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

6 months to
20 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 2,112 2,290 2,942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.63% 14.07% 12.59%
As % of the General category 14.16% 19.58% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,302 928 1,145
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,425 £34,543
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £41,500
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 14,917 11,698 14,668
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.96% 71.90% 62.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,149 6,356 8,416
10th Percentile £32,227 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,679 £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 £82,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%

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 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 59 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.04%) Confluence
3 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.57%) IIS
6 11 (0.52%) Apache
7 10 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.38%) SAS
9 7 (0.33%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.24%) CMS
10 5 (0.24%) WordPress
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.047%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.047%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.047%) Drupal
12 1 (0.047%) Hedera
12 1 (0.047%) Moodle
12 1 (0.047%) nginx
12 1 (0.047%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 217 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.14%) Blender
10 3 (0.14%) Maya
10 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.095%) InDesign
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.047%) SPSS
12 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 49 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.52%) Dynamics GP
3 17 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.76%) Shopify
5 14 (0.66%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.28%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 6 (0.28%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.24%) JDE World
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) Sage 50
10 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.19%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 273 (12.93%) Power Platform
2 265 (12.55%) Azure
3 170 (8.05%) AWS
4 127 (6.01%) SaaS
5 94 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (3.50%) GCP
7 70 (3.31%) Google Analytics
8 45 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 37 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (1.70%) GitHub
11 34 (1.61%) Serverless
12 31 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 28 (1.33%) Amazon S3
14 27 (1.28%) Google Ads
14 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 25 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (1.18%) Power Automate
16 23 (1.09%) Snowflake
17 22 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.99%) Broadband
2 32 (1.52%) Firewall
3 23 (1.09%) Network Security
4 20 (0.95%) 5G
4 20 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 19 (0.90%) VPN
6 18 (0.85%) DNS
7 15 (0.71%) DHCP
8 14 (0.66%) SMS
8 14 (0.66%) WAN
8 14 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.57%) LAN
10 10 (0.47%) Internet
11 7 (0.33%) VLAN
12 6 (0.28%) Wireless
13 5 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.24%) HTTP
14 4 (0.19%) FTP
14 4 (0.19%) NGN
14 4 (0.19%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (11.27%) Power BI
2 72 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 69 (3.27%) Tableau
4 60 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (2.04%) Metadata
6 37 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 34 (1.61%) Looker
7 34 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.37%) MySQL
10 26 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 24 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
11 24 (1.14%) Big Data
12 19 (0.90%) Power Query
13 16 (0.76%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.71%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.66%) Spark SQL
16 12 (0.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 73 (3.46%) Git
2 72 (3.41%) JIRA
3 12 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.52%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) LabVIEW
6 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.28%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.28%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.24%) MLflow
10 4 (0.19%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.19%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.19%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.19%) Postman
10 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.14%) JMeter
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.14%) RStudio
11 3 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 1,049 (49.67%) Social Skills
2 721 (34.14%) Finance
3 247 (11.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 219 (10.37%) Marketing
5 217 (10.27%) Organisational Skills
6 185 (8.76%) Law
7 182 (8.62%) Retail
8 180 (8.52%) Legal
9 178 (8.43%) Public Sector
10 130 (6.16%) Influencing Skills
11 82 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (3.08%) Manufacturing
13 64 (3.03%) Banking
14 54 (2.56%) Telecoms
15 45 (2.13%) Advertising
16 34 (1.61%) Games
17 30 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
17 30 (1.42%) Electronics
18 29 (1.37%) Aerospace
18 29 (1.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 546 (25.85%) Analyst
2 288 (13.64%) Senior
3 145 (6.87%) Lead
4 122 (5.78%) Business Analyst
5 113 (5.35%) Senior Analyst
6 109 (5.16%) Data Analyst
7 92 (4.36%) Architect
7 92 (4.36%) Developer
8 85 (4.02%) Data Engineer
9 80 (3.79%) Consultant
10 78 (3.69%) Support Analyst
11 57 (2.70%) Applications Support
12 55 (2.60%) Accountant
12 55 (2.60%) Service Manager
13 51 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
14 44 (2.08%) Marketing Manager
14 44 (2.08%) Senior Manager
15 39 (1.85%) Financial Analyst
15 39 (1.85%) Security Analyst
15 39 (1.85%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (2.98%) .NET
2 51 (2.41%) HTML
3 43 (2.04%) CSS
3 43 (2.04%) PySpark
4 41 (1.94%) Terraform
5 31 (1.47%) JSON
6 30 (1.42%) REST
7 25 (1.18%) XML
8 23 (1.09%) React
9 22 (1.04%) RESTful
10 19 (0.90%) Middleware
11 16 (0.76%) PyTorch
12 15 (0.71%) .NET Core
12 15 (0.71%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.66%) TensorFlow
13 14 (0.66%) Web Services
14 12 (0.57%) .NET Framework
14 12 (0.57%) ASP.NET
14 12 (0.57%) EDI
14 12 (0.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 172 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 143 (6.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 126 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
4 102 (4.83%) Product Ownership
5 96 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 76 (3.60%) Virtual Team
7 67 (3.17%) Blog
8 48 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.18%) Credit Risk
10 37 (1.75%) Cloud Native
10 37 (1.75%) Driving Licence
10 37 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
11 35 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
12 34 (1.61%) Security Posture
13 33 (1.56%) Social Media
14 28 (1.33%) AI Agents
15 26 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 25 (1.18%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.95%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 96 (4.55%) Windows
2 57 (2.70%) Linux
3 40 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.57%) Android
5 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.24%) OpenVMS
9 5 (0.24%) Unix
10 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.047%) AIX
11 1 (0.047%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (47.35%) Problem-Solving
2 669 (31.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 584 (27.65%) Decision-Making
4 494 (23.39%) Analytics
5 465 (22.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 428 (20.27%) AI
7 406 (19.22%) Agile
8 282 (13.35%) Business Intelligence
9 260 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 257 (12.17%) Roadmaps
11 247 (11.70%) Project Management
12 245 (11.60%) Actionable Insight
12 245 (11.60%) Process Improvement
13 220 (10.42%) Mentoring
14 206 (9.75%) Project Delivery
15 195 (9.23%) CRM
16 185 (8.76%) Coaching
17 184 (8.71%) Data Analysis
18 182 (8.62%) Validation
19 176 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 445 (21.07%) SQL
2 309 (14.63%) Python
3 88 (4.17%) C#
3 88 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 60 (2.84%) Java
5 58 (2.75%) PowerShell
6 33 (1.56%) C++
7 30 (1.42%) T-SQL
8 25 (1.18%) R
9 21 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 18 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.80%) Bash
13 10 (0.47%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.43%) C
15 8 (0.38%) Go
15 8 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.38%) Scala
16 7 (0.33%) PHP
17 5 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 377 (17.85%) Degree
2 234 (11.08%) Security Cleared
3 180 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 117 (5.54%) ACCA
5 112 (5.30%) CIMA
6 59 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (2.75%) DBS Check
8 47 (2.23%) CISSP
9 41 (1.94%) CISM
10 35 (1.66%) DV Cleared
11 27 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 24 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 17 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
16 16 (0.76%) AAT
16 16 (0.76%) CRISC
17 14 (0.66%) GIAC
17 14 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 121 (5.73%) GDPR
3 100 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 92 (4.36%) QA
5 88 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (2.79%) SLA
7 56 (2.65%) NIST
8 40 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (1.42%) PMO
10 28 (1.33%) GRC
11 27 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 24 (1.14%) IFRS
13 23 (1.09%) ISO 9001
14 21 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 18 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.71%) GAAP
16 15 (0.71%) ISO 14001
17 14 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.62%) PCI DSS
19 11 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 24 (1.14%) Docker
3 11 (0.52%) Firmware
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.28%) 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 27 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.80%) Ansible
4 12 (0.57%) Grafana
5 8 (0.38%) QRadar
6 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.19%) Nmap
7 4 (0.19%) Packer
8 2 (0.095%) CASB
8 2 (0.095%) Graylog
9 1 (0.047%) Control-M
9 1 (0.047%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.047%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.047%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.047%) Kibana
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.047%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 427 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 120 (5.68%) Google
3 73 (3.46%) SAP
4 60 (2.84%) Oracle
5 53 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.04%) YouTube
7 31 (1.47%) Adobe
7 31 (1.47%) Sage
8 26 (1.23%) Cisco
9 25 (1.18%) Databricks
9 25 (1.18%) HubSpot
10 19 (0.90%) Splunk
11 17 (0.80%) Yardi
12 16 (0.76%) VMware
13 12 (0.57%) Apple
14 11 (0.52%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.52%) Qualys
15 10 (0.47%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud