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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,024 2,256 2,902
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.46% 13.85% 12.40%
As % of the General category 13.96% 19.30% 19.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 943 1,166
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,600 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £73,063
90th Percentile £88,083 £84,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%

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 14,497 11,687 14,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.57% 71.77% 62.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,975 6,425 8,637
10th Percentile £32,261 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,242 £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 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

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 13 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 55 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.89%) Confluence
4 13 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.59%) IIS
6 11 (0.54%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.40%) SAS
9 7 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) WordPress
11 4 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.099%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.049%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.049%) Appian
13 1 (0.049%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.049%) Drupal
13 1 (0.049%) Moodle
Applications
1 197 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.35%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.15%) Blender
9 3 (0.15%) Maya
10 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.049%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.049%) InDesign
11 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.049%) SPSS
11 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.58%) Dynamics GP
3 18 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.79%) Shopify
5 13 (0.64%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.40%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.35%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.35%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.30%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.30%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 6 (0.30%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.25%) JDE World
9 5 (0.25%) Sage 50
10 4 (0.20%) Academy Housing
10 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.20%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.20%) JDE OneWorld
Cloud Services
1 265 (13.09%) Azure
2 260 (12.85%) Power Platform
3 175 (8.65%) AWS
4 120 (5.93%) SaaS
5 86 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (3.85%) GCP
7 68 (3.36%) Google Analytics
8 44 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 38 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 34 (1.68%) GitHub
11 34 (1.68%) Serverless
12 29 (1.43%) Amazon S3
12 29 (1.43%) PowerApps
13 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
14 26 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (1.24%) Google Ads
16 22 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (1.09%) Snowflake
17 21 (1.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.42%) Broadband
2 32 (1.58%) Firewall
3 22 (1.09%) Network Security
4 21 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 20 (0.99%) 5G
6 18 (0.89%) VPN
7 17 (0.84%) DNS
8 14 (0.69%) DHCP
8 14 (0.69%) SMS
8 14 (0.69%) WAN
8 14 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.59%) LAN
10 9 (0.44%) Internet
11 6 (0.30%) NGN
11 6 (0.30%) VLAN
11 6 (0.30%) Wireless
12 5 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.25%) HTTP
13 4 (0.20%) FTP
13 4 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (11.12%) Power BI
2 71 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 66 (3.26%) Tableau
4 58 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.08%) Metadata
6 37 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 32 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 31 (1.53%) Looker
9 28 (1.38%) MySQL
10 26 (1.28%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
12 22 (1.09%) Big Data
13 17 (0.84%) NoSQL
13 17 (0.84%) Power Query
14 16 (0.79%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 15 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.69%) Spark SQL
17 11 (0.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 68 (3.36%) Git
2 66 (3.26%) JIRA
3 11 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.49%) GitLab
4 10 (0.49%) LabVIEW
5 9 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.30%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.30%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.20%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.20%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.20%) MLflow
8 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.15%) Postman
9 3 (0.15%) RStudio
10 2 (0.099%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.099%) Visual Studio
General
1 987 (48.76%) Social Skills
2 675 (33.35%) Finance
3 242 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 208 (10.28%) Marketing
5 199 (9.83%) Organisational Skills
6 182 (8.99%) Law
7 177 (8.75%) Retail
8 172 (8.50%) Legal
9 167 (8.25%) Public Sector
10 123 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
11 82 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
12 63 (3.11%) Banking
13 60 (2.96%) Manufacturing
14 49 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.12%) Advertising
16 34 (1.68%) Games
17 29 (1.43%) Electronics
18 28 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (1.33%) Aerospace
20 26 (1.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 519 (25.64%) Analyst
2 277 (13.69%) Senior
3 138 (6.82%) Lead
4 120 (5.93%) Business Analyst
5 113 (5.58%) Senior Analyst
6 104 (5.14%) Data Analyst
7 91 (4.50%) Architect
8 88 (4.35%) Developer
9 84 (4.15%) Data Engineer
10 74 (3.66%) Consultant
10 74 (3.66%) Support Analyst
11 55 (2.72%) Applications Support
11 55 (2.72%) Service Manager
12 50 (2.47%) Accountant
13 48 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.22%) Marketing Manager
15 40 (1.98%) Senior Manager
16 39 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
16 39 (1.93%) Senior Business Analyst
17 38 (1.88%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.92%) .NET
2 47 (2.32%) HTML
3 42 (2.08%) PySpark
4 41 (2.03%) CSS
4 41 (2.03%) Terraform
5 30 (1.48%) JSON
6 27 (1.33%) REST
7 22 (1.09%) XML
8 19 (0.94%) Middleware
8 19 (0.94%) React
8 19 (0.94%) RESTful
9 16 (0.79%) PyTorch
10 15 (0.74%) AngularJS
11 14 (0.69%) .NET Core
11 14 (0.69%) TensorFlow
12 12 (0.59%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.59%) EDI
13 11 (0.54%) ASP.NET
13 11 (0.54%) LDAP
13 11 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 154 (7.61%) Management Information System
2 138 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 123 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
4 103 (5.09%) Product Ownership
5 88 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 77 (3.80%) Virtual Team
7 68 (3.36%) Blog
8 47 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 42 (2.08%) Credit Risk
10 36 (1.78%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.78%) Driving Licence
11 35 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
12 33 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
12 33 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 33 (1.63%) Social Media
13 27 (1.33%) AI Agents
14 25 (1.24%) Algorithms
14 25 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.19%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.99%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 92 (4.55%) Windows
2 55 (2.72%) Linux
3 39 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.54%) Android
5 9 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.25%) OpenVMS
8 5 (0.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.049%) AIX
9 1 (0.049%) Solaris
9 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (47.68%) Problem-Solving
2 635 (31.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 555 (27.42%) Decision-Making
4 475 (23.47%) Analytics
5 421 (20.80%) AI
5 421 (20.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 401 (19.81%) Agile
7 269 (13.29%) Business Intelligence
8 251 (12.40%) Roadmaps
9 247 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 241 (11.91%) Project Management
11 228 (11.26%) Actionable Insight
12 219 (10.82%) Process Improvement
13 210 (10.38%) Mentoring
14 202 (9.98%) Project Delivery
15 180 (8.89%) CRM
16 179 (8.84%) Coaching
17 178 (8.79%) Data Analysis
17 178 (8.79%) Validation
18 168 (8.30%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 430 (21.25%) SQL
2 300 (14.82%) Python
3 82 (4.05%) C#
4 81 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 65 (3.21%) Java
6 56 (2.77%) PowerShell
7 33 (1.63%) C++
8 29 (1.43%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.14%) R
10 19 (0.94%) TypeScript
11 18 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (0.79%) Bash
12 16 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.49%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.44%) C
15 8 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.40%) Scala
16 7 (0.35%) PHP
17 6 (0.30%) Go
18 4 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 367 (18.13%) Degree
2 234 (11.56%) Security Cleared
3 181 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 110 (5.43%) ACCA
5 105 (5.19%) CIMA
6 59 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.82%) DBS Check
8 48 (2.37%) CISSP
9 42 (2.08%) CISM
10 34 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 28 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (0.79%) AAT
17 15 (0.74%) AWS Certification
17 15 (0.74%) CRISC
18 14 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (10.97%) Data Quality
2 123 (6.08%) GDPR
3 100 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 91 (4.50%) QA
5 87 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (2.87%) NIST
7 57 (2.82%) SLA
8 39 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 27 (1.33%) GRC
9 27 (1.33%) PMO
10 23 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (1.14%) ISO 9001
11 22 (1.09%) IFRS
12 20 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 18 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 15 (0.74%) ISO 14001
15 14 (0.69%) GAAP
15 14 (0.69%) PCI DSS
16 13 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.04%) Docker
3 11 (0.54%) Firmware
4 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 18 (0.89%) Ansible
2 18 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.59%) Grafana
4 8 (0.40%) QRadar
5 5 (0.25%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.25%) Packer
5 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.20%) Nmap
7 2 (0.099%) CASB
7 2 (0.099%) Graylog
8 1 (0.049%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.049%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.049%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.049%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 397 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.93%) Google
3 70 (3.46%) SAP
4 57 (2.82%) Oracle
5 48 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 42 (2.08%) YouTube
7 40 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.43%) Sage
9 28 (1.38%) Adobe
10 26 (1.28%) Cisco
11 22 (1.09%) Databricks
11 22 (1.09%) HubSpot
12 18 (0.89%) Splunk
13 16 (0.79%) VMware
14 15 (0.74%) Yardi
15 12 (0.59%) Apple
16 11 (0.54%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.54%) JD Edwards
16 11 (0.54%) Qualys
16 11 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud