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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 453 480
Rank change year-on-year +361 +27 +30
Permanent jobs citing PhD 662 136 188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.67% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.17% 1.43% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 95 83 125
10th Percentile £40,750 £33,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £62,322
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £175,000 £122,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 6,507 9,482 10,421
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.10% 28.16% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,077 5,896 6,379
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 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +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 15 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 (0.45%) Jupyter
1 3 (0.45%) SAS
2 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 327 (49.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 231 (34.89%) AWS
2 223 (33.69%) GCP
3 222 (33.53%) Azure
4 216 (32.63%) AWS Lambda
4 216 (32.63%) Serverless
5 10 (1.51%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (0.30%) SaaS
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.15%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.15%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.15%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.15%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.15%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.15%) dbt
7 1 (0.15%) GitHub
7 1 (0.15%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.15%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 215 (32.48%) Broadband
2 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.30%) GIS
2 2 (0.30%) Metadata
2 2 (0.30%) QGIS
2 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
2 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.15%) Big Data
3 1 (0.15%) MySQL
3 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.15%) Power BI
3 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.15%) GitLab
1 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.15%) MLflow
General
1 408 (61.63%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (4.98%) Finance
3 27 (4.08%) Social Skills
4 24 (3.63%) Banking
5 20 (3.02%) Legal
6 19 (2.87%) Manufacturing
7 14 (2.11%) Publishing
8 13 (1.96%) Retail
9 12 (1.81%) Agriculture
10 10 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.60%) Front Office
13 3 (0.45%) Military
14 2 (0.30%) Environmental Health
14 2 (0.30%) Marketing
14 2 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.15%) Esports
15 1 (0.15%) Games
15 1 (0.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 329 (49.70%) Trainer
2 223 (33.69%) Senior
3 219 (33.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 23 (3.47%) Analyst
5 19 (2.87%) Graduate
5 19 (2.87%) Lead
5 19 (2.87%) Research Scientist
6 13 (1.96%) Software Engineer
7 12 (1.81%) Biostatistician
7 12 (1.81%) Developer
8 10 (1.51%) Data Science Graduate
9 9 (1.36%) Applications Support
9 9 (1.36%) Applications Support Analyst
9 9 (1.36%) Data Analyst
9 9 (1.36%) Support Analyst
10 8 (1.21%) Data Scientist
10 8 (1.21%) Lecturer
10 8 (1.21%) Statistician
11 7 (1.06%) CEO
12 6 (0.91%) Mathematician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.72%) PyTorch
1 18 (2.72%) TensorFlow
2 15 (2.27%) scikit-learn
3 13 (1.96%) NumPy
4 10 (1.51%) Keras
5 4 (0.60%) Pandas
6 3 (0.45%) .NET
7 2 (0.30%) Kafka
7 2 (0.30%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.15%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.15%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.15%) Flask
8 1 (0.15%) Hugging Face
8 1 (0.15%) Loki
8 1 (0.15%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.15%) OpenVINO
8 1 (0.15%) RESTful
8 1 (0.15%) SciPy
8 1 (0.15%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 217 (32.78%) Self-Motivation
2 40 (6.04%) Algorithms
3 23 (3.47%) Robotics
4 19 (2.87%) Learning Management System
5 12 (1.81%) Molecular Biology
6 10 (1.51%) Credit Risk
7 9 (1.36%) Hackathon
7 9 (1.36%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 9 (1.36%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.60%) Derivative
8 4 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.45%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.45%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.30%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.30%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.30%) Lidar
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.32%) Linux
2 10 (1.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) Windows
4 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (58.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 327 (49.40%) Conversational UI
3 273 (41.24%) Machine Learning
4 263 (39.73%) Data Science
5 240 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
6 238 (35.95%) Agile
7 218 (32.93%) Mentoring
8 217 (32.78%) CI/CD
9 216 (32.63%) Creative Thinking
10 215 (32.48%) Clean Code
10 215 (32.48%) Performance Metrics
10 215 (32.48%) Personalization
11 176 (26.59%) Mathematics
12 163 (24.62%) Chemistry
13 137 (20.69%) Computer Science
14 104 (15.71%) Statistics
15 98 (14.80%) Physics
16 35 (5.29%) Software Engineering
17 32 (4.83%) Analytics
18 23 (3.47%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 290 (43.81%) Python
2 215 (32.48%) TypeScript
3 36 (5.44%) C++
4 28 (4.23%) SQL
5 16 (2.42%) Java
5 16 (2.42%) MATLAB
6 15 (2.27%) C
7 11 (1.66%) Bash
7 11 (1.66%) C#
7 11 (1.66%) Fortran
8 9 (1.36%) C-shell
8 9 (1.36%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.36%) Korn
8 9 (1.36%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.60%) Go
10 4 (0.60%) R
10 4 (0.60%) Rust
11 2 (0.30%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 642 (96.98%) Degree
2 397 (59.97%) Master's Degree
3 14 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.81%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.21%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (0.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (0.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.15%) Grafana
2 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 326 (49.24%) PayPal
2 13 (1.96%) Google
3 10 (1.51%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.36%) IBM
4 9 (1.36%) Oracle
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe
5 1 (0.15%) Databricks
5 1 (0.15%) SAP
5 1 (0.15%) Xilinx