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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,600 3,275 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.08% 21.41% 12.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.51% 62.24% 48.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,257 2,888
10th Percentile £28,650 £25,313 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,813 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,084
% change year-on-year - +5.60% -13.19%

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 4,265 5,262 9,164
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.55% 34.40% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,932 2,361 5,917
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,333 £86,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,833
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.17% -10.28%

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 14 June 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 74 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.94%) WordPress
5 13 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.81%) CMS
6 12 (0.75%) Confluence
7 10 (0.63%) SAS
8 7 (0.44%) Apache
8 7 (0.44%) IIS
9 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.25%) PowerFactory
10 3 (0.19%) Artix
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.063%) Drupal
12 1 (0.063%) Umbraco
Applications
1 250 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (0.63%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.56%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
8 6 (0.38%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.25%) CorelDRAW
9 4 (0.25%) Revit
9 4 (0.25%) Windchill
10 3 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.19%) FrameMaker
10 3 (0.19%) MadCap Flare
11 2 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.25%) Sage 50
5 4 (0.25%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.063%) CiviCRM
8 1 (0.063%) HFM
8 1 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.063%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.063%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.063%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.063%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 336 (21.00%) Azure
2 279 (17.44%) AWS
3 213 (13.31%) Microsoft 365
4 125 (7.81%) Power Platform
5 99 (6.19%) GCP
6 92 (5.75%) Entra ID
6 92 (5.75%) SaaS
7 33 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 31 (1.94%) GitHub
8 31 (1.94%) PowerApps
9 29 (1.81%) Google Analytics
9 29 (1.81%) Power Automate
10 28 (1.75%) Serverless
11 23 (1.44%) Figma
12 15 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (0.94%) Canva
12 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (0.94%) Snowflake
13 14 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.31%) Firewall
2 32 (2.00%) Network Security
3 25 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.50%) DNS
5 23 (1.44%) VPN
6 20 (1.25%) WAN
7 19 (1.19%) DHCP
8 13 (0.81%) Internet
9 12 (0.75%) LAN
10 11 (0.69%) Broadband
11 10 (0.63%) Unified Communications
12 9 (0.56%) MPLS
12 9 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.50%) LTE
13 8 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.50%) Wireless
14 7 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.38%) BGP
15 6 (0.38%) Kerberos
16 5 (0.31%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (6.50%) SQL Server
2 103 (6.44%) Power BI
3 37 (2.31%) MySQL
4 30 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.44%) Tableau
6 22 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (1.38%) Metadata
6 22 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.19%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.06%) OLTP
9 15 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (0.81%) Redis
12 12 (0.75%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.75%) NoSQL
13 11 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.69%) Delta Lake
14 10 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 71 (4.44%) Git
2 54 (3.38%) JIRA
3 15 (0.94%) Selenium
4 14 (0.88%) Postman
5 13 (0.81%) WebDriver
6 11 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (0.69%) Visual Studio
7 10 (0.63%) SoapUI
8 9 (0.56%) Axure RP
8 9 (0.56%) Balsamiq
8 9 (0.56%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.56%) MLflow
9 8 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.44%) GitLab
11 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.25%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.25%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.19%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 765 (47.81%) Social Skills
2 375 (23.44%) Finance
3 301 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (15.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 190 (11.88%) Public Sector
6 179 (11.19%) Law
7 123 (7.69%) Marketing
8 83 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (5.00%) Retail
10 72 (4.50%) Legal
11 64 (4.00%) Banking
11 64 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
13 57 (3.56%) Back Office
13 57 (3.56%) Manufacturing
14 52 (3.25%) French Language
15 50 (3.13%) Electronics
16 25 (1.56%) Advertising
17 24 (1.50%) Telecoms
18 21 (1.31%) Games
Job Titles
1 300 (18.75%) Senior
2 281 (17.56%) Analyst
3 202 (12.63%) Developer
4 98 (6.13%) Architect
5 96 (6.00%) Graduate
6 94 (5.88%) Senior Manager
7 91 (5.69%) Support Engineer
8 89 (5.56%) Project Manager
9 79 (4.94%) Lead
10 75 (4.69%) Service Analyst
11 71 (4.44%) Business Analyst
12 69 (4.31%) Service Desk Analyst
13 67 (4.19%) Senior Project Manager
14 63 (3.94%) Software Developer
15 60 (3.75%) Graduate Developer
16 56 (3.50%) Consultant
17 54 (3.38%) Software Engineer
18 49 (3.06%) Graduate Software Developer
19 48 (3.00%) IT Support
20 47 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (4.81%) HTML
2 70 (4.38%) .NET
3 68 (4.25%) CSS
4 50 (3.13%) React
5 44 (2.75%) SOAP
6 40 (2.50%) jQuery
6 40 (2.50%) REST
7 33 (2.06%) Node.js
7 33 (2.06%) RESTful
8 29 (1.81%) XML
9 26 (1.63%) Vue
10 23 (1.44%) PyTorch
11 20 (1.25%) Middleware
12 18 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
12 18 (1.13%) TensorFlow
12 18 (1.13%) Visualforce
13 16 (1.00%) JSON
13 16 (1.00%) OAuth
14 13 (0.81%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.81%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 113 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 93 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 84 (5.25%) Cloud Native
4 81 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 34 (2.13%) Driving Licence
7 32 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 31 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 30 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.44%) Social Media
12 22 (1.38%) Cyberattack
13 21 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.13%) Data Centre
16 17 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.94%) FMCG
18 14 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
18 14 (0.88%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 141 (8.81%) Windows
2 101 (6.31%) Linux
3 48 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 47 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.81%) Unix
6 9 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.50%) Android
7 8 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.063%) AIX
11 1 (0.063%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (27.75%) Agile
2 422 (26.38%) Computer Science
3 358 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
4 304 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 225 (14.06%) ITIL
6 212 (13.25%) Customer Service
6 212 (13.25%) Mentoring
7 205 (12.81%) Project Management
8 182 (11.38%) Analytics
9 177 (11.06%) AI
9 177 (11.06%) Coaching
10 171 (10.69%) Project Delivery
11 167 (10.44%) Decision-Making
12 156 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
13 155 (9.69%) Software Engineering
14 154 (9.63%) CI/CD
14 154 (9.63%) DevOps
15 148 (9.25%) Customer Experience
16 129 (8.06%) Scrum
17 128 (8.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 266 (16.63%) SQL
2 229 (14.31%) Python
3 150 (9.38%) C#
4 120 (7.50%) Java
5 104 (6.50%) JavaScript
6 64 (4.00%) C++
7 62 (3.88%) PHP
8 53 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 52 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 27 (1.69%) Bash
10 27 (1.69%) Go
10 27 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 23 (1.44%) Rust
12 19 (1.19%) Apex Code
13 17 (1.06%) C
14 16 (1.00%) R
15 12 (0.75%) Bicep
16 10 (0.63%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.56%) Scala
18 8 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 286 (17.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 269 (16.81%) Security Cleared
3 231 (14.44%) SC Cleared
4 120 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 108 (6.75%) Master's Degree
6 89 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 73 (4.56%) MCSE
8 69 (4.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 63 (3.94%) CISSP
10 52 (3.25%) DBS Check
11 51 (3.19%) Azure Certification
12 44 (2.75%) PMI Certification
13 41 (2.56%) HNC
14 40 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
15 39 (2.44%) PhD
16 38 (2.38%) CISM
17 32 (2.00%) PMP
18 30 (1.88%) DV Cleared
19 29 (1.81%) ACCA
20 28 (1.75%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.88%) QA
2 67 (4.19%) SLA
3 66 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 62 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (3.44%) NIST
6 50 (3.13%) Data Quality
7 47 (2.94%) GDPR
8 29 (1.81%) GRC
9 21 (1.31%) PMO
10 19 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (1.00%) WCAG
13 12 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 11 (0.69%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.56%) NCSC
16 8 (0.50%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.38%) COBIT
18 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
19 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 81 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.31%) Docker
3 24 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.56%) vSphere
6 8 (0.50%) Firmware
7 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.00%) Terraform
3 34 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.50%) Ansible
5 12 (0.75%) Grafana
5 12 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.56%) Autotask
7 8 (0.50%) SCCM
8 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.38%) Packer
10 5 (0.31%) FTK
10 5 (0.31%) QRadar
11 4 (0.25%) Nmap
11 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.19%) Argo
12 3 (0.19%) Plesk
13 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 383 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 77 (4.81%) Cisco
4 59 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 49 (3.06%) Oracle
6 46 (2.88%) Google
7 37 (2.31%) SAP
8 33 (2.06%) Adobe
9 31 (1.94%) Databricks
10 25 (1.56%) VMware
11 19 (1.19%) HubSpot
12 15 (0.94%) Meraki
13 14 (0.88%) Splunk
14 13 (0.81%) Citrix
15 12 (0.75%) EMC
16 11 (0.69%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.69%) Sage
16 11 (0.69%) Workday
17 9 (0.56%) Pardot
18 8 (0.50%) Palantir