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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 330 454
Rank change year-on-year +27 +124 +100
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 115 91 120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 1.39% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 77 61 89
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,100
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £44,100
% change year-on-year -17.39% +30.39% -11.80%

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 6,317 6,532 11,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.13% 44.94% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 3,571 9,269
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 May 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 4 (3.48%) WordPress
2 3 (2.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.61%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.87%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) NetSuite
2 4 (3.48%) Infor M3
2 4 (3.48%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (3.48%) JDE World
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.87%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.87%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.87%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.00%) Azure
2 12 (10.43%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.57%) AWS
4 10 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.70%) SaaS
5 7 (6.09%) GCP
5 7 (6.09%) GitHub
6 6 (5.22%) Google Analytics
7 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.48%) Canva
9 3 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.61%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.74%) dbt
10 2 (1.74%) Figma
10 2 (1.74%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.48%) WAN
3 3 (2.61%) Firewall
3 3 (2.61%) FTP
3 3 (2.61%) HTTP
3 3 (2.61%) Internet
3 3 (2.61%) LAN
3 3 (2.61%) SMTP
4 1 (0.87%) Broadband
4 1 (0.87%) DHCP
4 1 (0.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.87%) Network Security
4 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.87%) SMS
4 1 (0.87%) VLAN
4 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) Power BI
2 6 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.48%) Tableau
4 3 (2.61%) Big Data
4 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.87%) Metadata
6 1 (0.87%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.22%) JIRA
2 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.74%) Git
4 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.87%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.87%) TestRail
4 1 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (99.13%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (53.91%) Social Skills
3 33 (28.70%) Finance
4 14 (12.17%) Marketing
5 10 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (5.22%) Advertising
8 6 (5.22%) German Language
8 6 (5.22%) Legal
9 4 (3.48%) Brand Awareness
9 4 (3.48%) Front Office
9 4 (3.48%) Law
9 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.74%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (32.17%) Analyst
2 13 (11.30%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.43%) Lead
4 9 (7.83%) Compliance Manager
4 9 (7.83%) Senior
5 7 (6.09%) Data Analyst
5 7 (6.09%) Developer
6 6 (5.22%) Head of QA
6 6 (5.22%) Junior
6 6 (5.22%) Junior Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Applications Support
7 5 (4.35%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Marketing Manager
7 5 (4.35%) Sales and Marketing Manager
7 5 (4.35%) Sales Manager
7 5 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Marketing Executive
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) .NET
1 4 (3.48%) Flutter
1 4 (3.48%) React
2 3 (2.61%) LDAP
3 2 (1.74%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.74%) Sass
3 2 (1.74%) XML
3 2 (1.74%) XSLT
3 2 (1.74%) ZeroMQ
4 1 (0.87%) CSS
4 1 (0.87%) Django
4 1 (0.87%) DOM
4 1 (0.87%) Ember.js
4 1 (0.87%) HTML
4 1 (0.87%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (0.87%) JSON
4 1 (0.87%) Kafka
4 1 (0.87%) Phoenix Framework
4 1 (0.87%) PySpark
4 1 (0.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.22%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.35%) Social Media
2 5 (4.35%) Web Conferencing
3 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.48%) Podcast
3 4 (3.48%) Video Editing
4 3 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.61%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.74%) FMCG
5 2 (1.74%) Life Science
5 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (25.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (24.35%) Agile
3 28 (24.35%) Analytics
4 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (15.65%) Project Management
6 17 (14.78%) Decision-Making
7 16 (13.91%) DevOps
8 14 (12.17%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (12.17%) CI/CD
8 14 (12.17%) Project Delivery
9 12 (10.43%) CRM
9 12 (10.43%) Validation
10 11 (9.57%) Coaching
10 11 (9.57%) Risk Management
10 11 (9.57%) Service Delivery
10 11 (9.57%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.70%) Change Management
11 10 (8.70%) Data Security
11 10 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.74%) Python
2 23 (20.00%) SQL
3 9 (7.83%) C#
4 8 (6.96%) Java
5 7 (6.09%) Go
6 5 (4.35%) C++
6 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.48%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.48%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.74%) Bash
9 2 (1.74%) C
9 2 (1.74%) VBA
9 2 (1.74%) VC++
10 1 (0.87%) Bicep
10 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.87%) Elm
10 1 (0.87%) Scala
10 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) Degree
2 12 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.22%) IRCA
5 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.48%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.61%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.87%) ACCA
9 1 (0.87%) CIMA
9 1 (0.87%) IIBA
9 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.52%) QA
2 15 (13.04%) ISO 9001
3 14 (12.17%) Data Quality
4 9 (7.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (7.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (7.83%) ISO 14001
4 9 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 9 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (6.09%) GDPR
6 4 (3.48%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (1.74%) EMIR
8 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.74%) Docker
1 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.87%) Firmware
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.96%) Terraform
2 5 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.61%) QRadar
5 2 (1.74%) Ansible
6 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.87%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.96%) Google
2 8 (6.96%) Oracle
3 6 (5.22%) Adobe
3 6 (5.22%) HubSpot
4 5 (4.35%) SAP
5 4 (3.48%) Epicor
5 4 (3.48%) IFS
5 4 (3.48%) Infor
5 4 (3.48%) JD Edwards
5 4 (3.48%) Marketo
5 4 (3.48%) Pardot
6 3 (2.61%) Apple
6 3 (2.61%) ArcSight
6 3 (2.61%) Databricks
6 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.61%) Splunk
7 2 (1.74%) BT
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) Fortinet