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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 36 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,635 1,042 1,817
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.93% 6.43% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.47% 6.92% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 677 893
10th Percentile £39,750 £33,900 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,766
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.77% +1.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.17% -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 19,307 15,056 20,685
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 92.97% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,921 8,679 13,447
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 6 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 37 (2.26%) CMS
2 31 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.83%) Confluence
4 29 (1.77%) Apache
5 26 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.98%) WordPress
7 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.61%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.061%) Drupal
12 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.061%) Moodle
12 1 (0.061%) Umbraco
Applications
1 68 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.08%) UserZoom
3 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.86%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.43%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.24%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) SPSS
10 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.061%) InDesign
11 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 33 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.71%) Dynamics GP
3 27 (1.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 24 (1.47%) Shopify
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%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.061%) HFM
8 1 (0.061%) Maximo
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%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 384 (23.49%) Azure
2 297 (18.17%) Power Platform
3 200 (12.23%) AWS
4 121 (7.40%) Adobe Analytics
5 119 (7.28%) Google Analytics
6 104 (6.36%) GCP
7 99 (6.06%) SaaS
8 88 (5.38%) GitHub
9 81 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 66 (4.04%) Figma
12 63 (3.85%) Serverless
13 59 (3.61%) Snowflake
14 55 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 55 (3.36%) Contentsquare
15 51 (3.12%) Microsoft Purview
16 45 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
17 41 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
18 40 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
19 37 (2.26%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 153 (9.36%) Broadband
2 33 (2.02%) VPN
3 22 (1.35%) DNS
4 20 (1.22%) Firewall
5 18 (1.10%) SMS
6 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.67%) CTI
7 11 (0.67%) VoIP
8 10 (0.61%) Network Security
8 10 (0.61%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.49%) DHCP
10 7 (0.43%) 5G
11 6 (0.37%) BGP
11 6 (0.37%) CHAP
11 6 (0.37%) OSPF
11 6 (0.37%) VLAN
11 6 (0.37%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.18%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (17.13%) Power BI
2 139 (8.50%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (6.12%) Metadata
4 83 (5.08%) Tableau
5 77 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 73 (4.46%) Data Lake
7 67 (4.10%) SQL Server
8 51 (3.12%) MongoDB
9 46 (2.81%) Relational Database
10 45 (2.75%) Looker
11 43 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
12 35 (2.14%) Delta Lake
13 34 (2.08%) Big Data
13 34 (2.08%) Star Schema
14 30 (1.83%) BigQuery
15 27 (1.65%) NoSQL
16 23 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
17 22 (1.35%) DynamoDB
17 22 (1.35%) Spark SQL
18 20 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 66 (4.04%) Git
2 24 (1.47%) JIRA
3 10 (0.61%) Crashlytics
3 10 (0.61%) XCTest
4 9 (0.55%) Balsamiq
4 9 (0.55%) GitLab
5 7 (0.43%) Axure RP
5 7 (0.43%) MLflow
6 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (0.31%) Poetry
7 3 (0.18%) Appium
7 3 (0.18%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.18%) RStudio
8 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
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 Code
General
1 489 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 461 (28.20%) Analytical Skills
3 419 (25.63%) Finance
4 295 (18.04%) Marketing
5 192 (11.74%) Public Sector
6 139 (8.50%) Games
7 111 (6.79%) Legal
8 108 (6.61%) Retail
9 106 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 92 (5.63%) Law
11 63 (3.85%) Banking
12 62 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (2.69%) Advertising
15 41 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.41%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 18 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.10%) Publishing
19 13 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 319 (19.51%) Senior
2 225 (13.76%) Analyst
3 216 (13.21%) Lead
4 187 (11.44%) Data Engineer
5 164 (10.03%) Architect
6 96 (5.87%) Developer
7 95 (5.81%) Data Analyst
8 83 (5.08%) Product Manager
9 79 (4.83%) Data Architect
10 75 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
11 58 (3.55%) Marketing Manager
11 58 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
12 54 (3.30%) Consultant
13 52 (3.18%) Data Scientist
13 52 (3.18%) Senior Manager
14 49 (3.00%) Designer
15 42 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (2.26%) Senior Data Analyst
17 35 (2.14%) .NET Developer
17 35 (2.14%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (6.73%) Terraform
2 101 (6.18%) PySpark
3 61 (3.73%) .NET
4 44 (2.69%) CSS
5 43 (2.63%) HTML
6 34 (2.08%) .NET Core
6 34 (2.08%) React
7 32 (1.96%) ASP.NET
7 32 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
8 22 (1.35%) Kafka
9 18 (1.10%) AngularJS
9 18 (1.10%) Entity Framework
9 18 (1.10%) JSON
9 18 (1.10%) Node.js
9 18 (1.10%) REST
10 16 (0.98%) FastAPI
11 15 (0.92%) Vue
12 14 (0.86%) Next.js
12 14 (0.86%) SubSonic
13 12 (0.73%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.30%) Social Media
2 97 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 89 (5.44%) Cloud Native
4 82 (5.02%) Marketing Technology
5 63 (3.85%) Blog
6 43 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 42 (2.57%) Data Structures
8 38 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 38 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 38 (2.32%) Virtual Team
9 37 (2.26%) Algorithms
10 36 (2.20%) Onboarding
11 34 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.96%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.77%) Over-the-Top Content
14 24 (1.47%) AI Agents
15 20 (1.22%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.26%) Windows
2 15 (0.92%) Linux
3 14 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.73%) VMS
5 8 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (42.08%) AI
2 448 (27.40%) Decision-Making
3 421 (25.75%) Agile
4 397 (24.28%) Roadmaps
5 371 (22.69%) Business Intelligence
6 312 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
7 273 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 252 (15.41%) Data Modelling
9 245 (14.98%) CI/CD
10 244 (14.92%) Customer Experience
11 233 (14.25%) Data Engineering
12 228 (13.94%) Mentoring
13 209 (12.78%) Machine Learning
14 203 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
15 200 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
16 187 (11.44%) Actionable Insight
17 186 (11.38%) Data Science
18 182 (11.13%) Data Analytics
19 170 (10.40%) Storytelling
20 163 (9.97%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 550 (33.64%) SQL
2 383 (23.43%) Python
3 73 (4.46%) 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 29 (1.77%) Java
8 27 (1.65%) Bash
8 27 (1.65%) R
9 26 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 24 (1.47%) Scala
11 19 (1.16%) C++
12 13 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 13 (0.80%) Swift
13 12 (0.73%) Go
13 12 (0.73%) VBA
14 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 152 (9.30%) Degree
2 139 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 55 (3.36%) Azure Certification
5 38 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (1.28%) ACCA
7 20 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.10%) SnowPro
9 17 (1.04%) CIMA
10 15 (0.92%) CISSP
11 13 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 13 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.61%) CISM
14 9 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
15 8 (0.49%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.43%) CISA
16 7 (0.43%) SANS
17 6 (0.37%) CGEIT
17 6 (0.37%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (16.70%) Data Quality
2 210 (12.84%) Accessibility
3 93 (5.69%) GDPR
4 54 (3.30%) QA
5 48 (2.94%) WCAG
6 22 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.16%) NIST
8 11 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.61%) SLA
10 9 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.49%) IFRS
12 7 (0.43%) PMO
13 6 (0.37%) COBIT
13 6 (0.37%) GRC
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 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 57 (3.49%) 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 3 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.55%) FortiGate
2 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.18%) Argo
5 3 (0.18%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (0.12%) Graylog
7 1 (0.061%) Ansible
7 1 (0.061%) Istio
7 1 (0.061%) linkerd
7 1 (0.061%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.061%) SQL Sentry
7 1 (0.061%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 377 (23.06%) Microsoft
2 177 (10.83%) Adobe
3 176 (10.76%) Google
4 149 (9.11%) Databricks
5 48 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 44 (2.69%) SAP
7 32 (1.96%) Oracle
8 25 (1.53%) HubSpot
9 20 (1.22%) Informatica
9 20 (1.22%) YouTube
10 19 (1.16%) VMware
11 17 (1.04%) Cisco
12 16 (0.98%) Workday
13 14 (0.86%) Braze
14 12 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 12 (0.73%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.67%) Amplitude
15 11 (0.67%) Avaya
15 11 (0.67%) Genesys
15 11 (0.67%) Screaming Frog