Analyst Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Analyst
South East > Thames Valley

The median Analyst salary in the Thames Valley is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 29 17
Rank change year-on-year +22 -12 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 475 253 374
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 11.78% 7.48% 9.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.76% 8.58% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 213 114 246
10th Percentile £27,800 £28,400 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £35,000 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +11.76% +1.67%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,500
South East median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.65% +1.18%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 3,722 2,948 3,782
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 87.12% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,171 1,457 2,692
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,911 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Analyst job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies 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 January 2026.

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 January 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
Berkshire +22 246 £33,500 -16.25% 34
Buckinghamshire +7 172 £40,000 -15.79% 29
Oxfordshire +44 57 £34,500 -32.68% 16
Analyst
South East

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 168 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
2 151 (31.79%) SAP
3 113 (23.79%) Microsoft
4 112 (23.58%) Business Intelligence
5 109 (22.95%) Microsoft Excel
6 107 (22.53%) Degree
7 104 (21.89%) Power Platform
8 103 (21.68%) Power BI
9 98 (20.63%) SAP S/4HANA
10 91 (19.16%) Azure
11 88 (18.53%) SQL
12 85 (17.89%) Quality Management
13 84 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 74 (15.58%) ERP
14 74 (15.58%) JIRA
15 73 (15.37%) Logistics
16 68 (14.32%) Source to Pay
17 66 (13.89%) Decision-Making
17 66 (13.89%) Translating Business Requirements
18 65 (13.68%) Analytics
19 63 (13.26%) Microsoft Office
20 61 (12.84%) Visualisation
21 60 (12.63%) Data Management
21 60 (12.63%) Incident Management
22 59 (12.42%) Data Collection
22 59 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
23 58 (12.21%) User Acceptance Testing
24 57 (12.00%) Architectural Design
24 57 (12.00%) Decision Quality
24 57 (12.00%) Impact Analysis

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (0.84%) Confluence
1 4 (0.84%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 109 (22.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (13.26%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 98 (20.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (21.89%) Power Platform
2 91 (19.16%) Azure
3 43 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (3.37%) AWS
7 15 (3.16%) Azure AI
8 9 (1.89%) Power Automate
9 8 (1.68%) SaaS
10 7 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.47%) GCP
10 7 (1.47%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.63%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.42%) dbt
12 2 (0.42%) Fivetran
12 2 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.42%) Google Data Studio
12 2 (0.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.89%) Firewall
2 7 (1.47%) DHCP
2 7 (1.47%) DNS
2 7 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.21%) SSL
3 1 (0.21%) VPN
3 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (21.68%) Power BI
2 35 (7.37%) Data Lake
3 34 (7.16%) SAP BW
4 30 (6.32%) Tableau
5 13 (2.74%) GIS
6 9 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.47%) Metadata
7 7 (1.47%) Power Query
7 7 (1.47%) PowerPivot
8 5 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.05%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.42%) Big Data
11 2 (0.42%) Looker
12 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.21%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 74 (15.58%) JIRA
2 40 (8.42%) eCATT
3 12 (2.53%) NeoLoad
4 8 (1.68%) Postman
4 8 (1.68%) Selenium
4 8 (1.68%) SoapUI
4 8 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (1.68%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.63%) Git
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
General
1 216 (45.47%) Social Skills
2 183 (38.53%) Finance
3 149 (31.37%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (25.47%) Marketing
5 101 (21.26%) Manufacturing
6 47 (9.89%) Influencing Skills
7 42 (8.84%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (4.21%) Retail
10 11 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.47%) Legal
12 6 (1.26%) Advertising
12 6 (1.26%) Automotive
13 5 (1.05%) Billing
13 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Law
14 4 (0.84%) Police
14 4 (0.84%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.63%) Banking
16 2 (0.42%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.89%) .NET
2 8 (1.68%) HTML
2 8 (1.68%) SOAP
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.42%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.42%) NumPy
4 2 (0.42%) Pandas
4 2 (0.42%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.21%) Flash
5 1 (0.21%) OAuth
5 1 (0.21%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.21%) OpenID
5 1 (0.21%) RESTful
5 1 (0.21%) SAML
5 1 (0.21%) SLSA
5 1 (0.21%) Spring
5 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (3.37%) Driving Licence
3 12 (2.53%) FMCG
4 9 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.26%) NHS
6 6 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.05%) EPoS
8 4 (0.84%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.63%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.42%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.21%) IBM Storwize
11 1 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.21%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.21%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (11.37%) Windows
2 9 (1.89%) Android
2 9 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 8 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.21%) Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (23.58%) Business Intelligence
3 85 (17.89%) Quality Management
4 84 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (15.58%) ERP
6 73 (15.37%) Logistics
7 68 (14.32%) Source to Pay
8 66 (13.89%) Decision-Making
8 66 (13.89%) Translating Business Requirements
9 65 (13.68%) Analytics
10 61 (12.84%) Visualisation
11 60 (12.63%) Data Management
11 60 (12.63%) Incident Management
12 59 (12.42%) Data Collection
12 59 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (12.21%) User Acceptance Testing
14 57 (12.00%) Architectural Design
14 57 (12.00%) Decision Quality
14 57 (12.00%) Impact Analysis
14 57 (12.00%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 88 (18.53%) SQL
2 39 (8.21%) Python
3 19 (4.00%) VBA
4 14 (2.95%) C#
4 14 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (2.32%) Java
6 5 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.42%) R
8 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 107 (22.53%) Degree
2 40 (8.42%) ACCA
2 40 (8.42%) CIMA
3 30 (6.32%) Azure Certification
4 15 (3.16%) CompTIA CySA+
4 15 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (2.11%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.11%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.68%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 7 (1.47%) CISSP
8 6 (1.26%) AAT
8 6 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.84%) CISA
10 4 (0.84%) CRISC
11 3 (0.63%) CCSP
11 3 (0.63%) CEH
11 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.63%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.74%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.84%) QA
3 7 (1.47%) GRC
3 7 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.84%) GDPR
4 4 (0.84%) NIST
5 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (5.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (8.42%) HP ALM
2 4 (0.84%) Nessus
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) SCCM
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 151 (31.79%) SAP
2 113 (23.79%) Microsoft
3 40 (8.42%) HP
4 15 (3.16%) ForeScout
5 13 (2.74%) Google
6 10 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.68%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.68%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.47%) Oracle
8 7 (1.47%) Tenable
9 5 (1.05%) Adobe
9 5 (1.05%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.05%) VMware
10 4 (0.84%) ConnectWise
11 2 (0.42%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.42%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.42%) IFS
11 2 (0.42%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.42%) Talend