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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 149 101
Rank change year-on-year -139 -48 +44
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 693 1,098 2,031
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 2.20% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 2.47% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 433 565 856
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £37,625
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £94,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £56,754
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.90% +8.73%

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 79,979 44,380 67,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.78% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55,459 25,207 42,110
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.10% -8.99%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -125 638 £51,356 -6.63% 1,230
UK excluding London -129 391 £45,000 -10.00% 667
London -108 260 £70,000 +7.69% 737
Work from Home -92 215 £60,000 +4.35% 441
North of England -28 142 £42,500 -11.92% 153
North West -3 102 £40,000 -17.10% 80
Midlands -48 83 £47,500 +5.56% 94
South East -101 75 £46,500 -7.00% 151
South West -95 44 £42,500 -12.82% 105
West Midlands -41 42 £40,000 -25.50% 51
East Midlands -39 41 £70,000 +64.71% 43
Yorkshire -42 30 £52,500 - 50
Wales -57 21 £66,000 +50.00% 20
East of England -45 15 £62,500 +3.49% 63
North East -53 10 £49,630 +16.78% 25
Scotland -78 10 £100,000 +42.86% 64
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 26

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 16 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.30%) SAS
4 6 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.58%) Apache
6 4 (0.58%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.29%) Appian
7 2 (0.29%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.29%) WinCC
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Confluence
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.15%) EPLAN
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.01%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.72%) Blender
6 4 (0.58%) CATIA
6 4 (0.58%) Maya
7 3 (0.43%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.43%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.29%) InDesign
8 2 (0.29%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.29%) Revit
8 2 (0.29%) Windchill
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (2.02%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.14%) Maximo
3 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 354 (51.08%) Power Platform
2 167 (24.10%) Azure
3 119 (17.17%) AWS
4 67 (9.67%) GCP
5 46 (6.64%) dbt
6 34 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (4.91%) Snowflake
7 31 (4.47%) SaaS
8 28 (4.04%) Google Analytics
9 23 (3.32%) Power Automate
10 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (2.89%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (2.60%) Azure Machine Learning
14 13 (1.88%) GitHub
15 11 (1.59%) Dataform
15 11 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.44%) Profibus
2 7 (1.01%) Broadband
3 6 (0.87%) 5G
3 6 (0.87%) Internet
4 4 (0.58%) Modbus
4 4 (0.58%) MQTT
5 2 (0.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.29%) Network Security
5 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 1 (0.14%) AMQP
6 1 (0.14%) Intranet
6 1 (0.14%) PPP
6 1 (0.14%) VoIP
6 1 (0.14%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (51.08%) Power BI
2 177 (25.54%) Tableau
3 72 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (8.80%) Looker
5 36 (5.19%) Power Query
5 36 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.61%) Data Mining
7 25 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (3.46%) Metadata
9 21 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
9 21 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (2.89%) Big Data
10 20 (2.89%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.45%) GIS
12 13 (1.88%) QlikView
13 12 (1.73%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.73%) Star Schema
14 11 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (1.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (4.18%) Git
2 8 (1.15%) JIRA
3 6 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.58%) Vite
6 3 (0.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.43%) MLflow
6 3 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.29%) ERwin
7 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.14%) CocoaPods
8 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.14%) ESLint
8 1 (0.14%) fastlane
8 1 (0.14%) RStudio
8 1 (0.14%) Storybook
8 1 (0.14%) Xcode
8 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 320 (46.18%) Analytical Skills
2 293 (42.28%) Social Skills
3 229 (33.04%) Finance
4 83 (11.98%) Marketing
5 71 (10.25%) Retail
6 69 (9.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (9.96%) Law
7 45 (6.49%) Public Sector
8 41 (5.92%) Back Office
9 39 (5.63%) Military
10 35 (5.05%) Telecoms
11 32 (4.62%) Manufacturing
11 32 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (4.33%) Banking
13 22 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (2.16%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.88%) Legal
17 11 (1.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 189 (27.27%) Analyst
2 119 (17.17%) Senior
3 106 (15.30%) Data Analyst
4 67 (9.67%) Lead
5 63 (9.09%) Developer
6 53 (7.65%) Data Engineer
7 41 (5.92%) Data Scientist
8 35 (5.05%) Consultant
9 34 (4.91%) Data Manager
10 33 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (4.62%) Analytics Manager
11 32 (4.62%) Software Engineer
12 25 (3.61%) Senior Data Analyst
13 21 (3.03%) Performance Analyst
14 20 (2.89%) Architect
14 20 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 19 (2.74%) Data Consultant
16 18 (2.60%) Power BI Analyst
17 16 (2.31%) Head of Business Intelligence
18 15 (2.16%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.61%) .NET
2 24 (3.46%) React
3 23 (3.32%) PySpark
4 21 (3.03%) Terraform
5 20 (2.89%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.74%) CSS
6 19 (2.74%) Pandas
7 17 (2.45%) PyTorch
8 15 (2.16%) Streamlit
9 14 (2.02%) HTML
9 14 (2.02%) Kafka
9 14 (2.02%) Matplotlib
10 12 (1.73%) REST
11 11 (1.59%) jQuery
11 11 (1.59%) NumPy
11 11 (1.59%) TensorFlow
12 10 (1.44%) CSS3
12 10 (1.44%) HTML5
12 10 (1.44%) LESS
12 10 (1.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 41 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 39 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 30 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.89%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.16%) Blog
8 15 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.02%) SCADA
10 11 (1.59%) NHS
10 11 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.30%) Social Media
12 8 (1.15%) Clustering
12 8 (1.15%) Educational Technology
12 8 (1.15%) IoT
12 8 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.01%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.30%) Linux
2 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.43%) Unix
2 3 (0.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (56.71%) Data Visualisation
2 378 (54.55%) Analytics
3 377 (54.40%) Business Intelligence
4 256 (36.94%) Decision-Making
5 212 (30.59%) AI
6 208 (30.01%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (25.40%) Data Modelling
8 174 (25.11%) Data Analysis
9 170 (24.53%) Actionable Insight
10 163 (23.52%) Machine Learning
11 159 (22.94%) Data Science
12 138 (19.91%) Agile
13 116 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (16.74%) Data Governance
14 112 (16.16%) Data Engineering
15 99 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
16 96 (13.85%) Data Analytics
17 93 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 88 (12.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 85 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 359 (51.80%) SQL
2 296 (42.71%) Python
3 46 (6.64%) JavaScript
3 46 (6.64%) R
4 42 (6.06%) C#
4 42 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 31 (4.47%) TypeScript
6 16 (2.31%) C++
7 15 (2.16%) Java
7 15 (2.16%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.88%) Scala
9 10 (1.44%) Ladder Logic
10 6 (0.87%) C
10 6 (0.87%) Julia
11 5 (0.72%) Go
11 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.72%) Rust
11 5 (0.72%) VBA
12 4 (0.58%) Bash
12 4 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 145 (20.92%) Degree
2 73 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 44 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.31%) DBS Check
4 16 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.73%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.30%) HNC
8 9 (1.30%) HND
8 9 (1.30%) Postgraduate
9 8 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
10 7 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.43%) ACCA
12 3 (0.43%) CIMA
12 3 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (25.69%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.77%) GDPR
3 33 (4.76%) QA
4 27 (3.90%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.87%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.72%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) PMO
9 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (0.58%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) PERC
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (2.89%) Docker
2 5 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.58%) Ansible
3 3 (0.43%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.14%) Consul
5 1 (0.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) MOM
5 1 (0.14%) SCCM
5 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 123 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.24%) Databricks
3 59 (8.51%) Google
4 26 (3.75%) SAP
5 13 (1.88%) Oracle
6 12 (1.73%) Siemens
7 8 (1.15%) SYSPRO
8 7 (1.01%) Informatica
8 7 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.87%) IBM
10 5 (0.72%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (0.72%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.58%) Adobe
11 4 (0.58%) Cognos
11 4 (0.58%) Foundry
11 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.58%) YouTube
12 3 (0.43%) Cognizant