Hybrid/Remote Analyst Job Trends

Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Analyst salary for remote/hybrid work is £45,497 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,779 1,336 2,177
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.07% 8.14% 10.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.52% 8.67% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,214 974 1,126
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £44,433 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -1.26% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% -1.06%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 23,654 15,406 19,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 93.81% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 16,190 8,732 12,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Analyst job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Analyst
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Analyst job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Analyst job vacancies

Analyst
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analyst over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Analyst salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 482 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
2 434 (24.40%) Microsoft
3 369 (20.74%) SQL
4 294 (16.53%) Agile
5 287 (16.13%) Decision-Making
6 271 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 263 (14.78%) Degree
8 258 (14.50%) Analytics
9 257 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 237 (13.32%) Business Analysis
11 217 (12.20%) Azure
12 216 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
13 209 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
13 209 (11.75%) Microsoft 365
14 207 (11.64%) Power Platform
15 202 (11.35%) ITIL
16 199 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 195 (10.96%) Power BI
18 194 (10.91%) Customer Service
19 177 (9.95%) AI
20 176 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
21 173 (9.72%) Windows
22 167 (9.39%) Process Improvement
23 152 (8.54%) Actionable Insight
24 148 (8.32%) User Stories
25 142 (7.98%) Active Directory
26 138 (7.76%) Data Analysis
26 138 (7.76%) Project Delivery
27 137 (7.70%) Mentoring
27 137 (7.70%) Requirements Gathering

Analyst Skill Set
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 80 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 60 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (2.19%) Confluence
4 8 (0.45%) IIS
5 4 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (0.22%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.11%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.056%) Apache
7 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.056%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.056%) Site Server
Applications
1 176 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 28 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Notion
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.056%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.84%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.39%) Visualfiles
3 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.28%) Shopify
5 4 (0.22%) Academy Housing
5 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.22%) SAP QM
5 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.17%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.11%) iTrent
7 2 (0.11%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.11%) JDE World
7 2 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 217 (12.20%) Azure
2 209 (11.75%) Microsoft 365
3 207 (11.64%) Power Platform
4 116 (6.52%) AWS
5 95 (5.34%) Entra ID
6 83 (4.67%) SaaS
7 58 (3.26%) GCP
8 38 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.69%) Google Analytics
10 29 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (1.12%) OneDrive
12 19 (1.07%) GitHub
13 18 (1.01%) Snowflake
14 16 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (0.90%) BigCommerce
15 15 (0.84%) IaaS
15 15 (0.84%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.84%) Serverless
16 14 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.20%) DNS
2 49 (2.75%) DHCP
3 47 (2.64%) Firewall
4 43 (2.42%) VPN
5 37 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (1.29%) Broadband
7 20 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.90%) Network Security
9 14 (0.79%) LAN
10 12 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (0.67%) WAN
11 11 (0.62%) Internet
12 10 (0.56%) HTTP
13 5 (0.28%) VLAN
14 4 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.22%) NGFW
14 4 (0.22%) SSL
14 4 (0.22%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.22%) Wireless
15 2 (0.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (10.96%) Power BI
2 49 (2.75%) Tableau
3 35 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 26 (1.46%) Looker
6 25 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (1.12%) Power Query
8 18 (1.01%) BigQuery
9 16 (0.90%) Metadata
10 12 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (0.51%) MySQL
11 9 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
11 9 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.34%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.34%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.34%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.28%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 101 (5.68%) JIRA
2 18 (1.01%) Git
3 8 (0.45%) Selenium
4 5 (0.28%) GitLab
5 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.22%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.17%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.11%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.11%) Postman
8 1 (0.056%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.056%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.056%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.056%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.056%) TestNG
8 1 (0.056%) WebDriver
General
1 665 (37.38%) Social Skills
2 592 (33.28%) Analytical Skills
3 454 (25.52%) Finance
4 163 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 133 (7.48%) Retail
7 129 (7.25%) Law
8 90 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
9 89 (5.00%) Legal
10 57 (3.20%) Marketing
11 51 (2.87%) Banking
12 40 (2.25%) Swedish Language
13 33 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.12%) Automotive
17 19 (1.07%) Front Office
18 18 (1.01%) Advertising
18 18 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.24%) HTML
2 19 (1.07%) CSS
3 17 (0.96%) XML
4 16 (0.90%) Terraform
5 15 (0.84%) .NET
5 15 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (0.67%) .NET Framework
6 12 (0.67%) Web Services
7 11 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (0.62%) Gherkin
8 6 (0.34%) EDI
8 6 (0.34%) JSON
8 6 (0.34%) REST
9 5 (0.28%) HTML5
9 5 (0.28%) jQuery
9 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.22%) LDAP
10 4 (0.22%) Playwright
11 3 (0.17%) Middleware
11 3 (0.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 116 (6.52%) Management Information System
2 95 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (3.09%) Security Posture
6 41 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
7 36 (2.02%) Driving Licence
8 29 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 27 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.84%) Cyberattack
13 15 (0.84%) Derivative
13 15 (0.84%) Operational Technology
14 14 (0.79%) Blog
14 14 (0.79%) Credit Risk
14 14 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
15 13 (0.73%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.73%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 173 (9.72%) Windows
2 75 (4.22%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.46%) Linux
4 12 (0.67%) VMS
5 10 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.39%) Android
7 7 (0.39%) macOS
7 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.056%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (16.53%) Agile
3 287 (16.13%) Decision-Making
4 271 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 258 (14.50%) Analytics
6 257 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 237 (13.32%) Business Analysis
8 216 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
9 209 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
10 202 (11.35%) ITIL
11 199 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 194 (10.91%) Customer Service
13 177 (9.95%) AI
14 167 (9.39%) Process Improvement
15 152 (8.54%) Actionable Insight
16 148 (8.32%) User Stories
17 138 (7.76%) Data Analysis
17 138 (7.76%) Project Delivery
18 137 (7.70%) Mentoring
18 137 (7.70%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 369 (20.74%) SQL
2 134 (7.53%) Python
3 61 (3.43%) PowerShell
4 31 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (1.24%) Bash
5 22 (1.24%) C#
5 22 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 16 (0.90%) R
7 13 (0.73%) Java
8 12 (0.67%) Bicep
9 11 (0.62%) VBA
10 10 (0.56%) C++
10 10 (0.56%) Go
11 5 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.22%) VB
13 3 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 263 (14.78%) Degree
2 135 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 112 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 59 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 56 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (2.25%) MCSE
8 32 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.52%) ACCA
9 27 (1.52%) CISSP
10 26 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 24 (1.35%) CIMA
12 21 (1.18%) CISM
13 19 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.79%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.79%) GIAC
16 9 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.73%) QA
2 96 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 71 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 64 (3.60%) GDPR
5 46 (2.59%) NIST
6 40 (2.25%) PMO
7 27 (1.52%) SLA
8 26 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.35%) Accessibility
10 22 (1.24%) GRC
11 19 (1.07%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.67%) IFRS
14 9 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.39%) NCSC
16 6 (0.34%) GAAP
17 5 (0.28%) EMIR
17 5 (0.28%) FINREP
18 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 142 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.73%) vSphere
6 9 (0.51%) Docker
6 9 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.056%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 43 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 13 (0.73%) SCCM
4 3 (0.17%) Kibana
4 3 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.11%) Grafana
5 2 (0.11%) Graylog
5 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.11%) QRadar
5 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.056%) Autotask
6 1 (0.056%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.056%) OpenVAS
6 1 (0.056%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.056%) Thomson Reuters DACS
6 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 434 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 101 (5.68%) ServiceNow
3 63 (3.54%) Google
4 49 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 39 (2.19%) VMware
6 37 (2.08%) SAP
7 36 (2.02%) Oracle
8 25 (1.41%) Adobe
9 23 (1.29%) Cisco
10 19 (1.07%) Apple
10 19 (1.07%) Qualys
11 17 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 17 (0.96%) Workday
12 16 (0.90%) Aruba
13 15 (0.84%) iManage
14 13 (0.73%) YouTube
15 12 (0.67%) Citrix
15 12 (0.67%) ScienceLogic
15 12 (0.67%) Splunk
16 11 (0.62%) Sage