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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 310 438
Rank change year-on-year +61 +128 +162
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 140 84 117
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 0.65% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 1.54% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 76 60 84
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,025 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,989 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +7.50% -18.70%
75th Percentile £70,813 £77,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £82,625
UK median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £43,200
% change year-on-year -21.74% +33.10% -13.60%

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 6,063 5,462 11,561
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.98% 41.98% 36.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,785 3,693 9,168
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.40% -8.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £77,563
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +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 11 April 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 3 (2.14%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Apache
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (25.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.43%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.43%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.43%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.71%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (0.71%) JDE World
3 1 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.71%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (34.29%) Azure
2 36 (25.71%) Power Platform
3 26 (18.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (18.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (9.29%) AWS
5 10 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.43%) SaaS
7 7 (5.00%) GitHub
8 6 (4.29%) GCP
8 6 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.57%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.14%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (1.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.43%) dbt
12 2 (1.43%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.57%) Firewall
3 3 (2.14%) Network Security
4 2 (1.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.71%) Broadband
5 1 (0.71%) DHCP
5 1 (0.71%) DNS
5 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.71%) FTP
5 1 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
5 1 (0.71%) LAN
5 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.71%) SMS
5 1 (0.71%) SMTP
5 1 (0.71%) VLAN
5 1 (0.71%) VoIP
5 1 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.29%) Power BI
2 27 (19.29%) SQL Server
3 26 (18.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (17.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.86%) Tableau
7 3 (2.14%) Big Data
8 2 (1.43%) Metadata
8 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.71%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.43%) Git
4 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.71%) TestRail
4 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 139 (99.29%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (63.57%) Social Skills
3 58 (41.43%) Finance
4 19 (13.57%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (9.29%) Billing
5 13 (9.29%) Marketing
6 9 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.71%) Legal
7 8 (5.71%) Retail
8 7 (5.00%) Front Office
9 6 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.57%) Automotive
10 5 (3.57%) Law
11 4 (2.86%) German Language
12 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.14%) French Language
12 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (31.43%) Analyst
2 13 (9.29%) Business Analyst
2 13 (9.29%) Business Manager
2 13 (9.29%) Lead
3 12 (8.57%) Commercial Analyst
3 12 (8.57%) Insight Analyst
3 12 (8.57%) Insight Manager
4 10 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.43%) Senior
6 8 (5.71%) Developer
7 6 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Compliance Manager
7 6 (4.29%) Head of QA
7 6 (4.29%) Junior
7 6 (4.29%) Junior Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) IT Support
9 4 (2.86%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.86%) Junior Data Analyst
9 4 (2.86%) Lead Business Analyst
9 4 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.86%) Flutter
1 4 (2.86%) React
1 4 (2.86%) Sass
1 4 (2.86%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (2.14%) .NET
2 3 (2.14%) CSS
2 3 (2.14%) HTML
2 3 (2.14%) XML
2 3 (2.14%) XSLT
3 1 (0.71%) Django
3 1 (0.71%) DOM
3 1 (0.71%) Ember.js
3 1 (0.71%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (0.71%) JSON
3 1 (0.71%) Kafka
3 1 (0.71%) LDAP
3 1 (0.71%) Phoenix Framework
3 1 (0.71%) Playwright
3 1 (0.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.86%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.43%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.29%) Driving Licence
4 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.29%) Social Media
5 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.86%) FMCG
7 3 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.14%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.43%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.43%) Life Science
8 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Windows
2 6 (4.29%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (37.86%) Analytics
3 47 (33.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (26.43%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 35 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 34 (24.29%) Decision-Making
7 31 (22.14%) Data Analysis
7 31 (22.14%) Visualisation
8 27 (19.29%) Agile
9 24 (17.14%) Visual Analytics
9 24 (17.14%) WFM
10 20 (14.29%) AI
11 17 (12.14%) CI/CD
11 17 (12.14%) DevOps
12 16 (11.43%) Data Modelling
12 16 (11.43%) Time Management
13 15 (10.71%) Customer Experience
13 15 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
14 13 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 44 (31.43%) SQL
2 29 (20.71%) Python
3 24 (17.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (8.57%) C#
5 9 (6.43%) C++
6 8 (5.71%) Go
7 6 (4.29%) Java
7 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.29%) VBA
8 5 (3.57%) C
9 3 (2.14%) Bash
9 3 (2.14%) Bicep
9 3 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.14%) VC++
10 1 (0.71%) Elm
10 1 (0.71%) PHP
10 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (22.86%) Degree
2 12 (8.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.43%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.29%) IRCA
6 5 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.14%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.71%) ACCA
9 1 (0.71%) CIMA
9 1 (0.71%) IIBA
9 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 20 (14.29%) QA
3 15 (10.71%) ISO 9001
4 12 (8.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (6.43%) ISO 14001
7 8 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (5.71%) GDPR
8 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (3.57%) GRC
10 4 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (2.14%) EMIR
11 3 (2.14%) NEBOSH
12 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
12 2 (1.43%) GAAP
12 2 (1.43%) IFRS
12 2 (1.43%) NIST
12 2 (1.43%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (7.86%) Terraform
2 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.14%) Ansible
5 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.71%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 33 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.00%) Google
3 5 (3.57%) Oracle
4 4 (2.86%) SAP
5 3 (2.14%) Apple
5 3 (2.14%) Databricks
5 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.43%) Adobe
6 2 (1.43%) Ahrefs
6 2 (1.43%) BT
6 2 (1.43%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.43%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.71%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.71%) Dell
7 1 (0.71%) Epicor
7 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Infor
7 1 (0.71%) JD Edwards