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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 316 454
Rank change year-on-year +60 +138 +140
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 137 83 117
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 1.51% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 73 59 85
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,978 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £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 6,076 5,505 11,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.83% 41.89% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 3,713 9,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -9.23%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £121,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,445 £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 14 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 (2.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (24.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.46%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.46%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.46%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.73%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.73%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (0.73%) JDE World
3 1 (0.73%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.73%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.04%) Azure
2 35 (25.55%) Power Platform
3 26 (18.98%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (18.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (9.49%) AWS
5 10 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.57%) SaaS
7 7 (5.11%) GitHub
8 6 (4.38%) GCP
8 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.65%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.19%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (1.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.46%) dbt
12 2 (1.46%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.65%) Firewall
3 3 (2.19%) Network Security
4 2 (1.46%) WAN
5 1 (0.73%) Broadband
5 1 (0.73%) DHCP
5 1 (0.73%) DNS
5 1 (0.73%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.73%) FTP
5 1 (0.73%) HTTP
5 1 (0.73%) Internet
5 1 (0.73%) LAN
5 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.73%) SMS
5 1 (0.73%) SMTP
5 1 (0.73%) VLAN
5 1 (0.73%) VoIP
5 1 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.09%) Power BI
2 27 (19.71%) SQL Server
3 26 (18.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (17.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.92%) Tableau
7 3 (2.19%) Big Data
8 2 (1.46%) Metadata
8 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.73%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.38%) JIRA
2 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.46%) Git
4 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.73%) TestRail
4 1 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (99.27%) Analytical Skills
2 86 (62.77%) Social Skills
3 56 (40.88%) Finance
4 19 (13.87%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (9.49%) Marketing
6 12 (8.76%) Billing
7 9 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.84%) Legal
9 7 (5.11%) Front Office
9 7 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (5.11%) Retail
10 5 (3.65%) Automotive
10 5 (3.65%) Law
10 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.92%) German Language
12 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.19%) French Language
12 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.46%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 45 (32.85%) Analyst
2 13 (9.49%) Business Analyst
2 13 (9.49%) Business Manager
2 13 (9.49%) Lead
3 12 (8.76%) Commercial Analyst
3 12 (8.76%) Insight Analyst
3 12 (8.76%) Insight Manager
4 10 (7.30%) Data Analyst
5 9 (6.57%) Senior
6 8 (5.84%) Developer
7 6 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) Compliance Manager
7 6 (4.38%) Head of QA
7 6 (4.38%) Junior
7 6 (4.38%) Junior Analyst
8 4 (2.92%) Data Engineer
8 4 (2.92%) Front Office Developer
8 4 (2.92%) Lead Business Analyst
8 4 (2.92%) Support Analyst
8 4 (2.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.92%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.92%) Flutter
1 4 (2.92%) React
1 4 (2.92%) Sass
1 4 (2.92%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (2.19%) .NET
2 3 (2.19%) CSS
2 3 (2.19%) HTML
2 3 (2.19%) XML
2 3 (2.19%) XSLT
3 1 (0.73%) Django
3 1 (0.73%) DOM
3 1 (0.73%) Ember.js
3 1 (0.73%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (0.73%) JSON
3 1 (0.73%) Kafka
3 1 (0.73%) LDAP
3 1 (0.73%) Phoenix Framework
3 1 (0.73%) Playwright
3 1 (0.73%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.57%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.38%) Social Media
5 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.65%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.65%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.92%) FMCG
6 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.19%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.46%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.46%) Life Science
8 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Windows
2 4 (2.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.99%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (37.96%) Analytics
3 45 (32.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (26.28%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (25.55%) Actionable Insight
5 35 (25.55%) Process Improvement
6 34 (24.82%) Decision-Making
7 31 (22.63%) Data Analysis
8 30 (21.90%) Visualisation
9 27 (19.71%) Agile
10 24 (17.52%) Visual Analytics
10 24 (17.52%) WFM
11 20 (14.60%) AI
12 17 (12.41%) CI/CD
12 17 (12.41%) DevOps
13 16 (11.68%) Data Modelling
13 16 (11.68%) Time Management
14 15 (10.95%) Performance Monitoring
15 13 (9.49%) Customer Insight
15 13 (9.49%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 44 (32.12%) SQL
2 29 (21.17%) Python
3 24 (17.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (8.76%) C#
5 9 (6.57%) C++
6 8 (5.84%) Go
7 6 (4.38%) Java
7 6 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.38%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.38%) VBA
8 5 (3.65%) C
9 3 (2.19%) Bash
9 3 (2.19%) Bicep
9 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.19%) VC++
10 1 (0.73%) Elm
10 1 (0.73%) PHP
10 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (23.36%) Degree
2 12 (8.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.38%) IRCA
6 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.46%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.46%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.73%) ACCA
10 1 (0.73%) CIMA
10 1 (0.73%) IIBA
10 1 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.33%) Data Quality
2 20 (14.60%) QA
3 14 (10.22%) ISO 9001
4 12 (8.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (7.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (5.84%) GDPR
6 8 (5.84%) ISO 14001
7 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (2.92%) GRC
8 4 (2.92%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (2.19%) EMIR
10 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
10 2 (1.46%) GAAP
10 2 (1.46%) IFRS
10 2 (1.46%) NEBOSH
10 2 (1.46%) NIST
10 2 (1.46%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.73%) Firmware
3 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (8.03%) Terraform
2 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.73%) Grafana
5 1 (0.73%) QRadar
Vendors
1 30 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.11%) Google
3 5 (3.65%) Oracle
4 4 (2.92%) SAP
5 3 (2.19%) Apple
5 3 (2.19%) Databricks
5 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.46%) Adobe
6 2 (1.46%) Ahrefs
6 2 (1.46%) BT
6 2 (1.46%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.46%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.73%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.73%) Dell
7 1 (0.73%) Epicor
7 1 (0.73%) HP
7 1 (0.73%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.73%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.73%) Marketo