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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 27 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,108 1,522 1,684
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.24% 7.98% 8.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 8.77% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 660 814 1,233
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,469 £51,313 £51,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £89,041
90th Percentile £108,875 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -

All Process and 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 13,806 17,362 19,370
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 91.08% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,722 10,500 15,642
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,426
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 4 December 2025.

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 48 (4.33%) CMS
2 28 (2.53%) WordPress
3 25 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.44%) Confluence
6 15 (1.35%) Apache
7 14 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 10 (0.90%) Headless CMS
9 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.63%) Drupal
10 7 (0.63%) SAS
11 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.18%) Moodle
13 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.090%) DNN
13 1 (0.090%) Jupyter
Applications
1 116 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (2.26%) Adobe XD
4 17 (1.53%) Photoshop
5 14 (1.26%) InDesign
5 14 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.45%) Trello
10 4 (0.36%) SketchUp
11 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.090%) Notion
11 1 (0.090%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 26 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
1 26 (2.35%) Shopify
2 22 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (1.35%) Dynamics GP
5 13 (1.17%) Oracle Assets
5 13 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.63%) Magento
8 5 (0.45%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.36%) Adaptiv
10 3 (0.27%) SAP SCM
11 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 362 (32.67%) Azure
2 244 (22.02%) Power Platform
3 137 (12.36%) AWS
4 112 (10.11%) Google Analytics
5 99 (8.94%) Snowflake
6 92 (8.30%) SaaS
7 81 (7.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 80 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (6.77%) GitHub
9 75 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
10 68 (6.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 66 (5.96%) GCP
12 48 (4.33%) dbt
12 48 (4.33%) Entra ID
13 42 (3.79%) Figma
14 37 (3.34%) GitHub Copilot
15 35 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
16 31 (2.80%) Google Ads
17 30 (2.71%) Serverless
18 29 (2.62%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.53%) VPN
2 10 (0.90%) Firewall
2 10 (0.90%) Unified Communications
3 9 (0.81%) Broadband
4 7 (0.63%) DNS
5 6 (0.54%) CHAP
6 5 (0.45%) Network Security
7 4 (0.36%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.18%) SAN
9 2 (0.18%) WAN
10 1 (0.090%) 4G
10 1 (0.090%) 5G
10 1 (0.090%) DAB
10 1 (0.090%) DHCP
10 1 (0.090%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.090%) Modbus
10 1 (0.090%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.090%) SMS
10 1 (0.090%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (20.58%) Power BI
2 144 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (9.03%) Tableau
4 64 (5.78%) Data Lake
5 62 (5.60%) SQL Server
6 54 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (4.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 43 (3.88%) Metadata
9 27 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (2.17%) Looker
11 23 (2.08%) BigQuery
12 20 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (1.35%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.08%) Big Data
14 12 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 12 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (1.08%) Power Query
15 11 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.99%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (5.14%) JIRA
2 36 (3.25%) Git
3 25 (2.26%) Axure RP
3 25 (2.26%) Balsamiq
3 25 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
4 21 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.36%) ERwin
7 4 (0.36%) GitLab
7 4 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.27%) Bazaar
8 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.090%) Deequ
10 1 (0.090%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.090%) MLflow
10 1 (0.090%) Pivotal Tracker
10 1 (0.090%) Postman
10 1 (0.090%) RStudio
General
1 419 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 387 (34.93%) Finance
3 292 (26.35%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (18.14%) Marketing
5 104 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 88 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (6.41%) Retail
8 62 (5.60%) Law
8 62 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (4.96%) Manufacturing
10 44 (3.97%) Banking
11 43 (3.88%) Legal
12 39 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (2.35%) Back Office
14 22 (1.99%) Advertising
15 19 (1.71%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.62%) Billing
16 18 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.35%) Brand Awareness
17 15 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 183 (16.52%) Senior
2 126 (11.37%) Analyst
3 117 (10.56%) Architect
4 89 (8.03%) Data Engineer
5 88 (7.94%) Lead
6 75 (6.77%) Developer
7 62 (5.60%) Data Architect
8 53 (4.78%) Senior Manager
9 46 (4.15%) Analytics Manager
9 46 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
10 44 (3.97%) Data Analyst
11 38 (3.43%) Designer
12 34 (3.07%) Senior Analytics Manager
13 33 (2.98%) Data Manager
14 32 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (2.80%) Consultant
16 27 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
17 25 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 25 (2.26%) Marketing Executive
18 24 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (4.51%) HTML
2 40 (3.61%) CSS
3 36 (3.25%) OAuth
4 35 (3.16%) RESTful
5 30 (2.71%) JSON
6 29 (2.62%) OAuth2
7 22 (1.99%) PySpark
8 21 (1.90%) Kafka
8 21 (1.90%) Node.js
9 20 (1.81%) SAML
10 18 (1.62%) .NET
11 16 (1.44%) React
12 15 (1.35%) XML
13 14 (1.26%) Pandas
13 14 (1.26%) scikit-learn
14 13 (1.17%) REST
15 11 (0.99%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.99%) TensorFlow
16 9 (0.81%) Middleware
16 9 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 81 (7.31%) Self-Motivation
2 78 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 74 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 63 (5.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 63 (5.69%) Social Media
5 49 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 35 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 30 (2.71%) Virtual Team
8 29 (2.62%) Algorithms
9 23 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.71%) Blog
12 16 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
13 13 (1.17%) Reinsurance
14 12 (1.08%) IoT
15 11 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.87%) Windows
2 22 (1.99%) Linux
3 20 (1.81%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.81%) Unix
5 6 (0.54%) Android
6 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.18%) VMS
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (27.62%) Business Intelligence
2 296 (26.71%) AI
3 279 (25.18%) Agile
4 268 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
5 264 (23.83%) Decision-Making
6 237 (21.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 199 (17.96%) Data Analytics
8 188 (16.97%) Data Modelling
9 183 (16.52%) DevOps
10 146 (13.18%) Roadmaps
11 142 (12.82%) Machine Learning
12 141 (12.73%) Data Engineering
12 141 (12.73%) ETL
13 138 (12.45%) Visualisation
14 135 (12.18%) CI/CD
15 129 (11.64%) User Experience
16 122 (11.01%) Actionable Insight
16 122 (11.01%) Data Management
17 118 (10.65%) Mentoring
18 117 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 338 (30.51%) SQL
2 265 (23.92%) Python
3 49 (4.42%) PowerShell
4 43 (3.88%) Java
5 41 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 38 (3.43%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.62%) R
8 24 (2.17%) Bash
8 24 (2.17%) Bicep
9 22 (1.99%) C#
10 20 (1.81%) PL/SQL
10 20 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.62%) Scala
12 14 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.26%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.08%) C++
14 5 (0.45%) Go
15 4 (0.36%) Fortran
15 4 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 208 (18.77%) Degree
2 94 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 84 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 33 (2.98%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.26%) DBS Check
6 24 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.08%) CISA
8 21 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.81%) CTC Cleared
10 19 (1.71%) ACCA
10 19 (1.71%) CISSP
11 16 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.17%) CIMA
13 13 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
14 12 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (0.99%) CISM
16 9 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (10.29%) Data Quality
2 99 (8.94%) Accessibility
3 55 (4.96%) GDPR
4 38 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (3.25%) WCAG
6 24 (2.17%) SLA
7 22 (1.99%) NIST
8 19 (1.71%) QA
9 14 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (1.17%) IFRS
11 12 (1.08%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.99%) COBIT
13 9 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.63%) GRC
14 7 (0.63%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.54%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.45%) ITGC
16 5 (0.45%) PMO
17 2 (0.18%) GAAP
17 2 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 19 (1.71%) Docker
1 19 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 18 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) Firmware
7 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.090%) vCloud
7 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (8.21%) Terraform
2 25 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.72%) Ansible
4 8 (0.72%) SCCM
5 6 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.45%) Grafana
6 5 (0.45%) QRadar
6 5 (0.45%) SCOM
7 2 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.090%) AppManager
8 1 (0.090%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.090%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.090%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.090%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.090%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.090%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.090%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 250 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 161 (14.53%) Google
3 84 (7.58%) Databricks
4 54 (4.87%) Adobe
5 48 (4.33%) Oracle
5 48 (4.33%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.43%) SAP
7 34 (3.07%) Cisco
8 20 (1.81%) Apple
9 19 (1.71%) HubSpot
10 13 (1.17%) Sage
10 13 (1.17%) Zoho
11 12 (1.08%) Alteryx
12 11 (0.99%) Ab Initio
12 11 (0.99%) Autodesk
13 10 (0.90%) VMware
14 9 (0.81%) Ahrefs
14 9 (0.81%) Talend
15 8 (0.72%) Instagram
15 8 (0.72%) ServiceNow