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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,413 1,315 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.02% 9.94% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.64% 10.49% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 707 749 1,563
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,276 £44,400 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +0.75% -8.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £104,399 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 14,665 12,537 29,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,232 8,912 23,714
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £80,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%

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 17 April 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 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (3.54%) CMS
3 35 (2.48%) Confluence
4 28 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.77%) Apache
6 20 (1.42%) WordPress
7 16 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.99%) SAS
9 9 (0.64%) Drupal
10 8 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) Moodle
11 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 72 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (2.12%) UserZoom
4 23 (1.63%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.42%) InDesign
7 5 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.28%) Trello
9 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.071%) Notion
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.98%) Adobe Campaign
2 19 (1.34%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
4 13 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
4 13 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
5 10 (0.71%) Magento
5 10 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 10 (0.71%) Shopify
6 9 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
7 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 387 (27.39%) Azure
2 216 (15.29%) Power Platform
3 182 (12.88%) Adobe Analytics
4 138 (9.77%) AWS
5 116 (8.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 111 (7.86%) Google Analytics
7 104 (7.36%) Figma
8 94 (6.65%) GCP
9 91 (6.44%) SaaS
10 83 (5.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 81 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
11 81 (5.73%) Snowflake
12 72 (5.10%) GitHub
13 68 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
14 58 (4.10%) Contentsquare
15 45 (3.18%) Entra ID
16 41 (2.90%) dbt
17 34 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
18 31 (2.19%) Amazon S3
19 28 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 238 (16.84%) Broadband
2 25 (1.77%) CHAP
3 9 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.50%) Firewall
4 7 (0.50%) VPN
5 6 (0.42%) DNS
6 5 (0.35%) DHCP
7 3 (0.21%) Modbus
7 3 (0.21%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.14%) Network Security
9 1 (0.071%) ATM
9 1 (0.071%) Frame Relay
9 1 (0.071%) LAN
9 1 (0.071%) MPLS
9 1 (0.071%) SMS
9 1 (0.071%) SNMP
9 1 (0.071%) VoIP
9 1 (0.071%) WAN
9 1 (0.071%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (13.87%) Power BI
2 120 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (6.23%) Metadata
4 81 (5.73%) SQL Server
5 65 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 62 (4.39%) Data Lake
7 56 (3.96%) Tableau
8 45 (3.18%) BigQuery
9 40 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 37 (2.62%) Looker
11 36 (2.55%) Relational Database
12 30 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
13 26 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.56%) NoSQL
15 19 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (1.34%) Power Query
16 18 (1.27%) Delta Lake
17 17 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
18 14 (0.99%) Star Schema
19 13 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (3.68%) Git
2 43 (3.04%) JIRA
3 36 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.63%) Axure RP
4 23 (1.63%) Balsamiq
4 23 (1.63%) TeamCity
5 18 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (0.71%) Crashlytics
6 10 (0.71%) XCTest
7 9 (0.64%) MLflow
8 6 (0.42%) GitLab
8 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.21%) Storybook
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.14%) Selenium
13 1 (0.071%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.071%) GCC
13 1 (0.071%) PHPUnit
General
1 484 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 380 (26.89%) Finance
3 295 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (15.07%) Marketing
5 181 (12.81%) Games
6 134 (9.48%) Public Sector
7 79 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 67 (4.74%) Retail
9 66 (4.67%) Law
10 65 (4.60%) Back Office
11 56 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (3.89%) Banking
13 49 (3.47%) Legal
14 36 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (2.34%) Financial Institution
16 29 (2.05%) Advertising
17 26 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
18 23 (1.63%) Manufacturing
19 16 (1.13%) Automotive
20 13 (0.92%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 220 (15.57%) Senior
2 217 (15.36%) Lead
3 157 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 127 (8.99%) Analyst
5 120 (8.49%) Architect
6 85 (6.02%) Designer
7 70 (4.95%) Support Engineer
8 60 (4.25%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (4.25%) Desktop Support
8 60 (4.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 56 (3.96%) Data Architect
9 56 (3.96%) Site Engineer
10 54 (3.82%) Product Manager
11 51 (3.61%) Developer
12 49 (3.47%) Senior Manager
13 47 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
14 45 (3.18%) Lead Designer
15 40 (2.83%) Data Analyst
15 40 (2.83%) Data Manager
15 40 (2.83%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.26%) HTML
2 45 (3.18%) PySpark
3 41 (2.90%) CSS
4 38 (2.69%) Kafka
5 28 (1.98%) OAuth
6 27 (1.91%) .NET
7 23 (1.63%) Akka
7 23 (1.63%) RESTful
8 22 (1.56%) JSON
9 21 (1.49%) OAuth2
10 17 (1.20%) Node.js
11 14 (0.99%) .NET Core
11 14 (0.99%) REST
12 13 (0.92%) React
13 12 (0.85%) FastAPI
13 12 (0.85%) TensorFlow
14 11 (0.78%) PyTorch
15 10 (0.71%) SwiftUI
15 10 (0.71%) UIKit
16 9 (0.64%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 233 (16.49%) Social Media
2 102 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 73 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 72 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
5 53 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 52 (3.68%) Over-the-Top Content
7 51 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 43 (3.04%) Marketing Technology
9 40 (2.83%) Virtual Team
10 34 (2.41%) Data Structures
11 31 (2.19%) Algorithms
12 29 (2.05%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (1.84%) Mobile App
15 25 (1.77%) Video\Live Streaming
16 21 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 21 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
17 20 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
18 19 (1.34%) Blog
19 17 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.02%) Windows
2 60 (4.25%) Windows 10
3 16 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.06%) Linux
5 7 (0.50%) Android
6 6 (0.42%) Unix
7 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.21%) VMS
9 1 (0.071%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (35.53%) AI
2 413 (29.23%) Agile
3 351 (24.84%) Customer Experience
4 333 (23.57%) Decision-Making
5 312 (22.08%) Roadmaps
6 286 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 270 (19.11%) Business Intelligence
8 265 (18.75%) Data Modelling
9 228 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
10 212 (15.00%) Storytelling
11 203 (14.37%) Data Engineering
12 196 (13.87%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 191 (13.52%) Product Roadmap
14 188 (13.31%) CI/CD
15 186 (13.16%) ETL
16 185 (13.09%) Data Analytics
17 176 (12.46%) DevOps
18 174 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
19 173 (12.24%) User Research
20 166 (11.75%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 329 (23.28%) SQL
2 251 (17.76%) Python
3 56 (3.96%) Scala
4 43 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (2.90%) Java
6 31 (2.19%) C#
6 31 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.77%) Bicep
8 21 (1.49%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 19 (1.34%) R
10 18 (1.27%) C++
11 14 (0.99%) Bash
11 14 (0.99%) Go
11 14 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.71%) Swift
14 9 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 225 (15.92%) Degree
2 145 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 127 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.25%) CTC Cleared
5 32 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.12%) CISA
7 26 (1.84%) CISSP
8 25 (1.77%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.77%) CGEIT
8 25 (1.77%) CISM
8 25 (1.77%) FFIEC
8 25 (1.77%) SANS
9 22 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.49%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.06%) ACCA
11 15 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.92%) PhD
13 12 (0.85%) CIMA
13 12 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 9 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (18.40%) Accessibility
2 196 (13.87%) Data Quality
3 94 (6.65%) GDPR
4 87 (6.16%) WCAG
5 63 (4.46%) SLA
6 32 (2.26%) NIST
7 28 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
8 26 (1.84%) QA
9 25 (1.77%) COBIT
10 13 (0.92%) IFRS
11 11 (0.78%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 9 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.42%) GAAP
14 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.14%) GMP
15 2 (0.14%) GRC
15 2 (0.14%) MiFID
15 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (3.82%) Docker
2 12 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.21%) 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 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.071%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 86 (6.09%) Terraform
2 63 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.64%) Ansible
4 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.42%) Grafana
7 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.21%) Control-M
9 2 (0.14%) Argo
9 2 (0.14%) QRadar
10 1 (0.071%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.071%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.071%) OpenView
10 1 (0.071%) SQL Sentry
10 1 (0.071%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 260 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 257 (18.19%) Adobe
3 150 (10.62%) Google
4 105 (7.43%) Databricks
5 64 (4.53%) Cisco
6 54 (3.82%) Oracle
7 44 (3.11%) SAP
8 38 (2.69%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.34%) HubSpot
10 15 (1.06%) Instagram
11 11 (0.78%) Amplitude
11 11 (0.78%) Hootsuite
11 11 (0.78%) Hotjar
11 11 (0.78%) Pardot
11 11 (0.78%) Wrike
12 10 (0.71%) Ab Initio
12 10 (0.71%) Braze
12 10 (0.71%) Informatica
12 10 (0.71%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.64%) Screaming Frog