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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 121 110
Rank change year-on-year -58 -11 +22
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 808 1,317 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.47% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.72% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 447 685 1,001
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,900 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,011
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.16% -8.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.08% +7.38% -

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 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 13 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 13 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 -62 724 £60,000 -7.69% 494
UK excluding London -26 445 £51,500 -4.08% 460
London -67 310 £70,000 -15.15% 141
Work from Home -51 264 £57,500 -14.81% 198
South East +18 165 £55,000 -15.38% 166
North of England -5 92 £45,000 -5.26% 90
Midlands -9 75 £42,500 -22.73% 69
North West +8 49 £45,000 -14.29% 47
West Midlands -1 48 £50,000 -9.09% 33
South West -33 37 £50,000 +13.69% 48
East of England +15 34 £57,500 -11.54% 53
Yorkshire -23 34 £45,000 - 32
Scotland -34 32 £57,500 +5.50% 24
East Midlands -22 27 £42,500 -24.78% 35
North East +4 9 £62,500 -7.41% 11
Wales -4 7 £41,250 -13.16% 18
Northern Ireland -15 4 - - 8

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 35 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.22%) Confluence
4 18 (2.23%) Apache
4 18 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.87%) WordPress
6 5 (0.62%) IIS
7 4 (0.50%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.37%) SAS
9 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 204 (25.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.84%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.86%) AutoCAD
4 13 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.74%) Trello
8 4 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.37%) Blender
9 3 (0.37%) Maya
9 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.25%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.25%) Sketch
10 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.12%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (6.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.11%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.74%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 419 (51.86%) Power Platform
2 192 (23.76%) Azure
3 79 (9.78%) AWS
4 70 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (8.54%) GCP
6 68 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 63 (7.80%) Snowflake
8 45 (5.57%) Power Automate
9 43 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (4.83%) PowerApps
11 38 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (3.09%) Google Analytics
13 23 (2.85%) GitHub
14 20 (2.48%) Figma
15 18 (2.23%) Adobe Analytics
15 18 (2.23%) dbt
16 17 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (2.10%) Fivetran
17 15 (1.86%) Amazon S3
18 14 (1.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.87%) Firewall
2 5 (0.62%) LAN
2 5 (0.62%) Modbus
2 5 (0.62%) MQTT
2 5 (0.62%) WAN
3 4 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.25%) Profibus
4 2 (0.25%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (51.61%) Power BI
2 170 (21.04%) Tableau
3 77 (9.53%) SQL Server
4 56 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (5.45%) Looker
6 42 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 39 (4.83%) BigQuery
7 39 (4.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 32 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (3.47%) Data Lake
9 28 (3.47%) Metadata
10 23 (2.85%) BusinessObjects
11 22 (2.72%) MySQL
12 19 (2.35%) Power Query
13 17 (2.10%) Big Data
13 17 (2.10%) NoSQL
14 15 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (1.73%) Data Mining
16 13 (1.61%) Hadoop
17 12 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 85 (10.52%) JIRA
2 50 (6.19%) eCATT
3 28 (3.47%) Git
4 22 (2.72%) NeoLoad
5 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.50%) GitLab
6 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.37%) MLflow
8 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 323 (39.98%) Social Skills
2 303 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 300 (37.13%) Finance
4 148 (18.32%) Marketing
5 86 (10.64%) Manufacturing
6 82 (10.15%) Presentation Skills
7 75 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 73 (9.03%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (6.19%) Law
10 41 (5.07%) Public Sector
11 39 (4.83%) Banking
12 35 (4.33%) Legal
13 31 (3.84%) Front Office
13 31 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (3.34%) Retail
15 22 (2.72%) Advertising
16 21 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.98%) French Language
18 14 (1.73%) Billing
19 13 (1.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 251 (31.06%) Analyst
2 142 (17.57%) Senior
3 116 (14.36%) Developer
4 108 (13.37%) Data Analyst
5 70 (8.66%) Lead
6 54 (6.68%) Data Engineer
7 44 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
8 42 (5.20%) Data Scientist
9 35 (4.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 35 (4.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 30 (3.71%) Insight Analyst
11 27 (3.34%) Data Manager
12 25 (3.09%) Senior Developer
13 24 (2.97%) Commercial Analyst
13 24 (2.97%) React Developer
14 22 (2.72%) Senior Manager
15 21 (2.60%) Architect
15 21 (2.60%) Consultant
15 21 (2.60%) Performance Analyst
15 21 (2.60%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.58%) React
2 25 (3.09%) WebSockets
3 22 (2.72%) PySpark
4 21 (2.60%) FIX Protocol
4 21 (2.60%) Highcharts JS
4 21 (2.60%) OpenFin
5 20 (2.48%) CSS
6 15 (1.86%) HTML5 Canvas
6 15 (1.86%) Kafka
6 15 (1.86%) Pandas
6 15 (1.86%) REST
6 15 (1.86%) scikit-learn
7 13 (1.61%) JSON
7 13 (1.61%) NumPy
8 12 (1.49%) HTML
8 12 (1.49%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.11%) Flask
9 9 (1.11%) TensorFlow
10 8 (0.99%) FastAPI
11 7 (0.87%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (4.33%) Algorithms
4 30 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.34%) Fixed Income
5 27 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 26 (3.22%) Cloud Native
7 25 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.97%) Blog
9 15 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.49%) FMCG
12 11 (1.36%) IoT
13 9 (1.11%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.99%) Social Media
15 7 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.87%) SCADA
16 5 (0.62%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.24%) Linux
1 10 (1.24%) Windows
2 8 (0.99%) Unix
3 6 (0.74%) Android
4 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (55.45%) Data Visualisation
2 436 (53.96%) Business Intelligence
3 412 (50.99%) Analytics
4 277 (34.28%) Decision-Making
5 219 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
6 193 (23.89%) Data Analysis
7 183 (22.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 169 (20.92%) Actionable Insight
8 169 (20.92%) AI
9 150 (18.56%) Data Science
10 147 (18.19%) Agile
11 146 (18.07%) ETL
12 142 (17.57%) Data Modelling
13 132 (16.34%) Data Analytics
14 122 (15.10%) Data Management
15 116 (14.36%) Machine Learning
16 106 (13.12%) Data Engineering
17 95 (11.76%) Computer Science
18 92 (11.39%) Project Management
19 84 (10.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 392 (48.51%) SQL
2 296 (36.63%) Python
3 64 (7.92%) JavaScript
4 58 (7.18%) R
5 52 (6.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (3.22%) VBA
7 19 (2.35%) Java
8 18 (2.23%) C#
9 14 (1.73%) Scala
10 13 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.36%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.99%) Bash
12 8 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.62%) C++
14 4 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.50%) Ruby
15 3 (0.37%) Bicep
15 3 (0.37%) Go
15 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.25%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 266 (32.92%) Degree
2 50 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 49 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 46 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 41 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.60%) CISSP
8 20 (2.48%) CISA
9 17 (2.10%) MBA
10 16 (1.98%) PhD
11 14 (1.73%) CISM
11 14 (1.73%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (1.61%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.49%) CRISC
13 12 (1.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (1.36%) ACCA
14 11 (1.36%) CIMA
15 9 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.99%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.87%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 46 (5.69%) QA
3 31 (3.84%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.60%) GDPR
6 20 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (1.73%) NIST
8 12 (1.49%) COBIT
8 12 (1.49%) GRC
8 12 (1.49%) ITGC
9 10 (1.24%) Good Clinical Practice
9 10 (1.24%) IEC 61131
10 5 (0.62%) PMO
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.48%) Docker
2 5 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (6.19%) HP ALM
2 16 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.49%) Terraform
4 7 (0.87%) Ansible
5 5 (0.62%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.50%) CASB
7 3 (0.37%) Argo
7 3 (0.37%) Grafana
7 3 (0.37%) Kibana
7 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.25%) logstash
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 158 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.63%) SAP
3 58 (7.18%) Google
4 50 (6.19%) HP
5 48 (5.94%) Databricks
6 29 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 28 (3.47%) Oracle
8 23 (2.85%) Adobe
9 17 (2.10%) Qualtrics
10 11 (1.36%) Alteryx
11 8 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.87%) Cisco
12 7 (0.87%) ESRI
12 7 (0.87%) Progress
12 7 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.62%) Anaplan
13 5 (0.62%) BT
13 5 (0.62%) Epicor
13 5 (0.62%) Verint
13 5 (0.62%) VMware