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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 120 100
Rank change year-on-year -61 -20 +24
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 842 1,241 2,069
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 2.43% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 2.65% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 479 648 1,333
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,625 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 51,996 46,880 64,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.99% 91.87% 88.55%
Number of salaries quoted 30,799 22,693 50,451
10th Percentile £28,750 £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 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £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 6 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 6 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 -48 756 £60,000 -7.69% 516
UK excluding London -24 467 £50,000 -4.76% 415
London -61 322 £70,000 -17.65% 221
Work from Home -38 277 £57,500 -11.54% 216
South East +22 169 £56,250 -13.46% 140
North of England -30 108 £45,000 - 99
Midlands -21 76 £45,390 -21.06% 77
North West +9 63 £45,000 -3.74% 53
West Midlands 0 52 £47,085 -18.11% 43
South West -18 41 £50,000 +17.65% 46
Scotland -34 34 £57,500 +27.78% 23
Yorkshire -44 34 £51,000 +13.33% 37
East of England +11 29 £57,500 -15.44% 20
East Midlands -27 24 £40,000 -31.03% 34
North East -6 11 £50,000 -28.57% 10
Wales -3 7 £41,250 -13.16% 15
Northern Ireland -22 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 42 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.09%) Confluence
4 22 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 21 (2.49%) Apache
6 19 (2.26%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.83%) WordPress
8 5 (0.59%) IIS
9 4 (0.48%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.48%) CMS
9 4 (0.48%) SAS
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 198 (23.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.90%) Chatbot
3 16 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.78%) AutoCAD
5 10 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.07%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.71%) Trello
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.48%) Blender
8 4 (0.48%) Maya
9 3 (0.36%) 3ds Max
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.36%) CATIA
9 3 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.24%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 51 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.07%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 421 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 202 (23.99%) Azure
3 100 (11.88%) AWS
4 76 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 72 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.36%) GCP
7 57 (6.77%) Snowflake
8 47 (5.58%) Power Automate
9 44 (5.23%) PowerApps
10 42 (4.99%) Microsoft 365
11 41 (4.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 24 (2.85%) Google Analytics
13 22 (2.61%) Adobe Analytics
13 22 (2.61%) GitHub
14 21 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
15 20 (2.38%) dbt
15 20 (2.38%) Figma
16 19 (2.26%) Amazon S3
16 19 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (1.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) Firewall
2 5 (0.59%) LAN
2 5 (0.59%) Modbus
2 5 (0.59%) MQTT
2 5 (0.59%) WAN
3 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.24%) Broadband
4 2 (0.24%) Profibus
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (49.76%) Power BI
2 152 (18.05%) Tableau
3 78 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 63 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (4.63%) Looker
7 38 (4.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (3.68%) BigQuery
9 31 (3.68%) Metadata
10 24 (2.85%) BusinessObjects
11 23 (2.73%) MySQL
12 22 (2.61%) Data Lake
13 19 (2.26%) Big Data
13 19 (2.26%) Power Query
14 18 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (2.02%) NoSQL
16 14 (1.66%) Hadoop
17 13 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
17 13 (1.54%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 84 (9.98%) JIRA
2 50 (5.94%) eCATT
3 38 (4.51%) Git
4 22 (2.61%) NeoLoad
5 16 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.48%) GitLab
7 4 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 1 (0.12%) ESLint
10 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.12%) Storybook
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 316 (37.53%) Social Skills
2 314 (37.29%) Finance
3 308 (36.58%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (17.46%) Marketing
5 104 (12.35%) Manufacturing
6 81 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (8.91%) Influencing Skills
7 75 (8.91%) Presentation Skills
8 50 (5.94%) Public Sector
9 43 (5.11%) Law
10 42 (4.99%) Banking
11 40 (4.75%) Legal
11 40 (4.75%) Retail
12 36 (4.28%) Front Office
13 30 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
15 18 (2.14%) Advertising
16 14 (1.66%) Billing
16 14 (1.66%) French Language
17 10 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 229 (27.20%) Analyst
2 138 (16.39%) Senior
3 133 (15.80%) Developer
4 100 (11.88%) Data Analyst
5 68 (8.08%) Lead
6 59 (7.01%) Data Engineer
7 46 (5.46%) Data Scientist
8 41 (4.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 36 (4.28%) Senior Analyst
10 32 (3.80%) React Developer
11 29 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 29 (3.44%) Senior Developer
12 28 (3.33%) Insight Analyst
13 27 (3.21%) Data Manager
14 25 (2.97%) Consultant
15 24 (2.85%) Commercial Analyst
16 22 (2.61%) Architect
16 22 (2.61%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 22 (2.61%) Junior
17 21 (2.49%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.58%) React
2 31 (3.68%) WebSockets
3 30 (3.56%) CSS
3 30 (3.56%) scikit-learn
4 29 (3.44%) Pandas
5 28 (3.33%) PySpark
6 27 (3.21%) NumPy
7 23 (2.73%) Highcharts JS
7 23 (2.73%) Matplotlib
8 22 (2.61%) FIX Protocol
8 22 (2.61%) Kafka
8 22 (2.61%) OpenFin
9 21 (2.49%) HTML
10 20 (2.38%) Hugging Face
11 18 (2.14%) Streamlit
12 17 (2.02%) HTML5 Canvas
13 15 (1.78%) REST
14 13 (1.54%) JSON
15 11 (1.31%) .NET
16 10 (1.19%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 51 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 49 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
4 37 (4.39%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 32 (3.80%) Fixed Income
7 30 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 26 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.85%) Blog
10 14 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.54%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.43%) FMCG
13 11 (1.31%) IoT
14 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.95%) SCADA
15 8 (0.95%) Social Media
16 7 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
17 6 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.83%) Android
1 7 (0.83%) Linux
1 7 (0.83%) Windows
2 6 (0.71%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (53.92%) Data Visualisation
2 435 (51.66%) Business Intelligence
3 425 (50.48%) Analytics
4 280 (33.25%) Decision-Making
5 220 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
6 205 (24.35%) AI
7 197 (23.40%) Data Analysis
8 192 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (19.48%) Actionable Insight
10 155 (18.41%) ETL
11 154 (18.29%) Data Modelling
12 152 (18.05%) Agile
13 147 (17.46%) Data Science
14 138 (16.39%) Machine Learning
15 135 (16.03%) Data Analytics
16 121 (14.37%) Data Management
17 108 (12.83%) Data Engineering
18 105 (12.47%) Computer Science
19 92 (10.93%) Data Governance
20 91 (10.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 378 (44.89%) SQL
2 317 (37.65%) Python
3 82 (9.74%) JavaScript
4 57 (6.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 55 (6.53%) R
6 31 (3.68%) VBA
7 26 (3.09%) C#
8 22 (2.61%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.49%) Java
10 13 (1.54%) Scala
11 12 (1.43%) Bash
11 12 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.83%) C++
13 5 (0.59%) Ruby
14 4 (0.48%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.48%) C
14 4 (0.48%) Go
14 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.36%) Bicep
15 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 263 (31.24%) Degree
2 53 (6.29%) Master's Degree
3 52 (6.18%) Security Cleared
4 49 (5.82%) SC Cleared
5 42 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.49%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.38%) MBA
9 16 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 15 (1.78%) PhD
11 14 (1.66%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.66%) Numerate Degree
12 13 (1.54%) CISSP
13 12 (1.43%) CISA
13 12 (1.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.19%) APMP
15 10 (1.19%) DBS Check
16 9 (1.07%) CISM
17 8 (0.95%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (15.32%) Data Quality
2 45 (5.34%) QA
3 32 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 16 (1.90%) GDPR
6 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.19%) Good Clinical Practice
7 10 (1.19%) IEC 61131
7 10 (1.19%) NIST
8 8 (0.95%) COBIT
8 8 (0.95%) GRC
8 8 (0.95%) ITGC
9 5 (0.59%) PMO
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (2.49%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (5.94%) HP ALM
2 19 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.90%) Terraform
4 8 (0.95%) Ansible
5 5 (0.59%) Grafana
5 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.48%) CASB
6 4 (0.48%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.36%) Argo
7 3 (0.36%) Kibana
8 2 (0.24%) logstash
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.24%) MOM
9 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 173 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.28%) SAP
3 56 (6.65%) Google
4 50 (5.94%) HP
5 43 (5.11%) Databricks
6 26 (3.09%) Adobe
6 26 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.73%) Oracle
8 19 (2.26%) Qualtrics
9 9 (1.07%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.95%) IBM
11 7 (0.83%) Cisco
11 7 (0.83%) ESRI
11 7 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.71%) Informatica
12 6 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.71%) VMware
13 5 (0.59%) Epicor
13 5 (0.59%) Infor