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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 122 101
Rank change year-on-year -57 -21 +24
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 828 1,269 2,009
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.44% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.67% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 462 663 1,271
10th Percentile £35,575 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £89,875 £70,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,056
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +5.26%

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 51,135 47,583 62,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.17% 91.57% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 30,200 22,958 48,143
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
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 31 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 31 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 -58 743 £60,000 -7.69% 452
UK excluding London -21 463 £51,000 -2.86% 384
London -64 313 £70,000 -17.65% 176
Work from Home -46 274 £57,500 -11.54% 174
South East +21 169 £55,000 -15.38% 137
North of England -25 105 £45,000 - 95
Midlands -20 75 £46,237 -15.93% 67
North West +11 60 £45,000 - 58
West Midlands -1 52 £47,085 -14.39% 31
South West -26 39 £50,000 +17.65% 38
Yorkshire -31 35 £55,000 +22.22% 31
Scotland -36 34 £57,500 +21.69% 20
East of England +18 31 £57,500 -15.44% 21
East Midlands -20 23 £42,695 -26.39% 36
North East +2 10 £62,500 -10.71% 7
Wales -5 7 £41,250 -13.16% 11
Northern Ireland -20 4 - - 3

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 41 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.14%) Confluence
4 21 (2.54%) Apache
5 18 (2.17%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.85%) WordPress
8 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 4 (0.48%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 202 (24.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.81%) AutoCAD
5 10 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.09%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.72%) Trello
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.48%) Blender
8 4 (0.48%) Maya
9 3 (0.36%) 3ds Max
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.36%) CATIA
9 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.24%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 51 (6.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.97%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 423 (51.09%) Power Platform
2 201 (24.28%) Azure
3 89 (10.75%) AWS
4 76 (9.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (7.61%) GCP
7 58 (7.00%) Snowflake
8 46 (5.56%) Power Automate
9 43 (5.19%) PowerApps
10 42 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 24 (2.90%) Google Analytics
13 22 (2.66%) Adobe Analytics
13 22 (2.66%) GitHub
14 20 (2.42%) Figma
15 19 (2.29%) Amazon S3
16 18 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.93%) dbt
18 15 (1.81%) Serverless
19 14 (1.69%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.85%) Firewall
2 5 (0.60%) LAN
2 5 (0.60%) Modbus
2 5 (0.60%) MQTT
2 5 (0.60%) WAN
3 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.24%) Profibus
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (50.85%) Power BI
2 157 (18.96%) Tableau
3 81 (9.78%) SQL Server
4 60 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (4.83%) Looker
7 38 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 30 (3.62%) Metadata
10 29 (3.50%) BigQuery
11 24 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
12 23 (2.78%) MySQL
13 21 (2.54%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.29%) Power Query
15 18 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (2.05%) Big Data
16 17 (2.05%) NoSQL
17 15 (1.81%) Data Mining
18 14 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
19 13 (1.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 85 (10.27%) JIRA
2 50 (6.04%) eCATT
3 37 (4.47%) Git
4 22 (2.66%) NeoLoad
5 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 322 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 311 (37.56%) Analytical Skills
3 305 (36.84%) Finance
4 147 (17.75%) Marketing
5 94 (11.35%) Manufacturing
6 80 (9.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 77 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
8 75 (9.06%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (6.04%) Public Sector
10 46 (5.56%) Law
11 42 (5.07%) Banking
12 40 (4.83%) Legal
13 34 (4.11%) Front Office
14 32 (3.86%) Retail
15 30 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (2.29%) Advertising
18 16 (1.93%) French Language
19 14 (1.69%) Billing
20 11 (1.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 233 (28.14%) Analyst
2 137 (16.55%) Senior
3 128 (15.46%) Developer
4 99 (11.96%) Data Analyst
5 69 (8.33%) Lead
6 57 (6.88%) Data Engineer
7 46 (5.56%) Data Scientist
8 40 (4.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 38 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
10 31 (3.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 29 (3.50%) React Developer
12 28 (3.38%) Insight Analyst
13 27 (3.26%) Data Manager
13 27 (3.26%) Senior Developer
14 25 (3.02%) Consultant
15 24 (2.90%) Commercial Analyst
16 22 (2.66%) Electronic Trading Developer
17 21 (2.54%) Junior
17 21 (2.54%) Performance Analyst
17 21 (2.54%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.95%) React
2 29 (3.50%) WebSockets
3 28 (3.38%) CSS
3 28 (3.38%) PySpark
4 22 (2.66%) FIX Protocol
4 22 (2.66%) Highcharts JS
4 22 (2.66%) OpenFin
4 22 (2.66%) scikit-learn
5 21 (2.54%) Pandas
6 20 (2.42%) HTML
7 19 (2.29%) Kafka
7 19 (2.29%) NumPy
8 16 (1.93%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (1.81%) REST
10 13 (1.57%) JSON
10 13 (1.57%) Matplotlib
11 12 (1.45%) PyTorch
12 10 (1.21%) .NET
12 10 (1.21%) EDI
12 10 (1.21%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (5.07%) Algorithms
4 36 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.86%) Cloud Native
6 31 (3.74%) Product Ownership
7 30 (3.62%) Fixed Income
8 26 (3.14%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.90%) Blog
10 13 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.45%) FMCG
12 11 (1.33%) IoT
13 10 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.97%) SCADA
15 7 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.85%) Social Media
16 6 (0.72%) Reinsurance
17 5 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.97%) Linux
1 8 (0.97%) Windows
2 7 (0.85%) Android
2 7 (0.85%) Unix
3 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (54.59%) Data Visualisation
2 437 (52.78%) Business Intelligence
3 428 (51.69%) Analytics
4 282 (34.06%) Decision-Making
5 220 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (24.15%) Data Analysis
7 190 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (22.71%) AI
9 168 (20.29%) Actionable Insight
10 157 (18.96%) ETL
11 150 (18.12%) Agile
11 150 (18.12%) Data Modelling
12 145 (17.51%) Data Science
13 136 (16.43%) Data Analytics
14 127 (15.34%) Machine Learning
15 122 (14.73%) Data Management
16 108 (13.04%) Data Engineering
17 102 (12.32%) Computer Science
18 93 (11.23%) Project Management
19 88 (10.63%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 380 (45.89%) SQL
2 308 (37.20%) Python
3 78 (9.42%) JavaScript
4 56 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 55 (6.64%) R
6 31 (3.74%) VBA
7 23 (2.78%) C#
8 16 (1.93%) Java
8 16 (1.93%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.45%) Bash
9 12 (1.45%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.45%) Scala
10 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.60%) C++
11 5 (0.60%) Ruby
12 4 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
12 4 (0.48%) Go
12 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.36%) Bicep
13 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 268 (32.37%) Degree
2 55 (6.64%) Master's Degree
3 52 (6.28%) Security Cleared
4 49 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 39 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.42%) MBA
8 17 (2.05%) PhD
9 15 (1.81%) CISSP
10 14 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.69%) CISA
10 14 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (1.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 11 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.21%) APMP
13 10 (1.21%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.21%) CISM
14 9 (1.09%) CRISC
14 9 (1.09%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (15.46%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.56%) QA
3 31 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 17 (2.05%) GDPR
5 17 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.33%) NIST
7 10 (1.21%) Good Clinical Practice
7 10 (1.21%) IEC 61131
8 9 (1.09%) COBIT
8 9 (1.09%) GRC
8 9 (1.09%) ITGC
9 6 (0.72%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.42%) Docker
2 6 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (6.04%) HP ALM
2 17 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.57%) Terraform
4 8 (0.97%) Ansible
5 4 (0.48%) CASB
5 4 (0.48%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.36%) Argo
6 3 (0.36%) Grafana
6 3 (0.36%) Kibana
6 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.24%) logstash
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.24%) MOM
8 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 167 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.47%) SAP
3 55 (6.64%) Google
4 50 (6.04%) HP
5 44 (5.31%) Databricks
6 27 (3.26%) Oracle
7 26 (3.14%) Adobe
7 26 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.29%) Qualtrics
9 10 (1.21%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.97%) IBM
11 7 (0.85%) Cisco
11 7 (0.85%) ESRI
11 7 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.72%) Cognos
12 6 (0.72%) Informatica
12 6 (0.72%) VMware
13 5 (0.60%) Epicor