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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 115 94
Rank change year-on-year -66 -21 +33
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 883 1,226 2,273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 2.69% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.89% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 525 634 1,346
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,633
25th Percentile £40,532 £46,063 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -

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 55,531 42,488 69,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.63% 93.22% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 33,358 21,624 53,124
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £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 £76,900 £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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -63 796 £60,000 -4.00% 606
UK excluding London -41 519 £45,000 -14.29% 544
London -67 311 £70,000 -15.15% 180
Work from Home -73 285 £57,500 -4.17% 199
South East +42 178 £58,750 -3.69% 137
North of England -45 136 £40,000 -16.67% 134
Midlands -43 83 £42,500 -22.73% 102
North West +2 77 £40,000 -20.00% 63
West Midlands -3 55 £44,000 -20.00% 50
Yorkshire -55 45 £40,000 -11.11% 52
South West -63 45 £47,500 +11.76% 65
Scotland -37 36 £51,250 +13.89% 17
East of England -4 31 £56,250 -19.64% 60
East Midlands -43 28 £40,000 -20.00% 51
North East -9 14 £37,500 -44.44% 21
Northern Ireland -29 6 - - 11
Wales -12 5 £38,500 -18.95% 36

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 50 (5.66%) Jupyter
2 46 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 43 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (3.28%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.94%) Confluence
6 21 (2.38%) Apache
7 8 (0.91%) WordPress
8 5 (0.57%) IIS
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.45%) CMS
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 193 (21.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (5.66%) Chatbot
3 34 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.13%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.91%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.68%) CATIA
7 6 (0.68%) Trello
8 5 (0.57%) Blender
8 5 (0.57%) Maya
8 5 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.45%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.34%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.11%) Houdini
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 51 (5.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.02%) SAP CO
3 6 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.57%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 416 (47.11%) Power Platform
2 194 (21.97%) Azure
3 137 (15.52%) AWS
4 76 (8.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 73 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (6.68%) GCP
7 56 (6.34%) Cloud Computing
8 55 (6.23%) Snowflake
9 48 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (5.44%) Power Automate
10 47 (5.32%) PowerApps
11 41 (4.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 32 (3.62%) dbt
13 24 (2.72%) GitHub
14 22 (2.49%) Google Analytics
15 21 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
15 21 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
16 20 (2.27%) Figma
17 19 (2.15%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.79%) Broadband
1 7 (0.79%) Modbus
2 5 (0.57%) Firewall
2 5 (0.57%) MQTT
3 2 (0.23%) LAN
3 2 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
3 2 (0.23%) WAN
3 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.23%) Wireless
4 1 (0.11%) ADSL
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (47.00%) Power BI
2 151 (17.10%) Tableau
3 71 (8.04%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.70%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (4.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 37 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (3.85%) Metadata
9 32 (3.62%) BigQuery
10 28 (3.17%) Looker
11 23 (2.60%) BusinessObjects
11 23 (2.60%) Data Lake
12 22 (2.49%) MySQL
13 21 (2.38%) Power Query
14 19 (2.15%) Big Data
15 16 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (1.70%) NoSQL
16 15 (1.70%) Relational Database
17 14 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
17 14 (1.59%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 82 (9.29%) JIRA
2 50 (5.66%) eCATT
2 50 (5.66%) Visual Studio Code
3 39 (4.42%) Git
4 22 (2.49%) NeoLoad
5 8 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.57%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.45%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) MLflow
10 1 (0.11%) ESLint
10 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.11%) Storybook
10 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 342 (38.73%) Finance
2 317 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 314 (35.56%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (16.19%) Marketing
5 137 (15.52%) Manufacturing
6 75 (8.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (8.15%) Retail
8 71 (8.04%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (6.23%) Public Sector
11 49 (5.55%) Law
12 42 (4.76%) Banking
13 39 (4.42%) Legal
14 37 (4.19%) Front Office
15 26 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.81%) Advertising
18 14 (1.59%) Billing
19 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
20 10 (1.13%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 228 (25.82%) Analyst
2 136 (15.40%) Senior
3 130 (14.72%) Developer
4 104 (11.78%) Data Analyst
5 65 (7.36%) Data Engineer
6 61 (6.91%) Lead
7 54 (6.12%) Trainee
8 50 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 50 (5.66%) Programmer
8 50 (5.66%) Trainee Programmer
9 48 (5.44%) Data Scientist
10 40 (4.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (3.96%) React Developer
11 35 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
12 32 (3.62%) Consultant
13 31 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 27 (3.06%) Data Manager
15 26 (2.94%) Commercial Analyst
16 24 (2.72%) Architect
17 22 (2.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.57%) Pandas
1 58 (6.57%) scikit-learn
2 55 (6.23%) NumPy
3 54 (6.12%) Hugging Face
4 53 (6.00%) Matplotlib
5 52 (5.89%) Streamlit
6 51 (5.78%) React
7 32 (3.62%) WebSockets
8 30 (3.40%) Kafka
9 28 (3.17%) PySpark
10 26 (2.94%) CSS
11 21 (2.38%) Highcharts JS
11 21 (2.38%) HTML
12 20 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
12 20 (2.27%) OpenFin
13 17 (1.93%) HTML5 Canvas
14 10 (1.13%) .NET
14 10 (1.13%) JSON
14 10 (1.13%) REST
15 9 (1.02%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.40%) Algorithms
2 61 (6.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 50 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.74%) Fixed Income
6 31 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 30 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 24 (2.72%) Blog
9 18 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.59%) IoT
10 14 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.47%) FMCG
11 13 (1.47%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.36%) Social Media
13 10 (1.13%) SCADA
14 8 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
16 6 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.47%) Linux
2 9 (1.02%) Unix
3 7 (0.79%) Windows
4 6 (0.68%) Android
5 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (51.98%) Data Visualisation
2 435 (49.26%) Business Intelligence
3 430 (48.70%) Analytics
4 288 (32.62%) Decision-Making
5 239 (27.07%) AI
6 229 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 205 (23.22%) Data Analysis
8 189 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 168 (19.03%) Machine Learning
10 162 (18.35%) Data Modelling
11 158 (17.89%) Actionable Insight
11 158 (17.89%) ETL
12 152 (17.21%) Data Science
13 148 (16.76%) Agile
14 140 (15.86%) Data Analytics
15 123 (13.93%) Data Management
16 113 (12.80%) Data Governance
17 107 (12.12%) Data Engineering
18 98 (11.10%) Computer Science
19 90 (10.19%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 385 (43.60%) SQL
2 362 (41.00%) Python
3 85 (9.63%) JavaScript
4 61 (6.91%) R
5 60 (6.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 39 (4.42%) VBA
7 31 (3.51%) Java
8 27 (3.06%) C#
9 25 (2.83%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.93%) Scala
11 12 (1.36%) Bash
11 12 (1.36%) C++
12 9 (1.02%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.68%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.57%) C
14 5 (0.57%) Ruby
15 4 (0.45%) Go
15 4 (0.45%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.45%) VB
15 4 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 248 (28.09%) Degree
2 59 (6.68%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.23%) AWS Certification
4 50 (5.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 50 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 47 (5.32%) Master's Degree
6 32 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (2.60%) MBA
9 15 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (1.47%) APMP
12 12 (1.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (1.25%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.91%) CISSP
14 8 (0.91%) PhD
15 7 (0.79%) CISA
15 7 (0.79%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.68%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.30%) QA
3 31 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.94%) GDPR
5 24 (2.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.13%) Good Clinical Practice
6 10 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 5 (0.57%) NIST
8 5 (0.57%) PMO
9 4 (0.45%) IEC 61131
10 3 (0.34%) COBIT
10 3 (0.34%) GRC
10 3 (0.34%) ITGC
11 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.11%) EMIR
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (2.38%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.66%) HP ALM
2 19 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.04%) Terraform
4 8 (0.91%) Grafana
4 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.57%) Ansible
6 4 (0.45%) SCCM
7 3 (0.34%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) CASB
8 2 (0.23%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) logstash
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.23%) MOM
8 2 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 200 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 98 (11.10%) SAP
3 50 (5.66%) Google
3 50 (5.66%) HP
4 39 (4.42%) Databricks
5 28 (3.17%) Adobe
6 26 (2.94%) Oracle
7 25 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.15%) Qualtrics
9 15 (1.70%) Alteryx
10 14 (1.59%) IBM
11 8 (0.91%) Informatica
12 7 (0.79%) Cognos
12 7 (0.79%) ESRI
12 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.79%) VMware
13 6 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (0.68%) Talend
14 5 (0.57%) BT
14 5 (0.57%) Infor