Hybrid/Remote Analytical Skills Job Trends

Analytical Skills
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,684 1,689 2,401
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.24% 11.41% 8.44%
As % of the General category 17.47% 16.11% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 815 911 1,784
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,106 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £53,067
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.53% -3.51%
75th Percentile £71,875 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £89,625
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.74% -6.31%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Analytical Skills falls under the General 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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,639 10,483 17,628
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.61% 70.83% 61.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,095 6,190 14,072
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,250 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -9.84%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Skills and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Analytical Skills
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytical Skills.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Analytical Skills salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Analytical Skills
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 33 (1.96%) Confluence
2 22 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.77%) CMS
5 9 (0.53%) WordPress
6 8 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.42%) Apache
7 7 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.30%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.059%) IIS
11 1 (0.059%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.059%) nginx
11 1 (0.059%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.059%) Umbraco
Applications
1 318 (18.88%) Chatbot
2 195 (11.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 90 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.71%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.059%) Notion
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.059%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.72%) NetSuite
2 19 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.24%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.18%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.18%) Shopify
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 281 (16.69%) Azure
2 222 (13.18%) Power Platform
3 113 (6.71%) AWS
4 102 (6.06%) SaaS
5 86 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 65 (3.86%) GitHub
8 50 (2.97%) GCP
9 47 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
11 40 (2.38%) Google Analytics
11 40 (2.38%) Snowflake
12 33 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (1.72%) Entra ID
14 26 (1.54%) dbt
15 23 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
16 20 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 19 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.13%) OCI
18 18 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.55%) Firewall
2 30 (1.78%) Broadband
2 30 (1.78%) Remote Desktop
3 28 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (1.37%) Wireshark
5 16 (0.95%) NGFW
6 15 (0.89%) VXLAN
7 14 (0.83%) DNS
7 14 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.71%) Network Security
8 12 (0.71%) VPN
8 12 (0.71%) WAN
9 8 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (0.48%) Telnet
10 7 (0.42%) DHCP
11 6 (0.36%) Internet
11 6 (0.36%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.24%) 5G
12 4 (0.24%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (11.82%) Power BI
2 77 (4.57%) SQL Server
3 70 (4.16%) Tableau
4 56 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 33 (1.96%) Metadata
8 30 (1.78%) MySQL
9 19 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.95%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.83%) Power Query
12 12 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
13 11 (0.65%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.53%) Data Mining
15 8 (0.48%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.48%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 80 (4.75%) JIRA
2 30 (1.78%) Git
3 19 (1.13%) GitLab
4 13 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.77%) Subversion
5 12 (0.71%) Axure RP
5 12 (0.71%) Balsamiq
6 9 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 9 (0.53%) ERwin
7 8 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.42%) Selenium
9 6 (0.36%) Babel
9 6 (0.36%) WebDriver
9 6 (0.36%) webpack
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.24%) Postman
11 3 (0.18%) Maven
11 3 (0.18%) MLflow
11 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 754 (44.77%) Social Skills
2 520 (30.88%) Finance
3 141 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 136 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (8.02%) Marketing
6 121 (7.19%) Retail
7 90 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
8 88 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
9 79 (4.69%) Law
10 75 (4.45%) Legal
11 42 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.32%) Advertising
13 38 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.66%) Automotive
16 27 (1.60%) Banking
17 26 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
18 23 (1.37%) Back Office
19 22 (1.31%) Aerospace
20 20 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 351 (20.84%) Analyst
2 315 (18.71%) Trainer
3 155 (9.20%) Senior
4 109 (6.47%) Developer
5 87 (5.17%) Lead
6 84 (4.99%) Business Analyst
7 75 (4.45%) Architect
8 63 (3.74%) Data Analyst
9 51 (3.03%) Support Analyst
10 50 (2.97%) Consultant
11 48 (2.85%) Financial Analyst
12 38 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.20%) Report Analyst
14 36 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (1.96%) IT Analyst
16 31 (1.84%) 2nd Line Support
16 31 (1.84%) Alliance Manager
17 29 (1.72%) Data Engineer
18 28 (1.66%) 1st/2nd Line Support
19 26 (1.54%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.44%) HTML
2 51 (3.03%) CSS
3 39 (2.32%) React
4 37 (2.20%) .NET
5 21 (1.25%) JSON
6 19 (1.13%) REST
6 19 (1.13%) XML
7 18 (1.07%) Middleware
8 16 (0.95%) Flash
8 16 (0.95%) TensorFlow
9 15 (0.89%) Bootstrap
9 15 (0.89%) React Native
10 13 (0.77%) Node.js
10 13 (0.77%) PyTorch
10 13 (0.77%) Sass
10 13 (0.77%) SOAP
11 12 (0.71%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (0.48%) CSS3
12 8 (0.48%) HTML5
12 8 (0.48%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 128 (7.60%) Self-Motivation
3 95 (5.64%) Onboarding
4 89 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 46 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 36 (2.14%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 30 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 26 (1.54%) Social Media
12 25 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.48%) PKI
13 22 (1.31%) FMCG
14 21 (1.25%) Driving Licence
14 21 (1.25%) Security Posture
15 20 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.74%) Windows
2 46 (2.73%) Linux
3 19 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.01%) Unix
5 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.059%) AIX
7 1 (0.059%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.059%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.059%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.059%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
2 559 (33.19%) AI
3 367 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 319 (18.94%) Decision-Making
5 318 (18.88%) Chemistry
5 318 (18.88%) Conversational UI
6 292 (17.34%) Analytics
7 289 (17.16%) Agile
8 231 (13.72%) Business Intelligence
9 170 (10.10%) Mentoring
10 162 (9.62%) DevOps
10 162 (9.62%) Project Management
11 161 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 152 (9.03%) Analytical Thinking
13 147 (8.73%) Data Analysis
14 141 (8.37%) Actionable Insight
14 141 (8.37%) Data Modelling
15 139 (8.25%) ERP
16 127 (7.54%) Coaching
17 125 (7.42%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 299 (17.76%) SQL
2 223 (13.24%) Python
3 79 (4.69%) C#
4 74 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 60 (3.56%) PowerShell
6 41 (2.43%) Java
7 30 (1.78%) C++
7 30 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (1.37%) R
9 20 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.01%) C
10 17 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.83%) Bash
12 11 (0.65%) VBA
13 9 (0.53%) Go
14 8 (0.48%) Bicep
15 4 (0.24%) PHP
15 4 (0.24%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.18%) Ruby
16 3 (0.18%) VC++
Qualifications
1 620 (36.82%) Degree
2 339 (20.13%) Master's Degree
3 319 (18.94%) PhD
4 148 (8.79%) Security Cleared
5 116 (6.89%) SC Cleared
6 111 (6.59%) ACCA
7 102 (6.06%) CIMA
8 58 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (1.78%) CISSP
10 28 (1.66%) AAT
11 27 (1.60%) DBS Check
11 27 (1.60%) DV Cleared
12 25 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.37%) PMI Certification
14 22 (1.31%) CISM
15 18 (1.07%) PMP
16 17 (1.01%) Azure Certification
17 15 (0.89%) CISA
18 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
19 12 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 89 (5.29%) QA
3 57 (3.38%) GDPR
4 48 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 37 (2.20%) PMO
7 32 (1.90%) NIST
8 21 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (1.07%) WCAG
10 14 (0.83%) GRC
10 14 (0.83%) SLA
11 11 (0.65%) IFRS
12 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.48%) NCSC
14 7 (0.42%) GAAP
15 5 (0.30%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.24%) EMIR
16 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
17 3 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 46 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.83%) Docker
4 9 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.059%) Firmware
8 1 (0.059%) KVM
8 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (2.79%) Terraform
2 26 (1.54%) Ansible
3 16 (0.95%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.53%) Grafana
4 9 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.30%) SCOM
8 4 (0.24%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 4 (0.24%) QRadar
9 3 (0.18%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.18%) SCCM
10 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.059%) CASB
11 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.059%) Nessus
11 1 (0.059%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 316 (18.76%) PayPal
2 267 (15.86%) Microsoft
3 60 (3.56%) Google
4 53 (3.15%) SAP
5 49 (2.91%) Oracle
6 46 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.25%) Databricks
7 21 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.13%) Adobe
9 16 (0.95%) VMware
10 15 (0.89%) Arista
10 15 (0.89%) Aruba
10 15 (0.89%) NetScout
11 13 (0.77%) Xero
12 11 (0.65%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.59%) Autodesk
13 10 (0.59%) Workday
14 9 (0.53%) IBM
14 9 (0.53%) Splunk
15 8 (0.48%) Charles River