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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,360 2,120 3,941
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.99% 15.28% 13.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.27% 52.23% 49.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 1,304 2,789
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,313 £30,464
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -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 4,695 4,059 8,018
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.84% 29.26% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 2,448 5,821
10th Percentile £30,987 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,421 £43,786 £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 £73,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £88,750
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 15 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
2 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.64%) Confluence
5 11 (0.47%) SAS
6 9 (0.38%) CMS
6 9 (0.38%) WordPress
7 8 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
8 6 (0.25%) IIS
9 5 (0.21%) Apache
9 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.21%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.042%) Kinematics
Applications
1 749 (31.74%) Chatbot
2 232 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
3 125 (5.30%) 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
12 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
13 3 (0.13%) EPLAN
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
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
7 2 (0.085%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
8 1 (0.042%) Endur
8 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.042%) Primavera
8 1 (0.042%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.042%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.042%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 356 (15.08%) Azure
2 350 (14.83%) AWS
3 264 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
4 138 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 116 (4.92%) GCP
6 113 (4.79%) SaaS
7 77 (3.26%) 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%) VPN
2 19 (0.81%) WAN
3 17 (0.72%) SSL
3 17 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (0.68%) DHCP
4 16 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 12 (0.51%) Network Security
5 12 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.42%) VLAN
7 9 (0.38%) Broadband
7 9 (0.38%) LAN
7 9 (0.38%) VoIP
8 8 (0.34%) Internet
8 8 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (0.34%) Wireless
9 6 (0.25%) MPLS
10 5 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (4.87%) Power BI
2 98 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 48 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (1.86%) 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%) PowerDesigner
General
1 786 (33.31%) Social Skills
2 525 (22.25%) Analytical Skills
3 384 (16.27%) Finance
4 294 (12.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 198 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 164 (6.95%) Law
7 148 (6.27%) Marketing
8 129 (5.47%) Retail
9 101 (4.28%) French Language
10 75 (3.18%) 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 47 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
15 47 (1.99%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.74%) Manufacturing
17 36 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
18 29 (1.23%) Electronics
19 27 (1.14%) Billing
Job Titles
1 752 (31.86%) Trainer
2 304 (12.88%) 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 (4.19%) Service Analyst
7 99 (4.19%) 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 65 (2.75%) Architect
13 62 (2.63%) Desktop Support
14 61 (2.58%) 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 (2.58%) 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 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 95 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 89 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 89 (3.77%) Molecular Biology
5 72 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 61 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.20%) Driving Licence
8 43 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 35 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 33 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.36%) Social Media
12 30 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 29 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 22 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 20 (0.85%) Data Centre
16 17 (0.72%) PMI
16 17 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
17 15 (0.64%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 156 (6.61%) Windows
2 91 (3.86%) Linux
3 69 (2.92%) Windows 10
4 24 (1.02%) Android
4 24 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.93%) Unix
6 11 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.13%) Debian
10 3 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.085%) CentOS
11 2 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.042%) AIX
12 1 (0.042%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.042%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (42.42%) AI
2 762 (32.29%) Conversational UI
3 440 (18.64%) Computer Science
4 388 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
5 365 (15.47%) Customer Service
6 350 (14.83%) Agile
7 312 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 263 (11.14%) ITIL
9 233 (9.87%) Analytics
10 227 (9.62%) Chemistry
11 191 (8.09%) Mentoring
12 179 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
13 178 (7.54%) DevOps
14 164 (6.95%) CI/CD
15 163 (6.91%) Decision-Making
15 163 (6.91%) Mathematics
16 152 (6.44%) Project Management
16 152 (6.44%) Software Engineering
17 140 (5.93%) Business Intelligence
18 131 (5.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 260 (11.02%) 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 (2.75%) C++
8 45 (1.91%) Go
9 44 (1.86%) 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
15 17 (0.72%) R
16 15 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.55%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.51%) Scala
19 11 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 513 (21.74%) Master's Degree
2 422 (17.88%) PhD
3 305 (12.92%) Security Cleared
4 300 (12.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 273 (11.57%) SC Cleared
6 180 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 143 (6.06%) 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 46 (1.95%) CISSP
14 45 (1.91%) Azure Certification
15 43 (1.82%) PMI Certification
16 35 (1.48%) DBS Check
17 33 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
18 30 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 29 (1.23%) DV Cleared
19 29 (1.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.14%) QA
2 83 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 82 (3.47%) SLA
4 67 (2.84%) GDPR
5 56 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.08%) Data Quality
7 43 (1.82%) NIST
8 32 (1.36%) WCAG
9 23 (0.97%) GRC
10 15 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
10 15 (0.64%) PMO
11 12 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.51%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.47%) IFRS
13 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.13%) GAAP
17 3 (0.13%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 76 (3.22%) Docker
2 68 (2.88%) 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 32 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (0.97%) Grafana
6 22 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.38%) Autotask
8 8 (0.34%) SCCM
9 7 (0.30%) Nmap
10 5 (0.21%) FTK
11 3 (0.13%) Argo
11 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.085%) OpenView
12 2 (0.085%) Packer
12 2 (0.085%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.042%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.042%) Ganglia
13 1 (0.042%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.042%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.042%) Puppet
Vendors
1 743 (31.48%) PayPal
2 411 (17.42%) Microsoft
3 122 (5.17%) 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 34 (1.44%) 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
19 8 (0.34%) Workday