Analytical Thinking Job Trends in Reading

Analytical Thinking
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 106
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Thinking 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.30% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +85.71% - -53.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Analytical Thinking 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 522 610 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 77.68% 90.24% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 326 233 793
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,688 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -7.56%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in Reading

Analytical Thinking
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytical Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior FPGA Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
1 1 (50.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica