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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,795 2,333 2,771
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.97% 14.16% 10.98%
As % of the General category 13.29% 19.51% 17.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 994 1,338
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,191
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,124 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -8.87% +0.22%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +2.88% -5.25%

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 13,505 11,960 15,446
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.93% 72.58% 61.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,619 6,676 10,477
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £33,126
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 6 August 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 42 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.95%) Confluence
4 13 (0.72%) Apache
5 12 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.67%) IIS
6 7 (0.39%) SAS
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 5 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.17%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.056%) Appian
11 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.056%) Drupal
11 1 (0.056%) Moodle
11 1 (0.056%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 189 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.50%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.17%) Blender
9 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Maya
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 39 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.73%) Dynamics GP
3 29 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.61%) SAP ERP
6 10 (0.56%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.56%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.28%) JDE World
9 5 (0.28%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.22%) Academy Housing
10 4 (0.22%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.22%) JDE OneWorld
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 260 (14.48%) Azure
2 251 (13.98%) Power Platform
3 149 (8.30%) AWS
4 125 (6.96%) SaaS
5 71 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
6 70 (3.90%) GCP
7 56 (3.12%) Google Analytics
8 38 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (1.95%) Entra ID
10 33 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (1.78%) GitHub
12 26 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
13 23 (1.28%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 17 (0.95%) PowerApps
16 15 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (0.84%) Serverless
17 13 (0.72%) Power Automate
18 12 (0.67%) dbt
18 12 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.34%) Broadband
2 37 (2.06%) Firewall
3 18 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.95%) VPN
5 15 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (0.72%) Network Security
6 13 (0.72%) SMS
7 11 (0.61%) WAN
8 9 (0.50%) DNS
8 9 (0.50%) LAN
9 7 (0.39%) 5G
9 7 (0.39%) Wireless
10 6 (0.33%) DHCP
10 6 (0.33%) HTTP
11 5 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.28%) SMTP
11 5 (0.28%) SSL
12 4 (0.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (11.87%) Power BI
2 77 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 72 (4.01%) Tableau
4 50 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (2.34%) Metadata
6 34 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 32 (1.78%) MySQL
9 26 (1.45%) Looker
10 20 (1.11%) Big Data
10 20 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.11%) Oracle Database
11 19 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.00%) Power Query
13 16 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 14 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.56%) MongoDB
16 10 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 58 (3.23%) JIRA
2 57 (3.18%) Git
3 14 (0.78%) GitLab
4 10 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (0.45%) Axure RP
6 8 (0.45%) Balsamiq
6 8 (0.45%) LabVIEW
7 5 (0.28%) Postman
8 4 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.22%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.22%) MLflow
8 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.17%) JMeter
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 825 (45.96%) Social Skills
2 550 (30.64%) Finance
3 194 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 176 (9.81%) Marketing
5 162 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
6 147 (8.19%) Public Sector
7 141 (7.86%) Retail
8 137 (7.63%) Legal
9 125 (6.96%) Law
10 91 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
11 71 (3.96%) Banking
12 63 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (2.51%) Manufacturing
14 41 (2.28%) Advertising
15 38 (2.12%) Telecoms
16 31 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
17 29 (1.62%) Games
18 22 (1.23%) Automotive
19 21 (1.17%) Local Government
20 20 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 462 (25.74%) Analyst
2 249 (13.87%) Senior
3 130 (7.24%) Lead
4 104 (5.79%) Business Analyst
5 94 (5.24%) Data Analyst
6 90 (5.01%) Architect
7 89 (4.96%) Senior Analyst
8 78 (4.35%) Developer
9 69 (3.84%) Data Engineer
10 66 (3.68%) Consultant
11 54 (3.01%) Support Analyst
12 48 (2.67%) Service Manager
13 47 (2.62%) Marketing Manager
14 45 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
15 44 (2.45%) Report Analyst
16 41 (2.28%) Applications Support
17 40 (2.23%) Accountant
17 40 (2.23%) Financial Analyst
18 39 (2.17%) Senior Manager
19 36 (2.01%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.84%) .NET
2 49 (2.73%) HTML
3 42 (2.34%) CSS
4 33 (1.84%) REST
5 29 (1.62%) JSON
6 23 (1.28%) React
7 21 (1.17%) Middleware
7 21 (1.17%) PySpark
7 21 (1.17%) PyTorch
7 21 (1.17%) XML
8 20 (1.11%) RESTful
9 19 (1.06%) TensorFlow
10 13 (0.72%) .NET Core
11 11 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 11 (0.61%) ASP.NET
11 11 (0.61%) Kafka
12 10 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (0.50%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.50%) Entity Framework
13 9 (0.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 145 (8.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 115 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 103 (5.74%) Management Information System
4 97 (5.40%) Product Ownership
5 78 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 76 (4.23%) Onboarding
7 62 (3.45%) Blog
8 40 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (1.95%) Cloud Native
9 35 (1.95%) Security Posture
10 33 (1.84%) Social Media
11 32 (1.78%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
12 31 (1.73%) Credit Risk
12 31 (1.73%) Driving Licence
13 30 (1.67%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 20 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 84 (4.68%) Windows
2 59 (3.29%) Linux
3 34 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.61%) Android
5 10 (0.56%) Unix
6 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.28%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.11%) AIX
9 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.056%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.056%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (47.52%) Problem-Solving
2 522 (29.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 483 (26.91%) Decision-Making
4 409 (22.79%) Analytics
5 365 (20.33%) Agile
6 345 (19.22%) AI
7 299 (16.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 248 (13.82%) Business Intelligence
9 227 (12.65%) Project Management
10 225 (12.53%) Roadmaps
11 212 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 207 (11.53%) Actionable Insight
13 186 (10.36%) Process Improvement
14 182 (10.14%) Mentoring
15 166 (9.25%) Analytical Thinking
16 156 (8.69%) Data Modelling
16 156 (8.69%) Project Delivery
17 155 (8.64%) CRM
17 155 (8.64%) Validation
18 148 (8.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 377 (21.00%) SQL
2 296 (16.49%) Python
3 74 (4.12%) JavaScript
4 71 (3.96%) C#
5 54 (3.01%) PowerShell
6 48 (2.67%) Java
7 30 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 23 (1.28%) R
9 20 (1.11%) C++
10 19 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.72%) Bash
13 12 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.56%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.39%) C
15 7 (0.39%) PHP
15 7 (0.39%) Scala
16 6 (0.33%) Go
16 6 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 340 (18.94%) Degree
2 195 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 150 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 107 (5.96%) ACCA
5 102 (5.68%) CIMA
6 55 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (2.34%) CISSP
8 40 (2.23%) DBS Check
9 37 (2.06%) CISM
10 25 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.06%) AAT
12 19 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (9.58%) Data Quality
2 131 (7.30%) GDPR
3 92 (5.13%) QA
4 91 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (3.68%) Accessibility
6 63 (3.51%) SLA
7 55 (3.06%) NIST
8 41 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 31 (1.73%) ISO 9001
10 30 (1.67%) PMO
11 27 (1.50%) GRC
12 24 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 22 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 21 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 19 (1.06%) IFRS
16 18 (1.00%) ISO 14001
17 14 (0.78%) COREP
17 14 (0.78%) FINREP
18 13 (0.72%) GAAP
18 13 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.06%) Docker
3 10 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.39%) Firmware
4 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.056%) KVM
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.056%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (2.40%) Terraform
2 24 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.00%) Ansible
5 12 (0.67%) Grafana
6 8 (0.45%) QRadar
7 6 (0.33%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.33%) Packer
8 4 (0.22%) Nmap
9 2 (0.11%) Graylog
9 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.056%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.056%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.056%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.056%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 323 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.46%) Google
3 75 (4.18%) SAP
4 64 (3.57%) Oracle
5 52 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 33 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.39%) Cisco
8 23 (1.28%) Databricks
9 22 (1.23%) Adobe
10 18 (1.00%) Sage
11 17 (0.95%) Palo Alto
12 16 (0.89%) HubSpot
12 16 (0.89%) Splunk
13 13 (0.72%) JD Edwards
13 13 (0.72%) Qualys
13 13 (0.72%) VMware
14 12 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 11 (0.61%) F5
15 11 (0.61%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.50%) SunGard