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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 121 119
Rank change year-on-year -39 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 912 1,397 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.25% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.59% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 471 742 1,000
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,419 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +9.14% -0.74%
75th Percentile £74,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,500 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.18% +14.00% -

All Process and 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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -35 803 £57,500 -11.54% 463
UK excluding London -1 504 £45,500 -20.18% 422
London -44 348 £70,000 -9.68% 127
Work from Home -34 281 £57,500 -17.86% 280
South East +28 181 £49,000 -24.62% 144
North of England -15 97 £43,750 -16.67% 72
Midlands +16 91 £44,500 -22.61% 78
North West +19 55 £42,500 -22.44% 47
West Midlands +13 51 £51,000 -9.33% 47
Scotland -19 48 £51,250 -24.96% 18
South West -10 45 £43,750 -16.67% 59
East Midlands +14 40 £42,500 -26.72% 29
East of England +5 31 £57,500 -13.53% 49
Yorkshire -35 30 £45,000 -5.26% 19
North East +11 12 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Wales -2 8 £41,250 -13.16% 10
Northern Ireland -2 5 - - 2

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 43 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 36 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 29 (3.18%) Confluence
4 22 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.43%) Apache
6 5 (0.55%) Apache Synapse
6 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.55%) WordPress
7 4 (0.44%) CMS
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.33%) SAS
9 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.22%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.22%) R Markdown
9 2 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) Drupal
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 187 (20.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.64%) AutoCAD
4 13 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.88%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.66%) Trello
7 4 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.22%) Civil 3D
9 2 (0.22%) Maya
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.22%) Navisworks
9 2 (0.22%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.22%) Revit
9 2 (0.22%) Sketch
9 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 54 (5.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.64%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.22%) SAP PM
4 2 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 439 (48.14%) Power Platform
2 213 (23.36%) Azure
3 104 (11.40%) AWS
4 83 (9.10%) GCP
5 71 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (7.35%) Snowflake
7 55 (6.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 39 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 32 (3.51%) PowerApps
11 31 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 30 (3.29%) GitHub
13 28 (3.07%) Google Analytics
14 23 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (2.30%) Fivetran
16 20 (2.19%) Figma
17 19 (2.08%) dbt
17 19 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.77%) Firewall
2 5 (0.55%) LAN
2 5 (0.55%) WAN
3 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.33%) Modbus
4 3 (0.33%) MQTT
5 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) Profibus
5 2 (0.22%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.22%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) ADSL
6 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (47.92%) Power BI
2 199 (21.82%) Tableau
3 90 (9.87%) SQL Server
4 61 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (6.58%) BigQuery
6 52 (5.70%) Looker
7 49 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (4.82%) Metadata
9 41 (4.50%) Data Lake
9 41 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 31 (3.40%) Data Mining
11 30 (3.29%) NoSQL
12 25 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 23 (2.52%) Delta Lake
13 23 (2.52%) Spark SQL
14 22 (2.41%) BusinessObjects
15 21 (2.30%) Big Data
16 20 (2.19%) MySQL
17 19 (2.08%) DynamoDB
18 18 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 94 (10.31%) JIRA
2 53 (5.81%) eCATT
3 22 (2.41%) MLflow
3 22 (2.41%) NeoLoad
4 21 (2.30%) Git
5 10 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.44%) JUnit
8 3 (0.33%) webpack
9 2 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) Vite
10 1 (0.11%) Ant
10 1 (0.11%) GitLab
10 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.11%) Maven
10 1 (0.11%) RStudio
10 1 (0.11%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 384 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 370 (40.57%) Finance
3 340 (37.28%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (18.09%) Marketing
5 136 (14.91%) Law
6 115 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (9.76%) Manufacturing
7 89 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
8 74 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
9 64 (7.02%) Banking
10 62 (6.80%) Retail
11 49 (5.37%) Public Sector
12 35 (3.84%) Legal
13 34 (3.73%) Front Office
14 31 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (3.07%) Advertising
16 22 (2.41%) French Language
17 19 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.86%) Games
19 15 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 288 (31.58%) Analyst
2 194 (21.27%) Senior
3 127 (13.93%) Data Analyst
4 125 (13.71%) Developer
5 95 (10.42%) Lead
6 63 (6.91%) Senior Analyst
7 57 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 44 (4.82%) Data Scientist
9 43 (4.71%) Software Engineer
10 35 (3.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 30 (3.29%) Insight Analyst
12 29 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 28 (3.07%) Operations Engineer
14 27 (2.96%) Senior Developer
15 26 (2.85%) Performance Analyst
16 24 (2.63%) Commercial Analyst
16 24 (2.63%) Senior Manager
17 22 (2.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
18 21 (2.30%) Architect
18 21 (2.30%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.37%) PySpark
2 46 (5.04%) React
3 33 (3.62%) Pandas
4 32 (3.51%) scikit-learn
5 31 (3.40%) NumPy
6 28 (3.07%) PyTorch
7 26 (2.85%) CSS
8 24 (2.63%) Kafka
8 24 (2.63%) TensorFlow
9 22 (2.41%) WebSockets
10 21 (2.30%) REST
11 20 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
11 20 (2.19%) Highcharts JS
12 19 (2.08%) Keras
12 19 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
12 19 (2.08%) Metaflow
12 19 (2.08%) OpenFin
12 19 (2.08%) YAML
13 17 (1.86%) HTML5 Canvas
14 16 (1.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 63 (6.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 39 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.62%) Cloud Native
6 28 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.85%) Fixed Income
8 24 (2.63%) Blog
9 23 (2.52%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (2.19%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.32%) FMCG
12 12 (1.32%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.21%) Low-Code
14 10 (1.10%) Social Media
15 9 (0.99%) IoT
16 7 (0.77%) Derivative
16 7 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
17 6 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.29%) Unix
2 13 (1.43%) Linux
3 10 (1.10%) Windows
4 6 (0.66%) Android
5 5 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (49.78%) Business Intelligence
2 453 (49.67%) Data Visualisation
3 424 (46.49%) Analytics
4 299 (32.79%) Decision-Making
5 257 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (24.23%) Agile
7 220 (24.12%) AI
8 204 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 203 (22.26%) Data Analysis
10 191 (20.94%) Data Science
11 179 (19.63%) Actionable Insight
12 170 (18.64%) Machine Learning
13 148 (16.23%) Data Modelling
14 145 (15.90%) ETL
15 131 (14.36%) Data Analytics
16 123 (13.49%) Data Engineering
17 122 (13.38%) DevOps
18 113 (12.39%) CI/CD
19 110 (12.06%) Data Management
20 95 (10.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 454 (49.78%) SQL
2 353 (38.71%) Python
3 76 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 58 (6.36%) R
5 50 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 42 (4.61%) Java
7 26 (2.85%) C#
8 22 (2.41%) VBA
9 20 (2.19%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.54%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.32%) Scala
11 12 (1.32%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.88%) Bash
13 6 (0.66%) C++
14 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.44%) Ruby
15 3 (0.33%) Bicep
15 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.22%) ABAP
16 2 (0.22%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 275 (30.15%) Degree
2 58 (6.36%) Master's Degree
3 49 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 43 (4.71%) SC Cleared
6 34 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.52%) CISSP
8 22 (2.41%) CISA
9 21 (2.30%) PhD
10 20 (2.19%) CISM
11 17 (1.86%) ACCA
11 17 (1.86%) CIMA
12 16 (1.75%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
14 12 (1.32%) CRISC
14 12 (1.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (1.21%) MBA
16 10 (1.10%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
18 6 (0.66%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 54 (5.92%) QA
3 32 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.51%) GDPR
4 27 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (1.64%) NIST
6 12 (1.32%) COBIT
6 12 (1.32%) GRC
6 12 (1.32%) ITGC
7 10 (1.10%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.55%) PMO
9 3 (0.33%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.11%) EMIR
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (4.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.22%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.22%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.48%) HP ALM
2 47 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 43 (4.71%) Terraform
4 20 (2.19%) Kubeflow
5 10 (1.10%) Ansible
6 7 (0.77%) Kibana
7 6 (0.66%) Grafana
8 5 (0.55%) RSA Archer
9 4 (0.44%) CASB
9 4 (0.44%) logstash
9 4 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.33%) Argo
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.22%) Oozie
12 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 180 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 97 (10.64%) SAP
3 93 (10.20%) Databricks
4 89 (9.76%) Google
5 50 (5.48%) HP
6 39 (4.28%) Oracle
7 27 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.63%) Adobe
9 22 (2.41%) Alteryx
10 19 (2.08%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.86%) Qualtrics
12 10 (1.10%) Adaptive Insights
12 10 (1.10%) Workday
13 9 (0.99%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.99%) Splunk
14 8 (0.88%) Cisco
15 7 (0.77%) ESRI
15 7 (0.77%) Progress
16 6 (0.66%) Informatica
17 5 (0.55%) Epicor