Computer Science Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Computer Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 55 81
Rank change year-on-year +23 +26 -29
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,499 1,409 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.10% 4.46% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.65% 5.02% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 443 1,059 1,104
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £94,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,600 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Computer Science 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 19,603 28,078 32,885
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.89% 88.97% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,356 20,490 24,171
10th Percentile £25,313 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £99,900 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Computer Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Computer Science trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Computer Science
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Computer Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Computer Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
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 28 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.53%) Jupyter
3 16 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.53%) Confluence
6 6 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.33%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.13%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.067%) Apache
10 1 (0.067%) CMS
10 1 (0.067%) IIS
Applications
1 183 (12.21%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.40%) Revit
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.07%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.27%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.067%) Magento
6 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 203 (13.54%) Azure
2 123 (8.21%) AWS
3 55 (3.67%) Power Platform
4 44 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (2.87%) GCP
6 42 (2.80%) SaaS
7 35 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.73%) GitHub
10 22 (1.47%) Serverless
11 19 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (1.27%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.07%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.80%) Snowflake
15 11 (0.73%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (0.67%) AWS KMS
17 9 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 637 (42.49%) Broadband
2 19 (1.27%) Firewall
3 16 (1.07%) Network Security
4 15 (1.00%) HTTP
4 15 (1.00%) WAN
5 14 (0.93%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.80%) 5G
7 11 (0.73%) VPN
8 10 (0.67%) DNS
9 9 (0.60%) VLAN
10 8 (0.53%) DHCP
11 6 (0.40%) Internet
11 6 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.33%) NAS
12 5 (0.33%) SAN
12 5 (0.33%) SNMP
13 4 (0.27%) VoIP
13 4 (0.27%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.20%) LAN
14 3 (0.20%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 59 (3.94%) MySQL
3 51 (3.40%) Big Data
4 36 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 33 (2.20%) Power BI
6 18 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.13%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (1.07%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.93%) Metadata
10 13 (0.87%) Tableau
11 10 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.67%) RDBMS
12 9 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.53%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.47%) DB2
14 7 (0.47%) Redis
15 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 43 (2.87%) Git
2 35 (2.33%) JIRA
3 25 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 10 (0.67%) Moq
4 10 (0.67%) SpecFlow
5 9 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.53%) Babel
6 8 (0.53%) webpack
7 5 (0.33%) Subversion
8 4 (0.27%) GitLab
8 4 (0.27%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.20%) ERwin
9 3 (0.20%) gulp
9 3 (0.20%) JUnit
9 3 (0.20%) Maven
10 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
General
1 923 (61.57%) Social Skills
2 173 (11.54%) Finance
3 126 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (6.94%) Games
5 97 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (5.54%) Multimedia
7 59 (3.94%) Retail
8 36 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.13%) Marketing
10 27 (1.80%) Law
10 27 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 24 (1.60%) Banking
13 23 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.13%) Public Sector
15 15 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.87%) Back Office
17 12 (0.80%) Advertising
18 9 (0.60%) Electronics
18 9 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 272 (18.15%) Lead
2 191 (12.74%) Senior
3 183 (12.21%) Trainer
4 174 (11.61%) Engineering Manager
5 169 (11.27%) Developer
6 151 (10.07%) Systems Engineer
7 83 (5.54%) Graduate
8 81 (5.40%) Senior Manager
9 79 (5.27%) ServiceNow Manager
10 78 (5.20%) Senior Service Manager
11 74 (4.94%) Team Leader
12 72 (4.80%) Software Engineer
13 67 (4.47%) Analyst
14 62 (4.14%) Graduate Developer
15 59 (3.94%) IT Graduate
16 54 (3.60%) Data Scientist
17 45 (3.00%) Architect
18 36 (2.40%) C# Developer
19 29 (1.93%) Senior Developer
20 26 (1.73%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (7.67%) .NET
2 90 (6.00%) HTML
3 84 (5.60%) CSS
4 70 (4.67%) ASP.NET
5 54 (3.60%) jQuery
6 39 (2.60%) Node.js
7 35 (2.33%) Kafka
7 35 (2.33%) REST
8 34 (2.27%) React
9 25 (1.67%) .NET Framework
10 21 (1.40%) AngularJS
10 21 (1.40%) OAuth
11 17 (1.13%) OAuth2
12 16 (1.07%) .NET Core
13 15 (1.00%) WinForms
14 14 (0.93%) JSON
14 14 (0.93%) scikit-learn
15 13 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (0.87%) XML
16 12 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.21%) Management Information System
2 99 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 83 (5.54%) Algorithms
4 80 (5.34%) Video\Live Streaming
5 47 (3.14%) Cyberattack
6 34 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 21 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 19 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.13%) NHS
11 17 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.00%) Onboarding
13 12 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 12 (0.80%) Self-Driving Car
14 11 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.60%) IoT
15 9 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.87%) Linux
2 49 (3.27%) Windows
3 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.40%) Android
4 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.40%) Unix
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.27%) CentOS
6 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.20%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.067%) Debian
9 1 (0.067%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (55.90%) Problem-Solving
2 706 (47.10%) Roadmaps
3 684 (45.63%) Mentoring
4 590 (39.36%) Product Management
5 589 (39.29%) High Availability
6 557 (37.16%) Broadcast Engineering
7 321 (21.41%) Artificial Intelligence
8 288 (19.21%) Mathematics
9 261 (17.41%) Software Engineering
10 259 (17.28%) Statistics
11 205 (13.68%) Agile
12 184 (12.27%) Conversational UI
13 155 (10.34%) DevOps
13 155 (10.34%) Machine Learning
14 111 (7.40%) Data Science
15 107 (7.14%) Change Management
16 102 (6.80%) Service Delivery
17 101 (6.74%) Validation
18 98 (6.54%) ITSM
19 94 (6.27%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (14.28%) Python
2 211 (14.08%) SQL
3 198 (13.21%) C#
4 185 (12.34%) Java
5 149 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 134 (8.94%) C++
7 105 (7.00%) PHP
8 98 (6.54%) TypeScript
9 73 (4.87%) C
10 64 (4.27%) R
11 62 (4.14%) MATLAB
12 50 (3.34%) Rust
13 49 (3.27%) Dart
13 49 (3.27%) Ruby
14 27 (1.80%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 15 (1.00%) Scala
17 13 (0.87%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.73%) Bash
19 10 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,446 (96.46%) Degree
2 1,060 (70.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 263 (17.55%) Master's Degree
4 219 (14.61%) PhD
5 99 (6.60%) Security Cleared
6 48 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 46 (3.07%) SC Cleared
8 38 (2.54%) Numerate Degree
9 25 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 25 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.27%) PMP
12 15 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.73%) CISSP
14 9 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.60%) SAP Certification
15 7 (0.47%) CCNP
16 6 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.74%) QA
2 36 (2.40%) GDPR
3 23 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.20%) HIPAA
5 15 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.93%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.60%) CDISC
8 6 (0.40%) GxP
8 6 (0.40%) NIST
9 4 (0.27%) COBIT
9 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.27%) PMO
9 4 (0.27%) SLA
9 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.13%) GMP
10 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 58 (3.87%) Docker
2 23 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.53%) vSphere
6 4 (0.27%) HDFS
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.20%) Firmware
7 3 (0.20%) GPFS
7 3 (0.20%) Lustre
7 3 (0.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.067%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 59 (3.94%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.93%) Terraform
3 14 (0.93%) Grafana
3 14 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.80%) Ansible
5 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.13%) Packer
7 2 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.067%) Kibana
8 1 (0.067%) logstash
Vendors
1 181 (12.07%) PayPal
2 132 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 92 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 29 (1.93%) Google
5 24 (1.60%) SAP
6 16 (1.07%) Databricks
6 16 (1.07%) VMware
7 15 (1.00%) Oracle
8 13 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.67%) Apple
10 8 (0.53%) SolarWinds
10 8 (0.53%) Teradata
11 5 (0.33%) Sparx
12 4 (0.27%) Adobe
12 4 (0.27%) Infor
12 4 (0.27%) Intel
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco
13 2 (0.13%) Omniture
13 2 (0.13%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.13%) Sage