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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 26 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,137 1,431 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.35% 8.73% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.45% 9.28% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 640 715 1,316
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,828 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £61,735
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.50% -5.02%
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 13,454 15,421 22,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.93% 94.05% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,565 9,081 18,236
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 January 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 38 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (2.64%) CMS
3 23 (2.02%) Apache
4 22 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.76%) WordPress
6 17 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 16 (1.41%) SharePoint
8 15 (1.32%) Confluence
9 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.62%) SAS
11 5 (0.44%) Drupal
11 5 (0.44%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.26%) Moodle
13 1 (0.088%) DNN
13 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
Applications
1 103 (9.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.29%) Adobe XD
4 15 (1.32%) InDesign
5 13 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.14%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.53%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.44%) Trello
10 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.35%) SketchUp
11 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.26%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.18%) SPSS
13 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
13 1 (0.088%) Notion
13 1 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 32 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.41%) Oracle Assets
3 16 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 16 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 14 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
4 14 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (1.14%) Dynamics GP
6 10 (0.88%) Magento
7 9 (0.79%) Shopify
8 5 (0.44%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.18%) Adaptiv
10 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 400 (35.18%) Azure
2 239 (21.02%) Power Platform
3 118 (10.38%) AWS
4 112 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 101 (8.88%) Snowflake
7 97 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (8.00%) GitHub
9 90 (7.92%) SaaS
10 86 (7.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 80 (7.04%) Google Analytics
12 74 (6.51%) Entra ID
13 71 (6.24%) GCP
14 51 (4.49%) dbt
15 48 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
16 43 (3.78%) GitHub Copilot
17 36 (3.17%) Figma
18 33 (2.90%) Amazon S3
19 26 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
19 26 (2.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.87%) Broadband
2 18 (1.58%) VPN
3 16 (1.41%) CHAP
4 9 (0.79%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.70%) Firewall
6 7 (0.62%) DNS
7 5 (0.44%) Network Security
8 4 (0.35%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.088%) DAB
10 1 (0.088%) DHCP
10 1 (0.088%) SMS
10 1 (0.088%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (19.44%) Power BI
2 143 (12.58%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (8.71%) Tableau
4 72 (6.33%) Data Lake
4 72 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 61 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (5.36%) Metadata
6 43 (3.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 29 (2.55%) BigQuery
8 28 (2.46%) Looker
9 26 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 22 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 20 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (1.67%) Delta Lake
13 16 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 15 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (1.32%) NoSQL
15 14 (1.23%) Big Data
16 13 (1.14%) Power Query
17 12 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (5.10%) JIRA
2 51 (4.49%) Git
3 43 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.73%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (2.29%) Axure RP
5 26 (2.29%) Balsamiq
6 23 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.62%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.53%) ER Studio
8 6 (0.53%) MLflow
9 5 (0.44%) GitLab
10 4 (0.35%) ERwin
10 4 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.26%) Storybook
12 2 (0.18%) Selenium
12 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.088%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.088%) Pivotal Tracker
13 1 (0.088%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.088%) TestNG
General
1 453 (39.84%) Social Skills
2 410 (36.06%) Finance
3 274 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (12.84%) Marketing
5 114 (10.03%) Public Sector
6 78 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (5.80%) Back Office
8 54 (4.75%) Law
9 53 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (3.96%) Banking
11 42 (3.69%) Manufacturing
11 42 (3.69%) Retail
12 40 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (2.73%) Legal
14 28 (2.46%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.67%) Games
16 17 (1.50%) Billing
17 15 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (1.23%) Advertising
19 13 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 170 (14.95%) Senior
2 129 (11.35%) Analyst
2 129 (11.35%) Data Engineer
3 113 (9.94%) Architect
4 100 (8.80%) Lead
5 69 (6.07%) Developer
6 64 (5.63%) Support Engineer
7 61 (5.36%) Data Architect
8 60 (5.28%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (5.28%) Desktop Support
8 60 (5.28%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 56 (4.93%) Site Engineer
10 44 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
11 42 (3.69%) Data Analyst
11 42 (3.69%) Designer
12 40 (3.52%) Data Manager
13 34 (2.99%) Senior Manager
14 30 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (2.64%) Senior Data Engineer
15 27 (2.37%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.69%) OAuth
2 36 (3.17%) PySpark
2 36 (3.17%) RESTful
3 35 (3.08%) HTML
4 34 (2.99%) OAuth2
5 33 (2.90%) Kafka
6 30 (2.64%) CSS
7 28 (2.46%) JSON
8 23 (2.02%) Akka
9 21 (1.85%) SAML
10 16 (1.41%) .NET
11 13 (1.14%) TensorFlow
12 11 (0.97%) PyTorch
12 11 (0.97%) XML
13 10 (0.88%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.88%) React
14 9 (0.79%) .NET Core
14 9 (0.79%) Node.js
14 9 (0.79%) Pandas
14 9 (0.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 81 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
2 78 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 74 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 61 (5.36%) Social Media
5 59 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 41 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 37 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.90%) Virtual Team
9 25 (2.20%) Algorithms
9 25 (2.20%) Video\Live Streaming
10 24 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (2.02%) Over-the-Top Content
12 17 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
14 12 (1.06%) Blog
15 10 (0.88%) AI Agents
15 10 (0.88%) Mobile App
16 9 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 88 (7.74%) Windows
2 60 (5.28%) Windows 10
3 21 (1.85%) Linux
4 12 (1.06%) Unix
5 8 (0.70%) Android
6 7 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.18%) VMS
8 1 (0.088%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (27.09%) AI
2 301 (26.47%) Agile
3 294 (25.86%) Business Intelligence
4 280 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 271 (23.83%) Decision-Making
6 217 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
7 215 (18.91%) DevOps
8 214 (18.82%) Data Analytics
8 214 (18.82%) Data Modelling
9 183 (16.09%) ETL
10 174 (15.30%) CI/CD
11 167 (14.69%) Data Engineering
12 152 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
13 149 (13.10%) Machine Learning
14 147 (12.93%) Coaching
15 144 (12.66%) Roadmaps
16 143 (12.58%) Data Governance
17 142 (12.49%) Visualisation
18 138 (12.14%) Customer Experience
19 132 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 341 (29.99%) SQL
2 280 (24.63%) Python
3 57 (5.01%) Scala
4 53 (4.66%) Java
5 46 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 35 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 32 (2.81%) Bicep
8 30 (2.64%) R
9 28 (2.46%) Bash
9 28 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 26 (2.29%) C#
11 24 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 21 (1.85%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.67%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.32%) C++
15 10 (0.88%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.70%) Go
17 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.35%) PHP
18 3 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 238 (20.93%) Degree
2 139 (12.23%) Security Cleared
3 129 (11.35%) SC Cleared
4 60 (5.28%) CTC Cleared
5 36 (3.17%) CISA
6 30 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.46%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.46%) CISSP
8 26 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 24 (2.11%) DBS Check
10 23 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.85%) CISM
12 18 (1.58%) ACCA
13 16 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.41%) CGEIT
13 16 (1.41%) FFIEC
13 16 (1.41%) SANS
14 12 (1.06%) CIMA
14 12 (1.06%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (14.78%) Data Quality
2 97 (8.53%) Accessibility
3 63 (5.54%) SLA
4 62 (5.45%) GDPR
5 39 (3.43%) WCAG
6 36 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (2.99%) NIST
8 22 (1.93%) QA
9 21 (1.85%) COBIT
10 16 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (1.23%) ISO 9001
12 13 (1.14%) IFRS
13 9 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.62%) GRC
14 7 (0.62%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.44%) ITGC
16 4 (0.35%) PMO
16 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.18%) GAAP
17 2 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (4.31%) Docker
2 20 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.088%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 110 (9.67%) Terraform
2 50 (4.40%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.70%) SCCM
6 6 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.53%) QRadar
7 5 (0.44%) Ansible
7 5 (0.44%) Grafana
7 5 (0.44%) SCOM
8 3 (0.26%) Control-M
9 2 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.088%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.088%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.088%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.088%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.088%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 250 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 118 (10.38%) Google
3 93 (8.18%) Databricks
4 72 (6.33%) Cisco
5 70 (6.16%) Adobe
6 55 (4.84%) Oracle
7 45 (3.96%) Salesforce
8 36 (3.17%) SAP
9 19 (1.67%) HubSpot
10 14 (1.23%) Ab Initio
11 13 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.14%) Talend
11 13 (1.14%) Zoho
12 11 (0.97%) Autodesk
12 11 (0.97%) Sage
13 10 (0.88%) Informatica
14 9 (0.79%) Alteryx
14 9 (0.79%) VMware
15 8 (0.70%) IBM
15 8 (0.70%) Workday