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 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,359 2,087 3,951
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.99% 15.29% 13.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.18% 52.48% 49.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,314 2,793
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,313 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,836 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.16% -8.70%

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 4,701 3,977 8,041
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 29.14% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 2,453 5,838
10th Percentile £30,987 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £73,036
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%

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 16 March 2026.

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 60 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 23 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.64%) Confluence
6 11 (0.47%) SAS
7 9 (0.38%) CMS
7 9 (0.38%) WordPress
8 8 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.21%) Apache
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.042%) Drupal
Applications
1 749 (31.75%) Chatbot
2 232 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
3 124 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 38 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.40%) Adobe XD
6 16 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 13 (0.55%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.42%) InDesign
10 7 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.30%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
11 6 (0.25%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.17%) Sketch
13 3 (0.13%) EPLAN
13 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
14 2 (0.085%) Avid Media Composer
14 2 (0.085%) Camtasia
14 2 (0.085%) Pro Tools
14 2 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.13%) ResourceLink
6 3 (0.13%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.085%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.085%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
8 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.042%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.042%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.042%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.042%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 354 (15.01%) Azure
2 349 (14.79%) AWS
3 262 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 137 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 116 (4.92%) GCP
6 113 (4.79%) SaaS
7 76 (3.22%) Entra ID
8 55 (2.33%) Serverless
9 52 (2.20%) GitHub
10 46 (1.95%) Figma
11 41 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
12 39 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.23%) PowerApps
14 28 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (0.89%) PaaS
17 21 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 21 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 19 (0.81%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.61%) Firewall
2 19 (0.81%) DNS
2 19 (0.81%) WAN
3 18 (0.76%) VPN
4 17 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (0.68%) DHCP
5 16 (0.68%) SSL
5 16 (0.68%) Unified Communications
6 15 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.55%) Network Security
8 12 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.38%) Broadband
9 9 (0.38%) LAN
9 9 (0.38%) VLAN
9 9 (0.38%) VoIP
10 8 (0.34%) Internet
10 8 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (0.34%) Wireless
11 6 (0.25%) MPLS
12 5 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (4.83%) Power BI
2 98 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (1.87%) Tableau
5 39 (1.65%) MySQL
6 28 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.02%) BigQuery
9 19 (0.81%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.72%) Metadata
10 17 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.68%) MongoDB
12 15 (0.64%) OLTP
13 14 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.51%) DB2
14 12 (0.51%) Delta Lake
14 12 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (3.14%) Git
2 59 (2.50%) JIRA
3 36 (1.53%) Selenium
4 29 (1.23%) WebDriver
5 28 (1.19%) Balsamiq
6 25 (1.06%) Axure RP
6 25 (1.06%) Postman
7 23 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
8 22 (0.93%) SoapUI
9 16 (0.68%) Jenkins
10 13 (0.55%) GitLab
11 11 (0.47%) MLflow
12 7 (0.30%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.30%) Metasploit
13 6 (0.25%) Babel
13 6 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.25%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.25%) webpack
14 4 (0.17%) ER Studio
14 4 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 786 (33.32%) Social Skills
2 523 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
3 384 (16.28%) Finance
4 296 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 200 (8.48%) Public Sector
6 164 (6.95%) Law
7 147 (6.23%) Marketing
8 129 (5.47%) Retail
9 101 (4.28%) French Language
10 76 (3.22%) Banking
11 71 (3.01%) Back Office
12 69 (2.92%) Legal
13 64 (2.71%) Swedish Language
14 50 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (1.99%) Telecoms
17 41 (1.74%) Manufacturing
18 37 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
19 29 (1.23%) Electronics
20 27 (1.14%) Billing
Job Titles
1 752 (31.88%) Trainer
2 302 (12.80%) Analyst
3 260 (11.02%) Senior
4 188 (7.97%) Developer
5 108 (4.58%) Support Engineer
6 102 (4.32%) Content Editor
7 99 (4.20%) Service Analyst
7 99 (4.20%) Service Desk Analyst
8 77 (3.26%) Support Specialist
9 75 (3.18%) Research Scientist
10 73 (3.09%) Customer Support Specialist
11 67 (2.84%) Lead
12 66 (2.80%) Architect
13 62 (2.63%) Desktop Support
14 61 (2.59%) Business Analyst
15 60 (2.54%) Desktop Engineer
15 60 (2.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 58 (2.46%) Software Engineer
17 56 (2.37%) Senior Developer
17 56 (2.37%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (4.96%) .NET
2 95 (4.03%) HTML
3 77 (3.26%) CSS
4 63 (2.67%) React
5 61 (2.59%) SOAP
6 52 (2.20%) REST
7 51 (2.16%) RESTful
8 31 (1.31%) Node.js
9 29 (1.23%) Kafka
10 27 (1.14%) PyTorch
11 25 (1.06%) Middleware
12 24 (1.02%) Entity Framework
12 24 (1.02%) TensorFlow
13 23 (0.97%) .NET Framework
13 23 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
13 23 (0.97%) Visualforce
14 22 (0.93%) OAuth
15 20 (0.85%) jQuery
15 20 (0.85%) XML
16 18 (0.76%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 108 (4.58%) Blog
2 99 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 95 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 89 (3.77%) Molecular Biology
5 88 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 72 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 61 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 52 (2.20%) Driving Licence
9 43 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
10 35 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.36%) Social Media
13 30 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 23 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 22 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (0.85%) Data Centre
18 17 (0.72%) PMI
18 17 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
19 16 (0.68%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 155 (6.57%) Windows
2 91 (3.86%) Linux
3 69 (2.92%) Windows 10
4 24 (1.02%) Android
5 23 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.93%) Unix
7 11 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.13%) Debian
11 3 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.085%) CentOS
12 2 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.042%) AIX
13 1 (0.042%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.042%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,002 (42.48%) AI
2 762 (32.30%) Conversational UI
3 440 (18.65%) Computer Science
4 385 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
5 364 (15.43%) Customer Service
6 349 (14.79%) Agile
7 312 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 262 (11.11%) ITIL
9 232 (9.83%) Analytics
10 227 (9.62%) Chemistry
11 192 (8.14%) Mentoring
12 179 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
13 178 (7.55%) DevOps
14 164 (6.95%) CI/CD
15 162 (6.87%) Decision-Making
15 162 (6.87%) Mathematics
16 152 (6.44%) Project Management
16 152 (6.44%) Software Engineering
17 140 (5.93%) Business Intelligence
18 130 (5.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 259 (10.98%) Python
2 239 (10.13%) SQL
3 154 (6.53%) C#
4 144 (6.10%) Java
5 123 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 74 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 65 (2.76%) C++
8 45 (1.91%) Go
9 44 (1.87%) PowerShell
10 34 (1.44%) Bash
11 30 (1.27%) PHP
12 23 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 22 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.85%) Rust
15 17 (0.72%) C
16 16 (0.68%) R
17 15 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.55%) T-SQL
19 12 (0.51%) Scala
20 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 511 (21.66%) Master's Degree
2 422 (17.89%) PhD
3 306 (12.97%) Security Cleared
4 300 (12.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 274 (11.62%) SC Cleared
6 179 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 142 (6.02%) AWS Certification
8 109 (4.62%) MCSE
9 60 (2.54%) CTC Cleared
10 51 (2.16%) PMP
11 50 (2.12%) ACCA
12 48 (2.03%) CIMA
13 47 (1.99%) CISSP
14 44 (1.87%) Azure Certification
15 43 (1.82%) PMI Certification
16 34 (1.44%) DBS Check
17 33 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
18 29 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (1.23%) DV Cleared
18 29 (1.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.15%) QA
2 84 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 82 (3.48%) SLA
4 67 (2.84%) GDPR
5 57 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.08%) Data Quality
7 44 (1.87%) NIST
8 32 (1.36%) WCAG
9 23 (0.97%) GRC
10 16 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.64%) PMO
12 12 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 11 (0.47%) IFRS
14 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 3 (0.13%) GAAP
18 3 (0.13%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 76 (3.22%) Docker
2 67 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.13%) Firmware
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.042%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.042%) iptables
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.042%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.08%) Terraform
3 34 (1.44%) Ansible
4 31 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.97%) Grafana
6 22 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.34%) Autotask
7 8 (0.34%) SCCM
8 7 (0.30%) Nmap
9 5 (0.21%) FTK
10 3 (0.13%) Argo
10 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.085%) OpenView
11 2 (0.085%) Packer
11 2 (0.085%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.042%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.042%) Ganglia
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.042%) Puppet
Vendors
1 743 (31.50%) PayPal
2 409 (17.34%) Microsoft
3 123 (5.21%) ServiceNow
4 109 (4.62%) Cisco
5 81 (3.43%) Salesforce
6 59 (2.50%) Adobe
7 53 (2.25%) Google
8 49 (2.08%) Oracle
9 35 (1.48%) SAP
10 29 (1.23%) Databricks
11 21 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 17 (0.72%) HubSpot
13 16 (0.68%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.64%) Sage
15 14 (0.59%) IBM
15 14 (0.59%) Zoho
16 13 (0.55%) VMware
17 12 (0.51%) Citrix
18 9 (0.38%) Palantir
18 9 (0.38%) Workday