In recent months, the great US technological ones They have hardened your policies return to your offices and Eliminating teleworking optionswhile They bet for the accelerated development of AI. However, the Spanish labor market does not follow the same trend with respect to teleworking.
The data collected for the report ‘V Telework radiography in Spain September 2025‘ Prepared by Infojobs, they reveal that although it is true that the percentages have fallen with respect to the records from 2020 to 2022, the teleworking has remained stable at levels that double those recorded before 2020.
Teleworking in Spain. While in Silicon Valley the headlines proliferate on the end of teleworking, In Spain, work flexibility takes a different path. The data collected by the Infojobs Employment Portal indicate that Spain has maintained sustained growth in terms of Teleworking adoption. 25% of workers currently perform their activity with some remote work formula or in hybrid format.
The Last data Of 2024 of the Active Population Survey, they point out that 7.8% of the total active population worked at least half of its weekly day from home, compared to 7.6% who claimed to do it occasionally. In absolute figures, this represents a total of 3.2 million people, placing the percentage of teleworking in Spain around 15.4% of the total employed people working remote. This figure is well above 6% registered in 2019 by the INE, or of 8.3% that was recorded just before pandemic.
Source: Infojobs
Hybrid work: the balance between flexibility and availability. One of the keys to Teleworking success In Spain it is in its Evolution towards hybrid formatsin which face -to -face days with teleworking days. According to the Infojobs report, 44% of those who telework do so using this hybrid model with between one and four days of remote work. 24% telework two days per week, while 21% of employees who claim teleworking maintain 100% remote activity.
The availability of options It has been varying In recent years and, at present, 46% of companies offer some remote work format. Of that group, only 11% of the companies maintain a 100% remote model, marking a decrease with respect to the 12% registered in 2024, but compensated for this fall with more employment offers with hybrid work, which rises from 33% to 35% in just one year.
Source: Infojobs
Leading sectors on teleworking. While many sectors have experienced an increase in the number of Job offers with teleworkingthe commercial and sales sector leads both in number of workers who exercise remotely and in the volume of new vacancies (39,184 published offers). In the opposite pole, the sectors with less remote work offers are the pharmacist (283 vacancies) and graphic design and arts (499 offers).
As for the weight of teleworking by sectors, the sector that most remote employment offers has published is that of computer science and telecommunications (68%) followed closely by legal (58%) and finance (52%). That is, seven out of ten programmers, computer engineers or people, work under some remote work model. According to the study, the sectors with the lowest incidence of teleworking are those inevitably face -to -face, such as tourism and restoration, artisans and trades or health and health, which record values below 1%.
Who and where he works remotely. Among the most demanded profiles with teleworking options are, as indicated by sectoral data, IT analysts, Backend and Border developers, ICT consultants and fullstack engineers. All of them with teleworking options between 75 and 90% of the published offers.
From the geographical point of view, a curious phenomenon happens and the concentration of teleworking is based on the nature of the predominant industry in that area, instead of allowing disintegration throughout the national territory. This phenomenon is due to hybrid work that, although it allows you to reduce displacements to the office, maintains anchoring with the territory by reducing the chances of workers to move to live outside the community in which the company for which they work for.
The greatest proportion focuses in Madrid (40%), followed by Catalonia (19%) and Andalusia (11%), areas with strong presence of technological, commercial and financial companies.
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