Hybrid/Remote Use Case Job Trends

Use Cases
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Use Case skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 258 257
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 -64
Permanent jobs citing Use Case 136 197 256
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.90% 1.20% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.28% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 92 103 210
10th Percentile £32,500 £47,500 £45,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Use Case falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,144 15,339 20,307
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.72% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 8,355 9,020 16,451
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,100 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Use Case and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Use Case job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Use Case
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Use Case.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Use Case

Use Case
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Use Case over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Use Case salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (11.03%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.62%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.41%) Apache
3 6 (4.41%) Confluence
4 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.47%) Mendix
6 1 (0.74%) CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.74%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.74%) Primavera
3 1 (0.74%) Quorum
3 1 (0.74%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.82%) Azure
2 28 (20.59%) AWS
3 19 (13.97%) Snowflake
4 18 (13.24%) SaaS
5 17 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 16 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (10.29%) GCP
8 12 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (8.82%) GitHub
9 9 (6.62%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (6.62%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (5.88%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.15%) dbt
11 7 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (4.41%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (4.41%) Fivetran
13 5 (3.68%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.09%) Firewall
2 10 (7.35%) Wireshark
3 9 (6.62%) Network Security
4 6 (4.41%) DMZ
5 4 (2.94%) VPN
6 3 (2.21%) Broadband
6 3 (2.21%) DHCP
6 3 (2.21%) DOCSIS
6 3 (2.21%) DSL
6 3 (2.21%) GPON
6 3 (2.21%) IPv4
6 3 (2.21%) IPv6
6 3 (2.21%) PPP
6 3 (2.21%) RTP
6 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.21%) VoIP
6 3 (2.21%) WAN
6 3 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.18%) Tableau
2 20 (14.71%) Metadata
3 19 (13.97%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (11.76%) Data Lake
6 12 (8.82%) Power BI
7 11 (8.09%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (7.35%) BigQuery
9 9 (6.62%) Looker
10 8 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (4.41%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (3.68%) Data Mining
12 5 (3.68%) Delta Lake
12 5 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.68%) Pinecone
12 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.68%) Weaviate
13 4 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
15 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) JIRA
2 11 (8.09%) Git
3 5 (3.68%) MLflow
4 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (41.91%) Finance
2 54 (39.71%) Social Skills
3 30 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.82%) Banking
4 12 (8.82%) Retail
5 11 (8.09%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.35%) Legal
7 9 (6.62%) Marketing
8 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.15%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.94%) Back Office
9 4 (2.94%) Electronics
10 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.47%) Automotive
11 2 (1.47%) Billing
11 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (20.59%) Analyst
2 19 (13.97%) Data Engineer
3 17 (12.50%) Consultant
4 15 (11.03%) Senior
5 13 (9.56%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.35%) Lead
7 7 (5.15%) Architect
8 6 (4.41%) Lead Data Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 5 (3.68%) Data Consultant
9 5 (3.68%) Developer
10 4 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 4 (2.94%) Forensic Manager
10 4 (2.94%) Incident Manager
10 4 (2.94%) Information Security Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Security Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.15%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.41%) Kafka
2 6 (4.41%) NumPy
2 6 (4.41%) Pandas
2 6 (4.41%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.68%) Faiss
3 5 (3.68%) Hugging Face
3 5 (3.68%) REST
3 5 (3.68%) scikit-learn
3 5 (3.68%) vLLM
3 5 (3.68%) Web Services
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (2.21%) CSS
5 3 (2.21%) HTML
5 3 (2.21%) jQuery
5 3 (2.21%) SOAP
5 3 (2.21%) Vue
6 2 (1.47%) JSON
6 2 (1.47%) Regular Expression
6 2 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 14 (10.29%) Product Ownership
4 13 (9.56%) Onboarding
5 11 (8.09%) Security Posture
5 11 (8.09%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.41%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (4.41%) PKI
7 5 (3.68%) Blog
8 4 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.94%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.94%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.21%) CMDB
9 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.21%) Digital Signage
9 3 (2.21%) EPoS
10 2 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.24%) Linux
2 13 (9.56%) Windows
3 6 (4.41%) Unix
4 3 (2.21%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.71%) AI
2 40 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (26.47%) Agile
4 32 (23.53%) Analytics
5 30 (22.06%) Data Modelling
6 29 (21.32%) Workshop Facilitation
7 28 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (19.85%) DevOps
9 26 (19.12%) CI/CD
10 25 (18.38%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (18.38%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (18.38%) Data Engineering
11 22 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (16.18%) Decision-Making
12 20 (14.71%) CRM
12 20 (14.71%) ETL
13 18 (13.24%) Data Architecture
13 18 (13.24%) Data Governance
13 18 (13.24%) Machine Learning
13 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.21%) SQL
2 35 (25.74%) Python
3 11 (8.09%) Bash
4 8 (5.88%) Java
5 7 (5.15%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.68%) Go
6 5 (3.68%) Scala
7 4 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.21%) C
8 3 (2.21%) C++
8 3 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) Degree
3 10 (7.35%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) GCFA
3 10 (7.35%) GCIA
3 10 (7.35%) GCIH
4 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.94%) GIAC
6 4 (2.94%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.21%) CCIE
7 3 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.47%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.74%) CISSP
9 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.74%) PMP
9 1 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.71%) NIST
2 18 (13.24%) Data Quality
3 10 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.15%) PCI DSS
4 7 (5.15%) QA
5 6 (4.41%) GDPR
5 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 6 (4.41%) JSP 440
5 6 (4.41%) NCSC
6 5 (3.68%) GRC
7 2 (1.47%) COBIT
7 2 (1.47%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.47%) ISO 26262
7 2 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (4.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.94%) QRadar
1 4 (2.94%) Terraform
2 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Nagios
3 2 (1.47%) Ansible
3 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.47%) Suricata
Vendors
1 12 (8.82%) Databricks
1 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) SAP
3 5 (3.68%) Google
3 5 (3.68%) Palantir
4 4 (2.94%) Alteryx
4 4 (2.94%) HubSpot
4 4 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.94%) Splunk
4 4 (2.94%) Talend
4 4 (2.94%) VMware
4 4 (2.94%) Zoho
5 3 (2.21%) CheckPoint
5 3 (2.21%) Cisco
5 3 (2.21%) F5
5 3 (2.21%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.47%) Informatica
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle
6 2 (1.47%) OutSystems