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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 151 160
Rank change year-on-year -48 +9 +55
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 208 367 573
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.28% 2.34% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.46% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 122 212 415
10th Percentile £41,983 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,739 £83,125
90th Percentile £121,000 £98,474 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -7.88%

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 13,967 14,891 25,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.23% 94.81% 92.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,062 8,864 21,322
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
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% -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 15 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 (3.85%) SAS
2 4 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.44%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.44%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 30 (14.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) Notion
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.48%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.33%) Power Platform
2 50 (24.04%) Azure
3 26 (12.50%) AWS
4 19 (9.13%) SaaS
5 17 (8.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (6.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (6.25%) GCP
7 13 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.85%) Serverless
10 7 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.88%) dbt
12 5 (2.40%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.92%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.98%) Broadband
2 19 (9.13%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (28.37%) Power BI
2 23 (11.06%) Tableau
3 18 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (4.81%) Looker
8 9 (4.33%) Power Query
9 8 (3.85%) Metadata
10 5 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.40%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.92%) Big Data
11 4 (1.92%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.92%) PowerPivot
12 3 (1.44%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.44%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (1.44%) SAS EBI
12 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (11.06%) Jenkins
1 23 (11.06%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.96%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 93 (44.71%) Social Skills
2 76 (36.54%) Finance
3 44 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.94%) Banking
5 21 (10.10%) Financial Institution
6 13 (6.25%) Law
7 12 (5.77%) Billing
7 12 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.81%) Retail
9 9 (4.33%) Legal
9 9 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 9 (4.33%) Marketing
10 6 (2.88%) General Ledger
10 6 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.92%) Advertising
11 4 (1.92%) Automotive
11 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 44 (21.15%) Analyst
2 36 (17.31%) Senior
3 27 (12.98%) Auditor
4 24 (11.54%) Internal Auditor
5 23 (11.06%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.65%) Security Auditor
7 17 (8.17%) Developer
7 17 (8.17%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.69%) Architect
8 16 (7.69%) Insight Analyst
9 14 (6.73%) Audit Manager
10 12 (5.77%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (5.77%) Scala Engineer
11 11 (5.29%) Data Analyst
12 9 (4.33%) IT Manager
13 8 (3.85%) Lead
13 8 (3.85%) Scala Developer
13 8 (3.85%) Scala Software Engineer
13 8 (3.85%) Senior Manager
13 8 (3.85%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.06%) Akka
2 9 (4.33%) PySpark
3 3 (1.44%) Middleware
3 3 (1.44%) React
4 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.96%) CSS
4 2 (0.96%) HTML
4 2 (0.96%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.96%) Kafka
4 2 (0.96%) Node.js
4 2 (0.96%) Nuxt
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.96%) Vue
5 1 (0.48%) EDI
5 1 (0.48%) LangChain
5 1 (0.48%) PyXLL
5 1 (0.48%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.98%) Management Information System
2 24 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (11.54%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (11.06%) Over-the-Top Content
4 13 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (5.29%) Blockchain
6 7 (3.37%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.88%) IoT
8 5 (2.40%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.92%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.44%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.96%) PMI
11 2 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.40%) Unix
1 5 (2.40%) Windows
2 4 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.48%) AIX
3 1 (0.48%) Android
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (100.00%) Analytics
2 75 (36.06%) Agile
3 62 (29.81%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (26.44%) Decision-Making
5 52 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (22.60%) AI
7 42 (20.19%) Actionable Insight
8 41 (19.71%) Visualisation
9 38 (18.27%) Project Management
10 37 (17.79%) Risk Management
11 36 (17.31%) Data Analysis
12 32 (15.38%) Data Governance
13 30 (14.42%) Internal Audit
14 28 (13.46%) Kanban
14 28 (13.46%) Scrum
15 27 (12.98%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
16 26 (12.50%) Data Protection
16 26 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (12.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (30.77%) SQL
2 58 (27.88%) Python
3 27 (12.98%) Scala
4 16 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (5.77%) R
6 8 (3.85%) Java
7 7 (3.37%) C++
8 3 (1.44%) C
8 3 (1.44%) C#
8 3 (1.44%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (1.44%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.44%) Tcl
9 1 (0.48%) Go
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) PHP
9 1 (0.48%) Ruby
9 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (20.19%) Degree
2 25 (12.02%) CISA
3 24 (11.54%) CISSP
4 19 (9.13%) CGEIT
4 19 (9.13%) CISM
4 19 (9.13%) FFIEC
4 19 (9.13%) SANS
5 16 (7.69%) Security Cleared
6 14 (6.73%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.81%) ACCA
8 7 (3.37%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.40%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.92%) CIMA
11 4 (1.92%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.96%) ISACA
13 2 (0.96%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.87%) Data Quality
2 26 (12.50%) GDPR
3 21 (10.10%) NIST
4 19 (9.13%) COBIT
5 12 (5.77%) IFRS
6 8 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.92%) PMO
8 4 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.44%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.44%) WCAG
10 2 (0.96%) GMP
10 2 (0.96%) GRC
10 2 (0.96%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.48%) NCSC
11 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 27 (12.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Firmware
2 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.48%) Ganglia
3 1 (0.48%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.17%) Google
3 11 (5.29%) Oracle
4 10 (4.81%) Databricks
5 8 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.37%) Alteryx
7 6 (2.88%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.40%) Informatica
9 4 (1.92%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.92%) Talend
10 3 (1.44%) SAP
10 3 (1.44%) Teradata
11 2 (0.96%) Adobe
11 2 (0.96%) Civica
11 2 (0.96%) iManage
11 2 (0.96%) Northgate
11 2 (0.96%) Orchard
11 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.48%) Splunk
12 1 (0.48%) Spotify