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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 1,419 1,298 2,392
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.60% 8.57% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 9.02% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 770 720 1,531
10th Percentile £38,475 £31,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +2.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,156 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £107,500
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 15,436 14,396 29,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.67% 95.08% 90.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,985 8,732 23,377
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 18 May 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 (3.59%) CMS
2 41 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.40%) Confluence
4 29 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 24 (1.69%) Apache
6 21 (1.48%) WordPress
7 18 (1.27%) SharePoint
8 16 (1.13%) SAS
9 9 (0.63%) Drupal
10 6 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.28%) Moodle
12 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 61 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (2.11%) UserZoom
4 15 (1.06%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.21%) InDesign
9 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.14%) SPSS
9 2 (0.14%) Trello
10 1 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 34 (2.40%) Adobe Campaign
2 14 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
5 8 (0.56%) Magento
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.49%) Shopify
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
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
10 1 (0.070%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.070%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 349 (24.59%) Azure
2 213 (15.01%) Power Platform
3 193 (13.60%) Adobe Analytics
4 145 (10.22%) AWS
5 105 (7.40%) Figma
6 102 (7.19%) Google Analytics
7 96 (6.77%) SaaS
8 87 (6.13%) GCP
9 82 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 67 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 63 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
12 62 (4.37%) Contentsquare
12 62 (4.37%) GitHub
13 55 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 54 (3.81%) Entra ID
15 41 (2.89%) Snowflake
16 32 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
17 31 (2.18%) dbt
17 31 (2.18%) Serverless
18 30 (2.11%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 257 (18.11%) Broadband
2 23 (1.62%) CHAP
3 11 (0.78%) DNS
3 11 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.70%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.63%) Firewall
6 8 (0.56%) VPN
7 7 (0.49%) 5G
8 4 (0.28%) DHCP
8 4 (0.28%) Network Security
8 4 (0.28%) SMS
9 3 (0.21%) BGP
9 3 (0.21%) Modbus
9 3 (0.21%) OSPF
9 3 (0.21%) VLAN
9 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
11 1 (0.070%) Intranet
11 1 (0.070%) MPLS
11 1 (0.070%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (13.18%) Power BI
2 83 (5.85%) Metadata
3 74 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 52 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 48 (3.38%) Tableau
7 42 (2.96%) BigQuery
8 40 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (2.82%) Looker
9 38 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 32 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (1.69%) NoSQL
12 19 (1.34%) Big Data
12 19 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 19 (1.34%) MongoDB
12 19 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (1.34%) Star Schema
13 18 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (1.20%) Power Query
15 15 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 57 (4.02%) Git
2 33 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.97%) JIRA
4 22 (1.55%) TeamCity
5 15 (1.06%) Axure RP
5 15 (1.06%) Balsamiq
6 13 (0.92%) Crashlytics
6 13 (0.92%) XCTest
7 12 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (0.70%) MLflow
9 6 (0.42%) GitLab
9 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.21%) Storybook
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.14%) Selenium
14 1 (0.070%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.070%) MSI
14 1 (0.070%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 432 (30.44%) Social Skills
2 349 (24.59%) Finance
3 279 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (15.86%) Marketing
5 197 (13.88%) Games
6 144 (10.15%) Public Sector
7 84 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 75 (5.29%) Retail
9 68 (4.79%) Law
10 57 (4.02%) Banking
11 54 (3.81%) Back Office
12 50 (3.52%) Legal
13 39 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (2.26%) Advertising
15 32 (2.26%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.13%) Automotive
18 13 (0.92%) Brand Awareness
18 13 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 268 (18.89%) Senior
2 220 (15.50%) Lead
3 170 (11.98%) Data Engineer
4 131 (9.23%) Analyst
5 102 (7.19%) Architect
6 80 (5.64%) Designer
7 75 (5.29%) Product Manager
8 66 (4.65%) Developer
9 59 (4.16%) Support Engineer
10 57 (4.02%) Senior Manager
11 49 (3.45%) Desktop Engineer
11 49 (3.45%) Desktop Support
11 49 (3.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 49 (3.45%) Lead Designer
11 49 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (3.38%) Site Engineer
13 47 (3.31%) Data Analyst
14 45 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
15 44 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
16 42 (2.96%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.59%) PySpark
2 46 (3.24%) HTML
3 41 (2.89%) CSS
4 38 (2.68%) .NET
5 35 (2.47%) Kafka
6 23 (1.62%) .NET Core
7 22 (1.55%) Akka
8 19 (1.34%) Node.js
8 19 (1.34%) OAuth
9 17 (1.20%) JSON
9 17 (1.20%) RESTful
10 15 (1.06%) React
10 15 (1.06%) REST
11 13 (0.92%) FastAPI
11 13 (0.92%) SwiftUI
11 13 (0.92%) UIKit
12 12 (0.85%) ASP.NET
12 12 (0.85%) OAuth2
13 11 (0.78%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 235 (16.56%) Social Media
2 99 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 57 (4.02%) Over-the-Top Content
4 55 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 50 (3.52%) Marketing Technology
6 49 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 40 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 39 (2.75%) Virtual Team
9 33 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 26 (1.83%) Mobile App
12 25 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 24 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
14 22 (1.55%) Blog
15 20 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
16 15 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (1.06%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 65 (4.58%) Windows
2 49 (3.45%) Windows 10
3 24 (1.69%) Linux
4 18 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.42%) Unix
6 5 (0.35%) Android
6 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.21%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.070%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (36.36%) AI
2 426 (30.02%) Agile
3 351 (24.74%) Roadmaps
4 336 (23.68%) Customer Experience
5 287 (20.23%) Decision-Making
6 242 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
7 237 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 230 (16.21%) Data Modelling
9 213 (15.01%) Storytelling
10 212 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
10 212 (14.94%) Product Roadmap
11 205 (14.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 198 (13.95%) CI/CD
13 180 (12.68%) Data Engineering
14 177 (12.47%) Data Pipeline
14 177 (12.47%) Digital Customer Experience
15 175 (12.33%) Data Analytics
16 172 (12.12%) User Research
17 170 (11.98%) ETL
18 168 (11.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 332 (23.40%) SQL
2 278 (19.59%) Python
3 57 (4.02%) Scala
4 43 (3.03%) C#
5 38 (2.68%) Java
6 28 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 26 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 26 (1.83%) R
8 23 (1.62%) PowerShell
9 22 (1.55%) Bicep
10 21 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 18 (1.27%) C++
11 18 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.06%) Bash
13 13 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.92%) Swift
14 10 (0.70%) Go
15 8 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.56%) Rust
15 8 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 187 (13.18%) Degree
2 131 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 112 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
5 28 (1.97%) Azure Certification
5 28 (1.97%) CISA
6 23 (1.62%) CGEIT
6 23 (1.62%) CISM
6 23 (1.62%) CISSP
6 23 (1.62%) FFIEC
6 23 (1.62%) SANS
7 21 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 15 (1.06%) ACCA
11 14 (0.99%) CIMA
12 13 (0.92%) PhD
13 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.56%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.42%) IRCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (16.91%) Accessibility
2 194 (13.67%) Data Quality
3 95 (6.69%) GDPR
4 83 (5.85%) WCAG
5 52 (3.66%) SLA
6 38 (2.68%) QA
7 29 (2.04%) NIST
8 23 (1.62%) COBIT
9 16 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.63%) IFRS
10 9 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (0.56%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
12 5 (0.35%) GRC
13 4 (0.28%) IFRS 17
14 3 (0.21%) PERC
14 3 (0.21%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.14%) GMP
System Software
1 57 (4.02%) Docker
2 22 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.14%) vSphere
5 1 (0.070%) vCloud
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (5.50%) Terraform
2 67 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.49%) Ansible
4 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.21%) Control-M
6 3 (0.21%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.21%) Grafana
6 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.14%) Graylog
8 1 (0.070%) Argo
8 1 (0.070%) OpenView
8 1 (0.070%) QRadar
8 1 (0.070%) SQL Sentry
8 1 (0.070%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.070%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 266 (18.75%) Adobe
2 261 (18.39%) Microsoft
3 141 (9.94%) Google
4 115 (8.10%) Databricks
5 50 (3.52%) Cisco
6 48 (3.38%) Oracle
7 45 (3.17%) SAP
8 43 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.62%) HubSpot
10 14 (0.99%) Amplitude
11 13 (0.92%) Braze
11 13 (0.92%) Instagram
12 12 (0.85%) Pardot
13 11 (0.78%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.78%) Hotjar
13 11 (0.78%) Wrike
14 10 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.63%) Screaming Frog
16 8 (0.56%) Workday
17 6 (0.42%) dotdigital