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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,416 1,570 3,134
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.10% 11.98% 9.75%
As % of the General category 14.37% 16.75% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 870 932 1,907
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,989 £40,872
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -3.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,125 £88,750
UK median annual salary £53,330 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +10.00% -9.09%

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 9,855 9,372 19,913
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.40% 71.52% 61.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,545 6,423 15,101
10th Percentile £30,141 £30,767 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% -9.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 15 April 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 27 (1.91%) Confluence
2 22 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.85%) CMS
5 10 (0.71%) WordPress
6 9 (0.64%) Apache
6 9 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.35%) SAS
9 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.071%) Appian
12 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.071%) IIS
12 1 (0.071%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.071%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.071%) Umbraco
Applications
1 181 (12.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.62%) Chatbot
5 17 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.99%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.071%) Notion
9 1 (0.071%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.69%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.49%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.42%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.28%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.21%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.21%) SAP FSCM
8 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.14%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 285 (20.13%) Azure
2 223 (15.75%) Power Platform
3 127 (8.97%) AWS
4 103 (7.27%) SaaS
5 81 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (4.73%) GitHub
7 63 (4.45%) Dynamics 365
8 56 (3.95%) GCP
9 52 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 46 (3.25%) Google Analytics
11 43 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (2.26%) Snowflake
14 24 (1.69%) dbt
15 22 (1.55%) Entra ID
16 21 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (1.48%) Power Automate
17 19 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
17 19 (1.34%) OCI
18 18 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.90%) Firewall
2 38 (2.68%) Broadband
3 24 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (1.41%) Wireshark
5 16 (1.13%) NGFW
6 15 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.06%) VXLAN
7 11 (0.78%) Network Security
8 10 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
9 8 (0.56%) DNS
9 8 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (0.56%) Telnet
9 8 (0.56%) WAN
10 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.42%) DHCP
11 4 (0.28%) HTTP
11 4 (0.28%) LAN
11 4 (0.28%) Modbus
11 4 (0.28%) VPN
12 3 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (14.05%) Power BI
2 92 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 61 (4.31%) Tableau
4 44 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (2.26%) Metadata
8 26 (1.84%) MySQL
9 19 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 19 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (1.20%) Oracle Database
10 17 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.06%) Power Query
13 12 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
14 10 (0.71%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.64%) Data Mining
16 8 (0.56%) Big Data
16 8 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 69 (4.87%) JIRA
2 35 (2.47%) Git
3 17 (1.20%) GitLab
4 14 (0.99%) Axure RP
4 14 (0.99%) Balsamiq
5 13 (0.92%) Subversion
6 11 (0.78%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.42%) Babel
8 6 (0.42%) webpack
9 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.28%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.28%) ERwin
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.28%) Selenium
9 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.21%) Maven
10 3 (0.21%) MLflow
10 3 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.21%) WebDriver
General
1 704 (49.72%) Social Skills
2 511 (36.09%) Finance
3 138 (9.75%) Marketing
4 135 (9.53%) Public Sector
5 134 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 89 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
6 89 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
6 89 (6.29%) Retail
7 82 (5.79%) Law
8 61 (4.31%) Legal
9 52 (3.67%) Banking
10 42 (2.97%) Manufacturing
11 38 (2.68%) Advertising
11 38 (2.68%) Telecoms
12 29 (2.05%) Automotive
13 26 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.84%) Publishing
14 21 (1.48%) Back Office
15 20 (1.41%) Electronics
15 20 (1.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 354 (25.00%) Analyst
2 167 (11.79%) Senior
3 99 (6.99%) Developer
4 93 (6.57%) Lead
5 91 (6.43%) Business Analyst
6 74 (5.23%) Architect
7 59 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 49 (3.46%) Financial Analyst
9 46 (3.25%) Consultant
9 46 (3.25%) Data Engineer
10 42 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
11 41 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
12 40 (2.82%) Report Analyst
12 40 (2.82%) Support Analyst
13 34 (2.40%) Senior Manager
14 33 (2.33%) Product Manager
15 31 (2.19%) Alliance Manager
16 28 (1.98%) Accountant
17 23 (1.62%) Commercial Analyst
17 23 (1.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (4.38%) HTML
2 56 (3.95%) CSS
3 46 (3.25%) .NET
4 39 (2.75%) React
5 32 (2.26%) JSON
6 24 (1.69%) REST
6 24 (1.69%) XML
7 19 (1.34%) Middleware
8 17 (1.20%) React Native
8 17 (1.20%) TensorFlow
9 16 (1.13%) Bootstrap
10 15 (1.06%) PyTorch
11 14 (0.99%) Node.js
12 13 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (0.85%) Flash
13 12 (0.85%) Sass
13 12 (0.85%) SOAP
14 8 (0.56%) CSS3
14 8 (0.56%) HTML5
14 8 (0.56%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 112 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
3 99 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 58 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.18%) Data Structures
6 43 (3.04%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 36 (2.54%) Virtual Team
9 29 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.05%) Security Posture
10 28 (1.98%) Low-Code
11 27 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.77%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.77%) Social Media
13 23 (1.62%) FMCG
14 22 (1.55%) PKI
15 21 (1.48%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 17 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.31%) Windows
2 43 (3.04%) Linux
3 22 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.20%) Unix
5 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.21%) Android
7 2 (0.14%) AIX
7 2 (0.14%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.071%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.071%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.071%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.071%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.071%) Solaris
8 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (45.34%) Problem-Solving
2 356 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 346 (24.44%) Decision-Making
4 297 (20.97%) Analytics
5 294 (20.76%) Agile
6 273 (19.28%) AI
7 238 (16.81%) Business Intelligence
8 164 (11.58%) DevOps
9 163 (11.51%) Mentoring
10 151 (10.66%) Actionable Insight
10 151 (10.66%) Data Modelling
11 150 (10.59%) Project Management
12 146 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
13 144 (10.17%) Analytical Thinking
14 142 (10.03%) Coaching
15 137 (9.68%) CI/CD
16 134 (9.46%) Process Improvement
17 129 (9.11%) ERP
18 120 (8.47%) Data Analysis
19 116 (8.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 291 (20.55%) SQL
2 232 (16.38%) Python
3 84 (5.93%) JavaScript
4 70 (4.94%) C#
5 60 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 52 (3.67%) Java
7 33 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 24 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 22 (1.55%) C++
10 20 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.20%) R
12 12 (0.85%) Bash
13 11 (0.78%) Go
14 10 (0.71%) C
14 10 (0.71%) VBA
15 5 (0.35%) PHP
15 5 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.35%) Ruby
16 4 (0.28%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 306 (21.61%) Degree
2 142 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 133 (9.39%) ACCA
4 123 (8.69%) CIMA
5 102 (7.20%) SC Cleared
6 56 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (3.18%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.84%) CISSP
8 26 (1.84%) PhD
9 25 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 23 (1.62%) AAT
10 23 (1.62%) DBS Check
11 22 (1.55%) PMI Certification
12 20 (1.41%) CISM
13 17 (1.20%) PMP
14 16 (1.13%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.78%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.65%) QA
3 74 (5.23%) GDPR
4 50 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.33%) NIST
7 29 (2.05%) PMO
7 29 (2.05%) SLA
8 24 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 20 (1.41%) WCAG
10 16 (1.13%) ISO 9001
11 15 (1.06%) GRC
12 11 (0.78%) COREP
12 11 (0.78%) FINREP
12 11 (0.78%) IFRS
13 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.64%) GAAP
13 9 (0.64%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.78%) Docker
4 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.071%) Firmware
7 1 (0.071%) KVM
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (3.46%) Terraform
2 28 (1.98%) Ansible
3 17 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.56%) Grafana
4 8 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.35%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.35%) QRadar
7 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 4 (0.28%) Packer
8 3 (0.21%) SCCM
9 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.071%) CASB
10 1 (0.071%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.071%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.071%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 255 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.16%) Google
3 56 (3.95%) Oracle
3 56 (3.95%) SAP
4 51 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 26 (1.84%) ServiceNow
6 23 (1.62%) Databricks
7 21 (1.48%) PayPal
8 20 (1.41%) Adobe
9 15 (1.06%) Arista
9 15 (1.06%) Aruba
9 15 (1.06%) NetScout
10 13 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.85%) VMware
11 12 (0.85%) Xero
12 11 (0.78%) Cisco
13 10 (0.71%) F5
13 10 (0.71%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.71%) Workday
14 9 (0.64%) MuleSoft