Software Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary 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 118 124 145
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 894 1,043 2,073
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.57% 2.71% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 2.83% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 790 928 1,342
10th Percentile £34,950 £39,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,241 £95,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
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 Developer.

Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software Developer 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 permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 482 (53.91%) C#
2 412 (46.09%) .NET
3 308 (34.45%) Agile
4 296 (33.11%) JavaScript
5 263 (29.42%) Software Engineering
6 237 (26.51%) Social Skills
7 231 (25.84%) Azure
8 219 (24.50%) SQL
9 210 (23.49%) AWS
10 187 (20.92%) Java
11 186 (20.81%) DevOps
12 184 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
13 177 (19.80%) Python
14 169 (18.90%) SQL Server
15 158 (17.67%) Finance
16 144 (16.11%) TypeScript
17 143 (16.00%) Degree
18 133 (14.88%) Full Stack Development
19 125 (13.98%) .NET Core
20 123 (13.76%) HTML
21 118 (13.20%) Computer Science
22 114 (12.75%) CSS
23 110 (12.30%) React
23 110 (12.30%) Microsoft
24 108 (12.08%) ASP.NET
24 108 (12.08%) .NET Framework
25 106 (11.86%) Microservices
26 97 (10.85%) MVC
27 92 (10.29%) AngularJS
28 87 (9.73%) Docker

Software Developer 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 76 (8.50%) Apache
2 66 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.90%) CMS
4 13 (1.45%) Mendix
5 7 (0.78%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.56%) Drupal
7 4 (0.45%) IIS
7 4 (0.45%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Confluence
10 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 18 (2.01%) Simulink
2 1 (0.11%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Shopify
2 2 (0.22%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 231 (25.84%) Azure
2 210 (23.49%) AWS
3 87 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (9.17%) GCP
5 66 (7.38%) dbt
6 56 (6.26%) Snowflake
7 54 (6.04%) SaaS
8 39 (4.36%) GitHub
8 39 (4.36%) Serverless
9 22 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (2.13%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (0.78%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.78%) Pulumi
16 6 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.67%) Azure Storage
16 6 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.34%) Internet
2 7 (0.78%) Network Security
2 7 (0.78%) Wireless
3 5 (0.56%) 4G
3 5 (0.56%) 5G
3 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.11%) HTTP
5 1 (0.11%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (18.90%) SQL Server
2 66 (7.38%) Amazon Athena
2 66 (7.38%) Apache Arrow
2 66 (7.38%) Apache Ignite
2 66 (7.38%) Dremio
3 57 (6.38%) MySQL
4 52 (5.82%) Data Lake
5 23 (2.57%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (1.90%) DynamoDB
9 16 (1.79%) Redis
10 11 (1.23%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.56%) Power BI
12 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.34%) Couchbase
13 3 (0.34%) DB2
Development Applications
1 81 (9.06%) Git
2 46 (5.15%) Visual Studio
3 29 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.01%) JIRA
5 14 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (1.34%) Selenium
6 12 (1.34%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.78%) CMake
10 7 (0.78%) Jasmine
10 7 (0.78%) NUnit
11 6 (0.67%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.56%) Bugzilla
12 5 (0.56%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.45%) GCC
14 3 (0.34%) xUnit.net
General
1 237 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 158 (17.67%) Finance
3 70 (7.83%) Banking
4 66 (7.38%) Front Office
4 66 (7.38%) Investment Banking
5 37 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (3.24%) Retail
8 26 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.46%) Marketing
10 20 (2.24%) Tech for Good
11 17 (1.90%) Electronics
12 16 (1.79%) Automotive
13 13 (1.45%) Law
13 13 (1.45%) Publishing
14 12 (1.34%) Health Technology
15 11 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
15 11 (1.23%) Police
16 10 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.12%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (46.09%) .NET
2 125 (13.98%) .NET Core
3 123 (13.76%) HTML
4 114 (12.75%) CSS
5 110 (12.30%) React
6 108 (12.08%) .NET Framework
6 108 (12.08%) ASP.NET
7 92 (10.29%) AngularJS
8 71 (7.94%) Entity Framework
9 68 (7.61%) RESTful
10 66 (7.38%) gRPC
10 66 (7.38%) NumPy
10 66 (7.38%) Pandas
10 66 (7.38%) Protocol Buffers
10 66 (7.38%) SciPy
11 61 (6.82%) Node.js
12 40 (4.47%) ASP.NET Web API
13 37 (4.14%) Blazor
14 35 (3.91%) Vue
15 34 (3.80%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.38%) Fixed Income
2 63 (7.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (6.71%) Derivative
3 60 (6.71%) Equities
3 60 (6.71%) Hedge funds
4 35 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
5 32 (3.58%) Mobile App
6 30 (3.36%) IoT
7 28 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 27 (3.02%) Client/Server
9 22 (2.46%) Product Ownership
10 21 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.12%) CUDA
12 10 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.12%) Podcast
12 10 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.89%) Cloud Native
13 8 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
13 8 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.82%) Linux
1 61 (6.82%) Windows
2 37 (4.14%) Apple iOS
3 27 (3.02%) Android
4 18 (2.01%) Embedded Linux
5 15 (1.68%) Unix
6 7 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.56%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (0.22%) AIX
8 2 (0.22%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (34.45%) Agile
2 263 (29.42%) Software Engineering
3 186 (20.81%) DevOps
4 184 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (14.88%) Full Stack Development
6 118 (13.20%) Computer Science
7 106 (11.86%) Microservices
8 97 (10.85%) MVC
9 83 (9.28%) CI/CD
10 75 (8.39%) Asset Management
11 68 (7.61%) Code Quality
11 68 (7.61%) TDD
11 68 (7.61%) Unit Testing
12 67 (7.49%) Clean Code
12 67 (7.49%) Test Automation
13 66 (7.38%) SDLC
14 65 (7.27%) Mentoring
15 64 (7.16%) Line Management
16 57 (6.38%) Web Development
17 56 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 482 (53.91%) C#
2 296 (33.11%) JavaScript
3 219 (24.50%) SQL
4 187 (20.92%) Java
5 177 (19.80%) Python
6 144 (16.11%) TypeScript
7 65 (7.27%) C
8 57 (6.38%) C++
9 53 (5.93%) PHP
10 40 (4.47%) VB.NET
11 36 (4.03%) Ruby
12 16 (1.79%) Go
13 12 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 11 (1.23%) Embedded C
15 10 (1.12%) Bicep
16 8 (0.89%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.89%) Perl
16 8 (0.89%) Scala
16 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 143 (16.00%) Degree
2 60 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 18 (2.01%) DBS Check
4 18 (2.01%) DV Cleared
5 16 (1.79%) PhD
6 9 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.89%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.45%) CIPD
9 4 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.34%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.81%) QA
2 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.22%) WCAG
4 1 (0.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 87 (9.73%) Docker
2 8 (0.89%) Firmware
3 7 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.90%) Terraform
3 10 (1.12%) Ansible
4 7 (0.78%) Kibana
4 7 (0.78%) MIIS
5 5 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (0.45%) Grafana
6 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 110 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.80%) Google
3 20 (2.24%) Xamarin
4 18 (2.01%) Xilinx
5 12 (1.34%) Oracle
6 10 (1.12%) Facebook
7 9 (1.01%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.56%) HP
8 5 (0.56%) New Relic
8 5 (0.56%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.56%) Twitter
9 4 (0.45%) Databricks
9 4 (0.45%) Peregrine
9 4 (0.45%) Splunk
10 3 (0.34%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.34%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.34%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.22%) Northgate
11 2 (0.22%) QNX
12 1 (0.11%) Zend