Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,358 2,995 6,280
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.98% 7.24% 9.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.27% 7.54% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,749 1,834 2,089
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,488 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £119,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 32,440 39,720 66,965
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.99% 97.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,895 28,262 41,717
10th Percentile £33,005 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £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 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
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 Engineer.

Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Software Engineer salary 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 12 May 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,343 (99.36%) Software Engineering
2 992 (42.07%) Agile
3 981 (41.60%) Python
4 969 (41.09%) AWS
5 764 (32.40%) JavaScript
6 638 (27.06%) Azure
7 620 (26.29%) Java
8 602 (25.53%) React
9 579 (24.55%) .NET
10 576 (24.43%) C#
11 495 (20.99%) DevOps
12 453 (19.21%) Security Cleared
13 399 (16.92%) Linux
14 391 (16.58%) Finance
15 377 (15.99%) TypeScript
16 376 (15.95%) C
17 371 (15.73%) SQL
18 353 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
19 341 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
20 310 (13.15%) Degree
21 308 (13.06%) SC Cleared
22 305 (12.93%) Actionable Insight
23 302 (12.81%) .NET Core
24 290 (12.30%) GCP
25 282 (11.96%) C++
26 272 (11.54%) Microservices
27 257 (10.90%) CSS
28 252 (10.69%) Full Stack Development
29 251 (10.64%) Web Development
30 249 (10.56%) Social Skills

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
1 221 (9.37%) ArcGIS
2 214 (9.08%) GeoServer
3 160 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
4 159 (6.74%) Apache
5 45 (1.91%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.47%) NServiceBus
7 7 (0.30%) Confluence
8 6 (0.25%) nginx
8 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) CMS
10 2 (0.085%) Drupal
10 2 (0.085%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.085%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.042%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.042%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.042%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.042%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.042%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (1.70%) Simulink
2 7 (0.30%) Stateflow
3 6 (0.25%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.13%) Sketch
6 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.042%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.042%) UXPin
7 1 (0.042%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.042%) Endur
4 1 (0.042%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 969 (41.09%) AWS
2 638 (27.06%) Azure
3 290 (12.30%) GCP
4 131 (5.56%) dbt
5 129 (5.47%) Serverless
6 126 (5.34%) SaaS
7 104 (4.41%) Snowflake
8 68 (2.88%) GitHub
9 55 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (1.70%) Amazon S3
12 30 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (1.02%) Slack
14 23 (0.98%) Google Docs
14 23 (0.98%) Lucidchart
14 23 (0.98%) Miro
15 21 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (0.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 48 (2.04%) Wireless
3 47 (1.99%) RS-232
4 41 (1.74%) Ethernet
5 29 (1.23%) Network Security
6 27 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (0.93%) HTTP
8 18 (0.76%) Modbus
9 17 (0.72%) Bluetooth
10 15 (0.64%) Internet
10 15 (0.64%) RS-485
11 14 (0.59%) ZigBee
12 8 (0.34%) VoIP
13 7 (0.30%) 5G
13 7 (0.30%) Firewall
14 4 (0.17%) 3GPP
14 4 (0.17%) Profibus
14 4 (0.17%) RS-422
15 2 (0.085%) NGN
15 2 (0.085%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
2 234 (9.92%) GIS
3 214 (9.08%) QGIS
4 164 (6.96%) MySQL
5 143 (6.06%) Apache Ignite
6 131 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
6 131 (5.56%) Apache Arrow
6 131 (5.56%) Dremio
7 105 (4.45%) Data Lake
8 91 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 90 (3.82%) Relational Database
10 81 (3.44%) NoSQL
11 59 (2.50%) Redis
12 56 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (2.04%) Oracle Database
14 45 (1.91%) MongoDB
15 40 (1.70%) RDBMS
16 36 (1.53%) Big Data
17 26 (1.10%) DynamoDB
17 26 (1.10%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (8.48%) Git
2 70 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 65 (2.76%) JIRA
4 56 (2.37%) GitLab
5 36 (1.53%) JDeveloper
6 33 (1.40%) Subversion
7 32 (1.36%) Visual Studio
8 24 (1.02%) Maven
9 19 (0.81%) LabVIEW
10 16 (0.68%) CMake
10 16 (0.68%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.64%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (0.64%) Vagrant
12 13 (0.55%) Selenium
13 10 (0.42%) Gradle
13 10 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
13 10 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
14 8 (0.34%) Postman
14 8 (0.34%) Spinnaker
General
1 391 (16.58%) Finance
2 249 (10.56%) Social Skills
3 218 (9.25%) Front Office
4 188 (7.97%) Banking
5 142 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 135 (5.73%) Investment Banking
7 105 (4.45%) Electronics
8 90 (3.82%) Manufacturing
9 68 (2.88%) Automotive
10 63 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
11 55 (2.33%) Public Sector
12 51 (2.16%) Tech for Good
13 47 (1.99%) Retail
14 46 (1.95%) Back Office
15 41 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 40 (1.70%) Law
17 35 (1.48%) Games
18 30 (1.27%) Legal
19 27 (1.15%) Military
20 22 (0.93%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (25.53%) React
2 579 (24.55%) .NET
3 302 (12.81%) .NET Core
4 257 (10.90%) CSS
5 246 (10.43%) AngularJS
6 215 (9.12%) Leaflet
6 215 (9.12%) OpenLayers
6 215 (9.12%) PostGIS
7 210 (8.91%) Node.js
8 160 (6.79%) gRPC
9 155 (6.57%) Protocol Buffers
10 151 (6.40%) RESTful
11 148 (6.28%) Pandas
12 143 (6.06%) Vue
13 141 (5.98%) NumPy
14 131 (5.56%) SciPy
15 114 (4.83%) ASP.NET
16 103 (4.37%) Redux
17 95 (4.03%) Kafka
18 92 (3.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (9.25%) Fixed Income
2 173 (7.34%) Derivative
2 173 (7.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 170 (7.21%) Equities
4 157 (6.66%) Hedge funds
5 105 (4.45%) Algorithms
6 72 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 65 (2.76%) Embedded Systems
7 65 (2.76%) IoT
8 64 (2.71%) Client/Server
9 58 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
10 48 (2.04%) Cloud Native
11 45 (1.91%) Device Driver
12 38 (1.61%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
14 31 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 29 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.15%) Product Ownership
17 24 (1.02%) Pricing Data
18 21 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 399 (16.92%) Linux
2 127 (5.39%) Windows
3 111 (4.71%) Embedded Linux
4 80 (3.39%) Ubuntu
5 69 (2.93%) Android
6 50 (2.12%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
8 24 (1.02%) Unix
9 23 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.64%) CentOS
11 11 (0.47%) Debian
12 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.25%) VxWorks
14 5 (0.21%) ThreadX
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server
16 1 (0.042%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,343 (99.36%) Software Engineering
2 992 (42.07%) Agile
3 495 (20.99%) DevOps
4 353 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (12.93%) Actionable Insight
6 272 (11.54%) Microservices
7 252 (10.69%) Full Stack Development
8 251 (10.64%) Web Development
9 233 (9.88%) Computer Science
9 233 (9.88%) Mentoring
10 220 (9.33%) Asset Management
11 197 (8.35%) TDD
12 193 (8.18%) Investment Management
13 182 (7.72%) CI/CD
14 174 (7.38%) Test Automation
15 156 (6.62%) SDLC
16 142 (6.02%) OOP
17 128 (5.43%) Code Quality
18 127 (5.39%) Design Patterns
19 124 (5.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 981 (41.60%) Python
2 764 (32.40%) JavaScript
3 620 (26.29%) Java
4 576 (24.43%) C#
5 377 (15.99%) TypeScript
6 376 (15.95%) C
7 371 (15.73%) SQL
8 282 (11.96%) C++
9 156 (6.62%) Bash
10 124 (5.26%) Embedded C
11 115 (4.88%) Kotlin
12 112 (4.75%) Go
13 77 (3.27%) PHP
13 77 (3.27%) Ruby
14 73 (3.10%) Rust
15 64 (2.71%) Scala
16 45 (1.91%) Perl
17 44 (1.87%) T-SQL
18 25 (1.06%) Ada
19 16 (0.68%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 453 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 310 (13.15%) Degree
3 308 (13.06%) SC Cleared
4 101 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.10%) DV Cleared
8 17 (0.72%) PhD
9 16 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.47%) HND
11 10 (0.42%) HNC
12 7 (0.30%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.085%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.085%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.28%) QA
2 40 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.06%) MISRA
4 23 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
5 10 (0.42%) Def Stans
6 6 (0.25%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.21%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.21%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.085%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.085%) EMIR
9 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.085%) MiFID
9 2 (0.085%) PMO
9 2 (0.085%) SEPA
10 1 (0.042%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.042%) JTAG
System Software
1 173 (7.34%) Docker
2 74 (3.14%) Firmware
3 36 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.042%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 165 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 136 (5.77%) Terraform
3 65 (2.76%) Ansible
4 16 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.30%) Grafana
6 3 (0.13%) Consul
6 3 (0.13%) Packer
7 2 (0.085%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.042%) Argo
8 1 (0.042%) Istio
8 1 (0.042%) Kibana
8 1 (0.042%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.042%) Rancher
Vendors
1 215 (9.12%) ESRI
2 102 (4.33%) Microsoft
3 68 (2.88%) Oracle
4 62 (2.63%) Google
5 34 (1.44%) Dell
6 25 (1.06%) IBM
7 14 (0.59%) Xamarin
7 14 (0.59%) Xilinx
8 12 (0.51%) DevExpress
9 10 (0.42%) Siemens
10 9 (0.38%) SAP
10 9 (0.38%) Twitter
11 8 (0.34%) Siebel
12 7 (0.30%) Confluent
12 7 (0.30%) Lauterbach
13 6 (0.25%) Facebook
13 6 (0.25%) QNX
14 5 (0.21%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.21%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.21%) YouTube