Hybrid/Remote Analytical Mindset Job Trends

Analytical Mindset
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 318 426
Rank change year-on-year +107 +108 +153
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 166 117 98
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 0.75% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.00% 1.86% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 94 74 80
10th Percentile £30,165 £31,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £76,563 £69,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £67,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -10.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Analytical Mindset falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,542 6,304 10,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.20% 40.22% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,484 3,500 8,352
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £33,752
25th Percentile £40,750 £48,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,139 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,571
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.57% -14.51%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Mindset and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Analytical Mindset job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Analytical Mindset
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytical Mindset.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Analytical Mindset salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Analytical Mindset
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 13 (7.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 43 (25.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) SAP FI
1 3 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.20%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.20%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.60%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.57%) Azure
2 43 (25.90%) Power Platform
3 28 (16.87%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (16.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.23%) AWS
7 9 (5.42%) SaaS
8 8 (4.82%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.61%) GCP
9 6 (3.61%) GitHub
9 6 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.01%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.20%) Google Ads
12 2 (1.20%) Serverless
12 2 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.01%) Firewall
1 5 (3.01%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.41%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.41%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.81%) Network Security
4 1 (0.60%) Broadband
4 1 (0.60%) DHCP
4 1 (0.60%) DNS
4 1 (0.60%) Internet
4 1 (0.60%) Intranet
4 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.60%) VLAN
4 1 (0.60%) VoIP
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
4 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (25.30%) Power BI
2 29 (17.47%) SQL Server
3 28 (16.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (14.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (7.23%) Tableau
7 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.20%) Looker
8 2 (1.20%) Metadata
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.60%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 16 (9.64%) JIRA
2 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.81%) Postman
3 1 (0.60%) Git
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.60%) TestRail
3 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 165 (99.40%) Analytical Skills
2 113 (68.07%) Social Skills
3 66 (39.76%) Finance
4 28 (16.87%) Marketing
5 21 (12.65%) Legal
6 16 (9.64%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (7.83%) Billing
7 13 (7.83%) Law
8 12 (7.23%) Manufacturing
9 10 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (5.42%) Retail
11 7 (4.22%) French Language
11 7 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (3.61%) Front Office
12 6 (3.61%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (3.61%) Portuguese Language
12 6 (3.61%) Public Sector
12 6 (3.61%) Spanish Language
13 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (35.54%) Analyst
2 17 (10.24%) Business Analyst
3 15 (9.04%) Data Analyst
4 13 (7.83%) Business Manager
4 13 (7.83%) Insight Analyst
5 12 (7.23%) Commercial Analyst
5 12 (7.23%) Insight Manager
6 11 (6.63%) Sales Manager
6 11 (6.63%) Senior
7 10 (6.02%) Lead
8 9 (5.42%) Architect
8 9 (5.42%) Developer
9 8 (4.82%) Enterprise Architect
9 8 (4.82%) Sales Executive
10 5 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.01%) IT Support
10 5 (3.01%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (2.41%) Campaign Manager
11 4 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.41%) UX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.41%) CSS
1 4 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.41%) HTML
1 4 (2.41%) Sass
1 4 (2.41%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (1.81%) .NET
3 2 (1.20%) Flutter
3 2 (1.20%) React
3 2 (1.20%) XML
3 2 (1.20%) XSLT
4 1 (0.60%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.60%) Blazor
4 1 (0.60%) Django
4 1 (0.60%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.60%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.60%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (0.60%) Playwright
4 1 (0.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.07%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (13.25%) Product Ownership
3 16 (9.64%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.63%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.02%) Social Media
6 9 (5.42%) Algorithms
7 8 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.61%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.61%) FMCG
9 5 (3.01%) Driving Licence
9 5 (3.01%) Security Posture
9 5 (3.01%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.81%) PKI
12 2 (1.20%) Augmented Reality
12 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.20%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Linux
1 6 (3.61%) Windows
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (36.75%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (36.14%) Analytics
4 47 (28.31%) Agile
4 47 (28.31%) Decision-Making
5 44 (26.51%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (24.10%) Actionable Insight
7 38 (22.89%) AI
8 36 (21.69%) Data Analysis
9 35 (21.08%) Process Improvement
10 34 (20.48%) Visualisation
11 32 (19.28%) DevOps
12 24 (14.46%) CI/CD
12 24 (14.46%) Visual Analytics
12 24 (14.46%) WFM
13 19 (11.45%) CRM
14 17 (10.24%) Data Modelling
14 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (10.24%) Performance Monitoring
15 16 (9.64%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.34%) SQL
2 38 (22.89%) Python
3 24 (14.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.63%) C#
5 10 (6.02%) C++
6 8 (4.82%) C
7 6 (3.61%) Go
7 6 (3.61%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.61%) VBA
8 3 (1.81%) Bash
8 3 (1.81%) Bicep
8 3 (1.81%) Java
9 2 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.20%) R
9 2 (1.20%) VC++
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (22.29%) Degree
2 15 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 8 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.81%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.60%) CISA
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.04%) Data Quality
1 15 (9.04%) QA
2 13 (7.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 10 (6.02%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.01%) GRC
4 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.81%) GDPR
5 3 (1.81%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.81%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.81%) NEBOSH
5 3 (1.81%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.20%) EMIR
6 2 (1.20%) GAAP
6 2 (1.20%) IFRS
6 2 (1.20%) NIST
6 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.02%) Terraform
2 5 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.81%) Ansible
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.60%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 41 (24.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.23%) Autodesk
3 9 (5.42%) Google
4 5 (3.01%) SAP
5 3 (1.81%) Ahrefs
5 3 (1.81%) Apple
5 3 (1.81%) BT
5 3 (1.81%) Databricks
5 3 (1.81%) Oracle
5 3 (1.81%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (1.20%) Hootsuite
6 2 (1.20%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.20%) Instagram
6 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.20%) YouTube
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.60%) HP
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce