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 26 May 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 111 147
Rank change year-on-year +31 +36 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 382 525 815
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.61% 2.14% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 2.25% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 347 557
10th Percentile £450 £438 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +7.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 51 28
10th Percentile £41.00 £46.25 £45.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.63 £48.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +20.00%
75th Percentile £69.69 £68.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £86.40 £90.00 £67.30
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +26.37%

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 13,710 23,385 42,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.29% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,254 16,569 30,568
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.02%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
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 565 538 570
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.71 £19.36
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +50.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £77.65 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.26%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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.

1 380 (99.48%) Software Engineering
2 182 (47.64%) AWS
3 153 (40.05%) Agile
4 143 (37.43%) Python
5 136 (35.60%) JavaScript
6 131 (34.29%) Java
7 130 (34.03%) Finance
8 123 (32.20%) TypeScript
9 100 (26.18%) Front Office
10 93 (24.35%) Asset Management
11 89 (23.30%) Fixed Income
12 86 (22.51%) gRPC
13 85 (22.25%) Apache Airflow
13 85 (22.25%) Protocol Buffers
14 80 (20.94%) Apache
15 79 (20.68%) Apache Ignite
16 77 (20.16%) Pandas
16 77 (20.16%) Banking
17 73 (19.11%) Investment Management
18 71 (18.59%) SciPy
18 71 (18.59%) NumPy
18 71 (18.59%) GCP
18 71 (18.59%) Dremio
18 71 (18.59%) Amazon Athena
18 71 (18.59%) Apache Arrow
18 71 (18.59%) dbt
19 66 (17.28%) Derivative
19 66 (17.28%) Equities
19 66 (17.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 64 (16.75%) Fintech

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 85 (22.25%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (20.94%) Apache
3 6 (1.57%) Confluence
4 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 22 (5.76%) Simulink
1 22 (5.76%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 182 (47.64%) AWS
2 71 (18.59%) dbt
2 71 (18.59%) GCP
3 59 (15.45%) Snowflake
4 47 (12.30%) Azure
5 17 (4.45%) Serverless
6 16 (4.19%) GitHub
7 11 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.09%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.31%) npm
12 4 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.52%) AWS IoT
14 2 (0.52%) Google App Engine
14 2 (0.52%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.88%) HTTP
2 8 (2.09%) 802.11
2 8 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (1.57%) Diameter Protocol
4 5 (1.31%) J1939
5 4 (1.05%) Wireless
6 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.52%) RS-232
8 1 (0.26%) HbbTV
8 1 (0.26%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) MQTT
8 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (20.68%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (18.59%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (18.59%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (18.59%) Dremio
3 56 (14.66%) Data Lake
4 30 (7.85%) Apache Cassandra
5 14 (3.66%) MySQL
6 10 (2.62%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.36%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.31%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.05%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (8.64%) Git
2 20 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.45%) JIRA
4 10 (2.62%) GitLab
4 10 (2.62%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.36%) Selenium
6 7 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.83%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (1.83%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.57%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.31%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.31%) MSI
8 5 (1.31%) Subversion
8 5 (1.31%) WiX
9 4 (1.05%) Maven
9 4 (1.05%) Postman
9 4 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
General
1 130 (34.03%) Finance
2 100 (26.18%) Front Office
3 77 (20.16%) Banking
4 63 (16.49%) Investment Banking
5 47 (12.30%) Social Skills
6 38 (9.95%) Automotive
7 19 (4.97%) Legal
8 14 (3.66%) Electronics
8 14 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.83%) Retail
12 5 (1.31%) Law
12 5 (1.31%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.05%) Police
14 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.52%) Military
16 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (22.51%) gRPC
2 85 (22.25%) Protocol Buffers
3 77 (20.16%) Pandas
4 71 (18.59%) NumPy
4 71 (18.59%) SciPy
5 57 (14.92%) React
6 48 (12.57%) Node.js
7 43 (11.26%) Kafka
8 36 (9.42%) AngularJS
9 26 (6.81%) RESTful
10 25 (6.54%) REST
11 23 (6.02%) Redux
12 22 (5.76%) .NET
13 18 (4.71%) Vue
14 17 (4.45%) Spring Boot
15 16 (4.19%) XML
16 15 (3.93%) HTML
16 15 (3.93%) Spring
17 13 (3.40%) CSS
17 13 (3.40%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (23.30%) Fixed Income
2 66 (17.28%) Derivative
2 66 (17.28%) Equities
2 66 (17.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 60 (15.71%) Hedge funds
4 30 (7.85%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.14%) Pricing Data
6 7 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.57%) IoT
7 6 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.31%) CAN bus
8 5 (1.31%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.31%) Web 2.0
9 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.05%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.79%) iPad
10 3 (0.79%) iPhone
10 3 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.45%) Linux
2 12 (3.14%) Windows
3 7 (1.83%) Android
4 6 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (99.48%) Software Engineering
2 153 (40.05%) Agile
3 93 (24.35%) Asset Management
4 73 (19.11%) Investment Management
5 64 (16.75%) Fintech
6 59 (15.45%) Test Automation
7 48 (12.57%) User Experience
8 42 (10.99%) Computer Science
9 41 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (9.42%) Validation
11 34 (8.90%) Full Stack Development
12 29 (7.59%) Analytics
12 29 (7.59%) UX Design
13 28 (7.33%) DevOps
13 28 (7.33%) User Research
13 28 (7.33%) UX Research
14 26 (6.81%) Verification and Validation
15 24 (6.28%) Line Management
15 24 (6.28%) Performance Attribution
15 24 (6.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 143 (37.43%) Python
2 136 (35.60%) JavaScript
3 131 (34.29%) Java
4 123 (32.20%) TypeScript
5 52 (13.61%) C
6 42 (10.99%) C++
7 39 (10.21%) SQL
8 34 (8.90%) C#
9 32 (8.38%) Go
10 26 (6.81%) MATLAB
11 22 (5.76%) Embedded C
12 17 (4.45%) PHP
13 13 (3.40%) Perl
14 11 (2.88%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.09%) Tcl
16 7 (1.83%) Scala
17 6 (1.57%) Bash
17 6 (1.57%) Shell Script
18 5 (1.31%) Ruby
18 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.64%) Degree
3 24 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.05%) PhD
7 3 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.09%) QA
3 5 (1.31%) AUTOSAR
4 4 (1.05%) JTAG
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) MISRA
5 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.26%) SEPA
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (13.35%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.31%) ACF2
3 5 (1.31%) IAG
3 5 (1.31%) RACF
4 4 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.05%) Firmware
4 4 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.79%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.79%) zsh
Systems Management
1 49 (12.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.62%) Terraform
3 6 (1.57%) Ansible
3 6 (1.57%) Functional Safety
4 5 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (1.31%) Podman
5 1 (0.26%) Argo
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (3.14%) Oracle
2 7 (1.83%) Google
3 6 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.31%) Sybase
5 4 (1.05%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.79%) MathWorks
6 3 (0.79%) NVIDIA
6 3 (0.79%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe
7 1 (0.26%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.26%) Databricks
7 1 (0.26%) IBM
7 1 (0.26%) New Relic
7 1 (0.26%) Temenos
7 1 (0.26%) Typelevel