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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 140 94
Rank change year-on-year -156 -46 +48
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 698 1,138 2,091
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 2.28% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 2.56% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 444 584 868
10th Percentile £30,750 £38,750 £37,750
25th Percentile £37,366 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,853 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,375 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% -10.71% +7.29%

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 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -121 643 £50,000 -9.09% 487
UK excluding London -146 399 £42,500 -15.00% 385
London -118 256 £70,000 +7.69% 198
Work from Home -115 210 £60,000 +4.35% 153
North of England -23 148 £40,000 -17.53% 92
North West -5 106 £40,000 -17.10% 48
Midlands -58 83 £47,500 +5.56% 55
South East -92 76 £47,000 -6.00% 115
South West -89 45 £43,750 -7.89% 57
West Midlands -47 43 £40,000 -25.50% 30
East Midlands -34 40 £70,000 +62.79% 25
Yorkshire -35 33 £50,000 -4.76% 32
Wales -39 20 £66,000 +50.00% 9
East of England -43 15 £62,500 +3.49% 38
North East -55 9 £48,000 +12.94% 14
Scotland -74 9 £100,000 +42.86% 16
Northern Ireland -77 3 - - 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 17 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.29%) Jupyter
3 9 (1.29%) SAS
4 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.57%) Apache
5 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.29%) IIS
6 2 (0.29%) WinCC
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.14%) Appian
7 1 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 102 (14.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.58%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.72%) Blender
6 4 (0.57%) CATIA
6 4 (0.57%) EPLAN
6 4 (0.57%) Maya
6 4 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.43%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.29%) Revit
8 2 (0.29%) Windchill
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (2.72%) SAP PM
2 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.14%) Maximo
3 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 356 (51.00%) Power Platform
2 168 (24.07%) Azure
3 124 (17.77%) AWS
4 66 (9.46%) GCP
5 47 (6.73%) dbt
6 36 (5.16%) Snowflake
7 34 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (4.44%) SaaS
10 28 (4.01%) Google Analytics
11 24 (3.44%) Power Automate
12 22 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (3.01%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
15 13 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.86%) GitHub
16 11 (1.58%) Dataform
17 9 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.00%) Broadband
2 6 (0.86%) 5G
2 6 (0.86%) Internet
2 6 (0.86%) Profibus
3 4 (0.57%) Modbus
3 4 (0.57%) MQTT
4 2 (0.29%) HTTP
4 2 (0.29%) Network Security
4 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.29%) VLAN
5 1 (0.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.14%) Intranet
5 1 (0.14%) PPP
5 1 (0.14%) VoIP
5 1 (0.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (51.00%) Power BI
2 181 (25.93%) Tableau
3 73 (10.46%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (8.74%) Looker
5 37 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 36 (5.16%) Power Query
7 27 (3.87%) Data Lake
8 26 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (3.30%) Data Mining
9 23 (3.30%) Metadata
10 22 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (3.01%) Amazon QuickSight
12 20 (2.87%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.72%) Big Data
14 15 (2.15%) GIS
15 13 (1.86%) QlikView
16 12 (1.72%) Relational Database
16 12 (1.72%) Star Schema
17 11 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
18 10 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 31 (4.44%) Git
2 9 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
3 8 (1.15%) JIRA
4 6 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.57%) Vite
6 3 (0.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) MLflow
6 3 (0.43%) Selenium
6 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.14%) ERwin
7 1 (0.14%) ESLint
7 1 (0.14%) fastlane
7 1 (0.14%) RStudio
7 1 (0.14%) Storybook
7 1 (0.14%) Xcode
7 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 320 (45.85%) Analytical Skills
2 292 (41.83%) Social Skills
3 233 (33.38%) Finance
4 83 (11.89%) Marketing
5 75 (10.74%) Law
5 75 (10.74%) Retail
6 71 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (6.73%) Public Sector
8 46 (6.59%) Back Office
9 44 (6.30%) Military
10 40 (5.73%) Telecoms
11 37 (5.30%) Manufacturing
12 31 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
13 29 (4.15%) Banking
14 22 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (2.15%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (1.72%) Advertising
18 12 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 188 (26.93%) Analyst
2 121 (17.34%) Senior
3 105 (15.04%) Data Analyst
4 65 (9.31%) Lead
5 63 (9.03%) Developer
6 55 (7.88%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.02%) Data Scientist
8 36 (5.16%) Consultant
9 35 (5.01%) Data Manager
10 33 (4.73%) Analytics Manager
11 32 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (4.58%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.44%) Senior Data Analyst
13 21 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (3.01%) Performance Analyst
14 20 (2.87%) Power BI Analyst
15 19 (2.72%) Architect
15 19 (2.72%) Data Consultant
16 16 (2.29%) Head of Business Intelligence
16 16 (2.29%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.58%) .NET
1 25 (3.58%) React
2 24 (3.44%) Pandas
2 24 (3.44%) PySpark
2 24 (3.44%) scikit-learn
3 22 (3.15%) Terraform
4 19 (2.72%) Streamlit
5 18 (2.58%) Matplotlib
6 17 (2.44%) CSS
7 16 (2.29%) Kafka
7 16 (2.29%) PyTorch
8 15 (2.15%) NumPy
9 14 (2.01%) HTML
10 12 (1.72%) REST
11 11 (1.58%) jQuery
12 10 (1.43%) Ajax
12 10 (1.43%) CSS3
12 10 (1.43%) HTML5
12 10 (1.43%) LESS
12 10 (1.43%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.59%) Algorithms
2 41 (5.87%) Management Information System
3 35 (5.01%) Onboarding
4 30 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 22 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.87%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.15%) Blog
8 15 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.58%) NHS
11 10 (1.43%) SCADA
12 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.29%) Social Media
13 8 (1.15%) Educational Technology
13 8 (1.15%) IoT
14 7 (1.00%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.29%) Linux
2 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.43%) Unix
2 3 (0.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (56.73%) Data Visualisation
2 378 (54.15%) Business Intelligence
3 377 (54.01%) Analytics
4 256 (36.68%) Decision-Making
5 210 (30.09%) AI
6 207 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (24.93%) Data Modelling
8 173 (24.79%) Data Analysis
9 166 (23.78%) Actionable Insight
10 165 (23.64%) Machine Learning
11 159 (22.78%) Data Science
12 137 (19.63%) Agile
13 122 (17.48%) Data Governance
14 111 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (15.90%) Data Engineering
15 96 (13.75%) Dashboard Development
16 95 (13.61%) Data Analytics
16 95 (13.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 88 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
18 87 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 355 (50.86%) SQL
2 297 (42.55%) Python
3 48 (6.88%) JavaScript
4 46 (6.59%) R
5 44 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 43 (6.16%) C#
7 32 (4.58%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.29%) C++
9 15 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 14 (2.01%) Java
11 13 (1.86%) Scala
12 7 (1.00%) VBA
13 6 (0.86%) C
13 6 (0.86%) Julia
13 6 (0.86%) Ladder Logic
13 6 (0.86%) Rust
14 5 (0.72%) Go
15 4 (0.57%) Bash
15 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 142 (20.34%) Degree
2 72 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 44 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.29%) DBS Check
5 13 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.86%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.86%) Master's Degree
5 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (1.29%) Postgraduate
9 5 (0.72%) HNC
9 5 (0.72%) HND
10 4 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.43%) ACCA
11 3 (0.43%) CIMA
11 3 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (25.07%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.30%) GDPR
3 37 (5.30%) QA
4 27 (3.87%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.72%) NIST
7 5 (0.72%) PMO
8 4 (0.57%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (0.57%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 19650
9 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.14%) PERC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (3.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.57%) Ansible
3 3 (0.43%) Grafana
3 3 (0.43%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Consul
5 1 (0.14%) MOM
5 1 (0.14%) SCCM
5 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 125 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.74%) Databricks
3 60 (8.60%) Google
4 30 (4.30%) SAP
5 13 (1.86%) Oracle
6 8 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
6 8 (1.15%) Siemens
6 8 (1.15%) SYSPRO
7 7 (1.00%) Informatica
7 7 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.86%) IBM
9 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.72%) Cognos
9 5 (0.72%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.43%) Adobe
11 3 (0.43%) Foundry
11 3 (0.43%) JD Edwards
11 3 (0.43%) Talend