PhD Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 456 465
Rank change year-on-year +335 +9 +38
Permanent jobs citing PhD 432 130 202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.80% 0.38% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.98% 1.37% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 103 83 131
10th Percentile £40,750 £33,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £62,322
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -33.33% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,625 £105,625
90th Percentile £175,000 £122,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

PhD 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 4,813 9,485 10,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.21% 28.07% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,069 5,912 6,583
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

PhD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PhD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PhD
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

PhD salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PhD
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PhD over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

PhD salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PhD
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 3 (0.69%) Jupyter
1 3 (0.69%) SAS
2 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 301 (69.68%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Maple
2 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.23%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (3.47%) AWS
2 10 (2.31%) Amazon SageMaker
3 7 (1.62%) Azure
3 7 (1.62%) GCP
4 3 (0.69%) SaaS
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.23%) Azure AKS
5 1 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.23%) GitHub
5 1 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.23%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.23%) Serverless
5 1 (0.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.93%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.46%) GIS
2 2 (0.46%) Metadata
2 2 (0.46%) QGIS
2 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
2 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.23%) MySQL
3 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.23%) GitLab
1 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 174 (40.28%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (11.57%) Finance
3 42 (9.72%) Banking
4 38 (8.80%) Legal
5 28 (6.48%) Social Skills
6 19 (4.40%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.01%) Agriculture
7 13 (3.01%) Publishing
8 12 (2.78%) Retail
9 10 (2.31%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.46%) Electronics
12 2 (0.46%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.46%) Front Office
12 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Esports
13 1 (0.23%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 303 (70.14%) Trainer
2 37 (8.56%) Graduate
3 23 (5.32%) Analyst
4 18 (4.17%) Research Scientist
5 16 (3.70%) Data Science Graduate
5 16 (3.70%) Lead
6 13 (3.01%) Software Engineer
7 12 (2.78%) Biostatistician
7 12 (2.78%) Developer
8 9 (2.08%) Applications Support
8 9 (2.08%) Applications Support Analyst
8 9 (2.08%) Data Analyst
8 9 (2.08%) Senior
8 9 (2.08%) Support Analyst
9 8 (1.85%) Data Scientist
9 8 (1.85%) Statistician
10 7 (1.62%) CEO
11 6 (1.39%) Lecturer
11 6 (1.39%) Mathematician
12 5 (1.16%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.40%) PyTorch
1 19 (4.40%) TensorFlow
2 16 (3.70%) scikit-learn
3 14 (3.24%) NumPy
4 11 (2.55%) Keras
5 5 (1.16%) Pandas
6 4 (0.93%) .NET
7 3 (0.69%) OpenCV
8 2 (0.46%) Flask
8 2 (0.46%) Kafka
8 2 (0.46%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.46%) SciPy
9 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.23%) Hugging Face
9 1 (0.23%) Loki
9 1 (0.23%) OpenVINO
9 1 (0.23%) RESTful
9 1 (0.23%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.65%) Algorithms
2 37 (8.56%) Learning Management System
3 22 (5.09%) Robotics
4 17 (3.94%) Hackathon
4 17 (3.94%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.70%) Credit Risk
6 11 (2.55%) Molecular Biology
7 9 (2.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.69%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.69%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.46%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.46%) Derivative
10 2 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.46%) Lidar
10 2 (0.46%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.09%) Linux
2 10 (2.31%) Unix
3 3 (0.69%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (86.34%) Artificial Intelligence
2 301 (69.68%) Conversational UI
3 173 (40.05%) Mathematics
4 138 (31.94%) Chemistry
4 138 (31.94%) Computer Science
5 103 (23.84%) Statistics
6 98 (22.69%) Physics
7 63 (14.58%) Machine Learning
8 54 (12.50%) Data Science
9 43 (9.95%) Software Engineering
10 39 (9.03%) Analytics
11 37 (8.56%) Agile
12 30 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (6.48%) Data Visualisation
13 28 (6.48%) Visualisation
14 27 (6.25%) Data Analytics
15 25 (5.79%) Data Engineering
16 23 (5.32%) Decision-Making
16 23 (5.32%) Fintech
17 22 (5.09%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 88 (20.37%) Python
2 34 (7.87%) SQL
3 33 (7.64%) C++
4 21 (4.86%) Java
5 20 (4.63%) C#
6 17 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.94%) Kotlin
7 16 (3.70%) MATLAB
8 15 (3.47%) C
9 11 (2.55%) Bash
9 11 (2.55%) Fortran
10 9 (2.08%) C-shell
10 9 (2.08%) Korn
10 9 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.93%) Go
12 4 (0.93%) R
12 4 (0.93%) Rust
13 2 (0.46%) Solidity
14 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 413 (95.60%) Degree
2 383 (88.66%) Master's Degree
3 12 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (0.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (0.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.23%) Grafana
2 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 300 (69.44%) PayPal
2 21 (4.86%) Google
3 18 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.94%) IBM
5 9 (2.08%) Oracle
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe
6 1 (0.23%) Databricks
6 1 (0.23%) Lotus
6 1 (0.23%) SAP
6 1 (0.23%) Xilinx