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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 236 250
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 -79
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 209 202 278
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.20% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.28% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 121 124 149
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,885 £54,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.03% -9.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £119,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £64,125 £65,000 £62,950
% change year-on-year -1.35% +3.26% -3.15%

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 20,176 15,827 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.92% 93.82% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,403 8,473 11,816
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 October 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 5 (2.39%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache
3 3 (1.44%) SAS
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 32 (15.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.96%) SPSS
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Maximo
1 1 (0.48%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 64 (30.62%) Azure
2 61 (29.19%) Power Platform
3 19 (9.09%) AWS
3 19 (9.09%) GitHub
4 17 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.66%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (4.78%) SaaS
7 9 (4.31%) GCP
7 9 (4.31%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.31%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (3.83%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.35%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.39%) dbt
10 5 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.91%) Alation
11 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.91%) VPN
2 3 (1.44%) CHAP
3 2 (0.96%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.48%) GoToMeeting
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (24.40%) Power BI
2 32 (15.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (14.83%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.61%) Tableau
5 13 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.26%) Metadata
6 11 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.87%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.39%) Looker
8 5 (2.39%) Power Query
8 5 (2.39%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.91%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.96%) Big Data
11 2 (0.96%) OLTP
11 2 (0.96%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.96%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Git
2 5 (2.39%) JIRA
3 2 (0.96%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.96%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.96%) GitLab
3 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.48%) ERwin
4 1 (0.48%) MLflow
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (38.76%) Finance
2 78 (37.32%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (28.23%) Social Skills
4 33 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.00%) Marketing
6 17 (8.13%) Games
7 15 (7.18%) Aerospace
8 12 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.74%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.26%) Legal
10 9 (4.31%) Law
11 8 (3.83%) Banking
12 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.39%) Police
12 5 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.39%) Retail
13 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.96%) Local Government
15 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (23.92%) Analyst
2 39 (18.66%) Data Analyst
3 38 (18.18%) Senior
4 37 (17.70%) Developer
5 31 (14.83%) .NET Developer
6 20 (9.57%) Senior Analyst
7 17 (8.13%) Architect
7 17 (8.13%) Senior Data Analyst
8 15 (7.18%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Lead
10 9 (4.31%) Audit Manager
10 9 (4.31%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.31%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.83%) Administrator
11 8 (3.83%) IT Audit Manager
12 7 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.35%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 6 (2.87%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.87%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.75%) .NET
2 31 (14.83%) .NET Core
2 31 (14.83%) ASP.NET
2 31 (14.83%) ASP.NET Core
3 17 (8.13%) CSS
3 17 (8.13%) Entity Framework
3 17 (8.13%) HTML
4 14 (6.70%) AngularJS
4 14 (6.70%) SubSonic
4 14 (6.70%) Vue
5 8 (3.83%) Terraform
6 5 (2.39%) JSON
7 4 (1.91%) React
8 3 (1.44%) Matplotlib
8 3 (1.44%) NumPy
8 3 (1.44%) Pandas
8 3 (1.44%) REST
9 2 (0.96%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.96%) RESTful
10 1 (0.48%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.13%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (7.66%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.31%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.87%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.39%) Housing Association
6 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.91%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.91%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (1.91%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.96%) Blog
8 2 (0.96%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.96%) NHS
8 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.44%) Windows
2 2 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (100.00%) Analytics
2 73 (34.93%) Decision-Making
3 64 (30.62%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (27.75%) Agile
5 53 (25.36%) AI
6 45 (21.53%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
7 44 (21.05%) Data Analysis
8 38 (18.18%) DevOps
9 37 (17.70%) Data Management
10 36 (17.22%) Data Governance
11 35 (16.75%) CI/CD
11 35 (16.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 35 (16.75%) Roadmaps
12 34 (16.27%) Visualisation
13 33 (15.79%) Data Transformation
14 32 (15.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (14.83%) Data Modelling
16 27 (12.92%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 109 (52.15%) SQL
2 50 (23.92%) Python
3 37 (17.70%) C#
4 17 (8.13%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.87%) R
6 5 (2.39%) VBA
7 4 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.96%) Bicep
9 2 (0.96%) Groovy
9 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.48%) Ada
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (14.83%) Degree
2 19 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.87%) ACCA
4 6 (2.87%) CIMA
5 4 (1.91%) CISA
5 4 (1.91%) CISM
5 4 (1.91%) CISSP
5 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.44%) CGEIT
6 3 (1.44%) FFIEC
6 3 (1.44%) SANS
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.75%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.66%) QA
3 14 (6.70%) Accessibility
4 13 (6.22%) GDPR
5 7 (3.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (2.39%) NIST
7 3 (1.44%) COBIT
7 3 (1.44%) IFRS
8 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (10.53%) Docker
2 7 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.96%) Kibana
2 2 (0.96%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 61 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.18%) Databricks
3 8 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.35%) SAP
5 6 (2.87%) Google
6 3 (1.44%) Informatica
7 2 (0.96%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.96%) RedGate
7 2 (0.96%) YouTube
8 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.48%) Capita
8 1 (0.48%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.48%) ConnectWise
8 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.48%) N-able
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.48%) Sparx
8 1 (0.48%) Talend