Hybrid/Remote Analytics Job Trends

Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 25 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,188 1,406 2,020
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.45% 8.85% 7.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 9.36% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 649 704 1,527
10th Percentile £37,450 £36,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,822 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,750 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.18% -10.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,808 15,028 25,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.57% 94.62% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,791 8,918 21,255
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.69% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,400 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Analytics job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Analytics
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Analytics over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Analytics salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Analytics
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 45 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.86%) CMS
3 25 (2.10%) Apache
4 23 (1.94%) WordPress
5 22 (1.85%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.52%) SharePoint
7 17 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 16 (1.35%) Confluence
9 9 (0.76%) SAS
10 8 (0.67%) Drupal
10 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.42%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.25%) Moodle
13 1 (0.084%) DNN
13 1 (0.084%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.084%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 100 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (2.02%) Adobe XD
4 15 (1.26%) InDesign
5 13 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.09%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.34%) SketchUp
8 4 (0.34%) Trello
8 4 (0.34%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.17%) SPSS
10 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.084%) Notion
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 32 (2.69%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.35%) Oracle Assets
3 16 (1.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 16 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 14 (1.18%) Dynamics GP
4 14 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
5 12 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.93%) Shopify
7 10 (0.84%) Magento
8 6 (0.51%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 2 (0.17%) Adaptiv
11 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.17%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.17%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 410 (34.51%) Azure
2 235 (19.78%) Power Platform
3 113 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (9.43%) AWS
4 112 (9.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (8.00%) Snowflake
6 93 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (7.83%) SaaS
7 87 (7.32%) GitHub
7 87 (7.32%) Google Analytics
8 85 (7.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 74 (6.23%) Entra ID
10 67 (5.64%) GCP
11 50 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (4.12%) dbt
13 43 (3.62%) Figma
13 43 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
14 35 (2.95%) Adobe Analytics
15 33 (2.78%) Amazon S3
16 26 (2.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.39%) Broadband
2 18 (1.52%) CHAP
2 18 (1.52%) VPN
3 9 (0.76%) Unified Communications
4 8 (0.67%) Firewall
5 7 (0.59%) DNS
6 5 (0.42%) Network Security
7 3 (0.25%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.084%) DAB
9 1 (0.084%) DHCP
9 1 (0.084%) SMS
9 1 (0.084%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (18.10%) Power BI
2 142 (11.95%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (7.74%) Tableau
4 76 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 70 (5.89%) Data Lake
6 68 (5.72%) Metadata
7 64 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 28 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 25 (2.10%) Looker
12 20 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (1.52%) Delta Lake
14 17 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (1.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 15 (1.26%) Big Data
16 15 (1.26%) Power Query
17 14 (1.18%) NoSQL
18 12 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (4.97%) JIRA
2 48 (4.04%) Git
3 42 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
5 24 (2.02%) Axure RP
5 24 (2.02%) Balsamiq
6 23 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.59%) MLflow
7 7 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.42%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.42%) GitLab
9 4 (0.34%) ERwin
9 4 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.25%) Storybook
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 1 (0.084%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.084%) JUnit
12 1 (0.084%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.084%) TestNG
General
1 465 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 414 (34.85%) Finance
3 285 (23.99%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (12.71%) Marketing
5 115 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 79 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (5.56%) Back Office
8 53 (4.46%) Law
8 53 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (4.04%) Banking
10 46 (3.87%) Retail
11 44 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (3.45%) Manufacturing
13 38 (3.20%) Games
14 32 (2.69%) Legal
15 31 (2.61%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.52%) Advertising
17 17 (1.43%) Billing
17 17 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
18 15 (1.26%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 181 (15.24%) Senior
2 138 (11.62%) Data Engineer
3 126 (10.61%) Analyst
3 126 (10.61%) Lead
4 109 (9.18%) Architect
5 71 (5.98%) Developer
6 66 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 60 (5.05%) Desktop Engineer
7 60 (5.05%) Desktop Support
7 60 (5.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 58 (4.88%) Data Architect
9 56 (4.71%) Site Engineer
10 51 (4.29%) Designer
11 44 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (3.62%) Data Analyst
13 42 (3.54%) Data Manager
14 35 (2.95%) Senior Manager
15 33 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
16 31 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
17 29 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.45%) OAuth
2 39 (3.28%) HTML
3 37 (3.11%) RESTful
4 36 (3.03%) PySpark
5 35 (2.95%) Kafka
6 34 (2.86%) OAuth2
7 33 (2.78%) CSS
8 28 (2.36%) JSON
9 23 (1.94%) Akka
10 22 (1.85%) .NET
11 20 (1.68%) SAML
12 13 (1.09%) .NET Core
12 13 (1.09%) TensorFlow
13 11 (0.93%) PyTorch
13 11 (0.93%) React
14 10 (0.84%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.84%) Node.js
14 10 (0.84%) XML
15 8 (0.67%) LangChain
15 8 (0.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.58%) Social Media
2 87 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 82 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 76 (6.40%) Product Ownership
5 61 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 43 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.95%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.78%) Virtual Team
9 31 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 25 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (2.10%) Video\Live Streaming
11 23 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.94%) Over-the-Top Content
12 19 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
13 11 (0.93%) Blog
14 10 (0.84%) Blockchain
14 10 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.15%) Windows
2 60 (5.05%) Windows 10
3 19 (1.60%) Linux
4 10 (0.84%) Unix
5 8 (0.67%) Android
6 7 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.084%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (28.54%) AI
2 313 (26.35%) Agile
3 288 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 284 (23.91%) Business Intelligence
5 283 (23.82%) Decision-Making
6 227 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
7 225 (18.94%) Data Modelling
8 208 (17.51%) Data Analytics
8 208 (17.51%) DevOps
9 189 (15.91%) ETL
10 184 (15.49%) CI/CD
11 181 (15.24%) Data Engineering
12 163 (13.72%) Customer Experience
13 159 (13.38%) Roadmaps
14 155 (13.05%) Coaching
15 153 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
16 150 (12.63%) Data Governance
17 145 (12.21%) Machine Learning
18 144 (12.12%) Visualisation
19 135 (11.36%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 337 (28.37%) SQL
2 277 (23.32%) Python
3 56 (4.71%) Java
4 55 (4.63%) Scala
5 51 (4.29%) PowerShell
6 33 (2.78%) Bicep
7 32 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 30 (2.53%) Bash
8 30 (2.53%) C#
8 30 (2.53%) JavaScript
9 26 (2.19%) R
10 24 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.35%) C++
14 10 (0.84%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.76%) Go
16 6 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.42%) PHP
18 4 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 231 (19.44%) Degree
2 138 (11.62%) Security Cleared
3 126 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 60 (5.05%) CTC Cleared
5 35 (2.95%) CISA
6 31 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 27 (2.27%) CISSP
9 23 (1.94%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.85%) CISM
10 22 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.52%) CGEIT
11 18 (1.52%) FFIEC
11 18 (1.52%) SANS
12 16 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.26%) ACCA
14 12 (1.01%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
16 9 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (14.90%) Data Quality
2 115 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 65 (5.47%) GDPR
4 64 (5.39%) SLA
5 39 (3.28%) WCAG
6 35 (2.95%) NIST
7 33 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.85%) COBIT
9 20 (1.68%) QA
10 18 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (1.18%) ISO 9001
12 13 (1.09%) IFRS
13 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.59%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.51%) GRC
16 4 (0.34%) ITGC
16 4 (0.34%) PMO
17 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.17%) GAAP
18 2 (0.17%) GMP
System Software
1 50 (4.21%) Docker
2 20 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.17%) Firmware
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.084%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 107 (9.01%) Terraform
2 51 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.67%) SCCM
6 6 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.42%) Ansible
7 5 (0.42%) Grafana
7 5 (0.42%) QRadar
7 5 (0.42%) SCOM
8 3 (0.25%) Control-M
9 2 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.084%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.084%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.084%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.084%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.084%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 257 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 125 (10.52%) Google
3 93 (7.83%) Databricks
4 89 (7.49%) Adobe
5 72 (6.06%) Cisco
6 52 (4.38%) Oracle
7 45 (3.79%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.95%) SAP
9 19 (1.60%) HubSpot
10 14 (1.18%) Ab Initio
11 12 (1.01%) Autodesk
11 12 (1.01%) Instagram
12 11 (0.93%) OpenAI
12 11 (0.93%) Sage
13 10 (0.84%) Informatica
14 9 (0.76%) Talend
14 9 (0.76%) VMware
14 9 (0.76%) Zoho
15 8 (0.67%) IBM
15 8 (0.67%) Pardot