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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 78 44
Rank change year-on-year +64 -34 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 380 115 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 9.53% 3.31% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.73% 3.62% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 96 66 120
10th Percentile £40,625 £40,500 £40,484
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,911 £50,056
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -10.17% -9.23%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%

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 3,239 3,179 3,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.20% 91.51% 90.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,730 1,472 2,225
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,600
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

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 January 2026.

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 1 January 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 +87 227 £50,000 -5.66% 86
Buckinghamshire +41 119 £50,000 -13.42% 19
Oxfordshire +14 35 £47,500 - 14
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 (2.63%) SugarCRM
2 3 (0.79%) Confluence
3 2 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 94 (24.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.32%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.05%) MadCap Flare
4 3 (0.79%) InDesign
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.32%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 5 (1.32%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.79%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.79%) Shopify
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
1 122 (32.11%) Power Platform
2 118 (31.05%) Azure
3 30 (7.89%) Snowflake
4 28 (7.37%) GCP
5 16 (4.21%) Google Analytics
6 12 (3.16%) SaaS
7 10 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (2.37%) AWS
9 8 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (1.84%) Google Ads
11 6 (1.58%) dbt
11 6 (1.58%) Figma
11 6 (1.58%) GitHub
12 5 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.32%) Miro
13 4 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.05%) Google Docs
14 3 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.79%) Fivetran
14 3 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.58%) SMS
2 3 (0.79%) MQTT
2 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (31.58%) Power BI
2 83 (21.84%) Data Lake
3 69 (18.16%) SAP BW
4 45 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (8.16%) Metadata
6 25 (6.58%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.16%) Tableau
8 8 (2.11%) Data Mining
9 7 (1.84%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (1.58%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.79%) Looker
12 3 (0.79%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.53%) Airbyte
13 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.11%) JIRA
2 7 (1.84%) Git
3 5 (1.32%) Axure RP
3 5 (1.32%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.79%) ERwin
4 3 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
General
1 169 (44.47%) Social Skills
2 125 (32.89%) Finance
3 114 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (18.16%) Marketing
5 30 (7.89%) Law
5 30 (7.89%) Pharmaceutical
6 29 (7.63%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.42%) Retail
8 12 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.58%) Legal
10 6 (1.58%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.79%) Advertising
11 3 (0.79%) Games
11 3 (0.79%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.79%) Publishing
12 2 (0.53%) French Language
12 2 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 117 (30.79%) Lead
2 64 (16.84%) Analyst
2 64 (16.84%) Senior
3 48 (12.63%) Architect
4 34 (8.95%) Report Analyst
5 33 (8.68%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (7.37%) Sustainability Analyst
7 26 (6.84%) Data Architect
8 20 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
8 20 (5.26%) GCP Architect
8 20 (5.26%) Platform Architect
9 18 (4.74%) Data Analyst
10 16 (4.21%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.95%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.42%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (3.16%) Commercial Data Analyst
13 12 (3.16%) Procurement Analyst
14 11 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 8 (2.11%) Marketing Manager
15 8 (2.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.63%) FHIR
2 5 (1.32%) CSS
2 5 (1.32%) HTML
3 4 (1.05%) SAP CO-PA
4 3 (0.79%) Middleware
4 3 (0.79%) REST
4 3 (0.79%) SOAP
5 2 (0.53%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.53%) NumPy
5 2 (0.53%) Pandas
5 2 (0.53%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.53%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.26%) GeoPandas
6 1 (0.26%) MapLibre
6 1 (0.26%) NetworkX
6 1 (0.26%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.26%) PySpark
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.26%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.68%) Life Science
2 44 (11.58%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (7.11%) Data Centre
4 25 (6.58%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.05%) Cloud Native
6 22 (5.79%) Onboarding
7 19 (5.00%) Product Ownership
8 15 (3.95%) FMCG
9 10 (2.63%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.63%) Omics
10 6 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.32%) Social Media
11 5 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (0.79%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.79%) Industry 4.0
12 3 (0.79%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing Execution System
12 3 (0.79%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.79%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
2 123 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (30.26%) Data Modelling
4 87 (22.89%) Data Science
5 80 (21.05%) Computer Science
6 78 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (20.26%) AI
8 73 (19.21%) Roadmaps
9 71 (18.68%) Decision-Making
10 69 (18.16%) Agile
11 68 (17.89%) Data Governance
12 67 (17.63%) Machine Learning
12 67 (17.63%) Use Case
13 65 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
14 63 (16.58%) ERP
15 56 (14.74%) Data Management
16 49 (12.89%) Hematology
16 49 (12.89%) Immunology
17 48 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
18 45 (11.84%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 54 (14.21%) Python
2 50 (13.16%) SQL
3 20 (5.26%) Go
3 20 (5.26%) Java
4 8 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (1.84%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.79%) R
7 1 (0.26%) Ruby
7 1 (0.26%) Scala
7 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 183 (48.16%) Degree
2 40 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 36 (9.47%) PhD
4 15 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.63%) HNC
6 8 (2.11%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.58%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) CISSP
8 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.79%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.79%) PMP
8 3 (0.79%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.53%) MCSE
9 2 (0.53%) OCP
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (23.16%) Data Quality
2 50 (13.16%) Accessibility
3 39 (10.26%) GxP
4 17 (4.47%) GDPR
5 10 (2.63%) CDISC
5 10 (2.63%) HL7
6 7 (1.84%) QA
6 7 (1.84%) WCAG
7 6 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.05%) GRC
9 3 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) NIST
10 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (0.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.05%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Argo
3 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (22.63%) SAP
2 42 (11.05%) Google
3 41 (10.79%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.95%) Nexthink
5 9 (2.37%) Adobe
6 8 (2.11%) Oracle
6 8 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 6 (1.58%) Zoho
8 5 (1.32%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.05%) Databricks
10 3 (0.79%) Agilent
10 3 (0.79%) Allen-Bradley
10 3 (0.79%) Cisco
10 3 (0.79%) Siemens
10 3 (0.79%) Talend
11 2 (0.53%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.53%) Cognos
11 2 (0.53%) Dell
11 2 (0.53%) IBM