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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 128 122
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 1,056 1,376 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.05% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.45% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 493 715 1,016
10th Percentile £36,650 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +13.45% -0.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,400 £105,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,250 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -24.58% +20.00% -

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 45,477 56,157 48,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.69% 83.58% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27,500 29,119 37,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £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 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 20 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 20 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 -20 877 £57,500 -14.81% 852
UK excluding London +35 603 £45,250 -24.58% 470
London -34 381 £70,000 -9.68% 457
Work from Home -15 303 £57,500 -23.33% 530
South East +29 188 £49,000 -24.62% 154
North of England +8 108 £45,000 -17.43% 98
Scotland +18 104 £51,250 -35.94% 24
Midlands +62 100 £45,000 -17.19% 79
North West +28 65 £45,000 -17.87% 58
South West +6 60 £43,750 -20.45% 53
East Midlands +40 51 £42,500 -22.73% 30
West Midlands +25 49 £52,500 -2.21% 49
East of England +6 30 £57,500 -20.69% 48
Yorkshire -22 30 £45,000 -17.05% 30
North East +13 13 £47,500 -5.00% 12
Wales +6 10 £41,250 -13.16% 16
Northern Ireland +7 5 - - 10

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 50 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 37 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 34 (3.22%) Confluence
4 19 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.61%) Apache
6 8 (0.76%) Camunda
6 8 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
7 5 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Synapse
8 4 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.38%) WordPress
9 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.28%) SAS
10 2 (0.19%) R Markdown
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.095%) Drupal
Applications
1 197 (18.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.42%) AutoCAD
4 13 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.76%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.57%) Trello
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.28%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.28%) Navisworks
10 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.28%) Revit
10 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.19%) Maya
11 2 (0.19%) ProjectWise
11 2 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 53 (5.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.42%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.095%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.095%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 457 (43.28%) Power Platform
2 224 (21.21%) Azure
3 141 (13.35%) AWS
4 81 (7.67%) GCP
5 69 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (6.53%) Snowflake
6 65 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 57 (5.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 42 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (3.69%) Power Automate
10 38 (3.60%) Amazon S3
11 32 (3.03%) PowerApps
12 29 (2.75%) Google Analytics
13 28 (2.65%) GitHub
14 26 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (2.27%) Serverless
16 22 (2.08%) Fivetran
17 20 (1.89%) Figma
18 19 (1.80%) Adobe Analytics
18 19 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.66%) Firewall
1 7 (0.66%) LAN
1 7 (0.66%) WAN
2 6 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.47%) Internet
4 3 (0.28%) Modbus
5 2 (0.19%) MQTT
5 2 (0.19%) Profibus
5 2 (0.19%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.19%) TETRA
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.095%) ADSL
6 1 (0.095%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.095%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 455 (43.09%) Power BI
2 213 (20.17%) Tableau
3 96 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 66 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (5.78%) BigQuery
6 50 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (4.36%) Looker
8 44 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 42 (3.98%) Data Lake
9 42 (3.98%) Metadata
10 41 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 32 (3.03%) Big Data
12 27 (2.56%) Data Mining
13 26 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (2.46%) Spark SQL
14 25 (2.37%) Relational Database
15 23 (2.18%) Delta Lake
16 22 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
16 22 (2.08%) MySQL
17 20 (1.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 103 (9.75%) JIRA
2 53 (5.02%) eCATT
3 22 (2.08%) MLflow
3 22 (2.08%) NeoLoad
4 20 (1.89%) Git
5 14 (1.33%) JUnit
6 12 (1.14%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.76%) webpack
9 7 (0.66%) Vite
10 4 (0.38%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.28%) Selenium
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.095%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.095%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.095%) Karma Test Runner
13 1 (0.095%) Protractor
13 1 (0.095%) RStudio
13 1 (0.095%) WebDriver
General
1 493 (46.69%) Finance
2 403 (38.16%) Social Skills
3 363 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (22.54%) Law
5 208 (19.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 205 (19.41%) Marketing
7 133 (12.59%) Banking
8 92 (8.71%) Manufacturing
9 90 (8.52%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (6.16%) Retail
12 48 (4.55%) Public Sector
13 43 (4.07%) Front Office
14 42 (3.98%) Legal
15 30 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (2.65%) Advertising
17 22 (2.08%) French Language
18 20 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (1.70%) Games
20 15 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 317 (30.02%) Analyst
2 219 (20.74%) Senior
3 147 (13.92%) Developer
4 139 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 135 (12.78%) Data Analyst
6 115 (10.89%) Lead
7 66 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 66 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 65 (6.16%) Data Engineer
9 60 (5.68%) Senior Analyst
10 44 (4.17%) Data Scientist
11 40 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 36 (3.41%) Python Engineer
12 36 (3.41%) Senior Developer
13 35 (3.31%) Python Software Engineer
14 34 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 32 (3.03%) Insight Analyst
16 31 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 31 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
17 29 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.77%) React
2 56 (5.30%) PySpark
3 54 (5.11%) Spring
4 41 (3.88%) CSS
4 41 (3.88%) Kafka
5 37 (3.50%) Pandas
6 36 (3.41%) scikit-learn
7 34 (3.22%) NumPy
7 34 (3.22%) Spring Boot
8 33 (3.13%) REST
9 28 (2.65%) PyTorch
10 27 (2.56%) HTML
11 25 (2.37%) TensorFlow
12 24 (2.27%) AngularJS
13 22 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
13 22 (2.08%) Highcharts JS
14 21 (1.99%) WebSockets
15 20 (1.89%) Lambda Expressions
16 19 (1.80%) Keras
16 19 (1.80%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 150 (14.20%) Algorithms
2 63 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 42 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 37 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 26 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.18%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.61%) Blog
11 17 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.33%) FMCG
13 12 (1.14%) Social Media
14 11 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.04%) Derivative
15 10 (0.95%) IoT
15 10 (0.95%) Reinsurance
16 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.84%) Unix
2 14 (1.33%) Linux
3 12 (1.14%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.47%) Android
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (44.98%) Data Visualisation
2 469 (44.41%) Business Intelligence
3 450 (42.61%) Analytics
4 336 (31.82%) Decision-Making
5 327 (30.97%) Agile
6 296 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
7 286 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 257 (24.34%) AI
9 216 (20.45%) Data Analysis
10 215 (20.36%) Machine Learning
11 208 (19.70%) Data Science
12 197 (18.66%) Actionable Insight
13 184 (17.42%) CI/CD
14 181 (17.14%) Software Engineering
15 155 (14.68%) ETL
16 151 (14.30%) Data Modelling
17 146 (13.83%) SDLC
18 140 (13.26%) Community of Practice
18 140 (13.26%) Data Analytics
19 129 (12.22%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 500 (47.35%) SQL
2 407 (38.54%) Python
3 115 (10.89%) Java
4 99 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 58 (5.49%) R
6 53 (5.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 45 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 38 (3.60%) C#
9 20 (1.89%) VBA
10 18 (1.70%) Scala
11 16 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.33%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.95%) C++
14 7 (0.66%) Bash
14 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.28%) Bicep
15 3 (0.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.28%) Ruby
15 3 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 293 (27.75%) Degree
2 57 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (5.21%) Master's Degree
4 46 (4.36%) Security Cleared
5 40 (3.79%) SC Cleared
6 35 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.18%) CISSP
8 22 (2.08%) CISA
9 20 (1.89%) CISM
10 19 (1.80%) PhD
11 18 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
12 17 (1.61%) ACCA
12 17 (1.61%) CIMA
13 15 (1.42%) Azure Certification
14 12 (1.14%) CRISC
14 12 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (1.04%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.95%) MBA
17 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
18 6 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.06%) QA
3 40 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 39 (3.69%) GDPR
5 28 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.52%) NIST
7 15 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (1.14%) COBIT
8 12 (1.14%) GRC
8 12 (1.14%) ITGC
9 10 (0.95%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.28%) PMO
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.095%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.095%) IFRS
13 1 (0.095%) MiFID
13 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (5.30%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.19%) HDFS
4 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 62 (5.87%) Terraform
3 50 (4.73%) HP ALM
4 20 (1.89%) Kubeflow
5 15 (1.42%) Ansible
6 13 (1.23%) Grafana
7 8 (0.76%) Kibana
8 7 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.47%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.38%) CASB
10 4 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.38%) logstash
11 3 (0.28%) Argo
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.19%) Oozie
13 1 (0.095%) SCCM
Vendors
1 201 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 107 (10.13%) Databricks
3 97 (9.19%) SAP
4 89 (8.43%) Google
5 61 (5.78%) Oracle
6 50 (4.73%) HP
7 31 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.27%) Adobe
9 23 (2.18%) Splunk
10 22 (2.08%) Alteryx
11 19 (1.80%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.61%) Qualtrics
13 16 (1.52%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.33%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.95%) Adaptive Insights
15 10 (0.95%) Workday
16 8 (0.76%) Cisco
16 8 (0.76%) ESRI
17 7 (0.66%) Progress
18 6 (0.57%) Epicor