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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,466 2,097 3,287
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.62% 14.13% 9.81%
As % of the General category 13.25% 18.84% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 961 881 1,874
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -9.09%

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 11,063 11,133 20,436
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.48% 74.99% 60.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,222 6,115 15,108
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,273 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

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 4 June 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 36 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.23%) Confluence
4 13 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.82%) Apache
6 11 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.75%) WordPress
7 7 (0.48%) SAS
8 6 (0.41%) CMS
8 6 (0.41%) IIS
9 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.068%) Appian
12 1 (0.068%) Drupal
12 1 (0.068%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.068%) Moodle
12 1 (0.068%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 145 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.61%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.20%) Blender
8 3 (0.20%) Maya
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.75%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.41%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.27%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.27%) JDE OneWorld
7 4 (0.27%) JDE World
7 4 (0.27%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.20%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.20%) SAP FSCM
9 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.068%) ResourceLink
10 1 (0.068%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 255 (17.39%) Azure
2 236 (16.10%) Power Platform
3 130 (8.87%) AWS
4 111 (7.57%) SaaS
5 62 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (3.48%) Google Analytics
7 49 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (3.34%) GCP
8 38 (2.59%) GitHub
9 32 (2.18%) Entra ID
10 31 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 21 (1.43%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
14 18 (1.23%) Serverless
15 16 (1.09%) OCI
16 15 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
18 13 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.02%) Broadband
2 51 (3.48%) Firewall
3 23 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (1.09%) NGFW
4 16 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.09%) Wireshark
5 15 (1.02%) VXLAN
6 10 (0.68%) VPN
7 8 (0.55%) SMS
7 8 (0.55%) WAN
8 7 (0.48%) 5G
8 7 (0.48%) DNS
8 7 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.41%) Network Security
10 5 (0.34%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.34%) VLAN
11 4 (0.27%) HTTP
11 4 (0.27%) Modbus
11 4 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (13.51%) Power BI
2 64 (4.37%) Tableau
3 61 (4.16%) SQL Server
4 43 (2.93%) Metadata
5 32 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (1.64%) MySQL
7 24 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.30%) Big Data
9 18 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 17 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.95%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.89%) Power Query
13 11 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (0.61%) Looker
15 8 (0.55%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
16 7 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 45 (3.07%) JIRA
2 37 (2.52%) Git
3 12 (0.82%) GitLab
4 8 (0.55%) Axure RP
4 8 (0.55%) Balsamiq
5 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.27%) Subversion
8 3 (0.20%) Babel
8 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.20%) ERwin
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.20%) webpack
9 2 (0.14%) MLflow
9 2 (0.14%) Postman
9 2 (0.14%) Storybook
9 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 656 (44.75%) Social Skills
2 471 (32.13%) Finance
3 161 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 141 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 126 (8.59%) Marketing
6 91 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
7 90 (6.14%) Law
8 87 (5.93%) Legal
8 87 (5.93%) Retail
9 54 (3.68%) Banking
10 49 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 30 (2.05%) Advertising
14 29 (1.98%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.77%) Publishing
17 24 (1.64%) Automotive
18 16 (1.09%) Financial Institution
19 14 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 379 (25.85%) Analyst
2 202 (13.78%) Senior
3 101 (6.89%) Lead
4 88 (6.00%) Business Analyst
5 86 (5.87%) Architect
6 83 (5.66%) Data Analyst
6 83 (5.66%) Developer
7 61 (4.16%) Senior Analyst
8 52 (3.55%) Data Engineer
9 48 (3.27%) Consultant
10 43 (2.93%) Senior Manager
11 40 (2.73%) Report Analyst
12 37 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (2.32%) Applications Support
14 33 (2.25%) Product Manager
15 32 (2.18%) Support Analyst
16 31 (2.11%) Accountant
17 29 (1.98%) Data Scientist
17 29 (1.98%) Security Analyst
18 27 (1.84%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.62%) HTML
2 47 (3.21%) CSS
3 42 (2.86%) .NET
4 36 (2.46%) JSON
5 33 (2.25%) React
6 27 (1.84%) REST
7 26 (1.77%) TensorFlow
8 25 (1.71%) PyTorch
9 24 (1.64%) Middleware
10 23 (1.57%) XML
11 16 (1.09%) Node.js
12 15 (1.02%) React Native
13 14 (0.95%) RESTful
14 12 (0.82%) Bootstrap
15 10 (0.68%) PySpark
16 9 (0.61%) SOAP
17 7 (0.48%) Flutter
17 7 (0.48%) Kafka
17 7 (0.48%) OAuth
17 7 (0.48%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 94 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 71 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 57 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 49 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.93%) Algorithms
7 40 (2.73%) Data Structures
7 40 (2.73%) Virtual Team
8 34 (2.32%) Cloud Native
9 30 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.84%) Driving Licence
10 27 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.77%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.64%) PKI
13 23 (1.57%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.57%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.57%) Video\Live Streaming
14 22 (1.50%) FMCG
14 22 (1.50%) Social Media
15 20 (1.36%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.64%) Windows
2 39 (2.66%) Linux
3 29 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.82%) Unix
5 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.27%) Android
7 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.14%) AIX
8 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.068%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.068%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.068%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.068%) Solaris
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (46.32%) Problem-Solving
2 363 (24.76%) Decision-Making
3 342 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 323 (22.03%) Agile
5 313 (21.35%) Analytics
6 259 (17.67%) AI
7 217 (14.80%) Business Intelligence
8 186 (12.69%) Mentoring
9 182 (12.41%) Roadmaps
10 168 (11.46%) Project Management
11 166 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 164 (11.19%) Actionable Insight
13 150 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 149 (10.16%) Coaching
15 139 (9.48%) Analytical Thinking
16 138 (9.41%) Data Modelling
17 136 (9.28%) Process Improvement
18 132 (9.00%) DevOps
19 124 (8.46%) CI/CD
20 123 (8.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 316 (21.56%) SQL
2 293 (19.99%) Python
3 81 (5.53%) JavaScript
4 64 (4.37%) PowerShell
5 54 (3.68%) C#
6 48 (3.27%) Java
7 27 (1.84%) T-SQL
8 19 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.23%) R
10 15 (1.02%) C++
11 12 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.68%) Bash
13 9 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.61%) Go
14 6 (0.41%) VBA
15 5 (0.34%) C
15 5 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.34%) PHP
15 5 (0.34%) Ruby
15 5 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 297 (20.26%) Degree
2 146 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 110 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 101 (6.89%) ACCA
5 97 (6.62%) CIMA
6 49 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.46%) DBS Check
8 28 (1.91%) CISSP
9 27 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.50%) CISM
11 17 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.16%) PMI Certification
12 16 (1.09%) AAT
12 16 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.89%) PMP
14 12 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (0.82%) HNC
15 11 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 102 (6.96%) GDPR
3 77 (5.25%) QA
4 69 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (3.48%) SLA
6 50 (3.41%) Accessibility
7 45 (3.07%) NIST
8 22 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (1.43%) GRC
10 20 (1.36%) PMO
11 19 (1.30%) ISO 9001
12 18 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (0.95%) COREP
13 14 (0.95%) FINREP
14 12 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 12 (0.82%) IFRS
14 12 (0.82%) WCAG
15 11 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 11 (0.75%) NCSC
15 11 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.89%) Docker
4 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.20%) Firmware
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.068%) KVM
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.068%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (3.48%) Terraform
2 26 (1.77%) Ansible
3 17 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.48%) Kubeflow
5 7 (0.48%) QRadar
6 6 (0.41%) Grafana
6 6 (0.41%) Packer
7 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.20%) SCCM
8 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.14%) Graylog
8 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.068%) CASB
9 1 (0.068%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.068%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.068%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.068%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 250 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.59%) Google
3 60 (4.09%) SAP
4 59 (4.02%) Oracle
5 56 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 32 (2.18%) ServiceNow
7 20 (1.36%) Adobe
8 17 (1.16%) Cisco
9 15 (1.02%) Arista
9 15 (1.02%) Aruba
9 15 (1.02%) Databricks
9 15 (1.02%) NetScout
10 14 (0.95%) VMware
11 13 (0.89%) HubSpot
12 12 (0.82%) F5
12 12 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.75%) Pardot
14 9 (0.61%) JD Edwards
14 9 (0.61%) Sage
14 9 (0.61%) Splunk