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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 306 469
Rank change year-on-year +48 +163 +113
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 141 84 118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 0.64% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 1.50% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 76 59 86
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,938 £44,978 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -18.70%
75th Percentile £70,813 £77,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £43,200
% change year-on-year -18.18% +27.31% -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 6,136 5,582 11,636
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.96% 42.31% 35.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,840 3,695 9,234
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,711 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +5.93% -9.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,739 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +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 16 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 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) WordPress
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 34 (24.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) NetSuite
1 3 (2.13%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.42%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.42%) JDE OneWorld
2 2 (1.42%) JDE World
2 2 (1.42%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.42%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.42%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.71%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (34.04%) Azure
2 35 (24.82%) Power Platform
3 26 (18.44%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (18.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (9.22%) AWS
5 10 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (7.09%) SaaS
6 7 (4.96%) GitHub
7 6 (4.26%) GCP
7 6 (4.26%) Google Analytics
7 6 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.42%) Canva
10 2 (1.42%) dbt
10 2 (1.42%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.55%) Firewall
3 3 (2.13%) Network Security
3 3 (2.13%) WAN
4 2 (1.42%) FTP
4 2 (1.42%) HTTP
4 2 (1.42%) Internet
4 2 (1.42%) LAN
4 2 (1.42%) SMTP
5 1 (0.71%) Broadband
5 1 (0.71%) DHCP
5 1 (0.71%) DNS
5 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.71%) SMS
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 33 (23.40%) Power BI
2 27 (19.15%) SQL Server
3 26 (18.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (17.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.84%) Tableau
7 3 (2.13%) Big Data
8 2 (1.42%) Metadata
8 2 (1.42%) 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 (4.26%) JIRA
2 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.42%) 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
1 140 (99.29%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (63.12%) Social Skills
3 57 (40.43%) Finance
4 20 (14.18%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (10.64%) Marketing
6 12 (8.51%) Billing
7 10 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.67%) Legal
8 8 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.96%) Front Office
9 7 (4.96%) Retail
10 5 (3.55%) Automotive
10 5 (3.55%) German Language
10 5 (3.55%) Law
10 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.13%) French Language
11 3 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.42%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 47 (33.33%) Analyst
2 13 (9.22%) Business Analyst
2 13 (9.22%) Business Manager
2 13 (9.22%) Lead
3 12 (8.51%) Commercial Analyst
3 12 (8.51%) Insight Analyst
3 12 (8.51%) Insight Manager
4 10 (7.09%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.38%) Senior
6 8 (5.67%) Developer
7 6 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Compliance Manager
7 6 (4.26%) Head of QA
7 6 (4.26%) Junior
7 6 (4.26%) Junior Analyst
8 5 (3.55%) Support Analyst
9 4 (2.84%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (2.84%) Junior Data Analyst
9 4 (2.84%) Technical Leader
9 4 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.84%) Flutter
1 4 (2.84%) React
1 4 (2.84%) Sass
1 4 (2.84%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (2.13%) .NET
2 3 (2.13%) CSS
2 3 (2.13%) HTML
2 3 (2.13%) XML
2 3 (2.13%) XSLT
3 2 (1.42%) LDAP
4 1 (0.71%) Django
4 1 (0.71%) DOM
4 1 (0.71%) Ember.js
4 1 (0.71%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (0.71%) JSON
4 1 (0.71%) Kafka
4 1 (0.71%) Phoenix Framework
4 1 (0.71%) Playwright
4 1 (0.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.77%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.38%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.96%) Social Media
5 6 (4.26%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.55%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.84%) FMCG
7 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.84%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.42%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.55%) Windows
2 4 (2.84%) Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (45.39%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (37.59%) Analytics
3 45 (31.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (24.82%) Actionable Insight
5 35 (24.82%) Decision-Making
5 35 (24.82%) Process Improvement
6 31 (21.99%) Data Analysis
7 30 (21.28%) Visualisation
8 27 (19.15%) Agile
9 24 (17.02%) Visual Analytics
9 24 (17.02%) WFM
10 20 (14.18%) AI
11 17 (12.06%) CI/CD
11 17 (12.06%) DevOps
11 17 (12.06%) Time Management
12 16 (11.35%) Data Modelling
13 15 (10.64%) Performance Monitoring
14 14 (9.93%) Customer Insight
14 14 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 45 (31.91%) SQL
2 29 (20.57%) Python
3 24 (17.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (8.51%) C#
5 9 (6.38%) C++
6 8 (5.67%) Go
7 6 (4.26%) Java
7 6 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.26%) VBA
8 5 (3.55%) C
9 3 (2.13%) Bash
9 3 (2.13%) Bicep
9 3 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.13%) VC++
10 2 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.42%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Elm
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (24.11%) Degree
2 12 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) IRCA
5 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.42%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.42%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.71%) ACCA
9 1 (0.71%) CIMA
9 1 (0.71%) IIBA
9 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.89%) Data Quality
2 20 (14.18%) QA
3 14 (9.93%) ISO 9001
4 12 (8.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (5.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (5.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (5.67%) GDPR
6 8 (5.67%) ISO 14001
7 6 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (2.84%) GRC
8 4 (2.84%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (2.13%) EMIR
10 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
10 2 (1.42%) GAAP
10 2 (1.42%) IFRS
10 2 (1.42%) NEBOSH
10 2 (1.42%) NIST
10 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (7.80%) Terraform
2 5 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.13%) Ansible
5 2 (1.42%) QRadar
6 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.67%) Google
3 6 (4.26%) Oracle
4 5 (3.55%) SAP
5 3 (2.13%) Adobe
5 3 (2.13%) Apple
5 3 (2.13%) Databricks
5 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.42%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.42%) BT
6 2 (1.42%) Epicor
6 2 (1.42%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.42%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.42%) IFS
6 2 (1.42%) JD Edwards
6 2 (1.42%) Marketo
6 2 (1.42%) Pardot
6 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.42%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (1.42%) Splunk