Degree Jobs with Work from Home Options

Academic Degree
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 4,364 4,856 9,724
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.67% 12.25% 13.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.20% 47.04% 57.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,870 3,120 4,600
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,654 10,324 16,940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.04% 26.05% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,897 6,170 8,821
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,197 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £59,732
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +0.45% +8.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Degree.

Degree salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Degree over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Degree salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 98 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 86 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (1.33%) IIS
4 44 (1.01%) Apache
5 36 (0.82%) SAS
6 31 (0.71%) Confluence
7 30 (0.69%) Tomcat
8 27 (0.62%) CMS
9 20 (0.46%) WordPress
10 19 (0.44%) Apache Spark
11 17 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
13 11 (0.25%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.18%) nginx
15 6 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
15 6 (0.14%) Luigi
16 5 (0.11%) Drupal
17 4 (0.092%) OpenEdge
17 4 (0.092%) Umbraco
Applications
1 311 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 254 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
3 134 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (1.86%) Simulink
5 66 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
6 34 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 22 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 21 (0.48%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 19 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
11 18 (0.41%) Adobe XD
12 17 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
13 15 (0.34%) Sketch
14 14 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
14 14 (0.32%) OrCAD
14 14 (0.32%) Trello
15 12 (0.27%) SPSS
16 11 (0.25%) InDesign
17 10 (0.23%) InVision
17 10 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 47 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (0.92%) NEC Housing
3 30 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 22 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
5 13 (0.30%) Endur
5 13 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 12 (0.27%) SAP CX
7 10 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 10 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 10 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 8 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.18%) SAP Business One
9 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.11%) Odoo
11 4 (0.092%) Magento
11 4 (0.092%) Primavera
11 4 (0.092%) Shopify
11 4 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 3 (0.069%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 829 (19.00%) Azure
2 650 (14.89%) AWS
3 350 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
4 250 (5.73%) Power Platform
5 220 (5.04%) SaaS
6 143 (3.28%) GCP
7 101 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 88 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
10 76 (1.74%) Serverless
11 67 (1.54%) GitHub
12 65 (1.49%) Snowflake
13 62 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
13 62 (1.42%) Power Automate
14 61 (1.40%) PowerApps
15 58 (1.33%) IaaS
16 57 (1.31%) PaaS
17 49 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (1.01%) WhatsApp
19 30 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 152 (3.48%) Firewall
2 131 (3.00%) Wireless
3 122 (2.80%) WAN
4 90 (2.06%) DNS
5 75 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 71 (1.63%) LAN
7 70 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
8 66 (1.51%) Network Security
9 61 (1.40%) DHCP
10 60 (1.37%) SD-WAN
11 58 (1.33%) Internet
12 52 (1.19%) VPN
13 39 (0.89%) Ethernet
14 29 (0.66%) VoIP
15 28 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
16 26 (0.60%) SAN
16 26 (0.60%) Unified Communications
17 24 (0.55%) VLAN
18 22 (0.50%) RS-232
19 20 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 283 (6.48%) Tableau
3 223 (5.11%) Power BI
4 143 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 118 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 94 (2.15%) MySQL
7 88 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
8 74 (1.70%) Big Data
8 74 (1.70%) NoSQL
9 71 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 53 (1.21%) Redis
11 49 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 46 (1.05%) Oracle Database
13 36 (0.82%) RDBMS
14 35 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 35 (0.80%) MongoDB
15 27 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (0.60%) GIS
17 21 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
17 21 (0.48%) DB2
Development Applications
1 388 (8.89%) Git
2 108 (2.47%) JIRA
3 49 (1.12%) Visual Studio
4 48 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.73%) Selenium
6 30 (0.69%) Subversion
7 22 (0.50%) CMake
8 18 (0.41%) Vagrant
9 17 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
9 17 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 15 (0.34%) Balsamiq
11 14 (0.32%) GitLab
11 14 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.30%) Axure RP
13 12 (0.27%) Postman
14 11 (0.25%) JUnit
14 11 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
15 10 (0.23%) LabVIEW
15 10 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.21%) Maven
General
1 2,060 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 950 (21.77%) Finance
3 817 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 396 (9.07%) Marketing
5 372 (8.52%) Retail
6 369 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 296 (6.78%) Legal
8 293 (6.71%) Presentation Skills
9 261 (5.98%) Public Sector
10 195 (4.47%) Manufacturing
11 153 (3.51%) Electronics
12 143 (3.28%) Law
13 131 (3.00%) Games
14 123 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 114 (2.61%) Aerospace
15 114 (2.61%) Telecoms
16 89 (2.04%) Banking
17 88 (2.02%) Local Government
18 80 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
19 78 (1.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 829 (19.00%) Senior
2 628 (14.39%) Analyst
3 622 (14.25%) Developer
4 321 (7.36%) Lead
5 311 (7.13%) Software Engineer
6 259 (5.93%) Architect
7 220 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 200 (4.58%) Data Analyst
9 195 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
10 187 (4.29%) Consultant
11 163 (3.74%) Graduate
12 154 (3.53%) Junior
13 145 (3.32%) Senior Developer
14 141 (3.23%) Software Developer
15 117 (2.68%) Senior Data Analyst
16 111 (2.54%) Support Engineer
17 102 (2.34%) Business Analyst
18 94 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
19 91 (2.09%) .NET Developer
19 91 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (7.56%) .NET
2 260 (5.96%) HTML
3 228 (5.22%) CSS
4 176 (4.03%) AngularJS
5 159 (3.64%) React
6 128 (2.93%) Node.js
7 106 (2.43%) RESTful
8 103 (2.36%) ASP.NET
9 94 (2.15%) .NET Core
10 86 (1.97%) Web Services
11 81 (1.86%) .NET Framework
12 65 (1.49%) TensorFlow
13 64 (1.47%) Vue
14 63 (1.44%) Pandas
15 62 (1.42%) REST
16 59 (1.35%) PySpark
17 54 (1.24%) XML
18 53 (1.21%) ASP.NET MVC
19 46 (1.05%) Middleware
19 46 (1.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 274 (6.28%) Management Information System
2 245 (5.61%) Algorithms
3 224 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 184 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 116 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 110 (2.52%) Life Science
7 98 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 91 (2.09%) Client/Server
9 90 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 74 (1.70%) Social Media
11 73 (1.67%) Driving Licence
12 71 (1.63%) IoT
13 69 (1.58%) Onboarding
14 62 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 60 (1.37%) Mobile App
16 51 (1.17%) Cloud Native
17 41 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
17 41 (0.94%) NHS
18 40 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
18 40 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 510 (11.69%) Windows
2 400 (9.17%) Linux
3 176 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 126 (2.89%) Unix
5 96 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 77 (1.76%) Android
7 66 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 48 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 32 (0.73%) Ubuntu
11 30 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 30 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 29 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
12 29 (0.66%) Solaris
13 24 (0.55%) Mac OS
14 22 (0.50%) CentOS
15 17 (0.39%) Mac OS X
16 15 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
17 10 (0.23%) Windows Vista
18 9 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,302 (29.84%) Computer Science
2 1,237 (28.35%) Problem-Solving
3 938 (21.49%) Agile
4 680 (15.58%) Software Engineering
5 616 (14.12%) Project Management
6 586 (13.43%) Analytics
7 551 (12.63%) Mathematics
8 447 (10.24%) DevOps
9 404 (9.26%) Mentoring
10 401 (9.19%) Decision-Making
11 373 (8.55%) Data Analysis
12 369 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 367 (8.41%) Visualisation
14 365 (8.36%) ITIL
15 356 (8.16%) Actionable Insight
16 336 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 335 (7.68%) Business Intelligence
18 330 (7.56%) Cybersecurity
19 317 (7.26%) Roadmaps
20 311 (7.13%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 891 (20.42%) SQL
2 821 (18.81%) Python
3 462 (10.59%) C#
4 423 (9.69%) JavaScript
5 279 (6.39%) Java
6 200 (4.58%) C
7 159 (3.64%) C++
8 139 (3.19%) PowerShell
9 128 (2.93%) TypeScript
10 96 (2.20%) T-SQL
11 79 (1.81%) PHP
12 67 (1.54%) R
13 52 (1.19%) Embedded C
14 51 (1.17%) MATLAB
15 49 (1.12%) VB
16 45 (1.03%) Bash
17 44 (1.01%) Kotlin
18 38 (0.87%) Shell Script
19 34 (0.78%) Go
20 28 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 802 (18.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 616 (14.12%) Security Cleared
3 423 (9.69%) Master's Degree
4 371 (8.50%) SC Cleared
5 263 (6.03%) DBS Check
6 140 (3.21%) PhD
7 128 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 125 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 97 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
10 88 (2.02%) CISSP
11 87 (1.99%) DV Cleared
12 80 (1.83%) CCNA
13 73 (1.67%) PMI Certification
14 68 (1.56%) Azure Certification
15 66 (1.51%) CISM
16 65 (1.49%) PMP
17 63 (1.44%) CCNP
18 62 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
19 59 (1.35%) AWS Certification
20 49 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (5.57%) QA
2 99 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 73 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 68 (1.56%) GDPR
5 67 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (1.47%) SLA
7 56 (1.28%) PMO
8 40 (0.92%) NIST
9 27 (0.62%) ISO 9001
10 23 (0.53%) NCSC
11 21 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (0.46%) WCAG
13 19 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.34%) ITGC
15 14 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
16 13 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 10 (0.23%) GRC
17 10 (0.23%) NIST 800
18 9 (0.21%) GMP
18 9 (0.21%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 236 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 198 (4.54%) Docker
3 115 (2.64%) Firmware
4 107 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 56 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
7 37 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 36 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
9 28 (0.64%) vSphere
10 23 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
11 19 (0.44%) XenApp
12 12 (0.27%) OpenSSH
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.16%) KVM
15 5 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.11%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.092%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.046%) Kamailio
17 2 (0.046%) Oracle RAC
18 1 (0.023%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 158 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 113 (2.59%) Terraform
3 79 (1.81%) Ansible
4 59 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (1.15%) SCCM
6 36 (0.82%) SCOM
7 32 (0.73%) WSUS
8 28 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 27 (0.62%) Stealthwatch
10 23 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 19 (0.44%) Puppet
12 17 (0.39%) CASB
13 15 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
14 14 (0.32%) Grafana
15 13 (0.30%) ServiceCenter
15 13 (0.30%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.27%) IBM BigFix
16 12 (0.27%) PowerCLI
17 11 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
18 10 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 962 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 215 (4.93%) Databricks
3 169 (3.87%) Adobe
4 162 (3.71%) SAP
5 146 (3.35%) VMware
6 136 (3.12%) Google
7 133 (3.05%) Oracle
8 116 (2.66%) Cisco
9 113 (2.59%) Apple
10 86 (1.97%) Salesforce
11 81 (1.86%) Dell
12 63 (1.44%) Meraki
13 59 (1.35%) IBM
14 58 (1.33%) HP
15 50 (1.15%) NEC
16 49 (1.12%) Xilinx
17 43 (0.99%) ServiceNow
18 41 (0.94%) Citrix
19 32 (0.73%) Samsung
20 28 (0.64%) Sage