Remote1st Remote Work Index · November 2026
Most remote jobs still cannot hire you in the UK or Europe
If you live in London, Dublin or Berlin, most jobs advertised as “remote” are closed to you. Of 47,375 public remote roles on Remote1st on 11 November 2026, 23:15 Europe/Dublin, only 17,033 (36.0%) can hire someone in the UK or the EU. 23,319 (49.2%) are open to the United States only.
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Who can apply
A role can appear in more than one row when it is open to several markets.
| Where you can apply from | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Open to the United States | 31,382 | 66.2% |
| Open to the United Kingdom | 17,026 | 35.9% |
| Open to the EU (27 states) | 16,991 | 35.9% |
| Open to the UK or the EU | 17,033 | 36.0% |
| Open to Canada | 5,810 | 12.3% |
| US only (not UK, EU or Canada) | 23,319 | 49.2% |
| UK or EU, not the US | 11,877 | 25.1% |
| Open to the United States and also the UK or the EU | 3,468 | 7.3% |
| Listed as worldwide | 2,358 | 5.0% |
Where ads show pay
These shares count only a structured salary field of at least 10,000. Ads that mention pay only in the description are not included, so the true share of ads that state pay is higher.
| Market | Jobs | With a structured salary | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open to the United States | 31,382 | 12,286 | 39.1% |
| Open to the United Kingdom | 17,026 | 2,228 | 13.1% |
| Open to the EU | 16,991 | 2,220 | 13.1% |
| Open to Canada | 5,810 | 1,539 | 26.5% |
| All public remote jobs | 47,375 | 14,117 | 29.8% |
Where a structured salary is present, the median mid-point is US$170,000 for US-open roles (n=12,196), £85,000 for UK-open roles (n=328, a small sample that likely leans senior), and €85,000 for EU-open roles (n=670).
Largest EU primary countries
Primary country is the listing’s main country code, not every country it can hire in.
| Country | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Germany | 1,302 |
| France | 722 |
| Spain | 615 |
| Netherlands | 499 |
| Poland | 478 |
| Ireland | 254 |
| Italy | 215 |
| Portugal | 202 |
| Belgium | 186 |
| Lithuania | 160 |
| Sweden | 154 |
| Czechia | 148 |
| Hungary | 111 |
| Romania | 104 |
| Bulgaria | 86 |
Who is hiring in the UK and the EU
These are the employers with the most public remote jobs whose primary country is the UK or an EU state in this snapshot. 1,835 distinct employers have at least one UK-open role, 1,826 have at least one EU-open role, and 2,571 have at least one US-open role.
| Employer | UK-primary jobs |
|---|---|
| Faculty AI | 89 |
| Lendable | 65 |
| Veeva Systems | 54 |
| Preply | 46 |
| Third Bridge | 44 |
| Omnea | 39 |
| Spotify | 36 |
| GitLab | 36 |
| Employer | EU-primary jobs |
|---|---|
| Veeva Systems | 195 |
| Nord Security | 135 |
| Doctolib | 105 |
| Mozilla | 87 |
| Grafana Labs | 86 |
| Satispay | 79 |
| Welo Global | 65 |
| Erste Digital GmbH | 60 |
AI roles
Jobs with AI, ML, LLM, GenAI or a closely related term in the title, or an AI / machine-learning category, make up 8.7% of UK-open roles and 8.7% of EU-open roles, against 7.9% of US-open roles (3,901 AI roles in total).
Remote1st facts, 11 November 2026, 23:15 Europe/Dublin
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- 47,375 public remote jobs from 3,175 employers, as of 11 November 2026, 23:15 Europe/Dublin.
- 36.0% (17,033) can hire in the UK or the EU.
- 49.2% (23,319) are open to the United States only.
- 5.0% (2,358) are listed as worldwide.
- 39.1% of US-open ads include a structured salary, against 13.1% of UK-open ads and 13.1% of EU-open ads.
- Median advertised mid-point, where a structured salary is present: US$170,000 for US-open roles (n=12,196); £85,000 for UK-open roles (n=328, a small sample); €85,000 for EU-open roles (n=670).
- AI, ML or LLM roles are 8.7% of UK-open jobs and 8.7% of EU-open jobs, against 7.9% of US-open jobs.
What is the Remote Work Index?
As of 11 November 2026, 23:15 Europe/Dublin, the Remote Work Index reports 47,375 public remote jobs from 3,175 employers. It is a snapshot of the public board at that time, not a live count.
How many of those jobs can hire in the UK or the EU?
Of the 47,375 public remote jobs on 11 November 2026, 17,033 (36.0%) can hire in the UK or the EU.
What share are open to the United States only?
23,319 (49.2%) of the 47,375 public remote jobs on 11 November 2026 are open to the United States only. 5,810 are open to Canada.
Does the Index include a figure for Australia?
The November 2026 snapshot does not publish a separate Australia figure. Current Australia counts are on /facts and /remote-jobs/australia.
How we counted
Source: the Remote1st jobs database, queried on 11 November 2026, 23:15 Europe/Dublin. The snapshot counts unique public listings that were active, approved as remote (Remote or Remote-First), not past their expiry date, and already visible on the public board.
A job is counted as open to a market when its region-eligibility field or its hire-countries list includes that market. “US only” means the listing is open to the United States and not to the UK, the EU or Canada. A job can be open to more than one market, so the “open to” rows add up to more than 100%.
“Shows a structured salary” means the listing has a salary minimum or maximum of at least 10,000 in the database, which is the same floor Remote1st uses in JobPosting markup. This undercounts ads that only mention pay in the description, so treat these shares as a lower bound.
Primary country (used for the EU country table and the UK and EU employer lists) is the job’s country_iso2 field. Employer counts are distinct company records with at least one public remote job in the snapshot.
Limits: this is one snapshot, not a month-on-month trend; country samples are uneven; Remote1st indexes employers whose hiring boards it can read, not every remote job on the internet. Figures are free to reuse with a link to this page (CC BY 4.0).