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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 113 98
Rank change year-on-year -75 -15 +28
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 870 1,204 2,364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 2.76% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 2.95% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 541 639 1,355
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,000 £34,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +9.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £89,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £83,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%

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 57,853 40,823 73,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.60% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35,092 22,156 55,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,366 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £76,674 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -70 784 £60,000 -4.00% 538
UK excluding London -48 509 £45,000 -14.29% 473
London -61 305 £70,000 -15.15% 196
Work from Home -69 282 £57,500 - 191
South East +32 162 £57,500 -0.86% 151
North of England -61 138 £40,000 -20.00% 116
Midlands -49 85 £42,500 -22.73% 80
North West -20 80 £40,000 -20.00% 61
West Midlands -12 58 £43,250 -21.36% 37
South West -69 46 £47,500 +10.47% 43
Yorkshire -60 44 £40,000 -15.79% 38
Scotland -34 34 £57,500 +27.78% 20
East of England +3 33 £57,500 -16.67% 39
East Midlands -54 27 £40,000 -15.79% 43
North East -14 14 £37,500 -44.44% 18
Northern Ireland -32 6 - - 12
Wales -7 5 £38,500 -23.00% 24

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 54 (6.21%) Jupyter
2 47 (5.40%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.33%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.87%) Confluence
6 21 (2.41%) Apache
7 8 (0.92%) WordPress
8 5 (0.57%) IIS
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 174 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.21%) Chatbot
3 30 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.69%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.69%) CATIA
5 6 (0.69%) Trello
6 5 (0.57%) Blender
6 5 (0.57%) Maya
6 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) 3ds Max
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.34%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Houdini
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 51 (5.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.15%) SAP PM
3 9 (1.03%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 394 (45.29%) Power Platform
2 191 (21.95%) Azure
3 137 (15.75%) AWS
4 78 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
7 55 (6.32%) GCP
8 51 (5.86%) Snowflake
9 49 (5.63%) Power Automate
10 48 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
10 48 (5.52%) PowerApps
11 41 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (3.91%) dbt
13 24 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (2.76%) GitHub
14 22 (2.53%) Google Analytics
15 21 (2.41%) Adobe Analytics
16 20 (2.30%) Figma
17 19 (2.18%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.80%) Broadband
1 7 (0.80%) Modbus
2 5 (0.57%) MQTT
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) Internet
4 2 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.23%) Wireless
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (45.17%) Power BI
2 146 (16.78%) Tableau
3 72 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (7.70%) SQL Server
5 40 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (4.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 32 (3.68%) Metadata
9 31 (3.56%) BigQuery
10 24 (2.76%) Looker
11 23 (2.64%) BusinessObjects
12 22 (2.53%) MySQL
12 22 (2.53%) Power Query
13 21 (2.41%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.18%) Big Data
15 18 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (1.72%) NoSQL
16 15 (1.72%) Relational Database
17 14 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
17 14 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 82 (9.43%) JIRA
2 54 (6.21%) Visual Studio Code
3 50 (5.75%) eCATT
4 42 (4.83%) Git
5 22 (2.53%) NeoLoad
6 9 (1.03%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.57%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.46%) GitLab
10 3 (0.34%) Vite
11 2 (0.23%) ESLint
11 2 (0.23%) MLflow
11 2 (0.23%) Storybook
12 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 320 (36.78%) Finance
2 299 (34.37%) Analytical Skills
3 297 (34.14%) Social Skills
4 141 (16.21%) Manufacturing
5 129 (14.83%) Marketing
6 78 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 73 (8.39%) Retail
8 70 (8.05%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (7.93%) Presentation Skills
10 57 (6.55%) Public Sector
11 53 (6.09%) Law
12 40 (4.60%) Banking
13 39 (4.48%) Legal
14 36 (4.14%) Front Office
15 24 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.84%) Billing
18 15 (1.72%) Back Office
19 14 (1.61%) Telecoms
20 12 (1.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 207 (23.79%) Analyst
2 135 (15.52%) Developer
3 131 (15.06%) Senior
4 93 (10.69%) Data Analyst
5 64 (7.36%) Data Engineer
6 58 (6.67%) Lead
7 56 (6.44%) Trainee
8 52 (5.98%) Data Scientist
9 51 (5.86%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 51 (5.86%) Programmer
9 51 (5.86%) Trainee Programmer
10 40 (4.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.14%) Consultant
12 35 (4.02%) React Developer
13 29 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 28 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (2.99%) Data Manager
16 25 (2.87%) Architect
17 24 (2.76%) Senior Developer
18 23 (2.64%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.01%) Pandas
1 61 (7.01%) scikit-learn
2 59 (6.78%) Matplotlib
3 58 (6.67%) NumPy
4 56 (6.44%) Hugging Face
4 56 (6.44%) Streamlit
5 55 (6.32%) React
6 33 (3.79%) WebSockets
7 30 (3.45%) Kafka
8 27 (3.10%) PySpark
9 22 (2.53%) CSS
10 21 (2.41%) HTML
11 20 (2.30%) Highcharts JS
12 19 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
12 19 (2.18%) OpenFin
13 17 (1.95%) HTML5 Canvas
14 15 (1.72%) REST
15 10 (1.15%) .NET
15 10 (1.15%) JSON
16 9 (1.03%) SAP CO-PA
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 48 (5.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 47 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.79%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.56%) Cloud Native
7 29 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.76%) Blog
9 19 (2.18%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.72%) IoT
11 13 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.38%) Social Media
13 11 (1.26%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.15%) SCADA
15 8 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.69%) Anti-Piracy
17 6 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.49%) Linux
2 9 (1.03%) Unix
3 6 (0.69%) Android
3 6 (0.69%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (51.72%) Data Visualisation
2 409 (47.01%) Business Intelligence
3 408 (46.90%) Analytics
4 270 (31.03%) Decision-Making
5 233 (26.78%) AI
6 230 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (23.10%) Data Analysis
8 182 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 163 (18.74%) Data Modelling
9 163 (18.74%) Machine Learning
10 152 (17.47%) Data Science
10 152 (17.47%) ETL
11 142 (16.32%) Agile
12 139 (15.98%) Actionable Insight
13 121 (13.91%) Data Analytics
14 120 (13.79%) Data Management
15 114 (13.10%) Data Governance
16 103 (11.84%) Data Engineering
17 92 (10.57%) Workflow
18 86 (9.89%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 374 (42.99%) SQL
2 355 (40.80%) Python
3 84 (9.66%) JavaScript
4 63 (7.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 62 (7.13%) R
6 39 (4.48%) VBA
7 30 (3.45%) Java
8 29 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 27 (3.10%) C#
10 16 (1.84%) Scala
11 12 (1.38%) Bash
12 11 (1.26%) C++
13 6 (0.69%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.69%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.57%) C
14 5 (0.57%) Ruby
14 5 (0.57%) VB
14 5 (0.57%) VBScript
15 4 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 222 (25.52%) Degree
2 62 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.78%) AWS Certification
4 54 (6.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 50 (5.75%) SC Cleared
6 42 (4.83%) Master's Degree
7 27 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (2.41%) MBA
10 14 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.49%) APMP
11 13 (1.49%) DBS Check
12 12 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (1.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 9 (1.03%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.92%) PhD
15 5 (0.57%) ACCA
15 5 (0.57%) CIMA
15 5 (0.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (16.09%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.25%) QA
3 31 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 27 (3.10%) GDPR
5 24 (2.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.15%) Good Clinical Practice
7 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 5 (0.57%) PMO
10 3 (0.34%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.11%) COBIT
12 1 (0.11%) EMIR
12 1 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.11%) ITGC
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.30%) Docker
2 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.75%) HP ALM
2 16 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.72%) Terraform
4 8 (0.92%) Grafana
4 8 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.57%) SCCM
6 3 (0.34%) Ansible
6 3 (0.34%) Argo
7 2 (0.23%) Kibana
7 2 (0.23%) logstash
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.23%) MOM
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 197 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 101 (11.61%) SAP
3 50 (5.75%) HP
4 49 (5.63%) Google
5 41 (4.71%) Databricks
6 29 (3.33%) Adobe
7 27 (3.10%) Oracle
8 23 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.18%) Qualtrics
10 15 (1.72%) IBM
11 12 (1.38%) Alteryx
12 8 (0.92%) Informatica
13 7 (0.80%) ESRI
14 6 (0.69%) Cognos
14 6 (0.69%) Talend
14 6 (0.69%) VMware
15 5 (0.57%) BT
15 5 (0.57%) Epicor
15 5 (0.57%) Infor
15 5 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud