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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 37 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,636 1,042 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.84% 6.40% 7.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 6.87% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 674 877
10th Percentile £39,750 £34,000 £39,200
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 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £66,805 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.34% -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 19,520 15,159 20,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.55% 93.09% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,031 8,684 12,914
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,867 £35,341
25th Percentile £44,852 £40,500 £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 13 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 (1.96%) CMS
2 31 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.71%) Apache
4 26 (1.59%) Confluence
5 25 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.98%) WordPress
7 15 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.61%) SAS
10 8 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.061%) Drupal
14 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.061%) Moodle
14 1 (0.061%) Umbraco
Applications
1 67 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (2.02%) UserZoom
3 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.92%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 6 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.24%) Trello
10 3 (0.18%) SPSS
11 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.061%) InDesign
12 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 34 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.71%) Dynamics GP
3 23 (1.41%) Shopify
4 22 (1.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.43%) 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 (0.061%) Maximo
8 1 (0.061%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.061%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 385 (23.53%) Azure
2 293 (17.91%) Power Platform
3 202 (12.35%) AWS
4 121 (7.40%) Google Analytics
5 103 (6.30%) SaaS
6 101 (6.17%) GCP
7 98 (5.99%) Adobe Analytics
8 86 (5.26%) GitHub
9 77 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 68 (4.16%) Serverless
12 60 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 59 (3.61%) Snowflake
14 52 (3.18%) Figma
15 51 (3.12%) Microsoft Purview
16 50 (3.06%) Contentsquare
17 45 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
17 45 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
18 41 (2.51%) Amazon S3
19 39 (2.38%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 127 (7.76%) Broadband
2 33 (2.02%) VPN
3 21 (1.28%) DNS
4 19 (1.16%) Firewall
5 18 (1.10%) SMS
6 16 (0.98%) 5G
7 14 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.73%) Network Security
9 11 (0.67%) CTI
9 11 (0.67%) VoIP
10 10 (0.61%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.43%) DHCP
12 6 (0.37%) BGP
12 6 (0.37%) OSPF
12 6 (0.37%) VLAN
12 6 (0.37%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.24%) CHAP
14 3 (0.18%) 4G
14 3 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
14 3 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (16.99%) Power BI
2 138 (8.44%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (6.30%) Metadata
4 83 (5.07%) Tableau
5 78 (4.77%) Data Lake
6 75 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 64 (3.91%) SQL Server
8 49 (3.00%) MongoDB
9 44 (2.69%) Looker
10 43 (2.63%) Relational Database
11 37 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
12 36 (2.20%) Big Data
12 36 (2.20%) Delta Lake
13 33 (2.02%) Star Schema
14 29 (1.77%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
16 23 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
16 23 (1.41%) Spark SQL
17 22 (1.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (4.22%) Git
2 26 (1.59%) JIRA
3 9 (0.55%) GitLab
4 8 (0.49%) Balsamiq
4 8 (0.49%) Crashlytics
4 8 (0.49%) XCTest
5 7 (0.43%) MLflow
6 6 (0.37%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (0.31%) Poetry
8 4 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.18%) Appium
9 3 (0.18%) RStudio
9 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.12%) ERwin
10 2 (0.12%) MSI
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 486 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 475 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 427 (26.10%) Finance
4 296 (18.09%) Marketing
5 200 (12.22%) Public Sector
6 118 (7.21%) Games
7 115 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 109 (6.66%) Retail
9 107 (6.54%) Legal
10 92 (5.62%) Law
11 64 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.67%) Banking
13 53 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (2.75%) Advertising
15 39 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.28%) Aerospace
18 19 (1.16%) Publishing
19 17 (1.04%) Telecoms
20 16 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 330 (20.17%) Senior
2 224 (13.69%) Analyst
3 203 (12.41%) Lead
4 202 (12.35%) Data Engineer
5 165 (10.09%) Architect
6 97 (5.93%) Developer
7 94 (5.75%) Data Analyst
8 81 (4.95%) Data Architect
9 77 (4.71%) Product Manager
10 75 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
11 71 (4.34%) Senior Data Engineer
12 58 (3.55%) Marketing Manager
13 56 (3.42%) Consultant
14 52 (3.18%) Data Scientist
14 52 (3.18%) Senior Manager
15 42 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (2.38%) Designer
17 37 (2.26%) Senior Data Analyst
18 35 (2.14%) Azure Engineer
19 34 (2.08%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (6.60%) PySpark
2 106 (6.48%) Terraform
3 60 (3.67%) .NET
4 40 (2.44%) CSS
5 39 (2.38%) HTML
6 33 (2.02%) React
7 32 (1.96%) .NET Core
8 31 (1.89%) ASP.NET
8 31 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
9 23 (1.41%) JSON
10 20 (1.22%) Kafka
11 18 (1.10%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.10%) REST
12 17 (1.04%) Entity Framework
13 16 (0.98%) Node.js
14 15 (0.92%) Vue
15 14 (0.86%) FastAPI
15 14 (0.86%) Next.js
15 14 (0.86%) Pandas
15 14 (0.86%) SubSonic
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.13%) Social Media
2 95 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 89 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 78 (4.77%) Marketing Technology
5 62 (3.79%) Blog
6 41 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 40 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 37 (2.26%) Algorithms
9 37 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 36 (2.20%) Virtual Team
11 35 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 34 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.77%) Mobile App
14 27 (1.65%) AI Agents
15 23 (1.41%) Over-the-Top Content
16 21 (1.28%) Credit Risk
17 20 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
18 19 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
18 19 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.26%) Windows
2 15 (0.92%) Linux
3 13 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.73%) VMS
5 7 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (41.93%) AI
2 451 (27.57%) Decision-Making
3 406 (24.82%) Agile
4 374 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
5 368 (22.49%) Roadmaps
6 317 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
7 271 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 255 (15.59%) Data Modelling
9 242 (14.79%) CI/CD
9 242 (14.79%) Data Engineering
10 236 (14.43%) Mentoring
11 220 (13.45%) Customer Experience
12 211 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
13 209 (12.78%) Machine Learning
14 208 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 194 (11.86%) Actionable Insight
16 187 (11.43%) Data Analytics
17 182 (11.12%) Data Science
18 160 (9.78%) ETL
19 157 (9.60%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 557 (34.05%) SQL
2 392 (23.96%) Python
3 71 (4.34%) C#
4 50 (3.06%) JavaScript
4 50 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 47 (2.87%) Bicep
5 47 (2.87%) TypeScript
6 38 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (2.08%) Java
8 28 (1.71%) Bash
9 27 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (1.65%) R
10 24 (1.47%) Scala
11 19 (1.16%) C++
12 12 (0.73%) VBA
13 11 (0.67%) Go
13 11 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.67%) Swift
14 8 (0.49%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 163 (9.96%) Security Cleared
2 149 (9.11%) Degree
3 140 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 54 (3.30%) Azure Certification
5 39 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 23 (1.41%) ACCA
8 19 (1.16%) CIMA
9 18 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.10%) SnowPro
10 14 (0.86%) CISSP
11 12 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
14 8 (0.49%) CISM
15 7 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.37%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.37%) Master's Degree
17 5 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 205 (12.53%) Accessibility
3 89 (5.44%) GDPR
4 55 (3.36%) QA
5 42 (2.57%) WCAG
6 22 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (1.10%) NIST
8 11 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.61%) SLA
10 9 (0.55%) IFRS
10 9 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.43%) PMO
13 6 (0.37%) GRC
14 5 (0.31%) COBIT
14 5 (0.31%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.31%) PERC
15 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
15 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
16 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (3.55%) Docker
2 36 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.73%) vSphere
6 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.55%) FortiGate
2 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.49%) 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
7 1 (0.061%) Istio
7 1 (0.061%) linkerd
7 1 (0.061%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 377 (23.04%) Microsoft
2 177 (10.82%) Google
3 149 (9.11%) Adobe
3 149 (9.11%) Databricks
4 47 (2.87%) Salesforce
4 47 (2.87%) SAP
5 38 (2.32%) Oracle
6 26 (1.59%) YouTube
7 24 (1.47%) HubSpot
8 20 (1.22%) Informatica
9 19 (1.16%) VMware
9 19 (1.16%) Workday
10 17 (1.04%) Cisco
11 13 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.79%) TikTok
12 12 (0.73%) Braze
12 12 (0.73%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (0.67%) Avaya
13 11 (0.67%) Instagram
13 11 (0.67%) Screaming Frog