Remote by industry

What jobs are most likely to be remote?

Every open posting on our board, sorted into a grid: industry down the side, job family across the top, each tile shaded by how often those roles are remote or hybrid. Darker means more flexible. It's the quick answer to "is the kind of work I do something I can do from home, and where."

The map

Remote or hybrid share, by industry and job family

Tech and the disciplines that live in a browser (engineering, design, data, marketing) are the darkest columns; hands-on work (operations, healthcare, food and hospitality) stays light no matter the industry. Read across a row to see which functions an industry lets work remotely; read down a column to see which industries are friendliest to that kind of role.

Tile = (remote + hybrid) postings / postings with a known location, for that industry x job-family cell. Cells with fewer than 30 postings are left blank (too small to trust). Hover any tile for the exact share and counts. As of Jun 8, 2026.

0% 72%+

Eng

Data

Design

Product

Sales

Mktg

Ops

Finance

People

Support

Legal

Health

Other

Consumer Tech

9%9%9%10%9%18%10%3%3%19%6%

32%

Retail

11%31%18%43%10%20%11%13%9%10%

72%15%

Software

15%17%21%18%19%20%7%12%13%20%15%13%10%

Aerospace And Defense

Real Estate

Transportation

9%17%12%26%9%27%1%5%10%7%9%

11%

Financial Services

11%14%18%15%9%9%5%3%13%6%8%3%7%

Education

23%

15%14%5%13%

3%5%

Media

9%12%15%11%2%20%4%5%11%24%14%

Energy

14%

3%11%

Hospitality

10%20%7%5%5%6%3%3%17%5%

Healthcare

9%17%16%15%13%10%2%12%8%16%6%6%3%

Professional Services

4%7%2%22%5%15%3%5%15%6%6%10%4%

Public Sector

4%11%9%3%0%

13%

Telecommunications

27%

6%11%

Food And Beverage

2%0%0%1%

0%2%

Manufacturing

1%2%8%2%7%4%0%3%0%3%0%3%1%

Takeaways

Who works from home, and who doesn't

Across all job families, the most flexible industries are Consumer Tech (23%), Retail (15%), Software (13%). The least flexible are Manufacturing (1%), Food And Beverage (2%), Telecommunications (4%). The split is less about the industry than the work: the same engineering or design role is far more remote-friendly than an on-site operations or care role in the very same sector.

Methodology

Sources, definitions, and sharp edges

DATA Our own live job board (open postings with a description), recomputed daily. This is the remote share of open listings, not of who actually works remote, and remote roles draw far more applicants per opening, so the remote share of hires is lower than of postings.
FLEX "Remote or hybrid" combines two different things (work-anywhere vs local days-in-office) into the numerator; use the toggle to separate them. Hybrid is a small slice of the board, so the combined view tracks remote closely. Denominator is postings with a known location.
AXES Both axes are parsed from job titles. Crucially, the "industry" row is inferred from what a company hires for (the mix of its posting titles), not an independent business classification, so the rows and columns are not fully independent and a cell like software x engineering is partly definitional. Read industries as "companies that mostly hire this kind of work."
BIAS Several things tilt the numbers UP: postings with no stated location (~21%) are excluded and likely skew onsite; the board is ATS-sourced (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, big tech) so it over-represents remote-friendly, white-collar employers and under-samples frontline onsite work, whose listings here skew to corporate HQ roles. Treat absolute shares as generous and cross-industry comparisons as directional.
FLOOR Cells are blank unless they have at least 30 postings AND 5 distinct companies, so one employer's policy can't read as the industry. The colour scale is absolute: the legend's right end is the darkest cell's actual share (72% for this view), not a generic "high."
GEO All postings, not US-only, so different countries' remote norms are mixed in. The board is US-heavy, but a cell can blend markets.