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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,421 1,645 3,264
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.92% 12.33% 10.05%
As % of the General category 14.10% 17.19% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 881 940 1,915
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £40,872
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 10,076 9,572 20,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.15% 71.73% 61.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,692 6,517 15,168
10th Percentile £31,138 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,419 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -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 24 April 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 25 (1.76%) Confluence
1 25 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.91%) CMS
4 12 (0.84%) WordPress
5 10 (0.70%) Apache
5 10 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.21%) Drupal
9 1 (0.070%) Appian
9 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.070%) IIS
9 1 (0.070%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.070%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.070%) Umbraco
Applications
1 171 (12.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.62%) Chatbot
5 16 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.99%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.070%) Notion
9 1 (0.070%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.55%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.42%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.28%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.21%) Infor M3
9 3 (0.21%) JDE OneWorld
9 3 (0.21%) JDE World
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.21%) SAP FSCM
10 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.14%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 288 (20.27%) Azure
2 220 (15.48%) Power Platform
3 123 (8.66%) AWS
4 100 (7.04%) SaaS
5 77 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (4.36%) GitHub
7 61 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
8 56 (3.94%) GCP
9 50 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 49 (3.45%) Google Analytics
11 45 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 33 (2.32%) Snowflake
13 27 (1.90%) Entra ID
14 24 (1.69%) dbt
15 20 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
17 18 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
17 18 (1.27%) OCI
17 18 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.10%) Firewall
2 39 (2.74%) Broadband
3 21 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (1.13%) NGFW
4 16 (1.13%) Wireshark
5 15 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.06%) VXLAN
6 9 (0.63%) Network Security
6 9 (0.63%) WAN
7 8 (0.56%) Telnet
8 7 (0.49%) DNS
8 7 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.35%) DHCP
10 5 (0.35%) VPN
11 4 (0.28%) HTTP
11 4 (0.28%) LAN
11 4 (0.28%) Modbus
12 3 (0.21%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (13.65%) Power BI
2 84 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 63 (4.43%) Tableau
4 40 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 36 (2.53%) Metadata
6 34 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (1.55%) MySQL
8 19 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 18 (1.27%) Oracle Database
9 18 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.91%) Power Query
13 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.70%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.63%) Looker
16 8 (0.56%) Big Data
16 8 (0.56%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 68 (4.79%) JIRA
2 36 (2.53%) Git
3 15 (1.06%) GitLab
4 14 (0.99%) Axure RP
4 14 (0.99%) Balsamiq
5 12 (0.84%) Subversion
6 10 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.35%) Babel
8 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.35%) webpack
9 4 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.28%) ERwin
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.21%) Maven
10 3 (0.21%) MLflow
10 3 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.14%) Postman
11 2 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 693 (48.77%) Social Skills
2 506 (35.61%) Finance
3 139 (9.78%) Marketing
4 133 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 128 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.26%) Organisational Skills
6 89 (6.26%) Presentation Skills
7 87 (6.12%) Retail
8 80 (5.63%) Law
9 63 (4.43%) Legal
10 51 (3.59%) Banking
11 41 (2.89%) Advertising
12 40 (2.81%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.53%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.90%) Automotive
15 26 (1.83%) Publishing
16 21 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.41%) Front Office
18 19 (1.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 358 (25.19%) Analyst
2 172 (12.10%) Senior
3 96 (6.76%) Business Analyst
4 90 (6.33%) Developer
5 87 (6.12%) Lead
6 76 (5.35%) Architect
7 57 (4.01%) Data Analyst
8 49 (3.45%) Data Engineer
9 48 (3.38%) Consultant
9 48 (3.38%) Financial Analyst
10 43 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
11 42 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (2.81%) Report Analyst
13 36 (2.53%) Senior Manager
14 35 (2.46%) Product Manager
15 33 (2.32%) Support Analyst
16 31 (2.18%) Accountant
16 31 (2.18%) Alliance Manager
17 27 (1.90%) Security Analyst
18 24 (1.69%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (4.22%) HTML
2 54 (3.80%) CSS
3 46 (3.24%) .NET
4 37 (2.60%) React
5 33 (2.32%) JSON
6 26 (1.83%) REST
7 22 (1.55%) XML
8 21 (1.48%) Middleware
9 18 (1.27%) React Native
10 17 (1.20%) TensorFlow
11 16 (1.13%) Bootstrap
12 15 (1.06%) PyTorch
13 14 (0.99%) Node.js
14 12 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
14 12 (0.84%) SOAP
15 10 (0.70%) Sass
16 9 (0.63%) Flash
17 8 (0.56%) OAuth
17 8 (0.56%) RESTful
18 7 (0.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 107 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
3 102 (7.18%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.96%) Data Structures
7 38 (2.67%) Cloud Native
8 35 (2.46%) Virtual Team
9 34 (2.39%) Algorithms
10 29 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.97%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.90%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.83%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.83%) Social Media
14 25 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (1.62%) Mobile App
16 22 (1.55%) FMCG
16 22 (1.55%) PKI
17 20 (1.41%) Public Cloud
18 19 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.22%) Windows
2 38 (2.67%) Linux
3 24 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.06%) Unix
5 4 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) AIX
6 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) OpenWrt
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.070%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.070%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.070%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.070%) Solaris
7 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (44.55%) Problem-Solving
2 357 (25.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 349 (24.56%) Decision-Making
4 298 (20.97%) Agile
5 293 (20.62%) Analytics
6 272 (19.14%) AI
7 233 (16.40%) Business Intelligence
8 169 (11.89%) Mentoring
9 160 (11.26%) DevOps
10 152 (10.70%) Actionable Insight
10 152 (10.70%) Data Modelling
11 150 (10.56%) Project Management
12 147 (10.34%) Coaching
13 145 (10.20%) Analytical Thinking
14 144 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 143 (10.06%) Process Improvement
16 136 (9.57%) CI/CD
17 129 (9.08%) ERP
18 120 (8.44%) Roadmaps
19 111 (7.81%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 284 (19.99%) SQL
2 231 (16.26%) Python
3 82 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 64 (4.50%) C#
5 58 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 51 (3.59%) Java
7 31 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (1.62%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.41%) TypeScript
10 18 (1.27%) C++
11 16 (1.13%) R
12 11 (0.77%) Bash
13 9 (0.63%) Go
13 9 (0.63%) VBA
14 8 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.42%) C
16 5 (0.35%) Ruby
17 4 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
18 3 (0.21%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 305 (21.46%) Degree
2 136 (9.57%) ACCA
3 134 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 127 (8.94%) CIMA
5 95 (6.69%) SC Cleared
6 50 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (2.81%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.83%) PhD
9 24 (1.69%) CISSP
10 23 (1.62%) DBS Check
11 21 (1.48%) AAT
12 20 (1.41%) CISM
12 20 (1.41%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.41%) PMI Certification
13 18 (1.27%) Azure Certification
14 16 (1.13%) PMP
15 12 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (9.08%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.70%) QA
3 73 (5.14%) GDPR
4 52 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (3.03%) Accessibility
6 34 (2.39%) NIST
7 33 (2.32%) SLA
8 26 (1.83%) PMO
9 25 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 20 (1.41%) WCAG
11 16 (1.13%) GRC
11 16 (1.13%) ISO 9001
12 13 (0.91%) IFRS
13 12 (0.84%) COREP
13 12 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.84%) FINREP
14 10 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.70%) GAAP
14 10 (0.70%) NCSC
15 9 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.63%) Docker
4 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.070%) KVM
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (3.52%) Terraform
2 28 (1.97%) Ansible
3 17 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.49%) Grafana
5 7 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.35%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.35%) Packer
7 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.28%) QRadar
8 3 (0.21%) SCCM
9 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.070%) CASB
10 1 (0.070%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.070%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.070%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.070%) Graylog
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.070%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 251 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.49%) Google
3 60 (4.22%) SAP
4 56 (3.94%) Oracle
5 53 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.55%) Adobe
8 21 (1.48%) PayPal
9 19 (1.34%) Databricks
10 15 (1.06%) Arista
10 15 (1.06%) Aruba
10 15 (1.06%) NetScout
11 13 (0.91%) Cisco
11 13 (0.91%) VMware
12 12 (0.84%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.77%) F5
13 11 (0.77%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.77%) Pardot
13 11 (0.77%) Workday
13 11 (0.77%) Xero