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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 120 102
Rank change year-on-year -62 -18 +21
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 813 1,287 1,928
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.44% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.68% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 451 678 1,219
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,875 £33,183
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,250 £89,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,056
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +3.62%

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 50,302 48,021 60,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.24% 91.22% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29,664 23,067 46,526
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -60 731 £60,000 -7.69% 620
UK excluding London -34 451 £52,500 - 581
London -68 313 £70,000 -17.65% 148
Work from Home -48 270 £57,500 -11.54% 221
South East +12 165 £55,000 -15.38% 185
North of England -13 103 £45,000 - 126
Midlands -20 72 £45,195 -19.65% 100
North West +17 59 £45,000 -7.22% 67
West Midlands +2 48 £50,000 -11.11% 45
South West -36 36 £50,000 +17.65% 64
Yorkshire -30 35 £55,000 +22.22% 46
Scotland -37 33 £57,500 +16.16% 31
East of England +8 32 £57,500 -11.54% 58
East Midlands -28 24 £42,500 -24.78% 54
North East 0 9 £62,500 -7.41% 14
Wales +1 7 £41,250 -13.16% 22
Northern Ireland -19 4 - - 9

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 39 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.20%) Confluence
4 19 (2.34%) Apache
5 17 (2.09%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.86%) WordPress
7 5 (0.62%) IIS
8 4 (0.49%) Apache Superset
8 4 (0.49%) SAS
9 3 (0.37%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 203 (24.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.85%) AutoCAD
5 10 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.74%) Trello
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.37%) Blender
9 3 (0.37%) Maya
9 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.25%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) CATIA
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (6.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.98%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 416 (51.17%) Power Platform
2 197 (24.23%) Azure
3 81 (9.96%) AWS
4 72 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 71 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (8.00%) GCP
7 58 (7.13%) Snowflake
8 46 (5.66%) Power Automate
9 42 (5.17%) PowerApps
10 41 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 40 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (2.95%) Google Analytics
13 22 (2.71%) Adobe Analytics
13 22 (2.71%) GitHub
14 21 (2.58%) Figma
15 18 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (2.09%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.97%) dbt
18 15 (1.85%) Fivetran
19 14 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.86%) Firewall
2 5 (0.62%) LAN
2 5 (0.62%) Modbus
2 5 (0.62%) MQTT
2 5 (0.62%) WAN
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.25%) Profibus
4 2 (0.25%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (50.92%) Power BI
2 161 (19.80%) Tableau
3 79 (9.72%) SQL Server
4 57 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 41 (5.04%) Looker
6 38 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 33 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (3.94%) BigQuery
9 30 (3.69%) Metadata
10 24 (2.95%) BusinessObjects
11 23 (2.83%) MySQL
12 21 (2.58%) Data Lake
13 18 (2.21%) Power Query
14 17 (2.09%) Big Data
14 17 (2.09%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (1.85%) Data Mining
16 13 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
16 13 (1.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 85 (10.46%) JIRA
2 50 (6.15%) eCATT
3 35 (4.31%) Git
4 22 (2.71%) NeoLoad
5 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.49%) GitLab
6 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.25%) MLflow
8 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 323 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 304 (37.39%) Analytical Skills
3 300 (36.90%) Finance
4 146 (17.96%) Marketing
5 87 (10.70%) Manufacturing
6 80 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (9.59%) Influencing Skills
8 77 (9.47%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (6.15%) Public Sector
10 47 (5.78%) Law
11 42 (5.17%) Banking
12 39 (4.80%) Legal
13 33 (4.06%) Front Office
14 30 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (3.32%) Retail
16 20 (2.46%) Advertising
16 20 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (2.09%) French Language
18 14 (1.72%) Billing
19 11 (1.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 239 (29.40%) Analyst
2 140 (17.22%) Senior
3 125 (15.38%) Developer
4 104 (12.79%) Data Analyst
5 70 (8.61%) Lead
6 54 (6.64%) Data Engineer
7 45 (5.54%) Data Scientist
8 40 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
9 38 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 31 (3.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 29 (3.57%) Insight Analyst
12 28 (3.44%) React Developer
13 27 (3.32%) Senior Developer
14 26 (3.20%) Data Manager
15 24 (2.95%) Commercial Analyst
15 24 (2.95%) Consultant
16 22 (2.71%) Electronic Trading Developer
17 21 (2.58%) Architect
17 21 (2.58%) Junior
17 21 (2.58%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.92%) React
2 28 (3.44%) WebSockets
3 27 (3.32%) CSS
4 26 (3.20%) PySpark
5 22 (2.71%) FIX Protocol
5 22 (2.71%) Highcharts JS
5 22 (2.71%) OpenFin
6 19 (2.34%) HTML
7 17 (2.09%) Kafka
8 16 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (1.85%) Pandas
9 15 (1.85%) REST
9 15 (1.85%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.60%) JSON
10 13 (1.60%) NumPy
11 11 (1.35%) PyTorch
12 10 (1.23%) EDI
13 9 (1.11%) .NET
13 9 (1.11%) Flask
14 8 (0.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (4.18%) Algorithms
3 34 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.57%) Fixed Income
6 27 (3.32%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.95%) Blog
8 15 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.48%) FMCG
11 11 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.35%) IoT
12 8 (0.98%) SCADA
13 7 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.86%) Reinsurance
13 7 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.86%) Social Media
14 5 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.11%) Linux
2 8 (0.98%) Android
2 8 (0.98%) Windows
3 7 (0.86%) Unix
4 6 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (54.98%) Data Visualisation
2 432 (53.14%) Business Intelligence
3 421 (51.78%) Analytics
4 276 (33.95%) Decision-Making
5 213 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (23.86%) Data Analysis
7 188 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 180 (22.14%) AI
9 167 (20.54%) Actionable Insight
10 151 (18.57%) ETL
11 150 (18.45%) Agile
12 145 (17.84%) Data Science
13 144 (17.71%) Data Modelling
14 134 (16.48%) Data Analytics
15 122 (15.01%) Data Management
16 119 (14.64%) Machine Learning
17 106 (13.04%) Data Engineering
18 100 (12.30%) Computer Science
19 94 (11.56%) Project Management
20 88 (10.82%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 377 (46.37%) SQL
2 298 (36.65%) Python
3 76 (9.35%) JavaScript
4 52 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 52 (6.40%) R
5 29 (3.57%) VBA
6 21 (2.58%) C#
7 19 (2.34%) Java
8 16 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.60%) Scala
10 12 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.35%) Bash
12 6 (0.74%) C++
12 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.62%) Ruby
14 4 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.49%) Go
14 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.37%) Bicep
15 3 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 266 (32.72%) Degree
2 53 (6.52%) Master's Degree
3 52 (6.40%) Security Cleared
4 48 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 39 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.34%) MBA
8 17 (2.09%) PhD
9 15 (1.85%) CISSP
10 14 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.72%) CISA
10 14 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (1.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 10 (1.23%) CISM
13 9 (1.11%) APMP
13 9 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.11%) CRISC
13 9 (1.11%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.74%) ACCA
14 6 (0.74%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (15.50%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.66%) QA
3 32 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 18 (2.21%) GDPR
6 17 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.35%) NIST
8 10 (1.23%) Good Clinical Practice
8 10 (1.23%) IEC 61131
9 9 (1.11%) COBIT
9 9 (1.11%) GRC
9 9 (1.11%) ITGC
10 6 (0.74%) PMO
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.46%) Docker
2 6 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (6.15%) HP ALM
2 17 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.60%) Terraform
4 8 (0.98%) Ansible
5 4 (0.49%) CASB
5 4 (0.49%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.37%) Argo
6 3 (0.37%) Grafana
6 3 (0.37%) Kibana
6 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.25%) logstash
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.12%) MOM
8 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 158 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.56%) SAP
3 56 (6.89%) Google
4 50 (6.15%) HP
5 43 (5.29%) Databricks
6 27 (3.32%) Adobe
6 27 (3.32%) Oracle
7 26 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.34%) Qualtrics
9 10 (1.23%) Alteryx
10 7 (0.86%) Cisco
10 7 (0.86%) ESRI
10 7 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 7 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.74%) IBM
11 6 (0.74%) Informatica
11 6 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.74%) VMware
12 5 (0.62%) Epicor
12 5 (0.62%) Infor