Hybrid/Remote Analyst Job Trends

Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Analyst salary for remote/hybrid work is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,400 1,689 3,105
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.79% 10.62% 11.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.38% 11.07% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 886 969 2,346
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,400 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £46,774
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.55% -6.45%
75th Percentile £60,938 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £75,875
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 14,924 15,264 26,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.96% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 9,226 21,884
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,010 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
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 4 February 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 4 February 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.

1 395 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 322 (23.00%) SQL
3 304 (21.71%) Degree
4 272 (19.43%) Agile
5 263 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
6 250 (17.86%) Customer Service
6 250 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
7 246 (17.57%) ITIL
8 215 (15.36%) Microsoft Office
9 212 (15.14%) Power Platform
10 207 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 199 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
12 183 (13.07%) Power BI
13 177 (12.64%) Decision-Making
14 176 (12.57%) ITSM
15 173 (12.36%) Microsoft Excel
16 162 (11.57%) AWS
17 158 (11.29%) Azure
17 158 (11.29%) QA
18 149 (10.64%) ServiceNow
19 141 (10.07%) Microsoft Certification
20 137 (9.79%) AWS Certification
21 130 (9.29%) Windows
22 129 (9.21%) Data Analysis
22 129 (9.21%) Security Cleared
23 126 (9.00%) Analytics
24 122 (8.71%) Performance Metrics
25 121 (8.64%) ERP
26 120 (8.57%) MCSE
27 119 (8.50%) Business 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 63 (4.50%) Confluence
2 47 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.14%) SAS
5 6 (0.43%) CMS
6 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Moodle
8 1 (0.071%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.071%) IIS
8 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
Applications
1 215 (15.36%) Microsoft Office
2 173 (12.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 14 (1.00%) Oracle Smart View
5 14 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 30 (2.14%) Oracle Payables
1 30 (2.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle General Ledger
3 20 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 18 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (1.00%) Hyperion Planning
6 12 (0.86%) NEC Housing
6 12 (0.86%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.57%) Shopify
8 7 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.50%) Magento
9 5 (0.36%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.36%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
10 4 (0.29%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 250 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 212 (15.14%) Power Platform
3 162 (11.57%) AWS
4 158 (11.29%) Azure
5 67 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
6 47 (3.36%) SaaS
7 38 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 19 (1.36%) GCP
10 17 (1.21%) PowerApps
11 15 (1.07%) Google Analytics
11 15 (1.07%) Snowflake
12 13 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.64%) Power Automate
15 8 (0.57%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.57%) PaaS
16 6 (0.43%) Google Tag Manager
16 6 (0.43%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.79%) Firewall
2 25 (1.79%) VPN
3 19 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
4 18 (1.29%) DNS
4 18 (1.29%) WAN
5 16 (1.14%) Wireshark
6 15 (1.07%) LAN
7 13 (0.93%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.93%) Wireless
8 12 (0.86%) DHCP
9 8 (0.57%) Network Security
10 7 (0.50%) VoIP
11 6 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.36%) Broadband
12 5 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.29%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.21%) SCCP
15 2 (0.14%) 4G
16 1 (0.071%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (13.07%) Power BI
2 70 (5.00%) Tableau
3 51 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (1.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 17 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (1.14%) Power Query
8 15 (1.07%) Looker
9 14 (1.00%) Essbase
10 12 (0.86%) Metadata
10 12 (0.86%) MySQL
11 11 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
15 6 (0.43%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 119 (8.50%) JIRA
2 28 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
3 22 (1.57%) Selenium
4 21 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (1.29%) Postman
5 18 (1.29%) SoapUI
6 16 (1.14%) WebDriver
7 4 (0.29%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.14%) Git
9 2 (0.14%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.14%) JMeter
9 2 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.14%) TestRail
10 1 (0.071%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.071%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.071%) Gatling
10 1 (0.071%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.071%) Zephyr
General
1 671 (47.93%) Social Skills
2 432 (30.86%) Finance
3 359 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.21%) French Language
5 95 (6.79%) Swedish Language
6 81 (5.79%) Legal
7 80 (5.71%) Retail
8 79 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 75 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
10 71 (5.07%) Marketing
11 49 (3.50%) Public Sector
12 47 (3.36%) Banking
13 40 (2.86%) Law
14 30 (2.14%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.79%) Advertising
16 25 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 25 (1.79%) Local Government
17 18 (1.29%) Telecoms
18 17 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.00%) SOAP
2 27 (1.93%) .NET
2 27 (1.93%) HTML
3 14 (1.00%) JSON
3 14 (1.00%) REST
4 13 (0.93%) Middleware
5 11 (0.79%) Flash
6 10 (0.71%) XML
7 9 (0.64%) EDI
8 7 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.29%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.29%) Web Services
10 3 (0.21%) FHIR
10 3 (0.21%) Playwright
11 2 (0.14%) CSS
11 2 (0.14%) OpenAPI
11 2 (0.14%) SAP PI
11 2 (0.14%) SLSA
11 2 (0.14%) Swagger
11 2 (0.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.29%) Onboarding
2 83 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.86%) Management Information System
4 57 (4.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 52 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (2.21%) Data Structures
7 29 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.50%) Credit Risk
8 21 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.36%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.29%) NHS
11 17 (1.21%) FMCG
11 17 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 16 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
13 13 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.86%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (0.79%) Reinsurance
16 10 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 130 (9.29%) Windows
2 29 (2.07%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.93%) Windows 10
4 23 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 20 (1.43%) Linux
6 19 (1.36%) Android
7 16 (1.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.21%) Unix
9 2 (0.14%) Solaris
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.071%) AIX
10 1 (0.071%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (19.43%) Agile
2 263 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
3 250 (17.86%) Customer Service
4 246 (17.57%) ITIL
5 207 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 199 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
7 177 (12.64%) Decision-Making
8 176 (12.57%) ITSM
9 129 (9.21%) Data Analysis
10 126 (9.00%) Analytics
11 122 (8.71%) Performance Metrics
12 121 (8.64%) ERP
13 119 (8.50%) Business Analysis
14 115 (8.21%) Process Improvement
15 102 (7.29%) Asset Management
16 98 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 98 (7.00%) User Acceptance Testing
16 98 (7.00%) User Stories
17 89 (6.36%) Cybersecurity
18 88 (6.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 322 (23.00%) SQL
2 99 (7.07%) Python
3 42 (3.00%) C#
4 25 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.64%) Java
6 17 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 17 (1.21%) T-SQL
7 14 (1.00%) Groovy
7 14 (1.00%) VBA
8 12 (0.86%) R
9 7 (0.50%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.43%) ABAP
10 6 (0.43%) C++
11 5 (0.36%) C
12 4 (0.29%) Bicep
12 4 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.14%) PHP
13 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.14%) VC++
Qualifications
1 304 (21.71%) Degree
2 141 (10.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 137 (9.79%) AWS Certification
4 129 (9.21%) Security Cleared
5 120 (8.57%) MCSE
6 79 (5.64%) ACCA
7 77 (5.50%) CIMA
8 68 (4.86%) SC Cleared
9 45 (3.21%) DV Cleared
10 31 (2.21%) CISSP
11 30 (2.14%) DBS Check
12 26 (1.86%) ISTQB
13 24 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (1.57%) AAT
15 19 (1.36%) PMI Certification
16 18 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 16 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.86%) CISA
18 12 (0.86%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (11.29%) QA
2 48 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.93%) NIST
4 39 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 31 (2.21%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.64%) SLA
7 20 (1.43%) GDPR
7 20 (1.43%) PMO
8 19 (1.36%) GRC
9 15 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.43%) Basel II
14 5 (0.36%) COBIT
14 5 (0.36%) EMIR
15 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.29%) MiFID
15 4 (0.29%) SEPA
16 3 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 92 (6.57%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) Docker
6 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (1.86%) SCCM
3 8 (0.57%) Terraform
4 6 (0.43%) QRadar
5 3 (0.21%) Ansible
5 3 (0.21%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.14%) Nessus
6 2 (0.14%) SCOM
7 1 (0.071%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.071%) Control-M
7 1 (0.071%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.071%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.071%) Grafana
7 1 (0.071%) Nmap
7 1 (0.071%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 395 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 149 (10.64%) ServiceNow
3 63 (4.50%) Oracle
4 37 (2.64%) SAP
5 34 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.07%) Google
7 26 (1.86%) Adobe
8 23 (1.64%) Apple
9 19 (1.36%) VMware
10 16 (1.14%) Blue Prism
11 14 (1.00%) Cisco
11 14 (1.00%) Hyperion
12 13 (0.93%) Meraki
12 13 (0.93%) Northgate
13 11 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.64%) Citrix
15 8 (0.57%) CheckPoint
15 8 (0.57%) ConnectWise
15 8 (0.57%) Databricks
15 8 (0.57%) SolarWinds