Hybrid/Remote Analyst Job Trends

Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Analyst salary for remote/hybrid work is £45,207 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,770 1,297 2,761
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.18% 7.93% 12.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.66% 8.55% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 981 1,217
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,207 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% - -8.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -3.84%

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 23,103 15,176 22,108
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 92.79% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,128 8,958 13,965
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 24 September 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 September 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.

1 446 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
2 417 (23.56%) Microsoft
3 378 (21.36%) SQL
4 304 (17.18%) Agile
5 293 (16.55%) Degree
6 271 (15.31%) Decision-Making
7 255 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 243 (13.73%) Analytics
9 238 (13.45%) Business Analysis
10 221 (12.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 216 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
12 213 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
12 213 (12.03%) ITIL
13 209 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
14 202 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 201 (11.36%) Customer Service
16 199 (11.24%) Power Platform
17 193 (10.90%) Azure
18 190 (10.73%) Power BI
19 172 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
20 167 (9.44%) Process Improvement
21 164 (9.27%) Windows
22 163 (9.21%) AI
23 152 (8.59%) User Stories
24 144 (8.14%) Mentoring
25 142 (8.02%) Actionable Insight
26 141 (7.97%) Project Delivery
27 139 (7.85%) Requirements Gathering
28 135 (7.63%) Active Directory
28 135 (7.63%) AWS

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 79 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (2.09%) Confluence
4 10 (0.56%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.11%) CMS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.056%) Apache
7 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.056%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.056%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.056%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.056%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.056%) Site Server
Applications
1 172 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 125 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 27 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.056%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (1.36%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.51%) Visualfiles
4 7 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.23%) Academy Housing
7 4 (0.23%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.23%) JDE OneWorld
7 4 (0.23%) JDE World
7 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.23%) Shopify
7 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 216 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
2 199 (11.24%) Power Platform
3 193 (10.90%) Azure
4 135 (7.63%) AWS
5 82 (4.63%) Entra ID
6 78 (4.41%) SaaS
7 64 (3.62%) GCP
8 36 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (1.98%) Google Analytics
10 30 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 18 (1.02%) GitHub
13 17 (0.96%) PowerApps
14 16 (0.90%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
15 15 (0.85%) Snowflake
16 14 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (0.79%) Serverless
17 13 (0.73%) Azure Functions
17 13 (0.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.66%) DNS
1 47 (2.66%) Firewall
2 44 (2.49%) VPN
3 39 (2.20%) DHCP
4 33 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (1.47%) Broadband
6 22 (1.24%) Network Security
7 20 (1.13%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.07%) LAN
9 17 (0.96%) WAN
10 12 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (0.68%) Internet
11 10 (0.56%) HTTP
12 5 (0.28%) VLAN
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
14 3 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (10.73%) Power BI
2 47 (2.66%) Tableau
3 38 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 26 (1.47%) Looker
5 24 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 22 (1.24%) BigQuery
7 21 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (1.02%) Power Query
9 16 (0.90%) Metadata
10 12 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
12 8 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
12 8 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.40%) MySQL
14 6 (0.34%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.34%) SAP BW
15 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 102 (5.76%) JIRA
2 18 (1.02%) Git
3 9 (0.51%) Selenium
4 6 (0.34%) Postman
5 5 (0.28%) GitLab
6 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.17%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.17%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 2 (0.11%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.056%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.056%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.056%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.056%) TestNG
9 1 (0.056%) WebDriver
General
1 645 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 553 (31.24%) Analytical Skills
3 452 (25.54%) Finance
4 176 (9.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 137 (7.74%) Law
7 114 (6.44%) Retail
8 94 (5.31%) Legal
9 87 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
10 57 (3.22%) Banking
11 53 (2.99%) Marketing
12 48 (2.71%) Swedish Language
13 35 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.13%) Front Office
15 19 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.02%) Advertising
16 18 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (0.96%) Automotive
17 17 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.41%) HTML
2 21 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (1.07%) CSS
3 19 (1.07%) XML
4 17 (0.96%) .NET
5 15 (0.85%) Terraform
6 12 (0.68%) .NET Framework
6 12 (0.68%) Web Services
7 11 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (0.62%) Gherkin
8 6 (0.34%) EDI
8 6 (0.34%) JSON
9 5 (0.28%) HTML5
9 5 (0.28%) jQuery
9 5 (0.28%) LDAP
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.23%) Middleware
10 4 (0.23%) NumPy
10 4 (0.23%) Pandas
10 4 (0.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.99%) Management Information System
2 101 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 79 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 48 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
7 38 (2.15%) Driving Licence
8 35 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (0.90%) Derivative
12 15 (0.85%) Client/Server
12 15 (0.85%) Mobile App
12 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
13 14 (0.79%) Blog
13 14 (0.79%) Cyberattack
14 13 (0.73%) Fixed Income
14 13 (0.73%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
15 12 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 164 (9.27%) Windows
2 67 (3.79%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.36%) Linux
4 12 (0.68%) VMS
5 10 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.45%) Android
8 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
2 304 (17.18%) Agile
3 271 (15.31%) Decision-Making
4 255 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 243 (13.73%) Analytics
6 238 (13.45%) Business Analysis
7 221 (12.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 213 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
8 213 (12.03%) ITIL
9 209 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
10 202 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 201 (11.36%) Customer Service
12 167 (9.44%) Process Improvement
13 163 (9.21%) AI
14 152 (8.59%) User Stories
15 144 (8.14%) Mentoring
16 142 (8.02%) Actionable Insight
17 141 (7.97%) Project Delivery
18 139 (7.85%) Requirements Gathering
19 131 (7.40%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 378 (21.36%) SQL
2 127 (7.18%) Python
3 56 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 29 (1.64%) C#
5 27 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 20 (1.13%) Bash
7 20 (1.13%) Java
8 19 (1.07%) JavaScript
9 16 (0.90%) VBA
10 14 (0.79%) R
11 12 (0.68%) Bicep
12 10 (0.56%) C++
13 9 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.45%) Go
15 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.23%) VB
16 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
17 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 293 (16.55%) Degree
2 133 (7.51%) Security Cleared
3 113 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 93 (5.25%) AWS Certification
5 80 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 64 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (3.39%) MCSE
8 34 (1.92%) ACCA
9 30 (1.69%) CIMA
10 27 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.47%) CISSP
12 24 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (1.36%) Azure Certification
12 24 (1.36%) DBS Check
13 21 (1.19%) CISM
14 20 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
15 13 (0.73%) GIAC
16 12 (0.68%) DV Cleared
17 9 (0.51%) PMI Certification
18 8 (0.45%) AAT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (7.34%) QA
2 91 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (3.45%) GDPR
5 42 (2.37%) NIST
6 35 (1.98%) SLA
7 34 (1.92%) PMO
8 21 (1.19%) GRC
9 20 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (1.07%) Accessibility
11 18 (1.02%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.62%) IFRS
13 10 (0.56%) FINREP
14 9 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.45%) COREP
15 8 (0.45%) EMIR
15 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.40%) NCSC
17 6 (0.34%) GAAP
18 5 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 135 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.73%) vSphere
6 8 (0.45%) Docker
7 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.056%) NFS
10 1 (0.056%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 36 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.85%) SCCM
3 12 (0.68%) Kubernetes
4 11 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (0.23%) QRadar
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Graylog
7 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.056%) Autotask
8 1 (0.056%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.056%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.056%) Nessus
8 1 (0.056%) Nmap
8 1 (0.056%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.056%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.056%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.056%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 417 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.95%) ServiceNow
3 53 (2.99%) Google
4 48 (2.71%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.54%) Oracle
6 42 (2.37%) SAP
7 33 (1.86%) VMware
8 32 (1.81%) Adobe
9 29 (1.64%) Apple
10 21 (1.19%) Cisco
11 18 (1.02%) Qualys
12 17 (0.96%) iManage
13 16 (0.90%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.85%) Citrix
14 15 (0.85%) Workday
15 14 (0.79%) Aruba
16 13 (0.73%) Splunk
16 13 (0.73%) YouTube
17 12 (0.68%) ScienceLogic
18 10 (0.56%) Intapp