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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 123 100
Rank change year-on-year -55 -23 +25
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 850 1,210 2,078
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.43% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.64% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 494 644 1,337
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £33,656
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £115,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.39% -1.94%

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 53,091 45,886 65,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.62% 92.19% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,704 22,437 50,836
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £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 £76,000 £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 13 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 13 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 -48 767 £60,000 -7.69% 404
UK excluding London -22 483 £50,000 -4.76% 349
London -53 316 £70,000 -17.65% 171
Work from Home -50 275 £58,750 -8.20% 147
South East +40 172 £58,750 -8.91% 132
North of England -7 119 £45,000 -5.26% 71
Midlands -26 78 £44,000 -23.48% 66
North West +14 69 £45,000 -7.22% 39
West Midlands -10 52 £45,542 -20.80% 38
South West -33 40 £47,500 +11.76% 43
Yorkshire -50 38 £51,000 +13.33% 25
Scotland -48 34 £57,500 +27.78% 15
East of England +10 31 £56,250 -19.64% 18
East Midlands -26 26 £40,000 -29.20% 28
North East 0 12 £37,500 -46.43% 7
Wales -7 6 £38,500 -18.95% 9
Northern Ireland -23 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 43 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.53%) Jupyter
4 26 (3.06%) Confluence
5 23 (2.71%) Apache Spark
6 21 (2.47%) Apache
7 7 (0.82%) WordPress
8 5 (0.59%) IIS
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) SAS
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.35%) 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
1 198 (23.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (3.29%) Chatbot
4 15 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.65%) AutoCAD
6 11 (1.29%) MS Visio
7 9 (1.06%) SOLIDWORKS
8 6 (0.71%) Trello
9 5 (0.59%) Blender
9 5 (0.59%) Maya
10 4 (0.47%) 3ds Max
10 4 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.47%) CATIA
10 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.35%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.24%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 51 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.06%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.35%) 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 (49.76%) Power Platform
2 198 (23.29%) Azure
3 112 (13.18%) AWS
4 77 (9.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (6.94%) GCP
7 57 (6.71%) Snowflake
8 47 (5.53%) Power Automate
9 44 (5.18%) PowerApps
10 43 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
11 42 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 34 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
13 25 (2.94%) dbt
14 23 (2.71%) Google Analytics
15 22 (2.59%) GitHub
16 21 (2.47%) Adobe Analytics
17 20 (2.35%) Figma
18 19 (2.24%) Amazon S3
19 18 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
20 15 (1.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) Firewall
2 6 (0.71%) Modbus
3 5 (0.59%) MQTT
4 4 (0.47%) LAN
4 4 (0.47%) WAN
4 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.24%) Broadband
5 2 (0.24%) Profibus
5 2 (0.24%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) ADSL
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (49.53%) Power BI
2 153 (18.00%) Tableau
3 76 (8.94%) SQL Server
4 68 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (4.47%) Looker
6 38 (4.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 37 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (3.65%) BigQuery
9 30 (3.53%) Metadata
10 24 (2.82%) Data Lake
11 23 (2.71%) BusinessObjects
11 23 (2.71%) MySQL
12 19 (2.24%) Big Data
12 19 (2.24%) Power Query
13 17 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.76%) NoSQL
15 14 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
15 14 (1.65%) Data Mining
15 14 (1.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 84 (9.88%) JIRA
2 50 (5.88%) eCATT
3 36 (4.24%) Git
4 28 (3.29%) Visual Studio Code
5 22 (2.59%) NeoLoad
6 7 (0.82%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.47%) GitLab
7 4 (0.47%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.24%) MLflow
9 1 (0.12%) ESLint
9 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.12%) Storybook
9 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 326 (38.35%) Finance
2 315 (37.06%) Social Skills
3 312 (36.71%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (17.18%) Marketing
5 115 (13.53%) Manufacturing
6 82 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 73 (8.59%) Influencing Skills
7 73 (8.59%) Presentation Skills
8 50 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 49 (5.76%) Retail
10 44 (5.18%) Banking
11 42 (4.94%) Legal
12 39 (4.59%) Law
13 35 (4.12%) Front Office
14 31 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (2.12%) Advertising
17 14 (1.65%) Billing
17 14 (1.65%) French Language
18 9 (1.06%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 232 (27.29%) Analyst
2 135 (15.88%) Senior
3 131 (15.41%) Developer
4 104 (12.24%) Data Analyst
5 66 (7.76%) Lead
6 60 (7.06%) Data Engineer
7 44 (5.18%) Data Scientist
8 42 (4.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 38 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
10 31 (3.65%) React Developer
11 30 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 29 (3.41%) Trainee
13 28 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
13 28 (3.29%) Insight Analyst
13 28 (3.29%) Programmer
13 28 (3.29%) Trainee Programmer
14 27 (3.18%) Senior Developer
15 26 (3.06%) Commercial Analyst
15 26 (3.06%) Consultant
15 26 (3.06%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.41%) React
2 39 (4.59%) scikit-learn
3 38 (4.47%) Pandas
4 36 (4.24%) NumPy
5 34 (4.00%) Matplotlib
6 32 (3.76%) Hugging Face
7 30 (3.53%) CSS
7 30 (3.53%) Streamlit
8 29 (3.41%) WebSockets
9 27 (3.18%) PySpark
10 22 (2.59%) Highcharts JS
10 22 (2.59%) Kafka
11 21 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
11 21 (2.47%) HTML
11 21 (2.47%) OpenFin
12 16 (1.88%) HTML5 Canvas
13 13 (1.53%) REST
14 12 (1.41%) JSON
15 11 (1.29%) .NET
16 9 (1.06%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.06%) Algorithms
2 59 (6.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 49 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.65%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.65%) Fixed Income
6 30 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.82%) Blog
8 22 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.41%) FMCG
11 12 (1.41%) IoT
12 10 (1.18%) SCADA
13 8 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.82%) Social Media
15 6 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.94%) Linux
2 7 (0.82%) Windows
3 6 (0.71%) Android
4 5 (0.59%) Unix
5 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (52.94%) Data Visualisation
2 438 (51.53%) Business Intelligence
3 421 (49.53%) Analytics
4 283 (33.29%) Decision-Making
5 225 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 213 (25.06%) AI
7 198 (23.29%) Data Analysis
8 194 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 165 (19.41%) Actionable Insight
10 158 (18.59%) Data Modelling
11 156 (18.35%) ETL
12 153 (18.00%) Agile
13 144 (16.94%) Data Science
14 143 (16.82%) Machine Learning
15 138 (16.24%) Data Analytics
16 123 (14.47%) Data Management
17 108 (12.71%) Data Engineering
18 104 (12.24%) Computer Science
19 95 (11.18%) Data Governance
20 87 (10.24%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 383 (45.06%) SQL
2 329 (38.71%) Python
3 79 (9.29%) JavaScript
4 58 (6.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 56 (6.59%) R
6 32 (3.76%) VBA
7 26 (3.06%) C#
8 23 (2.71%) Java
9 21 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.53%) Scala
11 12 (1.41%) Bash
11 12 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.71%) C++
13 5 (0.59%) Ruby
14 4 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.47%) C
14 4 (0.47%) Go
14 4 (0.47%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (30.00%) Degree
2 50 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 46 (5.41%) Master's Degree
3 46 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.88%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 27 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (2.47%) MBA
9 16 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.41%) CISSP
11 12 (1.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 11 (1.29%) APMP
12 11 (1.29%) CISA
12 11 (1.29%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.94%) CISM
13 8 (0.94%) PhD
14 7 (0.82%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (15.29%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.06%) QA
3 30 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 18 (2.12%) GDPR
6 14 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.18%) Good Clinical Practice
7 10 (1.18%) IEC 61131
8 9 (1.06%) NIST
9 7 (0.82%) COBIT
9 7 (0.82%) GRC
9 7 (0.82%) ITGC
10 5 (0.59%) PMO
11 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.12%) EMIR
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (2.12%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.88%) HP ALM
2 18 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.12%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) Ansible
4 5 (0.59%) Grafana
4 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.47%) CASB
5 4 (0.47%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.35%) 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
1 185 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.18%) SAP
3 54 (6.35%) Google
4 50 (5.88%) HP
5 39 (4.59%) Databricks
6 27 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.94%) Adobe
8 23 (2.71%) Oracle
9 19 (2.24%) Qualtrics
10 12 (1.41%) Alteryx
11 9 (1.06%) IBM
12 7 (0.82%) ESRI
12 7 (0.82%) Informatica
12 7 (0.82%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.71%) Cisco
13 6 (0.71%) Cognos
13 6 (0.71%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.71%) VMware
14 5 (0.59%) Talend