Master's Degree Jobs with Work from Home Options

Master's Degree
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 249 268
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +18
Permanent jobs citing Master's Degree 413 553 998
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.22% 1.36% 1.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.34% 5.33% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 236 310 428
10th Percentile £35,000 £44,188 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,250 £51,344 £48,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £82,125 £85,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,250 £133,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Master's Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,526 10,381 16,011
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.24% 25.51% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 6,319 8,615
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.40% +8.36% -

Master's Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Master's Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Master's Degree over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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 11 (2.66%) IIS
2 7 (1.69%) Apache
3 6 (1.45%) nginx
4 4 (0.97%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.73%) Confluence
5 3 (0.73%) SAS
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Luigi
7 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.45%) UserZoom
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.73%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.73%) InVision
5 3 (0.73%) Sketch
6 1 (0.24%) Blender
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Data Workbench
2 1 (0.24%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (16.95%) Azure
2 69 (16.71%) AWS
3 29 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
4 27 (6.54%) SaaS
5 25 (6.05%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.57%) GCP
7 8 (1.94%) GitHub
7 8 (1.94%) IaaS
7 8 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.94%) PowerApps
8 7 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.69%) Serverless
8 7 (1.69%) WhatsApp
9 6 (1.45%) Azure Service Fabric
9 6 (1.45%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.45%) PaaS
9 6 (1.45%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.97%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.21%) Internet
1 5 (1.21%) Network Security
1 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
1 5 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (0.97%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.24%) LAN
3 1 (0.24%) OFDM
3 1 (0.24%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.24%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.24%) VPLS
3 1 (0.24%) VPN
3 1 (0.24%) WAN
3 1 (0.24%) Wireless
3 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.24%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.32%) Tableau
2 24 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (4.84%) Power BI
5 18 (4.36%) Big Data
5 18 (4.36%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.63%) Redis
7 13 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.45%) GIS
10 4 (0.97%) QlikView
11 3 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.48%) Metadata
12 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 72 (17.43%) Git
2 6 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.97%) JIRA
3 4 (0.97%) Snakemake
4 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.24%) GitLab
6 1 (0.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 215 (52.06%) Social Skills
2 87 (21.07%) Finance
3 73 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 36 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (8.47%) Law
6 35 (8.47%) Marketing
7 32 (7.75%) Legal
8 23 (5.57%) Manufacturing
9 18 (4.36%) Electronics
9 18 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (4.12%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.63%) Banking
11 15 (3.63%) Retail
12 14 (3.39%) Back Office
13 13 (3.15%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.42%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.94%) Automotive
16 7 (1.69%) Health Technology
17 5 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (31.23%) Senior
2 64 (15.50%) Data Scientist
3 57 (13.80%) Senior Data Scientist
4 53 (12.83%) Developer
5 41 (9.93%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.23%) Analyst
7 30 (7.26%) Architect
8 19 (4.60%) Product Manager
9 16 (3.87%) Consultant
9 16 (3.87%) Lead
9 16 (3.87%) Senior Developer
10 14 (3.39%) Development Manager
11 11 (2.66%) Database Developer
11 11 (2.66%) Technical Architect
12 10 (2.42%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (2.42%) Business Development Manager
12 10 (2.42%) Business Manager
12 10 (2.42%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.32%) TensorFlow
2 48 (11.62%) Pandas
3 47 (11.38%) PySpark
4 46 (11.14%) scikit-learn
5 33 (7.99%) .NET
6 29 (7.02%) ASP.NET
7 23 (5.57%) PyTorch
8 16 (3.87%) Web Services
9 15 (3.63%) REST
10 12 (2.91%) .NET Core
11 11 (2.66%) Entity Framework
11 11 (2.66%) Spring
12 10 (2.42%) React
13 9 (2.18%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (2.18%) Hibernate
13 9 (2.18%) Spring MVC
14 8 (1.94%) Django
15 7 (1.69%) AngularJS
15 7 (1.69%) NumPy
15 7 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 104 (25.18%) Algorithms
2 37 (8.96%) Management Information System
3 36 (8.72%) Life Science
4 27 (6.54%) Data Structures
5 20 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.66%) Biopharmaceutical
6 11 (2.66%) Client/Server
6 11 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
7 10 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.18%) CUDA
8 9 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.18%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.94%) Equities
10 7 (1.69%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.21%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.20%) Linux
2 14 (3.39%) Windows
3 10 (2.42%) Unix
4 6 (1.45%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.48%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (50.12%) Computer Science
2 128 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (27.12%) Visualisation
4 109 (26.39%) Data Science
5 103 (24.94%) Artificial Intelligence
6 100 (24.21%) Software Engineering
7 97 (23.49%) Machine Learning
8 89 (21.55%) Decision-Making
9 87 (21.07%) Agile
10 86 (20.82%) Mathematics
11 84 (20.34%) Statistics
12 75 (18.16%) Analytics
13 60 (14.53%) Actionable Insight
13 60 (14.53%) Data Analysis
14 59 (14.29%) Customer Experience
14 59 (14.29%) Physics
15 55 (13.32%) Data Visualisation
15 55 (13.32%) Neural Network
16 54 (13.08%) Roadmaps
17 51 (12.35%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 175 (42.37%) Python
2 125 (30.27%) SQL
3 44 (10.65%) C#
4 32 (7.75%) Java
5 25 (6.05%) C++
6 21 (5.08%) C
7 20 (4.84%) R
8 14 (3.39%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.66%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.66%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.69%) Bash
10 7 (1.69%) Go
11 6 (1.45%) Fortran
12 4 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.97%) Rust
12 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.73%) AWK
13 3 (0.73%) sed
14 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.48%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 413 (100.00%) Degree
2 110 (26.63%) PhD
3 104 (25.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (12.35%) DBS Check
5 39 (9.44%) Security Cleared
6 32 (7.75%) MBA
7 19 (4.60%) CISSP
8 18 (4.36%) CISM
9 16 (3.87%) SC Cleared
10 11 (2.66%) Numerate Degree
11 10 (2.42%) CFA
11 10 (2.42%) CIMA
11 10 (2.42%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.94%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.45%) GIAC
13 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.45%) SANS
14 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.21%) CEH
15 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.39%) QA
2 13 (3.15%) NIST
3 11 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.94%) GDPR
5 8 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.45%) COBIT
6 6 (1.45%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 5 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.73%) ISO 31000
8 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (0.73%) NCSC
8 3 (0.73%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.73%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.48%) ECSS
9 2 (0.48%) GLP
9 2 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.48%) SOX 404
System Software
1 41 (9.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (0.24%) Snort
2 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.66%) Terraform
3 6 (1.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 3 (0.73%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (12.59%) Databricks
2 48 (11.62%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.33%) Google
4 21 (5.08%) SAP
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle
6 6 (1.45%) NVIDIA
6 6 (1.45%) Qualtrics
6 6 (1.45%) YouTube
7 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.73%) Coverity
9 2 (0.48%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.48%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.24%) Ivanti
10 1 (0.24%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.24%) Sparx
10 1 (0.24%) Thales
10 1 (0.24%) VMware