Senior Backend Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Backend Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Backend Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 574 728
Rank change year-on-year +10 +154 -232
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Backend Developer 38 59 173
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 33 52 85
10th Percentile £57,500 £59,563 £62,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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%

Senior Backend Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Backend Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Backend 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 Senior Backend Developer.

Senior Backend Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Backend Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Backend Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Senior Backend Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Backend 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 Senior Backend Developer in the job title.

1 31 (81.58%) Node.js
2 30 (78.95%) AWS
3 28 (73.68%) Serverless
4 27 (71.05%) TypeScript
5 22 (57.89%) DynamoDB
6 21 (55.26%) Microservices
6 21 (55.26%) Agile
7 17 (44.74%) C#
7 17 (44.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 17 (44.74%) GraphQL
7 17 (44.74%) Event-Driven
8 16 (42.11%) Clean Code
9 15 (39.47%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (36.84%) Kanban
10 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
11 13 (34.21%) OpenAPI
11 13 (34.21%) Software Testing
11 13 (34.21%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (31.58%) .NET
12 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
12 12 (31.58%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (28.95%) IT Strategy
13 11 (28.95%) Secure Coding
13 11 (28.95%) GitHub
13 11 (28.95%) Functional Programming
13 11 (28.95%) Unit Testing
13 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
13 11 (28.95%) Technology Strategy
14 10 (26.32%) Docker
15 9 (23.68%) DevOps

Senior Backend 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 6 (15.79%) nginx
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) AWS
2 28 (73.68%) Serverless
3 15 (39.47%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (28.95%) GitHub
5 9 (23.68%) Azure
6 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (18.42%) GCP
7 6 (15.79%) npm
7 6 (15.79%) Yarn
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (10.53%) SaaS
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) AMQP
2 1 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (57.89%) DynamoDB
2 6 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.16%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.63%) Redis
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Cypress.io
1 6 (15.79%) Mocha
2 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.63%) Appium
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 7 (18.42%) Health Technology
2 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) iGaming
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (81.58%) Node.js
2 17 (44.74%) GraphQL
3 13 (34.21%) OpenAPI
4 12 (31.58%) .NET
5 8 (21.05%) JSON
5 8 (21.05%) Kafka
5 8 (21.05%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
6 7 (18.42%) JSON Schema
6 7 (18.42%) OAuth
6 7 (18.42%) React
6 7 (18.42%) Swagger
7 6 (15.79%) Express.js
7 6 (15.79%) gRPC
7 6 (15.79%) Jest
7 6 (15.79%) JWT
7 6 (15.79%) MEAN Stack
7 6 (15.79%) Mongoose
7 6 (15.79%) NestJS
7 6 (15.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (18.42%) IoT
3 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Agile
1 21 (55.26%) Microservices
2 17 (44.74%) Event-Driven
2 17 (44.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 16 (42.11%) Clean Code
4 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 14 (36.84%) Kanban
5 13 (34.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (34.21%) Software Testing
6 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
7 11 (28.95%) Functional Programming
7 11 (28.95%) IT Strategy
7 11 (28.95%) Secure Coding
7 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
7 11 (28.95%) Technology Strategy
7 11 (28.95%) Unit Testing
8 9 (23.68%) DevOps
9 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (21.05%) Fintech
10 7 (18.42%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (71.05%) TypeScript
2 17 (44.74%) C#
3 7 (18.42%) Java
3 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
3 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
4 6 (15.79%) C
4 6 (15.79%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.26%) SQL
6 1 (2.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.79%) Grafana
2 6 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 4 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.63%) Google
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft