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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,586 2,255 3,297
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.52% 13.89% 10.01%
As % of the General category 12.70% 19.07% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 943 1,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £40,600 £41,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -3.23%
75th Percentile £73,039 £70,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +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 12,493 11,824 20,113
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.25% 72.83% 61.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,186 6,618 14,621
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +8.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,989 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 7 July 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 39 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.32%) Confluence
4 12 (0.76%) Apache
4 12 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.69%) IIS
5 11 (0.69%) WordPress
6 10 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.44%) SAS
8 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.25%) CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.063%) Appian
12 1 (0.063%) Drupal
12 1 (0.063%) Moodle
12 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 169 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Blender
9 3 (0.19%) Maya
10 1 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.69%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.44%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.44%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.32%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 4 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
7 4 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.25%) JDE OneWorld
7 4 (0.25%) JDE World
7 4 (0.25%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.19%) SAP FSCM
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 266 (16.77%) Azure
2 246 (15.51%) Power Platform
3 133 (8.39%) AWS
4 127 (8.01%) SaaS
5 64 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (3.15%) GCP
6 50 (3.15%) Google Analytics
7 42 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.08%) Entra ID
9 30 (1.89%) GitHub
10 29 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.20%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (1.13%) OCI
13 16 (1.01%) Serverless
14 15 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (0.88%) PowerApps
16 13 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (0.82%) Snowflake
16 13 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.35%) Broadband
2 56 (3.53%) Firewall
3 26 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.01%) NGFW
5 16 (1.01%) Wireshark
6 15 (0.95%) VXLAN
7 14 (0.88%) VPN
8 12 (0.76%) WAN
9 11 (0.69%) Network Security
9 11 (0.69%) SMS
10 9 (0.57%) LAN
11 7 (0.44%) 5G
11 7 (0.44%) DNS
11 7 (0.44%) Wireless
12 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.38%) HTTP
12 6 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.32%) SMTP
13 5 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (13.18%) Power BI
2 70 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 61 (3.85%) Tableau
4 46 (2.90%) Metadata
5 39 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (2.02%) MySQL
8 26 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 21 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (1.26%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.13%) Big Data
11 18 (1.13%) Power Query
12 15 (0.95%) NoSQL
13 14 (0.88%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (0.63%) Looker
16 9 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
17 8 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (3.34%) JIRA
2 42 (2.65%) Git
3 15 (0.95%) GitLab
4 6 (0.38%) LabVIEW
4 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.32%) Axure RP
5 5 (0.32%) Balsamiq
5 5 (0.32%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.25%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.25%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.25%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.19%) Postman
8 2 (0.13%) Babel
8 2 (0.13%) MLflow
8 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.13%) webpack
9 1 (0.063%) TestRail
General
1 742 (46.78%) Social Skills
2 495 (31.21%) Finance
3 150 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 149 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 128 (8.07%) Marketing
6 115 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
7 105 (6.62%) Retail
8 99 (6.24%) Law
9 97 (6.12%) Legal
10 61 (3.85%) Banking
11 51 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
12 50 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (2.59%) Manufacturing
14 38 (2.40%) Advertising
15 33 (2.08%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.77%) Automotive
17 26 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
17 26 (1.64%) Publishing
18 19 (1.20%) Games
19 17 (1.07%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 430 (27.11%) Analyst
2 221 (13.93%) Senior
3 113 (7.12%) Lead
4 96 (6.05%) Business Analyst
5 91 (5.74%) Data Analyst
6 88 (5.55%) Architect
7 80 (5.04%) Developer
8 73 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
9 60 (3.78%) Consultant
10 54 (3.40%) Data Engineer
11 49 (3.09%) Report Analyst
12 46 (2.90%) Support Analyst
13 43 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 40 (2.52%) Accountant
14 40 (2.52%) Applications Support
15 39 (2.46%) Financial Analyst
16 35 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (2.14%) Security Analyst
18 32 (2.02%) Product Manager
19 31 (1.95%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.90%) .NET
2 44 (2.77%) HTML
3 38 (2.40%) JSON
4 37 (2.33%) CSS
5 29 (1.83%) REST
6 26 (1.64%) PyTorch
6 26 (1.64%) TensorFlow
7 25 (1.58%) Middleware
7 25 (1.58%) React
7 25 (1.58%) XML
8 17 (1.07%) PySpark
8 17 (1.07%) RESTful
9 10 (0.63%) ASP.NET
9 10 (0.63%) Node.js
9 10 (0.63%) React Native
10 9 (0.57%) Kafka
11 8 (0.50%) LDAP
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (0.50%) Pandas
11 8 (0.50%) TFX
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 91 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 80 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 74 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 58 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.96%) Virtual Team
7 39 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 37 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 37 (2.33%) Cloud Native
10 36 (2.27%) Security Posture
11 29 (1.83%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.83%) Social Media
12 28 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 25 (1.58%) PKI
14 24 (1.51%) Credit Risk
14 24 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
15 23 (1.45%) Public Cloud
16 22 (1.39%) Blog
17 21 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.54%) Windows
2 55 (3.47%) Linux
3 30 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.69%) Unix
5 8 (0.50%) Android
6 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.32%) OpenVMS
7 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.063%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.063%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (48.55%) Problem-Solving
2 400 (25.22%) Decision-Making
3 391 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 331 (20.87%) Analytics
5 325 (20.49%) Agile
6 267 (16.83%) AI
7 230 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
8 208 (13.11%) Roadmaps
9 195 (12.30%) Mentoring
10 194 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 184 (11.60%) Project Management
12 180 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 164 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
14 158 (9.96%) Process Improvement
15 148 (9.33%) Coaching
16 145 (9.14%) Analytical Thinking
17 144 (9.08%) Data Modelling
18 134 (8.45%) Validation
19 125 (7.88%) ERP
20 123 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 337 (21.25%) SQL
2 296 (18.66%) Python
3 73 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 62 (3.91%) C#
5 57 (3.59%) PowerShell
6 45 (2.84%) Java
7 33 (2.08%) T-SQL
8 21 (1.32%) R
9 17 (1.07%) C++
10 16 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.69%) Bash
14 8 (0.50%) Go
14 8 (0.50%) PHP
15 6 (0.38%) C
15 6 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.38%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.32%) Ruby
16 5 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 311 (19.61%) Degree
2 164 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 123 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 109 (6.87%) ACCA
5 105 (6.62%) CIMA
6 49 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (2.65%) CISSP
8 40 (2.52%) DBS Check
9 37 (2.33%) CISM
10 27 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.39%) AAT
12 21 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 18 (1.13%) DV Cleared
14 17 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (0.76%) HNC
17 12 (0.76%) PMI Certification
18 11 (0.69%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 115 (7.25%) GDPR
3 93 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (5.23%) QA
5 60 (3.78%) SLA
6 54 (3.40%) NIST
7 47 (2.96%) Accessibility
8 34 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (1.89%) ISO 9001
10 25 (1.58%) GRC
11 24 (1.51%) PMO
12 21 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (1.20%) IFRS
13 19 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 18 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.13%) ISO 14001
15 14 (0.88%) COREP
15 14 (0.88%) FINREP
16 13 (0.82%) PCI DSS
17 12 (0.76%) GAAP
System Software
1 53 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.07%) Docker
3 11 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.063%) KVM
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (3.15%) Terraform
2 26 (1.64%) Ansible
3 23 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.57%) QRadar
6 8 (0.50%) Kubeflow
7 7 (0.44%) Grafana
8 6 (0.38%) Packer
9 4 (0.25%) Nmap
10 2 (0.13%) Graylog
10 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.13%) SCCM
11 1 (0.063%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.063%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.063%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.063%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.063%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 277 (17.47%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.42%) Google
3 65 (4.10%) SAP
4 60 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 59 (3.72%) Oracle
6 33 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 22 (1.39%) Cisco
8 19 (1.20%) Databricks
9 18 (1.13%) Adobe
10 17 (1.07%) Sage
11 15 (0.95%) Arista
11 15 (0.95%) Aruba
11 15 (0.95%) NetScout
11 15 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 15 (0.95%) Splunk
12 13 (0.82%) HubSpot
12 13 (0.82%) JD Edwards
12 13 (0.82%) Qualys
13 12 (0.76%) F5
13 12 (0.76%) Red Hat