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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 5 71
Rank change year-on-year -35 +66 -35
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 250 677 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.48% 17.13% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 19.06% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 156 71 70
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,659 £41,250 £42,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +3.16% -15.97%
75th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £61,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 5,060 3,552 3,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.47% 89.90% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,604 1,480 2,145
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,125
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.62% -1.59%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +28 101 £50,000 +5.26% 47
Berkshire -43 87 £62,500 -3.85% 97
Oxfordshire -32 62 £62,500 +19.05% 52
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 11 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.80%) CMS
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (0.80%) CapCut
2 2 (0.80%) UserZoom
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.80%) Shopify
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.40%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 54 (21.60%) Power Platform
2 43 (17.20%) Azure
3 27 (10.80%) Google Analytics
4 20 (8.00%) AWS
4 20 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (7.20%) SaaS
6 11 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (4.40%) GCP
7 10 (4.00%) Google Tag Manager
8 9 (3.60%) Google Ads
9 8 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.40%) Cloudflare
11 6 (2.40%) dbt
11 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.40%) Fivetran
11 6 (2.40%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.20%) DNS
1 8 (3.20%) SSL
2 7 (2.80%) Network Security
3 5 (2.00%) 5G
4 3 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.20%) Firewall
4 3 (1.20%) VPN
5 2 (0.80%) 4G
6 1 (0.40%) 2G
6 1 (0.40%) 3G
6 1 (0.40%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.40%) Broadband
6 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.40%) Intranet
6 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.00%) Power BI
2 16 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.60%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.80%) Metadata
5 9 (3.60%) Star Schema
6 8 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.20%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (2.80%) Amazon QuickSight
7 7 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.80%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.40%) Airbyte
8 6 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.00%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.60%) Tableau
11 2 (0.80%) Power Query
11 2 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.40%) Looker
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.40%) Git
2 3 (1.20%) MLflow
3 2 (0.80%) GitLab
3 2 (0.80%) JIRA
3 2 (0.80%) JUnit
4 1 (0.40%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.40%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
General
1 74 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 71 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (23.20%) Retail
4 38 (15.20%) Finance
5 35 (14.00%) Marketing
6 16 (6.40%) Manufacturing
6 16 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.20%) Law
9 11 (4.40%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.20%) Legal
11 7 (2.80%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.60%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.20%) Automotive
16 2 (0.80%) Aviation
16 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
17 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 42 (16.80%) Data Engineer
2 36 (14.40%) Analyst
3 35 (14.00%) Senior
4 31 (12.40%) Insight Manager
5 22 (8.80%) Microsoft Engineer
6 19 (7.60%) Developer
7 17 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.60%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (5.20%) Analytics Manager
9 13 (5.20%) Data Analyst
10 11 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Business Developer
11 9 (3.60%) Graduate
11 9 (3.60%) Systems Developer
12 8 (3.20%) Architect
12 8 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) Lead
12 8 (3.20%) Security Analyst
12 8 (3.20%) SOC Analyst
13 6 (2.40%) Paid Search Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.80%) Terraform
2 6 (2.40%) Node.js
2 6 (2.40%) React
2 6 (2.40%) Redux
3 4 (1.60%) PySpark
4 3 (1.20%) CSS
4 3 (1.20%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.20%) HTML
4 3 (1.20%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.80%) .NET
5 2 (0.80%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.80%) gRPC
5 2 (0.80%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.80%) NumPy
5 2 (0.80%) ONNX
5 2 (0.80%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.80%) Pandas
5 2 (0.80%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.80%) Smarty
5 2 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.40%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.40%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.00%) Life Science
8 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.60%) Blog
8 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Graphic Design
9 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.80%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.80%) Windows
2 13 (5.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (40.80%) AI
2 58 (23.20%) Decision-Making
2 58 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (22.80%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (18.80%) Agile
6 40 (16.00%) Data Modelling
7 36 (14.40%) Data Analytics
7 36 (14.40%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (14.40%) Predictive Analytics
8 31 (12.40%) Machine Learning
9 29 (11.60%) Actionable Insight
9 29 (11.60%) CRM
9 29 (11.60%) Data Analysis
10 28 (11.20%) CI/CD
11 27 (10.80%) ETL
12 26 (10.40%) Computer Science
13 25 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
14 24 (9.60%) DevOps
14 24 (9.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 66 (26.40%) SQL
2 42 (16.80%) Python
3 11 (4.40%) C#
4 8 (3.20%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.60%) C
8 3 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.80%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (19.20%) Degree
2 23 (9.20%) SC Cleared
2 23 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.20%) CompTIA Security+
4 8 (3.20%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.60%) ICAEW
8 3 (1.20%) ACCA
8 3 (1.20%) CCNP
8 3 (1.20%) CIMA
9 2 (0.80%) PhD
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) CIPD
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.40%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.60%) GDPR
4 7 (2.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (2.00%) QA
6 4 (1.60%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.20%) WCAG
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
9 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.40%) NIST
9 1 (0.40%) PERC
9 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.40%) Graylog
2 3 (1.20%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.20%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 79 (31.60%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.20%) Google
3 8 (3.20%) Databricks
3 8 (3.20%) Informatica
3 8 (3.20%) YouTube
4 7 (2.80%) Talend
5 6 (2.40%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.60%) Adobe
6 4 (1.60%) Ahrefs
6 4 (1.60%) SAP
6 4 (1.60%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco
7 3 (1.20%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.20%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.20%) Instagram
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle
8 2 (0.80%) Marketo
8 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.80%) Thales
9 1 (0.40%) Nokia