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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 5 59
Rank change year-on-year -30 +54 -17
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 249 610 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.68% 16.39% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 18.21% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 147 72 98
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,300 £40,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £42,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £59,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £76,125
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%

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 4,787 3,350 4,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.70% 90.01% 81.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,345 1,450 2,592
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +32 114 £48,750 +2.63% 31
Berkshire -44 86 £60,000 -7.69% 66
Oxfordshire -38 49 £61,250 +11.36% 37
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 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.81%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.62%) 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 4 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.61%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.47%) Power Platform
2 39 (15.66%) Azure
3 21 (8.43%) AWS
4 20 (8.03%) Google Analytics
5 17 (6.83%) SaaS
6 16 (6.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (4.82%) GCP
8 9 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.81%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.81%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.41%) Asana
10 6 (2.41%) dbt
10 6 (2.41%) Fivetran
10 6 (2.41%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.41%) Sprout Social
11 5 (2.01%) Cloudflare
11 5 (2.01%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.61%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) DNS
1 7 (2.81%) SSL
2 5 (2.01%) Network Security
3 3 (1.20%) Broadband
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.80%) Firewall
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) Intranet
5 1 (0.40%) Modbus
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.86%) Power BI
2 13 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.02%) Data Lake
4 8 (3.21%) Metadata
5 7 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.41%) Airbyte
7 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.61%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.20%) Tableau
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.80%) Power Query
9 2 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.42%) Git
2 2 (0.80%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) JUnit
3 1 (0.40%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.40%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) MLflow
General
1 79 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.10%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (20.48%) Retail
4 36 (14.46%) Marketing
5 31 (12.45%) Finance
6 16 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (6.02%) Manufacturing
7 15 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.82%) Law
9 10 (4.02%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.41%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Automotive
12 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Games
12 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.40%) Advertising
14 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (19.28%) Data Engineer
2 33 (13.25%) Analyst
3 29 (11.65%) Senior
4 28 (11.24%) Microsoft Engineer
5 26 (10.44%) Insight Manager
6 20 (8.03%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (7.63%) Developer
8 15 (6.02%) Analytics Manager
9 12 (4.82%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (4.42%) Data Analyst
10 11 (4.42%) Lead
11 9 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.61%) Business Developer
11 9 (3.61%) Graduate
11 9 (3.61%) Systems Developer
11 9 (3.61%) Web Manager
11 9 (3.61%) Website Manager
12 8 (3.21%) Architect
12 8 (3.21%) Web Analytics Manager
13 7 (2.81%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.81%) React
2 6 (2.41%) Node.js
2 6 (2.41%) Redux
3 3 (1.20%) .NET
3 3 (1.20%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.20%) PySpark
4 2 (0.80%) CSS
4 2 (0.80%) HTML
4 2 (0.80%) REST
5 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.40%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.40%) Flask
5 1 (0.40%) Gradio
5 1 (0.40%) gRPC
5 1 (0.40%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.40%) Kafka
5 1 (0.40%) Laravel
5 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.40%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.62%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.42%) Social Media
4 10 (4.02%) Life Science
5 8 (3.21%) Video Editing
6 7 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.41%) Hackathon
7 6 (2.41%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.61%) Blog
9 4 (1.61%) Graphic Design
10 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.22%) Linux
2 11 (4.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (42.97%) AI
2 64 (25.70%) Decision-Making
3 61 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (21.29%) Business Intelligence
5 51 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (20.08%) Agile
7 43 (17.27%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (16.06%) Data Modelling
9 39 (15.66%) Data Analytics
10 36 (14.46%) Data Analysis
11 35 (14.06%) Machine Learning
12 33 (13.25%) CRM
13 31 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
13 31 (12.45%) CI/CD
13 31 (12.45%) Predictive Analytics
14 27 (10.84%) Data Governance
15 26 (10.44%) ETL
16 24 (9.64%) DevOps
16 24 (9.64%) Digital Marketing
17 23 (9.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (24.50%) SQL
2 46 (18.47%) Python
3 7 (2.81%) C#
3 7 (2.81%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.41%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.61%) C
7 2 (0.80%) Go
7 2 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.40%) C++
8 1 (0.40%) R
8 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (18.47%) Degree
2 18 (7.23%) SC Cleared
2 18 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.21%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.81%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.61%) ICAEW
8 3 (1.20%) ACCA
8 3 (1.20%) CIMA
8 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.80%) CCNP
9 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) APMG
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.40%) CIPD
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.01%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) QA
5 3 (1.20%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) WCAG
6 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.80%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.40%) PERC
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.61%) Terraform
2 5 (2.01%) Graylog
3 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.80%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 78 (31.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.45%) Google
3 12 (4.82%) Adobe
4 10 (4.02%) Oracle
5 8 (3.21%) Databricks
5 8 (3.21%) Instagram
6 6 (2.41%) Hootsuite
6 6 (2.41%) SAP
6 6 (2.41%) Wrike
7 5 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.61%) Ahrefs
8 4 (1.61%) Screaming Frog
9 3 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.20%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.20%) Informatica
9 3 (1.20%) YouTube
10 2 (0.80%) Cisco
10 2 (0.80%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.80%) Marketo
10 2 (0.80%) Talend