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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 152 120
Rank change year-on-year -132 -32 +12
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 776 1,045 1,604
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 2.11% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 2.36% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 444 492 730
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,475
25th Percentile £39,730 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,356 £57,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -12.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £96,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,250 £57,000
% change year-on-year -6.74% -15.35% +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 86,437 44,202 61,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.12% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,483 24,460 33,440
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -112 700 £51,356 -9.10% 1,897
UK excluding London -130 437 £45,000 -6.74% 1,120
London -99 293 £62,500 -3.85% 1,019
Work from Home -58 260 £55,000 -4.35% 764
North of England -22 141 £42,500 -10.53% 235
North West +9 103 £40,000 -16.67% 112
Midlands -49 92 £47,500 +5.56% 172
South East -125 82 £45,000 -8.16% 277
South West -75 53 £42,500 -15.00% 119
West Midlands -40 48 £45,000 -13.88% 116
East Midlands -45 44 £70,000 +64.71% 56
Yorkshire -32 27 £52,500 +16.67% 88
Wales -56 25 £45,175 +2.67% 45
Scotland -58 22 £75,000 +30.43% 114
East of England -50 21 £44,000 -27.14% 119
North East -61 11 £41,919 -11.75% 36
Northern Ireland -86 1 - - 54

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 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 15 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.90%) SAS
4 6 (0.77%) Apache
4 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.64%) 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 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.06%) EPLAN
4 6 (0.77%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.64%) Blender
6 4 (0.52%) Maya
7 3 (0.39%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) InDesign
8 2 (0.26%) Lightworks
8 2 (0.26%) Notion
8 2 (0.26%) Revit
8 2 (0.26%) SPSS
8 2 (0.26%) Windchill
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
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
1 410 (52.84%) Power Platform
2 188 (24.23%) Azure
3 122 (15.72%) AWS
4 74 (9.54%) GCP
5 45 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 38 (4.90%) dbt
7 36 (4.64%) Snowflake
8 35 (4.51%) SaaS
9 30 (3.87%) Google Analytics
10 29 (3.74%) Microsoft Purview
11 26 (3.35%) Power Automate
12 22 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (2.71%) PowerApps
14 20 (2.58%) Azure Machine Learning
15 14 (1.80%) Amazon S3
16 12 (1.55%) Azure Databricks
16 12 (1.55%) GitHub
17 11 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 9 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.32%) Profibus
2 8 (1.03%) Internet
3 7 (0.90%) Broadband
3 7 (0.90%) Modbus
4 6 (0.77%) 5G
5 5 (0.64%) 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%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.13%) PPP
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 410 (52.84%) Power BI
2 185 (23.84%) Tableau
3 82 (10.57%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (7.22%) Looker
5 49 (6.31%) Power Query
6 43 (5.54%) SQL Server
7 35 (4.51%) Data Lake
8 28 (3.61%) Big Data
9 27 (3.48%) Metadata
10 26 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (3.22%) Data Mining
11 25 (3.22%) Relational Database
12 21 (2.71%) Amazon QuickSight
12 21 (2.71%) BigQuery
13 16 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
14 15 (1.93%) GIS
14 15 (1.93%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (6.19%) Git
2 12 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.90%) JIRA
4 5 (0.64%) 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
1 366 (47.16%) Analytical Skills
2 348 (44.85%) Social Skills
3 261 (33.63%) Finance
4 90 (11.60%) Marketing
5 67 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (8.63%) Law
6 64 (8.25%) Retail
7 62 (7.99%) Public Sector
8 49 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (4.64%) Back Office
9 36 (4.64%) Banking
10 34 (4.38%) Military
11 32 (4.12%) Manufacturing
12 31 (3.99%) Telecoms
13 29 (3.74%) Legal
14 23 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.80%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.80%) Local Government
17 12 (1.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 216 (27.84%) Analyst
2 129 (16.62%) Senior
3 121 (15.59%) Data Analyst
4 81 (10.44%) Lead
5 76 (9.79%) Developer
6 67 (8.63%) Data Engineer
7 40 (5.15%) Consultant
8 37 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
9 35 (4.51%) Software Engineer
10 30 (3.87%) Data Scientist
11 29 (3.74%) Data Manager
12 28 (3.61%) Senior Data Analyst
13 26 (3.35%) Analytics Manager
13 26 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 20 (2.58%) Performance Analyst
15 19 (2.45%) Architect
15 19 (2.45%) Data Consultant
16 18 (2.32%) Automation Engineer
16 18 (2.32%) Power BI Analyst
17 17 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.25%) PySpark
2 26 (3.35%) .NET
3 21 (2.71%) React
3 21 (2.71%) Terraform
4 20 (2.58%) Kafka
4 20 (2.58%) Pandas
5 18 (2.32%) CSS
6 14 (1.80%) PyTorch
6 14 (1.80%) REST
7 13 (1.68%) NumPy
8 12 (1.55%) HTML
8 12 (1.55%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.55%) Streamlit
8 12 (1.55%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.29%) jQuery
10 9 (1.16%) Ajax
10 9 (1.16%) CSS3
10 9 (1.16%) HTML5
10 9 (1.16%) LESS
10 9 (1.16%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.86%) Onboarding
2 57 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 38 (4.90%) Algorithms
4 32 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.22%) SCADA
6 22 (2.84%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.45%) Blog
9 16 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.42%) NHS
12 11 (1.42%) Robotics
13 10 (1.29%) Educational Technology
14 8 (1.03%) Clustering
14 8 (1.03%) IoT
14 8 (1.03%) Social Media
15 7 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.55%) Linux
2 6 (0.77%) 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
1 441 (56.83%) Data Visualisation
2 436 (56.19%) Business Intelligence
3 407 (52.45%) Analytics
4 293 (37.76%) Decision-Making
5 245 (31.57%) AI
5 245 (31.57%) Problem-Solving
6 204 (26.29%) Actionable Insight
7 196 (25.26%) Data Analysis
8 190 (24.48%) Data Modelling
9 169 (21.78%) Machine Learning
10 160 (20.62%) Agile
10 160 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 154 (19.85%) Data Science
12 133 (17.14%) Data Engineering
13 129 (16.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 126 (16.24%) Data Governance
15 114 (14.69%) Dashboard Development
16 108 (13.92%) Data Analytics
17 103 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
18 95 (12.24%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 407 (52.45%) SQL
2 325 (41.88%) Python
3 53 (6.83%) R
4 52 (6.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (5.67%) C#
6 40 (5.15%) JavaScript
7 28 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.71%) Java
9 20 (2.58%) C++
10 19 (2.45%) Scala
11 18 (2.32%) Ladder Logic
12 15 (1.93%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.03%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.90%) C
15 5 (0.64%) Bash
15 5 (0.64%) Go
15 5 (0.64%) Rust
15 5 (0.64%) VBA
16 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 169 (21.78%) Degree
2 91 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 61 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 20 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.93%) Numerate Degree
7 14 (1.80%) HND
7 14 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.68%) HNC
9 12 (1.55%) Chartered Engineer
10 10 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.29%) PhD
10 10 (1.29%) Postgraduate
11 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.52%) ACCA
13 4 (0.52%) CIMA
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (28.74%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.54%) GDPR
3 27 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.22%) QA
5 15 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 15 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (1.80%) IEC 61131
7 6 (0.77%) 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 (3.35%) Docker
2 5 (0.64%) 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 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.64%) Ansible
2 5 (0.64%) EnCase
2 5 (0.64%) 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
1 156 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 78 (10.05%) Databricks
3 63 (8.12%) Google
4 23 (2.96%) Siemens
5 20 (2.58%) SAP
6 12 (1.55%) Oracle
7 11 (1.42%) YouTube
8 10 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.03%) SYSPRO
10 7 (0.90%) Informatica
10 7 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (0.77%) Alteryx
11 6 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (0.77%) Foundry
11 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.64%) AVEVA
12 5 (0.64%) Cellebrite
12 5 (0.64%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.64%) Nuix
12 5 (0.64%) Relativity