Software Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,137 5,621 12,610
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.22% 13.91% 17.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.40% 14.48% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,277 3,872 5,425
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,224 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +6.67% +10.66%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.00% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering.

Software Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Software Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
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
1 286 (6.91%) Apache Airflow
2 280 (6.77%) Apache
3 221 (5.34%) ArcGIS
4 214 (5.17%) GeoServer
5 56 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 32 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.65%) nginx
8 18 (0.44%) Confluence
9 14 (0.34%) NServiceBus
10 12 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.12%) Appian
12 5 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.097%) CMS
13 4 (0.097%) Drupal
13 4 (0.097%) WordPress
14 3 (0.073%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.048%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.048%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (1.43%) Simulink
2 9 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 8 (0.19%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.17%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.073%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.073%) Sketch
8 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
9 1 (0.024%) Blender
9 1 (0.024%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.024%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.024%) Notion
9 1 (0.024%) UXPin
9 1 (0.024%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.19%) Siebel CRM
3 3 (0.073%) Endur
3 3 (0.073%) Shopify
4 2 (0.048%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.048%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.024%) Findur
5 1 (0.024%) Magento
5 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,604 (38.77%) AWS
2 1,073 (25.94%) Azure
3 509 (12.30%) GCP
4 256 (6.19%) SaaS
5 253 (6.12%) dbt
6 225 (5.44%) Serverless
7 211 (5.10%) Snowflake
8 170 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
11 119 (2.88%) GitHub
12 95 (2.30%) Power Platform
13 60 (1.45%) Amazon S3
14 46 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (0.75%) PaaS
18 28 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
19 25 (0.60%) Slack
20 24 (0.58%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 96 (2.32%) Wireless
2 76 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 53 (1.28%) Ethernet
4 47 (1.14%) RS-232
5 41 (0.99%) Network Security
6 36 (0.87%) HTTP
7 32 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.51%) Internet
9 17 (0.41%) Modbus
10 15 (0.36%) Firewall
10 15 (0.36%) RS-485
11 14 (0.34%) ZigBee
12 13 (0.31%) 5G
13 12 (0.29%) AMQP
13 12 (0.29%) Bluetooth
14 10 (0.24%) VoIP
15 9 (0.22%) CTI
15 9 (0.22%) MQTT
16 7 (0.17%) OpenVPN
16 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 430 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 257 (6.21%) Apache Ignite
3 254 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
4 252 (6.09%) Apache Arrow
4 252 (6.09%) Dremio
5 235 (5.68%) GIS
6 223 (5.39%) Data Lake
7 214 (5.17%) QGIS
8 211 (5.10%) MySQL
9 168 (4.06%) SQL Server
10 159 (3.84%) Relational Database
11 117 (2.83%) NoSQL
12 89 (2.15%) Redis
13 80 (1.93%) MongoDB
14 72 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
15 61 (1.47%) DynamoDB
16 57 (1.38%) Big Data
17 52 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
18 49 (1.18%) Oracle Database
19 46 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 381 (9.21%) Git
2 158 (3.82%) GitLab
3 126 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 102 (2.47%) JIRA
5 84 (2.03%) Visual Studio
6 41 (0.99%) Subversion
7 36 (0.87%) JDeveloper
8 31 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 31 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
9 30 (0.73%) JUnit
9 30 (0.73%) LabVIEW
10 26 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 23 (0.56%) Maven
12 22 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.53%) CMake
13 21 (0.51%) webpack
14 20 (0.48%) Cucumber
14 20 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
14 20 (0.48%) Selenium
15 18 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 801 (19.36%) Finance
2 668 (16.15%) Social Skills
3 385 (9.31%) Front Office
4 347 (8.39%) Banking
5 265 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (5.97%) Investment Banking
7 160 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
8 140 (3.38%) Electronics
9 130 (3.14%) Manufacturing
10 112 (2.71%) Public Sector
11 106 (2.56%) Retail
12 85 (2.05%) Law
13 83 (2.01%) Automotive
13 83 (2.01%) Tech for Good
14 71 (1.72%) Marketing
15 61 (1.47%) Legal
16 59 (1.43%) Back Office
17 55 (1.33%) Games
18 54 (1.31%) Telecoms
19 43 (1.04%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,383 (57.60%) Software Engineer
2 1,332 (32.20%) Senior
3 997 (24.10%) Senior Software Engineer
4 967 (23.37%) Developer
5 365 (8.82%) Embedded Engineer
6 352 (8.51%) Lead
7 320 (7.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 251 (6.07%) Software Developer
9 247 (5.97%) Senior Developer
10 238 (5.75%) Java Engineer
11 218 (5.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 203 (4.91%) Python Engineer
13 179 (4.33%) Python Software Engineer
14 172 (4.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 149 (3.60%) Python Developer
16 145 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
16 145 (3.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 142 (3.43%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 141 (3.41%) Architect
19 137 (3.31%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 930 (22.48%) .NET
2 865 (20.91%) React
3 402 (9.72%) CSS
4 380 (9.19%) .NET Core
5 365 (8.82%) Node.js
6 328 (7.93%) AngularJS
7 289 (6.99%) gRPC
8 278 (6.72%) Protocol Buffers
9 274 (6.62%) Pandas
9 274 (6.62%) RESTful
10 258 (6.24%) NumPy
11 243 (5.87%) SciPy
12 234 (5.66%) HTML
13 215 (5.20%) Leaflet
13 215 (5.20%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.20%) PostGIS
14 185 (4.47%) Vue
15 182 (4.40%) ASP.NET
16 159 (3.84%) Django
17 158 (3.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 381 (9.21%) Fixed Income
2 335 (8.10%) Derivative
3 333 (8.05%) Equities
4 327 (7.90%) Hedge funds
5 303 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 188 (4.54%) Algorithms
7 172 (4.16%) Greenfield Project
8 163 (3.94%) Client/Server
9 141 (3.41%) Data Structures
10 112 (2.71%) Cloud Native
11 97 (2.34%) Product Ownership
12 92 (2.22%) IoT
13 89 (2.15%) Onboarding
14 86 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
15 74 (1.79%) Mobile App
16 73 (1.76%) Virtual Team
17 69 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
18 63 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
19 58 (1.40%) Private Cloud
20 49 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 546 (13.20%) Linux
2 190 (4.59%) Windows
3 134 (3.24%) Embedded Linux
4 103 (2.49%) Android
5 91 (2.20%) Apple iOS
6 86 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
7 26 (0.63%) Unix
8 24 (0.58%) CentOS
8 24 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.29%) Debian
10 12 (0.29%) Windows Server
11 7 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.12%) VxWorks
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
13 3 (0.073%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,797 (43.44%) Agile
2 942 (22.77%) DevOps
3 711 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
4 573 (13.85%) Computer Science
5 540 (13.05%) Full Stack Development
6 523 (12.64%) CI/CD
7 480 (11.60%) Mentoring
8 415 (10.03%) Microservices
9 382 (9.23%) Asset Management
10 368 (8.90%) TDD
11 328 (7.93%) Investment Management
12 311 (7.52%) Web Development
13 308 (7.45%) Actionable Insight
14 291 (7.03%) Test Automation
15 288 (6.96%) SDLC
16 282 (6.82%) Continuous Integration
17 256 (6.19%) Scrum
18 246 (5.95%) Coaching
19 233 (5.63%) Design Patterns
20 229 (5.54%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,531 (37.01%) Python
2 1,195 (28.89%) JavaScript
3 1,034 (24.99%) Java
4 1,001 (24.20%) C#
5 731 (17.67%) TypeScript
6 638 (15.42%) SQL
7 541 (13.08%) C
8 407 (9.84%) C++
9 177 (4.28%) Embedded C
10 170 (4.11%) Go
11 162 (3.92%) Bash
11 162 (3.92%) Kotlin
11 162 (3.92%) PHP
12 101 (2.44%) Ruby
13 98 (2.37%) Scala
14 90 (2.18%) Rust
15 66 (1.60%) T-SQL
16 52 (1.26%) R
17 39 (0.94%) Perl
18 38 (0.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 740 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 672 (16.24%) Degree
3 483 (11.68%) SC Cleared
4 245 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 101 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 36 (0.87%) PhD
10 15 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.29%) HNC
11 12 (0.29%) HND
12 8 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (0.15%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.15%) MCSE
14 5 (0.12%) CCIE
14 5 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.12%) CISSP
14 5 (0.12%) JNCIE
14 5 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (4.25%) QA
2 95 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 61 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 25 (0.60%) MISRA
5 23 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
6 13 (0.31%) NCSC
7 10 (0.24%) Def Stans
7 10 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.17%) WCAG
10 6 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.15%) ISO 9000
11 5 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 5 (0.12%) MISRA C
12 4 (0.097%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 4 (0.097%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.073%) GDPR
13 3 (0.073%) NIST
14 2 (0.048%) GRC
14 2 (0.048%) NIST 800
System Software
1 412 (9.96%) Docker
2 140 (3.38%) Firmware
3 61 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 14 (0.34%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.27%) IAG
6 4 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.073%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.024%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.024%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 380 (9.19%) Kubernetes
2 265 (6.41%) Terraform
3 132 (3.19%) Ansible
4 29 (0.70%) Grafana
5 26 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 19 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.12%) Kibana
8 4 (0.097%) Packer
8 4 (0.097%) Puppet
9 3 (0.073%) Consul
9 3 (0.073%) Istio
9 3 (0.073%) logstash
9 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.048%) Argo
10 2 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.048%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.048%) Nessus
10 2 (0.048%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.024%) SCCM
Vendors
1 307 (7.42%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.20%) ESRI
3 107 (2.59%) Google
4 91 (2.20%) Oracle
5 39 (0.94%) Xamarin
6 38 (0.92%) Bloomberg
7 34 (0.82%) Dell
8 32 (0.77%) Xilinx
9 29 (0.70%) Micro Focus
10 27 (0.65%) SAP
11 24 (0.58%) IBM
12 20 (0.48%) Adobe
13 17 (0.41%) Twitter
14 14 (0.34%) NVIDIA
15 13 (0.31%) Databricks
16 12 (0.29%) DevExpress
17 11 (0.27%) EMC
17 11 (0.27%) Siemens
18 10 (0.24%) Splunk
19 9 (0.22%) PayPal