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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,595 1,599 2,508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.48% 11.56% 8.37%
As % of the General category 16.52% 16.18% 13.62%
Number of salaries quoted 840 913 1,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,401
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £52,718
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.33% -4.15%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,200
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 9,655 9,884 18,416
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.41% 71.45% 61.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,212 6,240 14,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,800
25th Percentile £40,188 £45,000 £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 £83,000 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 14 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 31 (1.94%) Confluence
2 22 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.88%) CMS
5 9 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.56%) WordPress
6 8 (0.50%) Apache
7 7 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.31%) SAS
9 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
11 1 (0.063%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.063%) IIS
11 1 (0.063%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.063%) Umbraco
Applications
1 218 (13.67%) Chatbot
2 193 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.88%) Adobe XD
7 12 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.063%) Notion
9 1 (0.063%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 30 (1.88%) NetSuite
2 22 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.38%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.25%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.19%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.19%) SAP FSCM
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.13%) Shopify
10 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 287 (17.99%) Azure
2 221 (13.86%) Power Platform
3 122 (7.65%) AWS
4 112 (7.02%) SaaS
5 83 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
6 67 (4.20%) GitHub
7 54 (3.39%) GCP
8 48 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
10 41 (2.57%) Google Analytics
11 36 (2.26%) Snowflake
12 32 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (1.76%) Entra ID
14 24 (1.50%) dbt
15 21 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
15 21 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
16 20 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.25%) Power Automate
17 18 (1.13%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.95%) Firewall
2 33 (2.07%) Broadband
3 28 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
4 27 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
5 23 (1.44%) Wireshark
6 16 (1.00%) NGFW
6 16 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.94%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.88%) DNS
9 12 (0.75%) Network Security
9 12 (0.75%) VPN
9 12 (0.75%) WAN
10 9 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (0.50%) Telnet
12 7 (0.44%) DHCP
13 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.25%) 5G
14 4 (0.25%) Ethernet
14 4 (0.25%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (12.41%) Power BI
2 86 (5.39%) SQL Server
3 66 (4.14%) Tableau
4 50 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 35 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 34 (2.13%) Metadata
8 32 (2.01%) MySQL
9 22 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.88%) Power Query
12 13 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (0.82%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
14 11 (0.69%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.56%) Data Mining
15 9 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (0.50%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (4.83%) JIRA
2 32 (2.01%) Git
3 20 (1.25%) GitLab
4 14 (0.88%) Axure RP
4 14 (0.88%) Balsamiq
5 13 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 13 (0.82%) Subversion
6 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.44%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.44%) ERwin
8 6 (0.38%) Babel
8 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.38%) Selenium
8 6 (0.38%) webpack
9 5 (0.31%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.19%) MLflow
11 3 (0.19%) Postman
11 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 744 (46.65%) Social Skills
2 510 (31.97%) Finance
3 147 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 138 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 137 (8.59%) Marketing
6 108 (6.77%) Retail
7 89 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
8 88 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
9 83 (5.20%) Law
10 63 (3.95%) Legal
11 46 (2.88%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.51%) Advertising
12 40 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 36 (2.26%) Banking
14 29 (1.82%) Automotive
14 29 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.50%) Back Office
15 24 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (1.50%) Publishing
16 20 (1.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 348 (21.82%) Analyst
2 215 (13.48%) Trainer
3 163 (10.22%) Senior
4 106 (6.65%) Developer
5 91 (5.71%) Lead
6 83 (5.20%) Business Analyst
7 81 (5.08%) Architect
8 63 (3.95%) Data Analyst
9 49 (3.07%) Consultant
9 49 (3.07%) Support Analyst
10 47 (2.95%) Financial Analyst
11 43 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
13 39 (2.45%) Report Analyst
14 33 (2.07%) Data Engineer
15 31 (1.94%) Alliance Manager
15 31 (1.94%) Senior Manager
16 29 (1.82%) IT Analyst
17 27 (1.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 27 (1.69%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.89%) HTML
2 56 (3.51%) CSS
3 46 (2.88%) .NET
4 41 (2.57%) React
5 24 (1.50%) JSON
5 24 (1.50%) REST
6 22 (1.38%) XML
7 17 (1.07%) Middleware
7 17 (1.07%) TensorFlow
8 16 (1.00%) Bootstrap
8 16 (1.00%) React Native
9 15 (0.94%) Flash
10 14 (0.88%) Node.js
10 14 (0.88%) PyTorch
11 13 (0.82%) Sass
12 12 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (0.75%) SOAP
13 9 (0.56%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.50%) CSS3
14 8 (0.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 142 (8.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 121 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
3 92 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 90 (5.64%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 46 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.51%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.45%) Algorithms
8 31 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 29 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.76%) Social Media
11 27 (1.69%) Low-Code
12 26 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.50%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.44%) Driving Licence
15 22 (1.38%) FMCG
15 22 (1.38%) PKI
16 21 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 16 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.89%) Windows
2 47 (2.95%) Linux
3 20 (1.25%) Unix
4 19 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.19%) Android
6 3 (0.19%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.063%) AIX
7 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.063%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.063%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.063%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (39.87%) Problem-Solving
2 456 (28.59%) AI
3 366 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 333 (20.88%) Decision-Making
5 299 (18.75%) Analytics
6 287 (17.99%) Agile
7 233 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
8 218 (13.67%) Chemistry
8 218 (13.67%) Conversational UI
9 174 (10.91%) Mentoring
10 164 (10.28%) DevOps
11 160 (10.03%) Analytical Thinking
12 152 (9.53%) Project Management
12 152 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 145 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
14 143 (8.97%) Data Analysis
15 141 (8.84%) Data Modelling
16 139 (8.71%) ERP
17 131 (8.21%) CI/CD
18 127 (7.96%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 293 (18.37%) SQL
2 220 (13.79%) Python
3 83 (5.20%) C#
4 82 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 60 (3.76%) PowerShell
6 40 (2.51%) Java
7 30 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 27 (1.69%) C++
9 22 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 21 (1.32%) R
11 18 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.94%) C
13 13 (0.82%) Bash
14 11 (0.69%) VBA
15 10 (0.63%) Go
16 8 (0.50%) Bicep
17 4 (0.25%) PHP
17 4 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.25%) Ruby
18 3 (0.19%) VC++
Qualifications
1 526 (32.98%) Degree
2 240 (15.05%) Master's Degree
3 220 (13.79%) PhD
4 146 (9.15%) Security Cleared
5 115 (7.21%) ACCA
6 111 (6.96%) SC Cleared
7 106 (6.65%) CIMA
8 57 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (1.82%) AAT
9 29 (1.82%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.63%) CISSP
12 21 (1.32%) PMI Certification
13 18 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.13%) CISM
14 17 (1.07%) Azure Certification
15 16 (1.00%) PMP
16 12 (0.75%) AWS Certification
16 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 87 (5.45%) QA
3 65 (4.08%) GDPR
4 47 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (2.76%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.88%) NIST
7 29 (1.82%) PMO
8 22 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (1.25%) WCAG
10 17 (1.07%) SLA
11 13 (0.82%) GRC
11 13 (0.82%) IFRS
12 11 (0.69%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.56%) GAAP
13 9 (0.56%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.50%) NCSC
15 6 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.38%) ISO 14001
16 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.88%) Docker
4 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.063%) Firmware
8 1 (0.063%) KVM
8 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (3.26%) Terraform
2 27 (1.69%) Ansible
3 17 (1.07%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.56%) Grafana
4 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.31%) SCOM
8 4 (0.25%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.25%) QRadar
9 3 (0.19%) SCCM
10 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.063%) CASB
11 1 (0.063%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.063%) Nessus
11 1 (0.063%) Packer
11 1 (0.063%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.063%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 269 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 216 (13.54%) PayPal
3 61 (3.82%) Google
4 51 (3.20%) SAP
5 50 (3.13%) Oracle
6 46 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.32%) Databricks
9 20 (1.25%) Adobe
10 16 (1.00%) VMware
11 15 (0.94%) Arista
11 15 (0.94%) Aruba
11 15 (0.94%) NetScout
12 13 (0.82%) Xero
13 12 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.75%) Cisco
14 10 (0.63%) Workday
15 9 (0.56%) Autodesk
15 9 (0.56%) Splunk
16 8 (0.50%) IBM