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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,721 1,945 2,122
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.03% 11.88% 8.52%
As % of the General category 18.47% 17.20% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 811 999 1,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £88,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,318 11,309 15,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.70% 69.07% 62.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,883 6,391 12,285
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.53%

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 January 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 37 (2.15%) Confluence
2 25 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.70%) CMS
4 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.35%) SAS
7 5 (0.29%) Apache
7 5 (0.29%) WordPress
8 3 (0.17%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.12%) Drupal
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.058%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.058%) Umbraco
Applications
1 383 (22.25%) Chatbot
2 187 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 101 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 19 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.70%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.058%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.058%) Notion
10 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.058%) SmartSuite
10 1 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.69%) NetSuite
2 18 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
2 18 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.23%) Hyperion Planning
6 4 (0.23%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.23%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.23%) Shopify
7 3 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.17%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 276 (16.04%) Azure
2 198 (11.50%) Power Platform
3 111 (6.45%) AWS
4 96 (5.58%) SaaS
5 92 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (3.66%) GitHub
7 58 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 53 (3.08%) Snowflake
9 52 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (2.38%) GCP
11 34 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
13 30 (1.74%) dbt
14 28 (1.63%) Google Analytics
15 26 (1.51%) GitHub Copilot
16 24 (1.39%) Entra ID
17 20 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (1.16%) OCI
18 19 (1.10%) Power Automate
19 17 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.15%) Firewall
2 36 (2.09%) Remote Desktop
3 26 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (1.22%) Wireshark
5 15 (0.87%) VPN
6 14 (0.81%) DNS
7 13 (0.76%) Network Security
7 13 (0.76%) NGFW
7 13 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.76%) VXLAN
7 13 (0.76%) WAN
8 12 (0.70%) Broadband
9 8 (0.46%) DHCP
9 8 (0.46%) Telnet
10 6 (0.35%) Internet
10 6 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.29%) LAN
11 5 (0.29%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.23%) 5G
12 4 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (10.34%) Power BI
2 71 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 70 (4.07%) Tableau
4 68 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 37 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (1.16%) MySQL
7 19 (1.10%) Metadata
8 18 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
9 17 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 16 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
12 13 (0.76%) GIS
13 12 (0.70%) Data Mining
14 11 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.64%) Power Query
14 11 (0.64%) Relational Database
15 9 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (0.46%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 93 (5.40%) JIRA
2 28 (1.63%) Git
3 16 (0.93%) GitLab
4 13 (0.76%) Subversion
5 12 (0.70%) Axure RP
5 12 (0.70%) Balsamiq
5 12 (0.70%) ER Studio
5 12 (0.70%) ERwin
5 12 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.52%) Selenium
7 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.46%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.23%) Babel
8 4 (0.23%) Postman
8 4 (0.23%) webpack
9 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 745 (43.29%) Social Skills
2 541 (31.44%) Finance
3 141 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 121 (7.03%) Marketing
6 109 (6.33%) Retail
7 87 (5.06%) Legal
8 81 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
9 78 (4.53%) Law
10 77 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (2.03%) Advertising
14 34 (1.98%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.34%) Back Office
17 21 (1.22%) Banking
18 20 (1.16%) Aerospace
18 20 (1.16%) Billing
18 20 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 380 (22.08%) Trainer
2 351 (20.40%) Analyst
3 146 (8.48%) Senior
4 115 (6.68%) Developer
5 87 (5.06%) Business Analyst
5 87 (5.06%) Lead
6 78 (4.53%) Architect
7 57 (3.31%) Data Analyst
8 53 (3.08%) Support Analyst
9 48 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
10 46 (2.67%) IT Analyst
10 46 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
11 40 (2.32%) Consultant
12 37 (2.15%) 2nd Line Support
13 36 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.92%) IT Support
15 31 (1.80%) Alliance Manager
16 30 (1.74%) Data Engineer
17 28 (1.63%) 1st/2nd Line Support
18 27 (1.57%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.96%) HTML
2 46 (2.67%) CSS
3 34 (1.98%) React
4 29 (1.69%) .NET
5 27 (1.57%) REST
6 23 (1.34%) Middleware
7 20 (1.16%) SOAP
8 18 (1.05%) Flash
9 15 (0.87%) OAuth
10 14 (0.81%) JSON
11 13 (0.76%) SAML
11 13 (0.76%) XML
12 12 (0.70%) Bootstrap
12 12 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (0.70%) Node.js
12 12 (0.70%) React Native
13 11 (0.64%) BAPI
13 11 (0.64%) IBM Integration Bus
13 11 (0.64%) JMS
13 11 (0.64%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.53%) Analytical Mindset
2 129 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 102 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 97 (5.64%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 33 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 32 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 31 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 28 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 23 (1.34%) Driving Licence
13 23 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (1.34%) PKI
14 21 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.22%) Social Media
15 19 (1.10%) FMCG
16 15 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.78%) Windows
2 48 (2.79%) Linux
3 19 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.99%) Unix
5 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.23%) Android
6 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.17%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.058%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
2 621 (36.08%) AI
3 387 (22.49%) Chemistry
4 384 (22.31%) Conversational UI
5 375 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 315 (18.30%) Decision-Making
7 302 (17.55%) Agile
8 277 (16.10%) Analytics
9 209 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
10 169 (9.82%) DevOps
11 161 (9.36%) Analytical Thinking
12 156 (9.06%) Project Management
13 154 (8.95%) Mentoring
14 143 (8.31%) ERP
15 141 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 140 (8.13%) Actionable Insight
17 136 (7.90%) Data Analysis
18 129 (7.50%) Data Modelling
19 128 (7.44%) Coaching
20 116 (6.74%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 310 (18.01%) SQL
2 195 (11.33%) Python
3 82 (4.76%) C#
4 57 (3.31%) JavaScript
5 51 (2.96%) PowerShell
6 38 (2.21%) Java
7 34 (1.98%) C++
8 28 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (0.99%) C
9 17 (0.99%) R
10 16 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 13 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.70%) Bash
13 9 (0.52%) VBA
14 8 (0.46%) Bicep
14 8 (0.46%) Go
15 5 (0.29%) ABAP
15 5 (0.29%) PHP
15 5 (0.29%) Scala
16 4 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 672 (39.05%) Degree
2 404 (23.47%) Master's Degree
3 385 (22.37%) PhD
4 146 (8.48%) Security Cleared
5 120 (6.97%) SC Cleared
6 100 (5.81%) ACCA
7 91 (5.29%) CIMA
8 59 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (2.27%) CISSP
10 37 (2.15%) DBS Check
11 32 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 29 (1.69%) CISM
13 24 (1.39%) CISA
14 23 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (1.28%) PMI Certification
16 21 (1.22%) AAT
17 19 (1.10%) Azure Certification
18 18 (1.05%) PMP
19 17 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
20 13 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 88 (5.11%) QA
3 61 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.91%) GDPR
5 47 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 44 (2.56%) PMO
7 40 (2.32%) NIST
8 17 (0.99%) GRC
9 16 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.93%) WCAG
10 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.52%) IFRS
12 8 (0.46%) NCSC
12 8 (0.46%) SLA
13 6 (0.35%) COBIT
13 6 (0.35%) GAAP
13 6 (0.35%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.29%) ITGC
14 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.81%) Docker
4 9 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.058%) Firmware
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (2.44%) Terraform
2 24 (1.39%) Ansible
3 15 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.41%) Grafana
6 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 5 (0.29%) SCOM
8 4 (0.23%) QRadar
9 3 (0.17%) SCCM
10 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.058%) CASB
11 1 (0.058%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.058%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.058%) Nessus
11 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 380 (22.08%) PayPal
2 286 (16.62%) Microsoft
3 54 (3.14%) SAP
4 52 (3.02%) Oracle
5 45 (2.61%) Google
6 30 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.22%) Databricks
7 21 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.05%) VMware
9 17 (0.99%) Adobe
10 15 (0.87%) IBM
11 14 (0.81%) Aruba
11 14 (0.81%) Xero
12 13 (0.76%) Arista
12 13 (0.76%) NetScout
13 11 (0.64%) Autodesk
14 10 (0.58%) Workday
15 9 (0.52%) Splunk
16 8 (0.46%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.46%) Sage