Analytical Skills Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +15
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 357 376 756
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.26% 11.01% 10.74%
As % of the General category 14.03% 14.09% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 258 143 385
10th Percentile £36,025 £28,800 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -2.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £70,850
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +0.64%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,545 2,669 3,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 44.63% 78.13% 52.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,620 787 2,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,400 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +14.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,750 £60,536
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 June 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 -3 184 £49,000 -24.62% 78
Buckinghamshire +14 123 £54,000 +4.85% 39
Oxfordshire +8 50 £65,000 +33.20% 45
Analytical Skills
South East

Analytical Skills
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 2 (0.56%) SAS
1 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.28%) Apache
2 1 (0.28%) CMS
2 1 (0.28%) Confluence
2 1 (0.28%) IIS
2 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 63 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (8.12%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.80%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.52%) SAP CO
2 7 (1.96%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.40%) SAP GTS
4 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.73%) Azure
2 63 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 23 (6.44%) AWS
4 21 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.32%) SaaS
6 14 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (2.52%) GCP
9 8 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.24%) Google Analytics
10 7 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.68%) Google Ads
11 6 (1.68%) iPaaS
12 5 (1.40%) Apigee
12 5 (1.40%) GitHub
12 5 (1.40%) Kong
12 5 (1.40%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.76%) DNS
2 16 (4.48%) Firewall
3 13 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.80%) HTTP
4 10 (2.80%) VPN
5 7 (1.96%) SSL
6 6 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.12%) LAN
8 4 (1.12%) Network Security
8 4 (1.12%) WAN
9 3 (0.84%) Broadband
9 3 (0.84%) Internet
9 3 (0.84%) SMTP
9 3 (0.84%) VLAN
10 2 (0.56%) NAS
10 2 (0.56%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.56%) OSPF
10 2 (0.56%) SAN
10 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.29%) Power BI
2 18 (5.04%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.76%) Tableau
4 10 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.68%) Metadata
5 6 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.40%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.40%) GIS
6 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.56%) MySQL
8 2 (0.56%) OLTP
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.56%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.28%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (2.24%) Git
2 7 (1.96%) GitLab
3 6 (1.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.28%) Selenium
4 1 (0.28%) Subversion
4 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.28%) WebDriver
General
1 159 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 152 (42.58%) Finance
3 44 (12.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (9.52%) Marketing
5 23 (6.44%) Manufacturing
5 23 (6.44%) Retail
6 22 (6.16%) Legal
7 20 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (5.32%) Law
9 17 (4.76%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.92%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.68%) Japanese Language
11 6 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.40%) Local Government
13 4 (1.12%) Games
14 3 (0.84%) Advertising
14 3 (0.84%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 125 (35.01%) Analyst
2 34 (9.52%) Developer
3 24 (6.72%) Report Analyst
4 23 (6.44%) Financial Analyst
5 21 (5.88%) Senior
6 18 (5.04%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.48%) Data Analyst
7 16 (4.48%) Lead
8 14 (3.92%) Applications Support
9 13 (3.64%) Architect
9 13 (3.64%) Support Analyst
10 12 (3.36%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (3.36%) Power Platform Developer
10 12 (3.36%) Security Analyst
10 12 (3.36%) SOC Analyst
11 11 (3.08%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.80%) IT Manager
12 10 (2.80%) Power BI Developer
13 9 (2.52%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.16%) JSON
2 21 (5.88%) Middleware
3 18 (5.04%) REST
4 16 (4.48%) XML
5 11 (3.08%) SOAP
6 9 (2.52%) .NET
6 9 (2.52%) HTML
6 9 (2.52%) SAP CO-PA
7 5 (1.40%) Jinja
7 5 (1.40%) Kafka
7 5 (1.40%) YAML
7 5 (1.40%) YANG
8 4 (1.12%) CSS
8 4 (1.12%) JWT
8 4 (1.12%) OAuth
8 4 (1.12%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.12%) RESTful
8 4 (1.12%) XML Messaging
9 2 (0.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.68%) Analytical Mindset
2 29 (8.12%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
5 13 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (3.64%) Low-Code
6 12 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.24%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.24%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.68%) FMCG
9 5 (1.40%) Blog
9 5 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.12%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.84%) FPGA
11 3 (0.84%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.84%) PMI
12 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.72%) Linux
2 19 (5.32%) Windows
3 6 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.40%) Unix
5 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.28%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.28%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (42.02%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 98 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
5 54 (15.13%) Analytics
6 53 (14.85%) Agile
7 51 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 50 (14.01%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 45 (12.61%) AI
10 44 (12.32%) ERP
11 36 (10.08%) Actionable Insight
12 35 (9.80%) DevOps
13 34 (9.52%) CRM
14 31 (8.68%) Computer Science
15 30 (8.40%) Data Analysis
15 30 (8.40%) Data Modelling
16 29 (8.12%) Budgeting
17 28 (7.84%) CI/CD
17 28 (7.84%) ETL
17 28 (7.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 83 (23.25%) SQL
2 54 (15.13%) Python
3 24 (6.72%) C#
3 24 (6.72%) JavaScript
4 22 (6.16%) Java
5 11 (3.08%) VBA
6 10 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (2.52%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.68%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.56%) ABAP
11 2 (0.56%) C
11 2 (0.56%) Go
11 2 (0.56%) R
11 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.28%) Bash
12 1 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (23.53%) Degree
2 62 (17.37%) ACCA
3 61 (17.09%) CIMA
4 37 (10.36%) Security Cleared
5 31 (8.68%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.92%) AAT
7 12 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 8 (2.24%) DBS Check
8 8 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.96%) CREST Certified
9 7 (1.96%) GCIA
9 7 (1.96%) GCIH
9 7 (1.96%) GIAC
10 6 (1.68%) GCED
10 6 (1.68%) MOS
10 6 (1.68%) OSCP
10 6 (1.68%) SANS
11 4 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.28%) QA
2 22 (6.16%) GDPR
3 19 (5.32%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.76%) SLA
5 16 (4.48%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.68%) Good Clinical Practice
7 5 (1.40%) GRC
7 5 (1.40%) IFRS
7 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.12%) NIST
9 3 (0.84%) GAAP
9 3 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.56%) PMO
10 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.28%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (2.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.96%) Docker
3 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.56%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) KVM
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (1.96%) Kibana
2 4 (1.12%) Graylog
2 4 (1.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.12%) Terraform
3 2 (0.56%) QRadar
4 1 (0.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 81 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.80%) SAP
3 20 (5.60%) Google
4 17 (4.76%) Oracle
5 9 (2.52%) Splunk
6 8 (2.24%) Cisco
6 8 (2.24%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (1.96%) Carbon Black
7 7 (1.96%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.40%) F5
8 5 (1.40%) Juniper
8 5 (1.40%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.40%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.12%) Ahrefs
9 4 (1.12%) ConnectWise
9 4 (1.12%) Databricks
9 4 (1.12%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.12%) Screaming Frog
9 4 (1.12%) VMware
10 3 (0.84%) YouTube