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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,195 2,454 2,681
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.86% 14.61% 12.37%
As % of the General category 14.43% 20.69% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 905 1,049
10th Percentile £34,250 £29,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,594 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £51,328 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% -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 15,208 11,863 13,608
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.36% 70.65% 62.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,139 6,216 7,609
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.50% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 9 October 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 58 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.05%) Confluence
2 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.55%) IIS
6 11 (0.50%) Apache
7 10 (0.46%) CMS
8 9 (0.41%) WordPress
9 8 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.36%) SAS
10 5 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.14%) Office Communications Server
12 2 (0.091%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.091%) Hedera
12 2 (0.091%) nginx
12 2 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.046%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.046%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 236 (10.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.27%) Notion
10 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.14%) Blender
12 3 (0.14%) InDesign
12 3 (0.14%) Maya
13 2 (0.091%) EPLAN
13 2 (0.091%) SPSS
14 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.46%) Dynamics GP
3 16 (0.73%) Shopify
4 12 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
5 7 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.27%) Exchequer
6 6 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.27%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.23%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.23%) FastStats
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.23%) Sage 50
8 4 (0.18%) JDE World
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 289 (13.17%) Power Platform
2 276 (12.57%) Azure
3 187 (8.52%) AWS
4 126 (5.74%) SaaS
5 105 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
6 84 (3.83%) GCP
7 69 (3.14%) Google Analytics
8 54 (2.46%) Entra ID
9 40 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (1.55%) Serverless
11 33 (1.50%) GitHub
12 31 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 30 (1.37%) Google Ads
14 27 (1.23%) Amazon S3
15 26 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
15 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
15 26 (1.18%) Snowflake
16 24 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.91%) Broadband
2 34 (1.55%) Firewall
3 27 (1.23%) Network Security
4 24 (1.09%) DNS
5 21 (0.96%) 5G
5 21 (0.96%) DHCP
5 21 (0.96%) VPN
6 19 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (0.73%) WAN
9 15 (0.68%) SMS
10 12 (0.55%) LAN
11 11 (0.50%) Internet
12 7 (0.32%) VLAN
12 7 (0.32%) Wireless
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.18%) FTP
14 4 (0.18%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.18%) SSL
14 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (11.62%) Power BI
2 70 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 70 (3.19%) Tableau
3 68 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (2.19%) Metadata
5 39 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 37 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (1.64%) Looker
8 32 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.32%) MySQL
10 24 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.05%) Power Query
12 22 (1.00%) Big Data
13 18 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 17 (0.77%) Spark SQL
15 16 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (0.73%) Data Mining
15 16 (0.73%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.68%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 84 (3.83%) Git
2 79 (3.60%) JIRA
3 16 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.64%) GitLab
5 10 (0.46%) LabVIEW
6 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.27%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.27%) Balsamiq
7 6 (0.27%) Burp Suite
7 6 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 6 (0.27%) MLflow
8 5 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.18%) Postman
9 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.14%) JMeter
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.14%) RStudio
10 3 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,116 (50.84%) Social Skills
2 753 (34.31%) Finance
3 260 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 247 (11.25%) Marketing
5 240 (10.93%) Organisational Skills
6 207 (9.43%) Retail
7 197 (8.97%) Law
8 193 (8.79%) Public Sector
9 192 (8.75%) Legal
10 139 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
11 83 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (3.23%) Manufacturing
13 67 (3.05%) Banking
14 56 (2.55%) Telecoms
15 47 (2.14%) Advertising
16 36 (1.64%) Aerospace
17 34 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
17 34 (1.55%) Electronics
17 34 (1.55%) Games
18 30 (1.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 568 (25.88%) Analyst
2 291 (13.26%) Senior
3 147 (6.70%) Lead
4 120 (5.47%) Data Analyst
5 115 (5.24%) Business Analyst
6 109 (4.97%) Senior Analyst
7 103 (4.69%) Developer
8 93 (4.24%) Architect
9 86 (3.92%) Consultant
10 84 (3.83%) Data Engineer
11 82 (3.74%) Support Analyst
12 64 (2.92%) Service Manager
13 56 (2.55%) Applications Support
13 56 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
14 50 (2.28%) Accountant
15 47 (2.14%) Marketing Manager
16 43 (1.96%) Senior Manager
17 40 (1.82%) Security Analyst
18 37 (1.69%) Financial Analyst
19 35 (1.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.96%) .NET
2 47 (2.14%) PySpark
3 46 (2.10%) HTML
4 45 (2.05%) Terraform
5 38 (1.73%) CSS
6 34 (1.55%) REST
7 26 (1.18%) JSON
8 25 (1.14%) XML
9 23 (1.05%) React
9 23 (1.05%) RESTful
10 18 (0.82%) Middleware
11 17 (0.77%) Web Services
12 16 (0.73%) .NET Core
13 15 (0.68%) AngularJS
13 15 (0.68%) PyTorch
14 13 (0.59%) ASP.NET
14 13 (0.59%) EDI
14 13 (0.59%) TensorFlow
15 12 (0.55%) .NET Framework
15 12 (0.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 195 (8.88%) Management Information System
2 131 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 129 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 95 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 74 (3.37%) Virtual Team
7 67 (3.05%) Blog
8 54 (2.46%) Credit Risk
9 52 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.87%) Driving Licence
11 39 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
11 39 (1.78%) Social Media
12 38 (1.73%) Cloud Native
13 35 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
14 33 (1.50%) Security Posture
15 28 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.28%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.09%) Algorithms
17 22 (1.00%) Mobile App
18 21 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.56%) Windows
2 62 (2.82%) Linux
3 46 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.50%) Android
4 11 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.23%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.091%) Unix
8 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.046%) AIX
9 1 (0.046%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,045 (47.61%) Problem-Solving
2 717 (32.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 613 (27.93%) Decision-Making
4 536 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 532 (24.24%) Analytics
6 451 (20.55%) AI
7 418 (19.04%) Agile
8 301 (13.71%) Business Intelligence
9 261 (11.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 258 (11.75%) Project Management
11 255 (11.62%) Actionable Insight
11 255 (11.62%) Roadmaps
12 246 (11.21%) Process Improvement
13 229 (10.43%) Mentoring
14 218 (9.93%) CRM
15 211 (9.61%) Data Analysis
16 210 (9.57%) Project Delivery
17 199 (9.07%) Validation
18 195 (8.88%) Service Delivery
19 191 (8.70%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 477 (21.73%) SQL
2 329 (14.99%) Python
3 86 (3.92%) C#
4 85 (3.87%) JavaScript
5 61 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 56 (2.55%) Java
7 32 (1.46%) C++
7 32 (1.46%) R
8 31 (1.41%) T-SQL
9 24 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (0.96%) Bash
11 18 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 18 (0.82%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.55%) Go
13 10 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.41%) C
14 9 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.36%) Scala
16 6 (0.27%) PHP
16 6 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 389 (17.72%) Degree
2 245 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 190 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 101 (4.60%) ACCA
5 100 (4.56%) CIMA
6 59 (2.69%) DBS Check
7 57 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.10%) CISSP
9 39 (1.78%) CISM
10 37 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 32 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
15 18 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.77%) AAT
16 17 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 17 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (0.73%) CRISC
17 16 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (11.03%) Data Quality
2 121 (5.51%) GDPR
3 112 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 85 (3.87%) QA
5 84 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (2.60%) NIST
7 52 (2.37%) SLA
8 39 (1.78%) PMO
9 37 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 34 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 29 (1.32%) GRC
12 25 (1.14%) IFRS
13 20 (0.91%) ISO 9001
14 18 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.68%) GAAP
16 15 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.68%) PCI DSS
17 13 (0.59%) ISO 14001
18 11 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.41%) Docker
3 12 (0.55%) Firmware
4 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.046%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.046%) HDFS
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.77%) Ansible
4 15 (0.68%) Grafana
5 7 (0.32%) QRadar
5 7 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.27%) Nmap
7 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.14%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.091%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.091%) CASB
9 2 (0.091%) Graylog
9 2 (0.091%) Kibana
9 2 (0.091%) Nagios
9 2 (0.091%) Packer
9 2 (0.091%) SCCM
9 2 (0.091%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 467 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 126 (5.74%) Google
3 67 (3.05%) SAP
4 65 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 57 (2.60%) Oracle
6 50 (2.28%) YouTube
7 46 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.50%) Adobe
9 31 (1.41%) Sage
10 30 (1.37%) Databricks
11 27 (1.23%) Cisco
11 27 (1.23%) HubSpot
12 19 (0.87%) Splunk
12 19 (0.87%) VMware
13 14 (0.64%) Yardi
14 13 (0.59%) Apple
14 13 (0.59%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 10 (0.46%) FIS
15 10 (0.46%) Qualys