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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,942 2,218 2,932
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.31% 13.53% 12.06%
As % of the General category 13.78% 18.97% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,235 960 1,263
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,125
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 £87,500 £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 14,097 11,692 14,980
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.35% 71.34% 61.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8,834 6,543 9,391
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £43,750
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 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -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 2 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 50 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.88%) Confluence
4 12 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.62%) IIS
5 11 (0.57%) Apache
6 10 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.41%) SAS
8 7 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.26%) WordPress
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.051%) Appian
13 1 (0.051%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.051%) Drupal
13 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 183 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.41%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.15%) Blender
8 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.15%) Maya
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.051%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.051%) SPSS
9 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.65%) Dynamics GP
3 21 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.77%) Shopify
5 14 (0.72%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.46%) SAP ERP
7 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.36%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.31%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.31%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 6 (0.31%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.26%) JDE World
9 5 (0.26%) Sage 50
10 4 (0.21%) Academy Housing
10 4 (0.21%) Infor M3
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 259 (13.34%) Azure
2 255 (13.13%) Power Platform
3 167 (8.60%) AWS
4 126 (6.49%) SaaS
5 78 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
6 73 (3.76%) GCP
7 67 (3.45%) Google Analytics
8 41 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (2.11%) Entra ID
9 37 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (1.80%) GitHub
11 27 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 27 (1.39%) Serverless
12 22 (1.13%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.13%) Power Automate
12 22 (1.13%) Snowflake
13 21 (1.08%) Amazon EMR
14 20 (1.03%) Google Ads
15 19 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.52%) Broadband
2 36 (1.85%) Firewall
3 20 (1.03%) Network Security
3 20 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.93%) VPN
5 15 (0.77%) DNS
5 15 (0.77%) SMS
6 14 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.67%) WAN
8 12 (0.62%) DHCP
9 11 (0.57%) LAN
10 7 (0.36%) 5G
11 6 (0.31%) Wireless
12 5 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.26%) HTTP
12 5 (0.26%) Internet
12 5 (0.26%) VLAN
13 4 (0.21%) FTP
13 4 (0.21%) SMTP
13 4 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (11.28%) Power BI
2 75 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 67 (3.45%) Tableau
4 57 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (2.01%) Metadata
6 38 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 34 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 33 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (1.65%) Looker
10 29 (1.49%) MySQL
11 21 (1.08%) Big Data
12 19 (0.98%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.88%) NoSQL
15 16 (0.82%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.82%) Power Query
15 16 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.67%) Spark SQL
17 11 (0.57%) BigQuery
17 11 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 66 (3.40%) JIRA
2 62 (3.19%) Git
3 13 (0.67%) GitLab
4 10 (0.51%) LabVIEW
5 9 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (0.36%) Axure RP
6 7 (0.36%) Balsamiq
7 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.21%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.21%) MLflow
8 4 (0.21%) Postman
8 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.15%) JMeter
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.15%) RStudio
9 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 925 (47.63%) Social Skills
2 615 (31.67%) Finance
3 231 (11.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 193 (9.94%) Marketing
5 183 (9.42%) Organisational Skills
6 168 (8.65%) Law
7 167 (8.60%) Retail
8 166 (8.55%) Public Sector
9 155 (7.98%) Legal
10 115 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
11 81 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (3.40%) Banking
13 52 (2.68%) Manufacturing
14 44 (2.27%) Telecoms
15 41 (2.11%) Advertising
16 35 (1.80%) Games
17 27 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (1.39%) Electronics
18 26 (1.34%) Local Government
19 24 (1.24%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 504 (25.95%) Analyst
2 269 (13.85%) Senior
3 134 (6.90%) Lead
4 114 (5.87%) Business Analyst
4 114 (5.87%) Senior Analyst
5 101 (5.20%) Data Analyst
6 90 (4.63%) Architect
6 90 (4.63%) Developer
7 77 (3.96%) Data Engineer
8 71 (3.66%) Support Analyst
9 66 (3.40%) Consultant
10 54 (2.78%) Service Manager
11 48 (2.47%) Applications Support
12 46 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.27%) Accountant
13 44 (2.27%) Marketing Manager
14 41 (2.11%) Senior Manager
15 39 (2.01%) Financial Analyst
15 39 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
16 37 (1.91%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.30%) .NET
2 50 (2.57%) HTML
3 44 (2.27%) CSS
4 42 (2.16%) Terraform
5 34 (1.75%) PySpark
6 31 (1.60%) REST
7 28 (1.44%) JSON
8 24 (1.24%) XML
9 20 (1.03%) Middleware
9 20 (1.03%) React
9 20 (1.03%) RESTful
10 17 (0.88%) PyTorch
11 15 (0.77%) .NET Core
11 15 (0.77%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.77%) TensorFlow
12 14 (0.72%) .NET Framework
13 13 (0.67%) ASP.NET
14 12 (0.62%) EDI
14 12 (0.62%) Entity Framework
15 11 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 133 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 119 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (5.46%) Product Ownership
5 87 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 77 (3.96%) Virtual Team
7 69 (3.55%) Blog
8 48 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (2.11%) Credit Risk
10 35 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
11 34 (1.75%) Social Media
12 33 (1.70%) Driving Licence
13 32 (1.65%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
15 29 (1.49%) Cloud Native
16 26 (1.34%) Algorithms
17 25 (1.29%) Mobile App
18 24 (1.24%) Data Structures
19 21 (1.08%) AI Agents
20 20 (1.03%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 89 (4.58%) Windows
2 58 (2.99%) Linux
3 38 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.57%) Android
5 8 (0.41%) Unix
6 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.26%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.051%) AIX
9 1 (0.051%) Solaris
9 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (47.73%) Problem-Solving
2 588 (30.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 529 (27.24%) Decision-Making
4 458 (23.58%) Analytics
5 400 (20.60%) Agile
6 388 (19.98%) AI
7 373 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 261 (13.44%) Business Intelligence
9 245 (12.62%) Roadmaps
10 238 (12.26%) Project Management
10 238 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 223 (11.48%) Actionable Insight
12 202 (10.40%) Mentoring
13 199 (10.25%) Process Improvement
14 198 (10.20%) Project Delivery
15 175 (9.01%) CRM
16 170 (8.75%) Coaching
17 167 (8.60%) Analytical Thinking
18 166 (8.55%) Data Analysis
19 162 (8.34%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 417 (21.47%) SQL
2 296 (15.24%) Python
3 86 (4.43%) C#
3 86 (4.43%) JavaScript
4 59 (3.04%) Java
5 55 (2.83%) PowerShell
6 34 (1.75%) C++
7 31 (1.60%) T-SQL
8 23 (1.18%) R
9 20 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.67%) Bash
13 10 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.46%) C
15 8 (0.41%) PHP
15 8 (0.41%) Scala
16 7 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.21%) Perl
17 4 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 357 (18.38%) Degree
2 223 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 169 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 99 (5.10%) ACCA
5 94 (4.84%) CIMA
6 57 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (2.37%) CISSP
8 42 (2.16%) DBS Check
9 40 (2.06%) CISM
10 35 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 26 (1.34%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.72%) AAT
17 13 (0.67%) CRISC
17 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (10.40%) Data Quality
2 119 (6.13%) GDPR
3 93 (4.79%) QA
4 92 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (3.91%) Accessibility
6 57 (2.94%) NIST
6 57 (2.94%) SLA
7 42 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 28 (1.44%) ISO 9001
9 27 (1.39%) PMO
10 26 (1.34%) GRC
11 23 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 23 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 21 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 20 (1.03%) IFRS
14 18 (0.93%) ISO 14001
15 15 (0.77%) GAAP
16 13 (0.67%) PCI DSS
16 13 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.08%) Docker
3 11 (0.57%) Firmware
4 8 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 18 (0.93%) Ansible
2 18 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.62%) Grafana
4 8 (0.41%) QRadar
5 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.31%) Packer
6 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.21%) Nmap
8 2 (0.10%) CASB
8 2 (0.10%) Graylog
9 1 (0.051%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.051%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.051%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.051%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 367 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 111 (5.72%) Google
3 72 (3.71%) SAP
4 58 (2.99%) Oracle
5 49 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 37 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 33 (1.70%) YouTube
8 28 (1.44%) Adobe
8 28 (1.44%) Cisco
9 24 (1.24%) Sage
10 21 (1.08%) Databricks
11 20 (1.03%) HubSpot
12 16 (0.82%) Splunk
13 15 (0.77%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.77%) VMware
14 12 (0.62%) Apple
14 12 (0.62%) Qualys
15 11 (0.57%) Dynatrace
15 11 (0.57%) JD Edwards
16 10 (0.51%) FIS