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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,813 2,248 3,485
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.81% 13.85% 13.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.53% 48.51% 49.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,079 1,217 2,429
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,305 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £62,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +10.57% -1.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.02% +7.27% -4.35%

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 5,066 4,634 7,074
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.08% 28.55% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,570 2,411 5,169
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,453 £75,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 30 January 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 63 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.71%) Confluence
4 19 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 16 (0.57%) WebSphere
6 16 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
7 10 (0.36%) SAS
8 8 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.28%) IIS
9 7 (0.25%) CMS
9 7 (0.25%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.21%) WordPress
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.18%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.071%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.036%) Luigi
Applications
1 1,154 (41.02%) Chatbot
2 267 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 42 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.17%) Adobe XD
6 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 15 (0.53%) InDesign
8 15 (0.53%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.25%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.18%) Simulink
10 5 (0.18%) Sketch
11 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.11%) Trello
13 2 (0.071%) Avid Media Composer
13 2 (0.071%) OrCAD
13 2 (0.071%) Pro Tools
13 2 (0.071%) Revit
14 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.14%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.14%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.11%) Primavera
6 3 (0.11%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.071%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.036%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.036%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.036%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.036%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.036%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 379 (13.47%) Azure
2 354 (12.58%) AWS
3 292 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
4 135 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 97 (3.45%) GCP
5 97 (3.45%) SaaS
6 76 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 63 (2.24%) GitHub
8 61 (2.17%) Serverless
9 49 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (1.67%) Figma
11 41 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (1.14%) PowerApps
13 30 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 24 (0.85%) PaaS
16 22 (0.78%) Miro
17 21 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
19 14 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.35%) Firewall
2 33 (1.17%) VPN
3 26 (0.92%) SSL
4 25 (0.89%) WAN
5 21 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 20 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (0.68%) LAN
8 18 (0.64%) DNS
9 17 (0.60%) Unified Communications
10 15 (0.53%) DHCP
10 15 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.43%) VLAN
12 11 (0.39%) Network Security
13 10 (0.36%) VoIP
14 7 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.25%) Wireless
15 6 (0.21%) Internet
16 5 (0.18%) BGP
16 5 (0.18%) Ethernet
16 5 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 108 (3.84%) Power BI
3 52 (1.85%) Tableau
4 51 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.42%) MySQL
6 31 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 26 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.82%) BigQuery
9 17 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (0.60%) MongoDB
9 17 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (0.57%) DB2
10 16 (0.57%) GIS
11 15 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.53%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.43%) Metadata
14 11 (0.39%) OLTP
14 11 (0.39%) Redis
15 10 (0.36%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 67 (2.38%) JIRA
2 54 (1.92%) Git
3 48 (1.71%) Selenium
4 39 (1.39%) WebDriver
5 32 (1.14%) Postman
6 29 (1.03%) SoapUI
6 29 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
7 27 (0.96%) Balsamiq
8 24 (0.85%) Axure RP
9 13 (0.46%) GitLab
9 13 (0.46%) Jenkins
10 10 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.36%) MLflow
11 7 (0.25%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.25%) Metasploit
12 6 (0.21%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.18%) JMeter
14 4 (0.14%) Babel
14 4 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 820 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 665 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
3 397 (14.11%) Finance
4 306 (10.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 161 (5.72%) Marketing
7 135 (4.80%) Law
8 131 (4.66%) Retail
9 118 (4.19%) French Language
10 95 (3.38%) Swedish Language
11 67 (2.38%) Back Office
12 65 (2.31%) Banking
13 62 (2.20%) Legal
14 54 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
14 54 (1.92%) Telecoms
15 41 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (1.10%) Billing
18 27 (0.96%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,151 (40.92%) Trainer
2 305 (10.84%) Analyst
3 248 (8.82%) Senior
4 189 (6.72%) Developer
5 155 (5.51%) Content Editor
6 119 (4.23%) Service Analyst
6 119 (4.23%) Service Desk Analyst
7 109 (3.87%) Support Engineer
8 97 (3.45%) Support Specialist
9 96 (3.41%) Customer Support Specialist
10 82 (2.92%) Lead
11 76 (2.70%) Research Scientist
12 63 (2.24%) Architect
12 63 (2.24%) Desktop Support
13 61 (2.17%) Desktop Engineer
13 61 (2.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 56 (1.99%) Site Engineer
15 55 (1.96%) Business Analyst
16 52 (1.85%) Senior Developer
17 51 (1.81%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (4.73%) .NET
2 94 (3.34%) HTML
3 79 (2.81%) CSS
4 61 (2.17%) React
5 57 (2.03%) SOAP
6 49 (1.74%) RESTful
7 42 (1.49%) REST
8 31 (1.10%) .NET Framework
9 26 (0.92%) ASP.NET
9 26 (0.92%) jQuery
9 26 (0.92%) Node.js
10 25 (0.89%) Entity Framework
10 25 (0.89%) Kafka
11 20 (0.71%) TensorFlow
12 19 (0.68%) LDAP
13 18 (0.64%) Middleware
13 18 (0.64%) PyTorch
14 17 (0.60%) gRPC
14 17 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
14 17 (0.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 101 (3.59%) Blog
2 97 (3.45%) Molecular Biology
3 93 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 92 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 74 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.03%) Driving Licence
7 56 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 50 (1.78%) Cloud Native
9 45 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 42 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 37 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 32 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 31 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.07%) Social Media
15 24 (0.85%) Data Centre
16 23 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
16 23 (0.82%) Security Posture
17 21 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
18 18 (0.64%) PMI
19 15 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 166 (5.90%) Windows
2 88 (3.13%) Linux
3 73 (2.60%) Windows 10
4 37 (1.32%) Unix
5 27 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 21 (0.75%) Android
7 18 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.28%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.11%) Debian
11 3 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.071%) CentOS
13 1 (0.036%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.036%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,440 (51.19%) AI
2 1,163 (41.34%) Conversational UI
3 466 (16.57%) Computer Science
4 415 (14.75%) Customer Service
5 399 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
6 392 (13.94%) Chemistry
7 350 (12.44%) Agile
8 310 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 290 (10.31%) ITIL
10 238 (8.46%) Analytics
11 205 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
12 204 (7.25%) Content Writing
13 173 (6.15%) Decision-Making
13 173 (6.15%) DevOps
14 168 (5.97%) Mathematics
15 166 (5.90%) Mentoring
16 162 (5.76%) Project Management
17 149 (5.30%) Software Engineering
18 143 (5.08%) CRM
19 141 (5.01%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 259 (9.21%) Python
2 234 (8.32%) SQL
3 169 (6.01%) C#
4 164 (5.83%) Java
5 120 (4.27%) JavaScript
6 80 (2.84%) C++
7 76 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 43 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 42 (1.49%) Go
10 36 (1.28%) PHP
11 34 (1.21%) Bash
12 30 (1.07%) C
13 18 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.46%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.46%) R
15 13 (0.46%) Rust
16 12 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 11 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 704 (25.03%) Master's Degree
2 601 (21.37%) PhD
3 311 (11.06%) Security Cleared
4 310 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 279 (9.92%) SC Cleared
6 203 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 180 (6.40%) AWS Certification
8 132 (4.69%) MCSE
9 60 (2.13%) CTC Cleared
10 54 (1.92%) PMP
11 52 (1.85%) Azure Certification
12 50 (1.78%) CISSP
13 49 (1.74%) DBS Check
14 47 (1.67%) PMI Certification
15 41 (1.46%) ACCA
15 41 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
16 40 (1.42%) CIMA
16 40 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
17 37 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 36 (1.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.22%) QA
2 89 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 84 (2.99%) SLA
4 67 (2.38%) GDPR
4 67 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (1.56%) NIST
6 42 (1.49%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.24%) WCAG
8 23 (0.82%) GRC
9 21 (0.75%) PMO
10 19 (0.68%) ISO 9001
11 11 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.28%) IFRS
14 7 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.21%) COBIT
15 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.18%) ARP4761
16 5 (0.18%) ITGC
16 5 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 61 (2.17%) Docker
3 12 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.32%) Firmware
5 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.036%) iptables
8 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 62 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 38 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (1.17%) Terraform
4 26 (0.92%) Ansible
5 19 (0.68%) Grafana
6 18 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.28%) Autotask
7 8 (0.28%) SCCM
8 7 (0.25%) Nmap
9 6 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.11%) Argo
10 3 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.071%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.071%) FTK
11 2 (0.071%) Puppet
12 1 (0.036%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.036%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 1 (0.036%) Kibana
12 1 (0.036%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.036%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,149 (40.85%) PayPal
2 481 (17.10%) Microsoft
3 141 (5.01%) ServiceNow
4 107 (3.80%) Cisco
5 72 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 63 (2.24%) Adobe
7 55 (1.96%) Google
8 45 (1.60%) Oracle
9 32 (1.14%) SAP
10 22 (0.78%) IBM
10 22 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.75%) Databricks
12 15 (0.53%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.53%) Sage
13 14 (0.50%) Zoho
14 13 (0.46%) VMware
15 12 (0.43%) Citrix
16 11 (0.39%) NEC
16 11 (0.39%) Progress
17 9 (0.32%) Palo Alto