Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 118 143
Rank change year-on-year +41 +25 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 405 504 835
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.76% 2.11% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.95% 2.22% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 335 573
10th Percentile £450 £438 £425
25th Percentile £500 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £750 £755
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 52 26
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.25 £46.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £49.38 £47.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +7.41% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66.88 £70.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £76.45 £90.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +27.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,716 22,731 42,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.23% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,231 16,123 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 566
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.58
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.57 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +32.81% +67.29%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.33 £58.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.80 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineer.

Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineer.

Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Software Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 403 (99.51%) Software Engineering
2 197 (48.64%) AWS
3 164 (40.49%) Agile
4 156 (38.52%) Python
5 147 (36.30%) JavaScript
6 144 (35.56%) Finance
7 143 (35.31%) Java
8 135 (33.33%) TypeScript
9 113 (27.90%) Front Office
10 107 (26.42%) Asset Management
11 105 (25.93%) Fixed Income
12 102 (25.19%) gRPC
13 100 (24.69%) Apache Airflow
13 100 (24.69%) Protocol Buffers
14 95 (23.46%) Apache
15 94 (23.21%) Apache Ignite
16 90 (22.22%) Pandas
17 89 (21.98%) Banking
18 84 (20.74%) Investment Management
18 84 (20.74%) SciPy
18 84 (20.74%) NumPy
18 84 (20.74%) Amazon Athena
18 84 (20.74%) Dremio
18 84 (20.74%) dbt
18 84 (20.74%) Apache Arrow
19 80 (19.75%) Derivative
19 80 (19.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 80 (19.75%) Equities
20 77 (19.01%) GCP
21 74 (18.27%) Hedge funds

Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 100 (24.69%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (23.46%) Apache
3 6 (1.48%) Confluence
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.49%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 22 (5.43%) Simulink
1 22 (5.43%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (48.64%) AWS
2 84 (20.74%) dbt
3 77 (19.01%) GCP
4 74 (18.27%) Snowflake
5 47 (11.60%) Azure
6 17 (4.20%) Serverless
7 15 (3.70%) GitHub
8 11 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.98%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.23%) npm
13 4 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
15 2 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (0.49%) AWS IoT
15 2 (0.49%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.72%) HTTP
2 8 (1.98%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (1.48%) 802.11
3 6 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.23%) J1939
5 4 (0.99%) Wireless
6 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.49%) RS-232
8 1 (0.25%) HbbTV
8 1 (0.25%) Internet
8 1 (0.25%) MQTT
8 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (23.21%) Apache Ignite
2 84 (20.74%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (20.74%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (20.74%) Dremio
3 70 (17.28%) Data Lake
4 29 (7.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 14 (3.46%) MySQL
6 10 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.99%) Couchbase
11 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 32 (7.90%) Git
2 18 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.20%) JIRA
4 10 (2.47%) GitLab
4 10 (2.47%) Selenium
5 9 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.22%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.73%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.73%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (1.48%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.23%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.23%) MSI
8 5 (1.23%) Subversion
8 5 (1.23%) WiX
9 4 (0.99%) Postman
10 3 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.74%) fastlane
10 3 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 144 (35.56%) Finance
2 113 (27.90%) Front Office
3 89 (21.98%) Banking
4 74 (18.27%) Investment Banking
5 49 (12.10%) Social Skills
6 38 (9.38%) Automotive
7 19 (4.69%) Legal
8 16 (3.95%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.46%) Electronics
10 11 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (2.47%) Retail
12 9 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.48%) Law
14 5 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.99%) Police
15 4 (0.99%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.49%) Military
18 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (25.19%) gRPC
2 100 (24.69%) Protocol Buffers
3 90 (22.22%) Pandas
4 84 (20.74%) NumPy
4 84 (20.74%) SciPy
5 59 (14.57%) React
6 50 (12.35%) Node.js
7 43 (10.62%) Kafka
8 38 (9.38%) AngularJS
9 26 (6.42%) REST
9 26 (6.42%) RESTful
10 25 (6.17%) Redux
11 22 (5.43%) .NET
12 20 (4.94%) Vue
13 17 (4.20%) Spring Boot
14 16 (3.95%) XML
15 15 (3.70%) HTML
16 14 (3.46%) Spring
17 13 (3.21%) CSS
18 11 (2.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 105 (25.93%) Fixed Income
2 80 (19.75%) Derivative
2 80 (19.75%) Equities
2 80 (19.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 74 (18.27%) Hedge funds
4 29 (7.16%) Algorithms
5 16 (3.95%) Pricing Data
6 12 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.48%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.48%) IoT
10 5 (1.23%) CAN bus
10 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.23%) Web 2.0
11 4 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.99%) Device Driver
12 3 (0.74%) iPad
12 3 (0.74%) iPhone
12 3 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.20%) Linux
2 12 (2.96%) Windows
3 10 (2.47%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.98%) Android
5 4 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (99.51%) Software Engineering
2 164 (40.49%) Agile
3 107 (26.42%) Asset Management
4 84 (20.74%) Investment Management
5 65 (16.05%) Fintech
6 58 (14.32%) Test Automation
7 49 (12.10%) User Experience
8 44 (10.86%) Computer Science
9 40 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (8.64%) Validation
11 34 (8.40%) Full Stack Development
12 30 (7.41%) Line Management
13 29 (7.16%) DevOps
14 28 (6.91%) UX Design
15 27 (6.67%) User Research
15 27 (6.67%) UX Research
16 26 (6.42%) Analytics
16 26 (6.42%) Performance Attribution
17 25 (6.17%) TDD
17 25 (6.17%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 156 (38.52%) Python
2 147 (36.30%) JavaScript
3 143 (35.31%) Java
4 135 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 51 (12.59%) C
6 42 (10.37%) C++
7 40 (9.88%) SQL
8 36 (8.89%) C#
9 31 (7.65%) Go
10 26 (6.42%) MATLAB
11 21 (5.19%) Embedded C
12 16 (3.95%) PHP
13 11 (2.72%) Perl
14 10 (2.47%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.73%) Ruby
15 7 (1.73%) Scala
16 6 (1.48%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.48%) Swift
16 6 (1.48%) Tcl
17 5 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.89%) Degree
3 26 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.99%) PhD
8 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.98%) QA
3 5 (1.23%) AUTOSAR
4 4 (0.99%) JTAG
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) MISRA
5 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.25%) SEPA
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (12.35%) Docker
2 6 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.23%) ACF2
3 5 (1.23%) IAG
3 5 (1.23%) RACF
4 4 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.99%) Firmware
4 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.74%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.49%) zsh
Systems Management
1 48 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.47%) Terraform
3 6 (1.48%) Ansible
3 6 (1.48%) Functional Safety
4 5 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (1.23%) Podman
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (2.96%) Oracle
2 7 (1.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.48%) Google
4 5 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.23%) Sybase
5 4 (0.99%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.74%) MathWorks
6 3 (0.74%) NVIDIA
6 3 (0.74%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.49%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.49%) Reuters
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe
8 1 (0.25%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.25%) Databricks
8 1 (0.25%) Denodo
8 1 (0.25%) IBM
8 1 (0.25%) New Relic
8 1 (0.25%) Talend
8 1 (0.25%) Temenos