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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 116 131
Rank change year-on-year -32 +15 -27
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 1,035 1,537 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.17% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.64% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 480 717 1,047
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £99,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -

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 43,738 58,305 52,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.91% 82.16% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,553 31,325 40,400
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,925 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,600 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.70% -2.59% +2.86%

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 October 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 October 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 -41 860 £57,500 -11.54% 685
UK excluding London 0 578 £47,500 -17.39% 493
London -33 384 £68,750 -8.33% 344
Work from Home -68 291 £57,500 -17.86% 396
South East +10 182 £49,000 -24.62% 230
Scotland +1 104 £57,500 -28.13% 24
North of England -19 101 £47,500 -12.44% 84
Midlands +24 97 £43,250 -13.50% 60
North West -13 67 £48,250 -11.94% 50
South West +1 58 £50,000 -9.09% 57
East Midlands +28 51 £42,500 -15.00% 24
West Midlands +21 46 £52,000 -7.56% 36
East of England -11 30 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Yorkshire -6 26 £42,500 -26.72% 28
North East +14 8 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Wales +9 7 £44,000 -7.37% 8
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 5

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 56 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.51%) Confluence
4 17 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.55%) Apache
6 8 (0.77%) Camunda
6 8 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.48%) CMS
7 5 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.48%) SAS
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Synapse
8 4 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.19%) R Markdown
9 2 (0.19%) WordPress
10 1 (0.097%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.097%) Drupal
10 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 158 (15.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.26%) AutoCAD
4 13 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.77%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.29%) Civil 3D
8 3 (0.29%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.29%) Revit
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) EPLAN
9 2 (0.19%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.19%) Sketch
9 2 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 53 (5.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.19%) SAP PM
7 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.097%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 449 (43.38%) Power Platform
2 214 (20.68%) Azure
3 164 (15.85%) AWS
4 78 (7.54%) Snowflake
5 77 (7.44%) GCP
6 69 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 42 (4.06%) Amazon S3
9 41 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (3.48%) Power Automate
11 32 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (2.80%) Google Analytics
12 29 (2.80%) PowerApps
13 26 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (2.32%) Serverless
15 23 (2.22%) Fivetran
16 19 (1.84%) Amazon ELB
16 19 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.64%) Adobe Analytics
17 17 (1.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Firewall
1 7 (0.68%) LAN
1 7 (0.68%) WAN
2 6 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (0.39%) Internet
4 3 (0.29%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.19%) Profibus
5 2 (0.19%) TETRA
5 2 (0.19%) VPN
6 1 (0.097%) DNS
6 1 (0.097%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.097%) HTTP
6 1 (0.097%) Modbus
6 1 (0.097%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (43.19%) Power BI
2 237 (22.90%) Tableau
3 80 (7.73%) SQL Server
4 76 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (5.99%) BigQuery
6 49 (4.73%) Metadata
7 48 (4.64%) Looker
7 48 (4.64%) NoSQL
8 44 (4.25%) Data Lake
9 43 (4.15%) Big Data
10 30 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (2.71%) Data Mining
12 28 (2.71%) Spark SQL
13 26 (2.51%) Relational Database
14 24 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (2.22%) Delta Lake
15 23 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 21 (2.03%) DynamoDB
16 21 (2.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 97 (9.37%) JIRA
2 53 (5.12%) eCATT
3 24 (2.32%) Git
4 22 (2.13%) MLflow
4 22 (2.13%) NeoLoad
5 16 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.35%) JUnit
7 9 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.77%) webpack
9 7 (0.68%) Vite
10 4 (0.39%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.29%) Selenium
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.097%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.097%) Karma Test Runner
13 1 (0.097%) Protractor
13 1 (0.097%) RStudio
13 1 (0.097%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 1 (0.097%) WebDriver
General
1 478 (46.18%) Finance
2 358 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 344 (33.24%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (23.77%) Law
5 193 (18.65%) Marketing
6 192 (18.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 127 (12.27%) Banking
8 89 (8.60%) Manufacturing
9 81 (7.83%) Retail
10 79 (7.63%) Presentation Skills
11 65 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (4.44%) Public Sector
13 43 (4.15%) Legal
14 29 (2.80%) Front Office
15 25 (2.42%) Advertising
15 25 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (2.13%) French Language
17 21 (2.03%) Games
18 19 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 325 (31.40%) Analyst
2 213 (20.58%) Senior
3 145 (14.01%) Developer
4 136 (13.14%) Data Analyst
5 134 (12.95%) Software Engineer
6 122 (11.79%) Lead
7 81 (7.83%) Data Engineer
8 66 (6.38%) Java Engineer
8 66 (6.38%) Java Software Engineer
9 60 (5.80%) Senior Analyst
10 41 (3.96%) Data Scientist
11 40 (3.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (3.57%) Business Analyst
13 36 (3.48%) Python Engineer
13 36 (3.48%) Senior Developer
14 35 (3.38%) Python Software Engineer
15 30 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 29 (2.80%) Lead Software Engineer
17 28 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 28 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.15%) React
2 65 (6.28%) PySpark
3 54 (5.22%) Spring
4 44 (4.25%) CSS
5 43 (4.15%) Kafka
6 40 (3.86%) Pandas
7 36 (3.48%) NumPy
7 36 (3.48%) REST
7 36 (3.48%) scikit-learn
8 34 (3.29%) Spring Boot
9 28 (2.71%) HTML
10 27 (2.61%) PyTorch
11 24 (2.32%) TensorFlow
12 23 (2.22%) AngularJS
13 21 (2.03%) Flask
14 20 (1.93%) Django
14 20 (1.93%) Lambda Expressions
14 20 (1.93%) YAML
15 19 (1.84%) Keras
15 19 (1.84%) Metaflow
Miscellaneous
1 153 (14.78%) Algorithms
2 42 (4.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (3.38%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.64%) Fixed Income
9 17 (1.64%) FMCG
10 16 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.16%) Social Media
12 11 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.06%) Derivative
12 11 (1.06%) Reinsurance
13 8 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.90%) Unix
2 14 (1.35%) Linux
3 11 (1.06%) Windows
4 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (45.70%) Data Visualisation
2 457 (44.15%) Business Intelligence
3 424 (40.97%) Analytics
4 324 (31.30%) Decision-Making
5 316 (30.53%) Agile
6 273 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
7 259 (25.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (21.26%) AI
9 219 (21.16%) Machine Learning
10 215 (20.77%) Data Science
11 190 (18.36%) Actionable Insight
12 189 (18.26%) Data Analysis
13 182 (17.58%) CI/CD
14 173 (16.71%) Software Engineering
15 166 (16.04%) ETL
16 157 (15.17%) Data Modelling
17 141 (13.62%) SDLC
18 137 (13.24%) Community of Practice
19 133 (12.85%) Data Analytics
20 128 (12.37%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 491 (47.44%) SQL
2 411 (39.71%) Python
3 113 (10.92%) Java
4 90 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 63 (6.09%) R
6 47 (4.54%) TypeScript
7 37 (3.57%) C#
8 31 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.64%) Scala
10 17 (1.64%) VBA
11 10 (0.97%) C++
12 9 (0.87%) Bash
13 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.39%) PHP
16 3 (0.29%) Bicep
16 3 (0.29%) PROC SQL
16 3 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 274 (26.47%) Degree
2 59 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (5.51%) Master's Degree
4 41 (3.96%) Security Cleared
5 34 (3.29%) SC Cleared
6 32 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.22%) CISSP
7 23 (2.22%) PhD
8 22 (2.13%) CISA
9 21 (2.03%) CISM
10 17 (1.64%) ACCA
10 17 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.64%) CIMA
11 16 (1.55%) Numerate Degree
12 12 (1.16%) CRISC
13 11 (1.06%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.58%) CCNP
14 6 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 69 (6.67%) QA
3 50 (4.83%) GDPR
4 48 (4.64%) Accessibility
5 31 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.55%) NIST
7 13 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (1.16%) COBIT
8 12 (1.16%) GRC
8 12 (1.16%) ITGC
9 10 (0.97%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.39%) ISO 19650
11 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.19%) IFRS
11 2 (0.19%) WCAG
12 1 (0.097%) EMIR
12 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.097%) MiFID
12 1 (0.097%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (5.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) HDFS
3 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 79 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 68 (6.57%) Terraform
3 50 (4.83%) HP ALM
4 20 (1.93%) Kubeflow
5 14 (1.35%) Ansible
6 13 (1.26%) Grafana
7 8 (0.77%) Kibana
8 7 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.48%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.39%) CASB
10 4 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.39%) logstash
11 3 (0.29%) Oozie
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.097%) SCCM
Vendors
1 218 (21.06%) Microsoft
2 107 (10.34%) Databricks
3 98 (9.47%) SAP
4 88 (8.50%) Google
5 66 (6.38%) Oracle
6 50 (4.83%) HP
7 29 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.22%) Adobe
8 23 (2.22%) Alteryx
8 23 (2.22%) Splunk
9 19 (1.84%) OpenAI
9 19 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.26%) Anaplan
12 11 (1.06%) Qualtrics
13 10 (0.97%) Adaptive Insights
13 10 (0.97%) Workday
14 8 (0.77%) Cognos
15 7 (0.68%) Cisco
15 7 (0.68%) Progress