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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 261 339
Rank change year-on-year -60 +78 +66
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 142 166 146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.99% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 2.40% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 90 115 79
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £59,025 £56,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £89,450 £84,500
UK median annual salary £49,425 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.15% -9.09% +7.32%

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 9,520 6,918 7,574
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.15% 41.12% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,515 3,474 4,471
10th Percentile £32,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £40,071 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £89,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,152 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.91% -8.33% -4.00%

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 October 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 (2.82%) WordPress
2 2 (1.41%) Apache
2 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.63%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.82%) Infor M3
2 4 (2.82%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (2.82%) JDE World
3 3 (2.11%) Elite 3E
3 3 (2.11%) Shopify
4 2 (1.41%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.38%) Azure
2 15 (10.56%) Power Platform
3 13 (9.15%) Google Analytics
3 13 (9.15%) SaaS
4 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.63%) AWS
6 6 (4.23%) Canva
6 6 (4.23%) GCP
7 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.82%) Bloomreach
8 4 (2.82%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.11%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.41%) GitHub
10 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.41%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.70%) Boomi
11 1 (0.70%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.23%) SMS
2 4 (2.82%) FTP
2 4 (2.82%) HTTP
2 4 (2.82%) Internet
2 4 (2.82%) LAN
2 4 (2.82%) SMTP
2 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.82%) WAN
3 2 (1.41%) J1939
4 1 (0.70%) 5G
4 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) Power BI
2 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.41%) Big Data
3 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.41%) Metadata
3 2 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.70%) GIS
4 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.70%) Power Query
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Git
2 4 (2.82%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) JMeter
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 142 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 66 (46.48%) Social Skills
3 36 (25.35%) Finance
4 22 (15.49%) Marketing
5 16 (11.27%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (9.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.04%) Advertising
7 10 (7.04%) Legal
8 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.23%) Brand Awareness
9 6 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.52%) German Language
10 5 (3.52%) Law
11 4 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.82%) Retail
12 3 (2.11%) Aviation
13 2 (1.41%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (19.72%) Analyst
2 12 (8.45%) Compliance Manager
3 10 (7.04%) Developer
4 9 (6.34%) Applications Support
5 8 (5.63%) Applications Support Analyst
5 8 (5.63%) Lead
5 8 (5.63%) Support Analyst
6 7 (4.93%) Commercial Manager
6 7 (4.93%) Vendor Manager
7 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.23%) Marketing Manager
7 6 (4.23%) Senior
8 5 (3.52%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.52%) Marketing Executive
8 5 (3.52%) Sales and Marketing Manager
8 5 (3.52%) Sales Manager
8 5 (3.52%) Service Manager
8 5 (3.52%) Software Developer
9 4 (2.82%) Management Accountant
9 4 (2.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.63%) .NET
2 6 (4.23%) JSON
3 5 (3.52%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.52%) Terraform
4 4 (2.82%) LDAP
5 2 (1.41%) HTML
5 2 (1.41%) Kafka
5 2 (1.41%) RESTful
6 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.70%) CSS
6 1 (0.70%) DOM
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.70%) PySpark
6 1 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.70%) TAPI
6 1 (0.70%) XML
6 1 (0.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.04%) Blog
1 10 (7.04%) Management Information System
1 10 (7.04%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.63%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.93%) Credit Risk
3 7 (4.93%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (4.23%) Social Media
4 6 (4.23%) Video Editing
5 5 (3.52%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.82%) Podcast
6 4 (2.82%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.11%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (26.06%) Analytics
4 33 (23.24%) Project Management
5 30 (21.13%) Decision-Making
6 27 (19.01%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (16.90%) Risk Management
9 23 (16.20%) Agile
10 21 (14.79%) AI
11 16 (11.27%) CRM
12 15 (10.56%) Budgeting
12 15 (10.56%) DevOps
12 15 (10.56%) Logistics
12 15 (10.56%) Performance Management
12 15 (10.56%) Project Delivery
12 15 (10.56%) User Experience
13 14 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (9.86%) Internal Audit
13 14 (9.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.31%) SQL
2 13 (9.15%) Python
3 11 (7.75%) T-SQL
4 5 (3.52%) C#
5 4 (2.82%) Java
5 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.82%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.41%) C
6 2 (1.41%) C++
6 2 (1.41%) Go
6 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.70%) Bash
7 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.70%) Scala
7 1 (0.70%) VB
7 1 (0.70%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (15.49%) Degree
2 15 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.82%) AAT
4 4 (2.82%) ACCA
4 4 (2.82%) CIMA
4 4 (2.82%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.08%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (8.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 12 (8.45%) ISO 14001
3 12 (8.45%) ISO 9001
3 12 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 11 (7.75%) QA
5 8 (5.63%) GDPR
6 3 (2.11%) ISO 22301
6 3 (2.11%) PMO
7 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) MiFID
7 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.82%) QRadar
2 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Grafana
3 1 (0.70%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 23 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.97%) Google
3 8 (5.63%) Adobe
4 7 (4.93%) HubSpot
4 7 (4.93%) Oracle
5 6 (4.23%) SAP
6 4 (2.82%) ArcSight
6 4 (2.82%) Epicor
6 4 (2.82%) IFS
6 4 (2.82%) Infor
6 4 (2.82%) JD Edwards
6 4 (2.82%) Marketo
6 4 (2.82%) Pardot
6 4 (2.82%) Splunk
7 2 (1.41%) Aderant
7 2 (1.41%) Facebook
7 2 (1.41%) Instagram
7 2 (1.41%) Intapp
7 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.41%) Thales