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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,403 1,380 3,217
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.31% 10.62% 10.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.86% 11.25% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 925 971 2,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,125 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +10.50% -4.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £43,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.47% +5.56% -3.23%

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 15,833 12,267 29,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.39% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 8,894 24,254
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,763
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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.

1 346 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 293 (20.88%) Degree
3 283 (20.17%) SQL
4 252 (17.96%) Agile
5 233 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
6 213 (15.18%) Customer Service
6 213 (15.18%) Microsoft 365
7 208 (14.83%) ITIL
8 202 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
9 199 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 195 (13.90%) Power Platform
11 183 (13.04%) Power BI
12 182 (12.97%) Decision-Making
13 180 (12.83%) Microsoft Office
14 160 (11.40%) Microsoft Excel
15 151 (10.76%) ITSM
16 143 (10.19%) QA
17 142 (10.12%) Security Cleared
18 141 (10.05%) Azure
19 135 (9.62%) ServiceNow
20 131 (9.34%) AWS
21 128 (9.12%) Windows
22 127 (9.05%) Business Analysis
23 122 (8.70%) Analytics
23 122 (8.70%) Data Analysis
24 120 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
25 119 (8.48%) Process Improvement
26 117 (8.34%) ERP
27 114 (8.13%) AWS Certification
28 100 (7.13%) 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 50 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.42%) Confluence
2 34 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.21%) SAS
4 7 (0.50%) CMS
5 5 (0.36%) IIS
6 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Moodle
7 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
Applications
1 180 (12.83%) Microsoft Office
2 160 (11.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.71%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 20 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
1 20 (1.43%) Oracle Financials
1 20 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
1 20 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
1 20 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 13 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 10 (0.71%) Hyperion Planning
4 10 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.71%) Shopify
5 9 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.64%) Magento
6 5 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.29%) SAP PP
7 4 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.21%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 213 (15.18%) Microsoft 365
2 195 (13.90%) Power Platform
3 141 (10.05%) Azure
4 131 (9.34%) AWS
5 72 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
6 54 (3.85%) SaaS
7 42 (2.99%) Entra ID
8 25 (1.78%) GCP
9 23 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.57%) Google Analytics
11 13 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (0.86%) Power Automate
13 11 (0.78%) OneDrive
14 9 (0.64%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.57%) PaaS
16 7 (0.50%) Adobe Analytics
17 5 (0.36%) Google Tag Manager
17 5 (0.36%) IaaS
17 5 (0.36%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.00%) Firewall
2 26 (1.85%) VPN
3 21 (1.50%) DNS
4 19 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
4 19 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.21%) DHCP
6 15 (1.07%) Network Security
7 10 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.57%) VoIP
8 8 (0.57%) WAN
9 5 (0.36%) Broadband
9 5 (0.36%) LAN
9 5 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.29%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.29%) Wireless
10 4 (0.29%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.21%) SCCP
12 2 (0.14%) 4G
12 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (13.04%) Power BI
2 65 (4.63%) Tableau
3 63 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 29 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 23 (1.64%) Power Query
6 22 (1.57%) Looker
7 17 (1.21%) BigQuery
8 16 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.00%) Relational Database
10 13 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.86%) Metadata
12 11 (0.78%) MySQL
12 11 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 10 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.71%) Essbase
14 8 (0.57%) DB2
14 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.50%) PowerPivot
16 6 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
16 6 (0.43%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 93 (6.63%) JIRA
2 20 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (1.21%) Selenium
4 15 (1.07%) Postman
5 14 (1.00%) SoapUI
6 13 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 11 (0.78%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.21%) Git
9 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.14%) JMeter
10 2 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.071%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.071%) Gatling
11 1 (0.071%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.071%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.071%) TestRail
11 1 (0.071%) Zephyr
General
1 590 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 383 (27.30%) Finance
3 353 (25.16%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (6.63%) French Language
5 86 (6.13%) Legal
6 85 (6.06%) Retail
7 83 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 68 (4.85%) Banking
9 57 (4.06%) Public Sector
10 55 (3.92%) Law
10 55 (3.92%) Swedish Language
11 53 (3.78%) Marketing
12 52 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.71%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.57%) Local Government
16 20 (1.43%) Advertising
16 20 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.35%) Automotive
17 19 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.28%) .NET
2 23 (1.64%) SOAP
3 16 (1.14%) HTML
4 15 (1.07%) Middleware
5 13 (0.93%) EDI
5 13 (0.93%) JSON
5 13 (0.93%) XML
6 12 (0.86%) REST
7 10 (0.71%) Flash
8 5 (0.36%) Playwright
9 4 (0.29%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.21%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.21%) Swagger
10 3 (0.21%) XSLT
11 2 (0.14%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.14%) FHIR
11 2 (0.14%) React
11 2 (0.14%) SAP PI
11 2 (0.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.27%) Product Ownership
2 82 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 51 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 46 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 37 (2.64%) Data Structures
7 25 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 22 (1.57%) Credit Risk
8 22 (1.57%) NHS
9 20 (1.43%) FMCG
10 19 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 14 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
14 12 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (0.78%) Client/Server
15 11 (0.78%) Social Media
15 11 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
16 10 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 128 (9.12%) Windows
2 34 (2.42%) Windows 10
3 30 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 27 (1.92%) Android
6 21 (1.50%) Linux
7 14 (1.00%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.071%) AIX
9 1 (0.071%) Unix
9 1 (0.071%) VMS
9 1 (0.071%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (17.96%) Agile
2 233 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
3 213 (15.18%) Customer Service
4 208 (14.83%) ITIL
5 202 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
6 199 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 182 (12.97%) Decision-Making
8 151 (10.76%) ITSM
9 127 (9.05%) Business Analysis
10 122 (8.70%) Analytics
10 122 (8.70%) Data Analysis
11 119 (8.48%) Process Improvement
12 117 (8.34%) ERP
13 100 (7.13%) User Stories
14 99 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
14 99 (7.06%) Mentoring
14 99 (7.06%) Performance Metrics
15 89 (6.34%) Stakeholder Management
16 83 (5.92%) Project Management
17 82 (5.84%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 283 (20.17%) SQL
2 75 (5.35%) Python
3 42 (2.99%) C#
4 30 (2.14%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.50%) T-SQL
6 20 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (1.43%) Java
7 12 (0.86%) VBA
8 10 (0.71%) Groovy
9 8 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.57%) R
10 7 (0.50%) C++
11 5 (0.36%) ABAP
11 5 (0.36%) C
11 5 (0.36%) PHP
11 5 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.29%) Delphi
12 4 (0.29%) Pascal
12 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 293 (20.88%) Degree
2 142 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 120 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 114 (8.13%) AWS Certification
5 97 (6.91%) MCSE
6 80 (5.70%) ACCA
6 80 (5.70%) CIMA
7 76 (5.42%) SC Cleared
8 46 (3.28%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.42%) CISSP
10 30 (2.14%) DBS Check
11 28 (2.00%) AAT
12 25 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
13 20 (1.43%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.28%) ISTQB
15 16 (1.14%) IIBA
16 12 (0.86%) CISA
16 12 (0.86%) CISM
17 11 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (10.19%) QA
2 56 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.42%) NIST
5 23 (1.64%) GDPR
6 21 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 21 (1.50%) SLA
7 20 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.28%) GRC
8 18 (1.28%) PMO
9 13 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.86%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.64%) COREP
11 9 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.43%) Basel II
12 6 (0.43%) EMIR
12 6 (0.43%) FINREP
13 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.29%) MiFID
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 15 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.21%) Docker
6 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.21%) SCCM
3 5 (0.36%) Terraform
4 4 (0.29%) CSIRT
5 3 (0.21%) Ansible
5 3 (0.21%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.14%) QRadar
7 1 (0.071%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.071%) Control-M
7 1 (0.071%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.071%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 346 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.62%) ServiceNow
3 52 (3.71%) Oracle
4 41 (2.92%) SAP
5 37 (2.64%) Google
6 34 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 25 (1.78%) Adobe
8 20 (1.43%) Apple
9 15 (1.07%) VMware
10 12 (0.86%) ConnectWise
10 12 (0.86%) Northgate
11 10 (0.71%) Hyperion
12 9 (0.64%) IBM
12 9 (0.64%) WooCommerce
13 8 (0.57%) Citrix
14 7 (0.50%) Databricks
15 6 (0.43%) iManage
16 5 (0.36%) Aderant
16 5 (0.36%) Cisco
16 5 (0.36%) JD Edwards