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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 152 104
Rank change year-on-year -131 -48 +31
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 739 1,039 1,861
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 2.10% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 2.37% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 426 527 778
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £38,813 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £56,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% -13.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £49,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.16% -14.04% +14.00%

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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 17 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 17 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 -115 673 £51,356 -7.02% 1,655
UK excluding London -131 424 £45,000 -8.16% 887
London -110 273 £70,000 +7.69% 947
Work from Home -83 234 £55,000 -4.35% 635
North of England -9 150 £42,500 -10.53% 192
North West +24 109 £40,000 -16.67% 91
Midlands -52 86 £50,678 +12.62% 138
South East -94 85 £46,500 -6.06% 201
South West -86 48 £42,500 -10.53% 100
West Midlands -46 44 £45,000 -15.89% 77
East Midlands -50 42 £70,000 +64.71% 61
Yorkshire -39 30 £63,076 +29.39% 73
Wales -56 23 £66,000 +50.00% 29
Scotland -70 18 £75,000 +0.17% 90
East of England -51 13 £54,000 -10.59% 107
North East -63 11 £45,774 +7.70% 30
Northern Ireland -74 1 - - 40

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 22 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.08%) SAS
4 6 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.54%) Apache
5 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.41%) WinCC
7 2 (0.27%) Appian
7 2 (0.27%) Confluence
7 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 104 (14.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.62%) EPLAN
4 8 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.68%) Blender
5 5 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.54%) CATIA
6 4 (0.54%) Maya
7 3 (0.41%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.27%) InDesign
8 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.27%) Revit
8 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.27%) Windchill
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.22%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.27%) 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
1 392 (53.04%) Power Platform
2 182 (24.63%) Azure
3 122 (16.51%) AWS
4 71 (9.61%) GCP
5 43 (5.82%) dbt
6 41 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (4.47%) Snowflake
9 32 (4.33%) Google Analytics
10 31 (4.19%) SaaS
11 27 (3.65%) Microsoft Purview
12 26 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (3.11%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.57%) PowerApps
15 18 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
16 15 (2.03%) GitHub
17 13 (1.76%) Amazon S3
18 11 (1.49%) Azure Databricks
18 11 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 10 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.89%) Profibus
2 7 (0.95%) Broadband
3 6 (0.81%) 5G
3 6 (0.81%) Internet
4 5 (0.68%) Modbus
5 4 (0.54%) MQTT
6 3 (0.41%) VLAN
6 3 (0.41%) Wireless
7 2 (0.27%) HTTP
7 2 (0.27%) Network Security
7 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.27%) SNMP
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) WAN
8 1 (0.14%) AMQP
8 1 (0.14%) Intranet
8 1 (0.14%) PPP
8 1 (0.14%) VoIP
8 1 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (53.04%) Power BI
2 182 (24.63%) Tableau
3 76 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (8.12%) Looker
5 43 (5.82%) Power Query
6 39 (5.28%) SQL Server
7 33 (4.47%) Data Lake
8 28 (3.79%) Metadata
9 27 (3.65%) Data Mining
10 25 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (3.25%) Big Data
12 22 (2.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 21 (2.84%) Amazon QuickSight
13 21 (2.84%) BigQuery
14 19 (2.57%) Relational Database
15 17 (2.30%) GIS
16 15 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (2.03%) NoSQL
17 12 (1.62%) QlikView
17 12 (1.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (5.01%) Git
2 11 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.08%) JIRA
4 4 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.41%) GitLab
5 3 (0.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) ERwin
6 2 (0.27%) MLflow
6 2 (0.27%) Vite
7 1 (0.14%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.14%) fastlane
7 1 (0.14%) RStudio
7 1 (0.14%) Storybook
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.14%) Xcode
7 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 350 (47.36%) Analytical Skills
2 322 (43.57%) Social Skills
3 247 (33.42%) Finance
4 87 (11.77%) Marketing
5 70 (9.47%) Retail
6 67 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 67 (9.07%) Law
7 48 (6.50%) Public Sector
8 43 (5.82%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (4.87%) Back Office
9 36 (4.87%) Banking
9 36 (4.87%) Military
10 32 (4.33%) Telecoms
11 28 (3.79%) Manufacturing
12 23 (3.11%) Legal
13 22 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (2.03%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 201 (27.20%) Analyst
2 125 (16.91%) Senior
3 111 (15.02%) Data Analyst
4 79 (10.69%) Lead
5 65 (8.80%) Developer
6 62 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 38 (5.14%) Consultant
8 36 (4.87%) Data Scientist
9 35 (4.74%) Data Manager
10 34 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (4.33%) Analytics Manager
12 31 (4.19%) Software Engineer
13 26 (3.52%) Senior Data Analyst
14 21 (2.84%) Architect
14 21 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 21 (2.84%) Performance Analyst
15 19 (2.57%) Data Consultant
16 17 (2.30%) Power BI Analyst
17 16 (2.17%) Head of Business Intelligence
18 15 (2.03%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.19%) PySpark
2 25 (3.38%) .NET
3 23 (3.11%) Terraform
4 22 (2.98%) CSS
5 20 (2.71%) Pandas
6 19 (2.57%) Kafka
6 19 (2.57%) React
7 18 (2.44%) PyTorch
8 16 (2.17%) HTML
8 16 (2.17%) scikit-learn
9 12 (1.62%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.49%) jQuery
10 11 (1.49%) Streamlit
11 10 (1.35%) Ajax
11 10 (1.35%) CSS3
11 10 (1.35%) HTML5
11 10 (1.35%) LESS
11 10 (1.35%) NumPy
11 10 (1.35%) REST
11 10 (1.35%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 48 (6.50%) Management Information System
3 38 (5.14%) Algorithms
4 33 (4.47%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.71%) Data Structures
7 19 (2.57%) SCADA
8 16 (2.17%) Blog
9 13 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.49%) NHS
12 10 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.22%) Robotics
14 8 (1.08%) Clustering
14 8 (1.08%) Educational Technology
14 8 (1.08%) Social Media
15 7 (0.95%) IoT
15 7 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.22%) Linux
2 4 (0.54%) Windows
3 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (57.24%) Data Visualisation
2 409 (55.35%) Business Intelligence
3 400 (54.13%) Analytics
4 280 (37.89%) Decision-Making
5 238 (32.21%) Problem-Solving
6 232 (31.39%) AI
7 195 (26.39%) Data Analysis
8 187 (25.30%) Actionable Insight
8 187 (25.30%) Data Modelling
9 165 (22.33%) Machine Learning
10 157 (21.24%) Data Science
11 155 (20.97%) Agile
12 142 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (17.19%) Data Engineering
14 123 (16.64%) Data Governance
15 109 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 104 (14.07%) Dashboard Development
17 103 (13.94%) Data Analytics
18 96 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
19 87 (11.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 389 (52.64%) SQL
2 317 (42.90%) Python
3 49 (6.63%) R
4 46 (6.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 46 (6.22%) JavaScript
5 44 (5.95%) C#
6 28 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.98%) Java
8 20 (2.71%) C++
9 18 (2.44%) Scala
10 14 (1.89%) Ladder Logic
10 14 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.08%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.81%) C
12 6 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.68%) Bash
13 5 (0.68%) Go
13 5 (0.68%) Rust
13 5 (0.68%) VBA
14 4 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 158 (21.38%) Degree
2 85 (11.50%) Security Cleared
3 55 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.89%) DBS Check
7 13 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
9 11 (1.49%) HNC
9 11 (1.49%) HND
10 10 (1.35%) Chartered Engineer
10 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.35%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.54%) PhD
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.27%) ACCA
13 2 (0.27%) CIMA
13 2 (0.27%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (27.33%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.41%) GDPR
3 32 (4.33%) QA
4 28 (3.79%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (1.35%) IEC 61131
7 8 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.81%) PMO
9 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.68%) NIST
10 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 4 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.27%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) PERC
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (3.11%) Docker
2 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.68%) Ansible
3 4 (0.54%) EnCase
3 4 (0.54%) FTK
4 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.14%) Consul
5 1 (0.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) Kibana
5 1 (0.14%) logstash
5 1 (0.14%) MOM
5 1 (0.14%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 145 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.01%) Databricks
3 63 (8.53%) Google
4 23 (3.11%) SAP
5 17 (2.30%) Siemens
6 10 (1.35%) Oracle
7 9 (1.22%) YouTube
8 8 (1.08%) SYSPRO
9 7 (0.95%) Informatica
9 7 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
9 7 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.81%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.68%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.68%) IBM
11 5 (0.68%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.54%) Cellebrite
12 4 (0.54%) Foundry
12 4 (0.54%) Nuix
12 4 (0.54%) Relativity