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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 128 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 -12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 948 1,390 1,392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 2.19% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.54% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 475 740 994
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £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 £73,875 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,750 £87,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,445 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.27% +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 45,786 54,654 47,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.83% 86.14% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,991 28,426 36,268
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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -0.94%

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 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 3 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 -30 820 £57,500 -11.54% 449
UK excluding London +7 531 £45,445 -20.27% 410
London -46 356 £70,000 -9.68% 188
Work from Home -26 279 £57,500 -17.86% 238
South East +31 184 £49,000 -24.62% 182
North of England -10 99 £45,000 -14.29% 61
Midlands +36 93 £45,000 -18.18% 67
Scotland +9 66 £51,250 -31.67% 16
North West +22 57 £42,500 -22.44% 41
West Midlands +23 51 £52,000 -4.31% 40
South West -12 48 £40,000 -23.81% 45
East Midlands +21 42 £42,500 -26.72% 26
East of England +20 30 £57,500 -15.44% 34
Yorkshire -27 30 £45,000 -5.26% 12
North East +17 12 £55,000 +10.00% 9
Wales +2 8 £41,250 -13.16% 9
Northern Ireland 0 5 - - 4

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 46 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 37 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 30 (3.16%) Confluence
4 21 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.48%) Apache
6 5 (0.53%) Apache Synapse
6 5 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.53%) WordPress
7 4 (0.42%) Camunda
7 4 (0.42%) CMS
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.32%) SAS
9 2 (0.21%) R Markdown
9 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 187 (19.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.58%) AutoCAD
4 13 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.84%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.63%) Trello
8 4 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.21%) Blender
10 2 (0.21%) Civil 3D
10 2 (0.21%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.21%) Maya
10 2 (0.21%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.21%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 54 (5.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.58%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.21%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.21%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 441 (46.52%) Power Platform
2 217 (22.89%) Azure
3 116 (12.24%) AWS
4 84 (8.86%) GCP
5 71 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 68 (7.17%) Snowflake
7 56 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (4.22%) Power Automate
9 33 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 32 (3.38%) PowerApps
11 30 (3.16%) GitHub
12 27 (2.85%) Google Analytics
13 24 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (2.22%) Fivetran
14 21 (2.22%) Serverless
15 20 (2.11%) Figma
16 19 (2.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.74%) Firewall
2 5 (0.53%) LAN
2 5 (0.53%) WAN
3 4 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.32%) Modbus
5 2 (0.21%) Internet
5 2 (0.21%) MQTT
5 2 (0.21%) Profibus
5 2 (0.21%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.21%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) ADSL
6 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (46.31%) Power BI
2 200 (21.10%) Tableau
3 92 (9.70%) SQL Server
4 64 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
5 61 (6.43%) BigQuery
6 50 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 50 (5.27%) Looker
7 43 (4.54%) Metadata
8 42 (4.43%) Data Lake
9 41 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 34 (3.59%) NoSQL
11 30 (3.16%) Data Mining
12 25 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (2.53%) Big Data
13 24 (2.53%) Spark SQL
14 23 (2.43%) Delta Lake
15 22 (2.32%) BusinessObjects
16 20 (2.11%) MySQL
17 19 (2.00%) DynamoDB
17 19 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 96 (10.13%) JIRA
2 53 (5.59%) eCATT
3 22 (2.32%) MLflow
3 22 (2.32%) NeoLoad
4 21 (2.22%) Git
5 11 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.74%) JUnit
7 6 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.42%) webpack
9 3 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.32%) Vite
10 2 (0.21%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.11%) GitLab
11 1 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.11%) Protractor
11 1 (0.11%) RStudio
11 1 (0.11%) Selenium
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 404 (42.62%) Finance
2 390 (41.14%) Social Skills
3 342 (36.08%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (18.67%) Marketing
5 166 (17.51%) Law
6 144 (15.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (9.39%) Manufacturing
7 89 (9.39%) Presentation Skills
8 84 (8.86%) Banking
9 74 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
10 62 (6.54%) Retail
11 48 (5.06%) Public Sector
12 38 (4.01%) Front Office
13 37 (3.90%) Legal
14 31 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (2.95%) Advertising
16 22 (2.32%) French Language
17 19 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.79%) Games
19 15 (1.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 290 (30.59%) Analyst
2 202 (21.31%) Senior
3 130 (13.71%) Developer
4 128 (13.50%) Data Analyst
5 101 (10.65%) Lead
6 72 (7.59%) Software Engineer
7 63 (6.65%) Senior Analyst
8 58 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 44 (4.64%) Data Scientist
10 35 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 34 (3.59%) Java Engineer
11 34 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 30 (3.16%) Insight Analyst
13 29 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 29 (3.06%) Senior Developer
14 26 (2.74%) Operations Engineer
14 26 (2.74%) Performance Analyst
15 24 (2.53%) Commercial Analyst
15 24 (2.53%) Senior Manager
16 21 (2.22%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.01%) React
2 51 (5.38%) PySpark
3 34 (3.59%) Pandas
4 33 (3.48%) scikit-learn
5 32 (3.38%) NumPy
6 29 (3.06%) CSS
7 28 (2.95%) Kafka
7 28 (2.95%) PyTorch
8 27 (2.85%) Spring
9 25 (2.64%) REST
10 24 (2.53%) TensorFlow
11 22 (2.32%) WebSockets
12 21 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
12 21 (2.22%) Highcharts JS
13 19 (2.00%) Keras
13 19 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
13 19 (2.00%) Metaflow
13 19 (2.00%) OpenFin
13 19 (2.00%) YAML
14 18 (1.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.02%) Algorithms
2 62 (6.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 37 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 36 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.85%) Fixed Income
7 24 (2.53%) Blog
8 23 (2.43%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
10 20 (2.11%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.37%) FMCG
12 12 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.16%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.16%) Reinsurance
14 10 (1.05%) Social Media
15 9 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (0.95%) IoT
16 8 (0.84%) Derivative
16 8 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.16%) Unix
2 13 (1.37%) Linux
3 10 (1.05%) Windows
4 6 (0.63%) Android
5 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (48.31%) Business Intelligence
2 456 (48.10%) Data Visualisation
3 431 (45.46%) Analytics
4 302 (31.86%) Decision-Making
5 267 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
6 252 (26.58%) Agile
7 236 (24.89%) AI
8 227 (23.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 206 (21.73%) Data Analysis
10 194 (20.46%) Data Science
11 184 (19.41%) Machine Learning
12 179 (18.88%) Actionable Insight
13 149 (15.72%) Data Modelling
14 148 (15.61%) ETL
15 136 (14.35%) Data Analytics
16 134 (14.14%) CI/CD
17 127 (13.40%) Data Engineering
18 122 (12.87%) DevOps
19 113 (11.92%) Data Management
19 113 (11.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 462 (48.73%) SQL
2 369 (38.92%) Python
3 83 (8.76%) JavaScript
4 63 (6.65%) Java
5 56 (5.91%) R
6 51 (5.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 31 (3.27%) C#
8 27 (2.85%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.11%) VBA
10 15 (1.58%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.48%) Scala
12 13 (1.37%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.84%) Bash
14 7 (0.74%) C++
15 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.42%) Ruby
17 3 (0.32%) Bicep
17 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.21%) Go
18 2 (0.21%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 279 (29.43%) Degree
2 57 (6.01%) Master's Degree
3 52 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (4.96%) Security Cleared
5 42 (4.43%) SC Cleared
6 36 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.43%) CISSP
8 22 (2.32%) CISA
9 21 (2.22%) PhD
10 20 (2.11%) CISM
11 17 (1.79%) ACCA
11 17 (1.79%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.79%) CIMA
12 15 (1.58%) Numerate Degree
13 12 (1.27%) CRISC
13 12 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (1.05%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.05%) MBA
15 8 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (11.60%) Data Quality
2 56 (5.91%) QA
3 34 (3.59%) GDPR
4 33 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.58%) NIST
7 12 (1.27%) COBIT
7 12 (1.27%) GRC
7 12 (1.27%) ITGC
8 10 (1.05%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.53%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.11%) EMIR
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (4.96%) Docker
2 5 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.21%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.27%) HP ALM
3 48 (5.06%) Terraform
4 20 (2.11%) Kubeflow
5 12 (1.27%) Ansible
6 8 (0.84%) Grafana
7 7 (0.74%) Kibana
8 5 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.53%) RSA Archer
9 4 (0.42%) CASB
9 4 (0.42%) logstash
10 3 (0.32%) Argo
11 2 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.21%) Oozie
Vendors
1 184 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 97 (10.23%) SAP
3 96 (10.13%) Databricks
4 88 (9.28%) Google
5 50 (5.27%) HP
6 45 (4.75%) Oracle
7 29 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.53%) Adobe
9 22 (2.32%) Alteryx
10 19 (2.00%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.79%) Qualtrics
12 13 (1.37%) Splunk
13 11 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 10 (1.05%) Adaptive Insights
14 10 (1.05%) Workday
15 8 (0.84%) Cisco
15 8 (0.84%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.74%) ESRI
16 7 (0.74%) Progress
17 6 (0.63%) Informatica