Software Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 133 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 845 1,091 1,997
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.50% 2.69% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 2.80% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 742 962 1,332
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £96,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 32,489 38,930 69,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,845 27,706 42,291
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +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%

Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software 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 Software Developer.

Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 449 (53.14%) C#
2 387 (45.80%) .NET
3 300 (35.50%) Agile
4 291 (34.44%) JavaScript
5 257 (30.41%) Software Engineering
6 234 (27.69%) Social Skills
7 219 (25.92%) Azure
8 217 (25.68%) SQL
9 211 (24.97%) AWS
10 186 (22.01%) DevOps
11 184 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
12 181 (21.42%) Java
13 172 (20.36%) Python
14 165 (19.53%) SQL Server
15 155 (18.34%) Finance
16 145 (17.16%) TypeScript
17 140 (16.57%) Degree
18 128 (15.15%) HTML
19 124 (14.67%) Full Stack Development
20 121 (14.32%) .NET Core
21 116 (13.73%) CSS
22 113 (13.37%) Computer Science
23 112 (13.25%) React
24 109 (12.90%) Microservices
25 108 (12.78%) .NET Framework
25 108 (12.78%) ASP.NET
26 104 (12.31%) Microsoft
27 99 (11.72%) MVC
28 93 (11.01%) AngularJS
29 91 (10.77%) Docker

Software 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 73 (8.64%) Apache
2 63 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.66%) CMS
4 13 (1.54%) Mendix
5 6 (0.71%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.59%) Drupal
7 4 (0.47%) IIS
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.47%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.24%) Confluence
8 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 16 (1.89%) Simulink
2 1 (0.12%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Shopify
2 2 (0.24%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Endur
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 219 (25.92%) Azure
2 211 (24.97%) AWS
3 89 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (9.59%) GCP
5 63 (7.46%) dbt
6 52 (6.15%) Snowflake
7 50 (5.92%) SaaS
8 40 (4.73%) Serverless
9 39 (4.62%) GitHub
10 22 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (2.25%) Power Platform
12 15 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (1.78%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (0.83%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (0.83%) Pulumi
15 6 (0.71%) Azure Functions
15 6 (0.71%) Azure Storage
15 6 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.42%) Internet
2 7 (0.83%) Network Security
2 7 (0.83%) Wireless
3 5 (0.59%) 4G
3 5 (0.59%) 5G
3 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (19.53%) SQL Server
2 63 (7.46%) Amazon Athena
2 63 (7.46%) Apache Arrow
2 63 (7.46%) Apache Ignite
2 63 (7.46%) Dremio
3 58 (6.86%) MySQL
4 48 (5.68%) Data Lake
5 22 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (2.37%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (2.01%) DynamoDB
9 16 (1.89%) Redis
10 11 (1.30%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.71%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.59%) Power BI
15 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 86 (10.18%) Git
2 47 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 31 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.25%) JIRA
5 14 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (1.42%) Selenium
6 12 (1.42%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.83%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.83%) CMake
9 7 (0.83%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.83%) NUnit
10 6 (0.71%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.59%) Bugzilla
11 5 (0.59%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.47%) GCC
12 4 (0.47%) Maven
General
1 234 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 155 (18.34%) Finance
3 69 (8.17%) Banking
4 63 (7.46%) Front Office
4 63 (7.46%) Investment Banking
5 39 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.67%) Retail
7 30 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (3.20%) Public Sector
9 23 (2.72%) Marketing
10 18 (2.13%) Automotive
10 18 (2.13%) Electronics
10 18 (2.13%) Tech for Good
11 14 (1.66%) Law
12 13 (1.54%) Publishing
13 11 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
13 11 (1.30%) Health Technology
13 11 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.30%) Police
14 10 (1.18%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (45.80%) .NET
2 128 (15.15%) HTML
3 121 (14.32%) .NET Core
4 116 (13.73%) CSS
5 112 (13.25%) React
6 108 (12.78%) .NET Framework
6 108 (12.78%) ASP.NET
7 93 (11.01%) AngularJS
8 70 (8.28%) Entity Framework
8 70 (8.28%) RESTful
9 63 (7.46%) gRPC
9 63 (7.46%) Node.js
9 63 (7.46%) NumPy
9 63 (7.46%) Pandas
9 63 (7.46%) Protocol Buffers
9 63 (7.46%) SciPy
10 40 (4.73%) ASP.NET Web API
11 37 (4.38%) ASP.NET MVC
12 36 (4.26%) Blazor
13 35 (4.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.34%) Fixed Income
2 59 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 56 (6.63%) Derivative
3 56 (6.63%) Equities
3 56 (6.63%) Hedge funds
4 34 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 31 (3.67%) IoT
6 27 (3.20%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.20%) Client/Server
7 22 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.18%) CUDA
10 10 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.18%) Podcast
10 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (0.83%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.22%) Linux
2 60 (7.10%) Windows
3 39 (4.62%) Apple iOS
4 29 (3.43%) Android
5 16 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
6 14 (1.66%) Unix
7 7 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.59%) Windows Mobile
9 2 (0.24%) AIX
9 2 (0.24%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (35.50%) Agile
2 257 (30.41%) Software Engineering
3 186 (22.01%) DevOps
4 184 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (14.67%) Full Stack Development
6 113 (13.37%) Computer Science
7 109 (12.90%) Microservices
8 99 (11.72%) MVC
9 82 (9.70%) CI/CD
10 70 (8.28%) Asset Management
11 69 (8.17%) Clean Code
11 69 (8.17%) Test Automation
12 68 (8.05%) Code Quality
13 67 (7.93%) Mentoring
13 67 (7.93%) SDLC
13 67 (7.93%) TDD
14 65 (7.69%) Unit Testing
15 60 (7.10%) Line Management
16 57 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (6.75%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 449 (53.14%) C#
2 291 (34.44%) JavaScript
3 217 (25.68%) SQL
4 181 (21.42%) Java
5 172 (20.36%) Python
6 145 (17.16%) TypeScript
7 63 (7.46%) C
8 54 (6.39%) PHP
9 51 (6.04%) C++
10 39 (4.62%) VB.NET
11 35 (4.14%) Ruby
12 17 (2.01%) Go
13 12 (1.42%) PowerShell
14 11 (1.30%) Embedded C
15 10 (1.18%) Bicep
15 10 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.07%) Scala
17 8 (0.95%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.83%) Perl
19 6 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 140 (16.57%) Degree
2 59 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 18 (2.13%) DBS Check
5 16 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.78%) PhD
7 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.95%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.47%) CIPD
10 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.36%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.33%) QA
2 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.24%) WCAG
4 1 (0.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 91 (10.77%) Docker
2 8 (0.95%) Firmware
3 7 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.01%) Terraform
3 10 (1.18%) Ansible
4 7 (0.83%) Kibana
4 7 (0.83%) MIIS
5 5 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (0.47%) Grafana
6 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 104 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.20%) Google
3 20 (2.37%) Xamarin
4 16 (1.89%) Xilinx
5 13 (1.54%) Oracle
6 10 (1.18%) Facebook
7 9 (1.07%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.59%) HP
8 5 (0.59%) New Relic
8 5 (0.59%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.59%) Twitter
9 4 (0.47%) Databricks
9 4 (0.47%) Peregrine
9 4 (0.47%) Splunk
10 3 (0.36%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.36%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.24%) Northgate
11 2 (0.24%) QNX
11 2 (0.24%) SAP
11 2 (0.24%) Sitecore