Hybrid/Remote Analyst Job Trends

Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Analyst salary for remote/hybrid work is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,399 1,755 2,964
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.87% 10.75% 11.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.47% 11.20% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 886 993 2,209
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £36,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -6.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £61,835
90th Percentile £70,250 £82,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £49,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.27% +8.89% -5.26%

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 14,774 15,671 24,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.99% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,635 9,425 20,392
10th Percentile £30,199 £36,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,050 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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.

1 395 (28.23%) Microsoft
2 319 (22.80%) SQL
3 302 (21.59%) Degree
4 279 (19.94%) Agile
5 265 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
6 252 (18.01%) Customer Service
7 249 (17.80%) ITIL
8 248 (17.73%) Microsoft 365
9 214 (15.30%) Microsoft Office
10 208 (14.87%) Power Platform
11 207 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 192 (13.72%) Business Intelligence
13 177 (12.65%) Power BI
14 176 (12.58%) Decision-Making
15 175 (12.51%) ITSM
16 173 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
17 163 (11.65%) AWS
18 158 (11.29%) Azure
19 157 (11.22%) QA
20 144 (10.29%) ServiceNow
21 141 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
22 137 (9.79%) AWS Certification
23 130 (9.29%) Security Cleared
24 129 (9.22%) Windows
25 128 (9.15%) Data Analysis
26 126 (9.01%) Analytics
27 125 (8.93%) Business Analysis
28 122 (8.72%) Performance Metrics
29 121 (8.65%) ERP
29 121 (8.65%) JIRA

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 64 (4.57%) Confluence
2 43 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.14%) SAS
5 6 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Moodle
8 1 (0.071%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.071%) IIS
8 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
Applications
1 214 (15.30%) Microsoft Office
2 173 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.93%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (1.00%) Oracle Smart View
7 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 30 (2.14%) Oracle Payables
1 30 (2.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 20 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 16 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (1.00%) Hyperion Planning
6 12 (0.86%) NEC Housing
7 11 (0.79%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.50%) Shopify
9 6 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.43%) Magento
10 5 (0.36%) Elite 3E
10 5 (0.36%) Visualfiles
11 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
11 4 (0.29%) SAP PP
12 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 248 (17.73%) Microsoft 365
2 208 (14.87%) Power Platform
3 163 (11.65%) AWS
4 158 (11.29%) Azure
5 66 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (3.15%) SaaS
7 38 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 19 (1.36%) GCP
9 19 (1.36%) PowerApps
10 16 (1.14%) Snowflake
11 15 (1.07%) Google Analytics
12 13 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.64%) Power Automate
15 8 (0.57%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.57%) PaaS
16 6 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (0.43%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.72%) Firewall
2 22 (1.57%) VPN
3 19 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
3 19 (1.36%) WAN
4 16 (1.14%) DNS
4 16 (1.14%) LAN
4 16 (1.14%) Wireshark
5 13 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.93%) Wireless
6 11 (0.79%) DHCP
6 11 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.57%) Network Security
8 7 (0.50%) VoIP
9 5 (0.36%) Broadband
9 5 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.29%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.21%) SCCP
12 2 (0.14%) 4G
13 1 (0.071%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (12.65%) Power BI
2 67 (4.79%) Tableau
3 49 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 16 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (1.14%) Power Query
8 15 (1.07%) Looker
8 15 (1.07%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.00%) Essbase
10 12 (0.86%) Metadata
10 12 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.79%) MySQL
12 7 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
13 5 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 121 (8.65%) JIRA
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
3 24 (1.72%) Selenium
4 23 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 20 (1.43%) Postman
5 20 (1.43%) SoapUI
6 18 (1.29%) WebDriver
7 4 (0.29%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.14%) Git
9 2 (0.14%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.14%) JMeter
9 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.14%) TestRail
10 1 (0.071%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.071%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.071%) Gatling
10 1 (0.071%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.071%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.071%) Zephyr
General
1 672 (48.03%) Social Skills
2 434 (31.02%) Finance
3 353 (25.23%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.22%) French Language
5 95 (6.79%) Swedish Language
6 82 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 80 (5.72%) Legal
8 79 (5.65%) Retail
9 78 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
10 68 (4.86%) Marketing
11 49 (3.50%) Public Sector
12 47 (3.36%) Banking
13 40 (2.86%) Law
14 30 (2.14%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (1.79%) Advertising
17 25 (1.79%) Local Government
18 17 (1.22%) Billing
18 17 (1.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.07%) HTML
1 29 (2.07%) SOAP
2 28 (2.00%) .NET
3 13 (0.93%) REST
4 12 (0.86%) JSON
5 11 (0.79%) Flash
5 11 (0.79%) Middleware
6 9 (0.64%) EDI
6 9 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (0.50%) XML
8 4 (0.29%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.29%) Web Services
9 3 (0.21%) FHIR
9 3 (0.21%) Playwright
10 2 (0.14%) CSS
10 2 (0.14%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.14%) SAP PI
10 2 (0.14%) SLSA
10 2 (0.14%) Swagger
10 2 (0.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 98 (7.01%) Onboarding
2 85 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 70 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 57 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 28 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 21 (1.50%) Credit Risk
8 21 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 17 (1.22%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.14%) FMCG
10 16 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.14%) NHS
11 13 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (0.93%) Reinsurance
12 11 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 129 (9.22%) Windows
2 27 (1.93%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.86%) Windows 10
4 24 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.36%) Android
6 18 (1.29%) Linux
7 16 (1.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.21%) Unix
9 2 (0.14%) Solaris
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.071%) AIX
10 1 (0.071%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (19.94%) Agile
2 265 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
3 252 (18.01%) Customer Service
4 249 (17.80%) ITIL
5 207 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 192 (13.72%) Business Intelligence
7 176 (12.58%) Decision-Making
8 175 (12.51%) ITSM
9 128 (9.15%) Data Analysis
10 126 (9.01%) Analytics
11 125 (8.93%) Business Analysis
12 122 (8.72%) Performance Metrics
13 121 (8.65%) ERP
14 111 (7.93%) Process Improvement
15 103 (7.36%) Asset Management
16 100 (7.15%) User Stories
17 96 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 96 (6.86%) User Acceptance Testing
18 88 (6.29%) Coaching
18 88 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 319 (22.80%) SQL
2 98 (7.01%) Python
3 44 (3.15%) C#
4 25 (1.79%) Java
5 23 (1.64%) PowerShell
6 17 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (1.07%) T-SQL
7 15 (1.07%) VBA
8 14 (1.00%) Groovy
9 11 (0.79%) R
10 7 (0.50%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.43%) ABAP
11 6 (0.43%) C++
12 4 (0.29%) Bicep
12 4 (0.29%) C
12 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.14%) VC++
14 1 (0.071%) Go
Qualifications
1 302 (21.59%) Degree
2 141 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 137 (9.79%) AWS Certification
4 130 (9.29%) Security Cleared
5 120 (8.58%) MCSE
6 77 (5.50%) ACCA
7 75 (5.36%) CIMA
8 69 (4.93%) SC Cleared
9 44 (3.15%) DV Cleared
10 31 (2.22%) CISSP
11 29 (2.07%) DBS Check
12 27 (1.93%) ISTQB
13 24 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.50%) AAT
15 19 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.36%) PMI Certification
16 18 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 18 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.86%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (11.22%) QA
2 46 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.93%) NIST
4 40 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.64%) SLA
7 20 (1.43%) GDPR
8 19 (1.36%) PMO
9 17 (1.22%) GRC
10 15 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.43%) Basel II
14 5 (0.36%) COBIT
14 5 (0.36%) EMIR
15 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.29%) MiFID
15 4 (0.29%) SEPA
16 3 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 93 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Docker
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.93%) SCCM
3 8 (0.57%) Terraform
4 6 (0.43%) QRadar
5 3 (0.21%) Ansible
5 3 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.21%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.14%) Nessus
6 2 (0.14%) SCOM
7 1 (0.071%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.071%) Control-M
7 1 (0.071%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.071%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.071%) Grafana
7 1 (0.071%) Nmap
7 1 (0.071%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 395 (28.23%) Microsoft
2 144 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 65 (4.65%) Oracle
4 36 (2.57%) SAP
5 33 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.07%) Google
7 27 (1.93%) Adobe
8 24 (1.72%) Apple
9 18 (1.29%) VMware
10 16 (1.14%) Blue Prism
11 15 (1.07%) Cisco
12 14 (1.00%) Hyperion
13 13 (0.93%) Meraki
13 13 (0.93%) Northgate
14 11 (0.79%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.71%) Citrix
16 9 (0.64%) Databricks
17 8 (0.57%) CheckPoint
17 8 (0.57%) SolarWinds
18 7 (0.50%) Splunk