Experimental Design Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Design of Experiments (Experimental Design)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Experimental Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 193 198
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Experimental Design 3 3 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.040% 0.079% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.088% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £43,710 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% - -
South East median annual salary £40,000 £43,710 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.49% -41.72% +5.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Experimental Design 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 5,308 3,416 3,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.02% 90.13% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 1,452 1,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,535 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

Experimental Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Experimental Design job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Experimental Design
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Experimental Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Experimental Design

Experimental Design
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 Experimental Design within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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 3 £70,000 +60.15% 8
Experimental Design
South East

Experimental Design
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 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MLflow
2 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (66.67%) Aviation
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (66.67%) FastAPI
2 2 (66.67%) gRPC
2 2 (66.67%) Hugging Face
2 2 (66.67%) NumPy
2 2 (66.67%) ONNX
2 2 (66.67%) OpenCV
2 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
2 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) CUDA
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) MLOps
1 3 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Measurement
2 2 (66.67%) Reinforcement Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Reproducible Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Thales
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft