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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 119 102
Rank change year-on-year -61 -17 +25
Permanent jobs citing Visualisation 815 1,316 1,596
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.35% 2.46% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.71% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 457 690 989
10th Percentile £37,200 £37,400 £33,516
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,011
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.16% -8.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,500 £115,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +7.38% +2.04%

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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

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 January 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 15 January 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 -46 731 £60,000 -7.69% 570
UK excluding London -24 451 £52,500 -2.21% 532
London -62 311 £70,000 -15.15% 154
Work from Home -46 272 £58,750 -16.07% 203
South East +22 165 £55,000 -15.38% 180
North of England -15 96 £45,000 -5.26% 115
Midlands -11 79 £45,000 -18.18% 79
North West +9 52 £45,000 -14.29% 60
West Midlands -2 51 £52,500 -4.55% 35
South West -43 37 £50,000 +13.69% 58
Yorkshire -27 35 £45,000 - 40
East of England +16 32 £57,500 -11.54% 59
Scotland -30 32 £57,500 +5.50% 27
East Midlands -25 28 £42,500 -24.78% 43
North East +11 9 £62,500 -7.41% 16
Wales -2 7 £41,250 -13.16% 21
Northern Ireland -14 4 - - 9

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 36 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (3.19%) Confluence
4 18 (2.21%) Apache
4 18 (2.21%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.86%) WordPress
6 5 (0.61%) IIS
7 4 (0.49%) Apache Superset
7 4 (0.49%) SAS
8 3 (0.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 204 (25.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.84%) AutoCAD
4 13 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.10%) SOLIDWORKS
7 6 (0.74%) Trello
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.37%) Blender
9 3 (0.37%) Maya
9 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.25%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.25%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.25%) Sketch
11 1 (0.12%) CATIA
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 51 (6.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.86%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.86%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 426 (52.27%) Power Platform
2 197 (24.17%) Azure
3 79 (9.69%) AWS
4 73 (8.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 70 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (8.34%) GCP
7 63 (7.73%) Snowflake
8 46 (5.64%) Power Automate
9 45 (5.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 40 (4.91%) PowerApps
11 39 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
12 25 (3.07%) Google Analytics
13 23 (2.82%) GitHub
14 20 (2.45%) Figma
15 18 (2.21%) Adobe Analytics
15 18 (2.21%) dbt
15 18 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (2.09%) Fivetran
17 15 (1.84%) Amazon S3
18 14 (1.72%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.86%) Firewall
2 5 (0.61%) LAN
2 5 (0.61%) Modbus
2 5 (0.61%) MQTT
2 5 (0.61%) WAN
3 4 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.25%) Profibus
4 2 (0.25%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) ADSL
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (52.02%) Power BI
2 170 (20.86%) Tableau
3 81 (9.94%) SQL Server
4 57 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (5.40%) Looker
6 43 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 39 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 38 (4.66%) BigQuery
9 32 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (3.44%) Data Lake
10 28 (3.44%) Metadata
11 23 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
12 22 (2.70%) MySQL
13 19 (2.33%) Power Query
14 17 (2.09%) Big Data
14 17 (2.09%) NoSQL
14 17 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (1.72%) Data Mining
16 13 (1.60%) Hadoop
17 12 (1.47%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 85 (10.43%) JIRA
2 50 (6.13%) eCATT
3 29 (3.56%) Git
4 22 (2.70%) NeoLoad
5 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.49%) GitLab
6 4 (0.49%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.37%) MLflow
8 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 327 (40.12%) Social Skills
2 304 (37.30%) Analytical Skills
3 300 (36.81%) Finance
4 148 (18.16%) Marketing
5 86 (10.55%) Manufacturing
6 82 (10.06%) Presentation Skills
7 79 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 73 (8.96%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (6.26%) Law
10 47 (5.77%) Public Sector
11 40 (4.91%) Banking
12 35 (4.29%) Legal
13 31 (3.80%) Front Office
14 30 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (3.44%) Retail
16 22 (2.70%) Advertising
17 21 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.96%) French Language
19 14 (1.72%) Billing
20 12 (1.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 254 (31.17%) Analyst
2 147 (18.04%) Senior
3 121 (14.85%) Developer
4 109 (13.37%) Data Analyst
5 72 (8.83%) Lead
6 55 (6.75%) Data Engineer
7 44 (5.40%) Senior Analyst
8 43 (5.28%) Data Scientist
9 39 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 37 (4.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 30 (3.68%) Insight Analyst
12 27 (3.31%) Data Manager
12 27 (3.31%) Senior Developer
13 24 (2.94%) Commercial Analyst
13 24 (2.94%) React Developer
14 23 (2.82%) Senior Manager
15 21 (2.58%) Consultant
15 21 (2.58%) Junior
15 21 (2.58%) Performance Analyst
15 21 (2.58%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.29%) React
2 25 (3.07%) WebSockets
3 24 (2.94%) PySpark
4 21 (2.58%) CSS
4 21 (2.58%) FIX Protocol
4 21 (2.58%) Highcharts JS
4 21 (2.58%) OpenFin
5 16 (1.96%) HTML5 Canvas
6 15 (1.84%) Kafka
6 15 (1.84%) Pandas
6 15 (1.84%) REST
6 15 (1.84%) scikit-learn
7 13 (1.60%) HTML
7 13 (1.60%) JSON
7 13 (1.60%) NumPy
8 12 (1.47%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.10%) Flask
9 9 (1.10%) TensorFlow
10 8 (0.98%) FastAPI
11 7 (0.86%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.87%) Analytical Mindset
2 46 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 31 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 28 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 27 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 27 (3.31%) Fixed Income
7 25 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.94%) Blog
9 16 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.47%) FMCG
12 11 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.35%) IoT
13 9 (1.10%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.98%) Social Media
15 7 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.86%) SCADA
16 5 (0.61%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.23%) Linux
1 10 (1.23%) Windows
2 8 (0.98%) Unix
3 6 (0.74%) Android
4 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (55.21%) Data Visualisation
2 443 (54.36%) Business Intelligence
3 418 (51.29%) Analytics
4 282 (34.60%) Decision-Making
5 215 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (23.56%) Data Analysis
7 185 (22.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 174 (21.35%) Actionable Insight
9 172 (21.10%) AI
10 152 (18.65%) ETL
11 148 (18.16%) Agile
11 148 (18.16%) Data Science
12 146 (17.91%) Data Modelling
13 135 (16.56%) Data Analytics
14 123 (15.09%) Data Management
15 116 (14.23%) Machine Learning
16 107 (13.13%) Data Engineering
17 97 (11.90%) Computer Science
18 92 (11.29%) Project Management
19 86 (10.55%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 394 (48.34%) SQL
2 303 (37.18%) Python
3 66 (8.10%) JavaScript
4 61 (7.48%) R
5 53 (6.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (3.07%) VBA
7 19 (2.33%) C#
7 19 (2.33%) Java
8 14 (1.72%) Scala
9 13 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.98%) Bash
11 8 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.61%) C++
13 4 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
13 4 (0.49%) Ruby
14 3 (0.37%) Bicep
14 3 (0.37%) Go
14 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.25%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 269 (33.01%) Degree
2 49 (6.01%) Master's Degree
2 49 (6.01%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (2.45%) CISSP
7 19 (2.33%) CISA
8 17 (2.09%) MBA
9 16 (1.96%) PhD
10 14 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (1.60%) CISM
12 12 (1.47%) CRISC
12 12 (1.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 9 (1.10%) ACCA
13 9 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.10%) CIMA
14 7 (0.86%) APMP
14 7 (0.86%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (15.58%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.77%) QA
3 31 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 23 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.58%) GDPR
6 20 (2.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (1.72%) NIST
8 12 (1.47%) COBIT
8 12 (1.47%) GRC
8 12 (1.47%) ITGC
9 10 (1.23%) Good Clinical Practice
9 10 (1.23%) IEC 61131
10 5 (0.61%) PMO
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (2.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (6.13%) HP ALM
2 16 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.47%) Terraform
4 7 (0.86%) Ansible
5 5 (0.61%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.49%) CASB
7 3 (0.37%) Argo
7 3 (0.37%) Grafana
7 3 (0.37%) Kibana
7 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.25%) logstash
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 161 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 93 (11.41%) SAP
3 58 (7.12%) Google
4 50 (6.13%) Databricks
4 50 (6.13%) HP
5 29 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.31%) Oracle
7 23 (2.82%) Adobe
8 17 (2.09%) Qualtrics
9 11 (1.35%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.86%) Cisco
11 7 (0.86%) ESRI
11 7 (0.86%) Progress
11 7 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.74%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.61%) Anaplan
13 5 (0.61%) BT
13 5 (0.61%) Verint
13 5 (0.61%) VMware