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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 120 99
Rank change year-on-year -62 -21 +25
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 818 1,294 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.45% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.69% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 454 685 1,204
10th Percentile £36,975 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,563 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,375 £88,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,056
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +3.62%

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 50,353 48,156 59,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.19% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 29,725 23,186 46,025
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -55 736 £60,000 -7.69% 737
UK excluding London -31 452 £52,500 - 718
London -62 317 £70,000 -17.65% 140
Work from Home -48 271 £57,500 -11.54% 253
South East +14 165 £55,000 -15.38% 212
North of England -22 103 £45,000 - 153
Midlands -25 73 £45,390 -17.47% 120
North West +2 59 £45,000 -7.22% 77
West Midlands -1 49 £50,000 -9.09% 51
South West -38 36 £50,000 +17.65% 85
Yorkshire -38 35 £55,000 +22.22% 55
Scotland -47 33 £57,500 +16.16% 34
East of England +13 32 £57,500 -11.54% 87
East Midlands -19 24 £42,500 -24.78% 68
North East +2 9 £62,500 -7.41% 22
Wales -1 7 £41,250 -13.16% 32
Northern Ireland -16 4 - - 14

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 39 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.18%) Confluence
4 19 (2.32%) Apache
5 17 (2.08%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.86%) WordPress
7 5 (0.61%) IIS
8 4 (0.49%) Apache Superset
8 4 (0.49%) SAS
9 3 (0.37%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 205 (25.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.83%) AutoCAD
5 10 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.10%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.73%) Trello
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.37%) Blender
9 3 (0.37%) Maya
9 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.24%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.24%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) CATIA
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (6.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.98%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 421 (51.47%) Power Platform
2 198 (24.21%) Azure
3 81 (9.90%) AWS
4 72 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 71 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (7.95%) GCP
7 59 (7.21%) Snowflake
8 46 (5.62%) Power Automate
9 42 (5.13%) PowerApps
10 41 (5.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 40 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (2.93%) Google Analytics
13 22 (2.69%) Adobe Analytics
13 22 (2.69%) GitHub
14 21 (2.57%) Figma
15 18 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (2.08%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.96%) dbt
17 16 (1.96%) Fivetran
18 14 (1.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.86%) Firewall
2 5 (0.61%) LAN
2 5 (0.61%) Modbus
2 5 (0.61%) MQTT
2 5 (0.61%) WAN
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.24%) Profibus
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (51.22%) Power BI
2 164 (20.05%) Tableau
3 80 (9.78%) SQL Server
4 58 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (5.13%) Looker
6 41 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 33 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 32 (3.91%) BigQuery
10 30 (3.67%) Metadata
11 24 (2.93%) BusinessObjects
12 23 (2.81%) MySQL
13 21 (2.57%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.20%) Power Query
15 17 (2.08%) Big Data
15 17 (2.08%) NoSQL
15 17 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (1.83%) Data Mining
17 13 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
17 13 (1.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 85 (10.39%) JIRA
2 50 (6.11%) eCATT
3 35 (4.28%) Git
4 22 (2.69%) NeoLoad
5 6 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.49%) GitLab
6 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.24%) MLflow
8 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 326 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 306 (37.41%) Analytical Skills
3 302 (36.92%) Finance
4 146 (17.85%) Marketing
5 87 (10.64%) Manufacturing
6 80 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (9.54%) Influencing Skills
8 77 (9.41%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (6.11%) Public Sector
10 48 (5.87%) Law
11 42 (5.13%) Banking
12 39 (4.77%) Legal
13 33 (4.03%) Front Office
14 30 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (3.42%) Retail
16 21 (2.57%) Advertising
17 20 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (2.20%) French Language
19 14 (1.71%) Billing
20 11 (1.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 242 (29.58%) Analyst
2 141 (17.24%) Senior
3 125 (15.28%) Developer
4 105 (12.84%) Data Analyst
5 71 (8.68%) Lead
6 54 (6.60%) Data Engineer
7 45 (5.50%) Data Scientist
8 41 (5.01%) Senior Analyst
9 38 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 29 (3.55%) Insight Analyst
12 28 (3.42%) React Developer
13 27 (3.30%) Data Manager
13 27 (3.30%) Senior Developer
14 24 (2.93%) Commercial Analyst
14 24 (2.93%) Consultant
15 22 (2.69%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 21 (2.57%) Performance Analyst
16 21 (2.57%) Senior Manager
16 21 (2.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.89%) React
2 28 (3.42%) WebSockets
3 27 (3.30%) CSS
4 26 (3.18%) PySpark
5 22 (2.69%) FIX Protocol
5 22 (2.69%) Highcharts JS
5 22 (2.69%) OpenFin
6 19 (2.32%) HTML
7 17 (2.08%) Kafka
8 16 (1.96%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (1.83%) Pandas
9 15 (1.83%) REST
9 15 (1.83%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.59%) JSON
10 13 (1.59%) NumPy
11 11 (1.34%) PyTorch
12 10 (1.22%) EDI
13 9 (1.10%) .NET
13 9 (1.10%) Flask
14 8 (0.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 50 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (4.16%) Algorithms
3 34 (4.16%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.55%) Fixed Income
6 27 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.93%) Blog
8 15 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.47%) FMCG
11 11 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.34%) IoT
12 8 (0.98%) SCADA
13 7 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.86%) Reinsurance
13 7 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.86%) Social Media
14 5 (0.61%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.22%) Linux
2 9 (1.10%) Windows
3 8 (0.98%) Android
3 8 (0.98%) Unix
4 6 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (54.89%) Data Visualisation
2 437 (53.42%) Business Intelligence
3 424 (51.83%) Analytics
4 276 (33.74%) Decision-Making
5 215 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (23.96%) Data Analysis
7 188 (22.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 180 (22.00%) AI
9 167 (20.42%) Actionable Insight
10 152 (18.58%) ETL
11 151 (18.46%) Agile
12 145 (17.73%) Data Modelling
12 145 (17.73%) Data Science
13 136 (16.63%) Data Analytics
14 123 (15.04%) Data Management
15 119 (14.55%) Machine Learning
16 107 (13.08%) Data Engineering
17 100 (12.22%) Computer Science
18 95 (11.61%) Project Management
19 89 (10.88%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 380 (46.45%) SQL
2 301 (36.80%) Python
3 77 (9.41%) JavaScript
4 54 (6.60%) R
5 52 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 29 (3.55%) VBA
7 21 (2.57%) C#
8 19 (2.32%) Java
9 16 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.59%) Scala
11 12 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.34%) Bash
13 6 (0.73%) C++
13 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.61%) Ruby
15 4 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.49%) Go
15 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.37%) Bicep
16 3 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 268 (32.76%) Degree
2 53 (6.48%) Master's Degree
3 52 (6.36%) Security Cleared
4 48 (5.87%) SC Cleared
5 39 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.32%) MBA
8 17 (2.08%) CISSP
8 17 (2.08%) PhD
9 16 (1.96%) CISA
10 14 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.71%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (1.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 11 (1.34%) CISM
13 10 (1.22%) CRISC
14 9 (1.10%) APMP
14 9 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.10%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.86%) ACCA
15 7 (0.86%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.62%) QA
3 32 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 20 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.32%) GDPR
6 12 (1.47%) NIST
7 10 (1.22%) COBIT
7 10 (1.22%) Good Clinical Practice
7 10 (1.22%) GRC
7 10 (1.22%) IEC 61131
7 10 (1.22%) ITGC
8 6 (0.73%) PMO
9 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.12%) EMIR
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.44%) Docker
2 6 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (6.11%) HP ALM
2 17 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.59%) Terraform
4 8 (0.98%) Ansible
5 5 (0.61%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.49%) CASB
7 3 (0.37%) Argo
7 3 (0.37%) Grafana
7 3 (0.37%) Kibana
7 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.24%) logstash
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.12%) MOM
9 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 160 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.49%) SAP
3 56 (6.85%) Google
4 50 (6.11%) HP
5 44 (5.38%) Databricks
6 28 (3.42%) Oracle
7 27 (3.30%) Adobe
8 26 (3.18%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.32%) Qualtrics
10 10 (1.22%) Alteryx
11 8 (0.98%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.86%) Cisco
12 7 (0.86%) ESRI
12 7 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.73%) IBM
13 6 (0.73%) Informatica
13 6 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.73%) VMware
14 5 (0.61%) Epicor
14 5 (0.61%) Infor