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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 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 4,080 5,710 12,261
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.10% 13.81% 17.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.25% 14.37% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,239 3,947 5,432
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,900 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +5.04% +10.66%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £117,750 £117,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +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 30,803 39,731 67,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,360 27,643 41,432
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 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
1 264 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
2 257 (6.30%) Apache
3 221 (5.42%) ArcGIS
4 214 (5.25%) GeoServer
5 57 (1.40%) Apache Spark
6 33 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.66%) nginx
8 19 (0.47%) Confluence
9 13 (0.32%) IIS
10 12 (0.29%) NServiceBus
11 7 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Appian
13 5 (0.12%) CMS
13 5 (0.12%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.098%) WordPress
15 3 (0.074%) Drupal
15 3 (0.074%) Hyperledger
16 2 (0.049%) Jupyter
16 2 (0.049%) Umbraco
Applications
1 55 (1.35%) Simulink
2 10 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 8 (0.20%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.17%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.074%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.074%) Sketch
8 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
9 1 (0.025%) Blender
9 1 (0.025%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.025%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.025%) Notion
9 1 (0.025%) UXPin
9 1 (0.025%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
3 3 (0.074%) Endur
3 3 (0.074%) Shopify
4 2 (0.049%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.049%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.025%) Findur
5 1 (0.025%) Magento
5 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,571 (38.50%) AWS
2 1,057 (25.91%) Azure
3 510 (12.50%) GCP
4 255 (6.25%) SaaS
5 233 (5.71%) dbt
6 216 (5.29%) Serverless
7 193 (4.73%) Snowflake
8 170 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 133 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
10 132 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (2.89%) GitHub
12 95 (2.33%) Power Platform
13 60 (1.47%) Amazon S3
14 46 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (0.83%) PaaS
18 28 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
19 26 (0.64%) Slack
20 25 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.38%) Wireless
2 78 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 55 (1.35%) Ethernet
4 48 (1.18%) RS-232
5 41 (1.00%) Network Security
6 36 (0.88%) HTTP
7 33 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.51%) Internet
9 18 (0.44%) Modbus
10 15 (0.37%) Firewall
10 15 (0.37%) RS-485
11 14 (0.34%) 5G
11 14 (0.34%) ZigBee
12 12 (0.29%) AMQP
12 12 (0.29%) Bluetooth
13 10 (0.25%) VoIP
14 9 (0.22%) CTI
14 9 (0.22%) MQTT
15 7 (0.17%) OpenVPN
15 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 235 (5.76%) Apache Ignite
2 235 (5.76%) GIS
3 234 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
4 232 (5.69%) Apache Arrow
4 232 (5.69%) Dremio
5 214 (5.25%) QGIS
6 211 (5.17%) MySQL
7 204 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 168 (4.12%) SQL Server
9 156 (3.82%) Relational Database
10 112 (2.75%) NoSQL
11 88 (2.16%) Redis
12 81 (1.99%) MongoDB
13 72 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
14 59 (1.45%) Big Data
15 51 (1.25%) DynamoDB
16 50 (1.23%) Oracle Database
17 43 (1.05%) Power BI
17 43 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 366 (8.97%) Git
2 150 (3.68%) GitLab
3 128 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 105 (2.57%) JIRA
5 86 (2.11%) Visual Studio
6 41 (1.00%) Subversion
7 36 (0.88%) JDeveloper
8 31 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 31 (0.76%) JUnit
8 31 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 30 (0.74%) LabVIEW
10 26 (0.64%) TeamCity
11 23 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.56%) CMake
11 23 (0.56%) Maven
12 21 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
12 21 (0.51%) Selenium
12 21 (0.51%) webpack
13 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 787 (19.29%) Finance
2 650 (15.93%) Social Skills
3 368 (9.02%) Front Office
4 333 (8.16%) Banking
5 265 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.69%) Investment Banking
7 156 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
8 140 (3.43%) Electronics
9 127 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 110 (2.70%) Public Sector
11 101 (2.48%) Retail
12 85 (2.08%) Law
13 84 (2.06%) Tech for Good
14 79 (1.94%) Automotive
15 72 (1.76%) Marketing
16 63 (1.54%) Legal
17 59 (1.45%) Back Office
18 56 (1.37%) Games
19 52 (1.27%) Telecoms
20 45 (1.10%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,341 (57.38%) Software Engineer
2 1,312 (32.16%) Senior
3 978 (23.97%) Senior Software Engineer
4 962 (23.58%) Developer
5 365 (8.95%) Embedded Engineer
6 340 (8.33%) Lead
7 320 (7.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 249 (6.10%) Software Developer
9 245 (6.00%) Senior Developer
10 229 (5.61%) Java Engineer
11 209 (5.12%) Java Software Engineer
12 191 (4.68%) Python Engineer
13 170 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 166 (4.07%) Python Software Engineer
15 148 (3.63%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 146 (3.58%) Python Developer
17 145 (3.55%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 142 (3.48%) Architect
19 133 (3.26%) C++ Software Engineer
20 132 (3.24%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 923 (22.62%) .NET
2 860 (21.08%) React
3 399 (9.78%) CSS
4 384 (9.41%) .NET Core
5 357 (8.75%) Node.js
6 322 (7.89%) AngularJS
7 267 (6.54%) gRPC
8 260 (6.37%) RESTful
9 256 (6.27%) Protocol Buffers
10 254 (6.23%) Pandas
11 238 (5.83%) NumPy
12 231 (5.66%) HTML
13 223 (5.47%) SciPy
14 215 (5.27%) Leaflet
14 215 (5.27%) OpenLayers
14 215 (5.27%) PostGIS
15 180 (4.41%) ASP.NET
16 179 (4.39%) Vue
17 159 (3.90%) Kafka
18 148 (3.63%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 361 (8.85%) Fixed Income
2 317 (7.77%) Derivative
3 315 (7.72%) Equities
4 309 (7.57%) Hedge funds
5 285 (6.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 190 (4.66%) Algorithms
7 176 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
8 162 (3.97%) Client/Server
9 144 (3.53%) Data Structures
10 110 (2.70%) Cloud Native
11 99 (2.43%) Product Ownership
12 92 (2.25%) IoT
13 88 (2.16%) Onboarding
14 85 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
15 75 (1.84%) Virtual Team
16 73 (1.79%) Mobile App
17 70 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
18 63 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
19 58 (1.42%) Private Cloud
20 50 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 547 (13.41%) Linux
2 187 (4.58%) Windows
3 131 (3.21%) Embedded Linux
4 98 (2.40%) Android
5 89 (2.18%) Apple iOS
6 84 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.66%) Unix
8 26 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
9 23 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 22 (0.54%) CentOS
11 20 (0.49%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.27%) Debian
13 9 (0.22%) Windows Server
14 6 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
14 6 (0.15%) VxWorks
15 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
16 3 (0.074%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 1 (0.025%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.025%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,770 (43.38%) Agile
2 924 (22.65%) DevOps
3 700 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
4 565 (13.85%) Computer Science
5 517 (12.67%) Full Stack Development
6 510 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 476 (11.67%) Mentoring
8 411 (10.07%) Microservices
9 362 (8.87%) Asset Management
10 351 (8.60%) TDD
11 312 (7.65%) Web Development
12 308 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
12 308 (7.55%) Investment Management
13 288 (7.06%) Test Automation
14 287 (7.03%) SDLC
15 279 (6.84%) Continuous Integration
16 258 (6.32%) Scrum
17 243 (5.96%) Coaching
18 231 (5.66%) Design Patterns
19 221 (5.42%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,498 (36.72%) Python
2 1,159 (28.41%) JavaScript
3 1,012 (24.80%) Java
4 991 (24.29%) C#
5 701 (17.18%) TypeScript
6 629 (15.42%) SQL
7 540 (13.24%) C
8 400 (9.80%) C++
9 178 (4.36%) Embedded C
10 170 (4.17%) Go
11 164 (4.02%) Bash
12 162 (3.97%) PHP
13 161 (3.95%) Kotlin
14 104 (2.55%) Ruby
15 100 (2.45%) Scala
16 90 (2.21%) Rust
17 67 (1.64%) T-SQL
18 52 (1.27%) R
19 40 (0.98%) Perl
20 39 (0.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 725 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 662 (16.23%) Degree
3 476 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 237 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 99 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 49 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 34 (0.83%) PhD
9 33 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.29%) HNC
11 12 (0.29%) HND
12 8 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.17%) MCSE
14 6 (0.15%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.12%) CCIE
15 5 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.12%) CISSP
15 5 (0.12%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (4.29%) QA
2 83 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 59 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 25 (0.61%) MISRA
5 23 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
6 13 (0.32%) NCSC
7 10 (0.25%) Def Stans
7 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.20%) 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 (0.098%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 4 (0.098%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.074%) GDPR
13 3 (0.074%) NIST
14 2 (0.049%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.049%) PMO
System Software
1 415 (10.17%) Docker
2 141 (3.46%) Firmware
3 62 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 15 (0.37%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.27%) IAG
6 4 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.074%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.025%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.025%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 382 (9.36%) Kubernetes
2 262 (6.42%) Terraform
3 130 (3.19%) Ansible
4 28 (0.69%) Grafana
5 26 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 19 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.12%) Kibana
8 4 (0.098%) Packer
8 4 (0.098%) Puppet
9 3 (0.074%) Consul
9 3 (0.074%) Istio
9 3 (0.074%) logstash
9 3 (0.074%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.049%) Argo
10 2 (0.049%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.049%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.049%) Nessus
10 2 (0.049%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.025%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 305 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.27%) ESRI
3 109 (2.67%) Google
4 89 (2.18%) Oracle
5 38 (0.93%) Bloomberg
5 38 (0.93%) Xamarin
6 36 (0.88%) Dell
7 29 (0.71%) Micro Focus
8 28 (0.69%) Xilinx
9 27 (0.66%) SAP
10 25 (0.61%) IBM
11 21 (0.51%) Adobe
12 17 (0.42%) Twitter
13 14 (0.34%) NVIDIA
14 13 (0.32%) Databricks
15 12 (0.29%) DevExpress
16 11 (0.27%) EMC
16 11 (0.27%) Siemens
17 10 (0.25%) Splunk
18 9 (0.22%) Sage