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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 155 117
Rank change year-on-year -133 -38 +17
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 753 1,018 1,645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 2.06% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 2.32% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 426 498 741
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £38,813 £42,500 £48,250
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 £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -15.79% +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 85,804 43,854 61,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.92% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,130 24,461 33,915
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 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,000
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 28 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 28 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 -114 684 £51,356 -10.69% 1,356
UK excluding London -129 424 £45,000 -6.25% 762
London -93 286 £65,000 - 728
Work from Home -63 250 £55,000 -4.35% 585
North of England -25 140 £42,500 -10.53% 153
North West +3 102 £40,000 -17.53% 76
Midlands -51 92 £47,500 +5.56% 120
South East -106 81 £45,000 -8.16% 185
South West -88 50 £42,500 -15.00% 83
West Midlands -36 48 £45,000 -13.88% 79
East Midlands -41 44 £70,000 +64.71% 41
Yorkshire -28 27 £52,500 +16.67% 58
Wales -43 23 £54,425 +23.69% 28
Scotland -67 20 £75,000 +27.66% 75
East of England -43 17 £42,959 -28.87% 84
North East -65 11 £41,919 -1.37% 19
Northern Ireland -87 1 - - 46

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 24 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.93%) SAS
4 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.66%) WinCC
6 4 (0.53%) Apache
6 4 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) Appian
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) 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
1 105 (13.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.99%) EPLAN
4 5 (0.66%) Blender
4 5 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.53%) Maya
6 3 (0.40%) 3ds Max
6 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.27%) InDesign
7 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
7 2 (0.27%) Revit
7 2 (0.27%) SPSS
7 2 (0.27%) Windchill
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.27%) 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
1 395 (52.46%) Power Platform
2 181 (24.04%) Azure
3 118 (15.67%) AWS
4 72 (9.56%) GCP
5 42 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (5.18%) dbt
7 37 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (4.65%) Snowflake
9 33 (4.38%) SaaS
10 31 (4.12%) Google Analytics
11 29 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
12 23 (3.05%) Power Automate
13 20 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (2.52%) PowerApps
15 18 (2.39%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (1.73%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.59%) Azure Databricks
17 12 (1.59%) GitHub
18 11 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 9 (1.20%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.26%) Profibus
2 8 (1.06%) Internet
3 7 (0.93%) Broadband
3 7 (0.93%) Modbus
4 6 (0.80%) 5G
5 5 (0.66%) VLAN
6 4 (0.53%) MQTT
7 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.40%) Wireless
8 2 (0.27%) HTTP
8 2 (0.27%) Network Security
8 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.27%) SNMP
8 2 (0.27%) 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
1 395 (52.46%) Power BI
2 186 (24.70%) Tableau
3 80 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (7.30%) Looker
5 49 (6.51%) Power Query
6 41 (5.44%) SQL Server
7 35 (4.65%) Data Lake
8 27 (3.59%) Big Data
8 27 (3.59%) Metadata
9 26 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 25 (3.32%) Data Mining
11 21 (2.79%) Amazon QuickSight
11 21 (2.79%) BigQuery
11 21 (2.79%) Relational Database
12 17 (2.26%) GIS
13 16 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.99%) NoSQL
15 14 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (1.59%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 43 (5.71%) Git
2 12 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.93%) JIRA
4 5 (0.66%) GitLab
5 4 (0.53%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.27%) ERwin
6 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.27%) 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%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) Storybook
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.13%) Xcode
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 354 (47.01%) Analytical Skills
2 333 (44.22%) Social Skills
3 254 (33.73%) Finance
4 89 (11.82%) Marketing
5 69 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 67 (8.90%) Retail
7 66 (8.76%) Law
8 56 (7.44%) Public Sector
9 49 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (5.05%) Banking
11 36 (4.78%) Back Office
12 34 (4.52%) Military
13 32 (4.25%) Manufacturing
14 31 (4.12%) Telecoms
15 27 (3.59%) Legal
16 23 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (1.99%) Financial Institution
19 14 (1.86%) Local Government
20 12 (1.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 207 (27.49%) Analyst
2 127 (16.87%) Senior
3 116 (15.41%) Data Analyst
4 81 (10.76%) Lead
5 72 (9.56%) Developer
6 61 (8.10%) Data Engineer
7 40 (5.31%) Consultant
8 36 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
9 31 (4.12%) Software Engineer
10 29 (3.85%) Data Manager
11 28 (3.72%) Data Scientist
12 27 (3.59%) Senior Data Analyst
13 26 (3.45%) Analytics Manager
13 26 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 20 (2.66%) Performance Analyst
15 19 (2.52%) Architect
15 19 (2.52%) Data Consultant
16 18 (2.39%) Power BI Analyst
17 17 (2.26%) Automation Engineer
17 17 (2.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.25%) PySpark
2 24 (3.19%) .NET
3 19 (2.52%) Kafka
3 19 (2.52%) Pandas
3 19 (2.52%) React
3 19 (2.52%) Terraform
4 18 (2.39%) CSS
5 15 (1.99%) PyTorch
6 13 (1.73%) scikit-learn
7 12 (1.59%) HTML
7 12 (1.59%) NumPy
7 12 (1.59%) TensorFlow
8 11 (1.46%) Streamlit
9 10 (1.33%) jQuery
9 10 (1.33%) REST
10 9 (1.20%) Ajax
10 9 (1.20%) CSS3
10 9 (1.20%) HTML5
10 9 (1.20%) Matplotlib
10 9 (1.20%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.70%) Onboarding
2 56 (7.44%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.91%) Algorithms
4 32 (4.25%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.19%) SCADA
6 21 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.66%) Cloud Native
8 17 (2.26%) Blog
9 16 (2.12%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.46%) NHS
13 10 (1.33%) Robotics
14 9 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.20%) Social Media
15 8 (1.06%) Clustering
15 8 (1.06%) Educational Technology
15 8 (1.06%) IoT
16 7 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.46%) Linux
2 6 (0.80%) 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
1 426 (56.57%) Data Visualisation
2 418 (55.51%) Business Intelligence
3 399 (52.99%) Analytics
4 288 (38.25%) Decision-Making
5 237 (31.47%) Problem-Solving
6 234 (31.08%) AI
7 195 (25.90%) Actionable Insight
8 191 (25.37%) Data Analysis
9 186 (24.70%) Data Modelling
10 162 (21.51%) Machine Learning
11 157 (20.85%) Agile
12 155 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 150 (19.92%) Data Science
14 126 (16.73%) Data Engineering
15 121 (16.07%) Data Governance
16 119 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
17 110 (14.61%) Dashboard Development
18 109 (14.48%) Data Analytics
19 98 (13.01%) Data Pipeline
20 93 (12.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 392 (52.06%) SQL
2 313 (41.57%) Python
3 50 (6.64%) R
4 49 (6.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (5.58%) C#
6 41 (5.44%) JavaScript
7 27 (3.59%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.79%) Java
9 20 (2.66%) C++
10 19 (2.52%) Scala
11 17 (2.26%) Ladder Logic
12 13 (1.73%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.06%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.93%) C
14 7 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.66%) Bash
15 5 (0.66%) Go
15 5 (0.66%) Rust
15 5 (0.66%) VBA
16 2 (0.27%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 160 (21.25%) Degree
2 85 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 56 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.26%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.73%) HND
7 13 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.59%) HNC
8 12 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
8 12 (1.59%) Postgraduate
9 11 (1.46%) Chartered Engineer
10 10 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.06%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.93%) PhD
14 4 (0.53%) ACCA
14 4 (0.53%) CIMA
15 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.27%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (28.15%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.44%) GDPR
3 27 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 23 (3.05%) QA
5 15 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (1.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (1.73%) IEC 61131
8 6 (0.80%) PMO
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.53%) NEBOSH
9 4 (0.53%) NIST
9 4 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 1 (0.13%) PERC
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (3.05%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) 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 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.66%) Ansible
2 5 (0.66%) EnCase
2 5 (0.66%) FTK
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.13%) Consul
4 1 (0.13%) Grafana
4 1 (0.13%) Kibana
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
1 147 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.83%) Databricks
3 62 (8.23%) Google
4 22 (2.92%) Siemens
5 20 (2.66%) SAP
6 12 (1.59%) Oracle
7 10 (1.33%) YouTube
8 8 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.06%) SYSPRO
9 7 (0.93%) Informatica
9 7 (0.93%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (0.80%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.66%) AVEVA
11 5 (0.66%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.66%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.66%) Nuix
11 5 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.66%) Relativity
12 4 (0.53%) Foundry