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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 119 96
Rank change year-on-year -54 -23 +29
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 882 1,238 2,144
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 2.53% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.74% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 514 630 1,336
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,392
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.39% +0.12%

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 54,345 45,260 66,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.25% 92.54% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,629 22,226 51,183
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,490
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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.33%

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 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 20 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 -51 795 £60,000 -7.69% 604
UK excluding London -28 508 £47,500 -9.52% 467
London -59 321 £70,000 -17.65% 283
Work from Home -58 287 £57,500 -5.34% 186
South East +16 177 £56,250 -12.79% 153
North of England -7 129 £40,500 -14.74% 112
Midlands -33 81 £44,000 -21.78% 78
North West +11 71 £45,000 -3.74% 56
West Midlands -14 53 £44,000 -21.78% 39
Yorkshire -51 44 £42,500 -5.56% 43
South West -66 44 £47,500 +13.10% 46
Scotland -39 36 £51,250 +13.89% 21
East of England +8 31 £56,250 -19.64% 49
East Midlands -28 28 £40,000 -29.20% 39
North East -3 14 £37,500 -46.43% 13
Wales -8 7 £38,500 -18.95% 14
Northern Ireland -29 4 - - 7

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 46 (5.22%) Jupyter
1 46 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.95%) Confluence
5 21 (2.38%) Apache
6 7 (0.79%) WordPress
7 5 (0.57%) IIS
8 4 (0.45%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) SAS
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 191 (21.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (5.10%) Chatbot
3 37 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.59%) AutoCAD
6 12 (1.36%) MS Visio
7 9 (1.02%) SOLIDWORKS
8 6 (0.68%) CATIA
8 6 (0.68%) Trello
9 5 (0.57%) Blender
9 5 (0.57%) Maya
9 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.45%) 3ds Max
10 4 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.34%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.23%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 51 (5.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.02%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 420 (47.62%) Power Platform
2 200 (22.68%) Azure
3 135 (15.31%) AWS
4 77 (8.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (7.37%) GCP
7 58 (6.58%) Snowflake
8 51 (5.78%) Cloud Computing
9 49 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 47 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
10 47 (5.33%) PowerApps
11 42 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (3.51%) dbt
13 24 (2.72%) GitHub
14 23 (2.61%) Google Analytics
15 21 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
16 20 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
16 20 (2.27%) Figma
17 19 (2.15%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.79%) Broadband
1 7 (0.79%) Firewall
1 7 (0.79%) Modbus
2 5 (0.57%) MQTT
3 4 (0.45%) LAN
3 4 (0.45%) WAN
3 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.23%) Profibus
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.23%) Wireless
5 1 (0.11%) ADSL
5 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (47.39%) Power BI
2 153 (17.35%) Tableau
3 77 (8.73%) SQL Server
4 70 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (4.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 37 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 35 (3.97%) BigQuery
8 35 (3.97%) Metadata
9 34 (3.85%) Looker
10 24 (2.72%) BusinessObjects
10 24 (2.72%) Data Lake
11 23 (2.61%) MySQL
12 20 (2.27%) Big Data
12 20 (2.27%) Power Query
13 18 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (1.93%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (1.59%) Data Mining
16 14 (1.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 84 (9.52%) JIRA
2 50 (5.67%) eCATT
3 45 (5.10%) Visual Studio Code
4 37 (4.20%) Git
5 22 (2.49%) NeoLoad
6 7 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.57%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.45%) GitLab
10 2 (0.23%) MLflow
11 1 (0.11%) ESLint
11 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.11%) Storybook
11 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 341 (38.66%) Finance
2 319 (36.17%) Social Skills
3 307 (34.81%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (16.33%) Marketing
5 131 (14.85%) Manufacturing
6 75 (8.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
8 71 (8.05%) Presentation Skills
9 67 (7.60%) Retail
10 56 (6.35%) Public Sector
11 46 (5.22%) Law
12 42 (4.76%) Banking
13 38 (4.31%) Front Office
14 37 (4.20%) Legal
15 23 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (2.04%) Advertising
18 14 (1.59%) Billing
18 14 (1.59%) French Language
19 10 (1.13%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 227 (25.74%) Analyst
2 139 (15.76%) Senior
3 136 (15.42%) Developer
4 100 (11.34%) Data Analyst
5 65 (7.37%) Data Engineer
5 65 (7.37%) Lead
6 47 (5.33%) Trainee
7 45 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 45 (5.10%) Data Scientist
7 45 (5.10%) Programmer
7 45 (5.10%) Trainee Programmer
8 42 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 37 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 35 (3.97%) React Developer
11 31 (3.51%) Consultant
12 30 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 26 (2.95%) Commercial Analyst
13 26 (2.95%) Data Manager
14 25 (2.83%) Senior Developer
15 24 (2.72%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.24%) scikit-learn
2 54 (6.12%) Pandas
3 52 (5.90%) NumPy
4 51 (5.78%) React
5 50 (5.67%) Matplotlib
6 49 (5.56%) Hugging Face
7 47 (5.33%) Streamlit
8 32 (3.63%) WebSockets
9 30 (3.40%) CSS
10 28 (3.17%) Kafka
11 27 (3.06%) PySpark
12 22 (2.49%) Highcharts JS
13 21 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
13 21 (2.38%) HTML
13 21 (2.38%) OpenFin
14 18 (2.04%) HTML5 Canvas
15 12 (1.36%) JSON
15 12 (1.36%) REST
16 11 (1.25%) .NET
17 9 (1.02%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 79 (8.96%) Algorithms
2 59 (6.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 50 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.85%) Fixed Income
6 33 (3.74%) Cloud Native
7 31 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.72%) Blog
9 20 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.04%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.59%) IoT
12 13 (1.47%) FMCG
12 13 (1.47%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.36%) SCADA
13 12 (1.36%) Social Media
14 8 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (0.68%) Anti-Piracy
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.36%) Linux
2 8 (0.91%) Unix
3 7 (0.79%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) Android
5 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (52.83%) Data Visualisation
2 437 (49.55%) Business Intelligence
3 432 (48.98%) Analytics
4 284 (32.20%) Decision-Making
5 234 (26.53%) AI
6 226 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
7 206 (23.36%) Data Analysis
8 190 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (18.59%) Data Modelling
9 164 (18.59%) Machine Learning
10 162 (18.37%) ETL
11 161 (18.25%) Actionable Insight
12 155 (17.57%) Agile
13 153 (17.35%) Data Science
14 138 (15.65%) Data Analytics
15 122 (13.83%) Data Management
16 114 (12.93%) Data Engineering
17 107 (12.13%) Data Governance
18 106 (12.02%) Computer Science
19 89 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 391 (44.33%) SQL
2 360 (40.82%) Python
3 86 (9.75%) JavaScript
4 58 (6.58%) R
5 57 (6.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.08%) VBA
7 31 (3.51%) Java
8 28 (3.17%) C#
9 24 (2.72%) TypeScript
10 18 (2.04%) Scala
11 12 (1.36%) Bash
11 12 (1.36%) C++
11 12 (1.36%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.68%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.57%) C
13 5 (0.57%) Ruby
14 4 (0.45%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.45%) Go
15 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 259 (29.37%) Degree
2 58 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 50 (5.67%) AWS Certification
3 50 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 47 (5.33%) Master's Degree
5 45 (5.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 41 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.49%) MBA
9 16 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.36%) APMP
12 12 (1.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (1.25%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.13%) CISSP
15 9 (1.02%) CISA
16 8 (0.91%) PhD
17 6 (0.68%) ACCA
17 6 (0.68%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 35 (3.97%) QA
3 30 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 23 (2.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 22 (2.49%) GDPR
6 12 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.13%) Good Clinical Practice
7 10 (1.13%) IEC 61131
8 7 (0.79%) NIST
9 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 5 (0.57%) COBIT
10 5 (0.57%) GRC
10 5 (0.57%) ITGC
10 5 (0.57%) PMO
11 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.11%) EMIR
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.27%) Docker
2 8 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.67%) HP ALM
2 20 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.15%) Terraform
4 7 (0.79%) Ansible
5 6 (0.68%) Grafana
5 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.45%) CASB
7 3 (0.34%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.34%) SCCM
8 2 (0.23%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) logstash
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.23%) MOM
Vendors
1 207 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 95 (10.77%) SAP
3 52 (5.90%) Google
4 50 (5.67%) HP
5 38 (4.31%) Databricks
6 28 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 27 (3.06%) Adobe
7 27 (3.06%) Oracle
8 19 (2.15%) Qualtrics
9 13 (1.47%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.47%) IBM
10 8 (0.91%) VMware
11 7 (0.79%) ESRI
11 7 (0.79%) Informatica
11 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.68%) Cisco
12 6 (0.68%) Cognos
13 5 (0.57%) BT
13 5 (0.57%) Epicor