Remote roles pay approximately £6,000 a year more than the industry average in the UK

Remote.com has analysed more than six million job ads on Glassdoor across the UK to reveal the job roles and industries with the most remote opportunities in 2022, as well as the salary comparisons for remote job opportunities.

It has been reported that August 2022 saw searches in the UK for ‘remote jobs’ hit their highest ever level — but are employers on the same page as those they want to employ?

To find out the current climate for remote jobs, Global HR Solution experts at Remote have looked at data from Glassdoor to determine which job roles and industries currently offer the most remote career opportunities (and are the most lucrative) by analysing how remote wages compare to industry averages.

Nearly a third of web developer jobs in the UK are currently advertised as remote

Remote’s study found that 31.39% of web developer jobs advertised on Glassdoor state that the job is remote-based, followed by software engineers and translators.

The top 10 jobs with the most remote opportunities include:

It was reported back in January of 2022 that nearly three-quarters of software engineers would prefer to work in fully remote roles. Remote’s research shows nearly a third of employers hiring software engineers in the UK have taken on this feedback, with an average of 29.1% of jobs for software engineers being advertised as fully remote.

Other job roles included in the top 10 are translators, data scientists and account managers, with 23%, 17% and 13% of remote roles advertised respectively.

The information technology industry emerges as the UK’s most in-demand industry for remote workers

We also analysed industry data overall to determine the sectors that offer the most remote opportunity. The top 10 include:

Nearly one in six information technology roles in the UK are advertised as remote (13.9%). Due to its online nature, this sector has a lot more opportunity for solely online work than other industries such as the hospitality (0.7%) or transportation sector (0.4%). Media & Communication, Finance and Insurance also rank as some of the best industries for remote work.

Industries such as education (5.3%) and health (1.8%) still rank at the lower end of the table for remote opportunities. However, remote trends have been able to enter these industries through different job roles such as online learning, admin, payroll, and customer service departments.

Real estate agents and architects in remote roles earn over £30,000 more compared to industry averages

Whilst the obvious difference between remote and non-remote roles is an individual’s working environment, our research reveals that there are significant differences in the salaries employees can earn too.

We’ve analysed job roles and compared industry averages to the average remote salary to determine how much more or less you could be earning in a remote role. Of the 40 roles examined, 31 of these earn more when working remotely.

The top five roles with the biggest increase in wage for a fully remote role compared to industry averages include:

When compared to the real estate industry average salary (£27,169 per year), Remote’s research shows that jobs hiring remote working real estate agents are being advertised at around £58,947, over £30,000 more each year.

Architects come in as the next role where workers can earn far more when working remotely. With an industry average salary of £31,595, this figure climbs up to an impressive £62,000, which is a £30,605 increase.

With remote roles continuing to increase across all industries, will your next role be fully remote?

Nadia Vatalidis VP of people at Remote adds:

“Employers hiring for remote roles have a much larger selection of top tier candidates and a reduced need for costly office space among other benefits. In addition, employees who prefer the remote life-work balance gain increased flexibility and the potential opportunity to work from anywhere in the world.”

To see the full research from Remote.com into the best remote jobs and industries, please go to https://remote.com/blog/remote-job-roles

Methodology

To reveal the top industries and job roles for remote and hybrid opportunities, Remote investigated 25 leading industries and 40 popular job roles across the United States and United Kingdom. We analyzed Glassdoor job listing data for each industry, role, and country to discover the percentage of job roles advertised as remote and the average salary of each. The remote salaries were then compared to the industry average to reveal the difference in salaries offered for remote jobs.

To reveal the countries with the highest percentage of remote workers, we used Eurostat and Statista data to investigate the year-on-year share of employed people who stated they either sometimes or usually work from home (in % of total employed people aged 20-64). By analyzing the trend, we were able to predict the growth of remote workers in each country until 2025.

Data was collected in August 2022.

About Remote

Remote’s mission is to open up the vast potential of the world for every person, business and country. We envision a world where every person and business truly belongs in the global market.