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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 325 443
Rank change year-on-year +83 +118 +151
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 145 98 107
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.66% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 1.60% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 84 65 86
10th Percentile £30,165 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,938 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,250 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £44,100
% change year-on-year -18.18% +24.72% -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 5,822 6,126 10,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.74% 41.52% 37.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,617 3,598 8,832
10th Percentile £29,150 £37,000 £32,801
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -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 7 March 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 1 (0.69%) Confluence
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 36 (24.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.38%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.38%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.38%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.69%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.86%) Azure
2 36 (24.83%) Power Platform
3 27 (18.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (17.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (8.28%) AWS
6 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.21%) SaaS
8 7 (4.83%) GitHub
9 6 (4.14%) GCP
9 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.07%) Google Analytics
11 3 (2.07%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (1.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.38%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.38%) Serverless
13 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.69%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) Firewall
1 5 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.76%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (2.76%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.07%) Network Security
4 1 (0.69%) Broadband
4 1 (0.69%) DHCP
4 1 (0.69%) DNS
4 1 (0.69%) Internet
4 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.69%) VLAN
4 1 (0.69%) VoIP
4 1 (0.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (24.14%) Power BI
2 28 (19.31%) SQL Server
3 27 (18.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (16.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.45%) Tableau
6 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.38%) Metadata
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Looker
8 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) JIRA
2 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.38%) Postman
4 1 (0.69%) Git
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.69%) TestRail
4 1 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 144 (99.31%) Analytical Skills
2 103 (71.03%) Social Skills
3 56 (38.62%) Finance
4 18 (12.41%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (8.97%) Billing
5 13 (8.97%) Legal
6 11 (7.59%) Marketing
7 9 (6.21%) Law
7 9 (6.21%) Manufacturing
7 9 (6.21%) Retail
8 8 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.83%) Front Office
9 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.14%) Automotive
10 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
11 5 (3.45%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.76%) Electronics
12 4 (2.76%) French Language
12 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) Analyst
2 15 (10.34%) Data Analyst
3 14 (9.66%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.97%) Business Manager
4 13 (8.97%) Insight Analyst
5 12 (8.28%) Commercial Analyst
5 12 (8.28%) Insight Manager
6 10 (6.90%) Lead
7 9 (6.21%) Senior
8 8 (5.52%) Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Sales Manager
9 6 (4.14%) Junior
9 6 (4.14%) Junior Analyst
10 5 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) IT Support
10 5 (3.45%) Sales Executive
11 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (2.76%) Front Office Developer
11 4 (2.76%) Junior Data Analyst
11 4 (2.76%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.76%) .NET
1 4 (2.76%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (2.76%) Sass
1 4 (2.76%) ZeroMQ
2 3 (2.07%) CSS
2 3 (2.07%) Flutter
2 3 (2.07%) HTML
2 3 (2.07%) React
2 3 (2.07%) XML
2 3 (2.07%) XSLT
3 1 (0.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.69%) Blazor
3 1 (0.69%) Django
3 1 (0.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.69%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (0.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.31%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.21%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.83%) Social Media
4 5 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.45%) FMCG
4 5 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.76%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.07%) PKI
6 3 (2.07%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.38%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.38%) Life Science
7 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.83%) Windows
2 6 (4.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (37.24%) Analytics
3 49 (33.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (26.90%) Decision-Making
5 37 (25.52%) Actionable Insight
6 36 (24.83%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (24.83%) Data Analysis
7 35 (24.14%) Process Improvement
8 34 (23.45%) Visualisation
9 31 (21.38%) Agile
10 24 (16.55%) AI
10 24 (16.55%) Visual Analytics
10 24 (16.55%) WFM
11 21 (14.48%) CI/CD
12 18 (12.41%) DevOps
13 16 (11.03%) Performance Monitoring
14 15 (10.34%) Data Modelling
14 15 (10.34%) Time Management
15 14 (9.66%) Storytelling
16 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 47 (32.41%) SQL
2 30 (20.69%) Python
3 24 (16.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (8.28%) C#
5 11 (7.59%) C++
6 8 (5.52%) C
7 7 (4.83%) Go
7 7 (4.83%) VBA
8 6 (4.14%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.45%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.76%) Java
11 3 (2.07%) Bash
11 3 (2.07%) Bicep
11 3 (2.07%) VC++
12 2 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.69%) PHP
13 1 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (25.52%) Degree
2 15 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 8 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.07%) IRCA
9 3 (2.07%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.41%) QA
2 17 (11.72%) Data Quality
3 12 (8.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (4.14%) GDPR
4 6 (4.14%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.45%) GRC
5 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.76%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (2.07%) EMIR
7 3 (2.07%) ISO 14001
7 3 (2.07%) NEBOSH
8 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.38%) GAAP
8 2 (1.38%) IFRS
8 2 (1.38%) NIST
8 2 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.69%) PMO
9 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.69%) Firmware
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.90%) Terraform
2 5 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.07%) Ansible
5 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.21%) Autodesk
3 5 (3.45%) Google
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle
4 4 (2.76%) SAP
5 3 (2.07%) Apple
5 3 (2.07%) BT
5 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.38%) Ahrefs
6 2 (1.38%) Databricks
6 2 (1.38%) Hotjar
6 2 (1.38%) Screaming Frog
7 1 (0.69%) Adobe
7 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.69%) Dell
7 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.69%) HP