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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 318 435
Rank change year-on-year +64 +117 +162
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 141 80 117
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 0.62% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 1.47% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 81 59 84
10th Percentile £30,165 £30,800 £31,475
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,103 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -18.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £77,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -14.29%

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 5,898 5,455 11,377
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.43% 42.19% 36.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,671 3,631 9,092
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,253
90th Percentile £102,500 £118,750 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 30 March 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 2 (1.42%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 37 (26.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.42%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.42%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.42%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.71%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.46%) Azure
2 35 (24.82%) Power Platform
3 26 (18.44%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (18.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 12 (8.51%) AWS
5 10 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.38%) SaaS
7 7 (4.96%) GitHub
8 6 (4.26%) GCP
8 6 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.13%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.71%) Figma
12 1 (0.71%) Miro
12 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Firewall
1 5 (3.55%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.13%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.13%) Network Security
2 3 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.13%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) DHCP
3 1 (0.71%) DNS
3 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.71%) SMS
3 1 (0.71%) VLAN
3 1 (0.71%) VoIP
3 1 (0.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.11%) Power BI
2 27 (19.15%) SQL Server
3 26 (18.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (17.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.84%) Tableau
6 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.42%) Metadata
7 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) Big Data
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) JIRA
2 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.71%) TestRail
3 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 140 (99.29%) Analytical Skills
2 93 (65.96%) Social Skills
3 57 (40.43%) Finance
4 18 (12.77%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (9.22%) Billing
5 13 (9.22%) Legal
6 10 (7.09%) Marketing
7 9 (6.38%) Law
7 9 (6.38%) Retail
8 8 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.96%) Front Office
9 7 (4.96%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.26%) Automotive
10 6 (4.26%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.84%) French Language
11 4 (2.84%) German Language
11 4 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.13%) Italian Language
12 3 (2.13%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 45 (31.91%) Analyst
2 13 (9.22%) Business Analyst
2 13 (9.22%) Business Manager
2 13 (9.22%) Data Analyst
3 12 (8.51%) Commercial Analyst
3 12 (8.51%) Insight Analyst
3 12 (8.51%) Insight Manager
4 11 (7.80%) Lead
5 9 (6.38%) Senior
6 6 (4.26%) Developer
6 6 (4.26%) Head of QA
6 6 (4.26%) Junior
6 6 (4.26%) Junior Analyst
6 6 (4.26%) Sales Manager
7 5 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (3.55%) IT Support
8 4 (2.84%) Compliance Manager
8 4 (2.84%) Lead Business Analyst
8 4 (2.84%) Sales Analyst
8 4 (2.84%) Sales Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.84%) Sass
1 4 (2.84%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (2.13%) .NET
2 3 (2.13%) Flutter
2 3 (2.13%) React
2 3 (2.13%) XML
2 3 (2.13%) XSLT
3 2 (1.42%) CSS
3 2 (1.42%) HTML
4 1 (0.71%) Django
4 1 (0.71%) Ember.js
4 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.71%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (0.71%) Phoenix
4 1 (0.71%) Phoenix Framework
4 1 (0.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.02%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.38%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.96%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.26%) Social Media
6 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.55%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.55%) FMCG
6 5 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.42%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.42%) Life Science
9 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.96%) Windows
2 6 (4.26%) Linux
3 2 (1.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (41.84%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (37.59%) Analytics
3 52 (36.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (26.24%) Process Improvement
5 36 (25.53%) Actionable Insight
5 36 (25.53%) Decision-Making
6 35 (24.82%) Business Intelligence
7 33 (23.40%) Data Analysis
8 31 (21.99%) Visualisation
9 28 (19.86%) Agile
10 24 (17.02%) Visual Analytics
10 24 (17.02%) WFM
11 20 (14.18%) AI
11 20 (14.18%) CI/CD
12 16 (11.35%) Customer Experience
12 16 (11.35%) DevOps
12 16 (11.35%) Performance Monitoring
13 15 (10.64%) Data Modelling
13 15 (10.64%) Time Management
14 13 (9.22%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.08%) SQL
2 29 (20.57%) Python
3 24 (17.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (7.80%) C#
4 11 (7.80%) C++
5 7 (4.96%) C
5 7 (4.96%) Go
5 7 (4.96%) VBA
6 6 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.55%) Java
7 5 (3.55%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.13%) Bash
8 3 (2.13%) Bicep
8 3 (2.13%) VC++
9 2 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.71%) Elm
10 1 (0.71%) PHP
10 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (22.70%) Degree
2 12 (8.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 10 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.26%) IRCA
6 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.13%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.71%) ACCA
10 1 (0.71%) CIMA
10 1 (0.71%) IIBA
10 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.48%) QA
2 18 (12.77%) Data Quality
3 13 (9.22%) ISO 9001
4 12 (8.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (5.67%) GDPR
7 7 (4.96%) ISO 14001
8 6 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (3.55%) GRC
10 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (2.84%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (2.13%) EMIR
11 3 (2.13%) NEBOSH
12 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
12 2 (1.42%) GAAP
12 2 (1.42%) IFRS
12 2 (1.42%) NIST
12 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (7.09%) Terraform
2 5 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.13%) Ansible
5 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.96%) Autodesk
3 5 (3.55%) Google
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle
5 3 (2.13%) Apple
5 3 (2.13%) SAP
5 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.42%) Ahrefs
6 2 (1.42%) BT
6 2 (1.42%) Databricks
6 2 (1.42%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.42%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.71%) Dell
7 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Salesforce