Remote / hybrid / on-site.
How many adverts offer remote or hybrid working?
16.2% of UK employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (10.6% hybrid, 5.6% remote; n=6,957 employers). Of the adverts that state a working pattern at all, 73.7% are hybrid or remote.
Sample: 6,957 employers · source: UK employers' careers pages · data to 18 October 2026
By job function
| Function | Figure | Sample (employers) | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing | 39.2% | 491 | Marketing: 39.2% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (10.3% fully remote; n=491 employers). |
| IT & Software | 34% | 897 | IT & Software: 34% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (14.4% fully remote; n=897 employers). |
| HR | 28.1% | 276 | HR: 28.1% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (6.9% fully remote; n=276 employers). |
| Finance & Accounting | 27.9% | 543 | Finance & Accounting: 27.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (6.1% fully remote; n=543 employers). |
| Creative & Design | 26.8% | 430 | Creative & Design: 26.8% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (7.3% fully remote; n=430 employers). |
| Legal | 25.7% | 296 | Legal: 25.7% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.7% fully remote; n=296 employers). |
| Science & Research | 24.5% | 114 | Science & Research: 24.5% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (6.3% fully remote; n=114 employers). |
| Sales | 23.7% | 1,085 | Sales: 23.7% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (8.1% fully remote; n=1,085 employers). |
| Management & Executive | 19.6% | 596 | Management & Executive: 19.6% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (5.3% fully remote; n=596 employers). |
| Customer Service | 18.7% | 380 | Customer Service: 18.7% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (7% fully remote; n=380 employers). |
| Other | 16.9% | 1,072 | Other: 16.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.6% fully remote; n=1,072 employers). |
| Admin & Office | 13.6% | 521 | Admin & Office: 13.6% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.8% fully remote; n=521 employers). |
| Engineering | 9.8% | 1,224 | Engineering: 9.8% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3% fully remote; n=1,224 employers). |
| Healthcare & Care | 7.3% | 1,051 | Healthcare & Care: 7.3% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.7% fully remote; n=1,051 employers). |
| Education | 6.1% | 538 | Education: 6.1% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.6% fully remote; n=538 employers). |
| Operations & Logistics | 5.9% | 878 | Operations & Logistics: 5.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (1.9% fully remote; n=878 employers). |
| Construction & Trades | 5.1% | 647 | Construction & Trades: 5.1% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (1.7% fully remote; n=647 employers). |
| Manufacturing & Production | 1.3% | 275 | Manufacturing & Production: 1.3% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (0.9% fully remote; n=275 employers). |
| Retail | 0.9% | 148 | Retail: 0.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (0% fully remote; n=148 employers). |
| Hospitality & Catering | 0.7% | 416 | Hospitality & Catering: 0.7% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (0.5% fully remote; n=416 employers). |
By region (registered office)
| Region | Figure | Sample (employers) | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 21.3% | 1,103 | London: 21.3% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (7% fully remote; n=1,103 employers). |
| South East | 17.8% | 853 | South East: 17.8% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (5.7% fully remote; n=853 employers). |
| South West | 16.7% | 452 | South West: 16.7% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.1% fully remote; n=452 employers). |
| North West | 16.1% | 591 | North West: 16.1% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.6% fully remote; n=591 employers). |
| Wales | 14.7% | 156 | Wales: 14.7% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (7% fully remote; n=156 employers). |
| West Midlands | 14.5% | 434 | West Midlands: 14.5% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.2% fully remote; n=434 employers). |
| East Midlands | 14.4% | 297 | East Midlands: 14.4% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.5% fully remote; n=297 employers). |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 14.2% | 440 | Yorkshire and The Humber: 14.2% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.6% fully remote; n=440 employers). |
| Scotland | 13.4% | 312 | Scotland: 13.4% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4% fully remote; n=312 employers). |
| East of England | 13.1% | 448 | East of England: 13.1% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.7% fully remote; n=448 employers). |
| Northern Ireland | 12.5% | 79 | Northern Ireland: 12.5% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (2.1% fully remote; n=79 employers). |
| North East | 10.4% | 175 | North East: 10.4% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.9% fully remote; n=175 employers). |
By sector
| Sector | Figure | Sample (employers) | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information & communication | 37.5% | 810 | Information & communication: 37.5% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (15% fully remote; n=810 employers). |
| Professional, scientific & technical | 29% | 918 | Professional, scientific & technical: 29% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (8% fully remote; n=918 employers). |
| Finance & insurance | 25.9% | 277 | Finance & insurance: 25.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (8.9% fully remote; n=277 employers). |
| Energy supply | 18.4% | 49 | Energy supply: 18.4% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.3% fully remote; n=49 employers). |
| Public administration & defence | 18.2% | 52 | Public administration & defence: 18.2% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (4.6% fully remote; n=52 employers). |
| Administrative & support services | 16.8% | 403 | Administrative & support services: 16.8% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.8% fully remote; n=403 employers). |
| Other services | 16.5% | 423 | Other services: 16.5% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (5.7% fully remote; n=423 employers). |
| Real estate | 14.9% | 190 | Real estate: 14.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (5.9% fully remote; n=190 employers). |
| Water, sewerage & waste | 14.8% | 55 | Water, sewerage & waste: 14.8% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (7% fully remote; n=55 employers). |
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing | 11.8% | 65 | Agriculture, forestry & fishing: 11.8% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.4% fully remote; n=65 employers). |
| Education | 10.1% | 395 | Education: 10.1% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (5.3% fully remote; n=395 employers). |
| Arts, entertainment & recreation | 10% | 220 | Arts, entertainment & recreation: 10% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (2.6% fully remote; n=220 employers). |
| Health & social care | 9.6% | 811 | Health & social care: 9.6% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.5% fully remote; n=811 employers). |
| Manufacturing | 7.9% | 595 | Manufacturing: 7.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (2.9% fully remote; n=595 employers). |
| Wholesale & retail | 7.9% | 449 | Wholesale & retail: 7.9% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (3.1% fully remote; n=449 employers). |
| Construction | 6.6% | 609 | Construction: 6.6% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (2.3% fully remote; n=609 employers). |
| Transport & storage | 4% | 231 | Transport & storage: 4% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (1.9% fully remote; n=231 employers). |
| Hospitality & food service | 3.7% | 340 | Hospitality & food service: 3.7% of employers' job adverts explicitly offer hybrid or remote work (1.1% fully remote; n=340 employers). |
How this is measured
Region segments are the employer's registered-office region (Companies House), not the job's location. ATS workplace_type first, regex fallback (application-form questions such as "Are you happy to work from home? * Please choose …" are ignored, and on a whole page only evidence near the advert's own title counts, not other jobs' listing cards). value = hybrid + remote % of ALL job adverts: an advert that states no pattern counts as not offering one, so the value is a floor. The denominator is deliberately every advert — on-site adverts rarely say "on-site", so a share of only the pattern-stating adverts skews remote (84.7% on the 1,000-company trial). value_json: remote_pct / hybrid_pct / onsite_pct of all adverts, stated_pct = share of adverts stating any pattern, and the split among pattern-stating adverts (stated_flex_pct, stated_remote_pct, stated_hybrid_pct, stated_onsite_pct, averaged over the stated_employers with at least one). Employer-weighted: each employer's share of its own adverts is computed, then averaged across employers, so every employer counts once however many adverts it posts; n = employers with a job advert (min n applies to employers), value_json.adverts = adverts behind them. Site-wide boilerplate ("work remotely or from our offices") therefore moves one employer, not every page it is printed on. Adverts: job pages whose linked title the title classifier settled as a real job (an "Apprenticeships", "Early Careers" or "Graduate programme" page is not an advert); pages whose title is not classified yet are left out, so coverage grows as titles are classified. Adverts whose own stated posted / closing date is more than 180 days old are stale and left out.
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ProdReady Recruitment (2026). Remote / hybrid / on-site. Data to 18 October 2026. https://ProdReadyRecruitment.com/research/workplace_mix
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