Remotejobify report · October 2026

Only 1 in 14 remote jobs is open to people in the UK

On 24 October 2026, 3,091 of the 43,067 remote jobs listed on Remotejobify (7%) were open to people in the UK. How we check.

Today we read 43,067 open remote jobs, straight from companies’ own job boards, and checked who each one is actually open to. For people in the UK, most “remote” jobs are out of reach.

3,091

open to people in the UK, of 43,067 (7%)

1 in 3

only hire in the United States (16,890)

1 in 118

are open to anyone, anywhere (366)

1 in 6

of the UK’s jobs show the pay (554 of 3,091)

What we found

Only 7% of remote jobs are open to people in the UK. That’s 3,091 of 43,067.
About 1 in 3 only hire in the United States. 16,890 jobs, plus 1,671 more open to the US and just one or two other countries.
Many more hire in a single other country. 15,568 are open in one country that isn’t the UK or the US.
“Work from anywhere” is rare. Only 366 jobs, about 1 in 118, are open to anyone, anywhere.
1,210 jobs are open only to people in the UK. The rest of the 3,091 name the UK alongside other countries, or a region that includes it, such as Europe or EMEA.
Pay is mostly hidden. Only 554 of the 3,091 show a salary, 222 of them in pounds.
Some roles are more open than others. About 13% of security jobs are open to the UK, and 10% of product jobs, but only 6% of finance and legal ones.
834 companies are hiring people in the UK remotely. 507 of these jobs were posted in the past week.

What it means if you’re job hunting in the UK

Check who a job is open to before you apply. Look for “must be based in the US” or “authorised to work in the United States” in the description.
A UK salary, a UK time zone or “EMEA” in the location are good signs.
Or skip the checking: every job on Remotejobify has been read this way, and shows the line that proves it’s open to you.

See the 3,091 remote jobs open to people in the UK

Not sure what remote work fits you? Map me shows the remote work your job can lead to, and Match me reads your CV and picks your best fits.

How we counted

We read each job from the company’s own job board, including its location and description, and work out who it’s open to. A job counts as open to the UK if it names the UK, a region that includes it, like Europe or EMEA, or says you can work from anywhere. A job that doesn’t say counts as not open. These numbers are from today’s list, 24 October 2026, and change as jobs open and close.

Journalists and writers are welcome to use these numbers with a link to this page. For more detail, or the same numbers for another country, email lat@remotejobify.app.

The same report for Canada, Australia, Ireland.

Updated 24 October 2026.