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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 73 61
Rank change year-on-year +56 -12 -26
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 308 99 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.93% 3.21% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.00% 3.43% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 94 52 131
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% -3.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 3,422 2,888 4,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 77.00% 93.77% 86.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,021 1,219 3,474
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £29,175
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £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 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 27 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 27 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
Buckinghamshire +37 151 £52,500 -11.02% 24
Berkshire +77 135 £52,500 -0.94% 23
Oxfordshire -6 23 £50,410 +6.13% 10
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 (1.95%) CMS
2 2 (0.65%) Confluence
2 2 (0.65%) WordPress
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.32%) Camunda
3 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.62%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.97%) InDesign
4 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (3.25%) SAP CO
2 5 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.97%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.32%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (17.53%) Azure
2 53 (17.21%) Power Platform
3 28 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 12 (3.90%) SaaS
5 11 (3.57%) Asana
5 11 (3.57%) Sprout Social
6 10 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.92%) AWS
8 7 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (1.95%) GCP
9 6 (1.95%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.62%) Figma
10 5 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.30%) dbt
11 4 (1.30%) Miro
12 3 (0.97%) Collibra
12 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.97%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.97%) Broadband
1 3 (0.97%) MQTT
1 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
1 3 (0.97%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (16.56%) Power BI
2 44 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (8.77%) Metadata
4 23 (7.47%) Data Lake
5 14 (4.55%) SAP BW
6 9 (2.92%) Data Mining
6 9 (2.92%) Tableau
7 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.97%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.97%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.65%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.32%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Axure RP
1 5 (1.62%) Balsamiq
1 5 (1.62%) Git
2 3 (0.97%) ERwin
2 3 (0.97%) JIRA
2 3 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 126 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 111 (36.04%) Finance
3 80 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (17.21%) Marketing
5 33 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
6 20 (6.49%) Manufacturing
7 19 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.60%) Legal
9 7 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.95%) Law
11 5 (1.62%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.97%) Advertising
12 3 (0.97%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Publishing
12 3 (0.97%) Retail
12 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.65%) Games
13 2 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 71 (23.05%) Senior
2 65 (21.10%) Lead
3 35 (11.36%) Analyst
4 29 (9.42%) Architect
5 26 (8.44%) Data Architect
6 20 (6.49%) Data Engineer
7 18 (5.84%) Data Analyst
7 18 (5.84%) Designer
8 14 (4.55%) Senior Manager
9 13 (4.22%) Product Designer
9 13 (4.22%) Senior Designer
9 13 (4.22%) Senior Product Designer
10 12 (3.90%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (3.90%) Commercial Data Analyst
10 12 (3.90%) Developer
10 12 (3.90%) Procurement Analyst
11 11 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 11 (3.57%) Social Media Executive
12 10 (3.25%) Business Developer
12 10 (3.25%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.92%) SAP CO-PA
2 7 (2.27%) CSS
2 7 (2.27%) FHIR
2 7 (2.27%) HTML
3 3 (0.97%) Middleware
3 3 (0.97%) REST
3 3 (0.97%) SOAP
4 2 (0.65%) React
4 2 (0.65%) Snowpark
5 1 (0.32%) GeoPandas
5 1 (0.32%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.32%) Kafka
5 1 (0.32%) Laravel
5 1 (0.32%) MapLibre
5 1 (0.32%) NetworkX
5 1 (0.32%) Node.js
5 1 (0.32%) Playwright
5 1 (0.32%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.32%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.18%) Life Science
2 40 (12.99%) Analytical Mindset
3 30 (9.74%) Product Ownership
4 21 (6.82%) Data Centre
5 19 (6.17%) Social Media
6 15 (4.87%) FMCG
7 13 (4.22%) Mobile App
7 13 (4.22%) Video Editing
8 10 (3.25%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.60%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.60%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.60%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.60%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.27%) Omics
11 6 (1.95%) Hackathon
11 6 (1.95%) Web Conferencing
12 4 (1.30%) LIMS
13 3 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.97%) Operational Technology
14 2 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.97%) Unix
2 1 (0.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.14%) AI
2 87 (28.25%) Computer Science
3 84 (27.27%) Agile
4 72 (23.38%) Machine Learning
5 69 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (21.75%) Use Case
7 64 (20.78%) Data Science
8 62 (20.13%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (19.16%) Data Modelling
10 57 (18.51%) Decision-Making
11 55 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (17.21%) Hematology
12 53 (17.21%) Immunology
13 49 (15.91%) Roadmaps
14 44 (14.29%) Data Integration
15 43 (13.96%) Data Analytics
15 43 (13.96%) Data Architecture
15 43 (13.96%) Generative AI
16 39 (12.66%) Data Management
17 38 (12.34%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (15.58%) SQL
2 33 (10.71%) Python
3 10 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.30%) R
5 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.65%) VBA
7 1 (0.32%) C++
7 1 (0.32%) Ruby
7 1 (0.32%) Scala
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 111 (36.04%) Degree
2 46 (14.94%) Master's Degree
3 36 (11.69%) PhD
4 13 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.27%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.62%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.97%) CISSP
7 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.97%) PMP
7 3 (0.97%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.65%) MCSE
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.65%) OCP
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.32%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 39 (12.66%) GxP
3 30 (9.74%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.57%) GDPR
5 7 (2.27%) CDISC
5 7 (2.27%) HL7
5 7 (2.27%) WCAG
6 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.62%) GRC
7 5 (1.62%) QA
8 4 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.97%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.97%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.62%) Terraform
2 2 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 44 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.74%) SAP
3 22 (7.14%) Nexthink
4 21 (6.82%) Adobe
5 13 (4.22%) Hootsuite
5 13 (4.22%) Instagram
6 11 (3.57%) Wrike
7 10 (3.25%) Google
7 10 (3.25%) Oracle
8 4 (1.30%) Databricks
8 4 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.97%) Agilent
9 3 (0.97%) Cisco
9 3 (0.97%) JD Edwards
9 3 (0.97%) Zoho
10 2 (0.65%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.65%) YouTube
11 1 (0.32%) Automation Anywhere
11 1 (0.32%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.32%) UiPath