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 1 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 300 453
Rank change year-on-year +24 +153 +137
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 120 94 120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 0.70% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 1.65% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 79 64 88
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,030 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £71,375 £77,500 £63,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £43,100
% change year-on-year -18.18% +27.61% -13.80%

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 6,242 5,700 11,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.41% 42.36% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,926 3,688 9,267
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.40% -8.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 1 May 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 4 (3.33%) WordPress
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (2.50%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.83%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.50%) Infor M3
2 3 (2.50%) JDE OneWorld
2 3 (2.50%) JDE World
2 3 (2.50%) SAP FI
2 3 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.67%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.67%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.83%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.83%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.83%) Azure
2 14 (11.67%) AWS
3 11 (9.17%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.17%) SaaS
4 10 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.67%) GCP
5 8 (6.67%) Google Analytics
6 7 (5.83%) GitHub
7 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.33%) Canva
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.50%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.67%) dbt
10 2 (1.67%) Figma
10 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.17%) Firewall
3 3 (2.50%) Network Security
3 3 (2.50%) WAN
4 2 (1.67%) FTP
4 2 (1.67%) HTTP
4 2 (1.67%) Internet
4 2 (1.67%) LAN
4 2 (1.67%) SMTP
5 1 (0.83%) Broadband
5 1 (0.83%) DHCP
5 1 (0.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.83%) SMS
5 1 (0.83%) VLAN
5 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) Power BI
2 6 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.33%) Tableau
4 3 (2.50%) Big Data
4 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.67%) Metadata
5 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.67%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.83%) TestRail
4 1 (0.83%) Zephyr
General
1 119 (99.17%) Analytical Skills
2 66 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (27.50%) Finance
4 16 (13.33%) Marketing
5 11 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.83%) Legal
7 7 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (5.00%) Front Office
8 6 (5.00%) Law
8 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.17%) Advertising
9 5 (4.17%) German Language
9 5 (4.17%) Retail
10 4 (3.33%) Brand Awareness
11 3 (2.50%) Automotive
11 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 35 (29.17%) Analyst
2 15 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 15 (12.50%) Lead
3 9 (7.50%) Senior
4 8 (6.67%) Compliance Manager
4 8 (6.67%) Developer
5 7 (5.83%) Data Analyst
6 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Head of QA
6 6 (5.00%) Junior
6 6 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
7 4 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.33%) Junior Data Analyst
7 4 (3.33%) Lead Business Analyst
7 4 (3.33%) Marketing Manager
7 4 (3.33%) Sales and Marketing Manager
7 4 (3.33%) Sales Manager
7 4 (3.33%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) .NET
1 4 (3.33%) Flutter
1 4 (3.33%) React
2 3 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (2.50%) Sass
2 3 (2.50%) XML
2 3 (2.50%) XSLT
2 3 (2.50%) ZeroMQ
3 2 (1.67%) CSS
3 2 (1.67%) HTML
3 2 (1.67%) LDAP
4 1 (0.83%) Django
4 1 (0.83%) DOM
4 1 (0.83%) Ember.js
4 1 (0.83%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (0.83%) JSON
4 1 (0.83%) Kafka
4 1 (0.83%) Phoenix Framework
4 1 (0.83%) Playwright
4 1 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Algorithms
1 7 (5.83%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.00%) Social Media
2 6 (5.00%) Web Conferencing
3 5 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.33%) Podcast
4 4 (3.33%) Video Editing
5 3 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.33%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.83%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (25.83%) Analytics
2 31 (25.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (24.17%) Agile
4 19 (15.83%) DevOps
5 18 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
6 17 (14.17%) Project Management
7 14 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (11.67%) Decision-Making
7 14 (11.67%) Project Delivery
8 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 12 (10.00%) Test Automation
9 11 (9.17%) CRM
9 11 (9.17%) Customer Experience
9 11 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (9.17%) ERP
9 11 (9.17%) Validation
10 10 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.33%) Python
2 22 (18.33%) SQL
3 11 (9.17%) C#
4 8 (6.67%) Java
5 7 (5.83%) C++
5 7 (5.83%) Go
6 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.17%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.33%) VBA
9 3 (2.50%) Bash
9 3 (2.50%) Bicep
9 3 (2.50%) C
9 3 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.50%) VC++
10 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.83%) Elm
10 1 (0.83%) Scala
10 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Degree
2 11 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.00%) IRCA
5 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ACCA
8 1 (0.83%) CIMA
8 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) IIBA
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) QA
2 14 (11.67%) ISO 9001
3 12 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 10 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 10 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (6.67%) GDPR
5 8 (6.67%) ISO 14001
5 8 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (2.50%) EMIR
8 2 (1.67%) GAAP
8 2 (1.67%) GRC
8 2 (1.67%) IFRS
8 2 (1.67%) NIST
8 2 (1.67%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.83%) PMO
9 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.67%) Docker
1 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.83%) Firmware
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (9.17%) Terraform
2 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.50%) Ansible
5 2 (1.67%) QRadar
6 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Google
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle
4 6 (5.00%) Adobe
4 6 (5.00%) SAP
5 5 (4.17%) HubSpot
6 4 (3.33%) Marketo
6 4 (3.33%) Pardot
7 3 (2.50%) Apple
7 3 (2.50%) Databricks
7 3 (2.50%) Epicor
7 3 (2.50%) IFS
7 3 (2.50%) Infor
7 3 (2.50%) JD Edwards
7 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.67%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.67%) BT
8 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.67%) Splunk
9 1 (0.83%) Hotjar