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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,722 1,390 2,762
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.59% 8.41% 11.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.06% 9.13% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,217 1,074 1,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,150 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,663 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £47,500 £46,353
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +2.48% -3.43%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,375 £78,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 21,352 15,220 23,923
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,315 9,405 17,571
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,000
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 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10 August 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 10 August 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.

1 393 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 365 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
3 364 (21.14%) SQL
4 314 (18.23%) Agile
5 290 (16.84%) Degree
6 236 (13.70%) Decision-Making
7 228 (13.24%) Business Analysis
8 219 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 218 (12.66%) Analytics
10 217 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
11 213 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
12 202 (11.73%) Power Platform
13 196 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
14 194 (11.27%) ITIL
15 192 (11.15%) Power BI
16 185 (10.74%) Customer Service
17 179 (10.39%) Azure
18 175 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 173 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
20 163 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
20 163 (9.47%) Windows
21 156 (9.06%) Process Improvement
22 150 (8.71%) User Stories
23 147 (8.54%) QA
24 142 (8.25%) Mentoring
25 136 (7.90%) Microsoft Office
26 131 (7.61%) ServiceNow
27 130 (7.55%) AWS
28 129 (7.49%) Active Directory
28 129 (7.49%) AI

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 69 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.92%) Confluence
4 13 (0.75%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) SAS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.058%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.058%) CMS
7 1 (0.058%) Site Server
Applications
1 173 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 136 (7.90%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 19 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 24 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.58%) Visualfiles
4 9 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.52%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.29%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.29%) Shopify
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
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
10 2 (0.12%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 217 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
2 202 (11.73%) Power Platform
3 179 (10.39%) Azure
4 130 (7.55%) AWS
5 75 (4.36%) Entra ID
6 59 (3.43%) GCP
7 50 (2.90%) SaaS
8 38 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.21%) Google Analytics
9 30 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.10%) PowerApps
11 18 (1.05%) OneDrive
12 16 (0.93%) IaaS
12 16 (0.93%) PaaS
12 16 (0.93%) Power Automate
13 13 (0.75%) Azure Functions
13 13 (0.75%) GitHub
13 13 (0.75%) Serverless
13 13 (0.75%) Snowflake
14 12 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.79%) Firewall
1 48 (2.79%) VPN
2 40 (2.32%) DNS
3 34 (1.97%) DHCP
4 32 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
5 27 (1.57%) Broadband
5 27 (1.57%) Network Security
6 24 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.10%) LAN
8 17 (0.99%) WAN
9 12 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (0.58%) Internet
11 7 (0.41%) HTTP
12 5 (0.29%) SSL
13 4 (0.23%) FTP
13 4 (0.23%) NGFW
13 4 (0.23%) SMTP
13 4 (0.23%) Wireless
14 3 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
15 2 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (11.15%) Power BI
2 53 (3.08%) Tableau
3 49 (2.85%) SQL Server
4 33 (1.92%) Looker
5 26 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 25 (1.45%) BigQuery
7 21 (1.22%) Power Query
8 19 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (0.87%) Metadata
10 14 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
13 8 (0.46%) MySQL
14 7 (0.41%) Db2
14 7 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (0.35%) SAP BW
16 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
17 3 (0.17%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 94 (5.46%) JIRA
2 19 (1.10%) Git
3 10 (0.58%) Selenium
4 7 (0.41%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) GitLab
6 4 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.12%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.12%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.058%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.058%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.058%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.058%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.058%) TestNG
9 1 (0.058%) WebDriver
General
1 584 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 472 (27.41%) Analytical Skills
3 415 (24.10%) Finance
4 158 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 115 (6.68%) Law
7 95 (5.52%) Retail
8 85 (4.94%) Legal
9 64 (3.72%) Banking
10 59 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.79%) Swedish Language
12 45 (2.61%) Marketing
13 32 (1.86%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.51%) French Language
15 24 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.05%) Advertising
17 18 (1.05%) Front Office
18 17 (0.99%) Aviation
19 16 (0.93%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.51%) .NET
2 25 (1.45%) HTML
3 21 (1.22%) XML
4 20 (1.16%) CSS
5 19 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 12 (0.70%) Web Services
8 11 (0.64%) EDI
8 11 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
8 11 (0.64%) Gherkin
9 7 (0.41%) Playwright
10 5 (0.29%) HTML5
10 5 (0.29%) jQuery
10 5 (0.29%) JSON
10 5 (0.29%) Middleware
11 4 (0.23%) LDAP
11 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.23%) SOAP
12 2 (0.12%) FpML
12 2 (0.12%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.62%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 68 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 54 (3.14%) Security Posture
4 54 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
6 36 (2.09%) Driving Licence
7 35 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 31 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
10 16 (0.93%) Client/Server
11 15 (0.87%) Operational Technology
12 14 (0.81%) Blog
13 13 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.75%) Housing Association
13 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.75%) Social Media
14 12 (0.70%) Cyberattack
14 12 (0.70%) Derivative
14 12 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 163 (9.47%) Windows
2 65 (3.77%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.39%) Linux
4 18 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.70%) VMS
6 11 (0.64%) Android
7 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
2 314 (18.23%) Agile
3 236 (13.70%) Decision-Making
4 228 (13.24%) Business Analysis
5 219 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 218 (12.66%) Analytics
7 213 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
8 196 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
9 194 (11.27%) ITIL
10 185 (10.74%) Customer Service
11 175 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 163 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 156 (9.06%) Process Improvement
14 150 (8.71%) User Stories
15 142 (8.25%) Mentoring
16 129 (7.49%) AI
17 126 (7.32%) Actionable Insight
18 124 (7.20%) ITSM
19 123 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
20 120 (6.97%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 364 (21.14%) SQL
2 103 (5.98%) Python
3 58 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 37 (2.15%) C#
5 21 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
6 18 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (1.05%) Java
6 18 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.05%) VBA
7 13 (0.75%) Bash
8 12 (0.70%) Bicep
8 12 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.64%) C++
9 11 (0.64%) R
10 8 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.23%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.17%) VB
13 2 (0.12%) Delphi
13 2 (0.12%) PHP
13 2 (0.12%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 290 (16.84%) Degree
2 123 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 103 (5.98%) AWS Certification
4 102 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 97 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 73 (4.24%) MCSE
7 54 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.38%) ACCA
9 37 (2.15%) CIMA
10 31 (1.80%) CISSP
11 24 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
12 21 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 21 (1.22%) CISM
13 20 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (1.05%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.81%) AAT
16 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
17 9 (0.52%) CISA
17 9 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.54%) QA
2 77 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (3.14%) GDPR
5 43 (2.50%) NIST
6 30 (1.74%) SLA
7 23 (1.34%) PMO
8 22 (1.28%) GRC
9 21 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.05%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.93%) FINREP
12 14 (0.81%) COREP
13 12 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.70%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.64%) IFRS
15 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.52%) NCSC
17 7 (0.41%) EMIR
18 6 (0.35%) MiFID
18 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 129 (7.49%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.75%) vSphere
6 5 (0.29%) Docker
7 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (0.99%) SCCM
3 13 (0.75%) Terraform
4 8 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 6 (0.35%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.23%) QRadar
7 3 (0.17%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.17%) Kibana
7 3 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.12%) Grafana
8 2 (0.12%) Graylog
9 1 (0.058%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.058%) Nessus
9 1 (0.058%) Nmap
9 1 (0.058%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.058%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 393 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 131 (7.61%) ServiceNow
3 48 (2.79%) Google
4 46 (2.67%) SAP
5 45 (2.61%) Oracle
6 40 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 30 (1.74%) Adobe
8 28 (1.63%) Apple
8 28 (1.63%) VMware
9 21 (1.22%) Cisco
10 19 (1.10%) iManage
11 17 (0.99%) Citrix
12 16 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 16 (0.93%) Qualys
13 14 (0.81%) Aruba
14 12 (0.70%) Intapp
14 12 (0.70%) ScienceLogic
15 9 (0.52%) Aderant
15 9 (0.52%) FIS
15 9 (0.52%) SunGard