Hybrid/Remote Data Analytics Job Trends

Data Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 131 168
Rank change year-on-year -73 +37 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 194 358 579
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 2.68% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 2.81% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 120 204 394
10th Percentile £41,125 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,589 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.20% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £74,063 £75,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £98,474 £97,290
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +1.24% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data 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 14,348 12,730 27,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.84% 95.26% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,446 8,781 22,926
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £34,000
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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Analytics and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Analytics
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Data Analytics salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data 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 9 (4.64%) SAS
2 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.55%) CMS
3 3 (1.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 30 (15.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (2.58%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.35%) Power Platform
2 47 (24.23%) Azure
3 19 (9.79%) AWS
4 17 (8.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (8.25%) SaaS
6 15 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (6.70%) Snowflake
8 11 (5.67%) GCP
9 7 (3.61%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.09%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.58%) dbt
11 5 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.06%) Fivetran
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (1.55%) Collibra
13 3 (1.55%) Figma
13 3 (1.55%) OCI
13 3 (1.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.40%) Broadband
2 24 (12.37%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.84%) Power BI
2 17 (8.76%) SQL Server
3 16 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (7.73%) Tableau
5 14 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (6.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (5.67%) Power Query
8 8 (4.12%) Metadata
9 7 (3.61%) PowerPivot
10 6 (3.09%) Looker
11 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.06%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.06%) SAS EBI
13 3 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.55%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.55%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (1.03%) QlikView
14 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (11.86%) Jenkins
1 23 (11.86%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.55%) JIRA
3 2 (1.03%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) MLflow
General
1 91 (46.91%) Social Skills
2 77 (39.69%) Finance
3 41 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (17.01%) Banking
5 26 (13.40%) Financial Institution
6 12 (6.19%) Billing
7 11 (5.67%) Law
7 11 (5.67%) Marketing
8 10 (5.15%) Legal
8 10 (5.15%) Retail
9 9 (4.64%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.61%) Automotive
11 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
12 6 (3.09%) General Ledger
13 5 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (2.06%) Advertising
14 4 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.55%) Games
15 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (21.65%) Analyst
2 37 (19.07%) Senior
3 30 (15.46%) Auditor
4 26 (13.40%) Internal Auditor
5 23 (11.86%) Security Auditor
6 15 (7.73%) Architect
6 15 (7.73%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.73%) Developer
6 15 (7.73%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.22%) Insight Analyst
8 12 (6.19%) Audit Manager
8 12 (6.19%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.19%) Scala Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) Data Analyst
10 8 (4.12%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.12%) Scala Developer
10 8 (4.12%) Scala Software Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.61%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.86%) Akka
2 8 (4.12%) PySpark
3 3 (1.55%) CSS
3 3 (1.55%) HTML
4 2 (1.03%) Middleware
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.52%) .NET
5 1 (0.52%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.52%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.52%) LangChain
5 1 (0.52%) React
5 1 (0.52%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.98%) Management Information System
2 25 (12.89%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (12.37%) Video\Live Streaming
4 23 (11.86%) Over-the-Top Content
5 13 (6.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (6.70%) Blockchain
6 6 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.06%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.06%) IoT
8 4 (2.06%) Social Media
8 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.03%) PMI
10 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.52%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.06%) Unix
1 4 (2.06%) Windows
2 3 (1.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) AIX
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (100.00%) Analytics
2 73 (37.63%) Agile
3 59 (30.41%) Business Intelligence
4 50 (25.77%) Decision-Making
5 45 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (21.13%) Actionable Insight
6 41 (21.13%) Data Analysis
6 41 (21.13%) Project Management
6 41 (21.13%) Risk Management
7 39 (20.10%) Visualisation
8 36 (18.56%) AI
9 33 (17.01%) Internal Audit
10 31 (15.98%) Data Protection
11 29 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (14.43%) Incident Response
13 27 (13.92%) Data Governance
13 27 (13.92%) Information Security
13 27 (13.92%) Kanban
13 27 (13.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (27.84%) SQL
2 41 (21.13%) Python
3 27 (13.92%) Scala
4 15 (7.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (5.15%) R
6 5 (2.58%) Java
7 3 (1.55%) C#
7 3 (1.55%) C++
8 1 (0.52%) ABAP
8 1 (0.52%) Go
8 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.52%) Ruby
8 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (17.53%) Degree
2 28 (14.43%) CISSP
3 27 (13.92%) CISA
4 24 (12.37%) CGEIT
4 24 (12.37%) CISM
4 24 (12.37%) FFIEC
4 24 (12.37%) SANS
5 8 (4.12%) ACCA
5 8 (4.12%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.09%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.06%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.55%) CIMA
8 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.03%) ISACA
9 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.46%) GDPR
2 26 (13.40%) NIST
3 25 (12.89%) Data Quality
4 24 (12.37%) COBIT
5 11 (5.67%) IFRS
6 8 (4.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.55%) WCAG
9 2 (1.03%) GMP
9 2 (1.03%) GRC
9 2 (1.03%) ISO 9001
9 2 (1.03%) PMO
9 2 (1.03%) QA
10 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.52%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.52%) NCSC
10 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (12.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.52%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 29 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.22%) Oracle
3 12 (6.19%) Databricks
4 10 (5.15%) Google
5 9 (4.64%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.09%) Alteryx
6 6 (3.09%) Informatica
6 6 (3.09%) SAP
7 4 (2.06%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.06%) Talend
8 2 (1.03%) Adobe
8 2 (1.03%) Civica
8 2 (1.03%) iManage
8 2 (1.03%) Northgate
8 2 (1.03%) Orchard
9 1 (0.52%) Apple
9 1 (0.52%) Citrix
9 1 (0.52%) Foundry
9 1 (0.52%) Splunk