Analyst Jobs in the Thames Valley

Analyst
South East > Thames Valley

The median Analyst salary in the Thames Valley is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -32 +5 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 186 649 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.49% 9.67% 11.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.57% 10.21% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 102 395 315
10th Percentile £29,855 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,625 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £49,875
90th Percentile £60,000 £59,950 £60,250
South East median annual salary £44,000 £40,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.61% -6.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,832 6,355 5,383
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.61% 94.68% 89.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,270 4,451 3,169
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire -10 111 £50,967 +24.31% 39
Berkshire -54 47 £37,500 -1.32% 58
Oxfordshire -31 28 £47,500 +15.85% 39
Analyst
South East

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 108 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 70 (37.63%) Finance
3 69 (37.10%) Microsoft
4 65 (34.95%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (34.95%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (24.73%) ERP
6 43 (23.12%) Strategic Thinking
7 39 (20.97%) Change Management
8 36 (19.35%) Customer Service
9 34 (18.28%) Business Analysis
10 31 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (16.67%) ITIL
10 31 (16.67%) Business Case
11 30 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
12 29 (15.59%) Workshop Facilitation
13 28 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (15.05%) Use Case
14 27 (14.52%) CBAP
14 27 (14.52%) MoSCoW
15 25 (13.44%) IBM Domino
15 25 (13.44%) SQL
15 25 (13.44%) SAP
15 25 (13.44%) Project Management
16 24 (12.90%) Azure
17 23 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
18 22 (11.83%) Windows
18 22 (11.83%) Service Management
19 21 (11.29%) Law
19 21 (11.29%) Microsoft 365

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (13.44%) IBM Domino
2 5 (2.69%) Apache
2 5 (2.69%) IIS
3 4 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) Notion
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (8.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 16 (8.60%) SAP FI
2 14 (7.53%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (3.23%) ResourceLink
4 5 (2.69%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.54%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.90%) Azure
2 21 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (10.22%) Power Platform
4 18 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.69%) SaaS
6 4 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.08%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.08%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.08%) OCI
8 2 (1.08%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.08%) PaaS
8 2 (1.08%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.54%) AWS
9 1 (0.54%) Miro
9 1 (0.54%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.22%) Firewall
2 10 (5.38%) DNS
3 8 (4.30%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.30%) VoIP
4 5 (2.69%) VPN
5 2 (1.08%) Internet
5 2 (1.08%) Network Security
5 2 (1.08%) SSL
6 1 (0.54%) Intranet
6 1 (0.54%) LAN
6 1 (0.54%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.14%) Power BI
2 7 (3.76%) Data Mining
3 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.08%) Tableau
6 1 (0.54%) Big Data
6 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 10 (5.38%) JIRA
General
1 108 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 70 (37.63%) Finance
3 65 (34.95%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
5 21 (11.29%) Law
6 13 (6.99%) Retail
7 12 (6.45%) General Ledger
7 12 (6.45%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.30%) Marketing
8 8 (4.30%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.76%) Spanish Language
10 6 (3.23%) Back Office
11 5 (2.69%) Local Government
12 4 (2.15%) Banking
12 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.61%) Legal
14 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.54%) Automotive
15 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.61%) .NET
1 3 (1.61%) XML
2 2 (1.08%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.08%) Gherkin
2 2 (1.08%) JSON
2 2 (1.08%) Middleware
2 2 (1.08%) REST
2 2 (1.08%) SOAP
2 2 (1.08%) Swagger
2 2 (1.08%) XSLT
3 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.84%) Algorithms
1 9 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
1 9 (4.84%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.30%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.08%) EPoS
6 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.54%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.54%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.83%) Windows
2 5 (2.69%) Mac OS
2 5 (2.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.08%) Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.95%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (24.73%) ERP
3 43 (23.12%) Strategic Thinking
4 39 (20.97%) Change Management
5 36 (19.35%) Customer Service
6 34 (18.28%) Business Analysis
7 31 (16.67%) Business Case
7 31 (16.67%) ITIL
7 31 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
9 29 (15.59%) Workshop Facilitation
10 28 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (15.05%) Use Case
11 27 (14.52%) MoSCoW
12 25 (13.44%) Project Management
13 23 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (11.83%) Service Management
15 21 (11.29%) Analytics
16 20 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (10.22%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.44%) SQL
2 19 (10.22%) Python
3 8 (4.30%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.69%) C#
5 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.08%) Go
6 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.08%) VBA
7 1 (0.54%) ABAP
7 1 (0.54%) Java
7 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.54%) R
7 1 (0.54%) VB
7 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (14.52%) CBAP
2 20 (10.75%) Degree
3 6 (3.23%) ACCA
3 6 (3.23%) CIMA
3 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.69%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (2.69%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.54%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.54%) CCSP
6 1 (0.54%) CEH
6 1 (0.54%) CISA
6 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.54%) CISM
6 1 (0.54%) CISSP
6 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.69%) GRC
1 5 (2.69%) PCI DSS
1 5 (2.69%) SLA
2 3 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.08%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.69%) ZABBIX
2 3 (1.61%) Graylog
3 2 (1.08%) SCCM
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.54%) Nessus
Vendors
1 69 (37.10%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.44%) SAP
3 9 (4.84%) Oracle
4 7 (3.76%) VMware
5 6 (3.23%) Databricks
6 2 (1.08%) Apple
6 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.08%) Workday
7 1 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.54%) Datto
7 1 (0.54%) Informatica
7 1 (0.54%) Intapp
7 1 (0.54%) JDA
7 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.54%) Sophos
7 1 (0.54%) Tenable
7 1 (0.54%) Xerox