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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 155 110
Rank change year-on-year -136 -45 +22
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 757 1,013 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 2.06% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 2.32% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 433 509 751
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £39,783 £42,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £49,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.16% -14.04% +14.00%

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 85,482 43,719 62,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.07% 88.75% 81.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58,986 24,656 34,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -111 689 £51,356 -9.10% 1,664
UK excluding London -127 431 £45,000 -8.16% 969
London -102 284 £65,000 - 907
Work from Home -70 247 £55,000 -4.35% 669
North of England -14 149 £42,500 -10.53% 200
North West +21 109 £42,500 -11.92% 93
Midlands -57 88 £48,750 +8.33% 162
South East -96 85 £46,500 -5.10% 228
South West -85 49 £42,500 -15.00% 104
West Midlands -52 46 £45,000 -14.29% 102
East Midlands -34 42 £70,000 +64.71% 60
Yorkshire -39 28 £55,000 +12.82% 76
Wales -58 24 £54,425 +23.69% 37
Scotland -66 19 £75,000 +11.22% 100
East of England -49 16 £47,000 -22.18% 104
North East -64 12 £41,919 -1.37% 32
Northern Ireland -86 1 - - 48

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 25 (3.30%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.92%) SAS
4 6 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.53%) Apache
5 4 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.53%) WinCC
6 2 (0.26%) Appian
6 2 (0.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (14.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.85%) EPLAN
4 8 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.66%) Blender
5 5 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.53%) CATIA
6 4 (0.53%) Maya
7 3 (0.40%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.26%) SPSS
8 2 (0.26%) Windchill
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 9 (1.19%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 403 (53.24%) Power Platform
2 183 (24.17%) Azure
3 118 (15.59%) AWS
4 71 (9.38%) GCP
5 43 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (5.28%) dbt
7 39 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (4.62%) Snowflake
9 33 (4.36%) SaaS
10 32 (4.23%) Google Analytics
11 28 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 25 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (3.04%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.51%) PowerApps
15 18 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (1.72%) Amazon S3
16 13 (1.72%) GitHub
17 12 (1.59%) Azure Databricks
18 11 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 9 (1.19%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.11%) Profibus
2 7 (0.92%) Broadband
3 6 (0.79%) 5G
3 6 (0.79%) Internet
3 6 (0.79%) Modbus
4 4 (0.53%) MQTT
4 4 (0.53%) VLAN
5 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.40%) Wireless
6 2 (0.26%) HTTP
6 2 (0.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.26%) SNMP
6 2 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.13%) DHCP
7 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.13%) VoIP
7 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (53.24%) Power BI
2 185 (24.44%) Tableau
3 78 (10.30%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (7.53%) Looker
5 45 (5.94%) Power Query
6 41 (5.42%) SQL Server
7 34 (4.49%) Data Lake
8 29 (3.83%) Metadata
9 26 (3.43%) Big Data
9 26 (3.43%) Data Mining
9 26 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (2.77%) Amazon QuickSight
11 21 (2.77%) BigQuery
12 19 (2.51%) Relational Database
13 17 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (2.25%) GIS
14 15 (1.98%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (1.59%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 43 (5.68%) Git
2 12 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.92%) JIRA
4 4 (0.53%) GitLab
4 4 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.26%) ERwin
6 2 (0.26%) Selenium
6 2 (0.26%) Vite
7 1 (0.13%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.13%) fastlane
7 1 (0.13%) MLflow
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.13%) Storybook
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.13%) Xcode
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 359 (47.42%) Analytical Skills
2 332 (43.86%) Social Skills
3 250 (33.03%) Finance
4 90 (11.89%) Marketing
5 70 (9.25%) Law
6 66 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (8.72%) Retail
7 57 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 47 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (5.15%) Military
10 37 (4.89%) Banking
11 36 (4.76%) Back Office
11 36 (4.76%) Telecoms
12 28 (3.70%) Manufacturing
13 26 (3.43%) Legal
14 23 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.98%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.85%) Local Government
18 12 (1.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 207 (27.34%) Analyst
2 127 (16.78%) Senior
3 116 (15.32%) Data Analyst
4 80 (10.57%) Lead
5 72 (9.51%) Developer
6 63 (8.32%) Data Engineer
7 39 (5.15%) Consultant
8 36 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
9 35 (4.62%) Data Manager
10 31 (4.10%) Analytics Manager
10 31 (4.10%) Data Scientist
10 31 (4.10%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.57%) Senior Data Analyst
12 23 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 21 (2.77%) Performance Analyst
14 20 (2.64%) Architect
15 19 (2.51%) Data Consultant
16 17 (2.25%) Power BI Analyst
17 16 (2.11%) Automation Engineer
17 16 (2.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.23%) PySpark
2 25 (3.30%) .NET
3 20 (2.64%) CSS
3 20 (2.64%) Terraform
4 19 (2.51%) Kafka
4 19 (2.51%) Pandas
4 19 (2.51%) React
5 16 (2.11%) PyTorch
6 14 (1.85%) HTML
6 14 (1.85%) scikit-learn
7 12 (1.59%) TensorFlow
8 11 (1.45%) jQuery
8 11 (1.45%) NumPy
8 11 (1.45%) Streamlit
9 10 (1.32%) Ajax
9 10 (1.32%) CSS3
9 10 (1.32%) HTML5
9 10 (1.32%) LESS
9 10 (1.32%) REST
9 10 (1.32%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.53%) Onboarding
2 52 (6.87%) Management Information System
3 39 (5.15%) Algorithms
4 32 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.91%) SCADA
6 20 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.64%) Cloud Native
7 18 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.11%) Blog
9 14 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.45%) NHS
12 10 (1.32%) Robotics
13 9 (1.19%) Social Media
14 8 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.06%) Clustering
14 8 (1.06%) Educational Technology
14 8 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.45%) Linux
2 6 (0.79%) Windows
3 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.40%) Unix
3 3 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) CentOS
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (57.07%) Data Visualisation
2 423 (55.88%) Business Intelligence
3 405 (53.50%) Analytics
4 293 (38.71%) Decision-Making
5 237 (31.31%) Problem-Solving
6 235 (31.04%) AI
7 198 (26.16%) Actionable Insight
7 198 (26.16%) Data Analysis
8 186 (24.57%) Data Modelling
9 164 (21.66%) Machine Learning
10 157 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 155 (20.48%) Agile
12 154 (20.34%) Data Science
13 126 (16.64%) Data Engineering
14 125 (16.51%) Data Governance
15 112 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
16 111 (14.66%) Data Analytics
17 108 (14.27%) Dashboard Development
18 99 (13.08%) Data Pipeline
19 90 (11.89%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 395 (52.18%) SQL
2 316 (41.74%) Python
3 51 (6.74%) R
4 47 (6.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (5.81%) JavaScript
6 42 (5.55%) C#
7 27 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.64%) C++
8 20 (2.64%) Java
9 19 (2.51%) Scala
10 16 (2.11%) Ladder Logic
11 14 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.92%) C
13 7 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.66%) Bash
14 5 (0.66%) Go
14 5 (0.66%) Rust
14 5 (0.66%) VBA
15 4 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 162 (21.40%) Degree
2 87 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 58 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.11%) Azure Certification
4 16 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.59%) HNC
6 12 (1.59%) HND
6 12 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (1.45%) Chartered Engineer
7 11 (1.45%) Postgraduate
8 10 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.66%) PhD
10 3 (0.40%) ACCA
10 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.40%) CIMA
11 2 (0.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (27.74%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.42%) GDPR
3 29 (3.83%) QA
4 28 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.59%) IEC 61131
7 6 (0.79%) PMO
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.53%) NEBOSH
8 4 (0.53%) NIST
8 4 (0.53%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) PERC
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (3.04%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Ceph
3 1 (0.13%) Lustre
3 1 (0.13%) NFS
3 1 (0.13%) Samba
3 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.66%) Ansible
3 4 (0.53%) EnCase
3 4 (0.53%) FTK
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.13%) Consul
5 1 (0.13%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.13%) logstash
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 151 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.17%) Databricks
3 63 (8.32%) Google
4 25 (3.30%) SAP
5 20 (2.64%) Siemens
6 11 (1.45%) Oracle
7 9 (1.19%) YouTube
8 8 (1.06%) SYSPRO
9 7 (0.92%) Informatica
9 7 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
9 7 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.79%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.66%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.66%) IBM
11 5 (0.66%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.53%) AVEVA
12 4 (0.53%) Cellebrite
12 4 (0.53%) Foundry
12 4 (0.53%) Nuix