Senior Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 204 125
Rank change year-on-year +108 -79 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 1,060 641 2,405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.98% 1.71% 3.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.10% 1.78% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 749 499 620
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Senior Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,060 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 555 (52.36%) Agile
3 548 (51.70%) AWS
4 510 (48.11%) Python
5 455 (42.92%) JavaScript
6 388 (36.60%) Azure
7 385 (36.32%) .NET
8 340 (32.08%) React
9 318 (30.00%) C#
10 297 (28.02%) DevOps
11 289 (27.26%) Security Cleared
12 276 (26.04%) TypeScript
13 247 (23.30%) PostgreSQL
14 241 (22.74%) SC Cleared
15 233 (21.98%) Java
16 231 (21.79%) .NET Core
17 223 (21.04%) Finance
18 209 (19.72%) CSS
19 197 (18.58%) Web Development
20 194 (18.30%) SQL
20 194 (18.30%) Actionable Insight
21 190 (17.92%) QGIS
21 190 (17.92%) GeoServer
21 190 (17.92%) OpenLayers
21 190 (17.92%) PostGIS
21 190 (17.92%) Leaflet
21 190 (17.92%) GIS
21 190 (17.92%) ESRI
21 190 (17.92%) ArcGIS
22 166 (15.66%) Derivative

Senior 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
1 190 (17.92%) ArcGIS
1 190 (17.92%) GeoServer
2 119 (11.23%) Apache Airflow
3 110 (10.38%) Apache
4 14 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.094%) Drupal
6 1 (0.094%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.094%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.094%) Endur
2 1 (0.094%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 548 (51.70%) AWS
2 388 (36.60%) Azure
3 107 (10.09%) dbt
4 103 (9.72%) Snowflake
5 92 (8.68%) GCP
6 31 (2.92%) SaaS
7 30 (2.83%) Serverless
8 25 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (1.70%) GitHub
10 11 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (0.66%) Azure API Management
11 7 (0.66%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (0.66%) Azure Functions
11 7 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (0.57%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.38%) SonarCloud
14 3 (0.28%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (0.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.17%) Wireless
2 18 (1.70%) Ethernet
2 18 (1.70%) RS-232
2 18 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (1.13%) Modbus
5 11 (1.04%) Network Security
6 8 (0.75%) HTTP
7 5 (0.47%) Internet
8 4 (0.38%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (23.30%) PostgreSQL
2 190 (17.92%) GIS
2 190 (17.92%) QGIS
3 107 (10.09%) Amazon Athena
3 107 (10.09%) Apache Arrow
3 107 (10.09%) Apache Ignite
3 107 (10.09%) Dremio
4 104 (9.81%) Data Lake
5 62 (5.85%) MySQL
6 44 (4.15%) NoSQL
7 40 (3.77%) MongoDB
8 32 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 15 (1.42%) Redis
10 13 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.75%) SQLite
12 7 (0.66%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.094%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 39 (3.68%) Git
2 23 (2.17%) JIRA
3 21 (1.98%) GitLab
4 19 (1.79%) Subversion
5 15 (1.42%) Visual Studio
6 14 (1.32%) CMake
7 9 (0.85%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.47%) Selenium
9 5 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.38%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.28%) Postman
12 2 (0.19%) JUnit
12 2 (0.19%) Maven
13 1 (0.094%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.094%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.094%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 223 (21.04%) Finance
2 161 (15.19%) Front Office
3 109 (10.28%) Banking
4 107 (10.09%) Investment Banking
5 60 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (5.09%) Manufacturing
7 52 (4.91%) Social Skills
8 45 (4.25%) Back Office
9 36 (3.40%) Public Sector
10 30 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (2.45%) Games
12 23 (2.17%) Military
13 21 (1.98%) Electronics
14 17 (1.60%) Retail
15 15 (1.42%) Tech for Good
16 14 (1.32%) Advertising
17 13 (1.23%) Automotive
18 10 (0.94%) Health Technology
18 10 (0.94%) Legal
19 5 (0.47%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (36.32%) .NET
2 340 (32.08%) React
3 231 (21.79%) .NET Core
4 209 (19.72%) CSS
5 190 (17.92%) Leaflet
5 190 (17.92%) OpenLayers
5 190 (17.92%) PostGIS
6 121 (11.42%) gRPC
6 121 (11.42%) Pandas
7 119 (11.23%) Protocol Buffers
8 117 (11.04%) AngularJS
9 109 (10.28%) NumPy
10 107 (10.09%) SciPy
11 101 (9.53%) Vue
12 92 (8.68%) ASP.NET
13 72 (6.79%) RESTful
14 57 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
15 52 (4.91%) Node.js
16 49 (4.62%) .NET Framework
17 48 (4.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 166 (15.66%) Derivative
2 165 (15.57%) Equities
3 163 (15.38%) Fixed Income
3 163 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 151 (14.25%) Hedge funds
5 48 (4.53%) Pricing Data
6 30 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (1.89%) Device Driver
9 18 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.32%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.23%) IoT
13 10 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
14 8 (0.75%) Hackathon
14 8 (0.75%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.66%) Online Games
15 7 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (14.34%) Linux
2 66 (6.23%) Embedded Linux
3 59 (5.57%) Windows
4 24 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.60%) Android
6 12 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
8 8 (0.75%) Unix
9 4 (0.38%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,060 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 555 (52.36%) Agile
3 297 (28.02%) DevOps
4 197 (18.58%) Web Development
5 194 (18.30%) Actionable Insight
6 166 (15.66%) Asset Management
7 153 (14.43%) Investment Management
8 101 (9.53%) Microservices
9 98 (9.25%) Mentoring
10 79 (7.45%) TDD
11 73 (6.89%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (6.79%) Computer Science
13 70 (6.60%) Full Stack Development
14 61 (5.75%) CI/CD
15 59 (5.57%) Coaching
16 56 (5.28%) Test Automation
17 55 (5.19%) Greeks
18 50 (4.72%) SDLC
19 44 (4.15%) Design Patterns
20 43 (4.06%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 510 (48.11%) Python
2 455 (42.92%) JavaScript
3 318 (30.00%) C#
4 276 (26.04%) TypeScript
5 233 (21.98%) Java
6 194 (18.30%) SQL
7 123 (11.60%) C++
8 108 (10.19%) C
9 59 (5.57%) Embedded C
10 32 (3.02%) Bash
11 28 (2.64%) Rust
12 24 (2.26%) Kotlin
13 23 (2.17%) Go
14 16 (1.51%) PHP
14 16 (1.51%) Scala
15 13 (1.23%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.04%) Embedded C++
17 10 (0.94%) Ruby
18 9 (0.85%) Ada
18 9 (0.85%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 289 (27.26%) Security Cleared
2 241 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.64%) Degree
4 41 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.47%) HND
9 1 (0.094%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.094%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 9 (0.85%) QA
3 6 (0.57%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (0.38%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.28%) EMIR
5 3 (0.28%) MiFID
6 2 (0.19%) SEPA
6 2 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.094%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 69 (6.51%) Docker
2 17 (1.60%) Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.02%) Terraform
3 2 (0.19%) Ansible
3 2 (0.19%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.094%) Argo
4 1 (0.094%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 190 (17.92%) ESRI
2 23 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.13%) DevExpress
4 10 (0.94%) Google
5 8 (0.75%) Xamarin
6 5 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.38%) Apple
7 4 (0.38%) QNX
8 2 (0.19%) Databricks
8 2 (0.19%) Finsemble
8 2 (0.19%) IFS
8 2 (0.19%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.094%) Coverity
9 1 (0.094%) Klocwork
9 1 (0.094%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.094%) SAP
9 1 (0.094%) Thales