) Amazon S3
16 19 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) Firewall
2 5 (0.60%) Modbus
2 5 (0.60%) MQTT
3 4 (0.48%) LAN
3 4 (0.48%) WAN
3 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.24%) Broadband
4 2 (0.24%) Profibus
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (49.58%) Power BI
2 149 (17.80%) Tableau
3 76 (9.08%) SQL Server
4 63 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (4.66%) Looker
7 37 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (3.70%) BigQuery
10 30 (3.58%) Metadata
11 23 (2.75%) BusinessObjects
11 23 (2.75%) MySQL
12 22 (2.63%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.27%) Big Data
13 19 (2.27%) Power Query
14 17 (2.03%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (1.67%) Hadoop
16 13 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
16 13 (1.55%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 84 (10.04%) JIRA
2 50 (5.97%) eCATT
3 38 (4.54%) Git
4 22 (2.63%) NeoLoad
5 16 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.84%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) ESLint
10 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.12%) Storybook
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 314 (37.51%) Social Skills
2 313 (37.40%) Finance
3 307 (36.68%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (17.68%) Marketing
5 103 (12.31%) Manufacturing
6 82 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (8.84%) Influencing Skills
7 74 (8.84%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (5.85%) Public Sector
9 43 (5.14%) Law
10 42 (5.02%) Banking
11 40 (4.78%) Legal
12 39 (4.66%) Retail
13 35 (4.18%) Front Office
14 29 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (2.15%) Advertising
17 14 (1.67%) Billing
17 14 (1.67%) French Language
18 10 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 228 (27.24%) Analyst
2 138 (16.49%) Senior
3 132 (15.77%) Developer
4 99 (11.83%) Data Analyst
5 66 (7.89%) Lead
6 58 (6.93%) Data Engineer
7 46 (5.50%) Data Scientist
8 41 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 36 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
10 31 (3.70%) React Developer
11 29 (3.46%) Senior Developer
12 28 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 28 (3.35%) Insight Analyst
13 26 (3.11%) Consultant
14 25 (2.99%) Data Manager
15 24 (2.87%) Commercial Analyst
16 22 (2.63%) Architect
16 22 (2.63%) Junior
17 21 (2.51%) Senior Manager
17 21 (2.51%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.50%) React
2 30 (3.58%) CSS
2 30 (3.58%) scikit-learn
2 30 (3.58%) WebSockets
3 29 (3.46%) Pandas
4 27 (3.23%) NumPy
4 27 (3.23%) PySpark
5 23 (2.75%) Matplotlib
6 22 (2.63%) Highcharts JS
7 21 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
7 21 (2.51%) HTML
7 21 (2.51%) Kafka
7 21 (2.51%) OpenFin
8 20 (2.39%) Hugging Face
9 18 (2.15%) Streamlit
10 17 (2.03%) HTML5 Canvas
11 15 (1.79%) REST
12 13 (1.55%) JSON
13 11 (1.31%) .NET
14 10 (1.19%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.93%) Analytical Mindset
2 51 (6.09%) Algorithms
3 49 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.94%) Cloud Native
6 31 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 30 (3.58%) Product Ownership
8 26 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.87%) Blog
10 14 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.43%) FMCG
13 11 (1.31%) IoT
14 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.96%) SCADA
15 8 (0.96%) Social Media
16 7 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
17 6 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.84%) Android
1 7 (0.84%) Linux
1 7 (0.84%) Windows
2 6 (0.72%) Unix
3 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (53.52%) Data Visualisation
2 430 (51.37%) Business Intelligence
3 420 (50.18%) Analytics
4 279 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 219 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
6 204 (24.37%) AI
7 197 (23.54%) Data Analysis
8 192 (22.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 163 (19.47%) Actionable Insight
10 154 (18.40%) Data Modelling
11 153 (18.28%) Agile
11 153 (18.28%) ETL
12 147 (17.56%) Data Science
13 137 (16.37%) Machine Learning
14 134 (16.01%) Data Analytics
15 120 (14.34%) Data Management
16 107 (12.78%) Data Engineering
17 105 (12.54%) Computer Science
18 91 (10.87%) Project Management
19 90 (10.75%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 375 (44.80%) SQL
2 316 (37.75%) Python
3 81 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 57 (6.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 55 (6.57%) R
6 31 (3.70%) VBA
7 26 (3.11%) C#
8 22 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.51%) Java
10 13 (1.55%) Scala
11 12 (1.43%) Bash
11 12 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.84%) C++
13 5 (0.60%) Ruby
14 4 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.48%) C
14 4 (0.48%) Go
15 3 (0.36%) Bicep
15 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 263 (31.42%) Degree
2 54 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 52 (6.21%) Security Cleared
4 49 (5.85%) SC Cleared
5 42 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.51%) AWS Certification
7 21 (2.51%) MBA
8 16 (1.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 15 (1.79%) PhD
10 14 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (1.55%) CISSP
12 12 (1.43%) CISA
12 12 (1.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (1.31%) APMP
13 11 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.19%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.08%) CISM
16 8 (0.96%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (15.05%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.38%) QA
3 31 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (1.79%) GDPR
5 15 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.19%) Good Clinical Practice
6 10 (1.19%) IEC 61131
6 10 (1.19%) NIST
7 8 (0.96%) COBIT
7 8 (0.96%) GRC
7 8 (0.96%) ITGC
8 5 (0.60%) PMO
9 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) EMIR
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.39%) Docker
2 6 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.97%) HP ALM
2 18 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.91%) Terraform
4 7 (0.84%) Ansible
5 4 (0.48%) CASB
5 4 (0.48%) Grafana
5 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.48%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.36%) Argo
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
7 2 (0.24%) logstash
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.24%) MOM
8 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 171 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.35%) SAP
3 56 (6.69%) Google
4 50 (5.97%) HP
5 40 (4.78%) Databricks
6 26 (3.11%) Adobe
6 26 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 22 (2.63%) Oracle
8 19 (2.27%) Qualtrics
9 9 (1.08%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.96%) IBM
11 7 (0.84%) ESRI
11 7 (0.84%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.72%) Cisco
12 6 (0.72%) Informatica
12 6 (0.72%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.72%) VMware
13 5 (0.60%) Cognos
13 5 (0.60%) Epicor