We live in a marvellous time, where you can get an accredited university degree and make a living from home, anywhere in the world. Thanks to the internet, your location matters less when it comes to finding work. Whether you’re based in the UK and want to find an online job, or you’re based overseas and want to work for a UK company without relocating, you can.
Finding a job that you can do online will give you great flexibility. When most people think of part-time work, they think of the retail or restaurant industries; these jobs can be exhausting and hard to fit around your education or family responsibilities. We’ve compiled a list of the best part-time UK jobs online.
Online part-time jobs
We’ve done the research, so you don’t have to. The jobs listed below can be performed by students studying in the UK or anyone looking to make a few extra pounds. Please note that some of these jobs, particularly freelancing, do not perform income tax withholding (PAYE) and other contributions; therefore, you’ll need to manage your income tax responsibilities independently.
Micro jobs
A micro job is a short temporary role where the employer only needs a few minutes or hours of your time for which you receive an equally small compensation, usually a few cents or dollars. Micro jobs are usually required by companies or projects that require many short term participants. Common use cases for micro-jobs are surveys, software testing, data entry and performing tasks to help with data entry.
Micro-jobs are usually found in online marketplaces where employers request small services, usually for a fixed fee, and workers browse the marketplace to find interesting jobs. Sometimes it works in the opposite way, where you list your services and employers contact you.
Popular sites for finding micro-jobs are:
- ySense.com is an online rewards website for those looking to earn extra money from all over the world, including the UK.
- Clickworker.com is a platform where humans perform small tasks that help train artificial intelligence models.
- Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing website for businesses to hire remotely located workers to perform on-demand tasks that computers cannot perform.
- UserFeel.com is a platform for app developers to find real product testers and pay a few dollars for a few minutes of your time.
- UserTesting.com is another platform where app developers can get targeted feedback from real users. All you have to do is download an application on your phone and explain your experience using the app.
- Rev.com is a service that transcribes, captions and translates audio using AI and freelancers side-by-side.
Micro-freelancing
Freelancing is basically working for one or more companies on a short-term or unspecified duration. Micro-freelancing is like that, but the duration of your services are for a single task, for example, only writing one article or fixing one line of code. The most popular example of a micro-freelancing site is Fiverr.com, where gigs start from $5 each, but you can set your own price and offer various packages.
More than 5% of Fiverr’s web traffic comes from the United Kingdom, allowing you to work with companies in the UK. Fiverr support services from almost any discipline, such as graphic design, digital marketing, writing & translation, video & animation, music & audio, programming & tech, advertising, business, fun & lifestyle.
Become an online tutor
If you’re a native English speaker from the UK, or your level of English is excellent, becoming an English teacher might be a rewarding job that also helps pay the bills and boosts your CV. Many popular platforms let teachers pick up additional work online.
- MyTutor.co.uk is an active education platform matching teachers and students in the UK.
- Tutorful.co.uk is the UK’s fastest-growing community of tutors.
Other online jobs you can do from the UK
Besides the examples given above, you can do many more jobs online in the UK. Thanks to the evolution of crowdsourcing, many more online money-making opportunities are emerging. You can find long-term freelance work or ad-hoc micro-tasks that you can spend a few minutes or hours working on each day or week. Happy searching, I hope you find exactly what you have been looking for. Subscribe for more business, sales and investing posts. Have a lovely day.
