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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 135 158
Rank change year-on-year -61 +23 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 205 381 564
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.25% 2.52% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 2.65% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 120 211 400
10th Percentile £41,925 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.61% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £98,474 £97,290
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -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 14,117 14,367 25,565
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.85% 95.11% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,762 21,237
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,750
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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 26 February 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 8 (3.90%) SAS
2 4 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 29 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.49%) Notion
3 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (28.78%) Power Platform
2 52 (25.37%) Azure
3 25 (12.20%) AWS
4 18 (8.78%) SaaS
5 17 (8.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (6.83%) GCP
7 14 (6.83%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.93%) Serverless
11 5 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.44%) dbt
11 5 (2.44%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.95%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.95%) Fivetran
13 3 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.17%) Broadband
2 21 (10.24%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.80%) Power BI
2 21 (10.24%) Tableau
3 19 (9.27%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (7.80%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (4.39%) Power Query
8 7 (3.41%) Looker
8 7 (3.41%) Metadata
9 5 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.44%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.44%) PowerPivot
10 4 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.95%) Big Data
10 4 (1.95%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.46%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.46%) IBM InfoSphere
11 3 (1.46%) SAS EBI
12 2 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (11.22%) Jenkins
1 23 (11.22%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.46%) JIRA
3 2 (0.98%) Git
4 1 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 92 (44.88%) Social Skills
2 78 (38.05%) Finance
3 41 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.15%) Banking
5 23 (11.22%) Financial Institution
6 12 (5.85%) Billing
6 12 (5.85%) Law
7 10 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.88%) Marketing
7 10 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.88%) Retail
8 9 (4.39%) Legal
9 8 (3.90%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.93%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.44%) Automotive
11 5 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.95%) Advertising
13 3 (1.46%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 42 (20.49%) Analyst
2 35 (17.07%) Senior
3 27 (13.17%) Auditor
4 24 (11.71%) Internal Auditor
5 22 (10.73%) Data Engineer
6 20 (9.76%) Security Auditor
7 17 (8.29%) Architect
8 16 (7.80%) Developer
8 16 (7.80%) Insight Analyst
8 16 (7.80%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.83%) Audit Manager
10 12 (5.85%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (5.85%) Scala Engineer
11 10 (4.88%) Data Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) IT Manager
13 8 (3.90%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.90%) Scala Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Scala Software Engineer
13 8 (3.90%) Senior Manager
13 8 (3.90%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.22%) Akka
2 10 (4.88%) PySpark
3 3 (1.46%) Middleware
4 2 (0.98%) CSS
4 2 (0.98%) HTML
4 2 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.98%) React
5 1 (0.49%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.49%) EDI
5 1 (0.49%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.49%) Kafka
5 1 (0.49%) LangChain
5 1 (0.49%) Node.js
5 1 (0.49%) Nuxt
5 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.49%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (0.49%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.66%) Management Information System
2 24 (11.71%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (11.71%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.22%) Over-the-Top Content
4 13 (6.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (5.85%) Blockchain
6 7 (3.41%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.93%) IoT
7 6 (2.93%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.95%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.46%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.98%) PMI
11 2 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.44%) Unix
1 5 (2.44%) Windows
2 4 (1.95%) Linux
3 1 (0.49%) AIX
3 1 (0.49%) Android
3 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (100.00%) Analytics
2 74 (36.10%) Agile
3 60 (29.27%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (25.37%) Decision-Making
4 52 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (21.46%) AI
6 40 (19.51%) Actionable Insight
6 40 (19.51%) Project Management
6 40 (19.51%) Visualisation
7 39 (19.02%) Risk Management
8 37 (18.05%) Data Analysis
9 30 (14.63%) Data Governance
9 30 (14.63%) Internal Audit
10 28 (13.66%) Data Protection
10 28 (13.66%) Kanban
10 28 (13.66%) Scrum
11 27 (13.17%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (12.68%) Acceptance Criteria
12 26 (12.68%) Incident Response
12 26 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (29.27%) SQL
2 55 (26.83%) Python
3 27 (13.17%) Scala
4 15 (7.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (5.37%) R
6 8 (3.90%) Java
7 6 (2.93%) C++
8 3 (1.46%) C
8 3 (1.46%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (1.46%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.46%) Tcl
9 2 (0.98%) C#
10 1 (0.49%) ABAP
10 1 (0.49%) Go
10 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (19.51%) Degree
2 26 (12.68%) CISSP
3 25 (12.20%) CISA
4 21 (10.24%) CGEIT
4 21 (10.24%) CISM
4 21 (10.24%) FFIEC
4 21 (10.24%) SANS
5 15 (7.32%) Security Cleared
6 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.88%) ACCA
8 6 (2.93%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.44%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.95%) CIMA
10 4 (1.95%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.98%) ISACA
12 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.98%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.12%) Data Quality
2 27 (13.17%) GDPR
3 23 (11.22%) NIST
4 21 (10.24%) COBIT
5 12 (5.85%) IFRS
6 7 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.46%) PMO
9 3 (1.46%) WCAG
10 2 (0.98%) GMP
10 2 (0.98%) GRC
10 2 (0.98%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.98%) QA
10 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.49%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.49%) NCSC
11 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Firmware
2 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 27 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.49%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.49%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.29%) Google
3 12 (5.85%) Databricks
3 12 (5.85%) Oracle
4 9 (4.39%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.41%) Alteryx
6 5 (2.44%) Informatica
6 5 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.44%) SAP
7 4 (1.95%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.46%) Talend
8 3 (1.46%) Teradata
9 2 (0.98%) Adobe
9 2 (0.98%) Civica
9 2 (0.98%) iManage
9 2 (0.98%) Northgate
9 2 (0.98%) Orchard
9 2 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.49%) Splunk
10 1 (0.49%) Spotify