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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,288 5,086 14,021
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.32% 13.20% 18.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.68% 13.75% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,424 3,732 5,537
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% +8.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,375 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -13.75% +1.34% +15.13%

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 31,355 37,000 72,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,586 26,257 41,808
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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
1 351 (8.19%) Apache Airflow
2 339 (7.91%) Apache
3 221 (5.15%) ArcGIS
4 214 (4.99%) GeoServer
5 45 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 34 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 26 (0.61%) nginx
8 17 (0.40%) Confluence
9 14 (0.33%) NServiceBus
10 13 (0.30%) IIS
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.12%) Appian
12 5 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.093%) CMS
13 4 (0.093%) Drupal
13 4 (0.093%) WordPress
14 3 (0.070%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.047%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.047%) Umbraco
Applications
1 67 (1.56%) Simulink
2 9 (0.21%) Adobe XD
3 8 (0.19%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.16%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.070%) Sketch
8 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.047%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.023%) Blender
9 1 (0.023%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.023%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.023%) Notion
9 1 (0.023%) UXPin
9 1 (0.023%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 32 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
4 3 (0.070%) Endur
4 3 (0.070%) Shopify
5 2 (0.047%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.023%) Findur
6 1 (0.023%) Magento
6 1 (0.023%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,680 (39.18%) AWS
2 1,112 (25.93%) Azure
3 507 (11.82%) GCP
4 314 (7.32%) dbt
5 263 (6.13%) Snowflake
6 233 (5.43%) SaaS
7 192 (4.48%) Serverless
8 182 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 134 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 116 (2.71%) GitHub
12 101 (2.36%) Power Platform
13 55 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 48 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
16 30 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
17 29 (0.68%) PaaS
18 28 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
18 28 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (2.17%) Wireless
2 75 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 52 (1.21%) Ethernet
4 49 (1.14%) Network Security
4 49 (1.14%) RS-232
5 35 (0.82%) HTTP
6 33 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (0.51%) Internet
8 17 (0.40%) RS-485
9 16 (0.37%) Modbus
10 15 (0.35%) ZigBee
11 14 (0.33%) Firewall
12 12 (0.28%) 5G
12 12 (0.28%) AMQP
13 11 (0.26%) Bluetooth
14 9 (0.21%) CTI
14 9 (0.21%) MQTT
15 8 (0.19%) VoIP
16 7 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
17 6 (0.14%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
2 316 (7.37%) Apache Ignite
3 315 (7.35%) Amazon Athena
4 313 (7.30%) Dremio
5 307 (7.16%) Apache Arrow
6 282 (6.58%) Data Lake
7 236 (5.50%) GIS
8 218 (5.08%) MySQL
9 214 (4.99%) QGIS
10 168 (3.92%) SQL Server
11 132 (3.08%) Relational Database
12 125 (2.92%) NoSQL
13 87 (2.03%) MongoDB
14 81 (1.89%) Redis
15 66 (1.54%) DynamoDB
16 63 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
17 60 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
18 52 (1.21%) Power BI
19 46 (1.07%) Big Data
19 46 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 343 (8.00%) Git
2 156 (3.64%) GitLab
3 114 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 97 (2.26%) JIRA
5 84 (1.96%) Visual Studio
6 41 (0.96%) Subversion
7 32 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 32 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
8 31 (0.72%) JUnit
9 30 (0.70%) LabVIEW
10 25 (0.58%) TeamCity
11 23 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.51%) Vagrant
13 21 (0.49%) CMake
13 21 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.49%) Selenium
14 20 (0.47%) webpack
15 19 (0.44%) Maven
15 19 (0.44%) Postman
15 19 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 859 (20.03%) Finance
2 673 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 440 (10.26%) Front Office
4 390 (9.10%) Banking
5 298 (6.95%) Investment Banking
6 262 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 164 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
8 142 (3.31%) Manufacturing
9 141 (3.29%) Electronics
10 115 (2.68%) Public Sector
11 107 (2.50%) Retail
12 87 (2.03%) Automotive
12 87 (2.03%) Law
13 85 (1.98%) Tech for Good
14 68 (1.59%) Marketing
15 62 (1.45%) Legal
16 61 (1.42%) Back Office
17 55 (1.28%) Games
18 54 (1.26%) Telecoms
19 44 (1.03%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2,480 (57.84%) Software Engineer
2 1,382 (32.23%) Senior
3 1,041 (24.28%) Senior Software Engineer
4 993 (23.16%) Developer
5 391 (9.12%) Lead
6 379 (8.84%) Embedded Engineer
7 335 (7.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 265 (6.18%) Java Engineer
8 265 (6.18%) Software Developer
9 255 (5.95%) Senior Developer
10 243 (5.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 241 (5.62%) Python Engineer
12 210 (4.90%) Python Software Engineer
13 183 (4.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 179 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
15 171 (3.99%) AWS Software Engineer
16 155 (3.61%) Architect
17 153 (3.57%) Lead Software Engineer
17 153 (3.57%) Python Developer
18 147 (3.43%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 961 (22.41%) .NET
2 840 (19.59%) React
3 399 (9.31%) CSS
4 383 (8.93%) .NET Core
5 348 (8.12%) gRPC
6 339 (7.91%) AngularJS
6 339 (7.91%) Node.js
7 337 (7.86%) Protocol Buffers
8 336 (7.84%) Pandas
9 319 (7.44%) NumPy
10 304 (7.09%) SciPy
11 275 (6.41%) RESTful
12 232 (5.41%) HTML
13 215 (5.01%) Leaflet
13 215 (5.01%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.01%) PostGIS
14 193 (4.50%) Vue
15 189 (4.41%) ASP.NET
16 167 (3.89%) Django
17 149 (3.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 431 (10.05%) Fixed Income
2 382 (8.91%) Derivative
3 381 (8.89%) Equities
4 374 (8.72%) Hedge funds
5 354 (8.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 178 (4.15%) Algorithms
7 166 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
8 165 (3.85%) Client/Server
9 132 (3.08%) Data Structures
10 110 (2.57%) Cloud Native
11 96 (2.24%) Product Ownership
12 94 (2.19%) IoT
13 91 (2.12%) Onboarding
14 86 (2.01%) Embedded Systems
15 77 (1.80%) Mobile App
16 70 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
17 66 (1.54%) Virtual Team
18 63 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
19 60 (1.40%) Private Cloud
20 50 (1.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 555 (12.94%) Linux
2 189 (4.41%) Windows
3 141 (3.29%) Embedded Linux
4 108 (2.52%) Android
5 94 (2.19%) Ubuntu
6 91 (2.12%) Apple iOS
7 27 (0.63%) CentOS
7 27 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
7 27 (0.63%) Unix
8 26 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (0.37%) Windows Server
10 13 (0.30%) Debian
11 12 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
13 5 (0.12%) VxWorks
13 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
14 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.070%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 1 (0.023%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,841 (42.93%) Agile
2 922 (21.50%) DevOps
3 668 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
4 583 (13.60%) Computer Science
5 558 (13.01%) Full Stack Development
6 531 (12.38%) CI/CD
7 480 (11.19%) Mentoring
8 437 (10.19%) Asset Management
9 379 (8.84%) Microservices
10 370 (8.63%) Investment Management
11 358 (8.35%) TDD
12 313 (7.30%) Web Development
13 299 (6.97%) SDLC
14 281 (6.55%) Test Automation
15 266 (6.20%) Actionable Insight
16 256 (5.97%) Scrum
17 252 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
18 247 (5.76%) Continuous Integration
19 245 (5.71%) Coaching
20 225 (5.25%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,580 (36.85%) Python
2 1,246 (29.06%) JavaScript
3 1,057 (24.65%) Java
4 1,038 (24.21%) C#
5 814 (18.98%) TypeScript
6 670 (15.63%) SQL
7 540 (12.59%) C
8 426 (9.93%) C++
9 180 (4.20%) Embedded C
10 163 (3.80%) Kotlin
10 163 (3.80%) PHP
11 130 (3.03%) Go
12 114 (2.66%) Bash
13 91 (2.12%) Rust
13 91 (2.12%) Scala
14 66 (1.54%) T-SQL
15 64 (1.49%) Ruby
16 47 (1.10%) R
17 39 (0.91%) PowerShell
18 32 (0.75%) Ada
Qualifications
1 767 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 691 (16.11%) Degree
3 494 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 263 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 108 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 76 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 37 (0.86%) PhD
10 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.28%) HNC
11 12 (0.28%) HND
12 9 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.14%) MCSE
14 5 (0.12%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.12%) CCIE
14 5 (0.12%) JNCIE
14 5 (0.12%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (3.22%) QA
2 119 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 60 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 25 (0.58%) MISRA
5 20 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
6 15 (0.35%) NCSC
7 10 (0.23%) Def Stans
7 10 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.14%) ISO 9000
10 5 (0.12%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.12%) MISRA C
10 5 (0.12%) WCAG
11 4 (0.093%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.093%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.070%) EMIR
12 3 (0.070%) GDPR
12 3 (0.070%) MiFID
12 3 (0.070%) NIST
System Software
1 407 (9.49%) Docker
2 140 (3.26%) Firmware
3 61 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
4 13 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.26%) IAG
6 3 (0.070%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.023%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.023%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.023%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 376 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 275 (6.41%) Terraform
3 139 (3.24%) Ansible
4 30 (0.70%) Grafana
5 26 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 19 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.12%) Kibana
8 4 (0.093%) Packer
8 4 (0.093%) Puppet
9 3 (0.070%) Consul
9 3 (0.070%) Istio
9 3 (0.070%) logstash
10 2 (0.047%) Argo
10 2 (0.047%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.047%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.047%) Nessus
10 2 (0.047%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.023%) FTK
11 1 (0.023%) SCCM
Vendors
1 313 (7.30%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.01%) ESRI
3 88 (2.05%) Google
4 47 (1.10%) Oracle
5 40 (0.93%) Xamarin
5 40 (0.93%) Xilinx
6 34 (0.79%) Bloomberg
7 29 (0.68%) Micro Focus
8 23 (0.54%) SAP
9 20 (0.47%) IBM
10 18 (0.42%) Adobe
10 18 (0.42%) Dell
11 17 (0.40%) Twitter
12 14 (0.33%) NVIDIA
13 13 (0.30%) Databricks
14 12 (0.28%) DevExpress
14 12 (0.28%) EMC
15 11 (0.26%) Siemens
15 11 (0.26%) Splunk
16 9 (0.21%) GoCardless