Degree Jobs with Work from Home Options

Academic Degree
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Degree 4,205 5,393 8,553
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.43% 12.42% 12.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 44.40% 48.39% 56.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,851 3,450 4,456
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,299 £45,000 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,438 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,101 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,470 11,146 15,225
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.98% 25.66% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,936 6,739 8,548
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,779 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -

Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Degree over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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
1 108 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 96 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (1.12%) SAS
4 39 (0.93%) IIS
5 31 (0.74%) Confluence
6 27 (0.64%) CMS
7 25 (0.59%) Apache
7 25 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.52%) WordPress
9 16 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.31%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.19%) nginx
13 7 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
14 6 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
15 5 (0.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 5 (0.12%) Drupal
16 4 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
16 4 (0.095%) OpenEdge
16 4 (0.095%) Umbraco
Applications
1 305 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 252 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.52%) Simulink
5 63 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
6 34 (0.81%) Chatbot
7 30 (0.71%) MS Visio
8 22 (0.52%) Photoshop
9 21 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 21 (0.50%) AutoCAD
10 19 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.38%) Adobe XD
11 16 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
12 15 (0.36%) Trello
13 14 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
13 14 (0.33%) SPSS
14 13 (0.31%) Sketch
15 12 (0.29%) OrCAD
16 11 (0.26%) InDesign
17 10 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 54 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 25 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
4 23 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 15 (0.36%) Endur
6 14 (0.33%) SAP CX
7 12 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 11 (0.26%) SAP Business One
9 10 (0.24%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.24%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.14%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.12%) Odoo
12 5 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 5 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 4 (0.095%) BusinessWorks
13 4 (0.095%) Magento
13 4 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 785 (18.67%) Azure
2 578 (13.75%) AWS
3 338 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
4 239 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 228 (5.42%) SaaS
6 137 (3.26%) GCP
7 111 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 79 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
10 75 (1.78%) Serverless
11 74 (1.76%) GitHub
12 60 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (1.43%) Snowflake
13 59 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 57 (1.36%) IaaS
15 56 (1.33%) PaaS
15 56 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 51 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
17 49 (1.17%) WhatsApp
18 35 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 148 (3.52%) Firewall
2 136 (3.23%) Wireless
3 107 (2.54%) WAN
4 89 (2.12%) DNS
5 75 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 74 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
7 70 (1.66%) LAN
8 59 (1.40%) Network Security
9 57 (1.36%) DHCP
10 52 (1.24%) Internet
11 51 (1.21%) VPN
12 46 (1.09%) SD-WAN
13 37 (0.88%) Ethernet
14 32 (0.76%) VoIP
15 28 (0.67%) Unified Communications
16 27 (0.64%) SAN
17 23 (0.55%) RS-232
18 21 (0.50%) VLAN
19 17 (0.40%) SSL
20 16 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (7.49%) SQL Server
2 202 (4.80%) Power BI
3 195 (4.64%) Tableau
4 129 (3.07%) Relational Database
5 103 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 97 (2.31%) MySQL
7 76 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
8 71 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 64 (1.52%) Big Data
10 55 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 46 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 44 (1.05%) Redis
13 35 (0.83%) RDBMS
14 31 (0.74%) MongoDB
15 30 (0.71%) Data Lake
16 26 (0.62%) Oracle Database
17 25 (0.59%) GIS
18 24 (0.57%) DB2
19 22 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
20 21 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 288 (6.85%) Git
2 113 (2.69%) JIRA
3 53 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 45 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.76%) Subversion
6 27 (0.64%) Selenium
7 26 (0.62%) CMake
8 17 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
8 17 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 15 (0.36%) Balsamiq
10 14 (0.33%) Maven
11 13 (0.31%) Axure RP
11 13 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.29%) Postman
13 11 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
14 10 (0.24%) LabVIEW
14 10 (0.24%) Vagrant
15 9 (0.21%) InstallShield
16 8 (0.19%) JMeter
16 8 (0.19%) JUnit
General
1 1,907 (45.35%) Social Skills
2 950 (22.59%) Finance
3 761 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
4 398 (9.46%) Marketing
5 360 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 281 (6.68%) Retail
7 260 (6.18%) Legal
8 229 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 225 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
10 184 (4.38%) Manufacturing
11 152 (3.61%) Electronics
12 142 (3.38%) Law
13 132 (3.14%) Games
14 121 (2.88%) Aerospace
15 116 (2.76%) Telecoms
16 105 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 94 (2.24%) Banking
18 78 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
19 77 (1.83%) Automotive
20 76 (1.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 750 (17.84%) Senior
2 596 (14.17%) Developer
3 554 (13.17%) Analyst
4 309 (7.35%) Software Engineer
5 307 (7.30%) Lead
6 257 (6.11%) Architect
7 223 (5.30%) Project Manager
8 177 (4.21%) Consultant
9 173 (4.11%) Graduate
10 157 (3.73%) Junior
11 146 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
12 145 (3.45%) Senior Developer
13 137 (3.26%) Software Developer
14 133 (3.16%) Data Analyst
15 110 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
16 108 (2.57%) Support Engineer
17 88 (2.09%) Embedded Engineer
18 86 (2.05%) .NET Developer
18 86 (2.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 84 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (7.85%) .NET
2 264 (6.28%) HTML
3 229 (5.45%) CSS
4 181 (4.30%) AngularJS
5 154 (3.66%) React
6 127 (3.02%) Node.js
7 113 (2.69%) ASP.NET
8 108 (2.57%) RESTful
9 94 (2.24%) .NET Core
10 78 (1.85%) .NET Framework
11 71 (1.69%) Web Services
12 68 (1.62%) REST
13 64 (1.52%) Vue
14 58 (1.38%) ASP.NET MVC
15 57 (1.36%) XML
16 52 (1.24%) SOAP
17 45 (1.07%) Express.js
18 44 (1.05%) TensorFlow
19 43 (1.02%) HTML5
20 42 (1.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 277 (6.59%) Management Information System
2 223 (5.30%) Algorithms
3 202 (4.80%) Data Centre
4 180 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 122 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 98 (2.33%) Life Science
7 94 (2.24%) Data Structures
8 90 (2.14%) Client/Server
9 75 (1.78%) Driving Licence
10 73 (1.74%) Social Media
11 69 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 68 (1.62%) IoT
13 67 (1.59%) Onboarding
14 63 (1.50%) Virtual Team
15 56 (1.33%) Mobile App
16 51 (1.21%) Cloud Native
17 46 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
18 41 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
19 40 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
20 39 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 508 (12.08%) Windows
2 370 (8.80%) Linux
3 189 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 112 (2.66%) Unix
5 102 (2.43%) Windows 10
6 70 (1.66%) Android
7 66 (1.57%) Apple iOS
8 49 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 40 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 29 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
11 27 (0.64%) Mac OS
12 25 (0.59%) Mac OS X
13 22 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 21 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
14 21 (0.50%) Ubuntu
15 15 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
16 13 (0.31%) CentOS
17 10 (0.24%) Solaris
17 10 (0.24%) Windows 7
18 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,211 (28.80%) Computer Science
2 1,114 (26.49%) Problem-Solving
3 931 (22.14%) Agile
4 653 (15.53%) Software Engineering
5 628 (14.93%) Project Management
6 487 (11.58%) Analytics
7 478 (11.37%) Mathematics
8 443 (10.54%) DevOps
9 414 (9.85%) Mentoring
10 376 (8.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 365 (8.68%) Decision-Making
12 343 (8.16%) ITIL
13 315 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
13 315 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
14 314 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 314 (7.47%) Roadmaps
15 301 (7.16%) Data Analysis
16 279 (6.63%) Actionable Insight
17 275 (6.54%) User Experience
18 272 (6.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 767 (18.24%) SQL
2 714 (16.98%) Python
3 437 (10.39%) C#
4 415 (9.87%) JavaScript
5 259 (6.16%) Java
6 202 (4.80%) C
7 144 (3.42%) C++
8 134 (3.19%) PowerShell
9 124 (2.95%) TypeScript
10 98 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 87 (2.07%) PHP
12 76 (1.81%) R
13 58 (1.38%) Bash
14 57 (1.36%) Embedded C
15 49 (1.17%) MATLAB
16 44 (1.05%) VB
17 35 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 32 (0.76%) Go
18 32 (0.76%) PL/SQL
19 25 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 731 (17.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 572 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 387 (9.20%) Master's Degree
4 361 (8.59%) SC Cleared
5 174 (4.14%) DBS Check
6 129 (3.07%) PhD
7 127 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 122 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 85 (2.02%) CISSP
10 79 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 75 (1.78%) DV Cleared
12 66 (1.57%) CCNA
13 62 (1.47%) Azure Certification
13 62 (1.47%) CISM
14 61 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
14 61 (1.45%) PMI Certification
15 56 (1.33%) PMP
16 55 (1.31%) AWS Certification
17 52 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 44 (1.05%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (5.18%) QA
2 79 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 66 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 65 (1.55%) SLA
5 64 (1.52%) PMO
6 59 (1.40%) GDPR
7 58 (1.38%) Data Quality
8 39 (0.93%) NIST
9 27 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 27 (0.64%) ISO 9001
10 25 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 23 (0.55%) NCSC
12 20 (0.48%) WCAG
13 18 (0.43%) ITGC
14 14 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
15 11 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 10 (0.24%) NIST 800
17 9 (0.21%) ISO 14001
17 9 (0.21%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 242 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 198 (4.71%) Docker
3 112 (2.66%) Firmware
4 107 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 57 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 43 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
7 31 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (0.50%) vSphere
10 19 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (0.31%) XenApp
12 11 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 9 (0.21%) OpenSSH
14 6 (0.14%) KVM
15 4 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.095%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
17 1 (0.024%) Kamailio
17 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 1 (0.024%) Snort
Systems Management
1 152 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.45%) Terraform
3 76 (1.81%) Ansible
4 57 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 46 (1.09%) SCCM
6 31 (0.74%) SCOM
6 31 (0.74%) WSUS
7 23 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 21 (0.50%) CASB
10 17 (0.40%) Puppet
11 15 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
11 15 (0.36%) Stealthwatch
12 13 (0.31%) ServiceCenter
13 12 (0.29%) Grafana
14 11 (0.26%) Nessus
14 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 9 (0.21%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 939 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 173 (4.11%) SAP
3 158 (3.76%) Adobe
4 147 (3.50%) VMware
5 130 (3.09%) Google
6 122 (2.90%) Databricks
7 116 (2.76%) Oracle
8 110 (2.62%) Dell
9 101 (2.40%) Cisco
10 100 (2.38%) Apple
11 90 (2.14%) Salesforce
12 61 (1.45%) IBM
13 60 (1.43%) HP
14 51 (1.21%) ServiceNow
15 50 (1.19%) Meraki
16 36 (0.86%) Citrix
17 31 (0.74%) Xilinx
18 30 (0.71%) PayPal
18 30 (0.71%) Sage
18 30 (0.71%) Samsung