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 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 1,731 1,361 2,805
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.45% 8.22% 11.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.92% 8.89% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 1,054 1,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,663 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +3.33% -8.16%
75th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,200 £78,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.17%

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 21,863 15,308 23,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.50% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,593 9,345 16,881
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 27 August 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 27 August 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.

1 392 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 376 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
3 371 (21.43%) SQL
4 322 (18.60%) Agile
5 287 (16.58%) Degree
6 249 (14.38%) Decision-Making
7 239 (13.81%) Business Analysis
8 233 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 227 (13.11%) Analytics
10 207 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
10 207 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
11 200 (11.55%) ITIL
12 196 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
12 196 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 193 (11.15%) Power Platform
14 189 (10.92%) Customer Service
15 185 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 184 (10.63%) Power BI
17 176 (10.17%) Azure
18 167 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
19 158 (9.13%) Process Improvement
20 157 (9.07%) Windows
21 155 (8.95%) User Stories
22 144 (8.32%) QA
23 141 (8.15%) AI
24 134 (7.74%) Mentoring
25 132 (7.63%) ITSM
25 132 (7.63%) Project Delivery
26 131 (7.57%) AWS
26 131 (7.57%) Requirements Gathering

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 68 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (2.02%) Confluence
4 11 (0.64%) IIS
5 4 (0.23%) SAS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.058%) Apache
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.058%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.058%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.058%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.058%) CMS
7 1 (0.058%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.058%) Site Server
Applications
1 167 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 24 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.52%) Visualfiles
4 8 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.46%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.29%) 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 (0.12%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 207 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
2 193 (11.15%) Power Platform
3 176 (10.17%) Azure
4 131 (7.57%) AWS
5 75 (4.33%) Entra ID
6 59 (3.41%) SaaS
7 52 (3.00%) GCP
8 39 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (1.96%) Google Analytics
10 28 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.92%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.87%) IaaS
13 15 (0.87%) OneDrive
13 15 (0.87%) PaaS
14 14 (0.81%) Serverless
15 13 (0.75%) Azure Functions
15 13 (0.75%) Snowflake
16 12 (0.69%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.66%) Firewall
2 45 (2.60%) VPN
3 38 (2.20%) DNS
4 31 (1.79%) DHCP
5 30 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (1.56%) Network Security
7 26 (1.50%) Broadband
8 22 (1.27%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.10%) LAN
10 17 (0.98%) WAN
11 12 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.58%) Internet
13 8 (0.46%) HTTP
14 4 (0.23%) FTP
14 4 (0.23%) NGFW
14 4 (0.23%) SMTP
14 4 (0.23%) SSL
14 4 (0.23%) Wireless
15 3 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (10.63%) Power BI
2 51 (2.95%) Tableau
3 45 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.68%) Looker
5 24 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 20 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (1.10%) Power Query
8 17 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (0.92%) Metadata
10 12 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.40%) MySQL
15 6 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.35%) SAP BW
16 5 (0.29%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 102 (5.89%) JIRA
2 18 (1.04%) Git
3 9 (0.52%) Selenium
4 6 (0.35%) Postman
5 5 (0.29%) GitLab
6 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 2 (0.12%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.058%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.058%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.058%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.058%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.058%) Toad
9 1 (0.058%) WebDriver
General
1 595 (34.37%) Social Skills
2 502 (29.00%) Analytical Skills
3 431 (24.90%) Finance
4 164 (9.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (7.68%) Public Sector
6 130 (7.51%) Law
7 98 (5.66%) Retail
8 85 (4.91%) Legal
9 67 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 56 (3.24%) Banking
11 49 (2.83%) Marketing
12 48 (2.77%) Swedish Language
13 38 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.16%) French Language
17 19 (1.10%) Advertising
18 18 (1.04%) Front Office
19 17 (0.98%) Aviation
20 16 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.44%) HTML
2 21 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (1.16%) .NET
3 20 (1.16%) CSS
3 20 (1.16%) XML
4 13 (0.75%) Terraform
5 12 (0.69%) .NET Framework
5 12 (0.69%) Web Services
6 11 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (0.64%) Gherkin
7 7 (0.40%) EDI
8 5 (0.29%) HTML5
8 5 (0.29%) jQuery
8 5 (0.29%) Playwright
9 4 (0.23%) JSON
9 4 (0.23%) LDAP
9 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (0.23%) Middleware
10 3 (0.17%) PySpark
10 3 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 69 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 56 (3.24%) Security Posture
5 45 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
7 35 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 33 (1.91%) Driving Licence
9 27 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
11 17 (0.98%) Client/Server
12 15 (0.87%) Blog
12 15 (0.87%) Operational Technology
13 13 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.75%) Derivative
13 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.69%) Cyberattack
14 12 (0.69%) Podcast
14 12 (0.69%) Social Media
15 11 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 157 (9.07%) Windows
2 62 (3.58%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.39%) Linux
4 14 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.69%) VMS
6 10 (0.58%) Android
7 8 (0.46%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (18.60%) Agile
3 249 (14.38%) Decision-Making
4 239 (13.81%) Business Analysis
5 233 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 227 (13.11%) Analytics
7 207 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
8 200 (11.55%) ITIL
9 196 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
9 196 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 189 (10.92%) Customer Service
11 185 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 158 (9.13%) Process Improvement
13 155 (8.95%) User Stories
14 141 (8.15%) AI
15 134 (7.74%) Mentoring
16 132 (7.63%) ITSM
16 132 (7.63%) Project Delivery
17 131 (7.57%) Requirements Gathering
18 127 (7.34%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 371 (21.43%) SQL
2 109 (6.30%) Python
3 57 (3.29%) PowerShell
4 33 (1.91%) C#
5 23 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 18 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (1.04%) Java
7 17 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 17 (0.98%) VBA
8 13 (0.75%) Bash
9 12 (0.69%) Bicep
10 10 (0.58%) C++
10 10 (0.58%) R
10 10 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.17%) VB
13 2 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.12%) Tcl
13 2 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 287 (16.58%) Degree
2 126 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 110 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 98 (5.66%) AWS Certification
5 91 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 68 (3.93%) MCSE
7 54 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.02%) ACCA
9 31 (1.79%) CIMA
10 25 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.44%) CISSP
11 24 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 21 (1.21%) DBS Check
13 20 (1.16%) CISM
13 20 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.64%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.58%) AAT
16 9 (0.52%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (8.32%) QA
2 82 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 56 (3.24%) GDPR
5 40 (2.31%) NIST
6 32 (1.85%) SLA
7 26 (1.50%) PMO
8 20 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.10%) GRC
10 15 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.81%) FINREP
12 12 (0.69%) COREP
13 10 (0.58%) IFRS
14 8 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.40%) EMIR
15 7 (0.40%) NCSC
16 6 (0.35%) MiFID
16 6 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (7.34%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.75%) vSphere
6 5 (0.29%) Docker
7 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.17%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 35 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (0.98%) SCCM
3 8 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (0.40%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.23%) QRadar
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.12%) Grafana
7 2 (0.12%) Graylog
7 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.058%) Autotask
8 1 (0.058%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.058%) Nessus
8 1 (0.058%) Nmap
8 1 (0.058%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.058%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 392 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 127 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 46 (2.66%) Google
3 46 (2.66%) Oracle
4 45 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 44 (2.54%) SAP
6 29 (1.68%) Adobe
6 29 (1.68%) VMware
7 28 (1.62%) Apple
8 21 (1.21%) Cisco
9 18 (1.04%) iManage
10 17 (0.98%) Citrix
11 16 (0.92%) Palo Alto
11 16 (0.92%) Qualys
12 14 (0.81%) Aruba
13 12 (0.69%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (0.64%) Aderant
14 11 (0.64%) Intapp
15 10 (0.58%) FIS
16 9 (0.52%) IBM