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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 91 42
Rank change year-on-year +75 -49 -11
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 363 115 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 10.41% 2.64% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.78% 3.14% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 79 51 142
10th Percentile £38,250 £41,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,911 £46,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% -3.58% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £80,500 £90,000 £79,875
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +1.72% -5.79%

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 3,082 3,668 3,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.41% 84.13% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,545 1,752 2,126
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 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 +75 266 £46,000 -23.35% 449
Buckinghamshire +36 64 £47,500 - 47
Oxfordshire +35 33 £50,000 -8.26% 48
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 (2.75%) SugarCRM
2 7 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.38%) WordPress
4 2 (0.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 95 (26.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.93%) MadCap Flare
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.83%) InDesign
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.38%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 3 (0.83%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.83%) Shopify
4 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.28%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 148 (40.77%) Azure
2 118 (32.51%) Power Platform
3 36 (9.92%) GCP
4 22 (6.06%) Google Analytics
5 19 (5.23%) SaaS
6 17 (4.68%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.41%) AWS
8 15 (4.13%) Vertex AI
9 10 (2.75%) Google Ads
10 9 (2.48%) GitHub
11 8 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.93%) Google Docs
13 6 (1.65%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.10%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
15 3 (0.83%) IaaS
15 3 (0.83%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) SMS
2 3 (0.83%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.55%) DNS
3 2 (0.55%) Firewall
3 2 (0.55%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.55%) VPN
3 2 (0.55%) WAN
4 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.28%) Modbus
4 1 (0.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (34.44%) Data Lake
2 117 (32.23%) Power BI
3 69 (19.01%) SAP BW
4 34 (9.37%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (6.89%) BigQuery
5 25 (6.89%) Metadata
6 18 (4.96%) Data Mining
7 10 (2.75%) Tableau
8 7 (1.93%) Big Data
8 7 (1.93%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.93%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (1.65%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.83%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.55%) MySQL
13 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.48%) JIRA
2 4 (1.10%) Git
3 3 (0.83%) ERwin
3 3 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 219 (60.33%) Social Skills
2 154 (42.42%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (27.27%) Finance
4 88 (24.24%) Law
5 75 (20.66%) Marketing
6 43 (11.85%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (9.09%) Retail
8 24 (6.61%) Manufacturing
9 16 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.48%) Legal
12 7 (1.93%) Automotive
13 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.83%) Games
14 3 (0.83%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.83%) Publishing
15 2 (0.55%) Advertising
15 2 (0.55%) French Language
15 2 (0.55%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.55%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 123 (33.88%) Lead
2 104 (28.65%) Senior
3 63 (17.36%) Analyst
4 36 (9.92%) Architect
5 34 (9.37%) Report Analyst
6 33 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 28 (7.71%) Sustainability Analyst
8 22 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
9 20 (5.51%) GCP Architect
9 20 (5.51%) Platform Architect
10 17 (4.68%) Data Analyst
11 14 (3.86%) Product Manager
12 13 (3.58%) Commercial Analyst
13 12 (3.31%) Commercial Data Analyst
13 12 (3.31%) Data Architect
13 12 (3.31%) Procurement Analyst
14 11 (3.03%) Data Manager
14 11 (3.03%) Marketing Manager
15 9 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 7 (1.93%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.03%) FHIR
2 7 (1.93%) Kafka
3 3 (0.83%) JSON
3 3 (0.83%) REST
3 3 (0.83%) SOAP
3 3 (0.83%) XML
4 2 (0.55%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.55%) NumPy
4 2 (0.55%) Pandas
4 2 (0.55%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.28%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.28%) CSS
5 1 (0.28%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.28%) HTML
5 1 (0.28%) Loki
5 1 (0.28%) Middleware
5 1 (0.28%) pydantic
5 1 (0.28%) pytest
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 77 (21.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 33 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 30 (8.26%) Cloud Native
4 29 (7.99%) Data Centre
5 26 (7.16%) Life Science
6 25 (6.89%) Algorithms
7 16 (4.41%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.86%) FMCG
9 13 (3.58%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.31%) Social Media
11 10 (2.75%) Omics
12 7 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.38%) SCADA
13 5 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
14 4 (1.10%) Industry 4.0
14 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing Execution System
15 3 (0.83%) Blog
16 2 (0.55%) IoT
16 2 (0.55%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (45.73%) Problem-Solving
2 133 (36.64%) Business Intelligence
3 113 (31.13%) Data Science
4 111 (30.58%) Roadmaps
5 103 (28.37%) Data Modelling
6 102 (28.10%) Agile
7 97 (26.72%) Machine Learning
8 96 (26.45%) Actionable Insight
9 80 (22.04%) Decision-Making
10 78 (21.49%) Data Governance
11 74 (20.39%) AI
12 69 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 65 (17.91%) ERP
14 62 (17.08%) Use Case
15 61 (16.80%) Strategic Roadmap
16 60 (16.53%) Computer Science
17 57 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
18 49 (13.50%) Thought Leadership
19 43 (11.85%) CRM
20 42 (11.57%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 52 (14.33%) Python
1 52 (14.33%) SQL
2 21 (5.79%) Go
3 20 (5.51%) Java
4 9 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.55%) Bicep
7 2 (0.55%) R
8 1 (0.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 165 (45.45%) Degree
2 34 (9.37%) Master's Degree
3 26 (7.16%) PhD
4 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.75%) HNC
6 9 (2.48%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.10%) PMP
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.83%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.83%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) CISSP
10 2 (0.55%) MCSE
10 2 (0.55%) OCP
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (21.76%) Data Quality
2 31 (8.54%) Accessibility
3 26 (7.16%) GxP
4 22 (6.06%) GDPR
5 10 (2.75%) CDISC
5 10 (2.75%) HL7
5 10 (2.75%) QA
6 7 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.83%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.55%) WCAG
10 1 (0.28%) GAAP
10 1 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.55%) Docker
1 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 81 (22.31%) SAP
2 70 (19.28%) Google
3 44 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.68%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.48%) Oracle
5 9 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.93%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.65%) Databricks
7 6 (1.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 6 (1.65%) Zoho
8 5 (1.38%) Allen-Bradley
8 5 (1.38%) JD Edwards
8 5 (1.38%) Siemens
9 4 (1.10%) Adobe
10 3 (0.83%) Cisco
10 3 (0.83%) Talend
11 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.55%) Instagram
11 2 (0.55%) Meraki
11 2 (0.55%) YouTube