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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 319 417
Rank change year-on-year +106 +98 +163
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 169 124 82
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.10% 0.76% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.22% 1.92% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 96 74 63
10th Percentile £30,165 £34,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,125 £70,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,125 £74,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

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 5,246 6,469 8,806
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.20% 39.71% 37.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,348 3,551 7,017
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £40,537 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 20 January 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 12 (7.10%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 46 (27.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.59%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) SAP FI
1 3 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.18%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.18%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.59%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.59%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 64 (37.87%) Azure
2 43 (25.44%) Power Platform
3 28 (16.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (15.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.33%) AWS
7 8 (4.73%) Snowflake
8 7 (4.14%) SaaS
9 6 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.96%) Google Analytics
11 3 (1.78%) GCP
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.18%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.18%) GitHub
12 2 (1.18%) Google Ads
12 2 (1.18%) MailChimp
12 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.18%) Serverless
13 1 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) Network Security
2 5 (2.96%) Firewall
2 5 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.37%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.37%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.59%) Broadband
4 1 (0.59%) DHCP
4 1 (0.59%) DNS
4 1 (0.59%) Internet
4 1 (0.59%) Intranet
4 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.59%) VLAN
4 1 (0.59%) VoIP
4 1 (0.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (24.26%) Power BI
2 29 (17.16%) SQL Server
3 28 (16.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (14.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.51%) Tableau
7 3 (1.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.18%) Looker
8 2 (1.18%) Metadata
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.59%) Power Query
9 1 (0.59%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) JIRA
2 3 (1.78%) Postman
3 1 (0.59%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.59%) TestRail
3 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 169 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 117 (69.23%) Social Skills
3 70 (41.42%) Finance
4 32 (18.93%) Marketing
5 23 (13.61%) Legal
6 15 (8.88%) Manufacturing
7 14 (8.28%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (7.69%) Billing
8 13 (7.69%) Law
9 10 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (5.92%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.73%) Electronics
10 8 (4.73%) Retail
11 7 (4.14%) French Language
12 6 (3.55%) Front Office
12 6 (3.55%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (3.55%) Portuguese Language
12 6 (3.55%) Spanish Language
13 5 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (33.73%) Analyst
2 16 (9.47%) Business Analyst
3 14 (8.28%) Data Analyst
4 13 (7.69%) Business Manager
4 13 (7.69%) Insight Analyst
5 12 (7.10%) Commercial Analyst
5 12 (7.10%) Insight Manager
5 12 (7.10%) Senior
6 11 (6.51%) Sales Manager
7 9 (5.33%) Architect
7 9 (5.33%) Developer
8 8 (4.73%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (4.73%) Lead
8 8 (4.73%) Sales Executive
9 6 (3.55%) Consultant
10 5 (2.96%) Graduate
10 5 (2.96%) IT Support
10 5 (2.96%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (2.37%) Campaign Manager
11 4 (2.37%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.37%) CSS
1 4 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.37%) HTML
1 4 (2.37%) Sass
1 4 (2.37%) ZeroMQ
2 2 (1.18%) XML
2 2 (1.18%) XSLT
3 1 (0.59%) .NET
3 1 (0.59%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.59%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.59%) Blazor
3 1 (0.59%) Django
3 1 (0.59%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.59%) Flutter
3 1 (0.59%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.59%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (0.59%) Middleware
3 1 (0.59%) Playwright
3 1 (0.59%) React
3 1 (0.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.16%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (12.43%) Product Ownership
3 16 (9.47%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.51%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.92%) Social Media
6 9 (5.33%) Algorithms
7 8 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.96%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.96%) FMCG
8 5 (2.96%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.37%) Web Conferencing
10 3 (1.78%) CMDB
10 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.78%) PKI
11 2 (1.18%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) Video Editing
11 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.55%) Linux
1 6 (3.55%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Unix
3 1 (0.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.09%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (35.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (34.91%) Analytics
4 50 (29.59%) Decision-Making
5 47 (27.81%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (26.04%) Agile
7 41 (24.26%) Actionable Insight
7 41 (24.26%) AI
8 37 (21.89%) Data Analysis
9 33 (19.53%) Process Improvement
9 33 (19.53%) Visualisation
10 27 (15.98%) DevOps
11 24 (14.20%) Visual Analytics
11 24 (14.20%) WFM
12 19 (11.24%) CRM
12 19 (11.24%) Performance Monitoring
13 18 (10.65%) CI/CD
14 17 (10.06%) Data Modelling
15 16 (9.47%) Time Management
16 15 (8.88%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (33.73%) SQL
2 35 (20.71%) Python
3 24 (14.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.92%) C#
4 10 (5.92%) C++
5 8 (4.73%) C
6 6 (3.55%) VBA
7 5 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.37%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.78%) Bicep
9 3 (1.78%) Go
10 2 (1.18%) Bash
10 2 (1.18%) Java
10 2 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.18%) R
10 2 (1.18%) VC++
11 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (22.49%) Degree
2 19 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 8 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.37%) CEH
8 4 (2.37%) CISSP
8 4 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.78%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.59%) CISA
10 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 12 (7.10%) QA
4 10 (5.92%) Accessibility
5 9 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (3.55%) NIST
7 5 (2.96%) GRC
8 4 (2.37%) GDPR
8 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.78%) ISO 14001
9 3 (1.78%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.78%) NEBOSH
10 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.18%) EMIR
10 2 (1.18%) GAAP
10 2 (1.18%) IFRS
10 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.59%) SLA
11 1 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Firmware
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Terraform
2 3 (1.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 1 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.59%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 45 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.51%) Autodesk
3 9 (5.33%) Google
3 9 (5.33%) SAP
4 3 (1.78%) Ahrefs
4 3 (1.78%) Apple
4 3 (1.78%) BT
4 3 (1.78%) Databricks
4 3 (1.78%) Oracle
4 3 (1.78%) Screaming Frog
4 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.18%) Hootsuite
5 2 (1.18%) Hotjar
5 2 (1.18%) Instagram
5 2 (1.18%) YouTube
6 1 (0.59%) Adobe
6 1 (0.59%) Dell
6 1 (0.59%) HP
6 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) Workday