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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 150 102
Rank change year-on-year -141 -48 +40
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 700 1,062 1,974
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 2.13% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 2.41% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 434 546 826
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £39,196 £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 £74,688 £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% +13.46%

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 80,408 44,155 65,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.60% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55,868 25,145 40,215
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 £56,075
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%
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% -6.58%

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 2 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 2 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 -110 643 £50,678 -7.86% 1,348
UK excluding London -128 400 £45,000 -10.00% 704
London -112 259 £70,000 +7.69% 829
Work from Home -87 219 £60,924 +5.95% 510
North of England -9 146 £42,500 -11.46% 151
North West +24 106 £40,000 -17.10% 91
Midlands -59 82 £47,500 +5.56% 97
South East -89 77 £46,500 -7.00% 152
South West -88 46 £42,500 -10.53% 104
West Midlands -41 42 £42,500 -20.84% 53
East Midlands -38 40 £70,000 +64.71% 44
Yorkshire -45 30 £57,788 +10.07% 39
Wales -51 23 £66,000 +50.00% 18
East of England -41 14 £62,500 +3.49% 81
Scotland -81 11 £100,000 +38.06% 71
North East -56 10 £49,630 +16.78% 21
Northern Ireland -84 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 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.14%) SAS
4 6 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.57%) Apache
5 4 (0.57%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.57%) 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
1 100 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.14%) EPLAN
3 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.71%) Blender
6 4 (0.57%) CATIA
6 4 (0.57%) 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 (2.00%) 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
1 357 (51.00%) Power Platform
2 167 (23.86%) Azure
3 119 (17.00%) AWS
4 67 (9.57%) GCP
5 46 (6.57%) dbt
6 34 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (4.71%) Snowflake
8 31 (4.43%) SaaS
9 28 (4.00%) Google Analytics
10 23 (3.29%) Power Automate
11 22 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (2.71%) PowerApps
14 18 (2.57%) Azure Machine Learning
15 13 (1.86%) GitHub
16 11 (1.57%) Dataform
17 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
17 10 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
18 9 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.43%) Profibus
2 7 (1.00%) Broadband
3 6 (0.86%) 5G
3 6 (0.86%) Internet
4 4 (0.57%) Modbus
4 4 (0.57%) 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
1 357 (51.00%) Power BI
2 177 (25.29%) Tableau
3 70 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (8.57%) Looker
5 36 (5.14%) Power Query
5 36 (5.14%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.29%) Data Lake
7 26 (3.71%) Data Mining
8 25 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (3.43%) Metadata
10 21 (3.00%) Amazon QuickSight
10 21 (3.00%) Big Data
10 21 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.43%) GIS
13 13 (1.86%) QlikView
14 12 (1.71%) Relational Database
14 12 (1.71%) Star Schema
15 11 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
16 10 (1.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (4.29%) Git
2 7 (1.00%) JIRA
3 6 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.57%) 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
1 322 (46.00%) Analytical Skills
2 297 (42.43%) Social Skills
3 228 (32.57%) Finance
4 82 (11.71%) Marketing
5 70 (10.00%) Law
5 70 (10.00%) Retail
6 68 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (6.43%) Public Sector
8 41 (5.86%) Back Office
9 39 (5.57%) Military
10 35 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
10 35 (5.00%) Telecoms
11 31 (4.43%) Manufacturing
12 29 (4.14%) Banking
13 22 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (2.14%) Financial Institution
15 15 (2.14%) Local Government
16 14 (2.00%) Legal
17 13 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (27.00%) Analyst
2 119 (17.00%) Senior
3 106 (15.14%) Data Analyst
4 69 (9.86%) Lead
5 64 (9.14%) Developer
6 54 (7.71%) Data Engineer
7 41 (5.86%) Data Scientist
8 38 (5.43%) Consultant
9 35 (5.00%) Data Manager
10 32 (4.57%) Analytics Manager
10 32 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
10 32 (4.57%) Software Engineer
11 24 (3.43%) Senior Data Analyst
12 21 (3.00%) Performance Analyst
13 20 (2.86%) Architect
14 19 (2.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 19 (2.71%) Data Consultant
15 17 (2.43%) Power BI Analyst
16 16 (2.29%) Head of Business Intelligence
17 15 (2.14%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.57%) .NET
2 23 (3.29%) PySpark
2 23 (3.29%) React
3 21 (3.00%) Terraform
4 20 (2.86%) CSS
5 19 (2.71%) scikit-learn
6 18 (2.57%) Pandas
6 18 (2.57%) PyTorch
7 15 (2.14%) HTML
8 14 (2.00%) Kafka
8 14 (2.00%) Streamlit
9 13 (1.86%) Matplotlib
10 12 (1.71%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.57%) jQuery
11 11 (1.57%) REST
12 10 (1.43%) Ajax
12 10 (1.43%) CSS3
12 10 (1.43%) HTML5
12 10 (1.43%) NumPy
12 10 (1.43%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.86%) Algorithms
3 39 (5.57%) Management Information System
4 30 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.57%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.14%) Blog
9 14 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.00%) SCADA
10 12 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.57%) NHS
12 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.29%) Social Media
13 8 (1.14%) Clustering
13 8 (1.14%) Educational Technology
13 8 (1.14%) IoT
13 8 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.29%) 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 (56.57%) Data Visualisation
2 380 (54.29%) Business Intelligence
3 376 (53.71%) Analytics
4 261 (37.29%) Decision-Making
5 215 (30.71%) AI
6 211 (30.14%) Problem-Solving
7 179 (25.57%) Data Modelling
8 177 (25.29%) Data Analysis
9 170 (24.29%) Actionable Insight
10 163 (23.29%) Machine Learning
11 161 (23.00%) Data Science
12 140 (20.00%) Agile
13 121 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (16.57%) Data Engineering
14 116 (16.57%) Data Governance
15 98 (14.00%) Dashboard Development
16 97 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 93 (13.29%) Data Analytics
18 90 (12.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 87 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 358 (51.14%) SQL
2 300 (42.86%) Python
3 49 (7.00%) R
4 47 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 42 (6.00%) C#
5 42 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 30 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.29%) C++
7 16 (2.29%) Java
8 15 (2.14%) T-SQL
9 13 (1.86%) Scala
10 10 (1.43%) Ladder Logic
11 6 (0.86%) C
11 6 (0.86%) Julia
11 6 (0.86%) VBA
12 5 (0.71%) Go
12 5 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.71%) Rust
13 4 (0.57%) Bash
13 4 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 151 (21.57%) Degree
2 74 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.29%) DBS Check
4 16 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.71%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (1.71%) Postgraduate
7 11 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.29%) HNC
8 9 (1.29%) HND
9 8 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
10 6 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.43%) ACCA
12 3 (0.43%) CIMA
12 3 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (25.86%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.43%) GDPR
3 33 (4.71%) QA
4 26 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.86%) IEC 61131
7 6 (0.86%) PMO
8 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.71%) NIST
9 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (0.57%) 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 (2.86%) Docker
2 5 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.57%) 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
1 128 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.29%) Databricks
3 59 (8.43%) Google
4 26 (3.71%) SAP
5 12 (1.71%) Oracle
5 12 (1.71%) Siemens
6 8 (1.14%) SYSPRO
7 7 (1.00%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.86%) IBM
8 6 (0.86%) Informatica
8 6 (0.86%) YouTube
9 5 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (0.71%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.57%) Adobe
10 4 (0.57%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.57%) Cognos
10 4 (0.57%) Foundry
10 4 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.43%) Cognizant