Degree Jobs with Work from Home Options

Academic 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 Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 4,458 4,720 10,062
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.69% 12.36% 13.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.56% 47.15% 57.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,876 3,060 4,661
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 9,785 10,010 17,424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.86% 26.22% 23.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,905 6,060 8,959
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Degree.

Degree salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Degree over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Degree salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 94 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 86 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 58 (1.30%) IIS
4 43 (0.96%) Apache
5 37 (0.83%) SAS
6 31 (0.70%) Confluence
7 29 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 27 (0.61%) CMS
9 19 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 19 (0.43%) WordPress
10 17 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 12 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.18%) nginx
13 6 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 6 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
13 6 (0.13%) Luigi
14 5 (0.11%) Drupal
15 4 (0.090%) OpenEdge
15 4 (0.090%) Umbraco
Applications
1 316 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 262 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 87 (1.95%) Simulink
5 59 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 26 (0.58%) MS Visio
7 23 (0.52%) AutoCAD
8 22 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 20 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 19 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
11 18 (0.40%) Adobe XD
12 17 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
13 15 (0.34%) OrCAD
13 15 (0.34%) Sketch
14 14 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
14 14 (0.31%) Trello
15 12 (0.27%) SPSS
16 11 (0.25%) InDesign
17 10 (0.22%) InVision
17 10 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 50 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (0.87%) NEC Housing
3 31 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.29%) Endur
4 13 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
5 12 (0.27%) SAP CX
6 10 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 10 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 10 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.11%) Odoo
9 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.090%) Magento
10 4 (0.090%) Primavera
10 4 (0.090%) SAP HR
10 4 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 844 (18.93%) Azure
2 644 (14.45%) AWS
3 354 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
4 262 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 224 (5.02%) SaaS
6 141 (3.16%) GCP
7 101 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 86 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
10 76 (1.70%) Serverless
11 69 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
12 66 (1.48%) GitHub
12 66 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 66 (1.48%) PowerApps
13 65 (1.46%) Snowflake
14 57 (1.28%) IaaS
15 54 (1.21%) PaaS
16 49 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
17 44 (0.99%) WhatsApp
18 33 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 155 (3.48%) Firewall
2 131 (2.94%) Wireless
3 124 (2.78%) WAN
4 91 (2.04%) DNS
5 82 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 72 (1.62%) LAN
7 71 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 70 (1.57%) Network Security
9 63 (1.41%) DHCP
9 63 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 62 (1.39%) Internet
11 56 (1.26%) VPN
12 43 (0.96%) Ethernet
13 31 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
14 30 (0.67%) VoIP
15 28 (0.63%) VLAN
16 26 (0.58%) SAN
17 25 (0.56%) Unified Communications
18 22 (0.49%) RS-232
19 21 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (7.16%) SQL Server
2 282 (6.33%) Tableau
3 230 (5.16%) Power BI
4 147 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 121 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
6 99 (2.22%) MySQL
7 95 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 83 (1.86%) NoSQL
9 75 (1.68%) Big Data
10 69 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 53 (1.19%) Redis
12 50 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 46 (1.03%) Oracle Database
14 39 (0.87%) MongoDB
15 36 (0.81%) RDBMS
16 35 (0.79%) Data Lake
17 27 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (0.61%) GIS
18 25 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
19 21 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 393 (8.82%) Git
2 107 (2.40%) JIRA
3 49 (1.10%) Visual Studio
4 47 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 33 (0.74%) Selenium
6 30 (0.67%) Subversion
7 22 (0.49%) CMake
8 20 (0.45%) Vagrant
9 19 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
10 16 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 15 (0.34%) Balsamiq
12 14 (0.31%) GitLab
12 14 (0.31%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.29%) Axure RP
14 12 (0.27%) Postman
15 11 (0.25%) JUnit
15 11 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
16 10 (0.22%) LabVIEW
16 10 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
17 9 (0.20%) Cypress.io
General
1 2,088 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 962 (21.58%) Finance
3 832 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
4 402 (9.02%) Marketing
5 391 (8.77%) Retail
6 378 (8.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 317 (7.11%) Legal
8 290 (6.51%) Presentation Skills
9 271 (6.08%) Public Sector
10 201 (4.51%) Manufacturing
11 157 (3.52%) Electronics
12 148 (3.32%) Law
13 131 (2.94%) Games
14 127 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 118 (2.65%) Aerospace
16 115 (2.58%) Telecoms
17 91 (2.04%) Banking
18 89 (2.00%) Local Government
19 81 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
20 78 (1.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 841 (18.86%) Senior
2 648 (14.54%) Analyst
3 640 (14.36%) Developer
4 335 (7.51%) Lead
5 323 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 265 (5.94%) Architect
7 217 (4.87%) Project Manager
8 200 (4.49%) Data Analyst
9 196 (4.40%) Consultant
10 194 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
11 166 (3.72%) Graduate
12 157 (3.52%) Junior
13 149 (3.34%) Senior Developer
13 149 (3.34%) Software Developer
14 119 (2.67%) Business Analyst
15 117 (2.62%) Senior Data Analyst
16 115 (2.58%) Support Engineer
17 105 (2.36%) Systems Engineer
18 94 (2.11%) Team Leader
19 91 (2.04%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (7.58%) .NET
2 264 (5.92%) HTML
3 232 (5.20%) CSS
4 177 (3.97%) AngularJS
5 161 (3.61%) React
6 126 (2.83%) Node.js
7 109 (2.45%) ASP.NET
8 107 (2.40%) RESTful
9 97 (2.18%) .NET Core
10 83 (1.86%) Web Services
11 81 (1.82%) .NET Framework
12 68 (1.53%) TensorFlow
13 63 (1.41%) Pandas
14 62 (1.39%) Vue
15 60 (1.35%) REST
16 59 (1.32%) PySpark
17 56 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
18 55 (1.23%) XML
19 48 (1.08%) Middleware
20 47 (1.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 274 (6.15%) Management Information System
2 247 (5.54%) Algorithms
3 226 (5.07%) Data Centre
4 192 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 117 (2.62%) Product Ownership
6 110 (2.47%) Life Science
7 99 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 91 (2.04%) Client/Server
9 89 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 76 (1.70%) Driving Licence
11 74 (1.66%) Social Media
12 73 (1.64%) Onboarding
13 72 (1.62%) IoT
14 63 (1.41%) Mobile App
15 62 (1.39%) Virtual Team
16 52 (1.17%) Cloud Native
17 45 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
17 45 (1.01%) NHS
18 42 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
19 40 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 518 (11.62%) Windows
2 410 (9.20%) Linux
3 177 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 123 (2.76%) Unix
5 96 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 80 (1.79%) Android
7 67 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 49 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 40 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 38 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 32 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
13 30 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
14 29 (0.65%) Solaris
15 28 (0.63%) Mac OS
16 24 (0.54%) CentOS
17 17 (0.38%) Mac OS X
18 16 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
19 12 (0.27%) Windows Vista
20 9 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,340 (30.06%) Computer Science
2 1,267 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
3 943 (21.15%) Agile
4 700 (15.70%) Software Engineering
5 619 (13.89%) Project Management
6 603 (13.53%) Analytics
7 554 (12.43%) Mathematics
8 448 (10.05%) DevOps
9 409 (9.17%) Decision-Making
10 408 (9.15%) Mentoring
11 389 (8.73%) ITIL
12 376 (8.43%) Data Analysis
13 371 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence
14 369 (8.28%) Visualisation
15 359 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
16 347 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
17 341 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 338 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
19 319 (7.16%) Roadmaps
20 311 (6.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 912 (20.46%) SQL
2 833 (18.69%) Python
3 480 (10.77%) C#
4 440 (9.87%) JavaScript
5 285 (6.39%) Java
6 207 (4.64%) C
7 169 (3.79%) C++
8 143 (3.21%) PowerShell
9 133 (2.98%) TypeScript
10 95 (2.13%) T-SQL
11 79 (1.77%) PHP
12 69 (1.55%) R
13 54 (1.21%) MATLAB
14 52 (1.17%) VB
15 51 (1.14%) Embedded C
16 46 (1.03%) Kotlin
17 45 (1.01%) Bash
18 38 (0.85%) Shell Script
19 35 (0.79%) Go
20 29 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 832 (18.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 647 (14.51%) Security Cleared
3 434 (9.74%) Master's Degree
4 392 (8.79%) SC Cleared
5 266 (5.97%) DBS Check
6 142 (3.19%) PhD
7 135 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 127 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 105 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
10 94 (2.11%) DV Cleared
11 85 (1.91%) CISSP
12 84 (1.88%) CCNA
13 74 (1.66%) PMI Certification
14 71 (1.59%) Azure Certification
14 71 (1.59%) CCNP
15 68 (1.53%) PMP
16 64 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
17 63 (1.41%) CISM
18 58 (1.30%) AWS Certification
19 49 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (5.94%) QA
2 101 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 73 (1.64%) GDPR
4 70 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 68 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 66 (1.48%) SLA
7 55 (1.23%) PMO
8 39 (0.87%) NIST
9 27 (0.61%) ISO 9001
10 24 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (0.49%) NCSC
12 20 (0.45%) WCAG
13 18 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.34%) ITGC
15 14 (0.31%) Good Clinical Practice
15 14 (0.31%) PCI DSS
16 10 (0.22%) GMP
16 10 (0.22%) GRC
16 10 (0.22%) NIST 800
17 9 (0.20%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 238 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 200 (4.49%) Docker
3 122 (2.74%) Firmware
4 109 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 59 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 48 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
7 40 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 39 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
9 30 (0.67%) vSphere
10 24 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
11 20 (0.45%) XenApp
12 13 (0.29%) OpenSSH
13 8 (0.18%) KVM
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (0.13%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.090%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.045%) Kamailio
16 2 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
17 1 (0.022%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 160 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 117 (2.62%) Terraform
3 82 (1.84%) Ansible
4 63 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (1.17%) SCCM
6 37 (0.83%) SCOM
7 32 (0.72%) WSUS
8 30 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 30 (0.67%) Stealthwatch
9 24 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.43%) Puppet
11 17 (0.38%) CASB
12 15 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
13 14 (0.31%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.29%) Grafana
14 13 (0.29%) IBM BigFix
14 13 (0.29%) PowerCLI
14 13 (0.29%) ServiceCenter
15 11 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 994 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 215 (4.82%) Databricks
3 170 (3.81%) Adobe
4 162 (3.63%) SAP
5 150 (3.36%) VMware
6 132 (2.96%) Oracle
7 124 (2.78%) Google
8 120 (2.69%) Cisco
9 116 (2.60%) Apple
10 80 (1.79%) Dell
11 73 (1.64%) Salesforce
12 66 (1.48%) Meraki
13 60 (1.35%) IBM
14 58 (1.30%) HP
15 53 (1.19%) Xilinx
16 49 (1.10%) NEC
17 43 (0.96%) ServiceNow
18 42 (0.94%) Citrix
19 32 (0.72%) Samsung
20 29 (0.65%) Sage