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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 79 45
Rank change year-on-year +65 -34 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 376 114 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 9.41% 3.22% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.55% 3.53% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 95 66 116
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £41,668
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,911 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -11.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65,625 £64,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £80,625 £77,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%

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 3,256 3,230 2,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.48% 91.32% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,752 1,524 2,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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 +85 229 £50,000 -5.66% 242
Buckinghamshire +38 112 £49,000 -14.78% 81
Oxfordshire +13 36 £47,500 - 59
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 (2.66%) SugarCRM
2 3 (0.80%) Confluence
3 2 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 93 (24.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.60%) MadCap Flare
3 5 (1.33%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.80%) InDesign
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.06%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.80%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.80%) Shopify
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
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
Cloud Services
1 123 (32.71%) Power Platform
2 122 (32.45%) Azure
3 30 (7.98%) Snowflake
4 28 (7.45%) GCP
5 18 (4.79%) Google Analytics
6 12 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (2.66%) SaaS
8 9 (2.39%) AWS
9 8 (2.13%) GitHub
10 7 (1.86%) Google Ads
11 6 (1.60%) dbt
11 6 (1.60%) Figma
11 6 (1.60%) Google Docs
12 5 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.33%) Miro
13 4 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.80%) Collibra
14 3 (0.80%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.60%) SMS
2 3 (0.80%) MQTT
2 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (32.18%) Power BI
2 85 (22.61%) Data Lake
3 69 (18.35%) SAP BW
4 45 (11.97%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (8.24%) Metadata
6 25 (6.65%) BigQuery
7 12 (3.19%) Tableau
8 10 (2.66%) Data Mining
9 7 (1.86%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (1.86%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.80%) Looker
12 3 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.80%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.53%) Airbyte
13 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (2.66%) JIRA
2 7 (1.86%) Git
3 5 (1.33%) Axure RP
3 5 (1.33%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.80%) ERwin
4 3 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
General
1 170 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 122 (32.45%) Finance
3 114 (30.32%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (17.55%) Marketing
5 32 (8.51%) Law
6 29 (7.71%) Manufacturing
7 28 (7.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (4.52%) Retail
9 13 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.60%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.33%) Legal
13 3 (0.80%) Advertising
13 3 (0.80%) Games
13 3 (0.80%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.80%) Publishing
14 2 (0.53%) French Language
14 2 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 117 (31.12%) Lead
2 67 (17.82%) Senior
3 65 (17.29%) Analyst
4 48 (12.77%) Architect
5 34 (9.04%) Report Analyst
6 33 (8.78%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 28 (7.45%) Sustainability Analyst
8 26 (6.91%) Data Architect
9 20 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
9 20 (5.32%) GCP Architect
9 20 (5.32%) Platform Architect
10 19 (5.05%) Data Analyst
11 17 (4.52%) Data Engineer
12 15 (3.99%) Senior Manager
13 13 (3.46%) Commercial Analyst
14 12 (3.19%) Commercial Data Analyst
14 12 (3.19%) Procurement Analyst
15 10 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 8 (2.13%) Data Manager
16 8 (2.13%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.66%) FHIR
2 5 (1.33%) CSS
2 5 (1.33%) HTML
3 3 (0.80%) Middleware
3 3 (0.80%) REST
3 3 (0.80%) SAP CO-PA
3 3 (0.80%) SOAP
4 2 (0.53%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.53%) NumPy
4 2 (0.53%) Pandas
4 2 (0.53%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.53%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.27%) GeoPandas
5 1 (0.27%) MapLibre
5 1 (0.27%) NetworkX
5 1 (0.27%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.27%) PySpark
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.27%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.03%) Life Science
2 44 (11.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (7.18%) Data Centre
4 25 (6.65%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.12%) Cloud Native
6 22 (5.85%) Onboarding
7 19 (5.05%) Product Ownership
8 15 (3.99%) FMCG
9 12 (3.19%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.66%) Omics
11 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.33%) Social Media
12 5 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
13 4 (1.06%) Industry 4.0
13 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 4 (1.06%) SCADA
14 3 (0.80%) Blog
14 3 (0.80%) LIMS
14 3 (0.80%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (35.64%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (32.98%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (30.59%) Data Modelling
4 86 (22.87%) Data Science
5 76 (20.21%) AI
5 76 (20.21%) Computer Science
6 75 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 73 (19.41%) Roadmaps
8 71 (18.88%) Agile
8 71 (18.88%) Decision-Making
9 68 (18.09%) Data Governance
10 66 (17.55%) Actionable Insight
10 66 (17.55%) Machine Learning
10 66 (17.55%) Use Case
11 64 (17.02%) ERP
12 56 (14.89%) Data Management
13 48 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (12.23%) Hematology
14 46 (12.23%) Immunology
15 45 (11.97%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (14.89%) Python
2 51 (13.56%) SQL
3 20 (5.32%) Go
3 20 (5.32%) Java
4 9 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.80%) R
7 1 (0.27%) Ruby
7 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (47.61%) Degree
2 37 (9.84%) Master's Degree
3 34 (9.04%) PhD
4 15 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.66%) HNC
6 8 (2.13%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.60%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.80%) CISSP
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.80%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.80%) PMP
8 3 (0.80%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.53%) MCSE
9 2 (0.53%) OCP
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (23.40%) Data Quality
2 49 (13.03%) Accessibility
3 37 (9.84%) GxP
4 17 (4.52%) GDPR
5 10 (2.66%) CDISC
5 10 (2.66%) HL7
6 7 (1.86%) QA
6 7 (1.86%) WCAG
7 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.80%) GRC
9 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.27%) GAAP
11 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.27%) IFRS
11 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (0.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Argo
3 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (22.87%) SAP
2 46 (12.23%) Google
3 44 (11.70%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.46%) Nexthink
5 9 (2.39%) Adobe
6 8 (2.13%) Oracle
6 8 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 6 (1.60%) Zoho
8 5 (1.33%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.06%) Allen-Bradley
9 4 (1.06%) Databricks
9 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.06%) Siemens
10 3 (0.80%) Agilent
10 3 (0.80%) Cisco
10 3 (0.80%) Talend
11 2 (0.53%) Cognos
11 2 (0.53%) Dell
11 2 (0.53%) IBM