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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Degree 4,215 5,349 8,564
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.49% 12.40% 12.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.57% 48.33% 56.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,842 3,433 4,471
10th Percentile £30,775 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,047 £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 £72,375 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,084 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +4.55% -

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 9,458 11,067 15,253
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.03% 25.65% 22.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,903 6,702 8,578
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £59,732
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.45% +8.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

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 27 April 2024.

Degree salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Degree
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
1 106 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 96 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.12%) SAS
4 45 (1.07%) IIS
5 32 (0.76%) Apache
6 31 (0.74%) Confluence
7 27 (0.64%) CMS
8 25 (0.59%) Apache Spark
9 22 (0.52%) WordPress
10 20 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 16 (0.38%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.19%) nginx
14 7 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
15 6 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.12%) Drupal
17 4 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
17 4 (0.095%) OpenEdge
17 4 (0.095%) Umbraco
Applications
1 305 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 251 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.52%) Simulink
5 63 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
6 34 (0.81%) Chatbot
7 30 (0.71%) MS Visio
8 22 (0.52%) Photoshop
9 21 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 21 (0.50%) AutoCAD
10 19 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.38%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
12 15 (0.36%) Trello
13 14 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
13 14 (0.33%) SPSS
14 13 (0.31%) Sketch
15 12 (0.28%) OrCAD
16 11 (0.26%) InDesign
17 10 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 53 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (0.69%) NEC Housing
4 24 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
5 15 (0.36%) Endur
6 14 (0.33%) SAP CX
7 13 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 12 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.24%) SAP Business One
9 10 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.12%) Odoo
12 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 4 (0.095%) BusinessWorks
13 4 (0.095%) Magento
13 4 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 784 (18.60%) Azure
2 585 (13.88%) AWS
3 336 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
4 238 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 227 (5.39%) SaaS
6 137 (3.25%) GCP
7 111 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (2.23%) Entra ID
9 80 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 75 (1.78%) Serverless
11 73 (1.73%) GitHub
12 60 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (1.42%) Snowflake
13 59 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 56 (1.33%) IaaS
14 56 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 55 (1.30%) PaaS
16 51 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
17 48 (1.14%) WhatsApp
18 33 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 148 (3.51%) Firewall
2 135 (3.20%) Wireless
3 105 (2.49%) WAN
4 89 (2.11%) DNS
5 75 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 73 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
7 69 (1.64%) LAN
8 60 (1.42%) Network Security
9 57 (1.35%) DHCP
10 52 (1.23%) Internet
11 51 (1.21%) VPN
12 45 (1.07%) SD-WAN
13 36 (0.85%) Ethernet
14 32 (0.76%) VoIP
15 28 (0.66%) Unified Communications
16 27 (0.64%) SAN
17 23 (0.55%) RS-232
18 21 (0.50%) VLAN
19 17 (0.40%) SSL
20 16 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (7.40%) SQL Server
2 210 (4.98%) Tableau
3 201 (4.77%) Power BI
4 129 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 103 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 97 (2.30%) MySQL
7 76 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 71 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 64 (1.52%) Big Data
10 55 (1.30%) NoSQL
11 47 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 44 (1.04%) Redis
13 35 (0.83%) RDBMS
14 33 (0.78%) Oracle Database
15 31 (0.74%) MongoDB
16 30 (0.71%) Data Lake
17 25 (0.59%) GIS
18 23 (0.55%) DB2
19 22 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
20 21 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 303 (7.19%) Git
2 111 (2.63%) JIRA
3 51 (1.21%) Visual Studio
4 45 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.76%) Subversion
6 27 (0.64%) Selenium
7 26 (0.62%) CMake
8 17 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
8 17 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 15 (0.36%) Balsamiq
10 14 (0.33%) Maven
11 13 (0.31%) Axure RP
11 13 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.28%) Postman
13 11 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
14 10 (0.24%) LabVIEW
14 10 (0.24%) Vagrant
15 9 (0.21%) InstallShield
16 8 (0.19%) JMeter
16 8 (0.19%) JUnit
General
1 1,916 (45.46%) Social Skills
2 951 (22.56%) Finance
3 773 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
4 398 (9.44%) Marketing
5 360 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 294 (6.98%) Retail
7 259 (6.14%) Legal
8 237 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
9 236 (5.60%) Public Sector
10 185 (4.39%) Manufacturing
11 152 (3.61%) Electronics
12 142 (3.37%) Law
13 131 (3.11%) Games
14 120 (2.85%) Aerospace
15 115 (2.73%) Telecoms
16 105 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 93 (2.21%) Banking
18 80 (1.90%) Local Government
19 78 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
20 76 (1.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 761 (18.05%) Senior
2 596 (14.14%) Developer
3 566 (13.43%) Analyst
4 307 (7.28%) Lead
4 307 (7.28%) Software Engineer
5 253 (6.00%) Architect
6 221 (5.24%) Project Manager
7 177 (4.20%) Consultant
8 173 (4.10%) Graduate
9 157 (3.72%) Junior
9 157 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
10 145 (3.44%) Data Analyst
10 145 (3.44%) Senior Developer
11 137 (3.25%) Software Developer
12 106 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
12 106 (2.51%) Support Engineer
13 88 (2.09%) Embedded Engineer
14 86 (2.04%) .NET Developer
14 86 (2.04%) Systems Engineer
15 85 (2.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (7.85%) .NET
2 265 (6.29%) HTML
3 230 (5.46%) CSS
4 182 (4.32%) AngularJS
5 154 (3.65%) React
6 126 (2.99%) Node.js
7 114 (2.70%) ASP.NET
8 108 (2.56%) RESTful
9 94 (2.23%) .NET Core
10 78 (1.85%) .NET Framework
10 78 (1.85%) Web Services
11 68 (1.61%) REST
12 64 (1.52%) Vue
13 58 (1.38%) ASP.NET MVC
14 57 (1.35%) XML
15 52 (1.23%) SOAP
16 47 (1.12%) TensorFlow
17 45 (1.07%) Express.js
18 43 (1.02%) HTML5
19 42 (1.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 276 (6.55%) Management Information System
2 225 (5.34%) Algorithms
3 201 (4.77%) Data Centre
4 180 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
5 122 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 99 (2.35%) Life Science
7 94 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 90 (2.14%) Client/Server
9 75 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 74 (1.76%) Driving Licence
11 72 (1.71%) Social Media
12 68 (1.61%) IoT
13 67 (1.59%) Onboarding
14 63 (1.49%) Virtual Team
15 57 (1.35%) Mobile App
16 51 (1.21%) Cloud Native
17 45 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
18 41 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
19 40 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
20 38 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 511 (12.12%) Windows
2 375 (8.90%) Linux
3 186 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 118 (2.80%) Unix
5 100 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 70 (1.66%) Android
7 66 (1.57%) Apple iOS
8 48 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 28 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 27 (0.64%) Mac OS
12 24 (0.57%) Mac OS X
13 22 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 21 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
14 21 (0.50%) Ubuntu
15 17 (0.40%) Solaris
16 15 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
17 13 (0.31%) CentOS
18 10 (0.24%) Windows 7
19 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,211 (28.73%) Computer Science
2 1,126 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
3 928 (22.02%) Agile
4 651 (15.44%) Software Engineering
5 623 (14.78%) Project Management
6 498 (11.81%) Analytics
7 493 (11.70%) Mathematics
8 442 (10.49%) DevOps
9 409 (9.70%) Mentoring
10 377 (8.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 369 (8.75%) Decision-Making
12 341 (8.09%) ITIL
13 315 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
14 314 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 314 (7.45%) Roadmaps
15 313 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
15 313 (7.43%) Data Analysis
16 294 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
17 284 (6.74%) Visualisation
18 275 (6.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 781 (18.53%) SQL
2 728 (17.27%) Python
3 437 (10.37%) C#
4 416 (9.87%) JavaScript
5 258 (6.12%) Java
6 202 (4.79%) C
7 143 (3.39%) C++
8 133 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 123 (2.92%) TypeScript
10 98 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 87 (2.06%) PHP
12 76 (1.80%) R
13 57 (1.35%) Embedded C
14 55 (1.30%) Bash
15 49 (1.16%) MATLAB
16 44 (1.04%) VB
17 35 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 32 (0.76%) Go
19 31 (0.74%) PL/SQL
20 25 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 731 (17.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 580 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 391 (9.28%) Master's Degree
4 361 (8.56%) SC Cleared
5 189 (4.48%) DBS Check
6 129 (3.06%) PhD
7 127 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 123 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 84 (1.99%) CISSP
10 79 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.78%) DV Cleared
12 66 (1.57%) CCNA
13 61 (1.45%) CISM
13 61 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
13 61 (1.45%) PMI Certification
14 60 (1.42%) Azure Certification
15 56 (1.33%) PMP
16 55 (1.30%) AWS Certification
17 52 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 44 (1.04%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (5.08%) QA
2 86 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 66 (1.57%) SLA
4 64 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 63 (1.49%) PMO
6 59 (1.40%) GDPR
7 58 (1.38%) Data Quality
8 39 (0.93%) NIST
9 27 (0.64%) ISO 9001
10 26 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 25 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
12 23 (0.55%) NCSC
13 20 (0.47%) WCAG
14 17 (0.40%) ITGC
15 14 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
16 11 (0.26%) PCI DSS
17 10 (0.24%) NIST 800
18 9 (0.21%) ISO 14001
19 8 (0.19%) COBIT
19 8 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 240 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 198 (4.70%) Docker
3 112 (2.66%) Firmware
4 106 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 56 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
7 31 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (0.50%) vSphere
10 19 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (0.31%) XenApp
12 10 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (0.21%) OpenSSH
14 6 (0.14%) KVM
15 4 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.095%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
17 1 (0.024%) HDFS
17 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 1 (0.024%) Snort
Systems Management
1 152 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 101 (2.40%) Terraform
3 75 (1.78%) Ansible
4 58 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (1.12%) SCCM
6 32 (0.76%) SCOM
7 31 (0.74%) WSUS
8 23 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 21 (0.50%) CASB
11 17 (0.40%) Puppet
12 15 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
12 15 (0.36%) Stealthwatch
13 13 (0.31%) ServiceCenter
14 11 (0.26%) Grafana
14 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.24%) Nessus
15 10 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.21%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 940 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 172 (4.08%) SAP
3 158 (3.75%) Adobe
4 146 (3.46%) VMware
5 137 (3.25%) Databricks
6 131 (3.11%) Google
7 122 (2.89%) Oracle
8 108 (2.56%) Dell
9 102 (2.42%) Cisco
10 100 (2.37%) Apple
11 90 (2.14%) Salesforce
12 61 (1.45%) HP
12 61 (1.45%) IBM
13 51 (1.21%) ServiceNow
14 50 (1.19%) Meraki
15 36 (0.85%) Citrix
15 36 (0.85%) NEC
16 31 (0.74%) Xilinx
17 30 (0.71%) PayPal
17 30 (0.71%) Samsung