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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,205 2,432 2,676
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.87% 14.58% 12.36%
As % of the General category 14.44% 20.62% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 908 1,045
10th Percentile £34,025 £29,000 £34,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,094 £41,254
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 £72,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £51,356 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.71% -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 15,268 11,796 13,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.44% 70.74% 62.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 6,200 7,566
10th Percentile £31,506 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.50% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,039 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 10 October 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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.04%) Confluence
2 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.54%) IIS
6 11 (0.50%) Apache
7 10 (0.45%) CMS
7 10 (0.45%) WordPress
8 8 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 5 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.18%) Office Communications Server
11 2 (0.091%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.091%) Hedera
11 2 (0.091%) nginx
11 2 (0.091%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.045%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.045%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 238 (10.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 20 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.32%) Notion
8 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.14%) Blender
10 3 (0.14%) InDesign
10 3 (0.14%) Maya
11 2 (0.091%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.091%) SPSS
12 1 (0.045%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.045%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.45%) Dynamics GP
3 17 (0.77%) Shopify
4 12 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.32%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
5 7 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.27%) Exchequer
6 6 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.27%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.23%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.23%) FastStats
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.23%) Sage 50
8 4 (0.18%) JDE World
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 292 (13.24%) Power Platform
2 283 (12.83%) Azure
3 189 (8.57%) AWS
4 126 (5.71%) SaaS
5 107 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
6 87 (3.95%) GCP
7 69 (3.13%) Google Analytics
8 56 (2.54%) Entra ID
9 40 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (1.59%) GitHub
11 34 (1.54%) Serverless
12 31 (1.41%) Google Ads
12 31 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 27 (1.22%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
13 27 (1.22%) Snowflake
14 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
15 24 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.90%) Broadband
2 34 (1.54%) Firewall
3 28 (1.27%) Network Security
4 25 (1.13%) DNS
5 22 (1.00%) DHCP
6 21 (0.95%) 5G
6 21 (0.95%) VPN
7 19 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.73%) WAN
10 15 (0.68%) SMS
11 12 (0.54%) LAN
12 11 (0.50%) Internet
13 7 (0.32%) VLAN
13 7 (0.32%) Wireless
14 5 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (0.18%) FTP
15 4 (0.18%) HTTP
15 4 (0.18%) SSL
15 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (11.70%) Power BI
2 70 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 69 (3.13%) Tableau
4 68 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (2.18%) Metadata
6 38 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.68%) Looker
7 37 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.32%) MySQL
10 24 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.04%) Big Data
11 23 (1.04%) Power Query
12 19 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 17 (0.77%) Spark SQL
14 16 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.73%) Data Mining
14 16 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 84 (3.81%) Git
2 79 (3.58%) JIRA
3 16 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.63%) GitLab
5 10 (0.45%) LabVIEW
6 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.27%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.27%) Balsamiq
7 6 (0.27%) Burp Suite
7 6 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 6 (0.27%) MLflow
8 5 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.18%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.18%) Postman
9 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.14%) JMeter
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.14%) RStudio
10 3 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,121 (50.84%) Social Skills
2 759 (34.42%) Finance
3 262 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 249 (11.29%) Marketing
5 240 (10.88%) Organisational Skills
6 210 (9.52%) Retail
7 197 (8.93%) Law
8 193 (8.75%) Legal
8 193 (8.75%) Public Sector
9 141 (6.39%) Influencing Skills
10 84 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
11 73 (3.31%) Manufacturing
12 67 (3.04%) Banking
13 55 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 49 (2.22%) Advertising
15 37 (1.68%) Aerospace
16 34 (1.54%) Electronics
16 34 (1.54%) Games
17 33 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
18 30 (1.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 573 (25.99%) Analyst
2 295 (13.38%) Senior
3 148 (6.71%) Lead
4 120 (5.44%) Data Analyst
5 113 (5.12%) Business Analyst
6 111 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
7 106 (4.81%) Developer
8 94 (4.26%) Architect
9 87 (3.95%) Consultant
10 84 (3.81%) Data Engineer
11 83 (3.76%) Support Analyst
12 64 (2.90%) Service Manager
13 56 (2.54%) Applications Support
13 56 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
14 50 (2.27%) Accountant
15 48 (2.18%) Marketing Manager
16 42 (1.90%) Senior Manager
17 41 (1.86%) Security Analyst
18 38 (1.72%) Financial Analyst
19 35 (1.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (3.08%) .NET
2 47 (2.13%) PySpark
3 45 (2.04%) HTML
3 45 (2.04%) Terraform
4 37 (1.68%) CSS
5 35 (1.59%) REST
6 25 (1.13%) JSON
6 25 (1.13%) RESTful
6 25 (1.13%) XML
7 23 (1.04%) React
8 18 (0.82%) Middleware
9 17 (0.77%) Web Services
10 16 (0.73%) .NET Core
11 15 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.68%) PyTorch
12 13 (0.59%) ASP.NET
12 13 (0.59%) EDI
12 13 (0.59%) TensorFlow
13 12 (0.54%) .NET Framework
13 12 (0.54%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 194 (8.80%) Management Information System
2 132 (5.99%) Analytical Mindset
3 127 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
4 105 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 92 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 74 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 68 (3.08%) Blog
8 54 (2.45%) Credit Risk
8 54 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 43 (1.95%) Driving Licence
10 40 (1.81%) Social Media
11 39 (1.77%) Marketing Technology
12 38 (1.72%) Cloud Native
13 34 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
14 33 (1.50%) Security Posture
15 28 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.27%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.09%) Algorithms
17 22 (1.00%) Mobile App
18 21 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.67%) Windows
2 63 (2.86%) Linux
3 48 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.50%) Android
4 11 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.50%) Mac OS
4 11 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.23%) OpenVMS
8 2 (0.091%) Unix
8 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.045%) AIX
9 1 (0.045%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,052 (47.71%) Problem-Solving
2 722 (32.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 614 (27.85%) Decision-Making
4 539 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 537 (24.35%) Analytics
6 456 (20.68%) AI
7 421 (19.09%) Agile
8 305 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
9 263 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 260 (11.79%) Actionable Insight
11 259 (11.75%) Project Management
12 258 (11.70%) Roadmaps
13 249 (11.29%) Process Improvement
14 231 (10.48%) Mentoring
15 220 (9.98%) CRM
16 212 (9.61%) Data Analysis
17 207 (9.39%) Project Delivery
18 200 (9.07%) Validation
19 196 (8.89%) Service Delivery
20 193 (8.75%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 485 (22.00%) SQL
2 332 (15.06%) Python
3 89 (4.04%) C#
4 85 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 62 (2.81%) PowerShell
6 56 (2.54%) Java
7 33 (1.50%) R
8 32 (1.45%) C++
9 31 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 22 (1.00%) Bash
12 18 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.59%) Go
14 10 (0.45%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.41%) C
15 9 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.36%) Scala
17 6 (0.27%) PHP
17 6 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 387 (17.55%) Degree
2 246 (11.16%) Security Cleared
3 192 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 101 (4.58%) ACCA
5 100 (4.54%) CIMA
6 61 (2.77%) DBS Check
7 54 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.09%) CISSP
9 40 (1.81%) CISM
10 36 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 33 (1.50%) Azure Certification
12 29 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.04%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
15 18 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.77%) AAT
16 17 (0.77%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (0.73%) GIAC
17 16 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 121 (5.49%) GDPR
3 115 (5.22%) Accessibility
4 85 (3.85%) QA
5 84 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (2.54%) NIST
7 50 (2.27%) SLA
8 40 (1.81%) PMO
9 37 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 35 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 28 (1.27%) GRC
12 25 (1.13%) IFRS
13 19 (0.86%) ISO 9001
14 18 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 16 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 15 (0.68%) GAAP
16 15 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.68%) PCI DSS
17 13 (0.59%) ISO 14001
18 11 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.45%) Docker
3 12 (0.54%) Firmware
4 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.045%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.045%) HDFS
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.77%) Ansible
4 15 (0.68%) Grafana
5 7 (0.32%) QRadar
5 7 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.27%) Nmap
7 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.14%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.14%) SCCM
8 3 (0.14%) SCVMM
8 3 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.091%) CASB
9 2 (0.091%) Graylog
9 2 (0.091%) Kibana
9 2 (0.091%) Nagios
9 2 (0.091%) Packer
Vendors
1 473 (21.45%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.85%) Google
3 68 (3.08%) SAP
4 66 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 57 (2.59%) Oracle
6 50 (2.27%) YouTube
7 45 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.50%) Adobe
9 31 (1.41%) Databricks
9 31 (1.41%) Sage
10 28 (1.27%) Cisco
11 27 (1.22%) HubSpot
12 20 (0.91%) Splunk
13 19 (0.86%) VMware
14 13 (0.59%) Apple
14 13 (0.59%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 13 (0.59%) Yardi
15 10 (0.45%) FIS
15 10 (0.45%) Qualys