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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 118 143
Rank change year-on-year +38 +25 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 393 502 824
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.68% 2.08% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 2.19% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 335 567
10th Percentile £450 £438 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £750 £753
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 49 27
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.25 £46.70
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £48.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £84.60 £90.00 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +31.87%

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 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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.

1 391 (99.49%) Software Engineering
2 185 (47.07%) AWS
3 156 (39.69%) Agile
4 146 (37.15%) Python
5 139 (35.37%) JavaScript
6 134 (34.10%) Java
6 134 (34.10%) Finance
7 127 (32.32%) TypeScript
8 104 (26.46%) Front Office
9 97 (24.68%) Asset Management
10 96 (24.43%) Fixed Income
11 91 (23.16%) gRPC
12 90 (22.90%) Apache Airflow
12 90 (22.90%) Protocol Buffers
13 85 (21.63%) Apache
14 84 (21.37%) Apache Ignite
15 81 (20.61%) Pandas
16 80 (20.36%) Banking
17 78 (19.85%) Investment Management
18 75 (19.08%) SciPy
18 75 (19.08%) NumPy
18 75 (19.08%) Dremio
18 75 (19.08%) Amazon Athena
18 75 (19.08%) Apache Arrow
18 75 (19.08%) dbt
19 72 (18.32%) Equities
19 72 (18.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 72 (18.32%) Derivative
19 72 (18.32%) GCP
20 66 (16.79%) 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 90 (22.90%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (21.63%) Apache
3 6 (1.53%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.51%) 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 (5.60%) Simulink
1 22 (5.60%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 185 (47.07%) AWS
2 75 (19.08%) dbt
3 72 (18.32%) GCP
4 65 (16.54%) Snowflake
5 47 (11.96%) Azure
6 17 (4.33%) Serverless
7 16 (4.07%) GitHub
8 11 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.27%) npm
13 4 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (0.51%) AWS IoT
15 2 (0.51%) Google App Engine
15 2 (0.51%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.80%) HTTP
2 7 (1.78%) 802.11
2 7 (1.78%) Diameter Protocol
2 7 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.27%) J1939
4 4 (1.02%) Wireless
5 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.51%) RS-232
7 1 (0.25%) HbbTV
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (21.37%) Apache Ignite
2 75 (19.08%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (19.08%) Apache Arrow
2 75 (19.08%) Dremio
3 62 (15.78%) Data Lake
4 30 (7.63%) Apache Cassandra
5 14 (3.56%) MySQL
6 10 (2.54%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.02%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.51%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (8.40%) Git
2 20 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.33%) JIRA
4 10 (2.54%) GitLab
4 10 (2.54%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.29%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.29%) Selenium
6 7 (1.78%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.78%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (1.78%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.53%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.27%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.27%) MSI
8 5 (1.27%) Subversion
8 5 (1.27%) WiX
9 4 (1.02%) Maven
9 4 (1.02%) Postman
9 4 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.76%) fastlane
General
1 134 (34.10%) Finance
2 104 (26.46%) Front Office
3 80 (20.36%) Banking
4 66 (16.79%) Investment Banking
5 49 (12.47%) Social Skills
6 38 (9.67%) Automotive
7 19 (4.83%) Legal
8 15 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.56%) Electronics
10 11 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.29%) Retail
13 5 (1.27%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.27%) Law
14 4 (1.02%) Police
14 4 (1.02%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.51%) Military
17 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
17 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (23.16%) gRPC
2 90 (22.90%) Protocol Buffers
3 81 (20.61%) Pandas
4 75 (19.08%) NumPy
4 75 (19.08%) SciPy
5 58 (14.76%) React
6 49 (12.47%) Node.js
7 43 (10.94%) Kafka
8 37 (9.41%) AngularJS
9 27 (6.87%) REST
10 26 (6.62%) RESTful
11 24 (6.11%) Redux
12 22 (5.60%) .NET
13 19 (4.83%) Vue
14 17 (4.33%) Spring Boot
15 16 (4.07%) XML
16 15 (3.82%) HTML
16 15 (3.82%) Spring
17 13 (3.31%) CSS
18 12 (3.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (24.43%) Fixed Income
2 72 (18.32%) Derivative
2 72 (18.32%) Equities
2 72 (18.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 66 (16.79%) Hedge funds
4 29 (7.38%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.56%) Pricing Data
6 12 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.29%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.53%) IoT
10 5 (1.27%) CAN bus
10 5 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.27%) Web 2.0
11 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.02%) Device Driver
12 3 (0.76%) iPad
12 3 (0.76%) iPhone
12 3 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.33%) Linux
2 12 (3.05%) Windows
3 10 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.04%) Android
5 4 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (99.49%) Software Engineering
2 156 (39.69%) Agile
3 97 (24.68%) Asset Management
4 78 (19.85%) Investment Management
5 65 (16.54%) Fintech
6 59 (15.01%) Test Automation
7 49 (12.47%) User Experience
8 41 (10.43%) Computer Science
9 40 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (9.16%) Validation
11 34 (8.65%) Full Stack Development
12 29 (7.38%) UX Design
13 28 (7.12%) DevOps
13 28 (7.12%) User Research
13 28 (7.12%) UX Research
14 26 (6.62%) Line Management
14 26 (6.62%) Verification and Validation
15 25 (6.36%) Analytics
15 25 (6.36%) Performance Attribution
15 25 (6.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 146 (37.15%) Python
2 139 (35.37%) JavaScript
3 134 (34.10%) Java
4 127 (32.32%) TypeScript
5 52 (13.23%) C
6 43 (10.94%) C++
7 38 (9.67%) SQL
8 34 (8.65%) C#
9 32 (8.14%) Go
10 26 (6.62%) MATLAB
11 22 (5.60%) Embedded C
12 17 (4.33%) PHP
13 12 (3.05%) Perl
14 11 (2.80%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.78%) Ruby
15 7 (1.78%) Tcl
16 6 (1.53%) Bash
16 6 (1.53%) Scala
16 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.40%) Degree
3 25 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.31%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.02%) PhD
8 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.04%) QA
3 5 (1.27%) AUTOSAR
4 4 (1.02%) 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 52 (13.23%) Docker
2 6 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.27%) ACF2
3 5 (1.27%) IAG
3 5 (1.27%) RACF
4 4 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.02%) Firmware
4 4 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.76%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.76%) zsh
Systems Management
1 49 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.54%) Terraform
3 6 (1.53%) Ansible
3 6 (1.53%) Functional Safety
4 5 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (1.27%) Podman
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (3.05%) Oracle
2 7 (1.78%) Google
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.27%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.27%) Sybase
5 4 (1.02%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.76%) MathWorks
6 3 (0.76%) NVIDIA
6 3 (0.76%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe
7 1 (0.25%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.25%) Databricks
7 1 (0.25%) IBM
7 1 (0.25%) New Relic
7 1 (0.25%) Temenos
7 1 (0.25%) Typelevel