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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 115 98
Rank change year-on-year -72 -17 +31
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 865 1,213 2,357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.75% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.94% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 529 643 1,371
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +10.44% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £49,245
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.61% +3.67%

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 56,331 41,289 73,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.69% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33,961 22,320 55,807
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -65 778 £60,000 -4.00% 624
UK excluding London -47 501 £45,000 -14.29% 550
London -67 310 £70,000 -15.15% 214
Work from Home -79 279 £57,500 -0.86% 202
South East +28 164 £58,750 +1.29% 158
North of England -45 136 £40,000 -18.78% 136
Midlands -46 79 £42,500 -22.73% 88
North West -22 78 £40,000 -18.78% 67
West Midlands -18 52 £44,000 -20.00% 47
South West -62 46 £47,500 +11.76% 56
Yorkshire -57 44 £40,000 -15.79% 52
Scotland -37 35 £57,500 +27.78% 18
East of England -3 31 £56,250 -18.48% 64
East Midlands -46 27 £40,000 -15.79% 41
North East -11 14 £37,500 -44.44% 19
Northern Ireland -32 6 - - 14
Wales -8 5 £38,500 -21.03% 31

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 50 (5.78%) Jupyter
2 46 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.35%) Apache Spark
5 26 (3.01%) Confluence
6 21 (2.43%) Apache
7 8 (0.92%) WordPress
8 5 (0.58%) IIS
8 5 (0.58%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 173 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (5.78%) Chatbot
3 29 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.69%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.69%) CATIA
5 6 (0.69%) Trello
6 5 (0.58%) Blender
6 5 (0.58%) Maya
7 4 (0.46%) 3ds Max
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.12%) Houdini
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 51 (5.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.16%) SAP PM
3 9 (1.04%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.58%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 391 (45.20%) Power Platform
2 190 (21.97%) Azure
3 135 (15.61%) AWS
4 74 (8.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 74 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (6.47%) Cloud Computing
5 56 (6.47%) GCP
6 54 (6.24%) Snowflake
7 49 (5.66%) Power Automate
8 48 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
8 48 (5.55%) PowerApps
9 41 (4.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 32 (3.70%) dbt
11 24 (2.77%) GitHub
12 22 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (2.54%) Google Analytics
13 21 (2.43%) Adobe Analytics
14 20 (2.31%) Figma
15 19 (2.20%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.81%) Broadband
1 7 (0.81%) Modbus
2 5 (0.58%) MQTT
3 4 (0.46%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) Internet
4 2 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 2 (0.23%) Wireless
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) LAN
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (45.09%) Power BI
2 147 (16.99%) Tableau
3 69 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.86%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (4.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 33 (3.82%) Metadata
8 30 (3.47%) BigQuery
9 26 (3.01%) Looker
10 23 (2.66%) BusinessObjects
11 22 (2.54%) MySQL
11 22 (2.54%) Power Query
12 21 (2.43%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.20%) Big Data
14 16 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (1.73%) NoSQL
15 15 (1.73%) Relational Database
16 14 (1.62%) Data Mining
16 14 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 83 (9.60%) JIRA
2 50 (5.78%) eCATT
2 50 (5.78%) Visual Studio Code
3 42 (4.86%) Git
4 22 (2.54%) NeoLoad
5 8 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.58%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.46%) GitLab
9 3 (0.35%) Vite
10 2 (0.23%) ESLint
10 2 (0.23%) MLflow
10 2 (0.23%) Storybook
11 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 320 (36.99%) Finance
2 300 (34.68%) Social Skills
3 295 (34.10%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (15.84%) Manufacturing
5 130 (15.03%) Marketing
6 78 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (8.21%) Retail
8 70 (8.09%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (7.98%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (6.24%) Public Sector
11 51 (5.90%) Law
12 41 (4.74%) Banking
13 38 (4.39%) Legal
14 36 (4.16%) Front Office
15 25 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.73%) Advertising
17 15 (1.73%) Back Office
18 14 (1.62%) Billing
18 14 (1.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (24.51%) Analyst
2 136 (15.72%) Senior
3 130 (15.03%) Developer
4 92 (10.64%) Data Analyst
5 63 (7.28%) Data Engineer
6 58 (6.71%) Lead
7 55 (6.36%) Trainee
8 50 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 50 (5.78%) Programmer
8 50 (5.78%) Trainee Programmer
9 48 (5.55%) Data Scientist
10 39 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (4.05%) React Developer
12 34 (3.93%) Consultant
13 33 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 27 (3.12%) Data Manager
16 24 (2.77%) Architect
16 24 (2.77%) Senior Developer
17 22 (2.54%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.59%) Pandas
1 57 (6.59%) scikit-learn
2 55 (6.36%) Matplotlib
2 55 (6.36%) React
3 54 (6.24%) Hugging Face
3 54 (6.24%) NumPy
4 52 (6.01%) Streamlit
5 32 (3.70%) WebSockets
6 30 (3.47%) Kafka
7 28 (3.24%) PySpark
8 22 (2.54%) CSS
9 21 (2.43%) Highcharts JS
9 21 (2.43%) HTML
10 20 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
10 20 (2.31%) OpenFin
11 17 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
12 14 (1.62%) REST
13 11 (1.27%) .NET
14 10 (1.16%) JSON
15 9 (1.04%) SAP CO-PA
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.60%) Algorithms
2 50 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 48 (5.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 39 (4.51%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.82%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.58%) Cloud Native
7 30 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.77%) Blog
9 19 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.73%) IoT
11 13 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.39%) Social Media
13 11 (1.27%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.16%) SCADA
15 8 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.69%) Anti-Piracy
17 6 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.39%) Linux
2 8 (0.92%) Unix
3 6 (0.69%) Android
3 6 (0.69%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (51.45%) Data Visualisation
2 409 (47.28%) Business Intelligence
3 408 (47.17%) Analytics
4 267 (30.87%) Decision-Making
5 227 (26.24%) AI
6 225 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
7 200 (23.12%) Data Analysis
8 183 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (18.27%) Machine Learning
10 157 (18.15%) Data Modelling
11 152 (17.57%) Data Science
11 152 (17.57%) ETL
12 148 (17.11%) Agile
13 141 (16.30%) Actionable Insight
14 122 (14.10%) Data Analytics
15 120 (13.87%) Data Management
16 117 (13.53%) Data Governance
17 103 (11.91%) Data Engineering
18 87 (10.06%) Dashboard Development
18 87 (10.06%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 377 (43.58%) SQL
2 357 (41.27%) Python
3 84 (9.71%) JavaScript
4 61 (7.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 60 (6.94%) R
6 38 (4.39%) VBA
7 30 (3.47%) Java
8 29 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 28 (3.24%) C#
10 16 (1.85%) Scala
11 12 (1.39%) Bash
11 12 (1.39%) C++
12 7 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.69%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.58%) C
14 5 (0.58%) Ruby
15 4 (0.46%) Go
15 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.46%) VB
15 4 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 227 (26.24%) Degree
2 60 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.36%) AWS Certification
4 50 (5.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 50 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 46 (5.32%) Master's Degree
6 27 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (2.66%) MBA
9 14 (1.62%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.50%) APMP
10 13 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (1.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 11 (1.27%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.92%) PhD
14 5 (0.58%) ACCA
14 5 (0.58%) CIMA
14 5 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.28%) QA
3 31 (3.58%) Accessibility
4 27 (3.12%) GDPR
5 24 (2.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.16%) Good Clinical Practice
7 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 5 (0.58%) PMO
10 3 (0.35%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.12%) COBIT
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (2.43%) Docker
2 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.78%) HP ALM
2 17 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.97%) Terraform
3 8 (0.92%) Grafana
3 8 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.46%) Ansible
4 4 (0.46%) SCCM
5 3 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) logstash
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.23%) MOM
7 1 (0.12%) CASB
7 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 193 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 101 (11.68%) SAP
3 50 (5.78%) Google
3 50 (5.78%) HP
4 38 (4.39%) Databricks
5 28 (3.24%) Adobe
6 25 (2.89%) Oracle
7 23 (2.66%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.20%) Qualtrics
9 14 (1.62%) IBM
10 12 (1.39%) Alteryx
11 8 (0.92%) Informatica
12 7 (0.81%) ESRI
12 7 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.69%) Cognos
13 6 (0.69%) Talend
13 6 (0.69%) VMware
14 5 (0.58%) BT
14 5 (0.58%) Epicor
14 5 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud