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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 112 95
Rank change year-on-year -79 -17 +34
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 862 1,182 2,469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 2.79% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.99% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 539 635 1,347
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,394 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% +9.81% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £110,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.18% +7.38% +4.17%

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 58,555 39,559 74,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.69% 93.50% 87.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,503 22,222 56,291
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,910 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 20 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 20 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 -74 776 £60,000 -4.00% 478
UK excluding London -56 508 £45,000 -16.18% 396
London -76 297 £70,000 -15.15% 181
Work from Home -79 279 £57,500 -0.86% 171
South East +22 163 £60,000 - 133
North of England -56 140 £40,000 -16.67% 95
Midlands -52 83 £42,500 -22.73% 71
North West -27 82 £40,000 -11.11% 50
West Midlands -6 58 £43,250 -23.11% 31
Yorkshire -62 44 £40,000 -15.79% 30
South West -73 43 £46,250 +6.32% 43
East of England -11 35 £57,500 -17.86% 25
Scotland -45 33 £57,500 +27.78% 15
East Midlands -73 25 £40,000 -17.95% 40
North East -19 14 £37,500 -44.44% 16
Northern Ireland -34 6 - - 10
Wales -18 5 £38,500 -23.00% 16

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 54 (6.26%) Jupyter
2 47 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.36%) Apache Spark
5 24 (2.78%) Confluence
6 21 (2.44%) Apache
7 8 (0.93%) 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
1 170 (19.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.26%) Chatbot
3 31 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.70%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.70%) CATIA
5 6 (0.70%) Trello
6 5 (0.58%) Blender
6 5 (0.58%) Maya
6 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) 3ds Max
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
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 (5.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.16%) SAP PM
3 9 (1.04%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.70%) 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
1 387 (44.90%) Power Platform
2 190 (22.04%) Azure
3 134 (15.55%) AWS
4 78 (9.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (6.96%) Cloud Computing
7 52 (6.03%) GCP
8 49 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
8 49 (5.68%) Power Automate
9 48 (5.57%) PowerApps
10 45 (5.22%) Snowflake
11 41 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 35 (4.06%) dbt
13 25 (2.90%) GitHub
14 24 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
15 21 (2.44%) Google Analytics
16 20 (2.32%) Figma
17 19 (2.20%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.81%) Broadband
1 7 (0.81%) Modbus
2 5 (0.58%) MQTT
3 3 (0.35%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (44.78%) Power BI
2 137 (15.89%) Tableau
3 70 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (7.31%) SQL Server
5 40 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (4.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (4.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (3.48%) BigQuery
8 30 (3.48%) Metadata
9 23 (2.67%) BusinessObjects
9 23 (2.67%) Looker
10 22 (2.55%) Power Query
11 21 (2.44%) Data Lake
11 21 (2.44%) MySQL
12 19 (2.20%) Big Data
13 17 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.74%) NoSQL
14 15 (1.74%) Relational Database
15 14 (1.62%) Amazon QuickSight
15 14 (1.62%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 80 (9.28%) JIRA
2 54 (6.26%) Visual Studio Code
3 50 (5.80%) eCATT
4 41 (4.76%) Git
5 22 (2.55%) NeoLoad
6 9 (1.04%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.58%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.46%) GitLab
10 3 (0.35%) Vite
11 2 (0.23%) ESLint
11 2 (0.23%) MLflow
11 2 (0.23%) Storybook
12 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
12 1 (0.12%) Selenium
12 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 312 (36.19%) Finance
2 302 (35.03%) Analytical Skills
3 293 (33.99%) Social Skills
4 141 (16.36%) Manufacturing
5 127 (14.73%) Marketing
6 77 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (8.58%) Retail
8 71 (8.24%) Influencing Skills
8 71 (8.24%) Presentation Skills
9 57 (6.61%) Public Sector
10 51 (5.92%) Law
11 41 (4.76%) Banking
12 39 (4.52%) Legal
13 34 (3.94%) Front Office
14 25 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (2.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.86%) Billing
17 15 (1.74%) Back Office
18 14 (1.62%) Telecoms
19 10 (1.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 203 (23.55%) Analyst
2 130 (15.08%) Developer
3 127 (14.73%) Senior
4 89 (10.32%) Data Analyst
5 63 (7.31%) Data Engineer
6 60 (6.96%) Lead
7 56 (6.50%) Trainee
8 54 (6.26%) Data Scientist
9 51 (5.92%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 51 (5.92%) Programmer
9 51 (5.92%) Trainee Programmer
10 38 (4.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 37 (4.29%) Consultant
12 34 (3.94%) React Developer
13 28 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 25 (2.90%) Data Manager
14 25 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.78%) Architect
15 24 (2.78%) Senior Developer
16 23 (2.67%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.08%) Pandas
1 61 (7.08%) scikit-learn
2 59 (6.84%) Matplotlib
3 58 (6.73%) NumPy
4 56 (6.50%) Hugging Face
4 56 (6.50%) Streamlit
5 53 (6.15%) React
6 31 (3.60%) WebSockets
7 30 (3.48%) Kafka
8 27 (3.13%) PySpark
9 22 (2.55%) CSS
10 21 (2.44%) HTML
11 19 (2.20%) Highcharts JS
12 18 (2.09%) FIX Protocol
12 18 (2.09%) OpenFin
13 17 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
14 10 (1.16%) JSON
14 10 (1.16%) REST
15 9 (1.04%) EDI
15 9 (1.04%) SAP CO-PA
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.09%) Algorithms
2 48 (5.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 47 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (4.87%) Management Information System
5 30 (3.48%) Fixed Income
6 29 (3.36%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.78%) Blog
8 18 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.74%) IoT
10 13 (1.51%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.51%) Social Media
11 11 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.16%) SCADA
13 8 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.70%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.51%) Linux
2 9 (1.04%) Unix
3 6 (0.70%) Android
3 6 (0.70%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (51.74%) Data Visualisation
2 402 (46.64%) Analytics
3 401 (46.52%) Business Intelligence
4 267 (30.97%) Decision-Making
5 236 (27.38%) AI
6 228 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (23.32%) Data Analysis
8 180 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 166 (19.26%) Machine Learning
10 162 (18.79%) Data Modelling
11 150 (17.40%) Data Science
12 148 (17.17%) ETL
13 139 (16.13%) Agile
14 137 (15.89%) Actionable Insight
15 116 (13.46%) Data Analytics
15 116 (13.46%) Data Management
16 113 (13.11%) Data Governance
17 105 (12.18%) Data Engineering
18 92 (10.67%) Workflow
19 87 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 368 (42.69%) SQL
2 351 (40.72%) Python
3 82 (9.51%) JavaScript
4 64 (7.42%) R
5 63 (7.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 39 (4.52%) VBA
7 32 (3.71%) Java
8 29 (3.36%) C#
9 26 (3.02%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.86%) Scala
11 12 (1.39%) Bash
12 11 (1.28%) C++
13 6 (0.70%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.70%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.58%) C
14 5 (0.58%) Ruby
14 5 (0.58%) VB
14 5 (0.58%) VBScript
15 4 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 216 (25.06%) Degree
2 62 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.84%) AWS Certification
4 54 (6.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 50 (5.80%) SC Cleared
6 41 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 26 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (2.44%) MBA
10 15 (1.74%) DBS Check
11 14 (1.62%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.51%) APMP
13 12 (1.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
15 9 (1.04%) DV Cleared
16 8 (0.93%) PhD
17 6 (0.70%) ACCA
17 6 (0.70%) CIMA
18 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (16.94%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.41%) QA
3 32 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 27 (3.13%) GDPR
5 25 (2.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.16%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.58%) PMO
9 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
9 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) EMIR
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (2.09%) Docker
2 6 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.80%) HP ALM
2 15 (1.74%) Terraform
3 14 (1.62%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.93%) Grafana
4 8 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.58%) SCCM
6 3 (0.35%) Ansible
6 3 (0.35%) Argo
7 2 (0.23%) Kibana
7 2 (0.23%) logstash
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.23%) MOM
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 195 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 101 (11.72%) SAP
3 50 (5.80%) HP
4 46 (5.34%) Google
5 41 (4.76%) Databricks
6 29 (3.36%) Adobe
7 25 (2.90%) Oracle
8 21 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.20%) Qualtrics
10 15 (1.74%) IBM
11 11 (1.28%) Alteryx
12 8 (0.93%) Informatica
13 7 (0.81%) ESRI
14 6 (0.70%) Cognos
14 6 (0.70%) Talend
14 6 (0.70%) VMware
15 5 (0.58%) BT
15 5 (0.58%) Epicor
15 5 (0.58%) Infor
15 5 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud