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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 232 266
Rank change year-on-year -43 +34 -91
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 202 205 240
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.27% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.36% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 119 125 145
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 £90,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -3.85%

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 19,997 15,081 19,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.33% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,323 8,517 12,096
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 23 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 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.49%) Apache
2 3 (1.49%) SAS
2 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (15.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.99%) SPSS
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Maximo
1 1 (0.50%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.69%) Azure
2 58 (28.71%) Power Platform
3 19 (9.41%) GitHub
4 17 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.92%) AWS
5 16 (7.92%) GitHub Copilot
6 9 (4.46%) GCP
6 9 (4.46%) SaaS
7 8 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (3.96%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.96%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.97%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.98%) Alation
10 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.98%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) CHAP
2 2 (0.99%) VPN
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.50%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.76%) Power BI
2 32 (15.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (15.35%) MongoDB
4 17 (8.42%) Tableau
5 12 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.95%) Metadata
7 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.48%) Looker
8 5 (2.48%) Power Query
9 4 (1.98%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.99%) Big Data
11 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.99%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.50%) Flink
12 1 (0.50%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (1.49%) JIRA
3 2 (0.99%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.50%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.50%) ERwin
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) MLflow
4 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (37.13%) Finance
2 71 (35.15%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (26.73%) Social Skills
4 31 (15.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (12.38%) Marketing
6 17 (8.42%) Games
7 15 (7.43%) Aerospace
8 12 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (5.45%) Public Sector
10 9 (4.46%) Legal
11 8 (3.96%) Banking
12 7 (3.47%) Law
13 5 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.98%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.98%) Police
14 4 (1.98%) Retail
15 3 (1.49%) Advertising
15 3 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (24.75%) Analyst
2 40 (19.80%) Data Analyst
3 35 (17.33%) Developer
4 34 (16.83%) Senior
5 31 (15.35%) .NET Developer
6 20 (9.90%) Senior Analyst
7 17 (8.42%) Architect
7 17 (8.42%) Senior Data Analyst
8 15 (7.43%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.45%) Lead
10 9 (4.46%) Audit Manager
10 9 (4.46%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.46%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.96%) Administrator
11 8 (3.96%) IT Audit Manager
12 7 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.47%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (2.97%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.97%) Marketing Analyst
13 6 (2.97%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.83%) .NET
2 31 (15.35%) .NET Core
2 31 (15.35%) ASP.NET
2 31 (15.35%) ASP.NET Core
3 17 (8.42%) CSS
3 17 (8.42%) Entity Framework
3 17 (8.42%) HTML
4 14 (6.93%) AngularJS
4 14 (6.93%) SubSonic
4 14 (6.93%) Vue
5 6 (2.97%) Terraform
6 5 (2.48%) JSON
7 3 (1.49%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.49%) NumPy
7 3 (1.49%) Pandas
7 3 (1.49%) React
8 2 (0.99%) RESTful
9 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.50%) Node.js
9 1 (0.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.42%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (6.93%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.97%) Cyberattack
5 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.48%) Housing Association
7 4 (1.98%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.99%) Blog
9 2 (0.99%) NHS
9 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (100.00%) Analytics
2 70 (34.65%) Decision-Making
3 60 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (27.23%) Agile
5 52 (25.74%) AI
6 44 (21.78%) Data Analysis
7 43 (21.29%) Actionable Insight
8 40 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (17.82%) DevOps
9 36 (17.82%) Roadmaps
10 35 (17.33%) Data Governance
10 35 (17.33%) Data Management
10 35 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (16.34%) CI/CD
12 32 (15.84%) Data Transformation
12 32 (15.84%) Visualisation
13 30 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (13.86%) Data Modelling
15 27 (13.37%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 109 (53.96%) SQL
2 44 (21.78%) Python
3 34 (16.83%) C#
4 17 (8.42%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.97%) R
5 6 (2.97%) VBA
6 5 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.50%) Ada
9 1 (0.50%) Bicep
9 1 (0.50%) C
9 1 (0.50%) C++
9 1 (0.50%) Groovy
9 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (14.36%) Degree
2 16 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.48%) ACCA
4 5 (2.48%) CIMA
5 4 (1.98%) CISA
5 4 (1.98%) CISM
5 4 (1.98%) CISSP
6 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.49%) CGEIT
6 3 (1.49%) FFIEC
6 3 (1.49%) SANS
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.33%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.42%) QA
3 12 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.94%) GDPR
4 6 (2.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.98%) NIST
6 3 (1.49%) COBIT
6 3 (1.49%) IFRS
7 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (9.90%) Docker
2 7 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) Databricks
3 8 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.47%) SAP
5 6 (2.97%) Google
6 3 (1.49%) Informatica
7 2 (0.99%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.99%) YouTube
8 1 (0.50%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.50%) Capita
8 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) Sparx
8 1 (0.50%) Talend