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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,705 1,744 2,358
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.41% 11.37% 8.49%
As % of the General category 17.63% 16.19% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 810 912 1,746
10th Percentile £30,242 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,799 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,813 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,125 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% +4.76% -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 9,673 10,774 17,218
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.05% 70.27% 61.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,123 6,226 13,756
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,799 £32,343
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,056
UK median annual salary £52,501 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -9.84%

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 22 February 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 35 (2.05%) Confluence
2 23 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.76%) CMS
5 9 (0.53%) WordPress
6 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.35%) Apache
8 5 (0.29%) SAS
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.059%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.059%) IIS
11 1 (0.059%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.059%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.059%) Umbraco
Applications
1 336 (19.71%) Chatbot
2 197 (11.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 89 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.70%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.059%) Notion
9 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.059%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.70%) NetSuite
2 19 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.23%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.18%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.18%) Shopify
9 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 284 (16.66%) Azure
2 223 (13.08%) Power Platform
3 114 (6.69%) AWS
4 100 (5.87%) SaaS
5 89 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
6 66 (3.87%) GitHub
7 49 (2.87%) GCP
8 48 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 40 (2.35%) Google Analytics
10 40 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 28 (1.64%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.58%) dbt
14 24 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
15 20 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.17%) OCI
16 18 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.52%) Firewall
2 31 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
3 28 (1.64%) Broadband
3 28 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (1.35%) Wireshark
5 16 (0.94%) NGFW
6 15 (0.88%) VXLAN
7 14 (0.82%) DNS
7 14 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.70%) Network Security
8 12 (0.70%) VPN
8 12 (0.70%) WAN
9 8 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (0.47%) Telnet
10 7 (0.41%) DHCP
11 6 (0.35%) Internet
11 6 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.23%) 5G
12 4 (0.23%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (11.67%) Power BI
2 75 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 71 (4.16%) Tableau
4 62 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 37 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (1.82%) Metadata
8 29 (1.70%) MySQL
9 18 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 13 (0.76%) Power Query
12 12 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.59%) Relational Database
15 9 (0.53%) Data Mining
16 8 (0.47%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.47%) NoSQL
17 7 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 84 (4.93%) JIRA
2 29 (1.70%) Git
3 19 (1.11%) GitLab
4 13 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.76%) Subversion
5 12 (0.70%) Axure RP
5 12 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 10 (0.59%) ER Studio
6 10 (0.59%) ERwin
7 8 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.41%) Selenium
9 6 (0.35%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.29%) Babel
10 5 (0.29%) Postman
10 5 (0.29%) webpack
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.18%) Maven
12 3 (0.18%) MLflow
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 760 (44.57%) Social Skills
2 525 (30.79%) Finance
3 141 (8.27%) Public Sector
4 138 (8.09%) Marketing
5 137 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 124 (7.27%) Retail
7 88 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
8 85 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
9 81 (4.75%) Law
9 81 (4.75%) Legal
10 42 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 40 (2.35%) Advertising
12 38 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 31 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.58%) Automotive
14 27 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (1.52%) Banking
16 23 (1.35%) Back Office
17 22 (1.29%) Aerospace
18 18 (1.06%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 355 (20.82%) Analyst
2 333 (19.53%) Trainer
3 152 (8.91%) Senior
4 111 (6.51%) Developer
5 85 (4.99%) Lead
6 84 (4.93%) Business Analyst
7 77 (4.52%) Architect
8 65 (3.81%) Data Analyst
9 53 (3.11%) Support Analyst
10 52 (3.05%) Consultant
11 47 (2.76%) Financial Analyst
12 38 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.11%) IT Analyst
14 35 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (1.94%) Report Analyst
16 32 (1.88%) 2nd Line Support
17 31 (1.82%) Alliance Manager
18 28 (1.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
18 28 (1.64%) IT Support
19 26 (1.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.28%) HTML
2 49 (2.87%) CSS
3 39 (2.29%) React
4 34 (1.99%) .NET
5 22 (1.29%) JSON
6 21 (1.23%) REST
7 19 (1.11%) Middleware
7 19 (1.11%) XML
8 16 (0.94%) Flash
8 16 (0.94%) TensorFlow
9 14 (0.82%) Bootstrap
9 14 (0.82%) React Native
9 14 (0.82%) SOAP
10 13 (0.76%) Node.js
10 13 (0.76%) PyTorch
11 12 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (0.70%) Sass
12 8 (0.47%) OAuth
12 8 (0.47%) ZeroMQ
13 7 (0.41%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.21%) Analytical Mindset
2 124 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
3 99 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 90 (5.28%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 39 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 37 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 32 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 30 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 27 (1.58%) Low-Code
13 26 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.47%) PKI
14 25 (1.47%) Social Media
15 24 (1.41%) FMCG
16 20 (1.17%) Driving Licence
16 20 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 20 (1.17%) Security Posture
17 14 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.64%) Windows
2 47 (2.76%) Linux
3 18 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.00%) Unix
5 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.059%) AIX
7 1 (0.059%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.059%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.059%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.059%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (37.30%) Problem-Solving
2 582 (34.13%) AI
3 372 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 336 (19.71%) Chemistry
4 336 (19.71%) Conversational UI
5 312 (18.30%) Decision-Making
6 294 (17.24%) Analytics
7 293 (17.18%) Agile
8 231 (13.55%) Business Intelligence
9 173 (10.15%) Mentoring
10 167 (9.79%) DevOps
11 161 (9.44%) Project Management
12 159 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 156 (9.15%) Analytical Thinking
14 146 (8.56%) Data Analysis
15 144 (8.45%) Actionable Insight
16 141 (8.27%) ERP
17 140 (8.21%) Data Modelling
18 134 (7.86%) Coaching
19 128 (7.51%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 302 (17.71%) SQL
2 221 (12.96%) Python
3 78 (4.57%) C#
4 72 (4.22%) JavaScript
5 59 (3.46%) PowerShell
6 41 (2.40%) Java
7 30 (1.76%) C++
7 30 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 22 (1.29%) R
9 20 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.06%) C
11 15 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 14 (0.82%) Bash
13 10 (0.59%) Go
14 9 (0.53%) VBA
15 8 (0.47%) Bicep
16 5 (0.29%) PHP
17 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.18%) Ruby
18 3 (0.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 633 (37.13%) Degree
2 356 (20.88%) Master's Degree
3 337 (19.77%) PhD
4 143 (8.39%) Security Cleared
5 112 (6.57%) SC Cleared
6 108 (6.33%) ACCA
7 99 (5.81%) CIMA
8 57 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.88%) CISSP
10 27 (1.58%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.52%) AAT
12 24 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.35%) CISM
13 23 (1.35%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.06%) Azure Certification
14 18 (1.06%) CISA
14 18 (1.06%) PMP
15 13 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 90 (5.28%) QA
3 53 (3.11%) GDPR
4 52 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.64%) Accessibility
6 36 (2.11%) PMO
7 34 (1.99%) NIST
8 21 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 18 (1.06%) WCAG
10 16 (0.94%) GRC
11 13 (0.76%) SLA
12 11 (0.65%) IFRS
13 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.47%) NCSC
15 7 (0.41%) GAAP
16 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.29%) SOC 2
17 4 (0.23%) COBIT
17 4 (0.23%) ISO 14001
17 4 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.88%) Docker
2 15 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.12%) vSphere
7 1 (0.059%) Firmware
7 1 (0.059%) KVM
7 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (2.70%) Terraform
2 26 (1.52%) Ansible
3 16 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 9 (0.53%) Grafana
5 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
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 (0.18%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.18%) SCCM
10 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.059%) CASB
11 1 (0.059%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.059%) Nessus
11 1 (0.059%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 334 (19.59%) PayPal
2 267 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 60 (3.52%) Google
4 54 (3.17%) SAP
5 47 (2.76%) Oracle
6 45 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.11%) Adobe
8 19 (1.11%) Databricks
9 16 (0.94%) VMware
10 15 (0.88%) Arista
10 15 (0.88%) Aruba
10 15 (0.88%) NetScout
11 13 (0.76%) Xero
12 11 (0.65%) Workday
13 10 (0.59%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.59%) Autodesk
13 10 (0.59%) IBM
14 9 (0.53%) Splunk
15 8 (0.47%) Charles River