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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 108 89
Rank change year-on-year -99 -19 +42
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 827 1,142 2,741
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 2.79% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 3.00% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 558 640 1,374
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -6.39%
75th Percentile £76,500 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,445 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.44% +5.00% +4.71%

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 61,258 38,052 77,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.49% 93.03% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37,754 22,305 57,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 April 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 April 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 -98 745 £60,000 - 455
UK excluding London -91 482 £45,445 -13.44% 379
London -72 291 £70,000 -11.11% 160
Work from Home -81 275 £60,000 +4.35% 170
North of England -68 153 £40,000 -17.53% 87
South East -23 119 £57,500 -2.54% 118
North West -31 91 £40,000 -17.53% 46
Midlands -57 90 £42,500 -22.73% 80
West Midlands -28 61 £44,000 -20.00% 37
Yorkshire -65 49 £40,000 -15.79% 26
South West -91 41 £47,937 +12.79% 42
East of England -20 38 £57,500 -17.86% 25
Scotland -58 29 £57,500 +27.78% 15
East Midlands -62 29 £40,000 -15.79% 43
North East -19 13 £37,500 -42.31% 17
Wales -18 6 £38,500 -23.00% 15
Northern Ireland -38 6 - - 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 54 (6.53%) Jupyter
2 42 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (4.96%) SharePoint
4 31 (3.75%) Apache Spark
5 22 (2.66%) Apache
5 22 (2.66%) Confluence
6 8 (0.97%) WordPress
7 6 (0.73%) SAS
8 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.36%) CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 174 (21.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.53%) Chatbot
3 32 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.09%) CATIA
6 6 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.73%) Trello
7 5 (0.60%) Blender
7 5 (0.60%) Maya
8 4 (0.48%) 3ds Max
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.36%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) Houdini
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.81%) SAP PM
2 9 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 400 (48.37%) Power Platform
2 198 (23.94%) Azure
3 146 (17.65%) AWS
4 82 (9.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 60 (7.26%) Cloud Computing
5 60 (7.26%) GCP
6 47 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (5.44%) Snowflake
8 43 (5.20%) PowerApps
9 42 (5.08%) Power Automate
10 40 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 39 (4.72%) dbt
12 27 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (3.14%) GitHub
14 24 (2.90%) Google Analytics
15 21 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (2.30%) Amazon S3
17 15 (1.81%) SaaS
17 15 (1.81%) Serverless
18 13 (1.57%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.85%) Broadband
1 7 (0.85%) Modbus
2 5 (0.60%) MQTT
3 2 (0.24%) Internet
3 2 (0.24%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.24%) Wireless
4 1 (0.12%) ADSL
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (48.25%) Power BI
2 155 (18.74%) Tableau
3 71 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (7.86%) SQL Server
5 41 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 30 (3.63%) BigQuery
8 26 (3.14%) Looker
9 25 (3.02%) Metadata
10 23 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
11 21 (2.54%) Big Data
11 21 (2.54%) MySQL
11 21 (2.54%) Power Query
12 20 (2.42%) Data Lake
12 20 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (2.06%) NoSQL
13 17 (2.06%) Relational Database
14 15 (1.81%) Data Mining
15 14 (1.69%) GIS
Development Applications
1 54 (6.53%) Visual Studio Code
2 47 (5.68%) Git
3 35 (4.23%) JIRA
4 9 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (1.09%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.73%) eCATT
5 6 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 3 (0.36%) MLflow
7 3 (0.36%) NeoLoad
7 3 (0.36%) Selenium
7 3 (0.36%) Vite
8 2 (0.24%) ESLint
8 2 (0.24%) Storybook
9 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.12%) RStudio
9 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 316 (38.21%) Analytical Skills
2 306 (37.00%) Social Skills
3 269 (32.53%) Finance
4 99 (11.97%) Manufacturing
5 85 (10.28%) Marketing
6 84 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 83 (10.04%) Retail
8 62 (7.50%) Law
9 59 (7.13%) Public Sector
10 38 (4.59%) Banking
11 34 (4.11%) Legal
12 30 (3.63%) Front Office
13 28 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (2.90%) Telecoms
16 21 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (2.42%) Military
18 19 (2.30%) Back Office
19 16 (1.93%) Billing
Job Titles
1 169 (20.44%) Analyst
2 126 (15.24%) Developer
3 120 (14.51%) Senior
4 89 (10.76%) Data Analyst
5 67 (8.10%) Data Engineer
6 61 (7.38%) Data Scientist
7 56 (6.77%) Trainee
8 51 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 51 (6.17%) Programmer
8 51 (6.17%) Trainee Programmer
9 46 (5.56%) Lead
10 44 (5.32%) Consultant
11 38 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 32 (3.87%) React Developer
13 31 (3.75%) Data Manager
14 28 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 25 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (2.90%) Junior
17 23 (2.78%) Architect
18 22 (2.66%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (8.10%) Pandas
1 67 (8.10%) scikit-learn
2 64 (7.74%) Matplotlib
3 58 (7.01%) NumPy
4 56 (6.77%) Streamlit
5 54 (6.53%) Hugging Face
6 51 (6.17%) React
7 32 (3.87%) Kafka
8 29 (3.51%) WebSockets
9 27 (3.26%) PySpark
10 23 (2.78%) CSS
11 22 (2.66%) HTML
12 17 (2.06%) Highcharts JS
13 16 (1.93%) FIX Protocol
13 16 (1.93%) OpenFin
14 15 (1.81%) PyTorch
15 14 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
16 12 (1.45%) JSON
17 10 (1.21%) .NET
17 10 (1.21%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.52%) Algorithms
2 47 (5.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 44 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 43 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.39%) Fixed Income
6 27 (3.26%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.14%) Blog
7 26 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.54%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.93%) IoT
9 16 (1.93%) Social Media
10 12 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.21%) SCADA
13 9 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (0.73%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.33%) Linux
2 9 (1.09%) Unix
3 4 (0.48%) Android
3 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (54.66%) Data Visualisation
2 411 (49.70%) Analytics
3 401 (48.49%) Business Intelligence
4 271 (32.77%) Decision-Making
5 235 (28.42%) AI
5 235 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
6 212 (25.63%) Data Analysis
7 180 (21.77%) Machine Learning
8 167 (20.19%) Data Modelling
9 158 (19.11%) Data Science
10 143 (17.29%) ETL
11 140 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 136 (16.44%) Agile
13 133 (16.08%) Actionable Insight
14 121 (14.63%) Data Management
15 118 (14.27%) Data Governance
16 116 (14.03%) Data Analytics
17 107 (12.94%) Data Engineering
18 92 (11.12%) Dashboard Development
19 88 (10.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 374 (45.22%) SQL
2 357 (43.17%) Python
3 80 (9.67%) JavaScript
4 64 (7.74%) R
5 63 (7.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (4.59%) VBA
7 33 (3.99%) Java
8 28 (3.39%) C#
8 28 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.06%) Scala
10 12 (1.45%) Bash
10 12 (1.45%) C++
11 9 (1.09%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.73%) Julia
14 5 (0.60%) C
14 5 (0.60%) Ruby
14 5 (0.60%) VB
14 5 (0.60%) VBScript
15 4 (0.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 211 (25.51%) Degree
2 64 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 60 (7.26%) AWS Certification
4 54 (6.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 51 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 36 (4.35%) Master's Degree
7 25 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.66%) DBS Check
10 18 (2.18%) MBA
11 17 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.57%) APMP
12 13 (1.57%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (1.21%) DV Cleared
15 8 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
16 7 (0.85%) PhD
16 7 (0.85%) Postgraduate
17 6 (0.73%) ACCA
17 6 (0.73%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.51%) GDPR
3 27 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.26%) QA
4 24 (2.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (1.21%) Good Clinical Practice
6 9 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 5 (0.60%) PMO
8 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.24%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (2.42%) Docker
2 6 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.36%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (2.06%) Terraform
2 15 (1.81%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.97%) Grafana
3 8 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.73%) HP ALM
5 5 (0.60%) SCCM
6 3 (0.36%) Ansible
6 3 (0.36%) Argo
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
7 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.24%) logstash
7 2 (0.24%) MOM
Vendors
1 191 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.50%) SAP
3 52 (6.29%) Google
4 46 (5.56%) Databricks
5 24 (2.90%) Oracle
6 21 (2.54%) Adobe
7 20 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.18%) IBM
9 11 (1.33%) Qualtrics
10 10 (1.21%) Alteryx
11 8 (0.97%) Informatica
12 6 (0.73%) Cognos
12 6 (0.73%) HP
12 6 (0.73%) Talend
12 6 (0.73%) VMware
13 5 (0.60%) BT
13 5 (0.60%) Epicor
13 5 (0.60%) Infor
13 5 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.60%) Snow