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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 151 117
Rank change year-on-year -129 -34 +14
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 771 1,032 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 2.09% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 2.35% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 440 494 721
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £39,730 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,875 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,750 £57,000
% change year-on-year -5.76% -16.23% +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 86,307 43,936 60,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.11% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,386 24,309 33,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%
75th Percentile £79,641 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
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 30 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 30 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 -108 696 £51,356 -10.69% 1,441
UK excluding London -136 433 £45,000 -5.76% 796
London -105 292 £64,000 -3.40% 769
Work from Home -64 259 £55,000 -4.35% 604
North of England -25 141 £42,500 -10.53% 167
North West +10 103 £40,000 -17.10% 84
Midlands -55 93 £47,500 +5.56% 129
South East -113 82 £45,000 -8.16% 184
South West -80 53 £42,500 -15.00% 89
West Midlands -43 49 £45,000 -13.46% 91
East Midlands -46 44 £70,000 +64.71% 38
Yorkshire -36 27 £52,500 +16.67% 61
Wales -56 24 £42,850 -2.61% 26
Scotland -54 22 £75,000 +27.66% 75
East of England -48 17 £42,959 -28.87% 94
North East -65 11 £41,919 -6.85% 22
Northern Ireland -90 1 - - 44

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 27 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.91%) SAS
4 6 (0.78%) Apache
4 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.65%) WinCC
6 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.26%) Appian
7 2 (0.26%) IIS
7 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Confluence
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 107 (13.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.08%) EPLAN
4 5 (0.65%) Blender
4 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.52%) Maya
6 3 (0.39%) 3ds Max
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.26%) InDesign
7 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
7 2 (0.26%) Revit
7 2 (0.26%) SPSS
7 2 (0.26%) Windchill
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.52%) SAP PM
2 3 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 405 (52.53%) Power Platform
2 186 (24.12%) Azure
3 120 (15.56%) AWS
4 74 (9.60%) GCP
5 45 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (5.06%) dbt
7 38 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 35 (4.54%) Snowflake
9 33 (4.28%) SaaS
10 31 (4.02%) Google Analytics
11 29 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 26 (3.37%) Power Automate
13 22 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (2.72%) PowerApps
15 19 (2.46%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (1.82%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.56%) Azure Databricks
17 12 (1.56%) GitHub
18 11 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 9 (1.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.33%) Profibus
2 8 (1.04%) Internet
3 7 (0.91%) Broadband
3 7 (0.91%) Modbus
4 6 (0.78%) 5G
5 5 (0.65%) VLAN
6 4 (0.52%) MQTT
7 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.39%) Wireless
8 2 (0.26%) HTTP
8 2 (0.26%) Network Security
8 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.26%) SNMP
8 2 (0.26%) WAN
9 1 (0.13%) AMQP
9 1 (0.13%) DHCP
9 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) VoIP
9 1 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (52.53%) Power BI
2 187 (24.25%) Tableau
3 81 (10.51%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (7.13%) Looker
5 49 (6.36%) Power Query
6 43 (5.58%) SQL Server
7 35 (4.54%) Data Lake
8 27 (3.50%) Big Data
8 27 (3.50%) Metadata
9 26 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 25 (3.24%) Data Mining
11 24 (3.11%) Relational Database
12 21 (2.72%) Amazon QuickSight
12 21 (2.72%) BigQuery
13 17 (2.20%) GIS
14 16 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
15 15 (1.95%) NoSQL
16 12 (1.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 50 (6.49%) Git
2 12 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.91%) JIRA
4 5 (0.65%) GitLab
5 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.26%) ERwin
6 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.26%) Vite
7 1 (0.13%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.13%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.13%) fastlane
7 1 (0.13%) MLflow
7 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) Storybook
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.13%) Xcode
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 363 (47.08%) Analytical Skills
2 343 (44.49%) Social Skills
3 259 (33.59%) Finance
4 90 (11.67%) Marketing
5 70 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (8.95%) Law
7 67 (8.69%) Retail
8 58 (7.52%) Public Sector
9 49 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (4.93%) Banking
11 36 (4.67%) Back Office
12 34 (4.41%) Military
13 32 (4.15%) Manufacturing
14 31 (4.02%) Telecoms
15 29 (3.76%) Legal
16 23 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (1.95%) Financial Institution
19 14 (1.82%) Local Government
20 12 (1.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 211 (27.37%) Analyst
2 129 (16.73%) Senior
3 119 (15.43%) Data Analyst
4 82 (10.64%) Lead
5 77 (9.99%) Developer
6 64 (8.30%) Data Engineer
7 40 (5.19%) Consultant
8 37 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
9 34 (4.41%) Software Engineer
10 29 (3.76%) Data Manager
10 29 (3.76%) Data Scientist
11 28 (3.63%) Senior Data Analyst
12 26 (3.37%) Analytics Manager
12 26 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 20 (2.59%) Performance Analyst
14 19 (2.46%) Architect
14 19 (2.46%) Data Consultant
15 18 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (2.33%) Power BI Analyst
16 17 (2.20%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.28%) PySpark
2 26 (3.37%) .NET
3 21 (2.72%) React
3 21 (2.72%) Terraform
4 20 (2.59%) Kafka
4 20 (2.59%) Pandas
5 18 (2.33%) CSS
6 15 (1.95%) PyTorch
7 14 (1.82%) REST
8 13 (1.69%) scikit-learn
9 12 (1.56%) HTML
9 12 (1.56%) NumPy
9 12 (1.56%) Streamlit
9 12 (1.56%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.30%) AngularJS
10 10 (1.30%) jQuery
11 9 (1.17%) CSS3
11 9 (1.17%) HTML5
11 9 (1.17%) LESS
11 9 (1.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.78%) Onboarding
2 57 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 32 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.24%) SCADA
6 22 (2.85%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.33%) Blog
9 16 (2.08%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.43%) NHS
12 11 (1.43%) Robotics
13 9 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.17%) Social Media
14 8 (1.04%) Clustering
14 8 (1.04%) Educational Technology
14 8 (1.04%) IoT
15 7 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.56%) Linux
2 6 (0.78%) Windows
3 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.39%) Unix
3 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) CentOS
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (56.81%) Data Visualisation
2 428 (55.51%) Business Intelligence
3 406 (52.66%) Analytics
4 292 (37.87%) Decision-Making
5 245 (31.78%) Problem-Solving
6 239 (31.00%) AI
7 199 (25.81%) Actionable Insight
8 194 (25.16%) Data Analysis
9 189 (24.51%) Data Modelling
10 165 (21.40%) Machine Learning
11 160 (20.75%) Agile
12 159 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 154 (19.97%) Data Science
14 131 (16.99%) Data Engineering
15 122 (15.82%) Data Governance
16 121 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
17 113 (14.66%) Dashboard Development
18 109 (14.14%) Data Analytics
19 100 (12.97%) Data Pipeline
20 93 (12.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 401 (52.01%) SQL
2 320 (41.50%) Python
3 51 (6.61%) R
4 50 (6.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (5.71%) C#
6 41 (5.32%) JavaScript
7 29 (3.76%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.72%) Java
9 20 (2.59%) C++
10 19 (2.46%) Scala
11 18 (2.33%) Ladder Logic
12 15 (1.95%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.04%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.91%) C
15 5 (0.65%) Bash
15 5 (0.65%) Go
15 5 (0.65%) Rust
15 5 (0.65%) VBA
16 2 (0.26%) Formula Language
Qualifications
1 164 (21.27%) Degree
2 89 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 59 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.46%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.95%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.82%) HND
7 13 (1.69%) HNC
7 13 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
8 12 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
8 12 (1.56%) Postgraduate
9 10 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.04%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.04%) PhD
12 4 (0.52%) ACCA
12 4 (0.52%) CIMA
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (28.27%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.45%) GDPR
3 27 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 23 (2.98%) QA
5 15 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.82%) IEC 61131
7 6 (0.78%) PMO
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.52%) NEBOSH
8 4 (0.52%) NIST
8 4 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.13%) PERC
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (3.37%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Ceph
3 1 (0.13%) Lustre
3 1 (0.13%) NFS
3 1 (0.13%) Samba
3 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.65%) Ansible
2 5 (0.65%) EnCase
2 5 (0.65%) FTK
3 2 (0.26%) Kibana
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.13%) Consul
4 1 (0.13%) Grafana
4 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.13%) logstash
4 1 (0.13%) MOM
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (0.13%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 154 (19.97%) Microsoft
2 78 (10.12%) Databricks
3 64 (8.30%) Google
4 23 (2.98%) Siemens
5 20 (2.59%) SAP
6 12 (1.56%) Oracle
7 10 (1.30%) YouTube
8 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.04%) SYSPRO
9 7 (0.91%) Informatica
9 7 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (0.78%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.65%) AVEVA
11 5 (0.65%) Cellebrite
11 5 (0.65%) Foundry
11 5 (0.65%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.65%) Nuix
11 5 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.65%) Relativity