Master's Degree Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Master's Degree
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 255 250
Rank change year-on-year +154 -5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 670 419 542
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.61% 1.23% 1.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.50% 4.37% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 133 241 305
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,799 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £105,000 £103,250
UK median annual salary £69,315 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% - -6.47%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Master's 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 7,049 9,583 10,374
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.99% 28.08% 25.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,961 5,894 6,246
10th Percentile £31,250 £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%

Master's Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Master's Degree trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Master's Degree
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Master's Degree salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Master's Degree
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Master's Degree salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Master's Degree
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 7 (1.04%) SAS
2 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 460 (68.66%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (5.97%) Azure
2 29 (4.33%) AWS
3 19 (2.84%) GCP
4 10 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (1.34%) GitHub
6 8 (1.19%) Adobe Analytics
6 8 (1.19%) Power Platform
6 8 (1.19%) Snowflake
7 4 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (0.60%) iPaaS
7 4 (0.60%) Serverless
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.45%) dbt
8 3 (0.45%) Dialogflow
8 3 (0.45%) SaaS
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.15%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.75%) Network Security
2 4 (0.60%) Firewall
3 3 (0.45%) VPN
4 2 (0.30%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.15%) Intranet
5 1 (0.15%) RS-485
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.63%) Tableau
2 19 (2.84%) Relational Database
3 11 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.19%) Hadoop
5 8 (1.19%) Power BI
6 6 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.90%) Metadata
6 6 (0.90%) MySQL
6 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.60%) Apache Hive
8 4 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.60%) Big Data
8 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.60%) SAP BW
8 4 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (4.03%) Git
2 8 (1.19%) Moq
2 8 (1.19%) SpecFlow
3 4 (0.60%) JIRA
4 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.30%) MLflow
5 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.15%) git-flow
5 1 (0.15%) GitLab
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 282 (42.09%) Analytical Skills
2 75 (11.19%) Social Skills
3 44 (6.57%) Finance
4 29 (4.33%) Banking
4 29 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (2.69%) Legal
7 16 (2.39%) Retail
8 15 (2.24%) Aerospace
8 15 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.24%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.94%) Law
9 13 (1.94%) Marketing
9 13 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.64%) Agriculture
11 9 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.90%) Electronics
13 4 (0.60%) Front Office
14 3 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.45%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 461 (68.81%) Trainer
2 49 (7.31%) Analyst
3 41 (6.12%) Senior
4 31 (4.63%) Software Engineer
5 26 (3.88%) Data Analyst
6 20 (2.99%) Data Scientist
7 18 (2.69%) Biostatistician
8 17 (2.54%) Developer
8 17 (2.54%) Research Scientist
9 16 (2.39%) Statistician
10 14 (2.09%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (1.94%) Architect
12 12 (1.79%) Graduate
12 12 (1.79%) Lecturer
12 12 (1.79%) Mathematician
13 9 (1.34%) Data Engineer
13 9 (1.34%) Lead
13 9 (1.34%) Principal Data Scientist
13 9 (1.34%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (1.34%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.39%) TensorFlow
2 15 (2.24%) .NET
2 15 (2.24%) REST
3 13 (1.94%) scikit-learn
4 11 (1.64%) .NET Framework
5 10 (1.49%) .NET Core
5 10 (1.49%) Entity Framework
5 10 (1.49%) Pandas
5 10 (1.49%) PySpark
6 9 (1.34%) Middleware
7 8 (1.19%) OAuth
7 8 (1.19%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.19%) Swagger
8 7 (1.04%) PyTorch
9 6 (0.90%) FHIR
10 5 (0.75%) CSS
10 5 (0.75%) HTML
11 4 (0.60%) ASP.NET
11 4 (0.60%) SOAP
11 4 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.67%) Algorithms
2 18 (2.69%) Molecular Biology
3 15 (2.24%) Credit Risk
3 15 (2.24%) Management Information System
3 15 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (1.79%) Robotics
5 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.34%) Learning Management System
7 8 (1.19%) Derivative
8 6 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.60%) IoT
10 4 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.60%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.60%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.45%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.24%) Linux
2 10 (1.49%) Unix
3 8 (1.19%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.75%) Windows
5 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (73.88%) Artificial Intelligence
2 460 (68.66%) Conversational UI
3 248 (37.01%) Mathematics
4 238 (35.52%) Computer Science
5 228 (34.03%) Chemistry
6 172 (25.67%) Statistics
7 105 (15.67%) Physics
8 79 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (8.96%) Data Science
10 57 (8.51%) Software Engineering
11 50 (7.46%) Agile
12 47 (7.01%) Analytics
13 42 (6.27%) Machine Learning
14 41 (6.12%) Visualisation
15 40 (5.97%) Mentoring
16 33 (4.93%) Decision-Making
17 30 (4.48%) Data Analysis
18 27 (4.03%) Storytelling
19 26 (3.88%) Data Analytics
20 23 (3.43%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 96 (14.33%) Python
2 52 (7.76%) SQL
3 24 (3.58%) C++
4 19 (2.84%) C#
5 16 (2.39%) Java
6 12 (1.79%) C
7 11 (1.64%) Bash
7 11 (1.64%) Fortran
7 11 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.04%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.90%) R
10 4 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.30%) Go
11 2 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.30%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) JCL
12 1 (0.15%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 670 (100.00%) Degree
2 517 (77.16%) PhD
3 53 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.99%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.69%) DBS Check
6 16 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.24%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.64%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (1.49%) HNC
10 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.34%) SAP Certification
11 8 (1.19%) CISM
12 6 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.90%) PMP
13 5 (0.75%) MBA
14 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.60%) CISSP
14 4 (0.60%) CRISC
14 4 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 10 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.34%) CDISC
3 9 (1.34%) QA
4 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.04%) NIST
5 6 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.90%) NIST 800
6 4 (0.60%) GDPR
6 4 (0.60%) GRC
6 4 (0.60%) SOC 1
6 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.30%) GMP
7 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (2.09%) Docker
2 4 (0.60%) HDFS
3 2 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (1.19%) Terraform
2 6 (0.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.60%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.30%) Grafana
4 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 457 (68.21%) PayPal
2 31 (4.63%) Databricks
3 27 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.03%) SAP
4 14 (2.09%) Google
5 9 (1.34%) Teradata
6 8 (1.19%) Adobe
7 7 (1.04%) Omniture
8 6 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.60%) IBM
9 4 (0.60%) Oracle
10 3 (0.45%) Facebook
10 3 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.45%) YouTube
11 2 (0.30%) Sparx
12 1 (0.15%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.15%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.15%) FactSet
12 1 (0.15%) Freescale
12 1 (0.15%) Xilinx