Developer/Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in Work from Home is £102,500 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 407 350 511
Rank change year-on-year -57 +161 -198
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 191 320 417
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.83% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.87% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 187 312 303
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £102,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £142,500 £130,625 £112,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £130,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +8.33%

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%

Developer/Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer/Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer/Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer/Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/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, Developer/Software Engineer 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 Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 183 (95.81%) Software Engineering
2 181 (94.76%) AWS
3 178 (93.19%) Python
4 174 (91.10%) Agile
5 172 (90.05%) Finance
6 170 (89.01%) JavaScript
7 168 (87.96%) Asset Management
7 168 (87.96%) Front Office
7 168 (87.96%) Fixed Income
7 168 (87.96%) GCP
8 163 (85.34%) TypeScript
9 132 (69.11%) Investment Management
10 116 (60.73%) Derivative
11 114 (59.69%) Protocol Buffers
11 114 (59.69%) Equities
11 114 (59.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 114 (59.69%) gRPC
11 114 (59.69%) Apache Airflow
12 107 (56.02%) React
13 102 (53.40%) Apache Ignite
13 102 (53.40%) Apache
13 102 (53.40%) Hedge funds
14 96 (50.26%) Pandas
15 90 (47.12%) Redux
16 84 (43.98%) SciPy
16 84 (43.98%) NumPy
16 84 (43.98%) dbt
16 84 (43.98%) Amazon Athena
16 84 (43.98%) Dremio
16 84 (43.98%) Apache Arrow

Developer/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
1 114 (59.69%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (53.40%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 181 (94.76%) AWS
2 168 (87.96%) GCP
3 84 (43.98%) dbt
4 63 (32.98%) Azure
5 52 (27.23%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.19%) Serverless
7 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (53.40%) Apache Ignite
2 84 (43.98%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (43.98%) Apache Arrow
2 84 (43.98%) Dremio
3 52 (27.23%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.14%) MySQL
5 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.14%) JIRA
2 3 (1.57%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 172 (90.05%) Finance
2 168 (87.96%) Front Office
3 70 (36.65%) Banking
4 66 (34.55%) Investment Banking
5 44 (23.04%) Back Office
6 2 (1.05%) Advertising
6 2 (1.05%) Automotive
6 2 (1.05%) Retail
6 2 (1.05%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (59.69%) gRPC
1 114 (59.69%) Protocol Buffers
2 107 (56.02%) React
3 96 (50.26%) Pandas
4 90 (47.12%) Redux
5 84 (43.98%) NumPy
5 84 (43.98%) SciPy
6 73 (38.22%) AngularJS
6 73 (38.22%) Vue
7 56 (29.32%) Node.js
8 45 (23.56%) .NET
9 30 (15.71%) ASP.NET
10 27 (14.14%) ASP.NET Core
11 24 (12.57%) Material-UI
12 15 (7.85%) .NET Core
13 13 (6.81%) GraphQL
14 5 (2.62%) HTML
15 4 (2.09%) Web Services
16 3 (1.57%) CSS
16 3 (1.57%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 168 (87.96%) Fixed Income
2 116 (60.73%) Derivative
3 114 (59.69%) Equities
3 114 (59.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 102 (53.40%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.05%) IoT
6 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Linux
1 8 (4.19%) Unix
2 4 (2.09%) Android
2 4 (2.09%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (95.81%) Software Engineering
2 174 (91.10%) Agile
3 168 (87.96%) Asset Management
4 132 (69.11%) Investment Management
5 52 (27.23%) Line Management
6 48 (25.13%) Fintech
6 48 (25.13%) Performance Attribution
7 39 (20.42%) Full Stack Development
8 38 (19.90%) Analytics
9 21 (10.99%) Mentoring
10 20 (10.47%) User Experience
11 18 (9.42%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 18 (9.42%) Front End Development
12 12 (6.28%) Risk Analytics
13 10 (5.24%) CI/CD
14 8 (4.19%) Data Architecture
14 8 (4.19%) Product Management
15 6 (3.14%) Cybersecurity
15 6 (3.14%) Data Engineering
15 6 (3.14%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 178 (93.19%) Python
2 170 (89.01%) JavaScript
3 163 (85.34%) TypeScript
4 82 (42.93%) Java
5 45 (23.56%) C#
6 44 (23.04%) SQL
7 16 (8.38%) Kotlin
8 14 (7.33%) Ruby
9 8 (4.19%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.19%) Scala
10 6 (3.14%) Perl
11 2 (1.05%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.05%) Rust
11 2 (1.05%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
1 6 (3.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.05%) EMIR
1 2 (1.05%) MiFID
2 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.14%) Facebook
2 3 (1.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.05%) Google
3 2 (1.05%) QNX