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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,449 1,472 2,732
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.42% 11.46% 8.68%
As % of the General category 14.78% 15.97% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 886 934 1,889
10th Percentile £35,625 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,956 £41,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,200 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.27% +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 9,806 9,220 19,419
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.96% 71.77% 61.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,543 6,385 15,031
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,471 £44,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +7.02% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 8 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 27 (1.86%) Confluence
2 25 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.83%) CMS
5 10 (0.69%) WordPress
6 9 (0.62%) Apache
6 9 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.55%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.35%) SAS
9 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.069%) IIS
12 1 (0.069%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.069%) Umbraco
Applications
1 196 (13.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.59%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.97%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.069%) Notion
9 1 (0.069%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 32 (2.21%) NetSuite
2 26 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.41%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.28%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.21%) SAP FSCM
10 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.14%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.069%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 289 (19.94%) Azure
2 228 (15.73%) Power Platform
3 129 (8.90%) AWS
4 111 (7.66%) SaaS
5 82 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (4.76%) GitHub
7 66 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
8 58 (4.00%) GCP
9 52 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 46 (3.17%) Google Analytics
11 45 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (2.21%) Snowflake
14 24 (1.66%) Entra ID
15 23 (1.59%) dbt
15 23 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.52%) Power Automate
17 19 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
18 18 (1.24%) GitHub Copilot
18 18 (1.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.83%) Firewall
2 40 (2.76%) Broadband
3 26 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (1.45%) Wireshark
5 16 (1.10%) NGFW
5 16 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
6 15 (1.04%) VXLAN
7 12 (0.83%) Network Security
8 10 (0.69%) WAN
9 8 (0.55%) DNS
9 8 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (0.55%) Telnet
10 7 (0.48%) DHCP
11 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.41%) VPN
12 4 (0.28%) DSL
12 4 (0.28%) HTTP
12 4 (0.28%) LAN
12 4 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (14.08%) Power BI
2 91 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 62 (4.28%) Tableau
4 44 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (2.21%) Metadata
8 29 (2.00%) MySQL
9 20 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.17%) Relational Database
12 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (1.04%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.04%) Power Query
14 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
16 11 (0.76%) NoSQL
17 9 (0.62%) Big Data
17 9 (0.62%) Data Mining
18 8 (0.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 70 (4.83%) JIRA
2 36 (2.48%) Git
3 19 (1.31%) GitLab
4 14 (0.97%) Axure RP
4 14 (0.97%) Balsamiq
5 13 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 13 (0.90%) Subversion
6 9 (0.62%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.41%) Babel
7 6 (0.41%) webpack
8 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.28%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.28%) ERwin
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.28%) Selenium
8 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.21%) Maven
9 3 (0.21%) MLflow
9 3 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 743 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 524 (36.16%) Finance
3 141 (9.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 137 (9.45%) Marketing
6 97 (6.69%) Retail
7 90 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
8 89 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
9 84 (5.80%) Law
10 63 (4.35%) Legal
11 47 (3.24%) Banking
12 45 (3.11%) Manufacturing
13 40 (2.76%) Telecoms
14 39 (2.69%) Advertising
15 33 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (2.07%) Automotive
17 25 (1.73%) Publishing
18 22 (1.52%) Back Office
19 21 (1.45%) Billing
19 21 (1.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 360 (24.84%) Analyst
2 168 (11.59%) Senior
3 101 (6.97%) Developer
4 99 (6.83%) Lead
5 89 (6.14%) Business Analyst
6 77 (5.31%) Architect
7 60 (4.14%) Data Analyst
8 52 (3.59%) Financial Analyst
9 48 (3.31%) Consultant
10 47 (3.24%) Support Analyst
11 45 (3.11%) Data Engineer
12 44 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
13 42 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.83%) Report Analyst
15 34 (2.35%) Senior Manager
16 31 (2.14%) Alliance Manager
17 30 (2.07%) Product Manager
18 26 (1.79%) Accountant
19 23 (1.59%) Commercial Analyst
19 23 (1.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (4.21%) HTML
2 56 (3.86%) CSS
3 45 (3.11%) .NET
4 40 (2.76%) React
5 30 (2.07%) JSON
6 24 (1.66%) XML
7 23 (1.59%) REST
8 18 (1.24%) Middleware
8 18 (1.24%) TensorFlow
9 16 (1.10%) Bootstrap
9 16 (1.10%) React Native
10 15 (1.04%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.97%) Flash
11 14 (0.97%) Node.js
12 13 (0.90%) Sass
13 12 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (0.83%) SOAP
14 8 (0.55%) CSS3
14 8 (0.55%) HTML5
14 8 (0.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 113 (7.80%) Self-Motivation
3 98 (6.76%) Product Ownership
4 69 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 41 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.62%) Algorithms
7 38 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 35 (2.42%) Virtual Team
9 29 (2.00%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.00%) Driving Licence
9 29 (2.00%) Social Media
10 27 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.86%) Low-Code
11 26 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 24 (1.66%) FMCG
13 22 (1.52%) PKI
14 21 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.76%) Windows
2 49 (3.38%) Linux
3 22 (1.52%) Unix
3 22 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.21%) OpenWrt
5 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Android
7 1 (0.069%) AIX
7 1 (0.069%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.069%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.069%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (45.41%) Problem-Solving
2 372 (25.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 349 (24.09%) Decision-Making
4 307 (21.19%) Analytics
5 293 (20.22%) Agile
6 277 (19.12%) AI
7 243 (16.77%) Business Intelligence
8 167 (11.53%) DevOps
9 165 (11.39%) Mentoring
10 159 (10.97%) Project Management
11 156 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
12 152 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 151 (10.42%) Data Modelling
14 150 (10.35%) Analytical Thinking
15 139 (9.59%) CI/CD
15 139 (9.59%) Process Improvement
16 137 (9.45%) ERP
17 136 (9.39%) Coaching
18 125 (8.63%) Data Analysis
19 114 (7.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 297 (20.50%) SQL
2 233 (16.08%) Python
3 82 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 71 (4.90%) C#
5 59 (4.07%) PowerShell
6 48 (3.31%) Java
7 33 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 24 (1.66%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.59%) C++
10 19 (1.31%) R
10 19 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.90%) Bash
12 12 (0.83%) C
13 11 (0.76%) Go
14 10 (0.69%) VBA
15 6 (0.41%) Ruby
16 5 (0.35%) PHP
16 5 (0.35%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 315 (21.74%) Degree
2 144 (9.94%) Security Cleared
3 138 (9.52%) ACCA
4 126 (8.70%) CIMA
5 106 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 54 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (2.97%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.86%) AAT
8 27 (1.86%) CISSP
8 27 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 26 (1.79%) PhD
10 25 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.59%) PMI Certification
12 20 (1.38%) CISM
13 17 (1.17%) PMP
14 16 (1.10%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.83%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.76%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (8.56%) Data Quality
2 82 (5.66%) QA
3 75 (5.18%) GDPR
4 52 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 32 (2.21%) NIST
7 29 (2.00%) PMO
8 25 (1.73%) SLA
9 24 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 20 (1.38%) WCAG
11 16 (1.10%) ISO 9001
12 15 (1.04%) GRC
13 11 (0.76%) IFRS
14 9 (0.62%) COREP
14 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.62%) FINREP
14 9 (0.62%) GAAP
14 9 (0.62%) ISO 14001
14 9 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.90%) Docker
3 12 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.069%) Firmware
7 1 (0.069%) KVM
7 1 (0.069%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (3.52%) Terraform
2 30 (2.07%) Ansible
3 19 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.69%) Grafana
5 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.35%) QRadar
8 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 4 (0.28%) Packer
9 3 (0.21%) SCCM
10 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.069%) CASB
11 1 (0.069%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.069%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.069%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 267 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.11%) Google
3 59 (4.07%) Oracle
4 58 (4.00%) SAP
5 50 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 23 (1.59%) Databricks
6 23 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 21 (1.45%) PayPal
8 20 (1.38%) Adobe
9 15 (1.04%) Arista
9 15 (1.04%) Aruba
9 15 (1.04%) NetScout
9 15 (1.04%) Xero
10 14 (0.97%) Cisco
11 13 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.83%) VMware
13 11 (0.76%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.69%) F5
14 10 (0.69%) Splunk
14 10 (0.69%) Workday