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

6 months to
24 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 2,143 2,313 2,868
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.70% 14.14% 12.50%
As % of the General category 14.18% 19.75% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,308 919 1,119
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £34,950
25th Percentile £41,924 £39,000 £41,254
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 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,793
% change year-on-year - -4.18% -0.38%

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 15,115 11,714 14,385
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.35% 71.62% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,233 6,321 8,191
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,700 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.42% -5.79% -5.00%

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 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 57 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.07%) Confluence
3 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.56%) IIS
6 11 (0.51%) Apache
7 10 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.37%) SAS
9 7 (0.33%) CMS
9 7 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.23%) WordPress
11 2 (0.093%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.093%) Hedera
11 2 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.047%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.047%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.047%) Appian
12 1 (0.047%) Drupal
12 1 (0.047%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 225 (10.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.14%) Blender
10 3 (0.14%) InDesign
10 3 (0.14%) Maya
11 2 (0.093%) SPSS
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 51 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.49%) Dynamics GP
3 16 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.75%) Shopify
4 14 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.33%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.28%) Exchequer
7 6 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.28%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.23%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.23%) JDE World
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.23%) Sage 50
9 4 (0.19%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 278 (12.97%) Power Platform
2 264 (12.32%) Azure
3 174 (8.12%) AWS
4 128 (5.97%) SaaS
5 95 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (3.59%) GCP
7 70 (3.27%) Google Analytics
8 45 (2.10%) Entra ID
9 39 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (1.68%) GitHub
12 35 (1.63%) Serverless
13 31 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 29 (1.35%) Google Ads
15 28 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
17 25 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
18 24 (1.12%) Google Tag Manager
18 24 (1.12%) Power Automate
18 24 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.91%) Broadband
2 32 (1.49%) Firewall
3 24 (1.12%) Network Security
4 20 (0.93%) 5G
4 20 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 19 (0.89%) VPN
6 18 (0.84%) DNS
7 15 (0.70%) DHCP
7 15 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.65%) SMS
8 14 (0.65%) WAN
9 12 (0.56%) LAN
10 11 (0.51%) Internet
11 7 (0.33%) VLAN
11 7 (0.33%) Wireless
12 5 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.23%) HTTP
13 4 (0.19%) FTP
13 4 (0.19%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.19%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (11.34%) Power BI
2 71 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 68 (3.17%) Tableau
4 61 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (2.05%) Metadata
6 37 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.68%) Looker
8 35 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (1.35%) MySQL
11 25 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 24 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (1.07%) Big Data
14 19 (0.89%) Power Query
15 16 (0.75%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 15 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (0.70%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.65%) Spark SQL
18 13 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 78 (3.64%) Git
2 73 (3.41%) JIRA
3 13 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.51%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) LabVIEW
6 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.28%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.28%) Balsamiq
7 6 (0.28%) MLflow
8 4 (0.19%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.19%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.19%) Postman
8 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.14%) JMeter
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.14%) RStudio
General
1 1,074 (50.12%) Social Skills
2 738 (34.44%) Finance
3 249 (11.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 234 (10.92%) Marketing
5 231 (10.78%) Organisational Skills
6 188 (8.77%) Law
6 188 (8.77%) Retail
7 187 (8.73%) Public Sector
8 185 (8.63%) Legal
9 129 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
10 81 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (3.17%) Banking
12 65 (3.03%) Manufacturing
13 54 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 45 (2.10%) Advertising
15 34 (1.59%) Games
16 32 (1.49%) Billing
17 30 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
17 30 (1.40%) Electronics
18 29 (1.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 553 (25.80%) Analyst
2 293 (13.67%) Senior
3 144 (6.72%) Lead
4 120 (5.60%) Business Analyst
5 113 (5.27%) Data Analyst
5 113 (5.27%) Senior Analyst
6 99 (4.62%) Developer
7 93 (4.34%) Architect
8 84 (3.92%) Data Engineer
9 83 (3.87%) Consultant
10 79 (3.69%) Support Analyst
11 58 (2.71%) Applications Support
12 56 (2.61%) Service Manager
13 55 (2.57%) Accountant
14 52 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
15 46 (2.15%) Marketing Manager
15 46 (2.15%) Senior Manager
16 40 (1.87%) Financial Analyst
16 40 (1.87%) Security Analyst
17 39 (1.82%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.99%) .NET
2 51 (2.38%) HTML
3 43 (2.01%) CSS
3 43 (2.01%) PySpark
4 42 (1.96%) Terraform
5 33 (1.54%) REST
6 31 (1.45%) JSON
7 25 (1.17%) XML
8 23 (1.07%) React
8 23 (1.07%) RESTful
9 20 (0.93%) Middleware
10 16 (0.75%) .NET Core
11 15 (0.70%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.70%) PyTorch
12 14 (0.65%) Web Services
13 13 (0.61%) ASP.NET
13 13 (0.61%) Pandas
13 13 (0.61%) TensorFlow
14 12 (0.56%) .NET Framework
14 12 (0.56%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 178 (8.31%) Management Information System
2 140 (6.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 126 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 99 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 97 (4.53%) Onboarding
6 74 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 67 (3.13%) Blog
8 48 (2.24%) Credit Risk
8 48 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.77%) Driving Licence
10 37 (1.73%) Cloud Native
10 37 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
11 35 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
11 35 (1.63%) Social Media
12 34 (1.59%) Security Posture
13 28 (1.31%) AI Agents
14 27 (1.26%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.17%) Mobile App
16 24 (1.12%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.93%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.34%) Windows
2 58 (2.71%) Linux
3 38 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.56%) Android
5 11 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.23%) OpenVMS
10 5 (0.23%) Unix
11 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,008 (47.04%) Problem-Solving
2 679 (31.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 597 (27.86%) Decision-Making
4 507 (23.66%) Analytics
5 487 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 431 (20.11%) AI
7 406 (18.95%) Agile
8 289 (13.49%) Business Intelligence
9 260 (12.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 255 (11.90%) Roadmaps
11 250 (11.67%) Actionable Insight
12 248 (11.57%) Project Management
13 246 (11.48%) Process Improvement
14 227 (10.59%) Mentoring
15 207 (9.66%) Project Delivery
16 202 (9.43%) CRM
17 188 (8.77%) Coaching
18 187 (8.73%) Data Analysis
19 184 (8.59%) Validation
20 179 (8.35%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 456 (21.28%) SQL
2 316 (14.75%) Python
3 89 (4.15%) JavaScript
4 88 (4.11%) C#
5 62 (2.89%) Java
6 57 (2.66%) PowerShell
7 33 (1.54%) C++
8 31 (1.45%) T-SQL
9 28 (1.31%) R
10 21 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (0.89%) Bash
11 19 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 18 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.51%) Go
14 10 (0.47%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.42%) C
15 9 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.37%) Scala
17 6 (0.28%) PHP
18 5 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 378 (17.64%) Degree
2 236 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 180 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 116 (5.41%) ACCA
5 112 (5.23%) CIMA
6 59 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (2.71%) DBS Check
8 47 (2.19%) CISSP
9 41 (1.91%) CISM
10 35 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 27 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 25 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
14 17 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.75%) AAT
15 16 (0.75%) CRISC
16 15 (0.70%) GIAC
16 15 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (10.97%) Data Quality
2 120 (5.60%) GDPR
3 105 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 90 (4.20%) QA
5 87 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (2.71%) SLA
7 56 (2.61%) NIST
8 40 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 34 (1.59%) PMO
10 29 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 28 (1.31%) GRC
12 25 (1.17%) IFRS
13 22 (1.03%) ISO 9001
14 21 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.70%) GAAP
16 15 (0.70%) ISO 14001
17 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
17 14 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.21%) Docker
3 11 (0.51%) Firmware
4 9 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.047%) HDFS
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (0.75%) Ansible
4 14 (0.65%) Grafana
5 8 (0.37%) QRadar
6 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 4 (0.19%) Nmap
8 3 (0.14%) Packer
9 2 (0.093%) CASB
9 2 (0.093%) Graylog
9 2 (0.093%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.047%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.047%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.047%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.047%) Kibana
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.047%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.047%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 436 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 126 (5.88%) Google
3 72 (3.36%) SAP
4 62 (2.89%) Oracle
5 57 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.01%) YouTube
7 32 (1.49%) Adobe
8 30 (1.40%) Sage
9 27 (1.26%) HubSpot
10 25 (1.17%) Cisco
11 24 (1.12%) Databricks
12 20 (0.93%) Splunk
13 17 (0.79%) Yardi
14 15 (0.70%) VMware
15 12 (0.56%) Apple
15 12 (0.56%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.51%) Qualys
16 11 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 10 (0.47%) JD Edwards