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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 86 47
Rank change year-on-year +71 -39 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 372 115 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 9.91% 2.80% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.80% 3.22% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 89 68 127
10th Percentile £39,750 £40,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,911 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% -10.42% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,652 £74,250
90th Percentile £80,500 £82,125 £78,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%

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 3,153 3,567 3,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.99% 86.85% 93.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,670 1,755 2,153
10th Percentile £28,225 £35,000 £31,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £66,063 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £49,000 £56,517 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.30% +3.20% -0.43%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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 +87 238 £47,000 -16.85% 40
Buckinghamshire +45 99 £49,000 -14.78% 34
Oxfordshire +25 36 £50,000 +2.56% 38
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 10 (2.69%) SugarCRM
2 4 (1.08%) WordPress
3 3 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 95 (25.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.88%) MadCap Flare
3 5 (1.34%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.81%) InDesign
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.34%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 3 (0.81%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.81%) Shopify
4 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 124 (33.33%) Azure
2 122 (32.80%) Power Platform
3 31 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 27 (7.26%) GCP
5 22 (5.91%) Google Analytics
6 15 (4.03%) Vertex AI
7 9 (2.42%) GitHub
7 9 (2.42%) Google Ads
7 9 (2.42%) SaaS
8 8 (2.15%) AWS
8 8 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.88%) Google Docs
10 6 (1.61%) dbt
10 6 (1.61%) Figma
11 5 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.34%) Miro
12 4 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.08%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.81%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.61%) SMS
2 3 (0.81%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.27%) Modbus
3 1 (0.27%) MQTT
3 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (32.53%) Power BI
2 87 (23.39%) Data Lake
3 69 (18.55%) SAP BW
4 40 (10.75%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (8.33%) Metadata
6 25 (6.72%) BigQuery
7 18 (4.84%) Data Mining
8 13 (3.49%) Tableau
9 7 (1.88%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (1.88%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.81%) Looker
12 3 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.81%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.54%) Airbyte
13 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (2.96%) JIRA
2 7 (1.88%) Git
3 5 (1.34%) Axure RP
3 5 (1.34%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.81%) ERwin
4 3 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
General
1 187 (50.27%) Social Skills
2 121 (32.53%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (28.23%) Finance
4 65 (17.47%) Marketing
5 51 (13.71%) Law
6 31 (8.33%) Retail
7 24 (6.45%) Manufacturing
8 22 (5.91%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.61%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.34%) Legal
14 3 (0.81%) Advertising
14 3 (0.81%) Games
14 3 (0.81%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.81%) Publishing
15 2 (0.54%) Billing
15 2 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 126 (33.87%) Lead
2 83 (22.31%) Senior
3 65 (17.47%) Analyst
4 48 (12.90%) Architect
5 34 (9.14%) Report Analyst
6 33 (8.87%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 28 (7.53%) Sustainability Analyst
8 26 (6.99%) Data Architect
9 20 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
9 20 (5.38%) GCP Architect
9 20 (5.38%) Platform Architect
10 19 (5.11%) Data Analyst
11 13 (3.49%) Commercial Analyst
11 13 (3.49%) Senior Manager
12 12 (3.23%) Commercial Data Analyst
12 12 (3.23%) Procurement Analyst
13 10 (2.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (2.69%) Data Engineer
14 9 (2.42%) Data Manager
15 7 (1.88%) Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.69%) FHIR
2 3 (0.81%) CSS
2 3 (0.81%) HTML
3 2 (0.54%) Hugging Face
3 2 (0.54%) JSON
3 2 (0.54%) NumPy
3 2 (0.54%) Pandas
3 2 (0.54%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.54%) Snowpark
3 2 (0.54%) SOAP
3 2 (0.54%) XML
4 1 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.27%) GeoPandas
4 1 (0.27%) MapLibre
4 1 (0.27%) NetworkX
4 1 (0.27%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.27%) PySpark
4 1 (0.27%) REST
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.27%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 42 (11.29%) Life Science
3 27 (7.26%) Data Centre
4 26 (6.99%) Management Information System
5 25 (6.72%) Algorithms
6 23 (6.18%) Cloud Native
7 21 (5.65%) Onboarding
8 20 (5.38%) Product Ownership
9 16 (4.30%) FMCG
10 10 (2.69%) Omics
11 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.34%) SCADA
12 5 (1.34%) Social Media
12 5 (1.34%) Web Conferencing
13 4 (1.08%) Industry 4.0
13 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 3 (0.81%) Blog
15 2 (0.54%) IoT
15 2 (0.54%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (36.02%) Business Intelligence
1 134 (36.02%) Problem-Solving
2 111 (29.84%) Data Modelling
3 96 (25.81%) Data Science
4 88 (23.66%) Roadmaps
5 87 (23.39%) Agile
6 84 (22.58%) AI
7 78 (20.97%) Machine Learning
8 74 (19.89%) Actionable Insight
8 74 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (18.82%) Decision-Making
10 69 (18.55%) Data Governance
10 69 (18.55%) Use Case
11 65 (17.47%) Computer Science
12 63 (16.94%) ERP
13 54 (14.52%) Data Management
14 47 (12.63%) Generative AI
15 45 (12.10%) Data Engineering
15 45 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (11.83%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (15.05%) Python
2 44 (11.83%) SQL
3 20 (5.38%) Go
3 20 (5.38%) Java
4 10 (2.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.81%) R
7 1 (0.27%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) Ruby
7 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (45.43%) Degree
2 32 (8.60%) Master's Degree
3 31 (8.33%) PhD
4 13 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.69%) HNC
6 8 (2.15%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.88%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.61%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.08%) PMP
10 3 (0.81%) CISSP
10 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.81%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.54%) MCSE
11 2 (0.54%) OCP
11 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (23.39%) Data Quality
2 46 (12.37%) Accessibility
3 31 (8.33%) GxP
4 15 (4.03%) GDPR
5 10 (2.69%) CDISC
5 10 (2.69%) HL7
6 7 (1.88%) WCAG
7 6 (1.61%) QA
8 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.81%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.54%) GRC
11 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.27%) GAAP
12 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.27%) IFRS
12 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (0.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Argo
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (22.04%) SAP
2 62 (16.67%) Google
3 57 (15.32%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.57%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.42%) Adobe
5 9 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.15%) Nexthink
6 8 (2.15%) Oracle
7 6 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 6 (1.61%) Zoho
8 5 (1.34%) Allen-Bradley
8 5 (1.34%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.34%) JD Edwards
8 5 (1.34%) Siemens
9 4 (1.08%) Databricks
10 3 (0.81%) Cisco
10 3 (0.81%) Talend
11 2 (0.54%) Cognos
11 2 (0.54%) Dell
11 2 (0.54%) IBM