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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 443 486
Rank change year-on-year +385 +43 +4
Permanent jobs citing PhD 986 143 131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.88% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.23% 1.50% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 70 85 95
10th Percentile £40,675 £33,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,212 £45,000 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £61,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.08% -25.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £175,000 £122,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% +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 7,455 9,519 9,617
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.92% 27.60% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,022 5,756 5,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,292 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,650 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -5.58% +2.64%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,629 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.50% -12.28% +9.09%

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 1 July 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 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
1 2 (0.20%) SAS
2 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 675 (68.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 227 (23.02%) AWS
2 221 (22.41%) GCP
3 219 (22.21%) Azure
4 216 (21.91%) AWS Lambda
4 216 (21.91%) Serverless
5 10 (1.01%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (0.20%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.20%) SaaS
7 1 (0.10%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.10%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.10%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.10%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.10%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.10%) GitHub
7 1 (0.10%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.10%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.10%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 215 (21.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.10%) LAN
2 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.20%) GIS
1 2 (0.20%) Metadata
1 2 (0.20%) Power BI
1 2 (0.20%) QGIS
1 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
1 2 (0.20%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.10%) Big Data
2 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.10%) Power Query
2 1 (0.10%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.10%) MLflow
General
1 575 (58.32%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (2.23%) Social Skills
3 17 (1.72%) Manufacturing
4 16 (1.62%) Aerospace
4 16 (1.62%) Agriculture
5 14 (1.42%) Finance
5 14 (1.42%) Publishing
6 10 (1.01%) Retail
7 9 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.61%) Banking
10 4 (0.41%) Front Office
10 4 (0.41%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.30%) Military
12 2 (0.20%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.20%) Games
12 2 (0.20%) Legal
12 2 (0.20%) Marketing
12 2 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 674 (68.36%) Trainer
2 223 (22.62%) Senior
3 218 (22.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 36 (3.65%) Biostatistician
5 34 (3.45%) Research Scientist
6 22 (2.23%) Lecturer
6 22 (2.23%) Statistician
7 20 (2.03%) Developer
8 19 (1.93%) Lead
9 16 (1.62%) Mathematician
10 13 (1.32%) Analyst
10 13 (1.32%) Software Engineer
11 8 (0.81%) Instructor
12 7 (0.71%) Applications Support
12 7 (0.71%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (0.71%) CEO
12 7 (0.71%) Data Scientist
12 7 (0.71%) Support Analyst
13 5 (0.51%) Data Analyst
14 4 (0.41%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.42%) PyTorch
1 14 (1.42%) TensorFlow
2 12 (1.22%) scikit-learn
3 10 (1.01%) Keras
3 10 (1.01%) NumPy
4 4 (0.41%) Kafka
5 1 (0.10%) .NET
5 1 (0.10%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.10%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.10%) Flask
5 1 (0.10%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.10%) JSON
5 1 (0.10%) Loki
5 1 (0.10%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.10%) OpenCV
5 1 (0.10%) Pandas
5 1 (0.10%) SciPy
5 1 (0.10%) XGBoost
5 1 (0.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 217 (22.01%) Self-Motivation
2 39 (3.96%) Molecular Biology
3 28 (2.84%) Algorithms
4 21 (2.13%) Robotics
5 7 (0.71%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 5 (0.51%) Cloud Native
6 5 (0.51%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.51%) Derivative
7 4 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (0.41%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.30%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.30%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.30%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.20%) Acoustics
9 2 (0.20%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.20%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.20%) IoT
9 2 (0.20%) Lidar
9 2 (0.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.03%) Linux
2 8 (0.81%) Unix
3 3 (0.30%) Windows
4 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (71.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 675 (68.46%) Conversational UI
3 353 (35.80%) Chemistry
4 298 (30.22%) Mathematics
5 256 (25.96%) Machine Learning
6 243 (24.65%) Data Science
7 241 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (22.41%) Mentoring
9 220 (22.31%) Computer Science
10 219 (22.21%) Agile
11 217 (22.01%) Creative Thinking
12 216 (21.91%) CI/CD
13 215 (21.81%) Clean Code
13 215 (21.81%) Performance Metrics
13 215 (21.81%) Personalization
14 193 (19.57%) Statistics
15 144 (14.60%) Physics
16 48 (4.87%) Biology
17 41 (4.16%) Data Interpretation
18 40 (4.06%) Experimental Design
Programming Languages
1 263 (26.67%) Python
2 215 (21.81%) TypeScript
3 33 (3.35%) C++
4 16 (1.62%) MATLAB
4 16 (1.62%) SQL
5 13 (1.32%) C
6 9 (0.91%) Fortran
6 9 (0.91%) Java
7 8 (0.81%) Bash
8 7 (0.71%) C-shell
8 7 (0.71%) Korn
8 7 (0.71%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.41%) Go
9 4 (0.41%) R
9 4 (0.41%) Rust
10 2 (0.20%) Solidity
11 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.10%) F#
11 1 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 966 (97.97%) Degree
2 722 (73.23%) Master's Degree
3 18 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (0.91%) Security Cleared
5 7 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
6 6 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.61%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.10%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (0.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.10%) Grafana
2 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 674 (68.36%) PayPal
2 7 (0.71%) Oracle
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.10%) Adobe
4 1 (0.10%) Cisco
4 1 (0.10%) Databricks
4 1 (0.10%) Google
4 1 (0.10%) SAP
4 1 (0.10%) Xilinx