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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 307 376
Rank change year-on-year -1 +69 +100
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 149 133 133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 0.80% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 1.87% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 104 100 76
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,063 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £90,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £49,225
% change year-on-year - +1.58% -1.55%

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 8,400 7,121 8,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.81% 43.06% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,201 3,674 6,517
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,000 £33,930
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,000 £85,188 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £56,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.65% +0.89% -12.50%

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 August 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 (2.68%) WordPress
2 2 (1.34%) Apache
2 2 (1.34%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.67%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.04%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.68%) Infor M3
2 4 (2.68%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (2.68%) JDE World
3 2 (1.34%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.44%) Azure
2 18 (12.08%) Power Platform
3 15 (10.07%) SaaS
4 12 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.38%) AWS
6 10 (6.71%) Google Analytics
7 8 (5.37%) GCP
8 7 (4.70%) GitHub
9 5 (3.36%) Bloomreach
10 4 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.68%) Canva
10 4 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.01%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.01%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (1.34%) dbt
12 2 (1.34%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.34%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) SMS
2 4 (2.68%) FTP
2 4 (2.68%) HTTP
2 4 (2.68%) Internet
2 4 (2.68%) LAN
2 4 (2.68%) SMTP
2 4 (2.68%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.68%) WAN
3 1 (0.67%) J1939
3 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.41%) Power BI
2 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.68%) Tableau
3 3 (2.01%) Big Data
4 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.34%) Metadata
4 2 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.67%) GIS
5 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Power Query
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Git
2 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.68%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.01%) JIRA
5 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) JMeter
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 149 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 67 (44.97%) Social Skills
3 39 (26.17%) Finance
4 19 (12.75%) Marketing
5 11 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (7.38%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.37%) Advertising
8 6 (4.03%) German Language
9 5 (3.36%) Legal
10 4 (2.68%) Brand Awareness
10 4 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.01%) Law
11 3 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.34%) Automotive
12 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (22.82%) Analyst
2 16 (10.74%) Compliance Manager
3 14 (9.40%) Lead
4 9 (6.04%) Business Analyst
5 8 (5.37%) Applications Support
5 8 (5.37%) Applications Support Analyst
5 8 (5.37%) Developer
5 8 (5.37%) Support Analyst
6 7 (4.70%) Data Analyst
6 7 (4.70%) Junior
7 6 (4.03%) Head of QA
7 6 (4.03%) Junior Analyst
7 6 (4.03%) Marketing Manager
7 6 (4.03%) Senior
8 5 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) Coordinator
8 5 (3.36%) CRM Coordinator
8 5 (3.36%) Sales and Marketing Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Sales Manager
9 4 (2.68%) Commercial Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.37%) .NET
2 5 (3.36%) JSON
3 4 (2.68%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.68%) LDAP
4 3 (2.01%) Flutter
4 3 (2.01%) React
5 2 (1.34%) HTML
5 2 (1.34%) Kafka
6 1 (0.67%) CSS
6 1 (0.67%) DOM
6 1 (0.67%) Ember.js
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.67%) Phoenix
6 1 (0.67%) Phoenix Framework
6 1 (0.67%) PySpark
6 1 (0.67%) RESTful
6 1 (0.67%) TAPI
6 1 (0.67%) XML
6 1 (0.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.70%) Blog
1 7 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.36%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.36%) Web Conferencing
4 4 (2.68%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.68%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (2.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (2.68%) Podcast
4 4 (2.68%) Social Media
4 4 (2.68%) Video Editing
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.01%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (26.17%) Analytics
2 39 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (20.13%) Project Management
4 28 (18.79%) Decision-Making
5 26 (17.45%) Agile
6 24 (16.11%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (15.44%) Risk Management
7 23 (15.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (13.42%) Project Delivery
9 19 (12.75%) CRM
10 18 (12.08%) DevOps
11 17 (11.41%) AI
11 17 (11.41%) Data Security
11 17 (11.41%) Logistics
11 17 (11.41%) Process Improvement
11 17 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (10.74%) Internal Audit
12 16 (10.74%) Regulatory Compliance
13 15 (10.07%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.79%) SQL
2 17 (11.41%) Python
3 9 (6.04%) C#
3 9 (6.04%) T-SQL
4 7 (4.70%) Go
4 7 (4.70%) Java
5 6 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.68%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.01%) C++
7 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.34%) Bash
9 1 (0.67%) C
9 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.67%) Elm
9 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.67%) VB
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
9 1 (0.67%) VC++
Qualifications
1 24 (16.11%) Degree
2 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) IRCA
3 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) ACCA
4 5 (3.36%) CIMA
5 4 (2.68%) AAT
5 4 (2.68%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) CFA
7 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.77%) Data Quality
1 22 (14.77%) ISO 9001
2 21 (14.09%) QA
3 16 (10.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (10.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 16 (10.74%) ISO 14001
3 16 (10.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 16 (10.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (8.05%) GDPR
5 4 (2.68%) PMO
6 3 (2.01%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.67%) EMIR
7 1 (0.67%) GRC
7 1 (0.67%) MiFID
7 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Docker
1 1 (0.67%) Firmware
1 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (5.37%) Terraform
2 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.68%) QRadar
3 2 (1.34%) Ansible
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.67%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) Google
3 8 (5.37%) Oracle
4 7 (4.70%) HubSpot
5 6 (4.03%) Adobe
6 5 (3.36%) SAP
7 4 (2.68%) ArcSight
7 4 (2.68%) Epicor
7 4 (2.68%) IFS
7 4 (2.68%) Infor
7 4 (2.68%) JD Edwards
7 4 (2.68%) Marketo
7 4 (2.68%) Pardot
7 4 (2.68%) Splunk
8 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.67%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco
9 1 (0.67%) Dell
9 1 (0.67%) Juniper