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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 143 103
Rank change year-on-year -154 -40 +39
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 694 1,071 1,991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 2.14% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 2.42% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 432 554 825
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £42,500 £47,500
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 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.28% +9.62%

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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
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 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -118 640 £51,356 -6.63% 1,249
UK excluding London -129 395 £45,000 -10.00% 669
London -100 259 £70,000 +7.69% 756
Work from Home -82 215 £60,000 +4.35% 489
North of England -11 143 £42,500 -11.46% 148
North West +20 104 £40,000 -17.10% 89
Midlands -63 83 £47,500 +5.56% 93
South East -98 76 £46,500 -7.00% 137
South West -92 46 £42,500 -10.53% 101
West Midlands -37 42 £42,500 -20.84% 52
East Midlands -31 41 £70,000 +64.71% 41
Yorkshire -38 29 £57,788 +10.07% 40
Wales -51 21 £66,000 +50.00% 17
East of England -41 14 £62,500 +3.49% 75
Scotland -83 11 £100,000 +38.06% 68
North East -60 10 £49,630 +16.78% 20
Northern Ireland -79 1 - - 37

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 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.15%) SAS
4 6 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.58%) Apache
5 4 (0.58%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.29%) Appian
6 2 (0.29%) IIS
6 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.29%) WinCC
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (14.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.15%) EPLAN
3 8 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) 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
1 356 (51.30%) Power Platform
2 167 (24.06%) Azure
3 118 (17.00%) AWS
4 67 (9.65%) GCP
5 46 (6.63%) dbt
6 34 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 34 (4.90%) Snowflake
7 33 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (4.47%) SaaS
9 28 (4.03%) Google Analytics
10 22 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (3.17%) Power Automate
11 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (2.59%) Azure Machine Learning
12 18 (2.59%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.87%) GitHub
14 11 (1.59%) Dataform
15 10 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.44%) Profibus
2 7 (1.01%) Broadband
3 6 (0.86%) 5G
3 6 (0.86%) 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
1 356 (51.30%) Power BI
2 177 (25.50%) Tableau
3 71 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (8.65%) Looker
5 36 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 35 (5.04%) Power Query
7 28 (4.03%) Data Lake
8 26 (3.75%) Data Mining
9 25 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (3.46%) Metadata
11 21 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
11 21 (3.03%) Big Data
11 21 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 20 (2.88%) BigQuery
13 17 (2.45%) GIS
14 14 (2.02%) QlikView
15 12 (1.73%) Relational Database
15 12 (1.73%) Star Schema
16 11 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
17 10 (1.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (4.18%) Git
2 7 (1.01%) JIRA
3 6 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.43%) GitLab
5 3 (0.43%) MLflow
5 3 (0.43%) Selenium
5 3 (0.43%) Vite
6 2 (0.29%) ERwin
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.14%) ESLint
7 1 (0.14%) fastlane
7 1 (0.14%) RStudio
7 1 (0.14%) Storybook
7 1 (0.14%) Xcode
7 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 320 (46.11%) Analytical Skills
2 295 (42.51%) Social Skills
3 226 (32.56%) Finance
4 82 (11.82%) Marketing
5 70 (10.09%) Retail
6 69 (9.94%) Law
7 67 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (6.48%) Public Sector
9 41 (5.91%) Back Office
10 39 (5.62%) Military
11 35 (5.04%) Telecoms
12 34 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (4.47%) Manufacturing
14 29 (4.18%) Banking
15 22 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (2.16%) Financial Institution
18 14 (2.02%) Local Government
19 13 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (1.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 188 (27.09%) Analyst
2 118 (17.00%) Senior
3 105 (15.13%) Data Analyst
4 68 (9.80%) Lead
5 63 (9.08%) Developer
6 53 (7.64%) Data Engineer
7 41 (5.91%) Data Scientist
8 38 (5.48%) Consultant
9 34 (4.90%) Data Manager
10 32 (4.61%) Analytics Manager
10 32 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
10 32 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 25 (3.60%) Senior Data Analyst
12 21 (3.03%) Performance Analyst
13 20 (2.88%) Architect
14 19 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 19 (2.74%) Data Consultant
15 17 (2.45%) Power BI Analyst
16 16 (2.31%) Head of Business Intelligence
17 15 (2.16%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.60%) .NET
2 23 (3.31%) PySpark
2 23 (3.31%) React
3 21 (3.03%) Terraform
4 19 (2.74%) CSS
4 19 (2.74%) scikit-learn
5 18 (2.59%) Pandas
5 18 (2.59%) PyTorch
6 14 (2.02%) HTML
6 14 (2.02%) Kafka
6 14 (2.02%) Streamlit
7 13 (1.87%) Matplotlib
8 12 (1.73%) TensorFlow
9 11 (1.59%) jQuery
9 11 (1.59%) REST
10 10 (1.44%) Ajax
10 10 (1.44%) CSS3
10 10 (1.44%) HTML5
10 10 (1.44%) NumPy
10 10 (1.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.91%) Algorithms
1 41 (5.91%) Onboarding
2 39 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 30 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 20 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.59%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.16%) Blog
8 14 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.02%) SCADA
9 12 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.59%) NHS
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
1 396 (57.06%) Data Visualisation
2 379 (54.61%) Business Intelligence
3 376 (54.18%) Analytics
4 256 (36.89%) Decision-Making
5 212 (30.55%) AI
6 211 (30.40%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (25.36%) Data Modelling
8 174 (25.07%) Data Analysis
9 169 (24.35%) Actionable Insight
10 163 (23.49%) Machine Learning
11 161 (23.20%) Data Science
12 137 (19.74%) Agile
13 117 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (16.71%) Data Governance
15 113 (16.28%) Data Engineering
16 98 (14.12%) Dashboard Development
17 94 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
18 93 (13.40%) Data Analytics
19 88 (12.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
20 85 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 358 (51.59%) SQL
2 299 (43.08%) Python
3 49 (7.06%) R
4 46 (6.63%) JavaScript
5 42 (6.05%) C#
6 41 (5.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 30 (4.32%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.31%) C++
8 16 (2.31%) Java
9 15 (2.16%) T-SQL
10 13 (1.87%) Scala
11 10 (1.44%) Ladder Logic
12 6 (0.86%) C
12 6 (0.86%) Julia
13 5 (0.72%) Go
13 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.72%) Rust
13 5 (0.72%) VBA
14 4 (0.58%) Bash
14 4 (0.58%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 150 (21.61%) Degree
2 74 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.31%) DBS Check
4 16 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.73%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (1.73%) Postgraduate
7 11 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.30%) HNC
8 9 (1.30%) HND
9 8 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
10 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.43%) ACCA
12 3 (0.43%) CIMA
12 3 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (25.79%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.48%) GDPR
3 33 (4.76%) QA
4 26 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.86%) IEC 61131
7 6 (0.86%) PMO
8 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.72%) NIST
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 (2.88%) 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
1 125 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.37%) Databricks
3 59 (8.50%) Google
4 26 (3.75%) SAP
5 12 (1.73%) Oracle
5 12 (1.73%) Siemens
6 8 (1.15%) SYSPRO
7 7 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.86%) IBM
8 6 (0.86%) Informatica
9 5 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (0.72%) Hotjar
9 5 (0.72%) YouTube
10 4 (0.58%) Adobe
10 4 (0.58%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.58%) Cognos
10 4 (0.58%) Foundry
10 4 (0.58%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.43%) Cognizant