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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 130 183
Rank change year-on-year -92 +53 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 182 339 579
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 2.56% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.71% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 114 208 392
10th Percentile £40,375 £25,313 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -7.65% -8.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £72,500 £75,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £98,474 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +1.24% -7.69%

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 14,746 12,526 29,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.22% 94.76% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,299 8,909 23,673
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,436 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%

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 18 April 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 (4.40%) SAS
2 3 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.65%) CMS
2 3 (1.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.55%) Maximo
3 1 (0.55%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.82%) Power Platform
2 43 (23.63%) Azure
3 18 (9.89%) AWS
4 17 (9.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (7.69%) SaaS
7 9 (4.95%) Snowflake
8 8 (4.40%) GCP
9 7 (3.85%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.20%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.65%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (1.65%) dbt
13 3 (1.65%) Figma
13 3 (1.65%) Serverless
14 2 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
14 2 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.29%) Broadband
2 25 (13.74%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (24.73%) Power BI
2 17 (9.34%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (5.49%) Power Query
6 10 (5.49%) Tableau
7 8 (4.40%) Metadata
8 7 (3.85%) PowerPivot
9 5 (2.75%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.65%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.65%) IBM InfoSphere
10 3 (1.65%) Looker
10 3 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.65%) SAS EBI
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.64%) Jenkins
1 23 (12.64%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.20%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.65%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 83 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 70 (38.46%) Finance
3 38 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (18.68%) Banking
5 26 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 12 (6.59%) Billing
6 12 (6.59%) Marketing
7 10 (5.49%) Retail
8 9 (4.95%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.40%) Advertising
10 7 (3.85%) Automotive
10 7 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.85%) Law
10 7 (3.85%) Legal
11 6 (3.30%) General Ledger
12 5 (2.75%) French Language
12 5 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.65%) Games
13 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (21.98%) Analyst
2 33 (18.13%) Senior
3 28 (15.38%) Auditor
4 24 (13.19%) Internal Auditor
4 24 (13.19%) Security Auditor
5 17 (9.34%) Architect
6 15 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.24%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.14%) Developer
7 13 (7.14%) Insight Analyst
8 12 (6.59%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.59%) Scala Engineer
9 11 (6.04%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.95%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.40%) Scala Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Scala Software Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Scala Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Operations Analyst
12 7 (3.85%) Project Analyst
12 7 (3.85%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.64%) Akka
2 8 (4.40%) PySpark
3 4 (2.20%) JSON
4 3 (1.65%) CSS
4 3 (1.65%) HTML
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.55%) .NET
6 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.55%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.55%) LangChain
6 1 (0.55%) Middleware
6 1 (0.55%) React
6 1 (0.55%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (0.55%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.48%) Management Information System
2 24 (13.19%) Video\Live Streaming
3 23 (12.64%) Over-the-Top Content
4 20 (10.99%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (7.14%) Blockchain
6 8 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.30%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.20%) Social Media
10 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.10%) PMI
11 1 (0.55%) Blog
11 1 (0.55%) EPoS
11 1 (0.55%) Podcast
11 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) AIX
1 1 (0.55%) Android
1 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.55%) Unix
1 1 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (100.00%) Analytics
2 68 (37.36%) Agile
3 49 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (23.63%) Data Analysis
4 43 (23.63%) Decision-Making
4 43 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (23.63%) Project Management
5 42 (23.08%) AI
6 37 (20.33%) Risk Management
7 36 (19.78%) Actionable Insight
8 32 (17.58%) Data Protection
8 32 (17.58%) Visualisation
9 30 (16.48%) Internal Audit
9 30 (16.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (14.84%) Data Governance
10 27 (14.84%) Information Security
11 26 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
11 26 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (14.29%) Validation
12 25 (13.74%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.22%) SQL
2 32 (17.58%) Python
3 27 (14.84%) Scala
4 16 (8.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (3.85%) R
6 3 (1.65%) C#
7 2 (1.10%) Java
8 1 (0.55%) ABAP
8 1 (0.55%) Go
8 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.55%) PHP
8 1 (0.55%) Ruby
8 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (17.03%) Degree
2 26 (14.29%) CISSP
3 25 (13.74%) CGEIT
3 25 (13.74%) CISA
3 25 (13.74%) CISM
3 25 (13.74%) FFIEC
3 25 (13.74%) SANS
4 10 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.10%) ACCA
8 2 (1.10%) ISACA
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.10%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.93%) GDPR
2 26 (14.29%) NIST
3 25 (13.74%) COBIT
4 23 (12.64%) Data Quality
5 8 (4.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (2.75%) IFRS
7 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.65%) QA
7 3 (1.65%) WCAG
8 2 (1.10%) GMP
8 2 (1.10%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.55%) GRC
9 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.55%) NCSC
9 1 (0.55%) PMO
9 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (13.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.30%) Terraform
3 1 (0.55%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 24 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.14%) Databricks
3 9 (4.95%) Oracle
4 6 (3.30%) Google
4 6 (3.30%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.30%) SAP
5 5 (2.75%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.75%) Informatica
6 4 (2.20%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.65%) Talend
8 2 (1.10%) Adobe
8 2 (1.10%) Civica
8 2 (1.10%) iManage
8 2 (1.10%) Northgate
8 2 (1.10%) Orchard
9 1 (0.55%) Apple
9 1 (0.55%) Citrix
9 1 (0.55%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.55%) IBM