Degree Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,714 4,228 5,234
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.15% 12.49% 12.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.71% 44.52% 48.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,718 2,861 3,407
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,265 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,600 £52,084 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.99% -9.42% +4.55%

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 4,703 9,496 10,878
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.45% 28.06% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,034 5,942 6,655
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,777 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +0.45%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Degree trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Degree over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 83 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 68 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 17 (0.63%) CMS
6 12 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.44%) Confluence
7 8 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.18%) Apache
9 5 (0.18%) SAS
10 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) GemFire
11 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.074%) IIS
12 2 (0.074%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.074%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.074%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 452 (16.65%) Chatbot
2 123 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 68 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
4 45 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.41%) Trello
9 8 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.29%) Revit
10 6 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
11 5 (0.18%) Stata
12 4 (0.15%) Simulink
13 3 (0.11%) InDesign
14 2 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
14 2 (0.074%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 25 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) TrackWise
3 9 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.26%) Infor M3
5 6 (0.22%) Magento
5 6 (0.22%) Shopify
6 5 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.18%) Endur
6 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.18%) Pegasus Opera
7 4 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.11%) CA PPM
8 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.11%) Maximo
8 3 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.074%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.074%) ResourceLink
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 376 (13.85%) Azure
2 215 (7.92%) AWS
3 173 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 137 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (4.16%) SaaS
6 83 (3.06%) GCP
7 66 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.39%) GitHub
9 63 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (1.88%) Entra ID
11 49 (1.81%) PowerApps
12 36 (1.33%) Serverless
13 31 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (1.11%) Snowflake
15 29 (1.07%) PaaS
16 28 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (0.92%) Power Automate
18 23 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 22 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.84%) Firewall
2 40 (1.47%) Network Security
3 32 (1.18%) HTTP
4 30 (1.11%) DNS
5 27 (0.99%) WAN
6 25 (0.92%) VPN
7 23 (0.85%) SAN
8 22 (0.81%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.66%) 5G
9 18 (0.66%) Unified Communications
10 16 (0.59%) DHCP
11 14 (0.52%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.52%) VLAN
12 13 (0.48%) VoIP
12 13 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.41%) Internet
13 11 (0.41%) LAN
14 10 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
14 10 (0.37%) Wireless
15 7 (0.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 126 (4.64%) Power BI
3 96 (3.54%) Big Data
4 85 (3.13%) Tableau
5 59 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 57 (2.10%) MySQL
7 52 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (1.55%) NoSQL
9 34 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (0.92%) MongoDB
11 23 (0.85%) Data Lake
12 17 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (0.63%) Metadata
13 14 (0.52%) RDBMS
13 14 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.48%) DB2
15 11 (0.41%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 11 (0.41%) Redis
16 9 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 130 (4.79%) Git
2 68 (2.51%) JIRA
3 48 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 15 (0.55%) Gradle
6 13 (0.48%) SpecFlow
7 10 (0.37%) Moq
8 9 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.29%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.29%) Maven
10 6 (0.22%) Balsamiq
10 6 (0.22%) GitLab
10 6 (0.22%) Subversion
10 6 (0.22%) webpack
11 5 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.18%) MLflow
11 5 (0.18%) rollup.js
11 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.18%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.11%) NUnit
General
1 711 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 565 (20.82%) Finance
3 514 (18.94%) Presentation Skills
4 478 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 191 (7.04%) Banking
7 143 (5.27%) Retail
8 122 (4.50%) Legal
9 120 (4.42%) Marketing
10 102 (3.76%) Public Sector
11 101 (3.72%) Law
12 71 (2.62%) Games
13 64 (2.36%) Manufacturing
14 62 (2.28%) Electronics
15 46 (1.69%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 36 (1.33%) Advertising
18 32 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
19 28 (1.03%) Aerospace
19 28 (1.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 481 (17.72%) Systems Engineer
2 446 (16.43%) Trainer
3 387 (14.26%) Senior
4 286 (10.54%) Analyst
5 277 (10.21%) Developer
6 180 (6.63%) Software Engineer
7 121 (4.46%) Data Analyst
8 104 (3.83%) Graduate
9 80 (2.95%) Lead
10 77 (2.84%) Data Scientist
11 75 (2.76%) Project Manager
12 72 (2.65%) Architect
13 63 (2.32%) Senior Developer
14 60 (2.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 56 (2.06%) Consultant
16 52 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
17 50 (1.84%) Graduate Developer
18 49 (1.81%) Junior
19 48 (1.77%) Senior Analyst
20 47 (1.73%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (6.89%) HTML
2 162 (5.97%) .NET
3 102 (3.76%) CSS
4 66 (2.43%) ASP.NET
5 65 (2.39%) Kafka
6 60 (2.21%) Software Packaging
7 55 (2.03%) React
8 49 (1.81%) Node.js
9 43 (1.58%) jQuery
10 41 (1.51%) AngularJS
11 37 (1.36%) .NET Framework
12 34 (1.25%) TensorFlow
13 32 (1.18%) REST
14 30 (1.11%) RESTful
14 30 (1.11%) scikit-learn
15 29 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
15 29 (1.07%) JSON
16 25 (0.92%) PyTorch
17 24 (0.88%) .NET Core
17 24 (0.88%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 186 (6.85%) Management Information System
2 166 (6.12%) Algorithms
3 64 (2.36%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.10%) Mobile App
5 56 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 54 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (1.92%) Cloud Native
8 46 (1.69%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 42 (1.55%) Learning Management System
11 39 (1.44%) NHS
12 35 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.18%) Data Centre
15 30 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 30 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.11%) Social Media
16 29 (1.07%) Life Science
16 29 (1.07%) Mobile Games
17 27 (0.99%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 177 (6.52%) Windows
2 143 (5.27%) Linux
3 42 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 27 (0.99%) Android
5 27 (0.99%) Unix
6 17 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (0.33%) Robot Operating System
8 9 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.33%) Windows Vista
9 8 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.26%) CentOS
11 5 (0.18%) Rocky
12 4 (0.15%) AIX
12 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (30.88%) Agile
2 742 (27.34%) Computer Science
3 713 (26.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 611 (22.51%) Cybersecurity
5 570 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
6 462 (17.02%) Systems Engineering
7 458 (16.88%) UML
8 452 (16.65%) Conversational UI
9 445 (16.40%) Mathematics
10 441 (16.25%) SysML
11 421 (15.51%) Software Engineering
12 420 (15.48%) MODAF
13 351 (12.93%) Analytics
14 270 (9.95%) Mentoring
15 250 (9.21%) Statistics
15 250 (9.21%) Visualisation
16 245 (9.03%) DevOps
17 234 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 224 (8.25%) Project Management
19 197 (7.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 524 (19.31%) Python
2 523 (19.27%) SQL
3 437 (16.10%) MATLAB
4 334 (12.31%) C#
5 291 (10.72%) JavaScript
6 231 (8.51%) C++
7 188 (6.93%) Java
8 96 (3.54%) PowerShell
9 86 (3.17%) TypeScript
10 70 (2.58%) C
11 45 (1.66%) Kotlin
12 44 (1.62%) PHP
13 36 (1.33%) Bash
14 28 (1.03%) PL/SQL
15 27 (0.99%) R
16 23 (0.85%) Scala
16 23 (0.85%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.63%) Go
18 11 (0.41%) Fortran
18 11 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 538 (19.82%) Master's Degree
2 451 (16.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 406 (14.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 401 (14.78%) PhD
5 176 (6.48%) Security Cleared
6 100 (3.68%) SC Cleared
7 76 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 67 (2.47%) DBS Check
9 63 (2.32%) CISSP
10 55 (2.03%) PMI Certification
11 52 (1.92%) Numerate Degree
12 51 (1.88%) PMP
13 47 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 45 (1.66%) AWS Certification
15 40 (1.47%) Azure Certification
16 35 (1.29%) HNC
17 32 (1.18%) HND
18 29 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
19 28 (1.03%) CISM
20 24 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (4.42%) QA
2 79 (2.91%) Accessibility
3 64 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 53 (1.95%) GDPR
5 36 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.14%) PMO
7 21 (0.77%) HIPAA
8 20 (0.74%) SLA
9 19 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.59%) NIST
11 15 (0.55%) GMP
12 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.33%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.33%) WCAG
15 8 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.26%) GxP
17 6 (0.22%) CDISC
17 6 (0.22%) COBIT
18 5 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 100 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 94 (3.46%) Docker
3 36 (1.33%) Firmware
4 26 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 24 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.15%) HDFS
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.11%) Postfix
10 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.037%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 103 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 60 (2.21%) Terraform
3 31 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.88%) Ansible
6 18 (0.66%) Grafana
7 16 (0.59%) SCCM
8 6 (0.22%) Argo
8 6 (0.22%) SCOM
8 6 (0.22%) SCOrch
9 5 (0.18%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.15%) Puppet
11 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.074%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.074%) Nessus
12 2 (0.074%) Packer
12 2 (0.074%) SCSM
12 2 (0.074%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 445 (16.40%) PayPal
2 353 (13.01%) Microsoft
3 113 (4.16%) Google
4 98 (3.61%) SAP
5 83 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 62 (2.28%) Databricks
7 41 (1.51%) VMware
8 36 (1.33%) Adobe
9 34 (1.25%) Oracle
10 32 (1.18%) Apple
11 28 (1.03%) Cisco
12 27 (0.99%) IBM
13 25 (0.92%) Okta
14 17 (0.63%) YouTube
15 16 (0.59%) iManage
15 16 (0.59%) ServiceNow
16 15 (0.55%) New Relic
17 13 (0.48%) Red Hat
18 12 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
18 12 (0.44%) Facebook