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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 175 173
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 195 327 412
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 1.93% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 2.08% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 121 166 311
10th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,372 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.95% +0.62% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £122,500 £98,750 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -11.11%

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 13,340 15,743 19,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.29% 93.10% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,449 9,383 15,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 2 January 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 6 (3.08%) SAS
2 4 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.54%) Apache
3 3 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.54%) CMS
3 3 (1.54%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 30 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Notion
3 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.51%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.51%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 61 (31.28%) Power Platform
2 50 (25.64%) Azure
3 22 (11.28%) SaaS
4 21 (10.77%) AWS
5 14 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 12 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (5.64%) GCP
9 9 (4.62%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.10%) Serverless
11 7 (3.59%) dbt
12 6 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.56%) Google Analytics
14 4 (2.05%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (2.05%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.05%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.21%) Broadband
2 12 (6.15%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (30.26%) Power BI
2 27 (13.85%) Tableau
3 19 (9.74%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (5.64%) Looker
7 8 (4.10%) Metadata
8 6 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.08%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.56%) Big Data
9 5 (2.56%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.56%) Power Query
10 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.54%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.54%) IBM InfoSphere
11 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.03%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 12 (6.15%) Jenkins
1 12 (6.15%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.54%) JIRA
3 2 (1.03%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.03%) Git
General
1 82 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 63 (32.31%) Finance
3 45 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.79%) Banking
5 14 (7.18%) Financial Institution
6 13 (6.67%) Law
6 13 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.67%) Marketing
7 12 (6.15%) Billing
7 12 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.10%) Retail
10 7 (3.59%) Legal
10 7 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.56%) Front Office
13 4 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.54%) Avionics
14 3 (1.54%) Electronics
14 3 (1.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (19.49%) Analyst
2 31 (15.90%) Senior
3 23 (11.79%) Auditor
3 23 (11.79%) Internal Auditor
4 22 (11.28%) Data Engineer
5 16 (8.21%) Audit Manager
5 16 (8.21%) Insight Analyst
6 15 (7.69%) Architect
7 14 (7.18%) Developer
8 13 (6.67%) IT Manager
9 12 (6.15%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (6.15%) Security Auditor
9 12 (6.15%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.13%) Data Analyst
10 10 (5.13%) IT Audit Manager
11 9 (4.62%) Senior Manager
12 8 (4.10%) Analytics Manager
12 8 (4.10%) Data Manager
13 7 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 7 (3.59%) Internal Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.15%) Akka
2 9 (4.62%) PySpark
3 5 (2.56%) PyXLL
4 4 (2.05%) Middleware
5 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.03%) CSS
5 2 (1.03%) HTML
5 2 (1.03%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.03%) Kafka
5 2 (1.03%) Node.js
5 2 (1.03%) Nuxt
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.03%) React
5 2 (1.03%) Vue
6 1 (0.51%) EDI
6 1 (0.51%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Management Information System
1 21 (10.77%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (6.15%) Over-the-Top Content
3 12 (6.15%) Video\Live Streaming
4 7 (3.59%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.08%) Blockchain
5 6 (3.08%) IoT
6 5 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (2.05%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.03%) Smart Home
9 2 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.59%) Linux
1 7 (3.59%) Unix
1 7 (3.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) Analytics
2 68 (34.87%) Agile
3 67 (34.36%) Business Intelligence
4 59 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (25.64%) Decision-Making
6 41 (21.03%) AI
6 41 (21.03%) Visualisation
7 38 (19.49%) Data Analysis
8 36 (18.46%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (16.41%) DevOps
10 30 (15.38%) Data Governance
11 28 (14.36%) Risk Management
12 27 (13.85%) Project Management
13 26 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (12.82%) Internal Audit
15 23 (11.79%) Data Management
15 23 (11.79%) ETL
16 22 (11.28%) Data Modelling
16 22 (11.28%) Data Visualisation
17 20 (10.26%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 66 (33.85%) SQL
2 62 (31.79%) Python
3 15 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 15 (7.69%) Scala
4 14 (7.18%) R
5 11 (5.64%) C++
6 8 (4.10%) Java
7 7 (3.59%) C#
8 4 (2.05%) Fortran
8 4 (2.05%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.54%) C
9 3 (1.54%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (1.54%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.54%) Tcl
10 1 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (22.56%) Degree
2 23 (11.79%) CISA
3 20 (10.26%) CISSP
4 14 (7.18%) Security Cleared
5 13 (6.67%) ACCA
5 13 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.15%) CGEIT
6 12 (6.15%) CISM
6 12 (6.15%) FFIEC
6 12 (6.15%) SANS
7 8 (4.10%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.59%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.59%) CIMA
9 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.54%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.03%) PhD
11 2 (1.03%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.41%) Data Quality
2 19 (9.74%) GDPR
3 14 (7.18%) NIST
4 12 (6.15%) COBIT
4 12 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (5.64%) IFRS
6 5 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (2.05%) PMO
8 3 (1.54%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.03%) GRC
9 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.03%) WCAG
10 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.51%) GMP
10 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.51%) NCSC
10 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (8.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.62%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.23%) Google
3 12 (6.15%) Databricks
4 11 (5.64%) Oracle
5 7 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.05%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.05%) SAP
7 3 (1.54%) Teradata
8 2 (1.03%) Adobe
8 2 (1.03%) iManage
8 2 (1.03%) Informatica
8 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.03%) Talend
9 1 (0.51%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.51%) dotdigital
9 1 (0.51%) Planon
9 1 (0.51%) RedPrairie
9 1 (0.51%) Spotify
9 1 (0.51%) TikTok