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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 112 96
Rank change year-on-year -77 -16 +33
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 879 1,249 2,299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 2.72% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 2.92% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 531 649 1,344
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,450 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,532 £46,250 £42,392
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,390 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.54% +10.53% -

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 56,699 42,799 69,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.53% 93.38% 87.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34,103 21,982 53,104
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,288
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 6 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 6 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 -70 792 £60,000 -4.00% 589
UK excluding London -49 511 £45,390 -13.54% 511
London -70 314 £70,000 -15.15% 216
Work from Home -71 286 £57,500 -4.17% 193
South East +28 172 £58,750 -2.08% 146
North of England -54 135 £40,000 -18.78% 132
Midlands -46 83 £42,500 -22.73% 85
North West -19 77 £40,000 -20.00% 66
West Midlands -22 55 £44,000 -20.00% 42
South West -65 45 £47,500 +11.76% 50
Yorkshire -59 44 £40,000 -15.79% 47
Scotland -38 35 £57,500 +27.78% 18
East of England -9 31 £56,250 -18.48% 56
East Midlands -48 28 £40,000 -20.00% 42
North East -5 14 £37,500 -44.44% 21
Northern Ireland -32 6 - - 12
Wales -15 5 £38,500 -18.95% 29

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 (5.69%) Jupyter
2 47 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.30%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.96%) Confluence
6 21 (2.39%) Apache
7 8 (0.91%) WordPress
8 5 (0.57%) IIS
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 188 (21.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (5.69%) Chatbot
3 31 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.68%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.68%) CATIA
5 6 (0.68%) Trello
6 5 (0.57%) Blender
6 5 (0.57%) Maya
6 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.46%) 3ds Max
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.34%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Houdini
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 51 (5.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.02%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.57%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 411 (46.76%) Power Platform
2 194 (22.07%) Azure
3 136 (15.47%) AWS
4 75 (8.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 74 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (6.60%) GCP
7 56 (6.37%) Cloud Computing
7 56 (6.37%) Snowflake
8 50 (5.69%) Power Automate
9 49 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
9 49 (5.57%) PowerApps
10 41 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 32 (3.64%) dbt
12 24 (2.73%) GitHub
13 23 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
14 22 (2.50%) Google Analytics
15 21 (2.39%) Adobe Analytics
16 20 (2.28%) Figma
17 19 (2.16%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.80%) Broadband
1 7 (0.80%) Modbus
2 5 (0.57%) Firewall
2 5 (0.57%) MQTT
3 2 (0.23%) Internet
3 2 (0.23%) LAN
3 2 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
3 2 (0.23%) WAN
3 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.23%) Wireless
4 1 (0.11%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 410 (46.64%) Power BI
2 149 (16.95%) Tableau
3 71 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 69 (7.85%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 37 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (3.75%) Metadata
9 32 (3.64%) BigQuery
10 29 (3.30%) Looker
11 23 (2.62%) BusinessObjects
12 22 (2.50%) Data Lake
12 22 (2.50%) MySQL
12 22 (2.50%) Power Query
13 19 (2.16%) Big Data
14 16 (1.82%) Relational Database
14 16 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (1.71%) NoSQL
16 14 (1.59%) Data Mining
16 14 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 83 (9.44%) JIRA
2 50 (5.69%) eCATT
2 50 (5.69%) Visual Studio Code
3 40 (4.55%) Git
4 22 (2.50%) NeoLoad
5 8 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.57%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.46%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) ESLint
9 2 (0.23%) MLflow
9 2 (0.23%) Storybook
10 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.11%) Subversion
10 1 (0.11%) Vite
General
1 335 (38.11%) Finance
2 311 (35.38%) Social Skills
3 304 (34.58%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (15.81%) Marketing
5 137 (15.59%) Manufacturing
6 76 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (8.19%) Retail
8 70 (7.96%) Influencing Skills
8 70 (7.96%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (6.26%) Public Sector
10 50 (5.69%) Law
11 42 (4.78%) Banking
12 39 (4.44%) Legal
13 37 (4.21%) Front Office
14 26 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.82%) Advertising
17 14 (1.59%) Billing
18 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
19 10 (1.14%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 226 (25.71%) Analyst
2 140 (15.93%) Senior
3 130 (14.79%) Developer
4 102 (11.60%) Data Analyst
5 65 (7.39%) Data Engineer
6 59 (6.71%) Lead
7 55 (6.26%) Trainee
8 50 (5.69%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 50 (5.69%) Programmer
8 50 (5.69%) Trainee Programmer
9 48 (5.46%) Data Scientist
10 40 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (3.98%) React Developer
13 32 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 32 (3.64%) Consultant
14 27 (3.07%) Data Manager
15 24 (2.73%) Architect
16 23 (2.62%) Senior Developer
17 22 (2.50%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.60%) Pandas
1 58 (6.60%) scikit-learn
2 55 (6.26%) NumPy
3 54 (6.14%) Hugging Face
4 53 (6.03%) Matplotlib
4 53 (6.03%) React
5 52 (5.92%) Streamlit
6 32 (3.64%) WebSockets
7 30 (3.41%) Kafka
8 28 (3.19%) PySpark
9 22 (2.50%) CSS
10 21 (2.39%) Highcharts JS
10 21 (2.39%) HTML
11 20 (2.28%) FIX Protocol
11 20 (2.28%) OpenFin
12 18 (2.05%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (1.37%) REST
14 11 (1.25%) .NET
15 10 (1.14%) JSON
16 9 (1.02%) SAP CO-PA
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.44%) Algorithms
2 55 (6.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 50 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.75%) Fixed Income
6 32 (3.64%) Cloud Native
7 30 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.73%) Blog
9 19 (2.16%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.59%) IoT
11 13 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.37%) Social Media
13 11 (1.25%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.14%) SCADA
15 8 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.80%) FMCG
16 7 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.48%) Linux
2 9 (1.02%) Unix
3 7 (0.80%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) Android
5 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (52.10%) Data Visualisation
2 431 (49.03%) Business Intelligence
3 424 (48.24%) Analytics
4 281 (31.97%) Decision-Making
5 234 (26.62%) AI
6 231 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (23.55%) Data Analysis
8 184 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 162 (18.43%) Machine Learning
10 160 (18.20%) Data Modelling
11 156 (17.75%) ETL
12 151 (17.18%) Actionable Insight
12 151 (17.18%) Data Science
13 149 (16.95%) Agile
14 135 (15.36%) Data Analytics
15 121 (13.77%) Data Management
16 114 (12.97%) Data Governance
17 105 (11.95%) Data Engineering
18 90 (10.24%) Workflow
19 89 (10.13%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 387 (44.03%) SQL
2 361 (41.07%) Python
3 86 (9.78%) JavaScript
4 61 (6.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 61 (6.94%) R
5 39 (4.44%) VBA
6 30 (3.41%) Java
7 29 (3.30%) C#
8 27 (3.07%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.82%) Scala
10 12 (1.37%) Bash
10 12 (1.37%) C++
11 8 (0.91%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.68%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.57%) C
13 5 (0.57%) Ruby
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.46%) VB
14 4 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 238 (27.08%) Degree
2 60 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.26%) AWS Certification
4 51 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 50 (5.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 47 (5.35%) Master's Degree
7 29 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.62%) MBA
10 15 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (1.48%) APMP
13 12 (1.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (1.25%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.91%) PhD
16 7 (0.80%) CISSP
16 7 (0.80%) DV Cleared
17 6 (0.68%) ACCA
17 6 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (15.47%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.32%) QA
3 31 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 27 (3.07%) GDPR
5 24 (2.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.14%) Good Clinical Practice
7 9 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 5 (0.57%) PMO
10 4 (0.46%) NIST
11 2 (0.23%) COBIT
11 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.23%) ITGC
12 1 (0.11%) EMIR
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (2.50%) Docker
2 7 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.69%) HP ALM
2 19 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.05%) Terraform
4 8 (0.91%) Grafana
4 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.57%) Ansible
6 4 (0.46%) SCCM
7 3 (0.34%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) CASB
8 2 (0.23%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) logstash
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.23%) MOM
8 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 199 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.04%) SAP
3 52 (5.92%) Google
4 50 (5.69%) HP
5 39 (4.44%) Databricks
6 28 (3.19%) Adobe
7 26 (2.96%) Oracle
8 25 (2.84%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.16%) Qualtrics
10 14 (1.59%) Alteryx
10 14 (1.59%) IBM
11 8 (0.91%) Informatica
12 7 (0.80%) Cognos
12 7 (0.80%) ESRI
12 7 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.80%) VMware
13 6 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.68%) Talend
14 5 (0.57%) BT
14 5 (0.57%) Infor