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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 39 26
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,495 2,609 7,453
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.17% 6.77% 10.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.45% 7.06% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,899 1,788 2,167
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,430
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,375 £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 £86,250 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £120,000 £100,684
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 33,479 36,977 72,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 95.95% 97.33%
Number of salaries quoted 25,508 26,851 42,434
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2,480 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 1,039 (41.64%) AWS
3 1,038 (41.60%) Agile
4 1,034 (41.44%) Python
5 819 (32.83%) JavaScript
6 662 (26.53%) Azure
7 623 (24.97%) Java
8 609 (24.41%) C#
9 603 (24.17%) .NET
10 584 (23.41%) React
11 484 (19.40%) Security Cleared
12 480 (19.24%) DevOps
13 467 (18.72%) TypeScript
14 450 (18.04%) Finance
15 401 (16.07%) Linux
16 386 (15.47%) SQL
17 368 (14.75%) C
18 354 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
19 327 (13.11%) SC Cleared
20 316 (12.67%) Degree
21 312 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
22 300 (12.02%) .NET Core
23 298 (11.94%) C++
24 290 (11.62%) GCP
25 273 (10.94%) Asset Management
26 272 (10.90%) Fixed Income
27 271 (10.86%) Front Office
28 270 (10.82%) Full Stack Development
29 263 (10.54%) Actionable Insight
29 263 (10.54%) AngularJS

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 (8.86%) ArcGIS
2 219 (8.78%) Apache Airflow
3 218 (8.74%) Apache
4 214 (8.58%) GeoServer
5 33 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.52%) NServiceBus
7 6 (0.24%) nginx
7 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.20%) Confluence
9 3 (0.12%) CMS
9 3 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.080%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.040%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.040%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.040%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.040%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (1.84%) Simulink
2 7 (0.28%) Stateflow
3 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 2 (0.080%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.040%) UXPin
7 1 (0.040%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.040%) Endur
4 1 (0.040%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,039 (41.64%) AWS
2 662 (26.53%) Azure
3 290 (11.62%) GCP
4 184 (7.37%) dbt
5 152 (6.09%) Snowflake
6 99 (3.97%) SaaS
6 99 (3.97%) Serverless
7 67 (2.69%) GitHub
8 60 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 21 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (0.60%) Slack
13 14 (0.56%) Google Docs
13 14 (0.56%) Lucidchart
13 14 (0.56%) Miro
14 12 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (0.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.36%) TCP/IP
2 48 (1.92%) RS-232
3 42 (1.68%) Wireless
4 38 (1.52%) Ethernet
5 37 (1.48%) Network Security
6 27 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (0.88%) HTTP
8 17 (0.68%) RS-485
9 16 (0.64%) Bluetooth
9 16 (0.64%) Internet
9 16 (0.64%) Modbus
10 15 (0.60%) ZigBee
11 8 (0.32%) VoIP
12 6 (0.24%) Firewall
13 5 (0.20%) 5G
14 4 (0.16%) 3GPP
14 4 (0.16%) Profibus
14 4 (0.16%) RS-422
15 2 (0.080%) MQTT
15 2 (0.080%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
2 235 (9.42%) GIS
3 214 (8.58%) QGIS
4 202 (8.10%) Apache Ignite
5 184 (7.37%) Amazon Athena
5 184 (7.37%) Apache Arrow
5 184 (7.37%) Dremio
6 166 (6.65%) MySQL
7 153 (6.13%) Data Lake
8 96 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 89 (3.57%) NoSQL
10 62 (2.48%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.08%) Redis
12 46 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (1.84%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.20%) DynamoDB
14 23 (0.92%) Big Data
15 20 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.68%) Hadoop
17 14 (0.56%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 168 (6.73%) Git
2 62 (2.48%) JIRA
3 61 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.12%) GitLab
5 33 (1.32%) Subversion
6 28 (1.12%) Visual Studio
7 21 (0.84%) Vagrant
8 19 (0.76%) LabVIEW
8 19 (0.76%) Maven
9 16 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.56%) CMake
11 12 (0.48%) Selenium
12 10 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
12 10 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
13 8 (0.32%) Gradle
13 8 (0.32%) Postman
14 7 (0.28%) ClearCase
14 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.28%) Plastic SCM
General
1 450 (18.04%) Finance
2 271 (10.86%) Front Office
3 245 (9.82%) Social Skills
4 220 (8.82%) Banking
5 182 (7.29%) Investment Banking
6 132 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (4.29%) Electronics
8 106 (4.25%) Manufacturing
9 74 (2.97%) Automotive
10 67 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
11 56 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 52 (2.08%) Tech for Good
13 51 (2.04%) Retail
14 47 (1.88%) Back Office
15 41 (1.64%) Law
16 37 (1.48%) Aerospace
16 37 (1.48%) Games
17 30 (1.20%) Legal
18 27 (1.08%) Military
19 26 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 603 (24.17%) .NET
2 584 (23.41%) React
3 300 (12.02%) .NET Core
4 263 (10.54%) AngularJS
5 257 (10.30%) CSS
6 219 (8.78%) gRPC
7 215 (8.62%) Leaflet
7 215 (8.62%) OpenLayers
7 215 (8.62%) PostGIS
8 214 (8.58%) Protocol Buffers
9 201 (8.06%) Pandas
10 194 (7.78%) NumPy
11 193 (7.74%) Node.js
12 184 (7.37%) SciPy
13 159 (6.37%) Vue
14 153 (6.13%) RESTful
15 113 (4.53%) ASP.NET
16 109 (4.37%) Redux
17 95 (3.81%) Django
18 90 (3.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 272 (10.90%) Fixed Income
2 221 (8.86%) Derivative
2 221 (8.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 218 (8.74%) Equities
4 206 (8.26%) Hedge funds
5 93 (3.73%) Algorithms
6 67 (2.69%) IoT
7 66 (2.65%) Embedded Systems
8 64 (2.57%) Client/Server
9 62 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 54 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
11 45 (1.80%) Device Driver
12 42 (1.68%) Pricing Data
13 41 (1.64%) Cloud Native
14 38 (1.52%) Mobile App
15 37 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
16 31 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (1.12%) Product Ownership
18 23 (0.92%) Virtual Team
19 22 (0.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 401 (16.07%) Linux
2 126 (5.05%) Windows
3 113 (4.53%) Embedded Linux
4 86 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 75 (3.01%) Android
6 48 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.04%) FreeRTOS
7 26 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.00%) Unix
9 21 (0.84%) CentOS
10 13 (0.52%) Debian
11 9 (0.36%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.20%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.20%) VxWorks
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 2 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.040%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,480 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 1,038 (41.60%) Agile
3 480 (19.24%) DevOps
4 312 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (10.94%) Asset Management
6 270 (10.82%) Full Stack Development
7 263 (10.54%) Actionable Insight
8 248 (9.94%) Web Development
9 238 (9.54%) Investment Management
10 235 (9.42%) Computer Science
11 234 (9.38%) Mentoring
12 232 (9.30%) Microservices
13 195 (7.82%) TDD
14 189 (7.58%) CI/CD
15 164 (6.57%) SDLC
16 163 (6.53%) Test Automation
17 148 (5.93%) OOP
18 126 (5.05%) OO
19 123 (4.93%) Fintech
20 121 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (41.44%) Python
2 819 (32.83%) JavaScript
3 623 (24.97%) Java
4 609 (24.41%) C#
5 467 (18.72%) TypeScript
6 386 (15.47%) SQL
7 368 (14.75%) C
8 298 (11.94%) C++
9 124 (4.97%) Embedded C
10 114 (4.57%) Kotlin
11 107 (4.29%) Bash
12 79 (3.17%) PHP
13 73 (2.93%) Rust
14 70 (2.81%) Go
15 54 (2.16%) Scala
16 42 (1.68%) T-SQL
17 39 (1.56%) Ruby
18 26 (1.04%) Ada
19 16 (0.64%) Embedded C++
19 16 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 484 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 327 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 316 (12.67%) Degree
4 109 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 45 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 17 (0.68%) PhD
10 11 (0.44%) HND
11 10 (0.40%) HNC
12 7 (0.28%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.12%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.080%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.080%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.040%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.040%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (2.53%) QA
2 58 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.00%) MISRA
4 20 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
5 10 (0.40%) Def Stans
6 6 (0.24%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.20%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.20%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 3 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.080%) EMIR
10 2 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.080%) MiFID
10 2 (0.080%) SEPA
11 1 (0.040%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.040%) JTAG
System Software
1 171 (6.85%) Docker
2 70 (2.81%) Firmware
3 33 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.040%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 165 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 146 (5.85%) Terraform
3 73 (2.93%) Ansible
4 16 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.36%) Grafana
6 3 (0.12%) Consul
6 3 (0.12%) Packer
7 2 (0.080%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.080%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.040%) Argo
8 1 (0.040%) Istio
8 1 (0.040%) Kibana
8 1 (0.040%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 215 (8.62%) ESRI
2 103 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 45 (1.80%) Google
4 25 (1.00%) Oracle
5 20 (0.80%) IBM
5 20 (0.80%) Xilinx
6 16 (0.64%) Dell
6 16 (0.64%) Xamarin
7 12 (0.48%) DevExpress
8 10 (0.40%) Siemens
9 9 (0.36%) SAP
9 9 (0.36%) Twitter
10 7 (0.28%) Lauterbach
10 7 (0.28%) QNX
11 6 (0.24%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.24%) Facebook
12 5 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.20%) Siebel
12 5 (0.20%) YouTube
13 4 (0.16%) Apple