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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 130 180
Rank change year-on-year -97 +50 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 177 342 564
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.99% 2.56% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 2.70% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 116 210 384
10th Percentile £40,625 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -7.65% -8.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £72,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £98,474 £95,000
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 14,857 12,645 29,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.17% 94.76% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,372 8,952 23,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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% -10.86%

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 21 April 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 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.69%) CMS
1 3 (1.69%) Confluence
1 3 (1.69%) SAS
2 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.13%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Maximo
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.99%) Power Platform
2 43 (24.29%) Azure
3 18 (10.17%) AWS
4 17 (9.60%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (7.91%) SaaS
7 9 (5.08%) Snowflake
8 8 (4.52%) GCP
9 7 (3.95%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.26%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.69%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (1.69%) dbt
13 3 (1.69%) Figma
13 3 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.69%) Serverless
14 2 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (1.13%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.69%) Broadband
1 26 (14.69%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.86%) Power BI
2 17 (9.60%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (5.65%) Tableau
7 9 (5.08%) Power Query
8 8 (4.52%) Metadata
9 7 (3.95%) PowerPivot
10 5 (2.82%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.69%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.69%) IBM InfoSphere
11 3 (1.69%) Looker
11 3 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.69%) SAS EBI
12 2 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.13%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.99%) Jenkins
1 23 (12.99%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.26%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) MLflow
General
1 79 (44.63%) Social Skills
2 70 (39.55%) Finance
3 33 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.95%) Banking
5 27 (15.25%) Financial Institution
6 12 (6.78%) Billing
6 12 (6.78%) Marketing
7 10 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.52%) Advertising
9 7 (3.95%) Automotive
9 7 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.95%) Law
9 7 (3.95%) Legal
10 6 (3.39%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.82%) French Language
11 5 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.82%) Retail
12 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (19.21%) Analyst
2 32 (18.08%) Senior
3 29 (16.38%) Auditor
4 25 (14.12%) Internal Auditor
4 25 (14.12%) Security Auditor
5 18 (10.17%) Architect
6 15 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.47%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.34%) Insight Analyst
8 12 (6.78%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.78%) Developer
8 12 (6.78%) Scala Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.52%) Scala Developer
10 8 (4.52%) Scala Software Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Senior Scala Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Operations Analyst
11 7 (3.95%) Project Analyst
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.99%) Akka
2 8 (4.52%) PySpark
3 4 (2.26%) JSON
4 3 (1.69%) CSS
4 3 (1.69%) HTML
5 2 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.56%) .NET
6 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.56%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.56%) LangChain
6 1 (0.56%) Middleware
6 1 (0.56%) React
6 1 (0.56%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.56%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.51%) Management Information System
2 24 (13.56%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (12.99%) Over-the-Top Content
4 20 (11.30%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (7.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (7.34%) Blockchain
6 8 (4.52%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.95%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.39%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.26%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.26%) Social Media
10 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.13%) IoT
10 2 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.13%) PMI
11 1 (0.56%) EPoS
11 1 (0.56%) Genomics
11 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) AIX
1 1 (0.56%) Android
1 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) Analytics
2 69 (38.98%) Agile
3 48 (27.12%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (24.86%) Project Management
5 43 (24.29%) AI
5 43 (24.29%) Data Analysis
6 37 (20.90%) Decision-Making
6 37 (20.90%) Risk Management
7 35 (19.77%) Actionable Insight
8 33 (18.64%) Data Protection
9 32 (18.08%) Visualisation
10 31 (17.51%) Internal Audit
10 31 (17.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (15.82%) Information Security
12 27 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (15.25%) Data Governance
12 27 (15.25%) Validation
13 26 (14.69%) Acceptance Criteria
13 26 (14.69%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (28.25%) SQL
2 32 (18.08%) Python
3 27 (15.25%) Scala
4 16 (9.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (3.95%) R
6 3 (1.69%) C#
7 2 (1.13%) Java
8 1 (0.56%) ABAP
8 1 (0.56%) Go
8 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.56%) PHP
8 1 (0.56%) Ruby
8 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (17.51%) Degree
2 27 (15.25%) CISSP
3 26 (14.69%) CGEIT
3 26 (14.69%) CISA
3 26 (14.69%) CISM
3 26 (14.69%) FFIEC
3 26 (14.69%) SANS
4 10 (5.65%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.26%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.26%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.13%) ISACA
8 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.13%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.56%) ACCA
9 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.95%) GDPR
2 27 (15.25%) NIST
3 26 (14.69%) COBIT
4 23 (12.99%) Data Quality
5 8 (4.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.26%) IFRS
7 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.69%) QA
7 3 (1.69%) WCAG
8 2 (1.13%) GMP
8 2 (1.13%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.56%) NCSC
9 1 (0.56%) PMO
9 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (13.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 23 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.08%) Oracle
3 8 (4.52%) Databricks
4 6 (3.39%) Google
4 6 (3.39%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.39%) SAP
5 5 (2.82%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.82%) Informatica
6 4 (2.26%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.69%) Talend
8 2 (1.13%) Adobe
8 2 (1.13%) Civica
8 2 (1.13%) iManage
8 2 (1.13%) Northgate
8 2 (1.13%) Orchard
9 1 (0.56%) Apple
9 1 (0.56%) Citrix
9 1 (0.56%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.56%) IBM