Benchmarking Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Benchmarking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 482 558
Rank change year-on-year +99 +76 +111
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 75 95 103
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 20 45 47
10th Percentile £45,225 £34,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,788 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £62,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -7.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £73,886 £91,934 £88,283
90th Percentile £81,193 £120,000 £89,852
UK median annual salary £59,500 £59,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.34% +18.60% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Benchmarking 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 16,886 30,803 39,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.21% 91.37% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,670 23,360 27,643
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Benchmarking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Benchmarking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Benchmarking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Benchmarking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Benchmarking.

Benchmarking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Benchmarking over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Benchmarking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
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:

Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.33%) AWS
2 1 (1.33%) Azure
2 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (1.33%) GCP
2 1 (1.33%) GitHub
2 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (1.33%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.33%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (1.33%) npm
2 1 (1.33%) Serverless
2 1 (1.33%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) Tableau
2 5 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (2.67%) MySQL
3 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Power Query
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (5.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.33%) Babel
4 1 (1.33%) Gatling
4 1 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (1.33%) JMeter
4 1 (1.33%) Locust
4 1 (1.33%) Postman
4 1 (1.33%) webpack
General
1 21 (28.00%) Legal
1 21 (28.00%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (13.33%) Finance
2 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.33%) Banking
5 6 (8.00%) Games
5 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Local Government
6 2 (2.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Advertising
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Senior
2 21 (28.00%) Audit Manager
3 8 (10.67%) Senior Manager
4 6 (8.00%) Process Improvement Manager
4 6 (8.00%) Process Manager
5 5 (6.67%) Lead
6 4 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Android Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Help Desk Team Lead
7 3 (4.00%) Team Leader
7 3 (4.00%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.00%) Technical Team Leader
8 2 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Business Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Contracts Manager
8 2 (2.67%) HR Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) Android SDK
2 2 (2.67%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (2.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (2.67%) RESTful
3 1 (1.33%) CSS
3 1 (1.33%) CSS3
3 1 (1.33%) Dagger
3 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.33%) OpenCV
3 1 (1.33%) OpenVINO
3 1 (1.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Mobile Games
2 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.67%) Hackathon
2 2 (2.67%) Online Banking
2 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.33%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.33%) NHS
3 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (1.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Agile
2 25 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 21 (28.00%) Due Diligence
3 21 (28.00%) Time Management
4 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (13.33%) Analytics
5 10 (13.33%) Project Management
5 10 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 9 (12.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (10.67%) Data Analytics
7 8 (10.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 6 (8.00%) BPMN
8 6 (8.00%) Business Process Improvement
8 6 (8.00%) ETL
8 6 (8.00%) Lean Six Sigma
8 6 (8.00%) Process Improvement
8 6 (8.00%) Process Management
8 6 (8.00%) Six Sigma
8 6 (8.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (8.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) SQL
2 7 (9.33%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) Ada
3 1 (1.33%) Bash
3 1 (1.33%) C++
3 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.33%) Java
3 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) ACCA
1 21 (28.00%) MRICS
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
3 6 (8.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) CIPD
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) PhD
5 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (28.00%) GAAP
1 21 (28.00%) IFRS
2 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (8.00%) SAP
2 5 (6.67%) Google
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.33%) Splunk