Software Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,186 5,539 13,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.27% 13.90% 18.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.53% 14.47% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,334 3,794 5,478
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +9.76%
75th Percentile £88,438 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,397
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.87% +15.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,950 38,268 69,952
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.73% 96.05% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,425 26,570 41,531
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
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 Engineering.

Software Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Software Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
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
1 319 (7.62%) Apache Airflow
2 310 (7.41%) Apache
3 221 (5.28%) ArcGIS
4 214 (5.11%) GeoServer
5 52 (1.24%) Apache Spark
6 33 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 26 (0.62%) nginx
8 17 (0.41%) Confluence
9 14 (0.33%) NServiceBus
10 12 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.12%) Appian
12 5 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.096%) CMS
13 4 (0.096%) Drupal
13 4 (0.096%) WordPress
14 3 (0.072%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.048%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (1.51%) Simulink
2 9 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 8 (0.19%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.17%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.072%) Sketch
8 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.048%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.024%) Blender
9 1 (0.024%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.024%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.024%) Notion
9 1 (0.024%) UXPin
9 1 (0.024%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 32 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
4 3 (0.072%) Endur
4 3 (0.072%) Shopify
5 2 (0.048%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.024%) Findur
6 1 (0.024%) Magento
6 1 (0.024%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,629 (38.92%) AWS
2 1,084 (25.90%) Azure
3 503 (12.02%) GCP
4 284 (6.78%) dbt
5 242 (5.78%) SaaS
6 237 (5.66%) Snowflake
7 212 (5.06%) Serverless
8 171 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
10 134 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
11 116 (2.77%) GitHub
12 101 (2.41%) Power Platform
13 58 (1.39%) Amazon S3
14 47 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
16 33 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (0.74%) PaaS
18 29 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
19 26 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
20 24 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 93 (2.22%) Wireless
2 74 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 53 (1.27%) Ethernet
4 47 (1.12%) RS-232
5 41 (0.98%) Network Security
6 35 (0.84%) HTTP
7 32 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.50%) Internet
9 17 (0.41%) Modbus
10 15 (0.36%) Firewall
10 15 (0.36%) RS-485
11 14 (0.33%) ZigBee
12 12 (0.29%) 5G
12 12 (0.29%) AMQP
12 12 (0.29%) Bluetooth
13 9 (0.22%) CTI
13 9 (0.22%) MQTT
13 9 (0.22%) VoIP
14 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
15 6 (0.14%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 435 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 287 (6.86%) Apache Ignite
3 285 (6.81%) Amazon Athena
4 283 (6.76%) Dremio
5 280 (6.69%) Apache Arrow
6 253 (6.04%) Data Lake
7 235 (5.61%) GIS
8 214 (5.11%) QGIS
9 210 (5.02%) MySQL
10 169 (4.04%) SQL Server
11 151 (3.61%) Relational Database
12 118 (2.82%) NoSQL
13 86 (2.05%) Redis
14 82 (1.96%) MongoDB
15 68 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
16 62 (1.48%) DynamoDB
17 54 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
18 51 (1.22%) Big Data
18 51 (1.22%) Power BI
19 46 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 365 (8.72%) Git
2 156 (3.73%) GitLab
3 119 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 101 (2.41%) JIRA
5 83 (1.98%) Visual Studio
6 41 (0.98%) Subversion
7 32 (0.76%) Cypress.io
7 32 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 30 (0.72%) JUnit
8 30 (0.72%) LabVIEW
9 25 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 24 (0.57%) JDeveloper
11 22 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 22 (0.53%) CMake
12 21 (0.50%) Maven
12 21 (0.50%) Selenium
13 20 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 20 (0.48%) Vagrant
13 20 (0.48%) webpack
14 18 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 830 (19.83%) Finance
2 666 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 412 (9.84%) Front Office
4 370 (8.84%) Banking
5 273 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 262 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 160 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
8 140 (3.34%) Electronics
9 134 (3.20%) Manufacturing
10 111 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 105 (2.51%) Retail
12 86 (2.05%) Law
13 83 (1.98%) Automotive
13 83 (1.98%) Tech for Good
14 69 (1.65%) Marketing
15 62 (1.48%) Legal
16 59 (1.41%) Back Office
17 57 (1.36%) Games
18 52 (1.24%) Telecoms
19 41 (0.98%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,414 (57.67%) Software Engineer
2 1,348 (32.20%) Senior
3 1,018 (24.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 976 (23.32%) Developer
5 371 (8.86%) Lead
6 366 (8.74%) Embedded Engineer
7 322 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 258 (6.16%) Software Developer
9 247 (5.90%) Java Engineer
10 246 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 227 (5.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 218 (5.21%) Python Engineer
13 191 (4.56%) Python Software Engineer
14 178 (4.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 161 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
16 153 (3.66%) AWS Software Engineer
17 150 (3.58%) Python Developer
18 149 (3.56%) Architect
19 146 (3.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
20 144 (3.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 941 (22.48%) .NET
2 852 (20.35%) React
3 398 (9.51%) CSS
4 379 (9.05%) .NET Core
5 359 (8.58%) Node.js
6 330 (7.88%) AngularJS
7 319 (7.62%) gRPC
8 308 (7.36%) Protocol Buffers
9 305 (7.29%) Pandas
10 289 (6.90%) NumPy
11 274 (6.55%) RESTful
11 274 (6.55%) SciPy
12 230 (5.49%) HTML
13 215 (5.14%) Leaflet
13 215 (5.14%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.14%) PostGIS
14 190 (4.54%) Vue
15 183 (4.37%) ASP.NET
16 162 (3.87%) Django
17 154 (3.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 405 (9.68%) Fixed Income
2 357 (8.53%) Derivative
2 357 (8.53%) Equities
3 349 (8.34%) Hedge funds
4 328 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 183 (4.37%) Algorithms
6 168 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
7 165 (3.94%) Client/Server
8 137 (3.27%) Data Structures
9 112 (2.68%) Cloud Native
10 95 (2.27%) Product Ownership
11 92 (2.20%) IoT
12 89 (2.13%) Onboarding
13 85 (2.03%) Embedded Systems
14 74 (1.77%) Mobile App
15 69 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
16 68 (1.62%) Virtual Team
17 62 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
18 58 (1.39%) Private Cloud
19 49 (1.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 544 (13.00%) Linux
2 185 (4.42%) Windows
3 137 (3.27%) Embedded Linux
4 104 (2.48%) Android
5 90 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 88 (2.10%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
7 26 (0.62%) Unix
8 25 (0.60%) CentOS
8 25 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.31%) Debian
10 13 (0.31%) Windows Server
11 8 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.12%) VxWorks
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
13 3 (0.072%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.024%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.024%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,813 (43.31%) Agile
2 932 (22.26%) DevOps
3 697 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
4 576 (13.76%) Computer Science
5 545 (13.02%) Full Stack Development
6 527 (12.59%) CI/CD
7 478 (11.42%) Mentoring
8 409 (9.77%) Asset Management
9 401 (9.58%) Microservices
10 362 (8.65%) TDD
11 348 (8.31%) Investment Management
12 310 (7.41%) Web Development
13 294 (7.02%) Actionable Insight
14 291 (6.95%) SDLC
15 288 (6.88%) Test Automation
16 269 (6.43%) Continuous Integration
17 252 (6.02%) Scrum
18 244 (5.83%) Coaching
19 240 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence
20 219 (5.23%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,553 (37.10%) Python
2 1,223 (29.22%) JavaScript
3 1,042 (24.89%) Java
4 1,010 (24.13%) C#
5 772 (18.44%) TypeScript
6 646 (15.43%) SQL
7 534 (12.76%) C
8 409 (9.77%) C++
9 177 (4.23%) Embedded C
10 162 (3.87%) Kotlin
11 160 (3.82%) PHP
12 153 (3.66%) Go
13 143 (3.42%) Bash
14 96 (2.29%) Scala
15 90 (2.15%) Rust
16 89 (2.13%) Ruby
17 66 (1.58%) T-SQL
18 48 (1.15%) R
19 38 (0.91%) PowerShell
20 32 (0.76%) Ada
Qualifications
1 756 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 676 (16.15%) Degree
3 489 (11.68%) SC Cleared
4 251 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 116 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 102 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 68 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 36 (0.86%) PhD
10 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.29%) HNC
11 12 (0.29%) HND
12 9 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.14%) MCSE
14 5 (0.12%) CCIE
14 5 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.12%) CISSP
14 5 (0.12%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (3.92%) QA
2 107 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 60 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 25 (0.60%) MISRA
5 22 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
6 14 (0.33%) NCSC
7 10 (0.24%) Def Stans
7 10 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.14%) ISO 9000
9 6 (0.14%) WCAG
10 5 (0.12%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.12%) MISRA C
11 4 (0.096%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.096%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.072%) GDPR
12 3 (0.072%) NIST
13 2 (0.048%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.048%) SEPA
System Software
1 404 (9.65%) Docker
2 138 (3.30%) Firmware
3 60 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
4 13 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.26%) IAG
6 4 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.072%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.048%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.024%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 377 (9.01%) Kubernetes
2 267 (6.38%) Terraform
3 135 (3.23%) Ansible
4 30 (0.72%) Grafana
5 26 (0.62%) Progress Chef
6 19 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.12%) Kibana
8 4 (0.096%) Packer
8 4 (0.096%) Puppet
9 3 (0.072%) Consul
9 3 (0.072%) Istio
9 3 (0.072%) logstash
9 3 (0.072%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.048%) Argo
10 2 (0.048%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.048%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.048%) Nessus
10 2 (0.048%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.024%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 311 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.14%) ESRI
3 96 (2.29%) Google
4 75 (1.79%) Oracle
5 40 (0.96%) Xamarin
6 36 (0.86%) Bloomberg
6 36 (0.86%) Xilinx
7 29 (0.69%) Micro Focus
8 26 (0.62%) Dell
9 24 (0.57%) SAP
10 22 (0.53%) IBM
11 20 (0.48%) Adobe
12 17 (0.41%) Twitter
13 14 (0.33%) NVIDIA
14 13 (0.31%) Databricks
15 12 (0.29%) DevExpress
15 12 (0.29%) EMC
16 11 (0.26%) Siemens
17 10 (0.24%) Splunk
18 9 (0.22%) Sage