Data Analysis Job Trends in Reading

Data Analysis
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 51 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 11 25 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 1.88% 3.45% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 3.89% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 8
10th Percentile - £38,500 -
25th Percentile £39,625 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,250 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £41,250 £72,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -43.10% +38.10% -10.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Data Analysis 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 465 643 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.35% 88.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 292 270 641
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,210 £83,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Data Analysis

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Reading over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in Reading

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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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (9.09%) dbt
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Looker
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) General Ledger
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Applications Support
2 5 (45.45%) Applications Support Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Financial Controller
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Incident Management
1 6 (54.55%) Problem Management
1 6 (54.55%) Task Automation
1 6 (54.55%) Validation
2 3 (27.27%) Accounts Payable
2 3 (27.27%) Accounts Receivable
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 3 (27.27%) Workflow
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
4 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) ACCA
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
1 6 (54.55%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica