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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,379 2,040 3,289
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.34% 13.51% 10.10%
As % of the General category 13.14% 18.11% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 892 904 1,887
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £89,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -8.90%

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 10,491 11,266 20,231
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.82% 74.62% 62.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,948 6,387 15,095
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,703 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 20 May 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 33 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.45%) Confluence
4 11 (0.80%) WordPress
5 10 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.65%) CMS
7 8 (0.58%) Apache
7 8 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.44%) SAS
9 4 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.073%) Appian
11 1 (0.073%) Drupal
11 1 (0.073%) IIS
11 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.073%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.073%) Moodle
11 1 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 140 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.80%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 30 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.38%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.73%) SAP ERP
4 8 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.29%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.29%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (0.29%) JDE World
5 4 (0.29%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.22%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 253 (18.35%) Azure
2 218 (15.81%) Power Platform
3 123 (8.92%) AWS
4 103 (7.47%) SaaS
5 57 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (3.77%) GCP
7 51 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 48 (3.48%) GitHub
8 48 (3.48%) Google Analytics
9 34 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 28 (2.03%) Entra ID
12 20 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.23%) dbt
15 17 (1.23%) OCI
16 16 (1.16%) Azure Machine Learning
16 16 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.92%) Broadband
2 44 (3.19%) Firewall
3 20 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (1.16%) NGFW
4 16 (1.16%) Wireshark
5 15 (1.09%) VXLAN
6 14 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.51%) 5G
8 7 (0.51%) WAN
9 6 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.44%) DNS
9 6 (0.44%) Network Security
9 6 (0.44%) SMS
9 6 (0.44%) Telnet
9 6 (0.44%) VPN
10 4 (0.29%) HTTP
10 4 (0.29%) Modbus
10 4 (0.29%) SMTP
10 4 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (13.34%) Power BI
2 65 (4.71%) Tableau
3 55 (3.99%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.76%) Metadata
5 30 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (1.52%) MySQL
8 17 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.94%) Power Query
12 11 (0.80%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.65%) Big Data
13 9 (0.65%) Looker
14 8 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.58%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.51%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 57 (4.13%) JIRA
2 39 (2.83%) Git
3 11 (0.80%) GitLab
4 10 (0.73%) Axure RP
4 10 (0.73%) Balsamiq
5 9 (0.65%) Subversion
6 7 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.29%) ERwin
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.22%) Babel
10 3 (0.22%) Maven
10 3 (0.22%) MLflow
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.22%) webpack
11 2 (0.15%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 620 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 466 (33.79%) Finance
3 152 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 130 (9.43%) Marketing
6 87 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
7 82 (5.95%) Law
8 79 (5.73%) Legal
9 78 (5.66%) Retail
10 52 (3.77%) Banking
11 48 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (2.47%) Manufacturing
13 32 (2.32%) Telecoms
14 30 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (2.03%) Advertising
15 28 (2.03%) Publishing
16 24 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (1.67%) Automotive
18 16 (1.16%) Back Office
18 16 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 341 (24.73%) Analyst
2 185 (13.42%) Senior
3 84 (6.09%) Business Analyst
4 83 (6.02%) Developer
4 83 (6.02%) Lead
5 74 (5.37%) Architect
6 67 (4.86%) Data Analyst
7 50 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
8 48 (3.48%) Consultant
9 44 (3.19%) Data Engineer
9 44 (3.19%) Senior Manager
10 41 (2.97%) Report Analyst
11 39 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
12 36 (2.61%) Product Manager
13 34 (2.47%) Accountant
14 31 (2.25%) Alliance Manager
15 29 (2.10%) Security Analyst
16 28 (2.03%) Applications Support
17 27 (1.96%) Data Scientist
18 26 (1.89%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.84%) HTML
2 47 (3.41%) CSS
3 43 (3.12%) .NET
4 34 (2.47%) JSON
5 32 (2.32%) React
6 25 (1.81%) REST
7 22 (1.60%) TensorFlow
7 22 (1.60%) XML
8 21 (1.52%) Middleware
8 21 (1.52%) PyTorch
9 17 (1.23%) React Native
10 14 (1.02%) Bootstrap
11 13 (0.94%) Node.js
11 13 (0.94%) RESTful
12 10 (0.73%) SOAP
13 9 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
14 7 (0.51%) Flutter
14 7 (0.51%) Kafka
14 7 (0.51%) OAuth
14 7 (0.51%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 95 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 46 (3.34%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 39 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.83%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.39%) Cloud Native
9 29 (2.10%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.96%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.81%) Low-Code
12 24 (1.74%) FMCG
12 24 (1.74%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
14 22 (1.60%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.60%) PKI
14 22 (1.60%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.60%) Social Media
15 19 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.42%) Windows
2 40 (2.90%) Linux
3 24 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.94%) Unix
5 3 (0.22%) Android
5 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.15%) AIX
6 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.073%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.073%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.073%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.073%) Solaris
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 610 (44.23%) Problem-Solving
2 305 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 304 (22.04%) Agile
3 304 (22.04%) Decision-Making
4 281 (20.38%) Analytics
5 255 (18.49%) AI
6 205 (14.87%) Business Intelligence
7 170 (12.33%) Mentoring
8 155 (11.24%) Project Management
9 150 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 149 (10.80%) Actionable Insight
11 142 (10.30%) Coaching
12 137 (9.93%) Roadmaps
13 133 (9.64%) Data Modelling
13 133 (9.64%) DevOps
14 130 (9.43%) Process Improvement
15 125 (9.06%) Analytical Thinking
16 123 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 121 (8.77%) CI/CD
18 117 (8.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 272 (19.72%) SQL
2 256 (18.56%) Python
3 76 (5.51%) JavaScript
4 63 (4.57%) PowerShell
5 54 (3.92%) C#
6 46 (3.34%) Java
7 24 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.16%) C++
9 15 (1.09%) R
9 15 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.65%) Bash
11 9 (0.65%) Go
12 8 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.44%) VBA
14 5 (0.36%) C
14 5 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.36%) PHP
14 5 (0.36%) Ruby
14 5 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 288 (20.88%) Degree
2 131 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.12%) ACCA
4 106 (7.69%) CIMA
5 96 (6.96%) SC Cleared
6 49 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.39%) DBS Check
8 26 (1.89%) CISSP
9 25 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.45%) CISM
11 19 (1.38%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.31%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.23%) AAT
13 17 (1.23%) DV Cleared
14 15 (1.09%) PMP
15 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.87%) HNC
17 11 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.73%) AWS Certification
19 9 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 91 (6.60%) GDPR
3 74 (5.37%) QA
4 54 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (3.26%) Accessibility
6 44 (3.19%) SLA
7 36 (2.61%) NIST
8 20 (1.45%) PMO
9 17 (1.23%) ISO 9001
10 16 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (1.09%) GRC
12 14 (1.02%) COREP
12 14 (1.02%) FINREP
12 14 (1.02%) WCAG
13 11 (0.80%) NCSC
14 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.73%) IFRS
14 10 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 9 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.58%) Docker
4 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.22%) Firmware
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.073%) KVM
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (3.34%) Terraform
2 27 (1.96%) Ansible
3 16 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.51%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.44%) Grafana
6 6 (0.44%) Packer
6 6 (0.44%) QRadar
7 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.22%) SCCM
9 2 (0.15%) Graylog
9 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.073%) CASB
10 1 (0.073%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.073%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.073%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.073%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 229 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.66%) Google
3 61 (4.42%) Oracle
4 57 (4.13%) Salesforce
4 57 (4.13%) SAP
5 30 (2.18%) ServiceNow
6 22 (1.60%) Adobe
7 15 (1.09%) Arista
7 15 (1.09%) Aruba
7 15 (1.09%) Cisco
7 15 (1.09%) Databricks
7 15 (1.09%) NetScout
8 14 (1.02%) VMware
9 13 (0.94%) HubSpot
10 12 (0.87%) F5
10 12 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 11 (0.80%) Pardot
12 10 (0.73%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.65%) IFS
13 9 (0.65%) Workday