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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,090 2,293 2,921
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.60% 14.12% 12.52%
As % of the General category 14.11% 19.63% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 932 1,137
10th Percentile £35,722 £30,025 £35,852
25th Percentile £42,438 £39,000 £42,500
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 £88,148 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%

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 14,812 11,680 14,610
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.95% 71.90% 62.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9,119 6,362 8,449
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
% change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%

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 17 September 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 59 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.00%) Confluence
4 14 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.57%) IIS
6 11 (0.53%) Apache
7 10 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.38%) SAS
9 7 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.24%) CMS
10 5 (0.24%) WordPress
11 2 (0.096%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.048%) Appian
12 1 (0.048%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.048%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.048%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.048%) Hedera
12 1 (0.048%) Moodle
Applications
1 210 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.14%) Blender
10 3 (0.14%) Maya
10 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.096%) InDesign
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.048%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.048%) SPSS
12 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.53%) Dynamics GP
3 17 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.77%) Shopify
5 14 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.29%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 6 (0.29%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.24%) JDE World
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) Sage 50
10 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.19%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 273 (13.06%) Power Platform
2 268 (12.82%) Azure
3 171 (8.18%) AWS
4 126 (6.03%) SaaS
5 94 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (3.54%) GCP
7 70 (3.35%) Google Analytics
8 45 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 38 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
11 35 (1.67%) GitHub
11 35 (1.67%) Serverless
12 31 (1.48%) PowerApps
13 29 (1.39%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.29%) Google Ads
14 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
15 26 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (1.20%) Power Automate
17 22 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
17 22 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.01%) Broadband
2 32 (1.53%) Firewall
3 23 (1.10%) Network Security
4 20 (0.96%) 5G
4 20 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 19 (0.91%) VPN
6 17 (0.81%) DNS
7 14 (0.67%) DHCP
7 14 (0.67%) SMS
7 14 (0.67%) WAN
7 14 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (0.57%) LAN
9 10 (0.48%) Internet
10 7 (0.33%) VLAN
11 6 (0.29%) Wireless
12 5 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.24%) HTTP
13 4 (0.19%) FTP
13 4 (0.19%) NGN
13 4 (0.19%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (11.39%) Power BI
2 73 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 67 (3.21%) Tableau
4 60 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (2.11%) Metadata
6 38 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 34 (1.63%) Looker
7 34 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.39%) MySQL
10 26 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
12 22 (1.05%) Big Data
13 19 (0.91%) Power Query
14 16 (0.77%) NoSQL
14 16 (0.77%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 15 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.67%) Spark SQL
17 12 (0.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 73 (3.49%) Git
2 71 (3.40%) JIRA
3 12 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.53%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) LabVIEW
6 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.29%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.29%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.24%) MLflow
10 4 (0.19%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.19%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.19%) Postman
10 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.14%) JMeter
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.14%) RStudio
11 3 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 1,029 (49.23%) Social Skills
2 710 (33.97%) Finance
3 246 (11.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 217 (10.38%) Marketing
5 211 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
6 183 (8.76%) Law
7 181 (8.66%) Retail
8 178 (8.52%) Legal
9 177 (8.47%) Public Sector
10 128 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
11 83 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (3.11%) Banking
13 61 (2.92%) Manufacturing
14 52 (2.49%) Telecoms
15 44 (2.11%) Advertising
16 34 (1.63%) Games
17 30 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (1.39%) Billing
18 29 (1.39%) Electronics
19 27 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 535 (25.60%) Analyst
2 289 (13.83%) Senior
3 144 (6.89%) Lead
4 121 (5.79%) Business Analyst
5 114 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
6 107 (5.12%) Data Analyst
7 93 (4.45%) Developer
8 91 (4.35%) Architect
9 86 (4.11%) Data Engineer
10 77 (3.68%) Consultant
10 77 (3.68%) Support Analyst
11 56 (2.68%) Applications Support
11 56 (2.68%) Service Manager
12 55 (2.63%) Accountant
13 49 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.15%) Senior Manager
15 44 (2.11%) Marketing Manager
16 40 (1.91%) Senior Business Analyst
17 39 (1.87%) Security Analyst
18 38 (1.82%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.01%) .NET
2 51 (2.44%) HTML
3 43 (2.06%) CSS
3 43 (2.06%) PySpark
4 41 (1.96%) Terraform
5 31 (1.48%) JSON
5 31 (1.48%) REST
6 25 (1.20%) XML
7 23 (1.10%) React
8 22 (1.05%) RESTful
9 19 (0.91%) Middleware
10 16 (0.77%) PyTorch
11 15 (0.72%) .NET Core
11 15 (0.72%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.67%) TensorFlow
12 14 (0.67%) Web Services
13 13 (0.62%) Pandas
14 12 (0.57%) .NET Framework
14 12 (0.57%) ASP.NET
14 12 (0.57%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 167 (7.99%) Management Information System
2 141 (6.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 124 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
4 102 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 94 (4.50%) Onboarding
6 77 (3.68%) Virtual Team
7 68 (3.25%) Blog
8 49 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 45 (2.15%) Credit Risk
10 38 (1.82%) Driving Licence
11 37 (1.77%) Cloud Native
12 36 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
13 34 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
13 34 (1.63%) Security Posture
14 33 (1.58%) Social Media
15 28 (1.34%) AI Agents
16 26 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.24%) Mobile App
17 25 (1.20%) Algorithms
18 20 (0.96%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 95 (4.55%) Windows
2 56 (2.68%) Linux
3 39 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.57%) Android
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.24%) OpenVMS
9 5 (0.24%) Unix
10 2 (0.096%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.048%) AIX
11 1 (0.048%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (47.51%) Problem-Solving
2 656 (31.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 577 (27.61%) Decision-Making
4 492 (23.54%) Analytics
5 454 (21.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 426 (20.38%) AI
7 406 (19.43%) Agile
8 282 (13.49%) Business Intelligence
9 259 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 255 (12.20%) Roadmaps
11 243 (11.63%) Project Management
12 241 (11.53%) Actionable Insight
13 239 (11.44%) Process Improvement
14 220 (10.53%) Mentoring
15 204 (9.76%) Project Delivery
16 190 (9.09%) CRM
17 185 (8.85%) Coaching
18 182 (8.71%) Data Analysis
19 178 (8.52%) Validation
20 171 (8.18%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 444 (21.24%) SQL
2 306 (14.64%) Python
3 88 (4.21%) C#
3 88 (4.21%) JavaScript
4 60 (2.87%) Java
5 58 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 33 (1.58%) C++
7 30 (1.44%) T-SQL
8 23 (1.10%) R
9 21 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (0.91%) TypeScript
11 18 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.81%) Bash
13 10 (0.48%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.43%) C
15 8 (0.38%) Go
15 8 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.38%) Scala
16 7 (0.33%) PHP
17 5 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 375 (17.94%) Degree
2 237 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 183 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 115 (5.50%) ACCA
5 110 (5.26%) CIMA
6 59 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.73%) DBS Check
8 47 (2.25%) CISSP
9 41 (1.96%) CISM
10 35 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 28 (1.34%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (0.77%) AAT
17 15 (0.72%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.72%) CRISC
18 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 121 (5.79%) GDPR
3 100 (4.78%) Accessibility
4 91 (4.35%) QA
5 88 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (2.82%) SLA
7 57 (2.73%) NIST
8 40 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (1.44%) PMO
10 27 (1.29%) GRC
11 25 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 23 (1.10%) IFRS
13 22 (1.05%) ISO 9001
14 21 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.72%) GAAP
16 15 (0.72%) ISO 14001
17 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
17 14 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.15%) Docker
3 11 (0.53%) Firmware
4 9 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.048%) HDFS
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (1.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.81%) Ansible
4 12 (0.57%) Grafana
5 8 (0.38%) QRadar
6 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.19%) Nmap
7 4 (0.19%) Packer
8 2 (0.096%) CASB
8 2 (0.096%) Graylog
9 1 (0.048%) Control-M
9 1 (0.048%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.048%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.048%) Kibana
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.048%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.048%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 422 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.79%) Google
3 73 (3.49%) SAP
4 61 (2.92%) Oracle
5 52 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.06%) YouTube
7 31 (1.48%) Adobe
7 31 (1.48%) Sage
8 26 (1.24%) Cisco
9 24 (1.15%) HubSpot
10 23 (1.10%) Databricks
11 19 (0.91%) Splunk
12 15 (0.72%) VMware
12 15 (0.72%) Yardi
13 12 (0.57%) Apple
14 11 (0.53%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.53%) Qualys
15 10 (0.48%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud