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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,723 1,305 2,763
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.15% 8.03% 11.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.62% 8.67% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,182 994 1,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% - -7.31%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,900 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.26%

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 22,608 15,056 22,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 92.68% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 8,997 14,462
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,541
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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 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 16 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.

1 420 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
2 400 (23.22%) Microsoft
3 368 (21.36%) SQL
4 307 (17.82%) Agile
5 289 (16.77%) Degree
6 258 (14.97%) Decision-Making
7 245 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 234 (13.58%) Business Analysis
9 229 (13.29%) Analytics
10 209 (12.13%) ITIL
11 208 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
12 207 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
13 202 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 200 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
15 199 (11.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 196 (11.38%) Customer Service
17 193 (11.20%) Power Platform
18 184 (10.68%) Power BI
19 183 (10.62%) Azure
20 162 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
21 160 (9.29%) Process Improvement
22 157 (9.11%) AI
22 157 (9.11%) Windows
23 147 (8.53%) User Stories
24 139 (8.07%) Mentoring
25 138 (8.01%) Project Delivery
26 133 (7.72%) Requirements Gathering
27 132 (7.66%) QA
28 131 (7.60%) Actionable Insight
28 131 (7.60%) AWS

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 75 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (2.03%) Confluence
4 9 (0.52%) 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%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.058%) Site Server
7 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 162 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 25 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 24 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.52%) Visualfiles
4 7 (0.41%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.23%) Academy Housing
7 4 (0.23%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.23%) JDE OneWorld
7 4 (0.23%) JDE World
7 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.23%) Shopify
7 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 208 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
2 193 (11.20%) Power Platform
3 183 (10.62%) Azure
4 131 (7.60%) AWS
5 79 (4.59%) Entra ID
6 73 (4.24%) SaaS
7 59 (3.42%) GCP
8 35 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (1.92%) Google Analytics
10 27 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.99%) GitHub
11 17 (0.99%) OneDrive
11 17 (0.99%) PowerApps
12 15 (0.87%) Power Automate
13 14 (0.81%) IaaS
13 14 (0.81%) PaaS
13 14 (0.81%) Serverless
14 13 (0.75%) Azure Functions
14 13 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.73%) Firewall
2 45 (2.61%) DNS
3 44 (2.55%) VPN
4 37 (2.15%) DHCP
5 32 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (1.51%) Broadband
7 22 (1.28%) Network Security
8 21 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.10%) LAN
10 17 (0.99%) WAN
11 12 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (0.64%) Internet
13 9 (0.52%) HTTP
14 5 (0.29%) VLAN
15 4 (0.23%) FTP
15 4 (0.23%) NGFW
15 4 (0.23%) SMTP
15 4 (0.23%) Wireless
16 3 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
16 3 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (10.68%) Power BI
2 46 (2.67%) Tableau
3 39 (2.26%) SQL Server
4 25 (1.45%) Looker
5 24 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 20 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (0.93%) Power Query
8 15 (0.87%) Metadata
9 13 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
11 9 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.41%) MySQL
14 6 (0.35%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.35%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 99 (5.75%) 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
7 3 (0.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.17%) SoapUI
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
8 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.058%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.058%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.058%) TestNG
9 1 (0.058%) WebDriver
General
1 619 (35.93%) Social Skills
2 529 (30.70%) Analytical Skills
3 435 (25.25%) Finance
4 168 (9.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 139 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 134 (7.78%) Law
7 107 (6.21%) Retail
8 87 (5.05%) Legal
9 77 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (3.13%) Banking
11 48 (2.79%) Swedish Language
12 47 (2.73%) Marketing
13 35 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.97%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.10%) Front Office
16 18 (1.04%) Advertising
16 18 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.93%) Automotive
17 16 (0.93%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.87%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.45%) HTML
2 21 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.10%) CSS
3 19 (1.10%) XML
4 17 (0.99%) .NET
5 14 (0.81%) 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 6 (0.35%) EDI
9 5 (0.29%) HTML5
9 5 (0.29%) jQuery
9 5 (0.29%) JSON
10 4 (0.23%) LDAP
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.23%) Middleware
10 4 (0.23%) NumPy
10 4 (0.23%) Pandas
10 4 (0.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.92%) Product Ownership
2 100 (5.80%) Management Information System
3 75 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 57 (3.31%) Security Posture
5 45 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 40 (2.32%) Driving Licence
7 39 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 35 (2.03%) Data Structures
9 29 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
11 15 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 15 (0.87%) Operational Technology
12 14 (0.81%) Blog
13 13 (0.75%) Cyberattack
13 13 (0.75%) Derivative
13 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.70%) Fixed Income
14 12 (0.70%) Podcast
14 12 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
14 12 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 157 (9.11%) Windows
2 66 (3.83%) Windows Server
3 21 (1.22%) Linux
4 12 (0.70%) VMS
5 10 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.46%) Android
6 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
2 307 (17.82%) Agile
3 258 (14.97%) Decision-Making
4 245 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 234 (13.58%) Business Analysis
6 229 (13.29%) Analytics
7 209 (12.13%) ITIL
8 207 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
9 202 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 200 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
11 199 (11.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 196 (11.38%) Customer Service
13 160 (9.29%) Process Improvement
14 157 (9.11%) AI
15 147 (8.53%) User Stories
16 139 (8.07%) Mentoring
17 138 (8.01%) Project Delivery
18 133 (7.72%) Requirements Gathering
19 131 (7.60%) Actionable Insight
20 128 (7.43%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 368 (21.36%) SQL
2 118 (6.85%) Python
3 56 (3.25%) PowerShell
4 30 (1.74%) C#
5 25 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
6 19 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (1.10%) Java
7 18 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.99%) Bash
9 16 (0.93%) VBA
10 12 (0.70%) Bicep
11 10 (0.58%) C++
11 10 (0.58%) R
11 10 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.29%) Go
13 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.23%) VB
14 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.12%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 289 (16.77%) Degree
2 131 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 113 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 93 (5.40%) AWS Certification
5 80 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 62 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (3.48%) MCSE
8 32 (1.86%) ACCA
9 28 (1.63%) CIMA
10 26 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.51%) CISSP
11 24 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.39%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.33%) DBS Check
13 21 (1.22%) CISM
14 20 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (0.64%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.64%) GIAC
16 9 (0.52%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (7.66%) QA
2 88 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (3.54%) GDPR
5 42 (2.44%) NIST
6 34 (1.97%) SLA
7 30 (1.74%) PMO
8 21 (1.22%) GRC
9 19 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.99%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.64%) FINREP
13 10 (0.58%) IFRS
14 9 (0.52%) COREP
14 9 (0.52%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.46%) EMIR
16 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.41%) NCSC
17 6 (0.35%) MiFID
17 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 129 (7.49%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.75%) vSphere
5 7 (0.41%) Docker
6 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.058%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 35 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.87%) SCCM
3 10 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.23%) QRadar
5 3 (0.17%) Kibana
5 3 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (0.12%) Grafana
6 2 (0.12%) Graylog
6 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.058%) Autotask
7 1 (0.058%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.058%) Nessus
7 1 (0.058%) Nmap
7 1 (0.058%) OpenVAS
7 1 (0.058%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 400 (23.22%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.20%) ServiceNow
3 49 (2.84%) Google
4 47 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.61%) Oracle
6 42 (2.44%) SAP
7 31 (1.80%) VMware
8 29 (1.68%) Apple
9 28 (1.63%) Adobe
10 20 (1.16%) Cisco
11 18 (1.04%) Qualys
12 16 (0.93%) iManage
12 16 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.87%) Citrix
14 14 (0.81%) Aruba
14 14 (0.81%) Workday
15 13 (0.75%) YouTube
16 12 (0.70%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.70%) Splunk
17 10 (0.58%) FIS