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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 29 56
Rank change year-on-year +8 +27 -20
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 280 186 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.91% 6.70% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 7.12% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 104 57 155
10th Percentile £38,250 £38,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £43,750 £42,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,455 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £85,250 £78,000 £72,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 3,542 2,611 5,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 74.77% 94.06% 86.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,204 1,200 3,880
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -1.87%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +24 161 £50,000 -16.67% 34
Berkshire +3 98 £55,000 +3.77% 57
Oxfordshire -19 22 £51,455 +8.33% 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 6 (2.14%) CMS
2 2 (0.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) WordPress
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) Camunda
3 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.07%) InDesign
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.71%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (3.21%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (18.93%) Azure
2 33 (11.79%) Power Platform
3 28 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 14 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (5.00%) SaaS
5 11 (3.93%) Asana
5 11 (3.93%) AWS
5 11 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (3.93%) Sprout Social
6 6 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
7 5 (1.79%) Figma
7 5 (1.79%) GCP
7 5 (1.79%) Google Analytics
7 5 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.43%) dbt
8 4 (1.43%) Miro
9 3 (1.07%) Collibra
9 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) Broadband
2 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.07%) MQTT
3 3 (1.07%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.36%) Modbus
4 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.36%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (11.07%) Power BI
3 24 (8.57%) Metadata
4 20 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.57%) Data Mining
6 9 (3.21%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.21%) Tableau
7 8 (2.86%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.07%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (1.07%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.07%) SAP HANA
10 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.71%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Axure RP
1 5 (1.79%) Balsamiq
1 5 (1.79%) Git
2 3 (1.07%) ERwin
2 3 (1.07%) JIRA
2 3 (1.07%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 92 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.79%) Finance
3 49 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.00%) Marketing
5 23 (8.21%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.07%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.50%) Law
8 6 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Games
9 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 5 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.43%) Retail
11 3 (1.07%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.07%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (17.86%) Senior
2 35 (12.50%) Lead
3 29 (10.36%) Data Engineer
4 28 (10.00%) Architect
5 24 (8.57%) Data Architect
6 19 (6.79%) Designer
7 18 (6.43%) Analyst
8 14 (5.00%) Associate Director
8 14 (5.00%) Senior Manager
9 13 (4.64%) Developer
9 13 (4.64%) Product Designer
9 13 (4.64%) Senior Designer
9 13 (4.64%) Senior Product Designer
10 11 (3.93%) Analytics Manager
10 11 (3.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Engineer
10 11 (3.93%) Social Media Executive
11 10 (3.57%) Business Developer
11 10 (3.57%) Power BI Developer
12 8 (2.86%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.21%) SAP CO-PA
2 7 (2.50%) CSS
2 7 (2.50%) HTML
3 5 (1.79%) FHIR
4 4 (1.43%) REST
5 3 (1.07%) Middleware
5 3 (1.07%) React
5 3 (1.07%) SOAP
6 2 (0.71%) Node.js
6 2 (0.71%) Redux
6 2 (0.71%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.36%) .NET
7 1 (0.36%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.36%) GeoPandas
7 1 (0.36%) gRPC
7 1 (0.36%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.36%) MapLibre
7 1 (0.36%) PySpark
7 1 (0.36%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.36%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.14%) Life Science
2 30 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 20 (7.14%) Social Media
4 13 (4.64%) Mobile App
5 12 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.29%) Low-Code
6 11 (3.93%) Video Editing
7 10 (3.57%) Hackathon
7 10 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.86%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.79%) Omics
11 4 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.43%) LIMS
11 4 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
12 3 (1.07%) FMCG
12 3 (1.07%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.71%) Blog
14 1 (0.36%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
1 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (30.71%) AI
2 85 (30.36%) Agile
3 68 (24.29%) Computer Science
4 57 (20.36%) Data Modelling
5 56 (20.00%) Data Science
6 52 (18.57%) Machine Learning
7 49 (17.50%) Decision-Making
8 46 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (16.07%) Hematology
9 45 (16.07%) Immunology
10 44 (15.71%) Data Architecture
10 44 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (15.00%) Data Integration
12 40 (14.29%) Roadmaps
12 40 (14.29%) Use Case
13 39 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (13.57%) Data Management
15 36 (12.86%) User Experience
16 34 (12.14%) Data Analytics
17 33 (11.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 53 (18.93%) SQL
2 41 (14.64%) Python
3 10 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.43%) R
5 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.71%) VBA
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) C++
7 1 (0.36%) Ruby
7 1 (0.36%) Scala
7 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (30.71%) Degree
2 40 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 24 (8.57%) PhD
4 13 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.79%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.07%) PMP
6 3 (1.07%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.36%) ACCA
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) CIMA
8 1 (0.36%) CISM
8 1 (0.36%) MCSE
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) OCP
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 27 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 27 (9.64%) GxP
3 9 (3.21%) GDPR
4 8 (2.86%) WCAG
5 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.79%) CDISC
6 5 (1.79%) HL7
7 4 (1.43%) GRC
7 4 (1.43%) QA
8 3 (1.07%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) NIST
9 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (2.86%) Terraform
2 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 55 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.57%) Adobe
2 24 (8.57%) SAP
3 22 (7.86%) Nexthink
4 11 (3.93%) Hootsuite
4 11 (3.93%) Instagram
4 11 (3.93%) Oracle
4 11 (3.93%) Wrike
5 7 (2.50%) Google
6 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.43%) Databricks
8 3 (1.07%) Agilent
8 3 (1.07%) Cisco
8 3 (1.07%) Zoho
9 2 (0.71%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.36%) Foundry
10 1 (0.36%) Informatica
10 1 (0.36%) Palantir
10 1 (0.36%) Pega
10 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow