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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 124 123
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 -9
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 1,057 1,392 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.05% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.47% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 491 716 1,040
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +13.34% -0.74%
75th Percentile £73,125 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £104,624 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £59,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.83% +18.50% -

All Process and 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 45,647 56,467 49,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.17% 83.08% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,329 29,505 38,075
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -25 877 £57,500 -14.81% 877
UK excluding London +37 602 £47,500 -19.83% 498
London -41 382 £70,000 -9.39% 475
Work from Home -25 301 £57,500 -20.69% 451
South East +18 186 £50,000 -23.08% 180
North of England +10 111 £45,000 -17.65% 107
Scotland +19 104 £51,250 -35.94% 25
Midlands +47 99 £44,500 -15.19% 75
North West +32 66 £45,000 -17.87% 63
South West +3 59 £47,500 -13.64% 52
East Midlands +40 52 £42,500 -22.73% 30
West Midlands +18 47 £52,500 +2.44% 45
Yorkshire -13 31 £45,000 -18.18% 33
East of England +10 30 £57,500 -20.69% 44
North East +14 14 £47,500 -5.00% 13
Wales +7 10 £41,250 -13.16% 15
Northern Ireland +6 5 - - 11

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 51 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 36 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 34 (3.22%) Confluence
4 20 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.61%) Apache
6 8 (0.76%) Camunda
6 8 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
7 5 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Synapse
8 4 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.38%) SAS
8 4 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.38%) WordPress
9 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.19%) R Markdown
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.095%) Drupal
Applications
1 198 (18.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.42%) AutoCAD
3 15 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.76%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.57%) Trello
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.28%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.28%) Navisworks
9 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.28%) Revit
9 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.19%) Maya
10 2 (0.19%) ProjectWise
10 2 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 53 (5.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.42%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.095%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 461 (43.61%) Power Platform
2 227 (21.48%) Azure
3 142 (13.43%) AWS
4 82 (7.76%) GCP
5 71 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (6.62%) Snowflake
7 66 (6.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 58 (5.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 41 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (3.69%) Power Automate
11 38 (3.60%) Amazon S3
12 33 (3.12%) PowerApps
13 29 (2.74%) GitHub
14 27 (2.55%) Google Analytics
15 26 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (2.27%) Serverless
17 22 (2.08%) Fivetran
18 20 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
18 20 (1.89%) Figma
19 19 (1.80%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.66%) Firewall
1 7 (0.66%) LAN
1 7 (0.66%) WAN
2 6 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (0.47%) Internet
4 3 (0.28%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.19%) Profibus
5 2 (0.19%) TETRA
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.095%) ADSL
6 1 (0.095%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.095%) Modbus
6 1 (0.095%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (43.42%) Power BI
2 221 (20.91%) Tableau
3 99 (9.37%) SQL Server
4 69 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (5.87%) BigQuery
6 51 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 47 (4.45%) Looker
8 46 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 43 (4.07%) Metadata
9 43 (4.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 40 (3.78%) Data Lake
11 34 (3.22%) Big Data
12 27 (2.55%) Data Mining
12 27 (2.55%) Spark SQL
13 26 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (2.46%) Relational Database
14 24 (2.27%) MySQL
15 23 (2.18%) BusinessObjects
15 23 (2.18%) Delta Lake
16 21 (1.99%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 103 (9.74%) JIRA
2 53 (5.01%) eCATT
3 22 (2.08%) Git
3 22 (2.08%) MLflow
3 22 (2.08%) NeoLoad
4 14 (1.32%) JUnit
5 12 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.85%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.76%) webpack
8 7 (0.66%) Vite
9 4 (0.38%) Spinnaker
10 3 (0.28%) Selenium
11 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.095%) Ant
12 1 (0.095%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.095%) Maven
12 1 (0.095%) Protractor
12 1 (0.095%) RStudio
12 1 (0.095%) WebDriver
General
1 491 (46.45%) Finance
2 397 (37.56%) Social Skills
3 364 (34.44%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (22.52%) Law
5 206 (19.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 202 (19.11%) Marketing
7 134 (12.68%) Banking
8 91 (8.61%) Manufacturing
9 90 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (6.81%) Influencing Skills
11 67 (6.34%) Retail
12 47 (4.45%) Public Sector
13 42 (3.97%) Front Office
14 40 (3.78%) Legal
15 29 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (2.65%) Advertising
17 22 (2.08%) French Language
18 18 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.70%) Games
19 15 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 317 (29.99%) Analyst
2 219 (20.72%) Senior
3 151 (14.29%) Developer
4 139 (13.15%) Software Engineer
5 135 (12.77%) Data Analyst
6 116 (10.97%) Lead
7 69 (6.53%) Data Engineer
8 66 (6.24%) Java Engineer
8 66 (6.24%) Java Software Engineer
9 61 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
10 44 (4.16%) Data Scientist
11 41 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 38 (3.60%) Senior Developer
13 36 (3.41%) Python Engineer
14 35 (3.31%) Python Software Engineer
15 34 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 32 (3.03%) Insight Analyst
17 31 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 31 (2.93%) Lead Software Engineer
18 29 (2.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.76%) React
2 59 (5.58%) PySpark
3 54 (5.11%) Spring
4 42 (3.97%) Kafka
5 41 (3.88%) CSS
6 38 (3.60%) Pandas
7 36 (3.41%) scikit-learn
8 35 (3.31%) NumPy
9 34 (3.22%) Spring Boot
10 33 (3.12%) REST
11 28 (2.65%) PyTorch
12 27 (2.55%) HTML
13 25 (2.37%) AngularJS
13 25 (2.37%) TensorFlow
14 21 (1.99%) FIX Protocol
14 21 (1.99%) Highcharts JS
15 20 (1.89%) Flask
15 20 (1.89%) Lambda Expressions
15 20 (1.89%) WebSockets
16 19 (1.80%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 152 (14.38%) Algorithms
2 62 (5.87%) Analytical Mindset
3 41 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 36 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.55%) Fixed Income
8 23 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 23 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.80%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.42%) FMCG
13 13 (1.23%) Blog
14 12 (1.14%) Social Media
15 11 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.04%) Derivative
16 10 (0.95%) Reinsurance
17 9 (0.85%) Low-Code
18 8 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.93%) Unix
2 14 (1.32%) Linux
3 12 (1.14%) Windows
4 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.47%) Android
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (44.65%) Business Intelligence
2 470 (44.47%) Data Visualisation
3 451 (42.67%) Analytics
4 338 (31.98%) Decision-Making
5 328 (31.03%) Agile
6 298 (28.19%) Problem-Solving
7 283 (26.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 251 (23.75%) AI
9 216 (20.44%) Data Analysis
9 216 (20.44%) Machine Learning
10 208 (19.68%) Data Science
11 197 (18.64%) Actionable Insight
12 184 (17.41%) CI/CD
13 182 (17.22%) Software Engineering
14 159 (15.04%) ETL
15 154 (14.57%) Data Modelling
16 146 (13.81%) SDLC
17 142 (13.43%) Data Analytics
18 140 (13.25%) Community of Practice
19 127 (12.02%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 508 (48.06%) SQL
2 413 (39.07%) Python
3 116 (10.97%) Java
4 98 (9.27%) JavaScript
5 56 (5.30%) R
6 55 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 45 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 38 (3.60%) C#
9 20 (1.89%) VBA
10 17 (1.61%) Scala
10 17 (1.61%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 10 (0.95%) C++
13 9 (0.85%) Bash
14 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.28%) Bicep
15 3 (0.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.28%) PROC SQL
15 3 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 292 (27.63%) Degree
2 57 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (5.20%) Master's Degree
4 47 (4.45%) Security Cleared
5 41 (3.88%) SC Cleared
6 36 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.18%) CISSP
8 22 (2.08%) CISA
9 20 (1.89%) CISM
9 20 (1.89%) PhD
10 18 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
11 17 (1.61%) ACCA
11 17 (1.61%) CIMA
12 15 (1.42%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.14%) CRISC
13 12 (1.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (1.04%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.95%) MBA
16 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (10.50%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.24%) QA
3 42 (3.97%) GDPR
4 41 (3.88%) Accessibility
5 28 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.51%) NIST
7 15 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (1.14%) COBIT
8 12 (1.14%) GRC
8 12 (1.14%) ITGC
9 10 (0.95%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.38%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.095%) EMIR
12 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.095%) IFRS
12 1 (0.095%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.095%) PMO
12 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (5.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.28%) Apache Flume
3 3 (0.28%) HDFS
4 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.96%) Terraform
3 50 (4.73%) HP ALM
4 20 (1.89%) Kubeflow
5 15 (1.42%) Ansible
6 13 (1.23%) Grafana
7 9 (0.85%) Kibana
8 7 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.47%) logstash
9 5 (0.47%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.38%) CASB
10 4 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.28%) Oozie
12 2 (0.19%) Argo
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.095%) SCCM
Vendors
1 199 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 109 (10.31%) Databricks
3 98 (9.27%) SAP
4 86 (8.14%) Google
5 61 (5.77%) Oracle
6 50 (4.73%) HP
7 31 (2.93%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.27%) Adobe
9 23 (2.18%) Splunk
10 22 (2.08%) Alteryx
11 19 (1.80%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.61%) Qualtrics
13 16 (1.51%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.32%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.95%) Adaptive Insights
15 10 (0.95%) Workday
16 8 (0.76%) Cisco
16 8 (0.76%) ESRI
17 7 (0.66%) Progress
18 6 (0.57%) Sage