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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 31 26
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,594 1,208 2,071
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.33% 7.34% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.84% 7.88% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 933 686 1,232
10th Percentile £39,120 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.58% -3.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,375 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.98% -1.80% -3.85%

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 18,035 15,327 24,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 93.18% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 9,060 18,139
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,981
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 25 July 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 46 (2.89%) CMS
2 37 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 33 (2.07%) Confluence
4 24 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (1.44%) Apache
6 19 (1.19%) WordPress
7 17 (1.07%) SAS
7 17 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.44%) Drupal
10 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.063%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.063%) Moodle
13 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 54 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.76%) UserZoom
3 20 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.94%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.38%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 2 (0.13%) InDesign
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 35 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (2.13%) Adobe Campaign
3 33 (2.07%) Dynamics GP
4 10 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.38%) Shopify
6 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.25%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.19%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 3 (0.19%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.063%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.063%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 354 (22.21%) Azure
2 264 (16.56%) Power Platform
3 196 (12.30%) Adobe Analytics
4 167 (10.48%) AWS
5 102 (6.40%) SaaS
6 100 (6.27%) Google Analytics
7 98 (6.15%) Figma
8 94 (5.90%) GCP
9 75 (4.71%) Contentsquare
10 68 (4.27%) GitHub
11 66 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
12 64 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 55 (3.45%) Snowflake
14 47 (2.95%) Serverless
15 40 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 34 (2.13%) PaaS
17 30 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
17 30 (1.88%) dbt
18 29 (1.82%) Google Ads
19 28 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 242 (15.18%) Broadband
2 25 (1.57%) VPN
3 16 (1.00%) DNS
4 14 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 13 (0.82%) Firewall
6 12 (0.75%) VoIP
7 11 (0.69%) CHAP
7 11 (0.69%) CTI
8 10 (0.63%) SMS
8 10 (0.63%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.50%) Network Security
10 7 (0.44%) 5G
11 6 (0.38%) BGP
11 6 (0.38%) OSPF
11 6 (0.38%) VLAN
11 6 (0.38%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.25%) DHCP
13 3 (0.19%) Modbus
14 2 (0.13%) Intranet
14 2 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (15.18%) Power BI
2 106 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (5.40%) Metadata
4 64 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (3.83%) Tableau
6 58 (3.64%) Data Lake
7 57 (3.58%) SQL Server
8 52 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 44 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 44 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (2.51%) BigQuery
11 38 (2.38%) Looker
12 35 (2.20%) Big Data
13 24 (1.51%) Star Schema
14 23 (1.44%) Delta Lake
14 23 (1.44%) NoSQL
15 21 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
16 17 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (0.94%) MySQL
18 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (3.45%) Git
2 24 (1.51%) JIRA
3 14 (0.88%) Crashlytics
3 14 (0.88%) XCTest
4 7 (0.44%) Balsamiq
4 7 (0.44%) GitLab
4 7 (0.44%) MLflow
5 6 (0.38%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (0.31%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.13%) MSI
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.13%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.063%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.063%) ERwin
9 1 (0.063%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 482 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 388 (24.34%) Finance
3 369 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (17.94%) Marketing
5 216 (13.55%) Games
6 162 (10.16%) Public Sector
7 113 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 104 (6.52%) Legal
9 91 (5.71%) Law
10 82 (5.14%) Retail
11 64 (4.02%) Banking
12 48 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (2.76%) Advertising
14 39 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.57%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 15 (0.94%) Automotive
18 15 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 309 (19.39%) Senior
2 257 (16.12%) Lead
3 184 (11.54%) Analyst
4 166 (10.41%) Data Engineer
5 146 (9.16%) Architect
6 90 (5.65%) Product Manager
7 88 (5.52%) Developer
8 83 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 69 (4.33%) Designer
10 64 (4.02%) Data Architect
11 61 (3.83%) Senior Manager
12 60 (3.76%) Marketing Manager
12 60 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
13 52 (3.26%) Senior Data Engineer
14 46 (2.89%) Data Scientist
15 45 (2.82%) Consultant
15 45 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (2.76%) Lead Designer
17 38 (2.38%) .NET Developer
18 37 (2.32%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.83%) PySpark
2 56 (3.51%) .NET
3 51 (3.20%) HTML
4 49 (3.07%) CSS
5 38 (2.38%) .NET Core
6 32 (2.01%) ASP.NET
6 32 (2.01%) ASP.NET Core
7 27 (1.69%) React
8 26 (1.63%) Kafka
9 21 (1.32%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.19%) Node.js
10 19 (1.19%) REST
11 18 (1.13%) Entity Framework
11 18 (1.13%) FastAPI
11 18 (1.13%) JSON
12 14 (0.88%) SubSonic
12 14 (0.88%) SwiftUI
12 14 (0.88%) UIKit
12 14 (0.88%) Vue
13 12 (0.75%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 246 (15.43%) Social Media
2 101 (6.34%) Product Ownership
3 81 (5.08%) Marketing Technology
4 79 (4.96%) Cloud Native
5 59 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 53 (3.32%) Blog
7 50 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 45 (2.82%) Algorithms
9 40 (2.51%) Management Information System
10 37 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 36 (2.26%) Over-the-Top Content
12 35 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (2.13%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.88%) Mobile App
15 28 (1.76%) Onboarding
16 23 (1.44%) Web Conferencing
17 20 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
17 20 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
18 19 (1.19%) Podcast
19 18 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.69%) Windows
2 20 (1.25%) Linux
3 15 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.82%) VMS
5 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.063%) AIX
8 1 (0.063%) Android
8 1 (0.063%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (43.60%) AI
2 453 (28.42%) Agile
3 452 (28.36%) Roadmaps
4 405 (25.41%) Decision-Making
5 321 (20.14%) Customer Experience
6 308 (19.32%) Business Intelligence
7 274 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
8 271 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 244 (15.31%) Data Modelling
10 238 (14.93%) Storytelling
11 230 (14.43%) Product Roadmap
12 205 (12.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 201 (12.61%) CI/CD
14 200 (12.55%) Data Engineering
15 186 (11.67%) Mentoring
16 185 (11.61%) Data Analytics
16 185 (11.61%) Digital Customer Experience
17 184 (11.54%) User Research
18 177 (11.10%) Machine Learning
19 174 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 435 (27.29%) SQL
2 324 (20.33%) Python
3 58 (3.64%) C#
4 43 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 36 (2.26%) TypeScript
6 35 (2.20%) Bicep
7 33 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 31 (1.94%) JavaScript
9 26 (1.63%) R
10 25 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 25 (1.57%) Scala
11 24 (1.51%) Bash
12 22 (1.38%) Java
13 15 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.94%) Swift
14 14 (0.88%) C++
15 12 (0.75%) VBA
16 10 (0.63%) Go
16 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 152 (9.54%) Degree
2 113 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 95 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 46 (2.89%) Azure Certification
5 29 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (1.51%) ACCA
6 24 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (1.19%) CIMA
8 18 (1.13%) CISSP
9 17 (1.07%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.88%) CISM
12 12 (0.75%) CISA
12 12 (0.75%) SANS
12 12 (0.75%) SnowPro
13 11 (0.69%) CGEIT
13 11 (0.69%) FFIEC
14 10 (0.63%) PhD
15 8 (0.50%) DV Cleared
16 6 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (16.94%) Accessibility
2 216 (13.55%) Data Quality
3 94 (5.90%) GDPR
4 74 (4.64%) WCAG
5 50 (3.14%) QA
6 24 (1.51%) NIST
7 22 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.69%) COBIT
10 11 (0.69%) IFRS
11 10 (0.63%) SLA
12 6 (0.38%) GRC
12 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) PMO
14 4 (0.25%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.25%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.25%) PERC
14 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (3.07%) Docker
2 31 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.75%) vSphere
6 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (5.33%) Terraform
2 64 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
4 6 (0.38%) Grafana
5 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.25%) Ansible
7 3 (0.19%) Argo
8 2 (0.13%) Graylog
9 1 (0.063%) Istio
9 1 (0.063%) linkerd
9 1 (0.063%) OpenView
9 1 (0.063%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.063%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.063%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 312 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 258 (16.19%) Adobe
3 154 (9.66%) Google
4 124 (7.78%) Databricks
5 56 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 54 (3.39%) SAP
7 44 (2.76%) Oracle
8 26 (1.63%) HubSpot
9 16 (1.00%) Instagram
10 15 (0.94%) Amplitude
10 15 (0.94%) Braze
10 15 (0.94%) Cisco
11 14 (0.88%) Alteryx
11 14 (0.88%) VMware
11 14 (0.88%) Workday
12 12 (0.75%) Informatica
12 12 (0.75%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (0.69%) Avaya
13 11 (0.69%) Genesys
14 10 (0.63%) Pardot