Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 34 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,425 2,953 6,884
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.10% 7.38% 9.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.39% 7.69% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,824 1,796 2,123
10th Percentile £41,800 £43,000 £41,326
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £120,000 £100,401
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 32,819 38,389 70,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,114 27,311 42,144
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,536 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +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 26 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 26 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 2,410 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 1,024 (42.23%) Python
3 1,017 (41.94%) Agile
4 1,007 (41.53%) AWS
5 811 (33.44%) JavaScript
6 643 (26.52%) Azure
7 625 (25.77%) Java
8 599 (24.70%) React
9 588 (24.25%) .NET
10 587 (24.21%) C#
11 491 (20.25%) DevOps
12 479 (19.75%) Security Cleared
13 437 (18.02%) TypeScript
14 425 (17.53%) Finance
15 393 (16.21%) Linux
16 370 (15.26%) SQL
17 366 (15.09%) C
18 349 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
19 345 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
20 324 (13.36%) SC Cleared
21 309 (12.74%) Degree
22 297 (12.25%) .NET Core
23 291 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
24 285 (11.75%) C++
25 284 (11.71%) GCP
26 264 (10.89%) Full Stack Development
27 256 (10.56%) Asset Management
28 255 (10.52%) AngularJS
29 254 (10.47%) Microservices
29 254 (10.47%) Fixed Income

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 (9.11%) ArcGIS
2 214 (8.82%) GeoServer
3 200 (8.25%) Apache Airflow
4 199 (8.21%) Apache
5 38 (1.57%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.54%) NServiceBus
7 6 (0.25%) nginx
7 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.21%) Confluence
9 3 (0.12%) CMS
9 3 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.082%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.082%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.041%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.041%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.041%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.041%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (1.81%) Simulink
2 7 (0.29%) Stateflow
3 6 (0.25%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 2 (0.082%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.041%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.041%) UXPin
7 1 (0.041%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
1 7 (0.29%) Siebel CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.041%) Endur
3 1 (0.041%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (41.53%) AWS
2 643 (26.52%) Azure
3 284 (11.71%) GCP
4 167 (6.89%) dbt
5 136 (5.61%) Snowflake
6 120 (4.95%) Serverless
7 106 (4.37%) SaaS
8 66 (2.72%) GitHub
9 58 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 25 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (0.78%) Slack
15 18 (0.74%) Google Docs
15 18 (0.74%) Lucidchart
15 18 (0.74%) Miro
16 12 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.39%) TCP/IP
2 46 (1.90%) RS-232
3 42 (1.73%) Wireless
4 39 (1.61%) Ethernet
5 29 (1.20%) Network Security
6 26 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (0.91%) HTTP
8 17 (0.70%) Bluetooth
8 17 (0.70%) Modbus
9 15 (0.62%) Internet
9 15 (0.62%) RS-485
10 14 (0.58%) ZigBee
11 8 (0.33%) VoIP
12 6 (0.25%) Firewall
13 5 (0.21%) 5G
14 4 (0.16%) 3GPP
14 4 (0.16%) Profibus
14 4 (0.16%) RS-422
15 2 (0.082%) MQTT
15 2 (0.082%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 234 (9.65%) GIS
3 214 (8.82%) QGIS
4 183 (7.55%) Apache Ignite
5 167 (6.89%) Amazon Athena
5 167 (6.89%) Apache Arrow
5 167 (6.89%) Dremio
6 164 (6.76%) MySQL
7 137 (5.65%) Data Lake
8 94 (3.88%) SQL Server
9 84 (3.46%) NoSQL
10 83 (3.42%) Relational Database
11 56 (2.31%) Redis
12 50 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
13 46 (1.90%) MongoDB
14 31 (1.28%) Oracle Database
15 30 (1.24%) DynamoDB
16 28 (1.15%) RDBMS
17 27 (1.11%) Big Data
18 20 (0.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 190 (7.84%) Git
2 62 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 62 (2.56%) JIRA
3 55 (2.27%) GitLab
4 33 (1.36%) Subversion
5 28 (1.15%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.99%) JDeveloper
7 19 (0.78%) LabVIEW
7 19 (0.78%) Maven
7 19 (0.78%) Vagrant
8 16 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.62%) CMake
10 12 (0.49%) Selenium
11 10 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
12 8 (0.33%) Gradle
12 8 (0.33%) Postman
13 7 (0.29%) ClearCase
13 7 (0.29%) Plastic SCM
General
1 425 (17.53%) Finance
2 254 (10.47%) Front Office
3 244 (10.06%) Social Skills
4 208 (8.58%) Banking
5 167 (6.89%) Investment Banking
6 133 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 106 (4.37%) Electronics
8 98 (4.04%) Manufacturing
9 70 (2.89%) Automotive
10 64 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
11 56 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 50 (2.06%) Tech for Good
13 48 (1.98%) Retail
14 46 (1.90%) Back Office
15 40 (1.65%) Law
16 37 (1.53%) Games
17 36 (1.48%) Aerospace
18 31 (1.28%) Legal
19 27 (1.11%) Military
20 24 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (24.70%) React
2 588 (24.25%) .NET
3 297 (12.25%) .NET Core
4 255 (10.52%) AngularJS
5 253 (10.43%) CSS
6 215 (8.87%) Leaflet
6 215 (8.87%) OpenLayers
6 215 (8.87%) PostGIS
7 210 (8.66%) Node.js
8 200 (8.25%) gRPC
9 195 (8.04%) Protocol Buffers
10 184 (7.59%) Pandas
11 177 (7.30%) NumPy
12 167 (6.89%) SciPy
13 153 (6.31%) RESTful
13 153 (6.31%) Vue
14 113 (4.66%) ASP.NET
15 107 (4.41%) Redux
16 92 (3.79%) Django
17 86 (3.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 254 (10.47%) Fixed Income
2 205 (8.45%) Derivative
2 205 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 202 (8.33%) Equities
4 189 (7.79%) Hedge funds
5 98 (4.04%) Algorithms
6 66 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 66 (2.72%) Embedded Systems
7 65 (2.68%) IoT
8 64 (2.64%) Client/Server
9 55 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 43 (1.77%) Cloud Native
10 43 (1.77%) Device Driver
11 38 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 36 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
12 36 (1.48%) Pricing Data
13 30 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 26 (1.07%) Product Ownership
15 25 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 21 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 393 (16.21%) Linux
2 124 (5.11%) Windows
3 112 (4.62%) Embedded Linux
4 84 (3.46%) Ubuntu
5 73 (3.01%) Android
6 49 (2.02%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.03%) FreeRTOS
8 24 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (0.99%) Unix
9 19 (0.78%) CentOS
10 13 (0.54%) Debian
11 7 (0.29%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.21%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.21%) VxWorks
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 2 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.082%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.041%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,410 (99.38%) Software Engineering
2 1,017 (41.94%) Agile
3 491 (20.25%) DevOps
4 345 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
5 291 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
6 264 (10.89%) Full Stack Development
7 256 (10.56%) Asset Management
8 254 (10.47%) Microservices
9 249 (10.27%) Web Development
10 231 (9.53%) Computer Science
11 230 (9.48%) Mentoring
12 223 (9.20%) Investment Management
13 198 (8.16%) TDD
14 186 (7.67%) CI/CD
15 168 (6.93%) Test Automation
16 159 (6.56%) SDLC
17 145 (5.98%) OOP
18 122 (5.03%) OO
19 115 (4.74%) Fintech
20 114 (4.70%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (42.23%) Python
2 811 (33.44%) JavaScript
3 625 (25.77%) Java
4 587 (24.21%) C#
5 437 (18.02%) TypeScript
6 370 (15.26%) SQL
7 366 (15.09%) C
8 285 (11.75%) C++
9 135 (5.57%) Bash
10 121 (4.99%) Embedded C
11 112 (4.62%) Kotlin
12 94 (3.88%) Go
13 76 (3.13%) PHP
14 72 (2.97%) Rust
15 65 (2.68%) Ruby
16 58 (2.39%) Scala
17 43 (1.77%) T-SQL
18 31 (1.28%) Perl
19 26 (1.07%) Ada
20 16 (0.66%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 479 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 324 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 309 (12.74%) Degree
4 107 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 42 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 16 (0.66%) PhD
10 11 (0.45%) HND
11 10 (0.41%) HNC
12 7 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.12%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.082%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.082%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.041%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.041%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.75%) QA
2 52 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.03%) MISRA
4 22 (0.91%) Software Quality Assurance
5 10 (0.41%) Def Stans
6 6 (0.25%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.21%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.21%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 3 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.082%) EMIR
10 2 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.082%) MiFID
10 2 (0.082%) SEPA
11 1 (0.041%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.041%) JTAG
System Software
1 166 (6.85%) Docker
2 69 (2.85%) Firmware
3 32 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.082%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.041%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 163 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 143 (5.90%) Terraform
3 70 (2.89%) Ansible
4 16 (0.66%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.37%) Grafana
6 3 (0.12%) Consul
6 3 (0.12%) Packer
7 2 (0.082%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.082%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.041%) Argo
8 1 (0.041%) Istio
8 1 (0.041%) Kibana
8 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 215 (8.87%) ESRI
2 102 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 50 (2.06%) Oracle
4 48 (1.98%) Google
5 22 (0.91%) Dell
6 20 (0.82%) IBM
7 18 (0.74%) Xilinx
8 16 (0.66%) Xamarin
9 12 (0.49%) DevExpress
10 10 (0.41%) Siemens
11 9 (0.37%) SAP
11 9 (0.37%) Twitter
12 7 (0.29%) Lauterbach
12 7 (0.29%) Siebel
13 6 (0.25%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.25%) Facebook
13 6 (0.25%) QNX
14 5 (0.21%) Confluent
14 5 (0.21%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.21%) YouTube