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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,724 1,381 2,775
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.52% 8.34% 11.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.00% 9.02% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 1,059 1,431
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,663 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +5.56% -7.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.01%

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 21,560 15,304 23,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.41% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,389 9,283 17,118
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,329
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 20 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 20 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 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 375 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
3 372 (21.58%) SQL
4 316 (18.33%) Agile
5 285 (16.53%) Degree
6 248 (14.39%) Decision-Making
7 236 (13.69%) Business Analysis
8 234 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 225 (13.05%) Analytics
10 209 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
11 207 (12.01%) Microsoft 365
12 199 (11.54%) ITIL
13 195 (11.31%) Power Platform
14 194 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 193 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
16 186 (10.79%) Power BI
17 182 (10.56%) Customer Service
17 182 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 176 (10.21%) Azure
19 174 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
20 159 (9.22%) Process Improvement
21 157 (9.11%) Windows
22 154 (8.93%) User Stories
23 143 (8.29%) QA
24 137 (7.95%) AI
25 133 (7.71%) Mentoring
26 130 (7.54%) AWS
26 130 (7.54%) ITSM
26 130 (7.54%) Requirements Gathering
27 128 (7.42%) Active Directory

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 53 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (2.03%) Confluence
4 11 (0.64%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) SAS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
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
Applications
1 174 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (7.42%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.29%) 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 10 (0.58%) Visualfiles
4 9 (0.52%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
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
1 207 (12.01%) Microsoft 365
2 195 (11.31%) Power Platform
3 176 (10.21%) Azure
4 130 (7.54%) AWS
5 76 (4.41%) Entra ID
6 55 (3.19%) SaaS
7 52 (3.02%) GCP
8 38 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.97%) Google Analytics
10 29 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.93%) IaaS
12 16 (0.93%) PaaS
12 16 (0.93%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.87%) OneDrive
14 14 (0.81%) Serverless
15 13 (0.75%) Azure Functions
15 13 (0.75%) Snowflake
16 12 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (0.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.67%) Firewall
2 45 (2.61%) VPN
3 39 (2.26%) DNS
4 32 (1.86%) DHCP
5 31 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (1.57%) Network Security
7 26 (1.51%) Broadband
8 23 (1.33%) 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 5 (0.29%) SSL
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%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (10.79%) Power BI
2 54 (3.13%) Tableau
3 46 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.68%) Looker
5 25 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 20 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.16%) Power Query
7 17 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (0.93%) Metadata
9 12 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
12 8 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (0.41%) MySQL
14 6 (0.35%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (0.29%) Db2
15 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 100 (5.80%) 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%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.058%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.058%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.058%) TestNG
9 1 (0.058%) WebDriver
General
1 592 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 501 (29.06%) Analytical Skills
3 438 (25.41%) Finance
4 161 (9.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 132 (7.66%) Public Sector
6 127 (7.37%) Law
7 93 (5.39%) Retail
8 84 (4.87%) Legal
9 66 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
10 58 (3.36%) Banking
11 48 (2.78%) Marketing
11 48 (2.78%) Swedish Language
12 38 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.16%) French Language
16 19 (1.10%) Advertising
17 18 (1.04%) Front Office
18 17 (0.99%) Aviation
19 16 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.45%) HTML
2 21 (1.22%) .NET
2 21 (1.22%) XML
3 20 (1.16%) CSS
3 20 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (0.75%) Terraform
5 12 (0.70%) .NET Framework
5 12 (0.70%) Web Services
6 11 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (0.64%) Gherkin
7 8 (0.46%) EDI
8 5 (0.29%) HTML5
8 5 (0.29%) jQuery
8 5 (0.29%) Playwright
9 4 (0.23%) JSON
9 4 (0.23%) LDAP
9 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (0.23%) Middleware
10 3 (0.17%) NumPy
10 3 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.93%) Management Information System
3 68 (3.94%) Onboarding
4 56 (3.25%) Security Posture
5 47 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
7 35 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 33 (1.91%) Driving Licence
9 29 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (0.93%) Client/Server
12 15 (0.87%) Blog
12 15 (0.87%) Operational Technology
13 13 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.70%) Cyberattack
14 12 (0.70%) Derivative
14 12 (0.70%) Housing Association
14 12 (0.70%) Podcast
14 12 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 157 (9.11%) Windows
2 63 (3.65%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.39%) Linux
4 15 (0.87%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.70%) VMS
6 10 (0.58%) Android
7 8 (0.46%) 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
1 375 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
2 316 (18.33%) Agile
3 248 (14.39%) Decision-Making
4 236 (13.69%) Business Analysis
5 234 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 225 (13.05%) Analytics
7 209 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
8 199 (11.54%) ITIL
9 194 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 193 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
11 182 (10.56%) Customer Service
11 182 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 159 (9.22%) Process Improvement
13 154 (8.93%) User Stories
14 137 (7.95%) AI
15 133 (7.71%) Mentoring
16 130 (7.54%) ITSM
16 130 (7.54%) Requirements Gathering
17 127 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
18 126 (7.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 372 (21.58%) SQL
2 109 (6.32%) Python
3 57 (3.31%) PowerShell
4 34 (1.97%) C#
5 22 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
6 19 (1.10%) Java
7 18 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (1.04%) VBA
8 17 (0.99%) JavaScript
9 13 (0.75%) Bash
10 12 (0.70%) Bicep
11 11 (0.64%) C++
12 10 (0.58%) R
12 10 (0.58%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.17%) VB
15 2 (0.12%) Tcl
15 2 (0.12%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.058%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 285 (16.53%) Degree
2 122 (7.08%) Security Cleared
3 106 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 98 (5.68%) AWS Certification
5 92 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (3.94%) MCSE
7 53 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.26%) ACCA
9 35 (2.03%) CIMA
10 26 (1.51%) CISSP
11 24 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.16%) CISM
14 20 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.10%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.70%) AAT
17 10 (0.58%) DV Cleared
18 9 (0.52%) Master's Degree
19 8 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (8.29%) QA
2 82 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (3.19%) GDPR
5 40 (2.32%) NIST
6 29 (1.68%) SLA
7 25 (1.45%) PMO
8 20 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.10%) GRC
10 16 (0.93%) FINREP
10 16 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.81%) COREP
12 10 (0.58%) IFRS
13 8 (0.46%) NCSC
13 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.41%) EMIR
15 6 (0.35%) MiFID
15 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 128 (7.42%) 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 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (2.09%) 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
6 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.12%) Grafana
7 2 (0.12%) Graylog
8 1 (0.058%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.058%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.058%) Jamf Pro
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
1 393 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.19%) ServiceNow
3 47 (2.73%) Oracle
4 45 (2.61%) Google
5 44 (2.55%) SAP
6 43 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.68%) Adobe
7 29 (1.68%) VMware
8 28 (1.62%) Apple
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 11 (0.64%) Aderant
16 10 (0.58%) FIS
16 10 (0.58%) IBM