Degree Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 11 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Degree 4,618 4,329 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.80% 12.66% 12.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.38% 45.11% 47.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 2,863 3,162
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,238 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,254 £72,098 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £99,525
UK median annual salary £52,600 £52,084 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.99% -13.19% +9.09%

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 7,063 9,596 10,373
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.93% 28.07% 25.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,977 5,894 6,241
10th Percentile £31,150 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Degree trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Degree.

Degree salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Degree over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Degree salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 62 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.54%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 17 (0.37%) CMS
6 12 (0.26%) Confluence
7 9 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.19%) SAS
8 7 (0.15%) WordPress
9 6 (0.13%) Apache
10 5 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.065%) GemFire
11 3 (0.065%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.065%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.043%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.043%) IIS
12 2 (0.043%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.043%) SharePoint Server
12 2 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.043%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 685 (14.83%) Chatbot
2 101 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 38 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 16 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 14 (0.30%) Trello
9 8 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.17%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 6 (0.13%) Revit
11 5 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.11%) Stata
12 4 (0.087%) Blender
13 3 (0.065%) EPLAN
13 3 (0.065%) InDesign
13 3 (0.065%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 25 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.22%) TrackWise
3 8 (0.17%) Infor M3
3 8 (0.17%) Magento
4 7 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.11%) Pegasus Opera
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.087%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.087%) ResourceLink
7 3 (0.065%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.065%) Maximo
8 1 (0.022%) CiviCRM
8 1 (0.022%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.022%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.022%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 567 (12.28%) Azure
2 409 (8.86%) AWS
3 289 (6.26%) GCP
4 245 (5.31%) Serverless
5 239 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
6 151 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 150 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
8 115 (2.49%) SaaS
9 61 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 61 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (1.26%) Entra ID
11 56 (1.21%) GitHub
12 43 (0.93%) PowerApps
13 29 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (0.63%) PaaS
13 29 (0.63%) Snowflake
14 27 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (0.48%) Power Automate
16 18 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1,067 (23.11%) Broadband
2 64 (1.39%) Firewall
3 33 (0.71%) Network Security
3 33 (0.71%) WAN
4 27 (0.58%) DNS
5 26 (0.56%) HTTP
6 24 (0.52%) 5G
7 23 (0.50%) SAN
8 20 (0.43%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.41%) DHCP
10 18 (0.39%) Unified Communications
11 17 (0.37%) VLAN
11 17 (0.37%) VPN
12 15 (0.32%) TCP/IP
12 15 (0.32%) Wireless
13 14 (0.30%) VoIP
14 11 (0.24%) Internet
14 11 (0.24%) LAN
15 9 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 110 (2.38%) Power BI
3 92 (1.99%) Big Data
4 83 (1.80%) Tableau
5 57 (1.23%) MySQL
6 56 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 26 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (0.50%) Data Lake
10 23 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 15 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (0.32%) Metadata
12 13 (0.28%) DB2
12 13 (0.28%) RDBMS
12 13 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 10 (0.22%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.22%) OLTP
15 9 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 115 (2.49%) Git
2 70 (1.52%) JIRA
3 37 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 13 (0.28%) Gradle
5 13 (0.28%) SpecFlow
6 10 (0.22%) Moq
7 9 (0.19%) Axure RP
8 8 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.15%) Balsamiq
10 6 (0.13%) Maven
11 5 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.11%) Subversion
12 4 (0.087%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.087%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.087%) webpack
13 3 (0.065%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.065%) JUnit
13 3 (0.065%) MSTest
13 3 (0.065%) NUnit
General
1 1,539 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 839 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
3 670 (14.51%) Retail
4 633 (13.71%) Presentation Skills
5 603 (13.06%) Manufacturing
6 524 (11.35%) Finance
7 198 (4.29%) Dutch Language
7 198 (4.29%) Finnish Language
8 193 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 158 (3.42%) Banking
10 137 (2.97%) Games
11 132 (2.86%) Marketing
12 92 (1.99%) Public Sector
13 89 (1.93%) Law
14 88 (1.91%) Multimedia
15 71 (1.54%) Legal
16 49 (1.06%) Catalan Language
17 46 (1.00%) Electronics
18 44 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 41 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,214 (26.29%) Trainer
2 761 (16.48%) Systems Engineer
3 623 (13.49%) Senior
4 324 (7.02%) Lead
5 280 (6.06%) Analyst
6 262 (5.67%) Support Engineer
7 251 (5.44%) Developer
8 221 (4.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 175 (3.79%) Engineering Manager
10 149 (3.23%) Software Engineer
11 122 (2.64%) Data Analyst
12 97 (2.10%) Senior Manager
13 82 (1.78%) Team Leader
14 79 (1.71%) ServiceNow Manager
15 78 (1.69%) Senior Service Manager
16 74 (1.60%) Architect
17 71 (1.54%) Data Scientist
18 70 (1.52%) Graduate
19 65 (1.41%) Project Manager
20 62 (1.34%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (4.87%) HTML
2 138 (2.99%) .NET
3 86 (1.86%) CSS
4 62 (1.34%) ASP.NET
5 60 (1.30%) Software Packaging
6 57 (1.23%) Kafka
7 47 (1.02%) Node.js
8 46 (1.00%) React
9 41 (0.89%) jQuery
10 32 (0.69%) REST
11 30 (0.65%) .NET Framework
11 30 (0.65%) AngularJS
12 26 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
13 25 (0.54%) JSON
13 25 (0.54%) TensorFlow
14 24 (0.52%) RESTful
14 24 (0.52%) scikit-learn
15 23 (0.50%) SailPoint
16 21 (0.45%) .NET Core
17 20 (0.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 558 (12.08%) Robotics
2 271 (5.87%) Self-Motivation
3 256 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 147 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 128 (2.77%) Algorithms
6 81 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
7 58 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 48 (1.04%) Social Media
9 47 (1.02%) Cyberattack
9 47 (1.02%) Onboarding
10 46 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 39 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 35 (0.76%) Mobile App
12 35 (0.76%) NHS
13 28 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
14 27 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (0.58%) Public Cloud
15 26 (0.56%) Mobile Games
16 25 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
17 24 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 396 (8.58%) Windows
2 224 (4.85%) Windows Server 2012
3 125 (2.71%) Linux
4 38 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 36 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.58%) Unix
7 25 (0.54%) Android
8 14 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (0.28%) Windows Vista
10 12 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.22%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
13 7 (0.15%) CentOS
14 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.11%) Rocky
16 2 (0.043%) VMS
16 2 (0.043%) Windows 7
16 2 (0.043%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,835 (39.74%) Problem-Solving
2 1,488 (32.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1,418 (30.71%) Computer Science
4 1,140 (24.69%) Agile
5 1,043 (22.59%) Mentoring
6 948 (20.53%) Machine Learning
7 786 (17.02%) Roadmaps
8 772 (16.72%) Broadcast Engineering
9 725 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
10 685 (14.83%) Conversational UI
11 622 (13.47%) Product Management
12 621 (13.45%) Data Privacy
13 608 (13.17%) Systems Engineering
14 606 (13.12%) High Availability
15 581 (12.58%) UML
16 578 (12.52%) LLM
17 567 (12.28%) SysML
18 565 (12.23%) Generative AI
19 546 (11.82%) MODAF
20 539 (11.67%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 722 (15.63%) Python
2 617 (13.36%) MATLAB
3 521 (11.28%) SQL
4 345 (7.47%) C#
5 339 (7.34%) TypeScript
6 301 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 270 (5.85%) C++
8 201 (4.35%) Java
9 102 (2.21%) C
10 94 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 91 (1.97%) PHP
12 81 (1.75%) R
13 55 (1.19%) Rust
14 49 (1.06%) Dart
14 49 (1.06%) Ruby
15 35 (0.76%) Bash
16 30 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 23 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.39%) Scala
19 17 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,063 (23.02%) Computer Science Degree
2 760 (16.46%) PhD
3 670 (14.51%) Master's Degree
4 592 (12.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 184 (3.98%) Security Cleared
6 106 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 76 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 69 (1.49%) DBS Check
9 55 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 54 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 52 (1.13%) CISSP
12 51 (1.10%) PMP
13 47 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
14 41 (0.89%) AWS Certification
15 39 (0.84%) Azure Certification
16 35 (0.76%) HNC
17 30 (0.65%) CISM
18 26 (0.56%) HND
19 25 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
20 22 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (2.45%) QA
2 66 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 58 (1.26%) GDPR
5 36 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (0.69%) PMO
7 29 (0.63%) SLA
8 23 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 18 (0.39%) NIST
10 16 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.32%) GMP
11 15 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 12 (0.26%) WCAG
13 11 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.22%) CDISC
15 9 (0.19%) GRC
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 314 (6.80%) Active Directory
2 82 (1.78%) Docker
3 27 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.54%) Firmware
5 24 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.13%) vSphere
8 4 (0.087%) HDFS
8 4 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.065%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.065%) Postfix
9 3 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.022%) Forefront TMG
10 1 (0.022%) GPFS
10 1 (0.022%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.022%) KVM
10 1 (0.022%) NFS
10 1 (0.022%) Varnish
10 1 (0.022%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 91 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.19%) Terraform
3 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 22 (0.48%) Ansible
6 19 (0.41%) Grafana
7 16 (0.35%) SCCM
8 6 (0.13%) Functional Safety
8 6 (0.13%) SCOM
8 6 (0.13%) SCOrch
9 5 (0.11%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.11%) Argo
9 5 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.087%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.087%) Puppet
10 4 (0.087%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.043%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.043%) SCSM
11 2 (0.043%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 682 (14.77%) PayPal
2 622 (13.47%) Google
3 597 (12.93%) Databricks
4 581 (12.58%) Adobe
5 549 (11.89%) Microsoft
6 215 (4.66%) Sun
7 107 (2.32%) SAP
8 97 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 83 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 41 (0.89%) VMware
11 39 (0.84%) Cisco
12 35 (0.76%) Oracle
13 28 (0.61%) Apple
14 25 (0.54%) Okta
15 17 (0.37%) YouTube
16 13 (0.28%) New Relic
17 12 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
17 12 (0.26%) Facebook
17 12 (0.26%) iManage
17 12 (0.26%) Intapp