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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,707 2,310 2,826
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.80% 14.03% 10.60%
As % of the General category 13.10% 19.32% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 981 1,407
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £33,780
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,445 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -8.28% +1.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £89,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 13,033 11,954 16,318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.54% 72.62% 61.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,390 6,690 11,272
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,679 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,751
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 41 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (1.05%) Confluence
4 13 (0.76%) Apache
5 12 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.64%) IIS
7 9 (0.53%) WordPress
8 7 (0.41%) SAS
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.059%) Appian
12 1 (0.059%) Drupal
12 1 (0.059%) Moodle
12 1 (0.059%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.059%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 182 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.53%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.18%) Blender
8 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Maya
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.059%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.82%) Dynamics GP
3 28 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.82%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.64%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 9 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 9 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.35%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.29%) JDE World
10 4 (0.23%) Academy Housing
10 4 (0.23%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.23%) JDE OneWorld
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.23%) Sage 200
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.18%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (14.94%) Azure
2 244 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 140 (8.20%) AWS
4 128 (7.50%) SaaS
5 70 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (3.75%) GCP
7 54 (3.16%) Google Analytics
8 39 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (1.76%) GitHub
12 25 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (1.23%) Snowflake
14 20 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 16 (0.94%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (0.82%) Serverless
17 12 (0.70%) SuccessFactors
18 10 (0.59%) dbt
19 9 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.51%) Broadband
2 38 (2.23%) Firewall
3 18 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.00%) VPN
5 15 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.64%) Network Security
6 11 (0.64%) SMS
6 11 (0.64%) WAN
7 9 (0.53%) LAN
8 8 (0.47%) DNS
9 7 (0.41%) 5G
9 7 (0.41%) Wireless
10 6 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.35%) HTTP
11 5 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.29%) DHCP
11 5 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.29%) SMTP
11 5 (0.29%) SSL
12 4 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (12.24%) Power BI
2 73 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 67 (3.93%) Tableau
4 45 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (2.58%) Metadata
6 33 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (1.87%) MySQL
8 31 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.17%) Big Data
10 20 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.17%) Oracle Database
11 19 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (1.05%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.05%) Power Query
13 17 (1.00%) Looker
14 13 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.59%) MongoDB
17 9 (0.53%) Db2
Development Applications
1 57 (3.34%) JIRA
2 50 (2.93%) Git
3 15 (0.88%) GitLab
4 11 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.47%) Axure RP
6 8 (0.47%) Balsamiq
6 8 (0.47%) LabVIEW
7 5 (0.29%) Postman
8 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.23%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.23%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.18%) JMeter
9 3 (0.18%) MLflow
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.18%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.12%) Babel
General
1 791 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 518 (30.35%) Finance
3 175 (10.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 163 (9.55%) Marketing
5 139 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 132 (7.73%) Retail
7 131 (7.67%) Legal
8 129 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
9 112 (6.56%) Law
10 81 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
11 66 (3.87%) Banking
12 57 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (2.52%) Manufacturing
14 37 (2.17%) Advertising
14 37 (2.17%) Telecoms
15 30 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
16 25 (1.46%) Automotive
17 22 (1.29%) Games
18 21 (1.23%) Publishing
19 19 (1.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 451 (26.42%) Analyst
2 234 (13.71%) Senior
3 120 (7.03%) Lead
4 102 (5.98%) Business Analyst
5 96 (5.62%) Data Analyst
6 90 (5.27%) Architect
7 84 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
8 72 (4.22%) Developer
9 66 (3.87%) Consultant
10 64 (3.75%) Data Engineer
11 53 (3.10%) Support Analyst
12 48 (2.81%) Marketing Manager
13 47 (2.75%) Service Manager
14 45 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.64%) Report Analyst
15 42 (2.46%) Applications Support
16 41 (2.40%) Accountant
16 41 (2.40%) Financial Analyst
17 35 (2.05%) Security Analyst
17 35 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (2.81%) .NET
2 45 (2.64%) HTML
3 38 (2.23%) CSS
4 34 (1.99%) JSON
5 32 (1.87%) REST
6 26 (1.52%) XML
7 22 (1.29%) React
8 21 (1.23%) Middleware
9 20 (1.17%) PyTorch
10 19 (1.11%) PySpark
10 19 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 17 (1.00%) RESTful
12 11 (0.64%) Kafka
13 10 (0.59%) ASP.NET
13 10 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (0.59%) Node.js
14 8 (0.47%) LDAP
14 8 (0.47%) Pandas
14 8 (0.47%) React Native
14 8 (0.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 144 (8.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 101 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
3 95 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 94 (5.51%) Management Information System
5 76 (4.45%) Virtual Team
6 66 (3.87%) Onboarding
7 57 (3.34%) Blog
8 39 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (2.11%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 34 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 34 (1.99%) Security Posture
11 30 (1.76%) Driving Licence
11 30 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
12 29 (1.70%) Credit Risk
13 27 (1.58%) Social Media
14 23 (1.35%) Public Cloud
15 21 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
16 20 (1.17%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.69%) Windows
2 58 (3.40%) Linux
3 32 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.64%) Android
4 11 (0.64%) Unix
5 7 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.29%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.059%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.059%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.059%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (47.28%) Problem-Solving
2 489 (28.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 453 (26.54%) Decision-Making
4 376 (22.03%) Analytics
5 345 (20.21%) Agile
6 320 (18.75%) AI
7 267 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 238 (13.94%) Business Intelligence
9 218 (12.77%) Roadmaps
10 212 (12.42%) Project Management
11 200 (11.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 194 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
13 180 (10.54%) Process Improvement
14 174 (10.19%) Mentoring
15 161 (9.43%) Analytical Thinking
16 152 (8.90%) Data Modelling
17 149 (8.73%) Validation
18 145 (8.49%) CRM
19 144 (8.44%) Project Delivery
20 138 (8.08%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 360 (21.09%) SQL
2 287 (16.81%) Python
3 72 (4.22%) JavaScript
4 65 (3.81%) C#
5 54 (3.16%) PowerShell
6 49 (2.87%) Java
7 33 (1.93%) T-SQL
8 24 (1.41%) R
9 20 (1.17%) C++
10 16 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (0.94%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.76%) Bash
12 12 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.53%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.47%) Go
15 7 (0.41%) C
15 7 (0.41%) PHP
16 6 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.35%) Scala
16 6 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 321 (18.80%) Degree
2 179 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 136 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 108 (6.33%) ACCA
5 103 (6.03%) CIMA
6 54 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.28%) CISSP
8 38 (2.23%) DBS Check
9 36 (2.11%) CISM
10 24 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.17%) AAT
11 20 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 123 (7.21%) GDPR
3 91 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 88 (5.16%) QA
5 65 (3.81%) SLA
6 58 (3.40%) Accessibility
7 53 (3.10%) NIST
8 40 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 31 (1.82%) ISO 9001
10 28 (1.64%) PMO
11 26 (1.52%) GRC
12 22 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 21 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (1.11%) IFRS
14 19 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 18 (1.05%) ISO 14001
16 14 (0.82%) COREP
16 14 (0.82%) FINREP
17 13 (0.76%) PCI DSS
17 13 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.05%) Docker
3 10 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.059%) KVM
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (2.46%) Terraform
2 24 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.94%) Ansible
5 10 (0.59%) Grafana
6 8 (0.47%) QRadar
7 6 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.35%) Packer
8 4 (0.23%) Nmap
9 2 (0.12%) Graylog
9 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.059%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.059%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.059%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.059%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 300 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.39%) Google
3 67 (3.93%) SAP
4 62 (3.63%) Oracle
5 54 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 31 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.29%) Cisco
8 20 (1.17%) Adobe
8 20 (1.17%) Databricks
9 17 (1.00%) Sage
10 15 (0.88%) Palo Alto
11 14 (0.82%) JD Edwards
11 14 (0.82%) Splunk
12 13 (0.76%) HubSpot
13 12 (0.70%) F5
13 12 (0.70%) Qualys
13 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 11 (0.64%) VMware
15 9 (0.53%) Pardot