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 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 2 13
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,788 4,037 2,946
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.20% 24.38% 13.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.73% 65.38% 47.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 990 1,359
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year - -5.41% -7.50%

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 5,148 6,175 6,199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.73% 37.30% 27.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,217 2,284 2,840
10th Percentile £32,765 £31,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -2.56%

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 29 September 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
1 100 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 61 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.23%) Confluence
4 15 (0.84%) IIS
5 11 (0.62%) CMS
6 9 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.50%) SAS
7 7 (0.39%) Apache
7 7 (0.39%) WordPress
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.22%) PowerFactory
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.17%) Artix
10 2 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.056%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.056%) Resin
11 1 (0.056%) Umbraco
Applications
1 223 (12.47%) Microsoft Office
2 108 (6.04%) Microsoft Project
3 104 (5.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 40 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.62%) AutoCAD
6 26 (1.45%) Simulink
7 23 (1.29%) Revit
8 14 (0.78%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.56%) CorelDRAW
10 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 6 (0.34%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.34%) Trello
12 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
12 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
12 4 (0.22%) FrameMaker
12 4 (0.22%) Mathcad
12 4 (0.22%) Windchill
13 3 (0.17%) MadCap Flare
13 3 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.78%) 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 (0.056%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.056%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 353 (19.74%) Azure
2 277 (15.49%) AWS
3 206 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (5.70%) Power Platform
5 101 (5.65%) GCP
6 87 (4.87%) SaaS
7 84 (4.70%) Entra ID
8 43 (2.40%) GitHub
9 34 (1.90%) Google Analytics
10 27 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (1.45%) Power Automate
12 25 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.40%) OneDrive
13 24 (1.34%) PowerApps
14 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 20 (1.12%) Snowflake
16 17 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (0.89%) Figma
18 15 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.42%) Firewall
2 53 (2.96%) VPN
3 46 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 45 (2.52%) Network Security
5 38 (2.13%) DNS
6 33 (1.85%) DHCP
7 25 (1.40%) Wireless
8 24 (1.34%) LAN
9 20 (1.12%) WAN
10 12 (0.67%) Unified Communications
10 12 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.62%) Ethernet
11 11 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (0.56%) HTTP
13 9 (0.50%) Internet
13 9 (0.50%) VLAN
14 7 (0.39%) Broadband
14 7 (0.39%) MPLS
14 7 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 93 (5.20%) Power BI
3 42 (2.35%) Metadata
4 38 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 36 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (1.90%) MySQL
7 20 (1.12%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.12%) Redis
8 19 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 16 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (0.84%) Star Schema
11 13 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.73%) Big Data
11 13 (0.73%) Tableau
12 12 (0.67%) Data Mining
13 11 (0.62%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.50%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 77 (4.31%) Git
2 65 (3.64%) JIRA
3 19 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (0.95%) LabVIEW
5 15 (0.84%) GitLab
6 9 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 9 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.45%) Balsamiq
8 7 (0.39%) Selenium
9 6 (0.34%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.34%) Subversion
10 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.22%) JUnit
11 4 (0.22%) Postman
11 4 (0.22%) Snyk
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.17%) NUnit
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.17%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 866 (48.43%) Social Skills
2 415 (23.21%) Finance
3 388 (21.70%) Analytical Skills
4 345 (19.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 214 (11.97%) Law
6 211 (11.80%) Public Sector
7 128 (7.16%) Electronics
8 125 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
9 119 (6.66%) Aerospace
10 98 (5.48%) Marketing
11 97 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
12 94 (5.26%) Manufacturing
13 71 (3.97%) Legal
14 69 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
15 64 (3.58%) Telecoms
16 54 (3.02%) Retail
17 49 (2.74%) Swedish Language
18 36 (2.01%) Military
19 32 (1.79%) French Language
19 32 (1.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 376 (21.03%) Senior
2 293 (16.39%) Analyst
3 158 (8.84%) Developer
4 138 (7.72%) Lead
5 118 (6.60%) Architect
6 114 (6.38%) Senior Manager
7 108 (6.04%) Project Manager
8 95 (5.31%) Graduate
9 86 (4.81%) Consultant
10 83 (4.64%) Senior Project Manager
11 80 (4.47%) Software Engineer
12 75 (4.19%) Service Analyst
13 71 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
14 69 (3.86%) Business Analyst
15 68 (3.80%) Software Developer
16 63 (3.52%) Service Desk Analyst
17 62 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
18 60 (3.36%) IT Support
19 55 (3.08%) Support Engineer
20 54 (3.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (3.86%) .NET
2 62 (3.47%) React
3 54 (3.02%) HTML
4 52 (2.91%) CSS
5 37 (2.07%) Node.js
6 32 (1.79%) Terraform
6 32 (1.79%) Vue
7 28 (1.57%) .NET Core
7 28 (1.57%) AngularJS
7 28 (1.57%) RESTful
8 27 (1.51%) XML
9 26 (1.45%) jQuery
10 22 (1.23%) ASP.NET
10 22 (1.23%) REST
11 19 (1.06%) Entity Framework
12 17 (0.95%) .NET Framework
13 13 (0.73%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (0.73%) LDAP
13 13 (0.73%) PySpark
14 11 (0.62%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.10%) Management Information System
2 93 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 89 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
4 71 (3.97%) Driving Licence
5 69 (3.86%) Cloud Native
6 50 (2.80%) Algorithms
7 49 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.24%) FPGA
9 39 (2.18%) IoT
10 38 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (2.07%) Security Posture
12 32 (1.79%) Data Centre
13 27 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
15 23 (1.29%) Client/Server
15 23 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
16 22 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
16 22 (1.23%) Data Structures
16 22 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
17 21 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.99%) Windows
2 87 (4.87%) Linux
3 63 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.78%) Android
5 14 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
6 10 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.56%) Unix
7 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.17%) Debian
11 3 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
11 3 (0.17%) VMS
12 2 (0.11%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (28.52%) Agile
2 467 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
3 466 (26.06%) Computer Science
4 331 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 265 (14.82%) Mentoring
6 263 (14.71%) AI
7 252 (14.09%) Project Delivery
8 237 (13.26%) ITIL
9 226 (12.64%) Project Management
10 207 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 203 (11.35%) Software Engineering
12 200 (11.19%) Decision-Making
13 192 (10.74%) Customer Service
14 190 (10.63%) Coaching
15 179 (10.01%) Cybersecurity
16 168 (9.40%) Technology Strategy
17 163 (9.12%) Analytics
18 162 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 147 (8.22%) PRINCE2
20 142 (7.94%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 240 (13.42%) Python
2 224 (12.53%) SQL
3 143 (8.00%) C#
4 108 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 76 (4.25%) Java
6 74 (4.14%) C++
7 57 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 56 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 42 (2.35%) C
9 42 (2.35%) PHP
10 37 (2.07%) MATLAB
11 21 (1.17%) R
11 21 (1.17%) Rust
12 18 (1.01%) Go
13 14 (0.78%) Bash
14 12 (0.67%) Embedded C++
14 12 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.62%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.56%) SystemVerilog
17 8 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 337 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 312 (17.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 273 (15.27%) SC Cleared
4 114 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 103 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 101 (5.65%) DV Cleared
7 85 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 82 (4.59%) AWS Certification
9 80 (4.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 75 (4.19%) HNC
11 71 (3.97%) HND
12 63 (3.52%) CISSP
13 62 (3.47%) MCSE
14 55 (3.08%) PhD
15 51 (2.85%) Azure Certification
16 50 (2.80%) DBS Check
17 45 (2.52%) CISM
18 40 (2.24%) Chartered Engineer
19 30 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
20 26 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (7.61%) QA
2 130 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 77 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (4.14%) Data Quality
5 66 (3.69%) NIST
6 57 (3.19%) GDPR
7 34 (1.90%) PMO
8 33 (1.85%) SLA
9 20 (1.12%) NCSC
10 18 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (1.01%) GRC
11 16 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.73%) WCAG
13 11 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.62%) Def Stans
13 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.56%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.56%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 90 (5.03%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.80%) Docker
3 45 (2.52%) Firmware
4 21 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.45%) vSphere
9 5 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.056%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 60 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.89%) Ansible
4 8 (0.45%) Functional Safety
4 8 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.34%) SCCM
6 5 (0.28%) QRadar
7 4 (0.22%) Autotask
7 4 (0.22%) Grafana
7 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.17%) Argo
8 3 (0.17%) Plesk
8 3 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.11%) Packer
10 1 (0.056%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 447 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.92%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.13%) Google
4 41 (2.29%) SAP
5 38 (2.13%) Cisco
6 33 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.73%) Oracle
8 23 (1.29%) VMware
9 20 (1.12%) Adobe
10 19 (1.06%) Databricks
11 18 (1.01%) EMC
11 18 (1.01%) IBM
12 17 (0.95%) Siemens
13 16 (0.89%) YouTube
14 13 (0.73%) Apple
14 13 (0.73%) Citrix
14 13 (0.73%) Splunk
15 12 (0.67%) Informatica
15 12 (0.67%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.67%) Sage