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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 77 49
Rank change year-on-year +64 -28 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 371 105 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 8.57% 3.14% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.85% 3.38% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 92 56 137
10th Percentile £35,125 £39,250 £35,369
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,250 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -2.26% -9.56%
75th Percentile £67,750 £62,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,125 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 3,419 3,109 4,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.96% 93.00% 87.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,921 1,300 3,390
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,650 £29,500
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 £76,002 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,100 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -9.09%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +92 209 £50,000 -5.66% 30
Buckinghamshire +43 141 £52,500 -9.48% 24
Oxfordshire -5 22 £47,500 - 12
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 6 (1.62%) CMS
2 3 (0.81%) Confluence
2 3 (0.81%) SugarCRM
3 2 (0.54%) WordPress
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Camunda
4 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 89 (23.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.35%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.81%) InDesign
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (2.70%) SAP CO
2 7 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.35%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.54%) 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
1 114 (30.73%) Power Platform
2 111 (29.92%) Azure
3 28 (7.55%) Snowflake
4 11 (2.96%) SaaS
5 10 (2.70%) Google Analytics
6 9 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (1.89%) AWS
8 6 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (1.62%) Figma
8 6 (1.62%) GCP
9 5 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.35%) Miro
10 4 (1.08%) Asana
10 4 (1.08%) dbt
10 4 (1.08%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.08%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.08%) Sprout Social
11 3 (0.81%) Collibra
12 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) MQTT
1 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.81%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (30.19%) Power BI
2 81 (21.83%) Data Lake
3 70 (18.87%) SAP BW
4 42 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (7.82%) Metadata
6 9 (2.43%) Data Mining
6 9 (2.43%) Tableau
7 6 (1.62%) Qlik Sense
8 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (0.81%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.54%) Airbyte
10 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 1 (0.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.35%) Axure RP
1 5 (1.35%) Balsamiq
1 5 (1.35%) Git
2 4 (1.08%) JIRA
3 3 (0.81%) ERwin
3 3 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 168 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 128 (34.50%) Finance
3 111 (29.92%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.94%) Marketing
5 34 (9.16%) Pharmaceutical
6 29 (7.82%) Manufacturing
7 12 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.16%) Legal
9 7 (1.89%) Law
10 6 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.62%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.08%) Games
12 3 (0.81%) Advertising
12 3 (0.81%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Publishing
12 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 114 (30.73%) Lead
2 68 (18.33%) Senior
3 61 (16.44%) Analyst
4 34 (9.16%) Report Analyst
5 33 (8.89%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 29 (7.82%) Architect
7 28 (7.55%) Sustainability Analyst
8 26 (7.01%) Data Architect
9 17 (4.58%) Data Analyst
10 16 (4.31%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.04%) Designer
11 15 (4.04%) Senior Manager
12 12 (3.23%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (3.23%) Commercial Data Analyst
12 12 (3.23%) Procurement Analyst
13 11 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 11 (2.96%) Developer
14 10 (2.70%) Business Developer
14 10 (2.70%) Marketing Manager
14 10 (2.70%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.70%) FHIR
2 9 (2.43%) SAP CO-PA
3 7 (1.89%) CSS
3 7 (1.89%) HTML
4 3 (0.81%) Middleware
4 3 (0.81%) REST
4 3 (0.81%) SOAP
5 2 (0.54%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.27%) GeoPandas
6 1 (0.27%) Kafka
6 1 (0.27%) MapLibre
6 1 (0.27%) NetworkX
6 1 (0.27%) Playwright
6 1 (0.27%) PostGIS
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 (15.63%) Life Science
2 45 (12.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 28 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 27 (7.28%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.85%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.31%) Onboarding
7 15 (4.04%) FMCG
8 11 (2.96%) Social Media
9 10 (2.70%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.70%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.70%) Omics
10 7 (1.89%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.62%) Video Editing
11 6 (1.62%) Web Conferencing
12 5 (1.35%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.35%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (1.08%) Blog
14 3 (0.81%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (33.42%) Business Intelligence
3 113 (30.46%) Data Modelling
4 91 (24.53%) Computer Science
5 90 (24.26%) AI
6 80 (21.56%) Agile
7 72 (19.41%) Data Science
7 72 (19.41%) Machine Learning
7 72 (19.41%) Use Case
8 66 (17.79%) Data Governance
8 66 (17.79%) Decision-Making
9 62 (16.71%) ERP
10 61 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (15.09%) Actionable Insight
12 55 (14.82%) Hematology
12 55 (14.82%) Immunology
13 50 (13.48%) Roadmaps
14 48 (12.94%) Data Integration
14 48 (12.94%) Data Management
14 48 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (12.40%) SQL
2 27 (7.28%) Python
3 11 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.81%) R
5 2 (0.54%) VBA
6 1 (0.27%) Ruby
6 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 185 (49.87%) Degree
2 46 (12.40%) Master's Degree
3 40 (10.78%) PhD
4 14 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.16%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.62%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.81%) CISSP
7 3 (0.81%) HNC
7 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.81%) PMP
7 3 (0.81%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.54%) MCSE
8 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.54%) OCP
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (22.91%) Data Quality
2 57 (15.36%) Accessibility
3 43 (11.59%) GxP
4 11 (2.96%) GDPR
5 10 (2.70%) CDISC
5 10 (2.70%) HL7
6 8 (2.16%) WCAG
7 6 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.62%) QA
8 5 (1.35%) GRC
9 3 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.81%) 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 2 (0.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.08%) Terraform
2 1 (0.27%) Argo
2 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (23.99%) SAP
2 40 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.93%) Nexthink
4 14 (3.77%) Adobe
4 14 (3.77%) Google
5 8 (2.16%) Oracle
6 6 (1.62%) Hootsuite
6 6 (1.62%) Instagram
7 5 (1.35%) JD Edwards
8 4 (1.08%) Databricks
8 4 (1.08%) Wrike
8 4 (1.08%) Zoho
9 3 (0.81%) Agilent
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco
10 2 (0.54%) Dell
10 2 (0.54%) IBM
10 2 (0.54%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.54%) YouTube
11 1 (0.27%) Foundry
11 1 (0.27%) Pega