Hybrid/Remote Degree Job Trends

Academic Degree
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 3,161 2,446 2,699
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 20.67% 13.01% 13.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 60.16% 48.21% 47.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 1,241 1,913
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,254 5,074 5,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.35% 26.98% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,437 2,617 4,273
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,850 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Degree and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Degree job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Degree
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Degree

Degree
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Degree over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Degree salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Degree
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 66 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (0.66%) Confluence
4 16 (0.51%) Tomcat
4 16 (0.51%) WebSphere
4 16 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.28%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.22%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.22%) WordPress
8 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.13%) CMS
8 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.13%) SAS
9 3 (0.095%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.063%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.063%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 1,467 (46.41%) Chatbot
2 235 (7.43%) Microsoft Office
3 148 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 48 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (1.14%) Adobe XD
6 27 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
7 20 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 20 (0.63%) MS Visio
8 16 (0.51%) InDesign
9 10 (0.32%) Photoshop
10 8 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
11 6 (0.19%) Sketch
11 6 (0.19%) Trello
12 5 (0.16%) Simulink
13 2 (0.063%) Blender
13 2 (0.063%) OrCAD
13 2 (0.063%) Revit
13 2 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (0.032%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 30 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
5 5 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.13%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.095%) Primavera
8 2 (0.063%) Endur
8 2 (0.063%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.063%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.063%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.063%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.063%) ResourceLink
8 2 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.032%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 379 (11.99%) Azure
2 318 (10.06%) AWS
3 248 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
4 136 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 104 (3.29%) SaaS
6 80 (2.53%) GCP
7 73 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
8 67 (2.12%) GitHub
9 57 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (1.61%) Entra ID
11 47 (1.49%) Figma
12 44 (1.39%) Serverless
13 39 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 32 (1.01%) PowerApps
15 29 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (0.85%) PaaS
17 23 (0.73%) Miro
18 21 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
19 18 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
20 14 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.33%) VPN
2 39 (1.23%) WAN
3 34 (1.08%) Firewall
4 28 (0.89%) LAN
5 25 (0.79%) SSL
6 24 (0.76%) Unified Communications
7 22 (0.70%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.51%) VLAN
10 16 (0.51%) VoIP
11 13 (0.41%) DNS
11 13 (0.41%) Network Security
12 11 (0.35%) DHCP
12 11 (0.35%) Internet
13 9 (0.28%) 5G
14 8 (0.25%) Wireless
14 8 (0.25%) Wireshark
15 7 (0.22%) Ethernet
15 7 (0.22%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 102 (3.23%) Power BI
3 46 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (1.42%) MySQL
5 38 (1.20%) Tableau
6 28 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.54%) DB2
7 17 (0.54%) GIS
7 17 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 17 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 14 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.38%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
14 9 (0.28%) Metadata
15 8 (0.25%) Redis
16 7 (0.22%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 60 (1.90%) JIRA
2 50 (1.58%) Git
3 37 (1.17%) Selenium
4 28 (0.89%) Balsamiq
4 28 (0.89%) WebDriver
5 25 (0.79%) Axure RP
6 22 (0.70%) Postman
7 21 (0.66%) SoapUI
7 21 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (0.47%) GitLab
9 13 (0.41%) Jenkins
10 9 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.19%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.16%) Babel
12 5 (0.16%) Maven
12 5 (0.16%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.16%) webpack
13 4 (0.13%) ERwin
13 4 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.13%) Toad
General
1 810 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 807 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
3 415 (13.13%) Finance
4 340 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 186 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 173 (5.47%) Marketing
7 132 (4.18%) Law
8 123 (3.89%) Retail
9 101 (3.20%) French Language
10 95 (3.01%) Swedish Language
11 74 (2.34%) Legal
12 67 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 61 (1.93%) Banking
15 60 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
16 41 (1.30%) Local Government
17 39 (1.23%) Back Office
17 39 (1.23%) Manufacturing
18 35 (1.11%) Aerospace
19 33 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,464 (46.31%) Trainer
2 264 (8.35%) Analyst
3 228 (7.21%) Senior
4 194 (6.14%) Developer
5 167 (5.28%) Content Editor
6 112 (3.54%) Support Specialist
7 104 (3.29%) Customer Support Specialist
8 95 (3.01%) Service Analyst
8 95 (3.01%) Service Desk Analyst
9 93 (2.94%) Research Scientist
10 90 (2.85%) Lead
11 80 (2.53%) Architect
12 67 (2.12%) Support Engineer
13 63 (1.99%) Microsoft Specialist
14 56 (1.77%) Software Engineer
15 53 (1.68%) Designer
16 49 (1.55%) Consultant
17 45 (1.42%) Biostatistician
17 45 (1.42%) Graduate
18 44 (1.39%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (3.99%) .NET
2 94 (2.97%) CSS
3 88 (2.78%) HTML
4 62 (1.96%) React
5 37 (1.17%) ASP.NET
5 37 (1.17%) SOAP
6 36 (1.14%) RESTful
7 35 (1.11%) REST
8 33 (1.04%) jQuery
9 30 (0.95%) .NET Framework
10 29 (0.92%) Node.js
11 24 (0.76%) Entity Framework
11 24 (0.76%) Kafka
12 22 (0.70%) XML
13 19 (0.60%) LDAP
14 17 (0.54%) OAuth
15 16 (0.51%) HTML5 Canvas
15 16 (0.51%) LAPP Stack
15 16 (0.51%) WebSphere MQ
16 15 (0.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 119 (3.76%) Molecular Biology
2 112 (3.54%) Management Information System
2 112 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
3 98 (3.10%) Blog
4 59 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 52 (1.65%) Driving Licence
6 49 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 49 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 43 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 43 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 38 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 36 (1.14%) NHS
9 36 (1.14%) Social Media
10 32 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (0.89%) e-Learning
12 26 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 21 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (0.66%) Security Posture
15 20 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 132 (4.18%) Windows
2 89 (2.82%) Linux
3 38 (1.20%) Unix
4 36 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 19 (0.60%) Android
7 17 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.16%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.032%) CentOS
13 1 (0.032%) Debian
13 1 (0.032%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.032%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.032%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,780 (56.31%) AI
2 1,478 (46.76%) Conversational UI
3 527 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 522 (16.51%) Chemistry
5 428 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
6 370 (11.71%) Customer Service
7 355 (11.23%) Agile
8 279 (8.83%) Mathematics
9 236 (7.47%) ITIL
10 222 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 220 (6.96%) Content Writing
12 207 (6.55%) Analytics
13 206 (6.52%) Project Management
14 205 (6.49%) Physics
15 202 (6.39%) Mentoring
16 200 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
17 177 (5.60%) DevOps
18 159 (5.03%) Decision-Making
19 152 (4.81%) Software Engineering
20 149 (4.71%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 230 (7.28%) Python
2 224 (7.09%) SQL
3 173 (5.47%) C#
4 147 (4.65%) Java
5 116 (3.67%) JavaScript
6 77 (2.44%) C++
7 68 (2.15%) TypeScript
8 43 (1.36%) C
9 40 (1.27%) PHP
10 36 (1.14%) PowerShell
11 27 (0.85%) Go
12 23 (0.73%) Bash
13 16 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.47%) MATLAB
15 13 (0.41%) R
16 10 (0.32%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.32%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.28%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.28%) VBA
18 8 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 973 (30.78%) Master's Degree
2 870 (27.52%) PhD
3 318 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 271 (8.57%) Security Cleared
5 240 (7.59%) SC Cleared
6 170 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 159 (5.03%) AWS Certification
8 108 (3.42%) MCSE
9 53 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.65%) PMP
11 48 (1.52%) DBS Check
12 45 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (1.42%) DV Cleared
13 40 (1.27%) CISSP
14 39 (1.23%) CISM
15 37 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
16 36 (1.14%) ACCA
17 35 (1.11%) CIMA
18 34 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
19 33 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (5.60%) QA
2 81 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 74 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.87%) GDPR
5 44 (1.39%) SLA
6 43 (1.36%) NIST
7 37 (1.17%) ISO 9001
8 33 (1.04%) WCAG
9 29 (0.92%) Data Quality
10 26 (0.82%) PMO
11 16 (0.51%) GRC
12 11 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 8 (0.25%) COBIT
14 8 (0.25%) IFRS
15 7 (0.22%) ITGC
16 6 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.19%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.19%) SOC 1
System Software
1 76 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 45 (1.42%) Docker
3 23 (0.73%) Firmware
4 14 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.16%) vSphere
7 3 (0.095%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.032%) iptables
8 1 (0.032%) Postfix
8 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (1.93%) Kubernetes
2 39 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (0.85%) Ansible
3 27 (0.85%) Terraform
4 13 (0.41%) Grafana
5 12 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (0.19%) RSA Archer
8 5 (0.16%) Autotask
9 3 (0.095%) Argo
9 3 (0.095%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.095%) Nmap
10 2 (0.063%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.063%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.063%) Puppet
11 1 (0.032%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.032%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.032%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,464 (46.31%) PayPal
2 525 (16.61%) Microsoft
3 123 (3.89%) ServiceNow
4 86 (2.72%) Adobe
5 67 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 66 (2.09%) Cisco
7 51 (1.61%) Google
8 35 (1.11%) SAP
9 29 (0.92%) Apple
10 27 (0.85%) Oracle
10 27 (0.85%) Palo Alto
11 24 (0.76%) Red Hat
12 22 (0.70%) IBM
13 17 (0.54%) VMware
14 15 (0.47%) Sage
15 14 (0.44%) Databricks
15 14 (0.44%) Zoho
16 12 (0.38%) Workday
17 11 (0.35%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.35%) Progress