Top 10 Remote Jobs in 2023
There are a great many jobs that have moved online over the past couple of years, largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and there are many others that have been remote for years. There is a larger awareness of the benefits of remote work over the past few years and there are a lot of people who are determined not to return to the office. With this in mind, we look at the top ten remote jobs in 2023.
1. Software Developer
This is one of the jobs that has been done remotely for a long time and pre-dated the pandemic. It is usually relatively well paid with the average wage in the UK being around £43,000, according to Glassdoor.
There has long been an understanding that software developers don't need to work from an office as there is nothing they can do there that they can’t at home. Most of them tend to be quite technology oriented anyway and they have all of the equipment they need including second screens etc.
2. Copywriter
People who write copy for online or offline publications have long understood the benefits of working from home, or indeed from anywhere. There has been an explosion of travel writers in recent years, selling articles written about far flung places and location-independent writers are now becoming more and more common.
The career website Indeed says that an average copywriter salary in the UK is £33,000 per annum. If you are a copywriter, you can work from a laptop from anywhere you have access to the internet, so it is a good choice for people who wish to travel.
3. Freelance Marketing Consultant
This is a job that has always been done from anywhere but there has been a steep incline in the number of people who have entered the field in recent years. It is a job that pays well and there are always clients who are looking for help to market their businesses so this seems a solid choice for anyone who wants to pursue a remote-first career.
According to careers website Glassdoor, the average annual salary for a freelance marketing consultant is £49,000, which is well above the national average.
4. Social Media Advertising
There are many social media sites out there and different people are experts with various of them. If you can pull that together into a career, it is a fantastic opportunity to create brand identities for companies large and small and to work with people who will help you to further your career.
This is something that is often best suited to people on the younger end of the age scale as the work isn’t as well paid compared to some other aspects of marketing, with the average salary being only around £23,000 according to Glassdoor.
5. Cybersecurity
Professionals in the field of Cybersecurity have worked offsite for a number of years and this has pre-dated Codid-19. Working remotely has tended to mean not at the site of the clients their business is looking after, but still in an office with the latest technology at their disposal, though most Cybersecurity experts could probably configure their setup to work from home if they wanted to. The average salary is pretty high by UK standards at £62,500 per annum according to the CWJobs portal.
6. Personal or Professional Coaching
Many people who brand themselves as personal or professional coaches work remotely, this is because it is easy and practical to conduct most of the calls over Zoom, Skype, Discord or some other popular video calling program. This is a job that is typically paid by the hour and has a number of sessions per week.
It makes sense for it to be remote and it doesn’t seem to make sense to move to in-person work as both people can be in different countries at present. The average salary of £22,500 seems a little low but perhaps reflects a lack of clients who are willing to pay for the service.
7. Grant Writer
This is a role for someone who specialises in securing funding for charities through grant applications to all of the relevant funding organisations including the National Lottery. This role is reasonably well remunerated compared to the UK national average with the median salary for the role being £40,000 per annum according to the Office for National Statistics.
8. Teaching Languages
Being able to teach children in other countries to speak English can be quite a rewarding remote job for many people. It is a job that is necessarily done remotely so that more clients in different areas can be easily accessed and has been done on this basis for a long time now. According to Glassdoor, the average salary for a position like this is around £24,000 per year.
9. Mental Health Therapist
One of the things that Covid-19 highlighted was the need for more mental health therapists and many now work on an exclusively remote basis from their own homes, offering consultations to their patients and helping them via video chat.
This is a far better working environment for the therapists as they no longer need to pay for an expensive office and don’t have to meet some potentially dangerous clients face-to-face. It makes a lot of sense for this role to be largely remote. According to Payscale, the average earnings for a mental health therapist are £31,000 per year.
10. Executive Assistant
An executive assistant is like an assistant you would have in an office environment and they can deal with many of the same things. Looking after an inbox and calendar for more senior staff, organising their schedule and correspondence, filing documents in an online CRM, even answering calls, thanks to the wonders of modern telephony technology.
There are many freelance executive assistants or virtual assistants and they can be excellent value for busy professionals who need someone to take some of the pressure and workload off them. The average salary for this role is around £41,000 per annum according to Glassdoor.
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