Remote data analyst jobs, and the tools they ask for

We read 15 live remote data and BI analyst postings in full, from the newest in this feed and from the career sites of the employers posting most. SQL was close to universal: 12 of the 15 named it, and one wanted at least 5 years of it. After that, a dashboard tool. Tableau came up in 9 and Power BI in 8, usually as alternatives ("a BI tool such as Tableau or Power BI"), so knowing one well is usually enough to apply.

Python came up in 7, but mostly in senior and analytics engineer roles. Six named Databricks, including both Humana roles we read.

Eight of the 15 were at health insurers, other healthcare companies or health tech: CVS Health, Humana, Cardinal Health, DaVita, VSP Vision and Hello Heart. The feed-wide list of top posters points the same way, with Centene, CVS Health and Humana all in its top ten for the 30 days to November 7. These employers sit on large claims and member datasets, including Medicaid and Medicare reporting, and several listed their roles as remote nationwide.

If you have any healthcare background, even from a front-desk or billing job, say so. Four of the postings we read asked for experience with healthcare data, medical claims or claims encounter files.

Workday was the biggest employer-side source, ahead of Greenhouse. That fits the employer mix: CVS Health and Humana both post through Workday career sites. Setting alerts on a few of those career sites is worth the ten minutes.

Overall, the middle half of postings with pay ran from about $88k to $140k. Pay figures come only from postings that state pay, about a third of the total. About 13% of raw postings came from repost and staffing-spam accounts; we keep those out of the cards and the employer chart.

The titles blur in practice. One BI analyst posting said outright, "This is not a backend data engineering or data science role," and then asked the hire to connect AI APIs such as Claude or Gemini to automate routine analysis. If you write SQL every day and want the bigger pay band, analytics engineering is the usual next step, and dbt is the tool to learn for it.

Seven of the 15 postings put AI into the duties or the requirements, not just the company blurb. They ranged from building natural-language reporting that answers stakeholders' questions, to Samsara's line about shipping Python and SQL "increasingly by directing agentic coding tools, while holding a high bar for reviewing and verifying AI-generated work." An Affirm analytics engineer role was about building the semantic layer that lets AI systems read revenue data correctly.

All seven also named SQL. The AI part sits on top of it, and the hire is expected to tell when a generated query is wrong.

If you're closer to engineering, see remote software engineer jobs. Finance-side analysts may find more in remote accounting jobs.