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 7 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,635 1,940 4,039
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.52% 15.04% 12.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.38% 52.15% 48.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 1,324 2,829
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,313 £30,304
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 4,152 3,720 8,248
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.18% 28.83% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 2,475 5,955
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.10% +4.65% -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 7 April 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 59 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.61%) Confluence
5 10 (0.61%) SAS
6 9 (0.55%) CMS
6 9 (0.55%) WordPress
7 6 (0.37%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.31%) Apache
8 5 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.061%) Drupal
Applications
1 218 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 122 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (2.14%) Chatbot
5 29 (1.77%) Adobe XD
6 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.67%) MS Visio
9 9 (0.55%) InDesign
10 7 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.43%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
12 5 (0.31%) AutoCAD
13 3 (0.18%) EPLAN
13 3 (0.18%) Sketch
13 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
14 2 (0.12%) Avid Media Composer
14 2 (0.12%) Camtasia
14 2 (0.12%) Pro Tools
14 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.18%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.12%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.061%) Endur
8 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.061%) Primavera
8 1 (0.061%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.061%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 355 (21.71%) Azure
2 337 (20.61%) AWS
3 237 (14.50%) Microsoft 365
4 127 (7.77%) Power Platform
5 126 (7.71%) GCP
6 100 (6.12%) SaaS
7 74 (4.53%) Entra ID
8 52 (3.18%) GitHub
9 47 (2.87%) Serverless
10 43 (2.63%) Figma
11 32 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (1.53%) PowerApps
13 23 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 19 (1.16%) Google Analytics
14 19 (1.16%) PaaS
14 19 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.45%) Firewall
2 20 (1.22%) DNS
2 20 (1.22%) WAN
3 19 (1.16%) Network Security
4 17 (1.04%) VPN
5 15 (0.92%) DHCP
6 14 (0.86%) Unified Communications
7 13 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.73%) SSL
8 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.67%) Internet
10 10 (0.61%) Broadband
10 10 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.55%) LAN
11 9 (0.55%) MPLS
12 8 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.43%) BGP
14 6 (0.37%) LTE
14 6 (0.37%) VoIP
14 6 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (6.42%) Power BI
2 96 (5.87%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (2.26%) MySQL
5 36 (2.20%) Tableau
6 26 (1.59%) BigQuery
7 25 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 23 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.10%) Metadata
10 16 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.92%) OLTP
11 15 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.73%) Delta Lake
13 12 (0.73%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.73%) Redis
14 10 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 76 (4.65%) Git
2 58 (3.55%) JIRA
3 33 (2.02%) Selenium
4 26 (1.59%) Balsamiq
5 24 (1.47%) WebDriver
6 23 (1.41%) Axure RP
7 22 (1.35%) Postman
8 20 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 19 (1.16%) SoapUI
10 17 (1.04%) Jenkins
11 13 (0.80%) GitLab
12 11 (0.67%) MLflow
13 7 (0.43%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.43%) Metasploit
14 6 (0.37%) Babel
14 6 (0.37%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.37%) webpack
15 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
16 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 763 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 399 (24.40%) Finance
3 312 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (18.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 213 (13.03%) Public Sector
6 169 (10.34%) Law
7 150 (9.17%) Marketing
8 89 (5.44%) Retail
9 88 (5.38%) French Language
10 78 (4.77%) Banking
11 73 (4.46%) Legal
12 72 (4.40%) Back Office
13 57 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
14 55 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (2.81%) Manufacturing
15 46 (2.81%) Telecoms
16 42 (2.57%) Swedish Language
17 36 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (1.90%) Electronics
19 24 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 281 (17.19%) Analyst
2 255 (15.60%) Senior
3 190 (11.62%) Developer
4 108 (6.61%) Support Engineer
5 83 (5.08%) Service Analyst
5 83 (5.08%) Service Desk Analyst
6 78 (4.77%) Architect
7 65 (3.98%) Lead
8 62 (3.79%) Desktop Support
9 61 (3.73%) Business Analyst
10 60 (3.67%) Desktop Engineer
10 60 (3.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 57 (3.49%) Graduate
12 56 (3.43%) Site Engineer
13 55 (3.36%) Consultant
14 53 (3.24%) Software Engineer
15 52 (3.18%) Senior Developer
16 42 (2.57%) SQL Developer
17 39 (2.39%) Software Developer
18 38 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (6.12%) .NET
2 89 (5.44%) HTML
3 80 (4.89%) CSS
4 60 (3.67%) React
5 59 (3.61%) SOAP
6 56 (3.43%) REST
7 51 (3.12%) RESTful
8 32 (1.96%) Node.js
9 29 (1.77%) jQuery
10 28 (1.71%) Kafka
11 27 (1.65%) PyTorch
12 24 (1.47%) Middleware
12 24 (1.47%) OAuth
12 24 (1.47%) TensorFlow
13 23 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
13 23 (1.41%) Visualforce
14 22 (1.35%) XML
15 19 (1.16%) Vue
16 18 (1.10%) Django
17 17 (1.04%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 107 (6.54%) Blog
2 104 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 92 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 86 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 80 (4.89%) Cloud Native
6 67 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 46 (2.81%) Driving Licence
8 41 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
9 35 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 32 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.83%) Social Media
12 29 (1.77%) Security Posture
13 28 (1.71%) Algorithms
14 22 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (1.28%) Data Centre
16 18 (1.10%) Virtual Team
17 17 (1.04%) PMI
18 16 (0.98%) AI Agents
19 15 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 154 (9.42%) Windows
2 103 (6.30%) Linux
3 67 (4.10%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.28%) Android
6 19 (1.16%) Unix
7 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.18%) Debian
10 3 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.061%) AIX
12 1 (0.061%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.061%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (27.09%) Computer Science
2 378 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
3 345 (21.10%) Agile
4 305 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 284 (17.37%) AI
6 278 (17.00%) Customer Service
7 240 (14.68%) ITIL
8 234 (14.31%) Analytics
9 198 (12.11%) Mentoring
10 183 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
11 181 (11.07%) DevOps
12 170 (10.40%) CI/CD
13 169 (10.34%) Decision-Making
14 155 (9.48%) Project Management
15 154 (9.42%) Software Engineering
16 138 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 135 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
18 126 (7.71%) Customer Experience
19 119 (7.28%) Roadmaps
20 116 (7.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 265 (16.21%) Python
2 253 (15.47%) SQL
3 152 (9.30%) C#
4 146 (8.93%) Java
5 112 (6.85%) JavaScript
6 73 (4.46%) C++
7 70 (4.28%) TypeScript
8 50 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 49 (3.00%) Go
10 44 (2.69%) PHP
11 36 (2.20%) Bash
12 24 (1.47%) Rust
13 23 (1.41%) Apex Code
13 23 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.16%) C
15 18 (1.10%) R
16 14 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.80%) Bicep
18 12 (0.73%) Scala
18 12 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 312 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 299 (18.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 278 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 152 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 146 (8.93%) Master's Degree
6 115 (7.03%) AWS Certification
7 92 (5.63%) MCSE
8 64 (3.91%) PhD
9 60 (3.67%) CTC Cleared
10 51 (3.12%) PMP
11 50 (3.06%) CISSP
12 46 (2.81%) ACCA
13 44 (2.69%) CIMA
13 44 (2.69%) PMI Certification
14 38 (2.32%) Azure Certification
15 32 (1.96%) DV Cleared
16 31 (1.90%) DBS Check
17 29 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
18 26 (1.59%) HNC
18 26 (1.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.52%) QA
2 85 (5.20%) Accessibility
3 80 (4.89%) SLA
4 69 (4.22%) GDPR
5 55 (3.36%) Data Quality
5 55 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (3.18%) NIST
7 29 (1.77%) WCAG
8 27 (1.65%) GRC
9 20 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.86%) PMO
11 13 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.67%) ISO 9001
13 10 (0.61%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.37%) IFRS
16 4 (0.24%) ISO 26262
16 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.18%) GAAP
System Software
1 81 (4.95%) Docker
2 70 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.37%) vSphere
5 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.18%) Firmware
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.061%) iptables
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.43%) Terraform
3 38 (2.32%) Ansible
4 25 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.35%) Grafana
6 21 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.49%) SCCM
8 7 (0.43%) Nmap
9 6 (0.37%) Autotask
10 5 (0.31%) FTK
11 4 (0.24%) Packer
11 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.12%) Argo
13 2 (0.12%) OpenView
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.061%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 366 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.73%) Cisco
3 108 (6.61%) ServiceNow
4 75 (4.59%) Salesforce
5 53 (3.24%) Adobe
6 51 (3.12%) Google
7 47 (2.87%) Oracle
8 37 (2.26%) SAP
9 31 (1.90%) Databricks
10 28 (1.71%) PayPal
11 20 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 20 (1.22%) VMware
12 16 (0.98%) HubSpot
13 14 (0.86%) Splunk
14 12 (0.73%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.73%) Sage
15 11 (0.67%) Meraki
16 10 (0.61%) Citrix
16 10 (0.61%) Workday
16 10 (0.61%) Zoho