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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 83 43
Rank change year-on-year +70 -40 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 365 104 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.71% 3.08% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.95% 3.34% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 94 57 137
10th Percentile £37,000 £39,400 £38,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% -1.67%

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 3,332 3,117 4,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 79.52% 92.16% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,845 1,339 3,061
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,009 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -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 26 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 26 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 +90 207 £50,000 -5.66% 214
Buckinghamshire +48 134 £50,000 -13.79% 68
Oxfordshire +1 25 £47,500 - 43
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 5 (1.37%) SugarCRM
2 4 (1.10%) CMS
3 3 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.55%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 91 (24.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.82%) InDesign
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) SAP CO
2 7 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.37%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 4 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
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
5 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (32.60%) Power Platform
2 112 (30.68%) Azure
3 30 (8.22%) Snowflake
4 11 (3.01%) SaaS
5 10 (2.74%) Google Analytics
6 9 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (2.19%) AWS
7 8 (2.19%) GCP
8 7 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.64%) dbt
9 6 (1.64%) Figma
10 5 (1.37%) Google Ads
10 5 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.37%) Miro
11 4 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.10%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.82%) Collibra
12 3 (0.82%) Fivetran
13 2 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) MQTT
1 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.82%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.55%) SMS
3 1 (0.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (32.05%) Power BI
2 81 (22.19%) Data Lake
3 70 (19.18%) SAP BW
4 44 (12.05%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (8.49%) Metadata
6 12 (3.29%) Tableau
7 9 (2.47%) Data Mining
8 7 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.37%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.82%) Looker
10 3 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.82%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.55%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (1.92%) Git
2 5 (1.37%) Axure RP
2 5 (1.37%) Balsamiq
3 4 (1.10%) JIRA
4 3 (0.82%) ERwin
4 3 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 172 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 129 (35.34%) Finance
3 113 (30.96%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (13.70%) Marketing
5 34 (9.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 29 (7.95%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.92%) Law
8 7 (1.92%) Legal
9 6 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.64%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.64%) Retail
10 4 (1.10%) Games
11 3 (0.82%) Advertising
11 3 (0.82%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Publishing
12 2 (0.55%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 118 (32.33%) Lead
2 66 (18.08%) Analyst
3 62 (16.99%) Senior
4 34 (9.32%) Report Analyst
5 33 (9.04%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (7.67%) Architect
6 28 (7.67%) Sustainability Analyst
7 26 (7.12%) Data Architect
8 19 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 15 (4.11%) Senior Manager
10 14 (3.84%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 12 (3.29%) Commercial Analyst
11 12 (3.29%) Commercial Data Analyst
11 12 (3.29%) Procurement Analyst
12 10 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 10 (2.74%) Developer
12 10 (2.74%) Marketing Manager
13 9 (2.47%) Designer
13 9 (2.47%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.74%) FHIR
2 8 (2.19%) SAP CO-PA
3 6 (1.64%) CSS
3 6 (1.64%) HTML
4 3 (0.82%) Middleware
4 3 (0.82%) REST
4 3 (0.82%) SOAP
5 2 (0.55%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.55%) NumPy
5 2 (0.55%) Pandas
5 2 (0.55%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.55%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.27%) MapLibre
6 1 (0.27%) NetworkX
6 1 (0.27%) Playwright
6 1 (0.27%) PySpark
6 1 (0.27%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.27%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.89%) Life Science
2 45 (12.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (7.40%) Data Centre
4 22 (6.03%) Product Ownership
5 19 (5.21%) Management Information System
6 18 (4.93%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.11%) FMCG
8 10 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.74%) Omics
9 8 (2.19%) Social Media
10 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.37%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.10%) Video Editing
13 3 (0.82%) Blog
13 3 (0.82%) LIMS
13 3 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (35.07%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (33.97%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (30.68%) Data Modelling
4 89 (24.38%) Computer Science
5 87 (23.84%) AI
6 73 (20.00%) Use Case
7 72 (19.73%) Agile
7 72 (19.73%) Data Science
7 72 (19.73%) Machine Learning
8 69 (18.90%) Decision-Making
9 68 (18.63%) Data Governance
10 63 (17.26%) ERP
11 61 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (16.44%) Actionable Insight
13 55 (15.07%) Hematology
13 55 (15.07%) Immunology
14 54 (14.79%) Roadmaps
15 50 (13.70%) Data Management
16 48 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (12.60%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.97%) SQL
2 29 (7.95%) Python
3 12 (3.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.55%) R
5 2 (0.55%) VBA
6 1 (0.27%) Ruby
6 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 186 (50.96%) Degree
2 45 (12.33%) Master's Degree
3 40 (10.96%) PhD
4 14 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.19%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.37%) HNC
8 3 (0.82%) CISSP
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.82%) PMP
8 3 (0.82%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.55%) MCSE
9 2 (0.55%) OCP
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (23.84%) Data Quality
2 56 (15.34%) Accessibility
3 43 (11.78%) GxP
4 13 (3.56%) GDPR
5 10 (2.74%) CDISC
5 10 (2.74%) HL7
6 7 (1.92%) QA
6 7 (1.92%) WCAG
7 6 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.37%) GRC
9 3 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.27%) NIST
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.27%) Argo
2 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (24.11%) SAP
2 40 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.21%) Nexthink
4 16 (4.38%) Google
5 12 (3.29%) Adobe
6 8 (2.19%) Oracle
7 6 (1.64%) Zoho
8 5 (1.37%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.10%) Hootsuite
9 4 (1.10%) Instagram
9 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.82%) Agilent
10 3 (0.82%) Cisco
10 3 (0.82%) Databricks
10 3 (0.82%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.82%) Talend
11 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.55%) Cognos
11 2 (0.55%) Dell
11 2 (0.55%) IBM