Critical Success Factor Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Critical Success Factors
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Critical Success Factor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Critical Success Factor 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.029% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £67,500 - £37,500
% change year-on-year - - -17.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Critical Success Factor 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 4,918 3,497 3,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.11% 89.53% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 1,462 2,156
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,243
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

Critical Success Factor
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Critical Success Factor relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Critical Success Factor job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Critical Success Factor
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Critical Success Factor.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Critical Success Factor

Critical Success Factor
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 Critical Success Factor within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 September 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 - 2 £67,500 - 1
Critical Success Factor
South East

Critical Success Factor
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Terragrunt
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Transparency
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft