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

6 months to
5 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 2,171 2,473 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.74% 14.71% 12.60%
As % of the General category 14.26% 20.81% 20.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 906 1,077
10th Percentile £34,250 £29,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,869 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £51,300 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.60% -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 15,222 11,882 13,949
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.28% 70.69% 62.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,179 6,201 7,773
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,625 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,200
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 5 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 59 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.06%) Confluence
3 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.55%) IIS
7 10 (0.46%) Apache
7 10 (0.46%) CMS
7 10 (0.46%) WordPress
8 8 (0.37%) SAS
9 7 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.14%) Office Communications Server
12 2 (0.092%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.092%) Hedera
12 2 (0.092%) nginx
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.046%) Appian
13 1 (0.046%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 231 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.32%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.23%) Notion
9 4 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.14%) Blender
10 3 (0.14%) InDesign
10 3 (0.14%) Maya
11 2 (0.092%) SPSS
12 1 (0.046%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.046%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 51 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.47%) Dynamics GP
3 16 (0.74%) Shopify
4 13 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.32%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.32%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.28%) Exchequer
7 6 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.28%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.23%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.23%) JDE World
8 5 (0.23%) Sage 50
9 4 (0.18%) Infor M3
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 286 (13.17%) Power Platform
2 270 (12.44%) Azure
3 185 (8.52%) AWS
4 127 (5.85%) SaaS
5 101 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (3.78%) GCP
7 71 (3.27%) Google Analytics
8 50 (2.30%) Entra ID
9 40 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (1.61%) Serverless
11 34 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
11 34 (1.57%) GitHub
12 31 (1.43%) Google Ads
12 31 (1.43%) PowerApps
13 27 (1.24%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.24%) Google Tag Manager
14 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 26 (1.20%) Snowflake
15 24 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.93%) Broadband
2 32 (1.47%) Firewall
3 26 (1.20%) Network Security
4 21 (0.97%) VPN
5 20 (0.92%) 5G
5 20 (0.92%) DNS
6 19 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.78%) DHCP
7 17 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.69%) WAN
9 14 (0.64%) SMS
10 11 (0.51%) LAN
11 10 (0.46%) Internet
12 7 (0.32%) VLAN
12 7 (0.32%) Wireless
13 5 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.18%) HTTP
14 4 (0.18%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.18%) SSL
14 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (11.65%) Power BI
2 70 (3.22%) SQL Server
3 68 (3.13%) Tableau
4 67 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (2.21%) Metadata
6 38 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (1.61%) Looker
9 32 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (1.34%) MySQL
11 24 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.01%) Power Query
13 21 (0.97%) Big Data
14 18 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (0.78%) NoSQL
16 16 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (0.74%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.69%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.64%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 85 (3.92%) Git
2 78 (3.59%) JIRA
3 16 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.60%) GitLab
5 10 (0.46%) LabVIEW
6 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.28%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.28%) Balsamiq
7 6 (0.28%) MLflow
8 5 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.23%) Metasploit
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 1,106 (50.94%) Social Skills
2 745 (34.32%) Finance
3 256 (11.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 243 (11.19%) Marketing
5 236 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
6 201 (9.26%) Retail
7 194 (8.94%) Law
8 192 (8.84%) Legal
9 190 (8.75%) Public Sector
10 138 (6.36%) Influencing Skills
11 86 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (3.27%) Manufacturing
13 67 (3.09%) Banking
14 57 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 48 (2.21%) Advertising
16 34 (1.57%) Games
17 33 (1.52%) Aerospace
17 33 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
18 32 (1.47%) Electronics
19 30 (1.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 556 (25.61%) Analyst
2 292 (13.45%) Senior
3 148 (6.82%) Lead
4 117 (5.39%) Data Analyst
5 115 (5.30%) Business Analyst
6 108 (4.97%) Senior Analyst
7 103 (4.74%) Developer
8 94 (4.33%) Architect
9 85 (3.92%) Consultant
10 82 (3.78%) Data Engineer
10 82 (3.78%) Support Analyst
11 60 (2.76%) Service Manager
12 57 (2.63%) Applications Support
13 55 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
14 51 (2.35%) Accountant
15 47 (2.16%) Marketing Manager
16 44 (2.03%) Senior Manager
17 41 (1.89%) Security Analyst
18 37 (1.70%) Financial Analyst
18 37 (1.70%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (3.09%) .NET
2 47 (2.16%) HTML
3 45 (2.07%) PySpark
3 45 (2.07%) Terraform
4 39 (1.80%) CSS
5 35 (1.61%) REST
6 27 (1.24%) JSON
7 25 (1.15%) XML
8 23 (1.06%) React
8 23 (1.06%) RESTful
9 19 (0.88%) Middleware
10 17 (0.78%) Web Services
11 16 (0.74%) .NET Core
12 15 (0.69%) AngularJS
12 15 (0.69%) PyTorch
13 13 (0.60%) ASP.NET
13 13 (0.60%) EDI
13 13 (0.60%) Pandas
13 13 (0.60%) TensorFlow
14 12 (0.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 190 (8.75%) Management Information System
2 135 (6.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 127 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
4 104 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 97 (4.47%) Product Ownership
6 75 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 69 (3.18%) Blog
8 52 (2.40%) Credit Risk
9 50 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.80%) Driving Licence
11 38 (1.75%) Cloud Native
11 38 (1.75%) Social Media
12 36 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
13 35 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
14 34 (1.57%) Security Posture
15 28 (1.29%) AI Agents
16 27 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 24 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 24 (1.11%) Mobile App
18 21 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 97 (4.47%) Windows
2 62 (2.86%) Linux
3 42 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.55%) Android
5 11 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) OpenVMS
10 3 (0.14%) Unix
11 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.046%) AIX
12 1 (0.046%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,031 (47.49%) Problem-Solving
2 707 (32.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 607 (27.96%) Decision-Making
4 523 (24.09%) Analytics
5 516 (23.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 446 (20.54%) AI
7 416 (19.16%) Agile
8 299 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
9 259 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 257 (11.84%) Roadmaps
11 254 (11.70%) Project Management
12 250 (11.52%) Process Improvement
13 249 (11.47%) Actionable Insight
14 231 (10.64%) Mentoring
15 214 (9.86%) CRM
16 205 (9.44%) Data Analysis
17 204 (9.40%) Project Delivery
18 196 (9.03%) Validation
19 190 (8.75%) Coaching
20 189 (8.71%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 472 (21.74%) SQL
2 326 (15.02%) Python
3 91 (4.19%) C#
4 87 (4.01%) JavaScript
5 61 (2.81%) Java
6 56 (2.58%) PowerShell
7 33 (1.52%) C++
8 32 (1.47%) T-SQL
9 30 (1.38%) R
10 23 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (0.97%) Bash
12 19 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 19 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.55%) Go
14 10 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.46%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.41%) C
16 8 (0.37%) Scala
17 6 (0.28%) PHP
17 6 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 386 (17.78%) Degree
2 239 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 185 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 106 (4.88%) ACCA
5 105 (4.84%) CIMA
6 58 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (2.67%) DBS Check
7 46 (2.12%) CISSP
8 39 (1.80%) CISM
9 35 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.78%) AAT
13 17 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
14 16 (0.74%) CRISC
15 15 (0.69%) GIAC
15 15 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (10.87%) Data Quality
2 121 (5.57%) GDPR
3 108 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 88 (4.05%) QA
5 84 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (2.63%) NIST
7 53 (2.44%) SLA
8 37 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 36 (1.66%) PMO
10 29 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 28 (1.29%) GRC
12 26 (1.20%) IFRS
13 20 (0.92%) ISO 9001
14 18 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.69%) GAAP
15 15 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 15 (0.69%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.60%) ISO 14001
17 11 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.38%) Docker
3 12 (0.55%) Firmware
4 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.046%) HDFS
7 1 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 19 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.78%) Ansible
4 16 (0.74%) Grafana
5 7 (0.32%) QRadar
6 5 (0.23%) Nmap
6 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.092%) CASB
9 2 (0.092%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.092%) Graylog
9 2 (0.092%) Kibana
9 2 (0.092%) Nagios
9 2 (0.092%) Packer
10 1 (0.046%) Control-M
10 1 (0.046%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.046%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.046%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 455 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 126 (5.80%) Google
3 69 (3.18%) SAP
4 65 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 59 (2.72%) Oracle
6 48 (2.21%) YouTube
7 44 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.52%) Adobe
9 30 (1.38%) Databricks
9 30 (1.38%) Sage
10 27 (1.24%) HubSpot
11 24 (1.11%) Cisco
12 19 (0.88%) Splunk
13 17 (0.78%) VMware
14 15 (0.69%) Yardi
15 13 (0.60%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 12 (0.55%) Apple
17 10 (0.46%) JD Edwards
17 10 (0.46%) Qualys