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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,724 1,323 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.38% 8.07% 11.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.85% 8.72% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,201 1,036 1,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,663 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.33% -8.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,109 £79,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £44,655 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.77% -3.23%

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 21,963 15,177 23,401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.60% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,621 9,254 16,129
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 2 September 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 2 September 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.

1 391 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 379 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
3 367 (21.29%) SQL
4 321 (18.62%) Agile
5 285 (16.53%) Degree
6 251 (14.56%) Decision-Making
7 236 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 235 (13.63%) Business Analysis
9 224 (12.99%) Analytics
10 207 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
11 206 (11.95%) Microsoft 365
12 204 (11.83%) ITIL
13 197 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
14 195 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 194 (11.25%) Customer Service
16 193 (11.19%) Power Platform
17 188 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
18 184 (10.67%) Power BI
19 175 (10.15%) Azure
20 164 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
21 158 (9.16%) Process Improvement
22 155 (8.99%) Windows
23 154 (8.93%) User Stories
24 147 (8.53%) AI
25 142 (8.24%) QA
26 136 (7.89%) Mentoring
27 134 (7.77%) Project Delivery
27 134 (7.77%) Requirements Gathering
28 131 (7.60%) AWS
28 131 (7.60%) ITSM

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 68 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (2.09%) Confluence
4 11 (0.64%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) SAS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.058%) Apache
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.058%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.058%) CMS
7 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.058%) Site Server
7 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 164 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 24 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.46%) Visualfiles
5 7 (0.41%) Elite 3E
6 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP Business One
8 4 (0.23%) Academy Housing
8 4 (0.23%) Infor M3
8 4 (0.23%) JDE OneWorld
8 4 (0.23%) JDE World
8 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
8 4 (0.23%) Shopify
8 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 206 (11.95%) Microsoft 365
2 193 (11.19%) Power Platform
3 175 (10.15%) Azure
4 131 (7.60%) AWS
5 75 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 64 (3.71%) SaaS
7 52 (3.02%) GCP
8 38 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.97%) Google Analytics
10 27 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.04%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.93%) OneDrive
12 16 (0.93%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.87%) IaaS
13 15 (0.87%) PaaS
14 14 (0.81%) GitHub
14 14 (0.81%) Serverless
15 13 (0.75%) Azure Functions
16 12 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 12 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.67%) Firewall
2 45 (2.61%) VPN
3 39 (2.26%) DNS
4 32 (1.86%) DHCP
5 30 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (1.57%) Network Security
7 26 (1.51%) Broadband
8 22 (1.28%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.10%) LAN
10 17 (0.99%) WAN
11 12 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.58%) Internet
13 8 (0.46%) HTTP
14 4 (0.23%) FTP
14 4 (0.23%) NGFW
14 4 (0.23%) SMTP
14 4 (0.23%) SSL
14 4 (0.23%) Wireless
15 3 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (10.67%) Power BI
2 50 (2.90%) Tableau
3 44 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.68%) Looker
5 24 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.16%) BigQuery
7 19 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (1.04%) Power Query
9 16 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.87%) Metadata
11 12 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
14 8 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.41%) MySQL
16 6 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.35%) SAP BW
17 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 102 (5.92%) JIRA
2 18 (1.04%) Git
3 9 (0.52%) Selenium
4 6 (0.35%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) GitLab
6 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 2 (0.12%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.058%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.058%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.058%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.058%) JUnit
9 1 (0.058%) Toad
9 1 (0.058%) WebDriver
General
1 596 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 504 (29.23%) Analytical Skills
3 430 (24.94%) Finance
4 164 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 130 (7.54%) Law
7 98 (5.68%) Retail
8 85 (4.93%) Legal
9 69 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (3.13%) Banking
11 49 (2.84%) Marketing
12 48 (2.78%) Swedish Language
13 38 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.80%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.16%) French Language
15 20 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.10%) Advertising
17 18 (1.04%) Front Office
18 17 (0.99%) Aviation
18 17 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.45%) HTML
2 21 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.16%) XML
4 19 (1.10%) .NET
4 19 (1.10%) CSS
5 13 (0.75%) Terraform
6 12 (0.70%) .NET Framework
6 12 (0.70%) Web Services
7 11 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (0.64%) Gherkin
8 7 (0.41%) EDI
9 5 (0.29%) HTML5
9 5 (0.29%) jQuery
9 5 (0.29%) Playwright
10 4 (0.23%) JSON
10 4 (0.23%) LDAP
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.23%) Middleware
11 3 (0.17%) PySpark
11 3 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 109 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 90 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 70 (4.06%) Onboarding
4 56 (3.25%) Security Posture
5 43 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
7 35 (2.03%) Data Structures
7 35 (2.03%) Driving Licence
8 27 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
10 17 (0.99%) Client/Server
11 15 (0.87%) Blog
11 15 (0.87%) Operational Technology
12 13 (0.75%) Cloud Native
12 13 (0.75%) Derivative
12 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.70%) Cyberattack
13 12 (0.70%) Podcast
13 12 (0.70%) Social Media
14 11 (0.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 155 (8.99%) Windows
2 63 (3.65%) Windows Server
3 22 (1.28%) Linux
4 14 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.70%) VMS
6 9 (0.52%) Android
7 7 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (18.62%) Agile
3 251 (14.56%) Decision-Making
4 236 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 235 (13.63%) Business Analysis
6 224 (12.99%) Analytics
7 207 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
8 204 (11.83%) ITIL
9 197 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
10 195 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 194 (11.25%) Customer Service
12 188 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 158 (9.16%) Process Improvement
14 154 (8.93%) User Stories
15 147 (8.53%) AI
16 136 (7.89%) Mentoring
17 134 (7.77%) Project Delivery
17 134 (7.77%) Requirements Gathering
18 131 (7.60%) ITSM
19 129 (7.48%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 367 (21.29%) SQL
2 110 (6.38%) Python
3 57 (3.31%) PowerShell
4 32 (1.86%) C#
5 23 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 18 (1.04%) Java
7 17 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.99%) VBA
8 13 (0.75%) Bash
9 12 (0.70%) Bicep
10 10 (0.58%) C++
10 10 (0.58%) R
10 10 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.17%) VB
13 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.12%) Tcl
14 1 (0.058%) Go
Qualifications
1 285 (16.53%) Degree
2 126 (7.31%) Security Cleared
3 110 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 98 (5.68%) AWS Certification
5 89 (5.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (3.94%) MCSE
7 57 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (1.97%) ACCA
9 30 (1.74%) CIMA
10 25 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.45%) CISSP
11 24 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 21 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.16%) CISM
14 20 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (0.64%) DV Cleared
16 9 (0.52%) AAT
17 8 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 8 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.24%) QA
2 83 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (3.36%) GDPR
5 40 (2.32%) NIST
6 35 (2.03%) SLA
7 27 (1.57%) PMO
8 20 (1.16%) GRC
9 19 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.75%) FINREP
12 11 (0.64%) COREP
13 10 (0.58%) IFRS
14 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.41%) EMIR
15 7 (0.41%) NCSC
16 6 (0.35%) GAAP
16 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.75%) vSphere
5 5 (0.29%) Docker
6 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 34 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (0.99%) SCCM
3 8 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (0.41%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.23%) QRadar
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.12%) Grafana
7 2 (0.12%) Graylog
7 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.058%) Autotask
8 1 (0.058%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.058%) Nessus
8 1 (0.058%) Nmap
8 1 (0.058%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.058%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 391 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 127 (7.37%) ServiceNow
3 46 (2.67%) Google
3 46 (2.67%) Oracle
3 46 (2.67%) Salesforce
3 46 (2.67%) SAP
4 30 (1.74%) VMware
5 29 (1.68%) Adobe
6 28 (1.62%) Apple
7 21 (1.22%) Cisco
8 17 (0.99%) Citrix
8 17 (0.99%) iManage
9 16 (0.93%) Palo Alto
9 16 (0.93%) Qualys
10 14 (0.81%) Aruba
11 12 (0.70%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (0.58%) FIS
12 10 (0.58%) Intapp
12 10 (0.58%) Workday
12 10 (0.58%) YouTube