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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 -12
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 299 275 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.42% 9.42% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 10.16% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 121 59 160
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,375 £42,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £71,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process & 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 4,005 2,707 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.58% 92.77% 84.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,593 1,219 4,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 27 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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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 27 April 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
Buckinghamshire +27 170 £50,000 -15.25% 12
Berkshire -18 104 £55,000 -15.38% 26
Oxfordshire -14 26 £55,000 +15.79% 17
Analytics
South East

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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 7 (2.34%) CMS
2 2 (0.67%) WordPress
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Camunda
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.67%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.67%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.01%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (17.39%) Azure
2 42 (14.05%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.03%) Snowflake
4 18 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (5.69%) Google Analytics
6 15 (5.02%) AWS
6 15 (5.02%) SaaS
7 12 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (3.68%) Asana
8 11 (3.68%) Sprout Social
9 6 (2.01%) dbt
9 6 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
10 5 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.67%) Figma
10 5 (1.67%) GCP
11 4 (1.34%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.34%) Miro
12 3 (1.00%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.01%) Broadband
2 5 (1.67%) DNS
2 5 (1.67%) SSL
3 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.67%) MQTT
5 1 (0.33%) Modbus
5 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.38%) Power BI
2 33 (11.04%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.35%) Data Lake
4 15 (5.02%) Metadata
5 12 (4.01%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.34%) Data Mining
6 7 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.67%) Tableau
9 4 (1.34%) Airbyte
9 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.00%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.67%) Looker
11 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.67%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Git
2 5 (1.67%) Axure RP
2 5 (1.67%) Balsamiq
3 3 (1.00%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 81 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (18.39%) Finance
4 45 (15.05%) Marketing
5 22 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (6.69%) Retail
7 18 (6.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (5.69%) Manufacturing
9 13 (4.35%) Law
10 9 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.34%) Legal
13 5 (1.67%) Games
14 4 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.33%) Advertising
16 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.33%) Publishing
16 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (15.05%) Senior
2 38 (12.71%) Data Engineer
3 27 (9.03%) Analyst
4 25 (8.36%) Lead
5 24 (8.03%) Architect
6 19 (6.35%) Designer
7 18 (6.02%) Analytics Manager
7 18 (6.02%) Data Architect
8 16 (5.35%) Developer
9 15 (5.02%) Associate Director
9 15 (5.02%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (4.35%) Product Designer
10 13 (4.35%) Senior Designer
10 13 (4.35%) Senior Product Designer
11 12 (4.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (3.68%) Power BI Developer
12 11 (3.68%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.68%) Social Media Executive
13 10 (3.34%) Business Developer
14 9 (3.01%) Website Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.01%) SAP CO-PA
2 6 (2.01%) CSS
2 6 (2.01%) HTML
3 5 (1.67%) React
4 4 (1.34%) Node.js
4 4 (1.34%) Redux
5 3 (1.00%) REST
6 2 (0.67%) Middleware
6 2 (0.67%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.67%) SOAP
7 1 (0.33%) .NET
7 1 (0.33%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.33%) GeoPandas
7 1 (0.33%) gRPC
7 1 (0.33%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.33%) Laravel
7 1 (0.33%) MapLibre
7 1 (0.33%) PySpark
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.04%) Life Science
2 21 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.69%) Social Media
4 13 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 13 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.68%) Hackathon
5 11 (3.68%) Video Editing
6 7 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.67%) Blog
9 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.00%) FMCG
10 3 (1.00%) LIMS
10 3 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.01%) Linux
2 5 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (30.77%) AI
2 89 (29.77%) Agile
3 55 (18.39%) Decision-Making
4 54 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (17.06%) Data Modelling
6 50 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (16.39%) Computer Science
8 48 (16.05%) Machine Learning
9 45 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
10 43 (14.38%) Data Science
11 38 (12.71%) Use Case
12 37 (12.37%) Hematology
12 37 (12.37%) Immunology
12 37 (12.37%) User Experience
13 36 (12.04%) Data Analysis
14 35 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (11.71%) ETL
15 34 (11.37%) Data Analytics
16 33 (11.04%) Data Integration
17 32 (10.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (20.40%) SQL
2 46 (15.38%) Python
3 11 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.34%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.00%) C#
6 3 (1.00%) R
7 2 (0.67%) Go
7 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.67%) VBA
8 1 (0.33%) C++
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (24.75%) Degree
2 30 (10.03%) Master's Degree
3 15 (5.02%) PhD
3 15 (5.02%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.02%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.00%) ACCA
5 3 (1.00%) CIMA
5 3 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.67%) CISSP
7 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.33%) CIPD
7 1 (0.33%) CISM
7 1 (0.33%) MCSE
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.33%) OCP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (15.72%) Accessibility
2 27 (9.03%) Data Quality
3 17 (5.69%) GxP
4 7 (2.34%) GDPR
4 7 (2.34%) WCAG
5 5 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.34%) GRC
6 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.34%) QA
7 2 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.01%) Terraform
2 3 (1.00%) Graylog
3 1 (0.33%) Argo
3 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 63 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.36%) Nexthink
3 21 (7.02%) Adobe
4 20 (6.69%) Google
5 19 (6.35%) SAP
6 11 (3.68%) Hootsuite
6 11 (3.68%) Instagram
6 11 (3.68%) Oracle
6 11 (3.68%) Wrike
7 7 (2.34%) Databricks
8 6 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.34%) Ahrefs
9 4 (1.34%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (0.67%) Agilent
10 2 (0.67%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.67%) Informatica
11 1 (0.33%) Foundry
11 1 (0.33%) Pega
11 1 (0.33%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.33%) Splunk