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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,421 1,322 2,325
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.87% 9.80% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 10.34% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 711 751 1,545
10th Percentile £36,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,513 £44,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +1.18% -10.96%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 14,981 12,789 29,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 94.78% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,485 8,897 23,598
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,690 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 26 April 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 56 (3.94%) CMS
2 48 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.67%) Confluence
4 28 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.76%) Apache
6 23 (1.62%) WordPress
7 16 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.70%) Drupal
9 9 (0.63%) SAS
10 8 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 72 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (2.11%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.55%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) InDesign
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.070%) Notion
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.97%) Adobe Campaign
2 18 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
5 11 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
5 11 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
5 11 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
6 10 (0.70%) Magento
7 9 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
7 9 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.63%) Shopify
8 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 379 (26.67%) Azure
2 211 (14.85%) Power Platform
3 194 (13.65%) Adobe Analytics
4 142 (9.99%) AWS
5 114 (8.02%) Figma
6 113 (7.95%) Google Analytics
7 109 (7.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 91 (6.40%) GCP
9 89 (6.26%) SaaS
10 78 (5.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 74 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
12 71 (5.00%) Snowflake
13 70 (4.93%) GitHub
14 66 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
15 63 (4.43%) Contentsquare
16 47 (3.31%) Entra ID
17 39 (2.74%) dbt
18 32 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
19 30 (2.11%) Amazon S3
20 29 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 250 (17.59%) Broadband
2 26 (1.83%) CHAP
3 9 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.56%) DNS
5 7 (0.49%) Firewall
6 6 (0.42%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.42%) VPN
7 4 (0.28%) DHCP
8 3 (0.21%) Modbus
9 2 (0.14%) Network Security
9 2 (0.14%) SSL
10 1 (0.070%) ATM
10 1 (0.070%) BGP
10 1 (0.070%) LAN
10 1 (0.070%) SMS
10 1 (0.070%) SNMP
10 1 (0.070%) VLAN
10 1 (0.070%) VoIP
10 1 (0.070%) WAN
10 1 (0.070%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (13.44%) Power BI
2 107 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (6.19%) Metadata
4 79 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 60 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 56 (3.94%) Data Lake
7 52 (3.66%) Tableau
8 44 (3.10%) BigQuery
9 39 (2.74%) Looker
10 37 (2.60%) Relational Database
11 36 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 32 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
13 22 (1.55%) NoSQL
13 22 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (1.27%) Delta Lake
15 16 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (1.13%) Power Query
16 15 (1.06%) Star Schema
17 12 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 55 (3.87%) Git
2 40 (2.81%) JIRA
3 36 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.62%) TeamCity
5 22 (1.55%) Axure RP
5 22 (1.55%) Balsamiq
6 17 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (0.77%) Crashlytics
7 11 (0.77%) XCTest
8 9 (0.63%) MLflow
9 6 (0.42%) GitLab
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.21%) Storybook
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.14%) Selenium
14 1 (0.070%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.070%) GCC
14 1 (0.070%) PHPUnit
General
1 485 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 377 (26.53%) Finance
3 295 (20.76%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (15.27%) Marketing
5 193 (13.58%) Games
6 136 (9.57%) Public Sector
7 77 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 66 (4.64%) Retail
9 65 (4.57%) Back Office
9 65 (4.57%) Law
10 57 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
11 56 (3.94%) Banking
12 52 (3.66%) Legal
13 38 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (2.39%) Financial Institution
15 33 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (2.11%) Advertising
17 17 (1.20%) Manufacturing
18 16 (1.13%) Automotive
19 14 (0.99%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 225 (15.83%) Lead
1 225 (15.83%) Senior
2 159 (11.19%) Data Engineer
3 119 (8.37%) Analyst
4 115 (8.09%) Architect
5 88 (6.19%) Designer
6 70 (4.93%) Support Engineer
7 63 (4.43%) Product Manager
8 60 (4.22%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (4.22%) Desktop Support
8 60 (4.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 56 (3.94%) Site Engineer
10 51 (3.59%) Developer
10 51 (3.59%) Senior Manager
11 50 (3.52%) Data Architect
12 49 (3.45%) Lead Designer
13 48 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (3.03%) Digital Designer
15 40 (2.81%) Data Manager
16 36 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.38%) PySpark
2 45 (3.17%) HTML
3 40 (2.81%) CSS
4 39 (2.74%) Kafka
5 29 (2.04%) .NET
6 27 (1.90%) OAuth
7 23 (1.62%) Akka
8 22 (1.55%) RESTful
9 20 (1.41%) JSON
9 20 (1.41%) OAuth2
10 18 (1.27%) Node.js
11 14 (0.99%) .NET Core
11 14 (0.99%) React
11 14 (0.99%) REST
12 13 (0.91%) FastAPI
13 12 (0.84%) TensorFlow
14 11 (0.77%) PyTorch
14 11 (0.77%) SwiftUI
14 11 (0.77%) UIKit
15 9 (0.63%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 235 (16.54%) Social Media
2 99 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 72 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 67 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 54 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 53 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 52 (3.66%) Over-the-Top Content
8 43 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
9 40 (2.81%) Virtual Team
10 34 (2.39%) Data Structures
11 32 (2.25%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.83%) Mobile App
14 25 (1.76%) Video\Live Streaming
15 23 (1.62%) Blog
15 23 (1.62%) Onboarding
16 21 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
18 19 (1.34%) Web Conferencing
19 18 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.21%) Windows
2 60 (4.22%) Windows 10
3 19 (1.34%) Linux
4 17 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.49%) Android
6 6 (0.42%) Unix
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.21%) VMS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (36.17%) AI
2 421 (29.63%) Agile
3 364 (25.62%) Customer Experience
4 332 (23.36%) Roadmaps
5 330 (23.22%) Decision-Making
6 286 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 261 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
8 257 (18.09%) Data Modelling
9 231 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
10 223 (15.69%) Storytelling
11 209 (14.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 203 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
13 201 (14.14%) Data Engineering
14 191 (13.44%) CI/CD
15 180 (12.67%) User Research
16 179 (12.60%) ETL
17 178 (12.53%) Digital Customer Experience
18 176 (12.39%) Data Pipeline
19 175 (12.32%) Data Analytics
20 170 (11.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 323 (22.73%) SQL
2 257 (18.09%) Python
3 57 (4.01%) Scala
4 43 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.89%) Java
6 34 (2.39%) C#
7 31 (2.18%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.69%) Bicep
9 20 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.41%) R
9 20 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.27%) C++
11 15 (1.06%) TypeScript
12 14 (0.99%) Bash
13 13 (0.91%) Go
14 12 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.77%) Swift
16 10 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 218 (15.34%) Degree
2 147 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 128 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.22%) CTC Cleared
5 31 (2.18%) CISA
5 31 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.90%) CISSP
7 26 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.83%) CGEIT
7 26 (1.83%) CISM
7 26 (1.83%) FFIEC
7 26 (1.83%) SANS
8 22 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.06%) ACCA
11 13 (0.91%) CIMA
11 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.84%) PhD
12 12 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 9 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (18.79%) Accessibility
2 195 (13.72%) Data Quality
3 95 (6.69%) GDPR
4 91 (6.40%) WCAG
5 63 (4.43%) SLA
6 32 (2.25%) NIST
7 28 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
8 27 (1.90%) QA
9 26 (1.83%) COBIT
10 12 (0.84%) IFRS
11 9 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.56%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.42%) GAAP
14 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.14%) GMP
15 2 (0.14%) GRC
15 2 (0.14%) MiFID
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 56 (3.94%) Docker
2 15 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.14%) vSphere
5 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.070%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 82 (5.77%) Terraform
2 64 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.63%) Ansible
4 8 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.42%) Grafana
7 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.21%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Argo
9 2 (0.14%) Graylog
10 1 (0.070%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.070%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.070%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.070%) OpenView
10 1 (0.070%) QRadar
10 1 (0.070%) SQL Sentry
10 1 (0.070%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 267 (18.79%) Adobe
2 249 (17.52%) Microsoft
3 151 (10.63%) Google
4 103 (7.25%) Databricks
5 61 (4.29%) Cisco
6 50 (3.52%) Oracle
7 42 (2.96%) SAP
8 37 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.48%) HubSpot
10 14 (0.99%) Instagram
11 13 (0.91%) Pardot
12 12 (0.84%) Amplitude
13 11 (0.77%) Braze
13 11 (0.77%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.77%) Hotjar
13 11 (0.77%) Screaming Frog
13 11 (0.77%) Wrike
14 10 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.63%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.56%) Informatica