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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,390 1,277 2,260
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.33% 9.95% 7.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 10.50% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 701 731 1,559
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +1.24% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,509 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.12% +14.18% -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 13,978 12,164 28,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.76% 94.81% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 8,801 23,226
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 31 March 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 51 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (3.38%) CMS
3 28 (2.01%) Confluence
4 26 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 24 (1.73%) Apache
6 19 (1.37%) WordPress
7 15 (1.08%) SharePoint
8 14 (1.01%) SAS
9 9 (0.65%) Drupal
9 9 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.29%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.22%) Moodle
12 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
Applications
1 85 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.16%) UserZoom
4 24 (1.73%) Adobe XD
5 12 (0.86%) InDesign
5 12 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.14%) SketchUp
9 1 (0.072%) Notion
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.51%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
3 18 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
5 13 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.79%) Dynamics GP
6 11 (0.79%) Shopify
7 10 (0.72%) Magento
7 10 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.58%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.14%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 386 (27.77%) Azure
2 220 (15.83%) Power Platform
3 169 (12.16%) Adobe Analytics
4 137 (9.86%) AWS
5 115 (8.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 98 (7.05%) Google Analytics
7 95 (6.83%) SaaS
8 94 (6.76%) Snowflake
9 92 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
10 91 (6.55%) Figma
11 89 (6.40%) GCP
12 85 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 78 (5.61%) GitHub
14 75 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
15 53 (3.81%) Contentsquare
16 48 (3.45%) Entra ID
17 44 (3.17%) dbt
18 36 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
19 32 (2.30%) Amazon S3
20 28 (2.01%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 220 (15.83%) Broadband
2 24 (1.73%) CHAP
3 9 (0.65%) Unified Communications
4 7 (0.50%) VPN
5 6 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.36%) Network Security
7 4 (0.29%) Firewall
8 3 (0.22%) DNS
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
9 2 (0.14%) DHCP
10 1 (0.072%) ATM
10 1 (0.072%) Frame Relay
10 1 (0.072%) LAN
10 1 (0.072%) MPLS
10 1 (0.072%) SMS
10 1 (0.072%) SNMP
10 1 (0.072%) VoIP
10 1 (0.072%) WAN
10 1 (0.072%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (14.75%) Power BI
2 132 (9.50%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (6.04%) Metadata
4 81 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 67 (4.82%) Tableau
6 66 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 65 (4.68%) Data Lake
8 42 (3.02%) BigQuery
8 42 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 33 (2.37%) Looker
10 29 (2.09%) Relational Database
11 26 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (1.58%) NoSQL
13 20 (1.44%) Power Query
14 18 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (1.29%) Delta Lake
15 17 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
17 13 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 50 (3.60%) Git
2 38 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 38 (2.73%) JIRA
3 24 (1.73%) Axure RP
3 24 (1.73%) Balsamiq
4 23 (1.65%) TeamCity
5 19 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.65%) Crashlytics
6 9 (0.65%) XCTest
7 8 (0.58%) MLflow
8 7 (0.50%) GitLab
8 7 (0.50%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.29%) ERwin
9 4 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.22%) Storybook
11 2 (0.14%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 496 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 388 (27.91%) Finance
3 298 (21.44%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (14.53%) Marketing
5 169 (12.16%) Games
6 134 (9.64%) Public Sector
7 81 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (4.68%) Back Office
9 61 (4.39%) Retail
10 58 (4.17%) Law
10 58 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
11 56 (4.03%) Banking
12 48 (3.45%) Legal
13 36 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (2.37%) Financial Institution
14 33 (2.37%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.73%) Advertising
17 16 (1.15%) Automotive
18 14 (1.01%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 223 (16.04%) Senior
2 210 (15.11%) Lead
3 150 (10.79%) Data Engineer
4 125 (8.99%) Analyst
5 119 (8.56%) Architect
6 81 (5.83%) Designer
7 68 (4.89%) Support Engineer
8 60 (4.32%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (4.32%) Desktop Support
8 60 (4.32%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 59 (4.24%) Data Architect
10 56 (4.03%) Site Engineer
11 55 (3.96%) Developer
12 49 (3.53%) Senior Manager
13 46 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (3.17%) Product Manager
15 41 (2.95%) Data Analyst
15 41 (2.95%) Lead Designer
16 38 (2.73%) Data Manager
17 37 (2.66%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.17%) HTML
2 39 (2.81%) Kafka
2 39 (2.81%) PySpark
3 38 (2.73%) CSS
4 30 (2.16%) OAuth
5 29 (2.09%) .NET
6 25 (1.80%) RESTful
7 23 (1.65%) Akka
7 23 (1.65%) JSON
7 23 (1.65%) OAuth2
8 16 (1.15%) Node.js
9 15 (1.08%) .NET Core
10 13 (0.94%) REST
11 12 (0.86%) React
11 12 (0.86%) TensorFlow
12 10 (0.72%) PyTorch
13 9 (0.65%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.65%) FastAPI
13 9 (0.65%) LangChain
13 9 (0.65%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 232 (16.69%) Social Media
2 89 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 82 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
4 71 (5.11%) Cloud Native
5 53 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 53 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.24%) Over-the-Top Content
7 39 (2.81%) Virtual Team
8 36 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 32 (2.30%) Data Structures
10 29 (2.09%) Marketing Technology
11 28 (2.01%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.87%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
13 25 (1.80%) Video\Live Streaming
13 25 (1.80%) Web Conferencing
14 21 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
17 15 (1.08%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.47%) Windows
2 60 (4.32%) Windows 10
3 19 (1.37%) Linux
4 16 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.72%) Unix
6 8 (0.58%) Android
7 4 (0.29%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.072%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (34.24%) AI
2 403 (28.99%) Agile
3 333 (23.96%) Customer Experience
4 320 (23.02%) Decision-Making
5 300 (21.58%) Roadmaps
6 282 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 277 (19.93%) Business Intelligence
8 256 (18.42%) Data Modelling
9 233 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
10 202 (14.53%) Storytelling
11 196 (14.10%) Data Engineering
12 191 (13.74%) Data Analytics
13 189 (13.60%) CI/CD
14 185 (13.31%) ETL
15 184 (13.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 178 (12.81%) DevOps
17 177 (12.73%) Product Roadmap
18 169 (12.16%) User Research
19 165 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
20 154 (11.08%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 322 (23.17%) SQL
2 251 (18.06%) Python
3 57 (4.10%) Scala
4 43 (3.09%) Java
5 40 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (2.30%) C#
7 31 (2.23%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.73%) Bicep
9 23 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.58%) R
11 21 (1.51%) PowerShell
12 19 (1.37%) C++
13 15 (1.08%) Bash
14 14 (1.01%) Go
14 14 (1.01%) TypeScript
15 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.72%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.65%) Swift
18 8 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 229 (16.47%) Degree
2 138 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 121 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.32%) CTC Cleared
5 37 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.30%) CISA
7 28 (2.01%) CISSP
8 26 (1.87%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.73%) CGEIT
9 24 (1.73%) CISM
9 24 (1.73%) FFIEC
9 24 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.73%) SANS
10 23 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.15%) ACCA
11 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.94%) PhD
13 12 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (0.79%) CIMA
15 9 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (17.77%) Accessibility
2 189 (13.60%) Data Quality
3 84 (6.04%) GDPR
4 83 (5.97%) WCAG
5 63 (4.53%) SLA
6 34 (2.45%) NIST
7 28 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (1.80%) QA
9 24 (1.73%) COBIT
10 23 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 17 (1.22%) ISO 9001
12 16 (1.15%) IFRS
13 10 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.58%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.43%) GAAP
16 3 (0.22%) GRC
17 2 (0.14%) GMP
17 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
17 2 (0.14%) PMO
17 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (3.81%) Docker
2 10 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.14%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.072%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 87 (6.26%) Terraform
2 59 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.65%) Ansible
4 9 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.36%) Grafana
7 3 (0.22%) Control-M
8 2 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.14%) QRadar
9 1 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.072%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.072%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.072%) OpenView
9 1 (0.072%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.072%) SCCM
9 1 (0.072%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.072%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 260 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 245 (17.63%) Adobe
3 142 (10.22%) Google
4 102 (7.34%) Databricks
5 70 (5.04%) Cisco
6 57 (4.10%) Oracle
7 42 (3.02%) SAP
8 40 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.44%) HubSpot
10 15 (1.08%) Instagram
11 14 (1.01%) Informatica
12 11 (0.79%) Ab Initio
12 11 (0.79%) Hootsuite
12 11 (0.79%) Hotjar
12 11 (0.79%) Wrike
13 10 (0.72%) Amplitude
13 10 (0.72%) Talend
14 9 (0.65%) Sage
14 9 (0.65%) Zoho
15 8 (0.58%) IBM