Hybrid/Remote Analyst Job Trends

Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Analyst salary for remote/hybrid work is £46,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,447 1,343 3,580
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.24% 10.18% 11.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.81% 10.95% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 961 961 2,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,500 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +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 16,430 12,262 31,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.94% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,808 9,000 24,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,125 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +6.40% -9.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,525 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

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 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 16 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.

1 332 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 307 (21.22%) SQL
3 291 (20.11%) Degree
4 240 (16.59%) Agile
5 232 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 209 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
7 204 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
8 195 (13.48%) Customer Service
9 194 (13.41%) Power Platform
10 191 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 188 (12.99%) ITIL
12 187 (12.92%) Power BI
13 184 (12.72%) Decision-Making
14 165 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
15 161 (11.13%) Microsoft Excel
16 147 (10.16%) Security Cleared
17 142 (9.81%) Azure
17 142 (9.81%) QA
18 139 (9.61%) ServiceNow
19 138 (9.54%) Business Analysis
20 134 (9.26%) ERP
20 134 (9.26%) Process Improvement
21 132 (9.12%) AWS
22 129 (8.91%) ITSM
23 125 (8.64%) Analytics
24 119 (8.22%) Windows
25 117 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
26 116 (8.02%) Mentoring
27 115 (7.95%) AWS Certification
28 109 (7.53%) User Stories

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 46 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.21%) Confluence
2 32 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.11%) SAS
4 7 (0.48%) CMS
4 7 (0.48%) IIS
5 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.14%) Moodle
6 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
Applications
1 165 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
2 161 (11.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.69%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
1 21 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 20 (1.38%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (1.38%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (1.38%) Oracle General Ledger
3 19 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (1.17%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.76%) NEC Housing
7 10 (0.69%) Hyperion Planning
7 10 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.69%) Shopify
8 9 (0.62%) Cloudability
8 9 (0.62%) Magento
9 5 (0.35%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
9 5 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.28%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 204 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
2 194 (13.41%) Power Platform
3 142 (9.81%) Azure
4 132 (9.12%) AWS
5 74 (5.11%) Dynamics 365
6 51 (3.52%) SaaS
7 40 (2.76%) GCP
8 36 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 30 (2.07%) Google Analytics
10 17 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (0.90%) OneDrive
12 12 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (0.76%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.62%) PowerApps
15 7 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
16 5 (0.35%) Lucidchart
16 5 (0.35%) Mimecast
16 5 (0.35%) Miro
16 5 (0.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.80%) VPN
2 25 (1.73%) Firewall
3 22 (1.52%) Network Security
4 19 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.17%) DNS
6 15 (1.04%) DHCP
7 13 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
7 13 (0.90%) WAN
8 10 (0.69%) LAN
9 9 (0.62%) Broadband
10 8 (0.55%) VoIP
11 7 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.28%) Wireless
14 3 (0.21%) SCCP
15 2 (0.14%) FTP
15 2 (0.14%) HTTP
15 2 (0.14%) Internet
15 2 (0.14%) SMTP
15 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (12.92%) Power BI
2 67 (4.63%) Tableau
3 63 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 29 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (1.73%) BigQuery
5 25 (1.73%) Looker
6 23 (1.59%) Power Query
7 15 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (0.76%) Metadata
10 11 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 10 (0.69%) Essbase
11 10 (0.69%) MySQL
12 8 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.55%) DB2
13 7 (0.48%) PowerPivot
14 5 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
14 5 (0.35%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 94 (6.50%) JIRA
2 20 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
3 19 (1.31%) Postman
4 17 (1.17%) Selenium
4 17 (1.17%) SoapUI
5 16 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (0.76%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.21%) Git
7 3 (0.21%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.069%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.069%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.069%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.069%) TestRail
9 1 (0.069%) Toad
9 1 (0.069%) Zephyr
General
1 562 (38.84%) Social Skills
2 395 (27.30%) Finance
3 352 (24.33%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 85 (5.87%) Retail
6 80 (5.53%) Banking
7 78 (5.39%) French Language
8 73 (5.04%) Legal
9 64 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 59 (4.08%) Law
11 57 (3.94%) Marketing
12 50 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.49%) Swedish Language
14 24 (1.66%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.59%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.38%) Advertising
18 18 (1.24%) Automotive
18 18 (1.24%) Back Office
18 18 (1.24%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.35%) .NET
2 25 (1.73%) SOAP
3 17 (1.17%) HTML
4 16 (1.11%) Middleware
5 15 (1.04%) XML
6 14 (0.97%) JSON
7 13 (0.90%) EDI
8 11 (0.76%) REST
9 10 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (0.55%) Flash
11 3 (0.21%) Gherkin
11 3 (0.21%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.21%) Playwright
11 3 (0.21%) SAP PI
11 3 (0.21%) Swagger
11 3 (0.21%) XSLT
12 2 (0.14%) FHIR
12 2 (0.14%) Pandas
12 2 (0.14%) React
12 2 (0.14%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 93 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 49 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 45 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 22 (1.52%) Security Posture
8 21 (1.45%) Credit Risk
8 21 (1.45%) Driving Licence
8 21 (1.45%) FMCG
9 18 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 14 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
13 11 (0.76%) Social Media
13 11 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
14 10 (0.69%) PMI
15 9 (0.62%) Mobile App
16 8 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 119 (8.22%) Windows
2 31 (2.14%) Windows 10
3 30 (2.07%) Apple iOS
4 29 (2.00%) Android
5 25 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.38%) Linux
7 11 (0.76%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.069%) AIX
9 1 (0.069%) Unix
9 1 (0.069%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (16.59%) Agile
2 232 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
3 209 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
4 195 (13.48%) Customer Service
5 191 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 188 (12.99%) ITIL
7 184 (12.72%) Decision-Making
8 138 (9.54%) Business Analysis
9 134 (9.26%) ERP
9 134 (9.26%) Process Improvement
10 129 (8.91%) ITSM
11 125 (8.64%) Analytics
12 117 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
13 116 (8.02%) Mentoring
14 109 (7.53%) User Stories
15 108 (7.46%) Data Analysis
16 93 (6.43%) Performance Metrics
17 90 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 84 (5.81%) Coaching
19 81 (5.60%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 307 (21.22%) SQL
2 76 (5.25%) Python
3 46 (3.18%) C#
4 32 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 28 (1.94%) Java
6 25 (1.73%) T-SQL
7 24 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (1.11%) VBA
9 10 (0.69%) Groovy
10 8 (0.55%) R
11 6 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.35%) PHP
13 4 (0.28%) C++
13 4 (0.28%) Delphi
13 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.28%) Pascal
13 4 (0.28%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.21%) VC++
15 2 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 291 (20.11%) Degree
2 147 (10.16%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.95%) AWS Certification
4 108 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 90 (6.22%) MCSE
6 82 (5.67%) SC Cleared
7 81 (5.60%) ACCA
8 80 (5.53%) CIMA
9 44 (3.04%) DV Cleared
10 31 (2.14%) CISSP
11 28 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (1.66%) DBS Check
13 23 (1.59%) AAT
14 21 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (1.31%) PMI Certification
16 17 (1.17%) ISTQB
17 16 (1.11%) IIBA
18 11 (0.76%) CISA
18 11 (0.76%) CISM
18 11 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.81%) QA
2 66 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (2.14%) NIST
5 28 (1.94%) SLA
6 21 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.38%) GDPR
7 20 (1.38%) PMO
8 19 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.31%) GRC
9 14 (0.97%) COREP
10 13 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.83%) SOC 2
12 11 (0.76%) FINREP
13 9 (0.62%) EMIR
14 7 (0.48%) MiFID
14 7 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.41%) Basel II
16 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
17 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.21%) Docker
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.31%) SCCM
3 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
3 4 (0.28%) QRadar
4 3 (0.21%) Ansible
4 3 (0.21%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.21%) Terraform
5 1 (0.069%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.069%) Control-M
5 1 (0.069%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 332 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 139 (9.61%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.87%) Oracle
4 44 (3.04%) Google
5 43 (2.97%) SAP
6 39 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.28%) Adobe
8 30 (2.07%) Apple
9 12 (0.83%) ConnectWise
9 12 (0.83%) Northgate
10 11 (0.76%) Citrix
11 10 (0.69%) Hyperion
11 10 (0.69%) VMware
12 9 (0.62%) Databricks
12 9 (0.62%) IBM
12 9 (0.62%) WooCommerce
13 8 (0.55%) iManage
14 7 (0.48%) Aderant
14 7 (0.48%) JD Edwards
15 6 (0.41%) Intapp