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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 313 445
Rank change year-on-year +74 +132 +170
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 146 80 117
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.62% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.45% 1.48% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 82 59 84
10th Percentile £30,165 £30,800 £31,475
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,103 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -20.63%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £77,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £44,100
% change year-on-year -21.74% +30.39% -16.00%

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 5,956 5,421 11,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.35% 42.20% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,698 3,615 9,122
10th Percentile £30,925 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,456 £47,500 £43,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 2 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 (2.05%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 37 (25.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.37%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.37%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.56%) Azure
2 36 (24.66%) Power Platform
3 26 (17.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (17.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (8.90%) AWS
5 10 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.16%) SaaS
7 7 (4.79%) GitHub
8 6 (4.11%) GCP
8 6 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.74%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.05%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (1.37%) dbt
11 2 (1.37%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.68%) Miro
12 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.11%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.42%) Firewall
3 3 (2.05%) Network Security
4 2 (1.37%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.37%) WAN
4 2 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.37%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.68%) Broadband
5 1 (0.68%) DHCP
5 1 (0.68%) DNS
5 1 (0.68%) FTP
5 1 (0.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.68%) Internet
5 1 (0.68%) LAN
5 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.68%) SMS
5 1 (0.68%) SMTP
5 1 (0.68%) VLAN
5 1 (0.68%) VoIP
5 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.29%) Power BI
2 27 (18.49%) SQL Server
3 26 (17.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (16.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.74%) Tableau
6 2 (1.37%) Big Data
6 2 (1.37%) Metadata
6 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) TestRail
4 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 145 (99.32%) Analytical Skills
2 93 (63.70%) Social Skills
3 59 (40.41%) Finance
4 18 (12.33%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (8.90%) Billing
6 12 (8.22%) Marketing
7 11 (7.53%) Legal
8 9 (6.16%) Retail
9 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (4.79%) Front Office
10 7 (4.79%) Law
10 7 (4.79%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (4.11%) Automotive
11 6 (4.11%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.74%) French Language
12 4 (2.74%) German Language
12 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (2.05%) Italian Language
13 3 (2.05%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 45 (30.82%) Analyst
2 13 (8.90%) Business Analyst
2 13 (8.90%) Business Manager
2 13 (8.90%) Lead
3 12 (8.22%) Commercial Analyst
3 12 (8.22%) Data Analyst
3 12 (8.22%) Insight Analyst
3 12 (8.22%) Insight Manager
4 9 (6.16%) Senior
5 6 (4.11%) Compliance Manager
5 6 (4.11%) Developer
5 6 (4.11%) Head of QA
5 6 (4.11%) Junior
5 6 (4.11%) Junior Analyst
6 5 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (3.42%) IT Support
6 5 (3.42%) Sales Manager
7 4 (2.74%) Data Engineer
7 4 (2.74%) Sales Analyst
7 4 (2.74%) Sales Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.74%) Flutter
1 4 (2.74%) React
1 4 (2.74%) Sass
1 4 (2.74%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (2.05%) .NET
2 3 (2.05%) CSS
2 3 (2.05%) HTML
2 3 (2.05%) XML
2 3 (2.05%) XSLT
3 1 (0.68%) Django
3 1 (0.68%) DOM
3 1 (0.68%) Ember.js
3 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.68%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (0.68%) JSON
3 1 (0.68%) LDAP
3 1 (0.68%) Phoenix
3 1 (0.68%) Phoenix Framework
3 1 (0.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.75%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.16%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.11%) Social Media
6 5 (3.42%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.42%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.42%) FMCG
6 5 (3.42%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.37%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.37%) Life Science
9 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Windows
2 6 (4.11%) Linux
3 2 (1.37%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (42.47%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (37.67%) Analytics
3 50 (34.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (25.34%) Process Improvement
5 36 (24.66%) Actionable Insight
5 36 (24.66%) Decision-Making
6 35 (23.97%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (21.92%) Data Analysis
8 31 (21.23%) Visualisation
9 29 (19.86%) Agile
10 24 (16.44%) Visual Analytics
10 24 (16.44%) WFM
11 21 (14.38%) AI
12 19 (13.01%) CI/CD
13 16 (10.96%) Customer Experience
13 16 (10.96%) DevOps
13 16 (10.96%) Performance Monitoring
14 15 (10.27%) Data Modelling
14 15 (10.27%) Time Management
15 14 (9.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.77%) SQL
2 29 (19.86%) Python
3 24 (16.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (8.22%) C#
5 10 (6.85%) C++
6 8 (5.48%) Go
7 7 (4.79%) VBA
8 6 (4.11%) C
8 6 (4.11%) Java
8 6 (4.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.11%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.05%) Bash
9 3 (2.05%) Bicep
9 3 (2.05%) VC++
10 2 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) Elm
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (21.92%) Degree
2 12 (8.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (7.53%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.11%) IRCA
6 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.05%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.68%) ACCA
10 1 (0.68%) CIMA
10 1 (0.68%) IIBA
10 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.70%) QA
2 19 (13.01%) Data Quality
3 15 (10.27%) ISO 9001
4 12 (8.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (6.16%) ISO 14001
7 8 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (5.48%) GDPR
8 6 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (3.42%) GRC
10 4 (2.74%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (2.05%) EMIR
11 3 (2.05%) NEBOSH
12 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
12 2 (1.37%) GAAP
12 2 (1.37%) IFRS
12 2 (1.37%) NIST
12 2 (1.37%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.68%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.85%) Terraform
2 5 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.05%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.11%) Autodesk
2 6 (4.11%) Google
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle
4 3 (2.05%) Apple
4 3 (2.05%) SAP
4 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.37%) Ahrefs
5 2 (1.37%) BT
5 2 (1.37%) Databricks
5 2 (1.37%) Hotjar
5 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.37%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe
6 1 (0.68%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.68%) Dell
6 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.68%) HP
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk