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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 0
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,383 1,799 3,271
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.49% 12.37% 10.04%
As % of the General category 13.47% 16.65% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 885 926 1,886
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £89,375
UK median annual salary £53,350 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +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 10,264 10,803 20,165
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.60% 74.27% 61.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,811 6,473 15,093
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 12 May 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 29 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.45%) Confluence
4 12 (0.87%) CMS
5 11 (0.80%) WordPress
6 10 (0.72%) Apache
6 10 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.43%) SAS
9 4 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.072%) Appian
12 1 (0.072%) IIS
12 1 (0.072%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.072%) Moodle
12 1 (0.072%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.072%) Umbraco
Applications
1 139 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.66%) Chatbot
4 17 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.87%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.072%) Notion
9 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 29 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 8 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.29%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.29%) JDE OneWorld
5 4 (0.29%) JDE World
5 4 (0.29%) Markit EDM
5 4 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.072%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 261 (18.87%) Azure
2 210 (15.18%) Power Platform
3 121 (8.75%) AWS
4 102 (7.38%) SaaS
5 66 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (3.90%) GCP
7 53 (3.83%) GitHub
8 49 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (3.47%) Google Analytics
10 46 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (2.24%) Snowflake
12 28 (2.02%) Entra ID
13 23 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
14 20 (1.45%) dbt
15 18 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
15 18 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.23%) OCI
17 16 (1.16%) Serverless
18 15 (1.08%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.47%) Broadband
2 44 (3.18%) Firewall
3 19 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (1.16%) NGFW
4 16 (1.16%) Wireshark
5 15 (1.08%) VXLAN
6 13 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.51%) 5G
7 7 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
7 7 (0.51%) Network Security
7 7 (0.51%) Telnet
8 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.43%) DNS
8 6 (0.43%) VPN
8 6 (0.43%) WAN
9 4 (0.29%) Modbus
9 4 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.29%) SMS
9 4 (0.29%) VLAN
10 3 (0.22%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (12.94%) Power BI
2 63 (4.56%) Tableau
3 55 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (2.39%) Metadata
6 20 (1.45%) MySQL
6 20 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.30%) Oracle Database
9 17 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.94%) Power Query
12 11 (0.80%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.65%) Big Data
14 8 (0.58%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.58%) Looker
15 7 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.51%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 57 (4.12%) JIRA
2 38 (2.75%) Git
3 12 (0.87%) GitLab
4 11 (0.80%) Axure RP
4 11 (0.80%) Balsamiq
5 10 (0.72%) Subversion
6 9 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.29%) Babel
8 4 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.29%) ERwin
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.29%) webpack
9 3 (0.22%) Maven
9 3 (0.22%) MLflow
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 619 (44.76%) Social Skills
2 461 (33.33%) Finance
3 145 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 132 (9.54%) Marketing
6 88 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
7 79 (5.71%) Law
8 78 (5.64%) Retail
9 73 (5.28%) Legal
10 49 (3.54%) Banking
10 49 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 35 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 31 (2.24%) Advertising
14 28 (2.02%) Publishing
15 25 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (1.66%) Automotive
17 22 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.37%) Back Office
19 17 (1.23%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 340 (24.58%) Analyst
2 182 (13.16%) Senior
3 87 (6.29%) Business Analyst
4 85 (6.15%) Developer
5 79 (5.71%) Lead
6 73 (5.28%) Architect
7 60 (4.34%) Data Analyst
8 48 (3.47%) Consultant
8 48 (3.47%) Data Engineer
9 46 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
10 42 (3.04%) Senior Manager
11 41 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (2.89%) Report Analyst
13 36 (2.60%) Product Manager
14 33 (2.39%) Accountant
14 33 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
15 31 (2.24%) Alliance Manager
16 30 (2.17%) Security Analyst
17 26 (1.88%) Applications Support
17 26 (1.88%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.90%) HTML
2 48 (3.47%) CSS
3 45 (3.25%) .NET
4 33 (2.39%) JSON
4 33 (2.39%) React
5 24 (1.74%) REST
6 22 (1.59%) XML
7 20 (1.45%) Middleware
8 18 (1.30%) React Native
9 17 (1.23%) TensorFlow
10 16 (1.16%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.08%) Bootstrap
12 13 (0.94%) Node.js
13 12 (0.87%) RESTful
14 10 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
15 9 (0.65%) SOAP
16 8 (0.58%) Sass
17 7 (0.51%) Flutter
17 7 (0.51%) Kafka
17 7 (0.51%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 97 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 66 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 46 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 36 (2.60%) Algorithms
7 36 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 35 (2.53%) Cloud Native
9 29 (2.10%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.95%) Driving Licence
11 26 (1.88%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.81%) Low-Code
13 23 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.66%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.59%) PKI
14 22 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.59%) Social Media
15 21 (1.52%) FMCG
16 19 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.41%) Windows
2 40 (2.89%) Linux
3 24 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.01%) Unix
5 3 (0.22%) Android
5 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) AIX
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.072%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.072%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.072%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.072%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.072%) Solaris
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (43.67%) Problem-Solving
2 304 (21.98%) Decision-Making
3 302 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 299 (21.62%) Agile
5 274 (19.81%) Analytics
6 271 (19.60%) AI
7 202 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
8 162 (11.71%) Mentoring
9 153 (11.06%) Project Management
10 148 (10.70%) DevOps
11 143 (10.34%) Coaching
12 142 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 137 (9.91%) Actionable Insight
13 137 (9.91%) Data Modelling
14 130 (9.40%) Analytical Thinking
15 125 (9.04%) Process Improvement
16 124 (8.97%) CI/CD
17 121 (8.75%) Roadmaps
18 114 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 114 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 262 (18.94%) SQL
2 245 (17.72%) Python
3 77 (5.57%) JavaScript
4 61 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 55 (3.98%) C#
6 47 (3.40%) Java
7 25 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.16%) C++
9 15 (1.08%) R
9 15 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.65%) Bash
11 9 (0.65%) Go
12 8 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.43%) VBA
14 5 (0.36%) C
14 5 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.36%) Ruby
14 5 (0.36%) Scala
15 4 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 302 (21.84%) Degree
2 134 (9.69%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.89%) ACCA
4 115 (8.32%) CIMA
5 97 (7.01%) SC Cleared
6 51 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 32 (2.31%) DBS Check
9 26 (1.88%) CISSP
10 25 (1.81%) PhD
11 23 (1.66%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.45%) CISM
13 19 (1.37%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.37%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.30%) AAT
15 15 (1.08%) PMP
16 12 (0.87%) HNC
16 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (9.18%) Data Quality
2 84 (6.07%) GDPR
3 72 (5.21%) QA
4 55 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 39 (2.82%) SLA
7 36 (2.60%) NIST
8 17 (1.23%) ISO 9001
8 17 (1.23%) PMO
9 16 (1.16%) WCAG
10 15 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.08%) GRC
11 13 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.94%) COREP
11 13 (0.94%) FINREP
12 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.80%) IFRS
12 11 (0.80%) NCSC
13 10 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.58%) Docker
4 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.22%) Firmware
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.072%) KVM
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (3.33%) Terraform
2 27 (1.95%) Ansible
3 16 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.43%) Grafana
5 6 (0.43%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.43%) Packer
6 5 (0.36%) QRadar
6 5 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.14%) Graylog
8 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.072%) CASB
9 1 (0.072%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.072%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.072%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.072%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 239 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.50%) Google
3 61 (4.41%) Oracle
4 55 (3.98%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.98%) SAP
5 29 (2.10%) ServiceNow
6 22 (1.59%) Adobe
7 21 (1.52%) PayPal
8 19 (1.37%) Databricks
9 15 (1.08%) Arista
9 15 (1.08%) Aruba
9 15 (1.08%) Cisco
9 15 (1.08%) NetScout
10 14 (1.01%) VMware
11 12 (0.87%) F5
11 12 (0.87%) HubSpot
11 12 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.80%) Pardot
13 10 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.65%) Red Hat