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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 36 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,675 1,051 1,850
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.85% 6.46% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.41% 6.93% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 672 856
10th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 19,914 15,166 20,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.38% 93.21% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,271 8,607 12,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 20 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 34 (2.03%) CMS
2 33 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.67%) Apache
4 27 (1.61%) Confluence
5 25 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.90%) WordPress
7 14 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
9 10 (0.60%) SAS
10 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.060%) Drupal
13 1 (0.060%) IIS
13 1 (0.060%) Moodle
13 1 (0.060%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) Umbraco
Applications
1 79 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.55%) UserZoom
3 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.84%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.36%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.30%) Trello
10 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.18%) SPSS
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.12%) InDesign
12 1 (0.060%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.67%) Dynamics GP
3 23 (1.37%) Shopify
4 21 (1.25%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.18%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.12%) FastStats
7 2 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.060%) Maximo
8 1 (0.060%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.060%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 395 (23.58%) Azure
2 312 (18.63%) Power Platform
3 200 (11.94%) AWS
4 124 (7.40%) Google Analytics
5 110 (6.57%) SaaS
6 105 (6.27%) GCP
7 85 (5.07%) GitHub
8 83 (4.96%) Adobe Analytics
9 81 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 66 (3.94%) Snowflake
12 65 (3.88%) Serverless
13 63 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 52 (3.10%) Figma
14 52 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
15 48 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
16 44 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
17 43 (2.57%) Contentsquare
17 43 (2.57%) Google Ads
18 40 (2.39%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.57%) Broadband
2 34 (2.03%) VPN
3 21 (1.25%) DNS
4 19 (1.13%) Firewall
5 18 (1.07%) SMS
6 16 (0.96%) 5G
7 13 (0.78%) Network Security
7 13 (0.78%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.66%) CTI
8 11 (0.66%) VoIP
9 10 (0.60%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.42%) 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%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (17.73%) Power BI
2 148 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (6.45%) Metadata
4 87 (5.19%) Tableau
5 79 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 79 (4.72%) Data Lake
6 69 (4.12%) SQL Server
7 51 (3.04%) MongoDB
8 47 (2.81%) Looker
9 44 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 37 (2.21%) Big Data
11 36 (2.15%) Delta Lake
11 36 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (2.15%) Star Schema
12 32 (1.91%) BigQuery
13 25 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
13 25 (1.49%) NoSQL
13 25 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
14 24 (1.43%) DynamoDB
15 23 (1.37%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 72 (4.30%) Git
2 29 (1.73%) JIRA
3 9 (0.54%) GitLab
4 8 (0.48%) Balsamiq
4 8 (0.48%) MLflow
5 6 (0.36%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.30%) Crashlytics
6 5 (0.30%) Poetry
6 5 (0.30%) XCTest
7 3 (0.18%) Appium
7 3 (0.18%) RStudio
7 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.12%) ERwin
8 2 (0.12%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.12%) MSI
8 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 497 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 494 (29.49%) Analytical Skills
3 438 (26.15%) Finance
4 311 (18.57%) Marketing
5 211 (12.60%) Public Sector
6 126 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (6.81%) Retail
8 109 (6.51%) Legal
9 104 (6.21%) Games
10 96 (5.73%) Law
11 69 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (3.64%) Banking
13 58 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
14 46 (2.75%) Advertising
15 38 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.31%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.31%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.13%) Publishing
18 17 (1.01%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 344 (20.54%) Senior
2 236 (14.09%) Analyst
3 215 (12.84%) Data Engineer
4 203 (12.12%) Lead
5 166 (9.91%) Architect
6 100 (5.97%) Developer
7 99 (5.91%) Data Analyst
8 83 (4.96%) Data Architect
9 80 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
10 76 (4.54%) Senior Analyst
11 74 (4.42%) Product Manager
12 61 (3.64%) Consultant
13 58 (3.46%) Marketing Manager
14 54 (3.22%) Data Scientist
15 53 (3.16%) Senior Manager
16 41 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
17 39 (2.33%) Designer
18 38 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
18 38 (2.27%) Senior Data Analyst
19 34 (2.03%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (6.69%) PySpark
2 107 (6.39%) Terraform
3 61 (3.64%) .NET
4 42 (2.51%) CSS
4 42 (2.51%) HTML
5 35 (2.09%) React
6 32 (1.91%) .NET Core
7 31 (1.85%) ASP.NET
7 31 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
8 24 (1.43%) JSON
9 21 (1.25%) Kafka
10 19 (1.13%) REST
11 18 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 17 (1.01%) Entity Framework
12 17 (1.01%) Vue
13 16 (0.96%) Pandas
14 14 (0.84%) Next.js
14 14 (0.84%) Node.js
14 14 (0.84%) SubSonic
15 12 (0.72%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.87%) Social Media
2 95 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 90 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 81 (4.84%) Marketing Technology
5 61 (3.64%) Blog
6 41 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 40 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 38 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 38 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 37 (2.21%) Algorithms
10 35 (2.09%) Virtual Team
11 34 (2.03%) Onboarding
11 34 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 26 (1.55%) Mobile App
14 24 (1.43%) Credit Risk
15 22 (1.31%) Over-the-Top Content
16 21 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.57%) Windows
2 18 (1.07%) Linux
3 12 (0.72%) VMS
4 11 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.18%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (41.19%) AI
2 471 (28.12%) Decision-Making
3 402 (24.00%) Agile
4 399 (23.82%) Business Intelligence
5 359 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 327 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
7 277 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 271 (16.18%) Data Modelling
9 252 (15.04%) Data Engineering
10 249 (14.87%) Mentoring
11 246 (14.69%) CI/CD
12 222 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
13 220 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 213 (12.72%) Machine Learning
15 209 (12.48%) Customer Experience
16 208 (12.42%) Actionable Insight
17 198 (11.82%) Data Analytics
18 182 (10.87%) Data Science
19 175 (10.45%) ETL
20 164 (9.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 587 (35.04%) SQL
2 417 (24.90%) Python
3 74 (4.42%) C#
4 57 (3.40%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.22%) PowerShell
6 48 (2.87%) Bicep
7 46 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 35 (2.09%) Java
10 29 (1.73%) Bash
10 29 (1.73%) R
11 27 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 23 (1.37%) Scala
13 19 (1.13%) C++
14 12 (0.72%) VBA
15 11 (0.66%) Go
16 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.48%) Swift
16 8 (0.48%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 174 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 158 (9.43%) Degree
3 150 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.34%) Azure Certification
5 40 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 24 (1.43%) ACCA
8 20 (1.19%) CIMA
9 18 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.07%) SnowPro
10 13 (0.78%) CISSP
10 13 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
12 11 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.42%) CISM
14 6 (0.36%) ICAEW
14 6 (0.36%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (17.25%) Data Quality
2 188 (11.22%) Accessibility
3 95 (5.67%) GDPR
4 55 (3.28%) QA
5 34 (2.03%) WCAG
6 22 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 17 (1.01%) NIST
8 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.60%) IFRS
9 10 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.60%) SLA
10 7 (0.42%) PMO
11 6 (0.36%) GRC
12 5 (0.30%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.30%) PERC
13 4 (0.24%) COBIT
13 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (3.64%) Docker
2 37 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.72%) vSphere
6 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.060%) Firmware
8 1 (0.060%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.54%) FortiGate
2 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.48%) Grafana
4 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.18%) Argo
5 3 (0.18%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (0.12%) Graylog
6 2 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.060%) Control-M
7 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.060%) Istio
7 1 (0.060%) linkerd
7 1 (0.060%) logstash
7 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 390 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 180 (10.75%) Google
3 151 (9.01%) Databricks
4 134 (8.00%) Adobe
5 50 (2.99%) SAP
6 48 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 43 (2.57%) Oracle
8 28 (1.67%) YouTube
9 25 (1.49%) HubSpot
10 22 (1.31%) Informatica
11 21 (1.25%) Workday
12 20 (1.19%) VMware
13 17 (1.01%) Cisco
14 14 (0.84%) TikTok
15 13 (0.78%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.72%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.66%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.66%) Avaya
17 11 (0.66%) Genesys
17 11 (0.66%) Instagram