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

6 months to
28 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 4,232 5,514 13,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.32% 13.86% 18.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.61% 14.43% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,374 3,782 5,536
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 £88,750 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £119,126 £103,750
UK median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -12.14% +0.80% +15.75%

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 31,100 38,207 71,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.53% 96.06% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,476 26,508 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,621 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.37% +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 28 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
1 342 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
2 330 (7.80%) Apache
3 221 (5.22%) ArcGIS
4 214 (5.06%) GeoServer
5 49 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 34 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 26 (0.61%) nginx
8 17 (0.40%) Confluence
9 14 (0.33%) NServiceBus
10 12 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.12%) Appian
12 5 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.095%) CMS
13 4 (0.095%) Drupal
13 4 (0.095%) WordPress
14 3 (0.071%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.047%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.047%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (1.49%) Simulink
2 9 (0.21%) Adobe XD
3 8 (0.19%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.17%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.071%) Sketch
8 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.047%) 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 (0.071%) Endur
4 3 (0.071%) Shopify
5 2 (0.047%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.024%) Findur
6 1 (0.024%) Magento
6 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,658 (39.18%) AWS
2 1,101 (26.02%) Azure
3 512 (12.10%) GCP
4 305 (7.21%) dbt
5 253 (5.98%) Snowflake
6 232 (5.48%) SaaS
7 212 (5.01%) Serverless
8 177 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 135 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
11 116 (2.74%) GitHub
12 102 (2.41%) Power Platform
13 57 (1.35%) Amazon S3
14 47 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
17 30 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
18 29 (0.69%) PaaS
19 27 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
20 25 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (2.20%) Wireless
2 73 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 52 (1.23%) Ethernet
4 46 (1.09%) RS-232
5 43 (1.02%) Network Security
6 35 (0.83%) HTTP
7 32 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (0.52%) Internet
9 16 (0.38%) Modbus
10 15 (0.35%) Firewall
10 15 (0.35%) RS-485
11 14 (0.33%) ZigBee
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
14 9 (0.21%) VoIP
15 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
16 6 (0.14%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 438 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 307 (7.25%) Apache Ignite
3 306 (7.23%) Amazon Athena
4 304 (7.18%) Dremio
5 298 (7.04%) Apache Arrow
6 272 (6.43%) Data Lake
7 236 (5.58%) GIS
8 214 (5.06%) QGIS
9 212 (5.01%) MySQL
10 170 (4.02%) SQL Server
11 154 (3.64%) Relational Database
12 116 (2.74%) NoSQL
13 84 (1.98%) Redis
14 82 (1.94%) MongoDB
15 66 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
16 62 (1.47%) DynamoDB
17 55 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
18 52 (1.23%) Power BI
19 49 (1.16%) Big Data
20 46 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 364 (8.60%) Git
2 158 (3.73%) GitLab
3 115 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.36%) JIRA
5 84 (1.98%) Visual Studio
6 40 (0.95%) Subversion
7 33 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 32 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 30 (0.71%) JUnit
9 30 (0.71%) LabVIEW
10 25 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 24 (0.57%) JDeveloper
12 22 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 21 (0.50%) CMake
13 21 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 21 (0.50%) Selenium
14 20 (0.47%) Vagrant
14 20 (0.47%) webpack
15 19 (0.45%) Maven
15 19 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 845 (19.97%) Finance
2 669 (15.81%) Social Skills
3 431 (10.18%) Front Office
4 384 (9.07%) Banking
5 289 (6.83%) Investment Banking
6 266 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 161 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
8 140 (3.31%) Electronics
9 135 (3.19%) Manufacturing
10 113 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 105 (2.48%) Retail
12 87 (2.06%) Automotive
12 87 (2.06%) Law
13 83 (1.96%) Tech for Good
14 68 (1.61%) Marketing
15 62 (1.47%) Legal
16 60 (1.42%) Back Office
17 56 (1.32%) Games
18 52 (1.23%) Telecoms
19 41 (0.97%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,445 (57.77%) Software Engineer
2 1,349 (31.88%) Senior
3 1,019 (24.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 984 (23.25%) Developer
5 384 (9.07%) Lead
6 367 (8.67%) Embedded Engineer
7 323 (7.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 263 (6.21%) Software Developer
9 256 (6.05%) Java Engineer
10 246 (5.81%) Senior Developer
11 236 (5.58%) Java Software Engineer
12 229 (5.41%) Python Engineer
13 199 (4.70%) Python Software Engineer
14 184 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 169 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
16 161 (3.80%) AWS Software Engineer
17 153 (3.62%) Python Developer
18 151 (3.57%) Architect
19 148 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
20 147 (3.47%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 948 (22.40%) .NET
2 857 (20.25%) React
3 399 (9.43%) CSS
4 381 (9.00%) .NET Core
5 363 (8.58%) Node.js
6 339 (8.01%) gRPC
7 338 (7.99%) AngularJS
8 328 (7.75%) Protocol Buffers
9 326 (7.70%) Pandas
10 310 (7.33%) NumPy
11 295 (6.97%) SciPy
12 271 (6.40%) RESTful
13 231 (5.46%) HTML
14 215 (5.08%) Leaflet
14 215 (5.08%) OpenLayers
14 215 (5.08%) PostGIS
15 193 (4.56%) Vue
16 186 (4.40%) ASP.NET
17 162 (3.83%) Django
18 152 (3.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 421 (9.95%) Fixed Income
2 371 (8.77%) Derivative
2 371 (8.77%) Equities
3 363 (8.58%) Hedge funds
4 344 (8.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 180 (4.25%) Algorithms
6 167 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
7 165 (3.90%) Client/Server
8 135 (3.19%) Data Structures
9 109 (2.58%) Cloud Native
10 96 (2.27%) Product Ownership
11 93 (2.20%) IoT
12 90 (2.13%) Onboarding
13 84 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
14 75 (1.77%) Mobile App
15 69 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
16 65 (1.54%) Virtual Team
17 62 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
18 61 (1.44%) Private Cloud
19 49 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 544 (12.85%) Linux
2 185 (4.37%) Windows
3 137 (3.24%) Embedded Linux
4 103 (2.43%) Android
5 89 (2.10%) Apple iOS
6 88 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 26 (0.61%) Unix
8 25 (0.59%) CentOS
9 24 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.35%) Windows Server
11 13 (0.31%) Debian
12 12 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.12%) VxWorks
14 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
15 3 (0.071%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 1 (0.024%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.024%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,833 (43.31%) Agile
2 935 (22.09%) DevOps
3 698 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
4 577 (13.63%) Computer Science
5 552 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
6 529 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 476 (11.25%) Mentoring
8 428 (10.11%) Asset Management
9 400 (9.45%) Microservices
10 360 (8.51%) Investment Management
11 355 (8.39%) TDD
12 309 (7.30%) Web Development
13 294 (6.95%) Actionable Insight
13 294 (6.95%) SDLC
14 281 (6.64%) Test Automation
15 270 (6.38%) Continuous Integration
16 256 (6.05%) Scrum
17 244 (5.77%) Coaching
18 239 (5.65%) Artificial Intelligence
19 221 (5.22%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,579 (37.31%) Python
2 1,251 (29.56%) JavaScript
3 1,066 (25.19%) Java
4 1,021 (24.13%) C#
5 791 (18.69%) TypeScript
6 653 (15.43%) SQL
7 535 (12.64%) C
8 415 (9.81%) C++
9 177 (4.18%) Embedded C
10 163 (3.85%) PHP
11 159 (3.76%) Kotlin
12 155 (3.66%) Go
13 141 (3.33%) Bash
14 94 (2.22%) Scala
15 90 (2.13%) Ruby
16 89 (2.10%) Rust
17 66 (1.56%) T-SQL
18 46 (1.09%) R
19 38 (0.90%) PowerShell
20 32 (0.76%) Ada
Qualifications
1 761 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 676 (15.97%) Degree
3 492 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 253 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 117 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 102 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 69 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 36 (0.85%) PhD
10 16 (0.38%) 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%) 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
1 165 (3.90%) QA
2 115 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 61 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 25 (0.59%) MISRA
5 22 (0.52%) 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 (0.095%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.095%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.071%) GDPR
12 3 (0.071%) NIST
13 2 (0.047%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.047%) SEPA
System Software
1 402 (9.50%) Docker
2 137 (3.24%) Firmware
3 59 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 13 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.26%) IAG
6 3 (0.071%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.047%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.024%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 370 (8.74%) Kubernetes
2 267 (6.31%) Terraform
3 135 (3.19%) Ansible
4 30 (0.71%) Grafana
5 26 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 19 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.12%) Kibana
8 4 (0.095%) Packer
8 4 (0.095%) Puppet
9 3 (0.071%) Consul
9 3 (0.071%) Istio
9 3 (0.071%) 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 (0.024%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.024%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 312 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.08%) ESRI
3 93 (2.20%) Google
4 72 (1.70%) Oracle
5 40 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 36 (0.85%) Xilinx
7 34 (0.80%) Bloomberg
8 29 (0.69%) Micro Focus
9 23 (0.54%) SAP
10 21 (0.50%) Dell
11 20 (0.47%) IBM
12 18 (0.43%) Adobe
13 17 (0.40%) Twitter
14 14 (0.33%) NVIDIA
15 13 (0.31%) Databricks
16 12 (0.28%) DevExpress
16 12 (0.28%) EMC
17 11 (0.26%) Siemens
17 11 (0.26%) Splunk
18 9 (0.21%) Sage