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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 148 115
Rank change year-on-year -135 -33 +17
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 766 1,041 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 2.10% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 2.36% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 440 488 728
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,425
25th Percentile £39,570 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,625 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -16.67% +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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -108 690 £51,356 -10.69% 1,807
UK excluding London -139 432 £45,000 -5.26% 1,284
London -96 288 £62,500 -3.85% 891
Work from Home -58 257 £55,000 -4.35% 940
North of England -21 141 £42,500 -10.53% 258
North West +7 101 £40,000 -16.67% 121
Midlands -52 88 £48,750 +8.33% 179
South East -118 82 £45,000 -6.74% 276
South West -79 53 £42,500 -15.00% 123
West Midlands -37 47 £45,000 -13.46% 117
East Midlands -48 41 £70,000 +64.71% 62
Yorkshire -40 28 £52,500 +16.67% 93
Wales -54 25 £45,175 +2.67% 68
Scotland -61 22 £75,000 +30.43% 194
East of England -50 20 £42,959 -28.87% 119
North East -60 12 £41,919 -11.75% 45
Northern Ireland -83 1 - - 86

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 27 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.91%) SAS
4 6 (0.78%) Apache
4 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.65%) WinCC
6 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.26%) Appian
7 2 (0.26%) IIS
7 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Confluence
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (14.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.09%) EPLAN
4 6 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.65%) Blender
6 4 (0.52%) Maya
7 3 (0.39%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.39%) Revit
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
8 2 (0.26%) SPSS
8 2 (0.26%) Windchill
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.52%) SAP PM
2 3 (0.39%) 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
1 401 (52.35%) Power Platform
2 183 (23.89%) Azure
3 120 (15.67%) AWS
4 72 (9.40%) GCP
5 44 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (4.96%) dbt
7 36 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (4.57%) Snowflake
9 34 (4.44%) SaaS
10 29 (3.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (3.66%) Google Analytics
12 26 (3.39%) Power Automate
13 22 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (2.74%) PowerApps
15 20 (2.61%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (1.83%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.57%) Azure Databricks
17 12 (1.57%) GitHub
18 11 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 9 (1.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.35%) Profibus
2 8 (1.04%) Internet
3 7 (0.91%) Broadband
3 7 (0.91%) Modbus
4 6 (0.78%) 5G
5 5 (0.65%) VLAN
6 4 (0.52%) MQTT
7 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.39%) Wireless
8 2 (0.26%) HTTP
8 2 (0.26%) Network Security
8 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.26%) SNMP
8 2 (0.26%) WAN
9 1 (0.13%) AMQP
9 1 (0.13%) DHCP
9 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.13%) PPP
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (52.35%) Power BI
2 180 (23.50%) Tableau
3 81 (10.57%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (7.31%) Looker
5 49 (6.40%) Power Query
6 43 (5.61%) SQL Server
7 35 (4.57%) Data Lake
8 28 (3.66%) Big Data
9 27 (3.52%) Metadata
10 26 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (3.26%) Data Mining
11 25 (3.26%) Relational Database
11 25 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (2.74%) Amazon QuickSight
12 21 (2.74%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (1.96%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.57%) GIS
15 12 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (5.87%) Git
2 11 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.78%) JIRA
4 5 (0.65%) GitLab
5 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.26%) ERwin
6 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.13%) Storybook
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.13%) Xcode
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 358 (46.74%) Analytical Skills
2 346 (45.17%) Social Skills
3 259 (33.81%) Finance
4 88 (11.49%) Marketing
5 65 (8.49%) Law
6 63 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 62 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (7.96%) Retail
9 49 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (4.70%) Back Office
10 36 (4.70%) Banking
11 34 (4.44%) Military
12 32 (4.18%) Manufacturing
13 31 (4.05%) Telecoms
14 29 (3.79%) Legal
15 23 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.83%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.83%) Local Government
18 11 (1.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 216 (28.20%) Analyst
2 126 (16.45%) Senior
3 120 (15.67%) Data Analyst
4 79 (10.31%) Lead
5 75 (9.79%) Developer
6 66 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 37 (4.83%) Consultant
7 37 (4.83%) Senior Analyst
8 35 (4.57%) Software Engineer
9 29 (3.79%) Data Manager
10 28 (3.66%) Data Scientist
11 27 (3.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 27 (3.52%) Senior Data Analyst
12 26 (3.39%) Analytics Manager
13 20 (2.61%) Performance Analyst
14 19 (2.48%) Architect
15 18 (2.35%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (2.35%) Power BI Analyst
16 17 (2.22%) Team Leader
17 16 (2.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.31%) PySpark
2 26 (3.39%) .NET
3 21 (2.74%) React
3 21 (2.74%) Terraform
4 20 (2.61%) Kafka
5 18 (2.35%) CSS
5 18 (2.35%) Pandas
6 14 (1.83%) REST
7 13 (1.70%) NumPy
8 12 (1.57%) HTML
8 12 (1.57%) PyTorch
8 12 (1.57%) Streamlit
8 12 (1.57%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.31%) jQuery
9 10 (1.31%) scikit-learn
10 9 (1.17%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.17%) CSS3
10 9 (1.17%) HTML5
10 9 (1.17%) LESS
10 9 (1.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.96%) Onboarding
2 56 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 38 (4.96%) Algorithms
4 31 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.26%) SCADA
6 22 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.48%) Blog
9 16 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.44%) NHS
12 11 (1.44%) Robotics
13 10 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.31%) Educational Technology
14 8 (1.04%) Clustering
14 8 (1.04%) IoT
15 7 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.57%) Linux
2 6 (0.78%) Windows
3 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.39%) Unix
3 3 (0.39%) 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 (56.40%) Data Visualisation
2 431 (56.27%) Business Intelligence
3 398 (51.96%) Analytics
4 288 (37.60%) Decision-Making
5 244 (31.85%) AI
6 236 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
7 202 (26.37%) Actionable Insight
8 193 (25.20%) Data Analysis
9 189 (24.67%) Data Modelling
10 165 (21.54%) Machine Learning
11 159 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 157 (20.50%) Agile
13 147 (19.19%) Data Science
14 131 (17.10%) Data Engineering
15 129 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 126 (16.45%) Data Governance
17 111 (14.49%) Dashboard Development
18 107 (13.97%) Data Analytics
19 102 (13.32%) Data Pipeline
20 94 (12.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 400 (52.22%) SQL
2 320 (41.78%) Python
3 54 (7.05%) R
4 52 (6.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (5.74%) C#
6 40 (5.22%) JavaScript
7 28 (3.66%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.74%) Java
9 20 (2.61%) C++
10 19 (2.48%) Scala
11 18 (2.35%) Ladder Logic
12 15 (1.96%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.04%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.91%) C
15 5 (0.65%) Bash
15 5 (0.65%) Go
15 5 (0.65%) Rust
15 5 (0.65%) VBA
16 2 (0.26%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 166 (21.67%) Degree
2 91 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 61 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
7 14 (1.83%) HND
7 14 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.70%) HNC
9 12 (1.57%) Chartered Engineer
10 10 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.31%) PhD
11 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.91%) Postgraduate
13 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.52%) ACCA
14 4 (0.52%) CIMA
15 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (28.98%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.61%) GDPR
3 27 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 24 (3.13%) QA
5 15 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (1.83%) IEC 61131
7 6 (0.78%) PMO
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.52%) NEBOSH
8 4 (0.52%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) 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%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.13%) PERC
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (3.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) 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 29 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.65%) Ansible
2 5 (0.65%) EnCase
2 5 (0.65%) FTK
3 2 (0.26%) Kibana
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.13%) Consul
4 1 (0.13%) Grafana
4 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.13%) logstash
4 1 (0.13%) MOM
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 156 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.92%) Databricks
3 59 (7.70%) Google
4 23 (3.00%) Siemens
5 20 (2.61%) SAP
6 12 (1.57%) Oracle
7 11 (1.44%) YouTube
8 10 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.04%) SYSPRO
10 7 (0.91%) Informatica
10 7 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (0.78%) Alteryx
11 6 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (0.78%) Foundry
11 6 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.65%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.65%) Cellebrite
12 5 (0.65%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.65%) Nuix
12 5 (0.65%) Relativity