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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 120 101
Rank change year-on-year -67 -19 +25
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 839 1,222 2,071
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.44% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.66% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 479 645 1,332
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,625 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,529
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.46% -2.26%

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 52,411 45,996 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 91.99% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,090 22,202 50,938
10th Percentile £28,809 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -44 755 £60,000 -7.69% 420
UK excluding London -27 469 £50,000 -4.76% 367
London -61 318 £70,000 -17.65% 171
Work from Home -51 277 £57,500 -11.54% 156
South East +27 170 £60,000 -7.69% 129
North of England -21 111 £45,000 -2.70% 87
Midlands -20 78 £44,000 -21.78% 69
North West +19 65 £45,000 - 49
West Midlands -7 51 £47,085 -16.29% 37
South West -39 37 £47,500 +14.46% 41
Yorkshire -58 35 £51,000 +13.33% 32
Scotland -41 34 £57,500 +27.78% 19
East of England +14 30 £57,500 -19.30% 15
East Midlands -24 27 £40,000 -29.20% 32
North East +2 11 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Wales -5 6 £38,500 -18.95% 11
Northern Ireland -25 4 - - 4

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 42 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.10%) Confluence
4 21 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 20 (2.38%) Apache
6 19 (2.26%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.83%) WordPress
8 5 (0.60%) IIS
9 4 (0.48%) CMS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 200 (23.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.91%) Chatbot
3 16 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.67%) AutoCAD
5 10 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.07%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.72%) Trello
8 5 (0.60%) Blender
8 5 (0.60%) Maya
9 4 (0.48%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.36%) CATIA
10 3 (0.36%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.24%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 51 (6.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.07%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 423 (50.42%) Power Platform
2 201 (23.96%) Azure
3 101 (12.04%) AWS
4 77 (9.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (7.27%) GCP
7 57 (6.79%) Snowflake
8 46 (5.48%) Power Automate
9 44 (5.24%) PowerApps
10 42 (5.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.74%) Google Analytics
12 22 (2.62%) Adobe Analytics
12 22 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (2.62%) GitHub
13 21 (2.50%) dbt
14 20 (2.38%) Figma
15 19 (2.26%) Amazon S3
16 18 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) Firewall
2 5 (0.60%) Modbus
2 5 (0.60%) MQTT
3 4 (0.48%) LAN
3 4 (0.48%) WAN
3 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.24%) Broadband
4 2 (0.24%) Profibus
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (50.18%) Power BI
2 154 (18.36%) Tableau
3 77 (9.18%) SQL Server
4 64 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (4.53%) Looker
6 38 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 36 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (3.69%) BigQuery
9 30 (3.58%) Metadata
10 23 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
10 23 (2.74%) Data Lake
10 23 (2.74%) MySQL
11 19 (2.26%) Big Data
11 19 (2.26%) Power Query
12 17 (2.03%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.67%) Data Mining
13 14 (1.67%) Hadoop
14 13 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 84 (10.01%) JIRA
2 50 (5.96%) eCATT
3 37 (4.41%) Git
4 22 (2.62%) NeoLoad
5 16 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) ESLint
10 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.12%) Storybook
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 317 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 314 (37.43%) Finance
3 311 (37.07%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (17.40%) Marketing
5 104 (12.40%) Manufacturing
6 81 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
7 74 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (5.84%) Public Sector
9 43 (5.13%) Banking
10 41 (4.89%) Legal
11 39 (4.65%) Law
11 39 (4.65%) Retail
12 35 (4.17%) Front Office
13 31 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (2.15%) Advertising
16 14 (1.67%) Billing
16 14 (1.67%) French Language
17 8 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 233 (27.77%) Analyst
2 140 (16.69%) Senior
3 131 (15.61%) Developer
4 103 (12.28%) Data Analyst
5 67 (7.99%) Lead
6 59 (7.03%) Data Engineer
7 46 (5.48%) Data Scientist
8 41 (4.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 38 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
10 31 (3.69%) React Developer
11 30 (3.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 29 (3.46%) Senior Developer
13 28 (3.34%) Insight Analyst
14 26 (3.10%) Commercial Analyst
14 26 (3.10%) Consultant
15 25 (2.98%) Data Manager
16 23 (2.74%) Junior
17 22 (2.62%) Architect
18 21 (2.50%) Senior Manager
18 21 (2.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.48%) React
2 30 (3.58%) CSS
2 30 (3.58%) scikit-learn
2 30 (3.58%) WebSockets
3 29 (3.46%) Pandas
4 28 (3.34%) PySpark
5 27 (3.22%) NumPy
6 23 (2.74%) Matplotlib
7 22 (2.62%) Highcharts JS
8 21 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
8 21 (2.50%) HTML
8 21 (2.50%) Kafka
8 21 (2.50%) OpenFin
9 20 (2.38%) Hugging Face
10 18 (2.15%) Streamlit
11 16 (1.91%) HTML5 Canvas
12 15 (1.79%) REST
13 13 (1.55%) JSON
14 11 (1.31%) .NET
15 10 (1.19%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 49 (5.84%) Algorithms
2 49 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
3 36 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.69%) Fixed Income
6 30 (3.58%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.86%) Blog
7 24 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.43%) FMCG
11 11 (1.31%) IoT
12 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.95%) SCADA
14 7 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.83%) Social Media
15 6 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.83%) Android
1 7 (0.83%) Linux
1 7 (0.83%) Windows
2 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
2 5 (0.60%) Unix
3 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (53.40%) Data Visualisation
2 438 (52.21%) Business Intelligence
3 423 (50.42%) Analytics
4 284 (33.85%) Decision-Making
5 222 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (24.08%) AI
7 197 (23.48%) Data Analysis
8 194 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 168 (20.02%) Actionable Insight
10 155 (18.47%) Data Modelling
10 155 (18.47%) ETL
11 153 (18.24%) Agile
12 148 (17.64%) Data Science
13 138 (16.45%) Data Analytics
14 136 (16.21%) Machine Learning
15 120 (14.30%) Data Management
16 109 (12.99%) Data Engineering
17 107 (12.75%) Computer Science
18 93 (11.08%) Data Governance
19 88 (10.49%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 383 (45.65%) SQL
2 318 (37.90%) Python
3 80 (9.54%) JavaScript
4 57 (6.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 57 (6.79%) R
5 32 (3.81%) VBA
6 25 (2.98%) C#
7 22 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.50%) Java
9 13 (1.55%) Scala
10 12 (1.43%) Bash
10 12 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.72%) C++
12 5 (0.60%) Ruby
13 4 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
13 4 (0.48%) C
13 4 (0.48%) Go
14 3 (0.36%) Bicep
14 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 261 (31.11%) Degree
2 51 (6.08%) Security Cleared
3 50 (5.96%) Master's Degree
4 48 (5.72%) SC Cleared
5 41 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 21 (2.50%) MBA
8 16 (1.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
10 13 (1.55%) CISSP
11 12 (1.43%) CISA
11 12 (1.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 11 (1.31%) APMP
12 11 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.31%) DBS Check
12 11 (1.31%) PhD
13 9 (1.07%) CISM
14 8 (0.95%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.36%) QA
3 31 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 18 (2.15%) GDPR
6 15 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.19%) Good Clinical Practice
7 10 (1.19%) IEC 61131
7 10 (1.19%) NIST
8 8 (0.95%) COBIT
8 8 (0.95%) GRC
8 8 (0.95%) ITGC
9 5 (0.60%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (2.26%) Docker
2 6 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.96%) HP ALM
2 18 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.03%) Terraform
4 7 (0.83%) Ansible
5 4 (0.48%) CASB
5 4 (0.48%) Grafana
5 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.48%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.36%) Argo
7 2 (0.24%) Kibana
7 2 (0.24%) logstash
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.24%) MOM
8 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 171 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.32%) SAP
3 55 (6.56%) Google
4 50 (5.96%) HP
5 40 (4.77%) Databricks
6 26 (3.10%) Adobe
6 26 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.74%) Oracle
8 19 (2.26%) Qualtrics
9 12 (1.43%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.95%) IBM
11 7 (0.83%) ESRI
11 7 (0.83%) Informatica
11 7 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.72%) Cisco
12 6 (0.72%) Cognos
12 6 (0.72%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.72%) VMware
13 5 (0.60%) Epicor