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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,895 2,290 2,873
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.21% 13.80% 11.60%
As % of the General category 13.65% 19.32% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,222 981 1,307
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 13,878 11,850 15,163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.14% 71.39% 61.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8,743 6,597 9,842
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £43,149
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,594 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -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 24 August 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 49 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.95%) Confluence
4 13 (0.69%) Apache
5 12 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.63%) IIS
6 8 (0.42%) SAS
7 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.26%) WordPress
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.053%) Appian
12 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.053%) Drupal
12 1 (0.053%) Moodle
Applications
1 181 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.53%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.16%) Blender
9 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.16%) Maya
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.053%) SPSS
10 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.64%) Dynamics GP
3 23 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.74%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.69%) Shopify
6 10 (0.53%) SAP ERP
7 8 (0.42%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.42%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.37%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.32%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 6 (0.32%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.26%) JDE World
11 4 (0.21%) Academy Housing
11 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.21%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.21%) JDE OneWorld
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 264 (13.93%) Azure
2 252 (13.30%) Power Platform
3 153 (8.07%) AWS
4 124 (6.54%) SaaS
5 77 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (3.96%) GCP
7 66 (3.48%) Google Analytics
8 41 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 34 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (1.79%) GitHub
11 27 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 25 (1.32%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.32%) Snowflake
13 23 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.11%) Power Automate
15 18 (0.95%) dbt
16 17 (0.90%) Google Ads
16 17 (0.90%) Serverless
17 16 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.59%) Broadband
2 35 (1.85%) Firewall
3 20 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.95%) Network Security
4 18 (0.95%) VPN
5 15 (0.79%) SMS
6 14 (0.74%) DNS
6 14 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.69%) WAN
8 11 (0.58%) DHCP
8 11 (0.58%) LAN
9 7 (0.37%) 5G
10 6 (0.32%) Wireless
11 5 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.26%) HTTP
11 5 (0.26%) Internet
11 5 (0.26%) VLAN
12 4 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.21%) NGN
12 4 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (11.40%) Power BI
2 80 (4.22%) SQL Server
3 70 (3.69%) Tableau
4 56 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (2.11%) Metadata
5 40 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 35 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 32 (1.69%) Looker
9 31 (1.64%) MySQL
10 21 (1.11%) Big Data
11 20 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 19 (1.00%) NoSQL
12 19 (1.00%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (0.69%) Power Query
16 11 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.58%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 65 (3.43%) JIRA
2 62 (3.27%) Git
3 13 (0.69%) GitLab
4 9 (0.47%) Axure RP
4 9 (0.47%) Balsamiq
4 9 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.47%) LabVIEW
4 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.21%) Postman
6 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.16%) JMeter
7 3 (0.16%) MLflow
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.11%) RStudio
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 893 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 593 (31.29%) Finance
3 226 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 187 (9.87%) Marketing
5 177 (9.34%) Organisational Skills
6 159 (8.39%) Public Sector
7 158 (8.34%) Law
8 156 (8.23%) Retail
9 145 (7.65%) Legal
10 107 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
11 77 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
12 68 (3.59%) Banking
13 52 (2.74%) Manufacturing
14 42 (2.22%) Advertising
15 40 (2.11%) Telecoms
16 33 (1.74%) Games
17 27 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (1.32%) Electronics
19 24 (1.27%) Local Government
20 22 (1.16%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 503 (26.54%) Analyst
2 268 (14.14%) Senior
3 134 (7.07%) Lead
4 115 (6.07%) Business Analyst
5 113 (5.96%) Senior Analyst
6 98 (5.17%) Data Analyst
7 93 (4.91%) Architect
8 88 (4.64%) Developer
9 70 (3.69%) Data Engineer
10 69 (3.64%) Support Analyst
11 60 (3.17%) Consultant
12 49 (2.59%) Service Manager
13 46 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.37%) Marketing Manager
15 44 (2.32%) Applications Support
16 42 (2.22%) Senior Manager
17 40 (2.11%) Accountant
18 39 (2.06%) Financial Analyst
19 38 (2.01%) Report Analyst
20 37 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.96%) .NET
2 55 (2.90%) HTML
3 49 (2.59%) CSS
4 45 (2.37%) Terraform
5 33 (1.74%) REST
6 28 (1.48%) JSON
7 23 (1.21%) React
8 22 (1.16%) PySpark
9 21 (1.11%) RESTful
9 21 (1.11%) XML
10 20 (1.06%) Middleware
11 17 (0.90%) .NET Core
11 17 (0.90%) PyTorch
12 15 (0.79%) AngularJS
12 15 (0.79%) TensorFlow
13 14 (0.74%) .NET Framework
14 13 (0.69%) ASP.NET
15 12 (0.63%) Entity Framework
16 11 (0.58%) LDAP
16 11 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 143 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 123 (6.49%) Management Information System
3 119 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
4 108 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 85 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 77 (4.06%) Virtual Team
7 69 (3.64%) Blog
8 45 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (2.16%) Credit Risk
10 37 (1.95%) Social Media
11 35 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
11 35 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 31 (1.64%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.64%) Driving Licence
13 28 (1.48%) Algorithms
13 28 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
14 26 (1.37%) Mobile App
15 24 (1.27%) Data Structures
16 20 (1.06%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.06%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 88 (4.64%) Windows
2 58 (3.06%) Linux
3 38 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.58%) Android
5 9 (0.47%) Unix
6 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.26%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.053%) AIX
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
9 1 (0.053%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (47.86%) Problem-Solving
2 573 (30.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 504 (26.60%) Decision-Making
4 441 (23.27%) Analytics
5 393 (20.74%) Agile
6 376 (19.84%) AI
7 354 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 248 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
9 239 (12.61%) Roadmaps
10 237 (12.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 235 (12.40%) Project Management
12 219 (11.56%) Actionable Insight
13 195 (10.29%) Process Improvement
14 190 (10.03%) Project Delivery
15 182 (9.60%) Mentoring
16 167 (8.81%) Analytical Thinking
17 166 (8.76%) CRM
18 161 (8.50%) Data Analysis
19 160 (8.44%) Risk Management
20 156 (8.23%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 406 (21.42%) SQL
2 300 (15.83%) Python
3 77 (4.06%) C#
4 76 (4.01%) JavaScript
5 55 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 45 (2.37%) Java
7 31 (1.64%) T-SQL
8 23 (1.21%) R
9 22 (1.16%) C++
10 19 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.69%) Bash
12 13 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.53%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.47%) C
15 8 (0.42%) PHP
15 8 (0.42%) Scala
16 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.26%) Go
18 4 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 351 (18.52%) Degree
2 221 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 167 (8.81%) SC Cleared
4 101 (5.33%) ACCA
5 96 (5.07%) CIMA
6 55 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 42 (2.22%) CISSP
9 36 (1.90%) CISM
10 32 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 25 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (0.79%) AAT
17 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 122 (6.44%) GDPR
3 94 (4.96%) QA
4 90 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (3.85%) Accessibility
6 60 (3.17%) SLA
7 55 (2.90%) NIST
8 42 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (1.58%) PMO
10 29 (1.53%) ISO 9001
11 26 (1.37%) GRC
12 23 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 22 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 19 (1.00%) IFRS
16 18 (0.95%) ISO 14001
17 14 (0.74%) GAAP
18 13 (0.69%) COREP
18 13 (0.69%) FINREP
18 13 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.11%) Docker
3 11 (0.58%) Firmware
4 9 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.95%) Ansible
4 12 (0.63%) Grafana
5 8 (0.42%) QRadar
6 6 (0.32%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.32%) Packer
7 4 (0.21%) Nmap
7 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.11%) Graylog
9 1 (0.053%) CASB
9 1 (0.053%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.053%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.053%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.053%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 360 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.65%) Google
3 71 (3.75%) SAP
4 63 (3.32%) Oracle
5 47 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.58%) Adobe
8 26 (1.37%) Cisco
9 23 (1.21%) Databricks
10 21 (1.11%) Sage
11 19 (1.00%) YouTube
12 17 (0.90%) HubSpot
13 16 (0.84%) Splunk
14 15 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.79%) VMware
15 13 (0.69%) JD Edwards
16 12 (0.63%) Apple
16 12 (0.63%) Qualys
17 11 (0.58%) Dynatrace
18 10 (0.53%) FIS