Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

data visualization

568 live US technical postings name data visualization in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 568 postings naming data visualization that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist38.4%
  2. 2Data Analyst29.8%
  3. 3Software Engineer16.5%
  4. 4Data Engineer4.2%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer3.9%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer3.2%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.4%
  8. 8DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where data visualization is named
n = 307
10th
$98k
25th
$120k
Median
$156k
75th
$193k
90th
$239k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY9.5%
  2. 2Remote8.6%
  3. 3Washington, DC7.9%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA7.2%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA6%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.1%
  7. 7Chicago, IL1.9%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.9%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.