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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,496 1,347 3,591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.34% 10.09% 11.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.90% 10.87% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 962 2,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,050 £27,695
25th Percentile £36,663 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £52,500 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +16.03% -4.74%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -2.68%

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 16,804 12,395 31,147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 92.89% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,110 9,074 24,964
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,530 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,675 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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.

1 323 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 307 (20.52%) SQL
3 284 (18.98%) Degree
4 258 (17.25%) Agile
5 231 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
6 211 (14.10%) Business Intelligence
7 197 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 197 (13.17%) Power Platform
8 196 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
9 191 (12.77%) Power BI
10 189 (12.63%) Decision-Making
11 183 (12.23%) Customer Service
12 182 (12.17%) ITIL
13 160 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
14 155 (10.36%) Microsoft Office
15 152 (10.16%) Process Improvement
16 151 (10.09%) Business Analysis
16 151 (10.09%) Security Cleared
17 148 (9.89%) Azure
18 140 (9.36%) ERP
19 138 (9.22%) QA
20 136 (9.09%) ServiceNow
21 135 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
22 126 (8.42%) Mentoring
23 123 (8.22%) ITSM
24 122 (8.16%) AWS
25 120 (8.02%) Windows
26 118 (7.89%) Analytics
27 111 (7.42%) User Stories
28 109 (7.29%) Data Analysis

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 47 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (2.01%) Confluence
4 11 (0.74%) SAS
5 7 (0.47%) CMS
5 7 (0.47%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.13%) Moodle
7 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.067%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 160 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (10.36%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
1 19 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 18 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
2 18 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
2 18 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
3 13 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.80%) Cloudability
5 11 (0.74%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.67%) Shopify
7 9 (0.60%) Hyperion Planning
7 9 (0.60%) Magento
7 9 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.33%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
9 5 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.27%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 197 (13.17%) Power Platform
2 196 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
3 148 (9.89%) Azure
4 122 (8.16%) AWS
5 75 (5.01%) Dynamics 365
6 46 (3.07%) SaaS
7 41 (2.74%) GCP
8 37 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 29 (1.94%) Google Analytics
10 17 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.00%) OneDrive
12 13 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (0.80%) Power Automate
14 8 (0.53%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
16 5 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
16 5 (0.33%) Lucidchart
16 5 (0.33%) Mimecast
16 5 (0.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.74%) Firewall
1 26 (1.74%) VPN
2 22 (1.47%) Network Security
3 19 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.14%) DNS
5 14 (0.94%) DHCP
6 13 (0.87%) Broadband
6 13 (0.87%) WAN
7 10 (0.67%) LAN
8 9 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
9 8 (0.53%) VoIP
10 6 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.27%) SSL
12 4 (0.27%) Wireless
13 3 (0.20%) SCCP
14 2 (0.13%) 4G
14 2 (0.13%) FTP
14 2 (0.13%) Internet
14 2 (0.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (12.77%) Power BI
2 70 (4.68%) Tableau
3 61 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 28 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 25 (1.67%) Looker
6 20 (1.34%) Power Query
7 14 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.74%) Metadata
10 11 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 10 (0.67%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.60%) Essbase
12 9 (0.60%) MySQL
13 8 (0.53%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.53%) DB2
14 7 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.47%) PowerPivot
15 6 (0.40%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 92 (6.15%) JIRA
2 19 (1.27%) Postman
3 18 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (1.14%) SoapUI
5 16 (1.07%) Selenium
5 16 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (0.74%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.20%) Git
8 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.067%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.067%) Gatling
9 1 (0.067%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.067%) Locust
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.067%) TestRail
9 1 (0.067%) Toad
9 1 (0.067%) Zephyr
General
1 546 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 406 (27.14%) Finance
3 358 (23.93%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (5.95%) Retail
6 83 (5.55%) Public Sector
7 79 (5.28%) Banking
8 72 (4.81%) Legal
9 69 (4.61%) French Language
10 59 (3.94%) Law
11 55 (3.68%) Marketing
12 50 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.80%) Swedish Language
14 26 (1.74%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.34%) Advertising
17 19 (1.27%) Aviation
18 18 (1.20%) Publishing
19 17 (1.14%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.21%) .NET
2 25 (1.67%) SOAP
3 17 (1.14%) HTML
4 16 (1.07%) Middleware
5 15 (1.00%) XML
6 14 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (0.87%) EDI
8 12 (0.80%) JSON
9 10 (0.67%) REST
10 7 (0.47%) Flash
11 3 (0.20%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.20%) Playwright
11 3 (0.20%) SAP PI
11 3 (0.20%) Swagger
11 3 (0.20%) XSLT
12 2 (0.13%) FpML
12 2 (0.13%) Gherkin
12 2 (0.13%) Pandas
12 2 (0.13%) Seaborn
12 2 (0.13%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 103 (6.89%) Product Ownership
2 73 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 51 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 48 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 45 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 27 (1.80%) Driving Licence
8 24 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
9 21 (1.40%) FMCG
10 20 (1.34%) Credit Risk
11 18 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.87%) Social Media
15 11 (0.74%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
16 10 (0.67%) PMI
17 9 (0.60%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 120 (8.02%) Windows
2 31 (2.07%) Windows 10
3 30 (2.01%) Android
3 30 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.40%) Linux
6 9 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.067%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (17.25%) Agile
2 231 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
3 211 (14.10%) Business Intelligence
4 197 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 189 (12.63%) Decision-Making
6 183 (12.23%) Customer Service
7 182 (12.17%) ITIL
8 152 (10.16%) Process Improvement
9 151 (10.09%) Business Analysis
10 140 (9.36%) ERP
11 135 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
12 126 (8.42%) Mentoring
13 123 (8.22%) ITSM
14 118 (7.89%) Analytics
15 111 (7.42%) User Stories
16 109 (7.29%) Data Analysis
17 97 (6.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 93 (6.22%) Coaching
19 88 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
20 87 (5.82%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 307 (20.52%) SQL
2 79 (5.28%) Python
3 43 (2.87%) C#
4 32 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 28 (1.87%) Java
6 27 (1.80%) T-SQL
7 23 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (1.00%) VBA
9 9 (0.60%) Groovy
10 8 (0.53%) R
11 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.33%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.27%) Delphi
13 4 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.27%) Pascal
13 4 (0.27%) PHP
13 4 (0.27%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.20%) C++
14 3 (0.20%) VC++
15 2 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 284 (18.98%) Degree
2 151 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 108 (7.22%) AWS Certification
4 98 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 87 (5.82%) SC Cleared
6 81 (5.41%) MCSE
7 80 (5.35%) ACCA
8 79 (5.28%) CIMA
9 43 (2.87%) DV Cleared
10 32 (2.14%) CISSP
11 29 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (1.67%) DBS Check
13 22 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
14 21 (1.40%) AAT
15 19 (1.27%) PMI Certification
16 16 (1.07%) IIBA
16 16 (1.07%) ISTQB
17 14 (0.94%) CISA
18 13 (0.87%) CISM
19 12 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (9.22%) QA
2 68 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (2.47%) NIST
5 30 (2.01%) SLA
6 22 (1.47%) GRC
6 22 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.47%) PMO
7 21 (1.40%) GDPR
8 18 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.00%) COREP
10 13 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.80%) FINREP
12 8 (0.53%) EMIR
13 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.40%) Basel II
14 6 (0.40%) MiFID
14 6 (0.40%) NCSC
15 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 74 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.74%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.20%) Docker
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.27%) SCCM
3 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
3 4 (0.27%) QRadar
4 3 (0.20%) Ansible
4 3 (0.20%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.20%) Terraform
5 1 (0.067%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.067%) Control-M
5 1 (0.067%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.067%) Graylog
Vendors
1 323 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 136 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 55 (3.68%) Oracle
4 45 (3.01%) SAP
5 42 (2.81%) Google
6 38 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 36 (2.41%) Adobe
8 33 (2.21%) Apple
9 12 (0.80%) ConnectWise
10 11 (0.74%) Northgate
11 10 (0.67%) Citrix
11 10 (0.67%) VMware
12 9 (0.60%) Hyperion
12 9 (0.60%) WooCommerce
13 8 (0.53%) IBM
13 8 (0.53%) iManage
13 8 (0.53%) JD Edwards
14 7 (0.47%) Aderant
15 6 (0.40%) Intapp
16 5 (0.33%) Databricks