Analytics Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 92 45
Rank change year-on-year +78 -47 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 379 115 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 10.53% 2.66% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.23% 3.13% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 85 59 138
10th Percentile £39,750 £40,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,911 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% -9.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,625 £73,438
90th Percentile £78,500 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,205 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.69% - -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Analytics 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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,099 3,676 3,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.13% 84.94% 93.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,632 1,771 2,195
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,520 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.14% +1.82% -

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Analytics
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the Thames Valley

Analytics
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 Analytics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Berkshire +80 260 £46,000 -18.62% 52
Buckinghamshire +46 87 £48,250 +1.58% 36
Oxfordshire +25 33 £50,000 - 43
Analytics
South East

Analytics
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 10 (2.64%) SugarCRM
2 5 (1.32%) WordPress
3 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 96 (25.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.85%) MadCap Flare
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.79%) InDesign
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.53%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.32%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 3 (0.79%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.79%) Shopify
4 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.26%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 140 (36.94%) Azure
2 118 (31.13%) Power Platform
3 28 (7.39%) GCP
3 28 (7.39%) Snowflake
4 23 (6.07%) Google Analytics
5 15 (3.96%) Vertex AI
6 13 (3.43%) SaaS
7 10 (2.64%) Google Ads
8 9 (2.37%) GitHub
9 7 (1.85%) AWS
9 7 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.85%) Google Docs
10 4 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.06%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.79%) Collibra
11 3 (0.79%) Figma
11 3 (0.79%) iPaaS
11 3 (0.79%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.58%) SMS
2 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.26%) Modbus
3 1 (0.26%) MQTT
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (30.87%) Power BI
2 103 (27.18%) Data Lake
3 69 (18.21%) SAP BW
4 40 (10.55%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (7.65%) Metadata
6 25 (6.60%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.75%) Data Mining
8 11 (2.90%) Tableau
9 7 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (1.58%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.79%) Big Data
13 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.79%) Metadata Repository
13 3 (0.79%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (2.90%) JIRA
2 3 (0.79%) ERwin
2 3 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.53%) Axure RP
3 2 (0.53%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.53%) Git
General
1 210 (55.41%) Social Skills
2 141 (37.20%) Analytical Skills
3 102 (26.91%) Finance
4 71 (18.73%) Marketing
5 69 (18.21%) Law
6 33 (8.71%) Retail
7 30 (7.92%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (6.33%) Manufacturing
9 21 (5.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.85%) Legal
12 6 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.79%) Automotive
13 3 (0.79%) Games
13 3 (0.79%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.79%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.79%) Publishing
14 2 (0.53%) Billing
14 2 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 126 (33.25%) Lead
2 98 (25.86%) Senior
3 64 (16.89%) Analyst
4 48 (12.66%) Architect
5 34 (8.97%) Report Analyst
6 33 (8.71%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 28 (7.39%) Sustainability Analyst
8 26 (6.86%) Data Architect
9 20 (5.28%) Cloud Architect
9 20 (5.28%) GCP Architect
9 20 (5.28%) Platform Architect
10 17 (4.49%) Data Analyst
11 16 (4.22%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.43%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (3.17%) Commercial Data Analyst
13 12 (3.17%) Data Manager
13 12 (3.17%) Procurement Analyst
14 11 (2.90%) Product Manager
15 10 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 7 (1.85%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.90%) FHIR
2 3 (0.79%) JSON
2 3 (0.79%) Kafka
2 3 (0.79%) SOAP
2 3 (0.79%) XML
3 2 (0.53%) CSS
3 2 (0.53%) HTML
3 2 (0.53%) Hugging Face
3 2 (0.53%) NumPy
3 2 (0.53%) Pandas
3 2 (0.53%) REST
3 2 (0.53%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.26%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.26%) Middleware
4 1 (0.26%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 42 (11.08%) Life Science
3 30 (7.92%) Management Information System
4 27 (7.12%) Data Centre
5 26 (6.86%) Cloud Native
6 25 (6.60%) Algorithms
7 21 (5.54%) Onboarding
8 17 (4.49%) Product Ownership
9 15 (3.96%) FMCG
10 10 (2.64%) Omics
11 8 (2.11%) Social Media
12 7 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.32%) SCADA
13 5 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
14 4 (1.06%) Industry 4.0
14 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
15 3 (0.79%) Blog
15 3 (0.79%) Low-Code
16 2 (0.53%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (41.16%) Problem-Solving
2 132 (34.83%) Business Intelligence
3 113 (29.82%) Data Science
4 108 (28.50%) Data Modelling
5 107 (28.23%) Agile
6 104 (27.44%) Roadmaps
7 91 (24.01%) Machine Learning
8 85 (22.43%) Actionable Insight
9 81 (21.37%) AI
10 74 (19.53%) Decision-Making
11 72 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (19.00%) Data Governance
12 69 (18.21%) Use Case
13 67 (17.68%) Computer Science
14 65 (17.15%) ERP
15 55 (14.51%) Data Management
16 50 (13.19%) Strategic Roadmap
17 48 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 47 (12.40%) Generative AI
19 45 (11.87%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.46%) Python
2 42 (11.08%) SQL
3 20 (5.28%) Go
3 20 (5.28%) Java
4 10 (2.64%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.53%) R
7 1 (0.26%) C#
7 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 172 (45.38%) Degree
2 35 (9.23%) Master's Degree
3 31 (8.18%) PhD
4 15 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.64%) HNC
6 7 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.32%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.06%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.06%) PMP
9 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.79%) CISSP
9 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.79%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.79%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.53%) MCSE
10 2 (0.53%) OCP
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (21.90%) Data Quality
2 42 (11.08%) Accessibility
3 31 (8.18%) GxP
4 19 (5.01%) GDPR
5 10 (2.64%) CDISC
5 10 (2.64%) HL7
6 6 (1.58%) QA
7 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.06%) WCAG
9 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.26%) GAAP
11 1 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.26%) IFRS
11 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (0.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (21.64%) SAP
2 66 (17.41%) Google
3 58 (15.30%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.49%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.37%) Oracle
5 9 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.85%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.58%) Adobe
7 6 (1.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 6 (1.58%) Zoho
8 5 (1.32%) Allen-Bradley
8 5 (1.32%) JD Edwards
8 5 (1.32%) Siemens
9 3 (0.79%) Cisco
9 3 (0.79%) Databricks
9 3 (0.79%) Nexthink
9 3 (0.79%) Talend
10 2 (0.53%) Cognos
10 2 (0.53%) Dell
10 2 (0.53%) IBM