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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 37 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,684 1,048 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.79% 6.32% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.39% 6.76% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 662 824
10th Percentile £39,691 £35,000 £39,825
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,188 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £66,722 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.20% -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 20,082 15,514 20,012
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.02% 93.49% 88.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 8,545 11,983
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,600
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 September 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 32 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.84%) CMS
3 27 (1.60%) Apache
4 25 (1.48%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.31%) Confluence
6 17 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.89%) WordPress
9 13 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
10 10 (0.59%) SAS
11 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.059%) Drupal
14 1 (0.059%) IIS
14 1 (0.059%) Moodle
14 1 (0.059%) nginx
14 1 (0.059%) Umbraco
Applications
1 89 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.48%) UserZoom
3 19 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.83%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.36%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.30%) Trello
10 4 (0.24%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.24%) SPSS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.18%) InDesign
11 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.12%) Notion
13 1 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.66%) Dynamics GP
3 23 (1.37%) Shopify
4 15 (0.89%) Adobe Campaign
5 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.18%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.18%) FastStats
6 3 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.059%) Magento
8 1 (0.059%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.059%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.059%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.059%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 404 (23.99%) Azure
2 326 (19.36%) Power Platform
3 204 (12.11%) AWS
4 128 (7.60%) Google Analytics
5 111 (6.59%) SaaS
6 109 (6.47%) GCP
7 95 (5.64%) GitHub
8 89 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 68 (4.04%) Serverless
10 68 (4.04%) Snowflake
11 63 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 57 (3.38%) Adobe Analytics
13 53 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
14 52 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
14 52 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
15 48 (2.85%) Google Ads
16 40 (2.38%) Figma
17 38 (2.26%) Amazon S3
18 37 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.51%) Broadband
2 36 (2.14%) VPN
3 23 (1.37%) DNS
4 21 (1.25%) Firewall
5 18 (1.07%) SMS
6 16 (0.95%) 5G
6 16 (0.95%) Network Security
7 13 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.65%) CTI
8 11 (0.65%) VoIP
9 10 (0.59%) Unified Communications
10 8 (0.48%) DHCP
11 6 (0.36%) BGP
11 6 (0.36%) OSPF
11 6 (0.36%) VLAN
11 6 (0.36%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.18%) 4G
12 3 (0.18%) CHAP
12 3 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (18.41%) Power BI
2 154 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (6.71%) Metadata
4 88 (5.23%) Tableau
5 81 (4.81%) Data Lake
6 80 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 69 (4.10%) SQL Server
8 50 (2.97%) MongoDB
9 47 (2.79%) Looker
10 41 (2.43%) Relational Database
11 37 (2.20%) Star Schema
12 36 (2.14%) Big Data
12 36 (2.14%) Delta Lake
13 35 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
14 34 (2.02%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.48%) NoSQL
15 25 (1.48%) Semantic Layer
16 23 (1.37%) DynamoDB
17 22 (1.31%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 73 (4.33%) Git
2 30 (1.78%) JIRA
3 9 (0.53%) GitLab
3 9 (0.53%) MLflow
4 8 (0.48%) Balsamiq
4 8 (0.48%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.36%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.30%) Crashlytics
6 5 (0.30%) Poetry
6 5 (0.30%) XCTest
7 4 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.18%) Appium
8 3 (0.18%) RStudio
8 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 522 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 515 (30.58%) Analytical Skills
3 458 (27.20%) Finance
4 319 (18.94%) Marketing
5 227 (13.48%) Public Sector
6 138 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 118 (7.01%) Retail
8 109 (6.47%) Legal
9 101 (6.00%) Law
10 78 (4.63%) Games
11 72 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
13 64 (3.80%) Banking
14 47 (2.79%) Advertising
15 38 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.37%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.31%) Aerospace
17 22 (1.31%) Police
18 21 (1.25%) Publishing
19 17 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 350 (20.78%) Senior
2 243 (14.43%) Analyst
3 212 (12.59%) Data Engineer
4 196 (11.64%) Lead
5 176 (10.45%) Architect
6 104 (6.18%) Data Analyst
7 103 (6.12%) Developer
8 87 (5.17%) Data Architect
9 80 (4.75%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
11 67 (3.98%) Product Manager
12 63 (3.74%) Consultant
13 60 (3.56%) Marketing Manager
14 56 (3.33%) Data Scientist
15 51 (3.03%) Senior Manager
16 45 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
17 38 (2.26%) Senior Data Analyst
18 34 (2.02%) .NET Developer
19 32 (1.90%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (6.65%) Terraform
2 110 (6.53%) PySpark
3 61 (3.62%) .NET
4 44 (2.61%) HTML
5 43 (2.55%) CSS
6 35 (2.08%) React
7 32 (1.90%) .NET Core
8 31 (1.84%) ASP.NET
8 31 (1.84%) ASP.NET Core
9 24 (1.43%) JSON
10 23 (1.37%) REST
11 20 (1.19%) Kafka
12 18 (1.07%) AngularJS
13 17 (1.01%) Entity Framework
13 17 (1.01%) Pandas
13 17 (1.01%) Vue
14 14 (0.83%) Next.js
14 14 (0.83%) SubSonic
15 13 (0.77%) Middleware
15 13 (0.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 95 (5.64%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.40%) Social Media
3 81 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.28%) Marketing Technology
5 60 (3.56%) Blog
6 51 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.49%) Data Structures
8 39 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 34 (2.02%) Onboarding
11 34 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.90%) Virtual Team
13 31 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (1.72%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.66%) Mobile App
16 27 (1.60%) Credit Risk
17 22 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
17 22 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
18 20 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.67%) Windows
2 19 (1.13%) Linux
3 12 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.71%) VMS
4 9 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (40.14%) AI
2 471 (27.97%) Decision-Making
3 412 (24.47%) Business Intelligence
4 384 (22.80%) Agile
5 341 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
6 337 (20.01%) Roadmaps
7 284 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 278 (16.51%) Data Modelling
9 254 (15.08%) Mentoring
10 253 (15.02%) CI/CD
10 253 (15.02%) Data Engineering
11 242 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 223 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
13 213 (12.65%) Actionable Insight
14 211 (12.53%) Machine Learning
15 207 (12.29%) Data Analytics
16 182 (10.81%) Customer Experience
16 182 (10.81%) Data Science
17 178 (10.57%) ETL
18 170 (10.10%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 601 (35.69%) SQL
2 426 (25.30%) Python
3 75 (4.45%) C#
4 59 (3.50%) JavaScript
5 55 (3.27%) PowerShell
6 54 (3.21%) Bicep
7 47 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 37 (2.20%) Java
10 31 (1.84%) R
11 30 (1.78%) Bash
12 27 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 22 (1.31%) Scala
14 19 (1.13%) C++
15 12 (0.71%) Go
15 12 (0.71%) VBA
16 9 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) Swift
18 7 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 187 (11.10%) Security Cleared
2 163 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 162 (9.62%) Degree
4 61 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 41 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 21 (1.25%) ACCA
8 18 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.07%) SnowPro
9 17 (1.01%) CIMA
10 15 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (0.77%) CISSP
12 12 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.42%) CISM
14 6 (0.36%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.36%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.36%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (17.58%) Data Quality
2 168 (9.98%) Accessibility
3 99 (5.88%) GDPR
4 53 (3.15%) QA
5 25 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 25 (1.48%) WCAG
6 17 (1.01%) NIST
7 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.65%) SLA
9 10 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.53%) IFRS
11 7 (0.42%) GRC
11 7 (0.42%) PMO
12 5 (0.30%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.30%) PERC
13 4 (0.24%) COBIT
13 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 64 (3.80%) Docker
2 39 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.71%) vSphere
5 11 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.059%) Firmware
7 1 (0.059%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 69 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.89%) Grafana
3 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.53%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.18%) Argo
6 3 (0.18%) Stealthwatch
7 2 (0.12%) Graylog
7 2 (0.12%) Kibana
7 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.059%) Control-M
8 1 (0.059%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.059%) Istio
8 1 (0.059%) linkerd
8 1 (0.059%) logstash
8 1 (0.059%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.059%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 403 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 191 (11.34%) Google
3 148 (8.79%) Databricks
4 105 (6.24%) Adobe
5 51 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.91%) SAP
7 42 (2.49%) Oracle
8 30 (1.78%) YouTube
9 27 (1.60%) HubSpot
10 23 (1.37%) Workday
11 21 (1.25%) Informatica
12 20 (1.19%) VMware
13 19 (1.13%) Cisco
14 15 (0.89%) TikTok
15 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.71%) Braze
16 12 (0.71%) Genesys
16 12 (0.71%) Instagram
16 12 (0.71%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.71%) Splunk