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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 2 13
Rank change year-on-year -26 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,762 4,263 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.09% 25.36% 13.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.37% 66.85% 47.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 997 1,350
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,022
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £88,775
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £56,225
% change year-on-year - -6.63% -6.29%

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 5,126 6,377 6,163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.64% 37.94% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 2,271 2,803
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,346
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

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 5 October 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 97 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.08%) Confluence
4 15 (0.85%) IIS
5 11 (0.62%) CMS
6 9 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.51%) SAS
7 7 (0.40%) Apache
7 7 (0.40%) WordPress
8 4 (0.23%) PowerFactory
9 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.17%) Artix
9 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.057%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.057%) Resin
11 1 (0.057%) Umbraco
Applications
1 222 (12.60%) Microsoft Office
2 107 (6.07%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 40 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.65%) AutoCAD
6 26 (1.48%) Simulink
7 23 (1.31%) Revit
8 14 (0.79%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.57%) CorelDRAW
10 9 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.34%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.34%) Trello
12 4 (0.23%) Autodesk Inventor
12 4 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
12 4 (0.23%) Mathcad
12 4 (0.23%) Windchill
13 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.17%) FrameMaker
13 3 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.45%) Primavera
3 5 (0.28%) Sage 50
3 5 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.17%) Misys Midas
4 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.11%) iTrent
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 2 (0.11%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.057%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.057%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 345 (19.58%) Azure
2 275 (15.61%) AWS
3 208 (11.80%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (5.62%) GCP
4 99 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 88 (4.99%) SaaS
6 83 (4.71%) Entra ID
7 45 (2.55%) GitHub
8 32 (1.82%) Google Analytics
9 26 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.48%) Power Automate
10 25 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.42%) OneDrive
11 24 (1.36%) PowerApps
12 22 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
13 20 (1.14%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (1.02%) PaaS
15 16 (0.91%) Figma
16 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.37%) Firewall
2 56 (3.18%) VPN
3 45 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 43 (2.44%) Network Security
5 38 (2.16%) DNS
6 33 (1.87%) DHCP
7 25 (1.42%) Wireless
8 23 (1.31%) LAN
9 19 (1.08%) WAN
10 12 (0.68%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.62%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
13 9 (0.51%) HTTP
13 9 (0.51%) VLAN
14 7 (0.40%) Broadband
14 7 (0.40%) Internet
14 7 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (0.40%) WLAN
15 6 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 91 (5.16%) Power BI
3 42 (2.38%) Metadata
4 36 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 35 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (1.82%) MySQL
8 20 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.14%) Redis
9 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (0.79%) Big Data
11 13 (0.74%) Data Mining
11 13 (0.74%) Star Schema
11 13 (0.74%) Tableau
12 12 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.62%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (0.51%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 74 (4.20%) Git
2 62 (3.52%) JIRA
3 19 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (0.96%) LabVIEW
5 15 (0.85%) GitLab
6 9 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.45%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.34%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.34%) Selenium
8 6 (0.34%) Subversion
9 5 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.23%) JUnit
10 4 (0.23%) Postman
10 4 (0.23%) Snyk
10 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.17%) NUnit
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 865 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 410 (23.27%) Finance
3 386 (21.91%) Analytical Skills
4 335 (19.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 207 (11.75%) Law
6 199 (11.29%) Public Sector
7 128 (7.26%) Electronics
8 124 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
9 119 (6.75%) Aerospace
10 94 (5.33%) Manufacturing
11 93 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
12 91 (5.16%) Marketing
13 71 (4.03%) Legal
14 67 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
15 64 (3.63%) Telecoms
16 55 (3.12%) Retail
17 49 (2.78%) Swedish Language
18 36 (2.04%) Military
19 32 (1.82%) French Language
20 31 (1.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 382 (21.68%) Senior
2 289 (16.40%) Analyst
3 150 (8.51%) Developer
4 138 (7.83%) Lead
5 117 (6.64%) Senior Manager
6 108 (6.13%) Architect
7 107 (6.07%) Project Manager
8 93 (5.28%) Graduate
9 87 (4.94%) Consultant
10 84 (4.77%) Senior Project Manager
11 83 (4.71%) Software Engineer
12 75 (4.26%) Service Analyst
13 70 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
14 66 (3.75%) Business Analyst
15 63 (3.58%) Service Desk Analyst
15 63 (3.58%) Software Developer
16 61 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
17 60 (3.41%) IT Support
18 55 (3.12%) Support Analyst
19 53 (3.01%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (3.86%) .NET
2 66 (3.75%) React
3 53 (3.01%) CSS
3 53 (3.01%) HTML
4 39 (2.21%) Node.js
5 35 (1.99%) Terraform
6 31 (1.76%) Vue
7 28 (1.59%) .NET Core
7 28 (1.59%) RESTful
8 27 (1.53%) AngularJS
8 27 (1.53%) XML
9 26 (1.48%) jQuery
10 24 (1.36%) REST
11 23 (1.31%) ASP.NET
12 19 (1.08%) Entity Framework
13 17 (0.96%) .NET Framework
14 13 (0.74%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (0.68%) JSON
16 11 (0.62%) LDAP
16 11 (0.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.21%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.11%) Product Ownership
3 87 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
4 73 (4.14%) Driving Licence
5 71 (4.03%) Cloud Native
6 50 (2.84%) Algorithms
6 50 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 40 (2.27%) FPGA
7 40 (2.27%) IoT
8 39 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 31 (1.76%) Data Centre
11 27 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
13 23 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
14 22 (1.25%) Client/Server
14 22 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 21 (1.19%) Mobile App
16 20 (1.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 121 (6.87%) Windows
2 82 (4.65%) Linux
3 62 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 15 (0.85%) Android
6 14 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.51%) Unix
8 8 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.28%) OpenVMS
11 4 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.17%) Debian
12 3 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
12 3 (0.17%) VMS
13 2 (0.11%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (28.83%) Agile
2 472 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
3 459 (26.05%) Computer Science
4 332 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 272 (15.44%) AI
6 258 (14.64%) Mentoring
7 250 (14.19%) Project Delivery
8 236 (13.39%) ITIL
9 225 (12.77%) Project Management
10 206 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 203 (11.52%) Software Engineering
12 199 (11.29%) Decision-Making
13 197 (11.18%) Customer Service
14 184 (10.44%) Coaching
15 178 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
16 164 (9.31%) Analytics
17 161 (9.14%) Technology Strategy
18 157 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 146 (8.29%) PRINCE2
20 143 (8.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 240 (13.62%) Python
2 215 (12.20%) SQL
3 136 (7.72%) C#
4 112 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 74 (4.20%) C++
5 74 (4.20%) Java
6 59 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 58 (3.29%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.33%) C
9 38 (2.16%) PHP
10 37 (2.10%) MATLAB
11 19 (1.08%) Rust
12 18 (1.02%) R
13 16 (0.91%) Go
14 15 (0.85%) Bash
15 12 (0.68%) Embedded C++
15 12 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.62%) Embedded C
17 10 (0.57%) SystemVerilog
18 9 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 324 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 308 (17.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 261 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.47%) Master's Degree
5 102 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 100 (5.68%) DV Cleared
7 85 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 82 (4.65%) AWS Certification
9 81 (4.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 76 (4.31%) HNC
11 73 (4.14%) HND
12 62 (3.52%) MCSE
13 59 (3.35%) CISSP
14 58 (3.29%) PhD
15 52 (2.95%) Azure Certification
16 51 (2.89%) DBS Check
17 44 (2.50%) CISM
18 41 (2.33%) Chartered Engineer
19 31 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
20 25 (1.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (7.55%) QA
2 128 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 75 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 69 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 63 (3.58%) NIST
6 56 (3.18%) GDPR
7 34 (1.93%) SLA
8 33 (1.87%) PMO
9 19 (1.08%) NCSC
10 17 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (0.96%) GRC
11 15 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.68%) WCAG
13 11 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.62%) Def Stans
13 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.57%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.45%) HAZOP
System Software
1 87 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.95%) Docker
3 47 (2.67%) Firmware
4 19 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.34%) vSphere
9 5 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 60 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (2.95%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.85%) Ansible
4 10 (0.57%) Functional Safety
5 7 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.34%) SCCM
7 4 (0.23%) Autotask
7 4 (0.23%) Grafana
7 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.23%) QRadar
8 3 (0.17%) Argo
8 3 (0.17%) Plesk
8 3 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.11%) Packer
9 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 450 (25.54%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.94%) ServiceNow
3 57 (3.23%) Google
4 41 (2.33%) SAP
5 38 (2.16%) Cisco
6 33 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.76%) Oracle
8 21 (1.19%) VMware
9 19 (1.08%) Adobe
10 18 (1.02%) EMC
10 18 (1.02%) IBM
10 18 (1.02%) Siemens
11 17 (0.96%) Databricks
12 16 (0.91%) YouTube
13 13 (0.74%) Apple
13 13 (0.74%) Citrix
14 12 (0.68%) HubSpot
14 12 (0.68%) Informatica
14 12 (0.68%) Sage
14 12 (0.68%) Thales