Data Visualisation Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Visualization
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Visualisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 138 166
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 -43
Permanent jobs citing Data Visualisation 32 29 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.90% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.03% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 20 26 25
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,678 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -13.04% +7.48%
75th Percentile £51,356 £62,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £53,250 £70,625 £72,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +12.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,234 2,813 4,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.77% 87.22% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,525 1,730 2,221
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Data Visualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Visualisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Data Visualisation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Visualisation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Visualisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Visualisation

Data Visualisation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Visualisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Visualisation in the West Midlands

Data Visualisation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Visualisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Birmingham -29 15 £32,000 -41.82% 36
Shropshire - 11 £51,356 - 4
Solihull - 3 £32,500 - 2
Staffordshire +5 1 - - 5
Warwickshire -24 1 £80,500 +66.84% 4
Data Visualisation
England

Data Visualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 26 (81.25%) Power Platform
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (12.50%) Google Ads
4 4 (12.50%) Google Data Studio
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Advertising
5 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 3 (9.38%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (81.25%) Power BI
2 11 (34.38%) Power Query
3 10 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (31.25%) Tableau
4 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
4 3 (9.38%) Looker
5 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (3.13%) GIS
5 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Yeoman
General
1 23 (71.88%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
4 10 (31.25%) Fire and Rescue
5 7 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (15.63%) Marketing
7 4 (12.50%) Finance
8 1 (3.13%) Law
8 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Lead
2 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 10 (31.25%) Team Leader
3 8 (25.00%) Data Manager
4 7 (21.88%) Data Governance Analyst
4 7 (21.88%) Data Governance Manager
4 7 (21.88%) Governance Manager
5 5 (15.63%) Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Data Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) PPC Executive
6 4 (12.50%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Insight Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Data Management Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Data Science Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Insight Data Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Portfolio Management Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Power BI Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) IVR
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 26 (81.25%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (56.25%) Analytics
4 17 (53.13%) Data Governance
4 17 (53.13%) Data Management
4 17 (53.13%) Data Protection
4 17 (53.13%) Decision-Making
5 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
6 12 (37.50%) Data Analysis
7 11 (34.38%) AI
7 11 (34.38%) Roadmaps
8 10 (31.25%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (31.25%) Data Architecture
8 10 (31.25%) Data Integration
8 10 (31.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 10 (31.25%) Sprint Planning
8 10 (31.25%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) SQL
2 13 (40.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (37.50%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 17 (53.13%) GDPR
3 7 (21.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) PMO
4 1 (3.13%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Google
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Hotjar