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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 231 263
Rank change year-on-year -36 +32 -94
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 207 203 266
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 1.21% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.29% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 120 126 147
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £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 £94,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,875 £117,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £62,700
% change year-on-year +2.00% -0.32% -3.54%

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 20,199 15,729 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.99% 93.79% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 14,414 8,417 11,709
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,042
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%

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 30 September 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 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) Apache
3 3 (1.45%) SAS
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 32 (15.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.97%) 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 62 (29.95%) Azure
2 60 (28.99%) Power Platform
3 19 (9.18%) AWS
3 19 (9.18%) GitHub
4 17 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.73%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (4.83%) SaaS
7 9 (4.35%) GCP
7 9 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (3.86%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.38%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.42%) dbt
11 4 (1.93%) Alation
11 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) CHAP
1 3 (1.45%) VPN
2 2 (0.97%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) GoToMeeting
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (24.15%) Power BI
2 32 (15.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (14.98%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.70%) Tableau
5 13 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.31%) Metadata
6 11 (5.31%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.90%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.42%) Looker
8 5 (2.42%) Power Query
8 5 (2.42%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.93%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.97%) Big Data
11 2 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.97%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Git
2 5 (2.42%) JIRA
3 2 (0.97%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.97%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (0.97%) GitLab
3 2 (0.97%) 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 80 (38.65%) Finance
2 77 (37.20%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (28.02%) Social Skills
4 33 (15.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.11%) Marketing
6 17 (8.21%) Games
7 15 (7.25%) Aerospace
8 12 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.31%) Legal
10 9 (4.35%) Law
11 8 (3.86%) Banking
12 5 (2.42%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.42%) Police
12 5 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.42%) Retail
13 3 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.97%) Local Government
14 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (23.67%) Analyst
2 39 (18.84%) Data Analyst
3 37 (17.87%) Developer
3 37 (17.87%) Senior
4 31 (14.98%) .NET Developer
5 20 (9.66%) Senior Analyst
6 17 (8.21%) Architect
6 17 (8.21%) Senior Data Analyst
7 15 (7.25%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.80%) Lead
9 9 (4.35%) Audit Manager
9 9 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 9 (4.35%) IT Manager
10 8 (3.86%) Administrator
10 8 (3.86%) IT Audit Manager
11 7 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.38%) Systems Administrator
12 6 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 6 (2.90%) Data Manager
12 6 (2.90%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.91%) .NET
2 31 (14.98%) .NET Core
2 31 (14.98%) ASP.NET
2 31 (14.98%) ASP.NET Core
3 17 (8.21%) CSS
3 17 (8.21%) Entity Framework
3 17 (8.21%) HTML
4 14 (6.76%) AngularJS
4 14 (6.76%) SubSonic
4 14 (6.76%) Vue
5 7 (3.38%) Terraform
6 4 (1.93%) JSON
6 4 (1.93%) React
7 3 (1.45%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.45%) NumPy
7 3 (1.45%) Pandas
8 2 (0.97%) REST
8 2 (0.97%) RESTful
9 1 (0.48%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.21%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (7.73%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.90%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.42%) Housing Association
6 5 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.93%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (1.93%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.97%) Blog
8 2 (0.97%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.97%) NHS
8 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.48%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.45%) Windows
2 2 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (100.00%) Analytics
2 72 (34.78%) Decision-Making
3 62 (29.95%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (28.02%) Agile
5 52 (25.12%) AI
6 44 (21.26%) Actionable Insight
6 44 (21.26%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (20.77%) Data Analysis
8 37 (17.87%) Data Management
8 37 (17.87%) DevOps
9 36 (17.39%) Data Governance
10 35 (16.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 35 (16.91%) Roadmaps
11 34 (16.43%) CI/CD
11 34 (16.43%) Visualisation
12 33 (15.94%) Data Transformation
13 32 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (14.98%) Data Modelling
15 30 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 109 (52.66%) SQL
2 48 (23.19%) Python
3 37 (17.87%) C#
4 17 (8.21%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.90%) R
6 5 (2.42%) VBA
7 4 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.93%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.97%) Groovy
9 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.48%) Ada
10 1 (0.48%) Bicep
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (14.01%) Degree
2 19 (9.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.90%) ACCA
4 6 (2.90%) CIMA
5 4 (1.93%) CISA
5 4 (1.93%) CISM
5 4 (1.93%) CISSP
6 3 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.45%) CGEIT
6 3 (1.45%) FFIEC
6 3 (1.45%) SANS
7 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
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 (16.91%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.73%) QA
3 14 (6.76%) Accessibility
4 13 (6.28%) GDPR
5 7 (3.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.93%) NIST
7 3 (1.45%) COBIT
7 3 (1.45%) IFRS
8 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (10.14%) Docker
2 7 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.97%) Kibana
2 2 (0.97%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 59 (28.50%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.25%) Databricks
3 8 (3.86%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.38%) SAP
5 6 (2.90%) Google
6 3 (1.45%) Informatica
7 2 (0.97%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.97%) RedGate
7 2 (0.97%) YouTube
8 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.48%) Capita
8 1 (0.48%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle
8 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.48%) Sparx
8 1 (0.48%) Talend