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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 40 25
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,568 2,553 7,605
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.28% 6.76% 10.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.56% 7.05% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 1,767 2,211
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,326
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,709 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +11.86% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £100,750
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 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 9 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 9 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 2,553 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 1,061 (41.32%) Python
3 1,053 (41.00%) AWS
4 1,050 (40.89%) Agile
5 844 (32.87%) JavaScript
6 654 (25.47%) Azure
7 644 (25.08%) Java
8 622 (24.22%) C#
9 615 (23.95%) .NET
10 584 (22.74%) React
11 502 (19.55%) TypeScript
12 480 (18.69%) Security Cleared
13 479 (18.65%) Finance
14 469 (18.26%) DevOps
15 400 (15.58%) Linux
16 398 (15.50%) SQL
17 380 (14.80%) C
18 342 (13.32%) PostgreSQL
19 325 (12.66%) Degree
20 319 (12.42%) SC Cleared
21 314 (12.23%) C++
22 311 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
23 301 (11.72%) GCP
24 299 (11.64%) .NET Core
25 297 (11.57%) Asset Management
26 296 (11.53%) Fixed Income
27 295 (11.49%) Front Office
28 279 (10.86%) Full Stack Development
29 269 (10.48%) AngularJS
30 260 (10.12%) CSS

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
1 245 (9.54%) Apache Airflow
2 244 (9.50%) Apache
3 209 (8.14%) ArcGIS
4 202 (7.87%) GeoServer
5 33 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.55%) NServiceBus
7 6 (0.23%) nginx
7 6 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.19%) Confluence
9 3 (0.12%) CMS
9 3 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.078%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.039%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.039%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.039%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (1.79%) Simulink
2 8 (0.31%) AutoCAD
3 7 (0.27%) Stateflow
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 2 (0.078%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.078%) Autodesk Inventor
6 2 (0.078%) Fusion 360
6 2 (0.078%) Revit
7 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.039%) UXPin
7 1 (0.039%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.039%) Endur
3 1 (0.039%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (41.00%) AWS
2 654 (25.47%) Azure
3 301 (11.72%) GCP
4 208 (8.10%) dbt
5 174 (6.78%) Snowflake
6 101 (3.93%) Serverless
7 93 (3.62%) SaaS
8 65 (2.53%) GitHub
9 62 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (1.25%) Amazon S3
12 27 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (0.55%) Slack
15 13 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (0.51%) Google Docs
15 13 (0.51%) Lucidchart
15 13 (0.51%) Miro
16 12 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.34%) TCP/IP
2 50 (1.95%) RS-232
3 46 (1.79%) Network Security
4 42 (1.64%) Wireless
5 39 (1.52%) Ethernet
6 28 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (0.90%) HTTP
8 19 (0.74%) RS-485
9 16 (0.62%) Bluetooth
9 16 (0.62%) Internet
9 16 (0.62%) Modbus
9 16 (0.62%) ZigBee
10 8 (0.31%) VoIP
11 5 (0.19%) 5G
11 5 (0.19%) Firewall
12 4 (0.16%) 3GPP
12 4 (0.16%) Profibus
12 4 (0.16%) RS-422
13 2 (0.078%) MQTT
13 2 (0.078%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (13.32%) PostgreSQL
2 228 (8.88%) Apache Ignite
3 223 (8.68%) GIS
4 208 (8.10%) Amazon Athena
4 208 (8.10%) Apache Arrow
4 208 (8.10%) Dremio
5 202 (7.87%) QGIS
6 175 (6.81%) Data Lake
7 164 (6.39%) MySQL
8 96 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 91 (3.54%) NoSQL
10 66 (2.57%) Relational Database
11 51 (1.99%) Redis
12 46 (1.79%) MongoDB
13 45 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 31 (1.21%) DynamoDB
15 22 (0.86%) Big Data
16 20 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.66%) Hadoop
18 13 (0.51%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 171 (6.66%) Git
2 62 (2.41%) JIRA
3 59 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.06%) GitLab
5 33 (1.29%) Subversion
6 27 (1.05%) Visual Studio
7 21 (0.82%) Vagrant
8 19 (0.74%) LabVIEW
9 18 (0.70%) Maven
10 17 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.55%) CMake
13 11 (0.43%) Selenium
14 10 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
14 10 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
15 9 (0.35%) Postman
16 8 (0.31%) Gradle
17 7 (0.27%) ClearCase
17 7 (0.27%) ClearQuest
17 7 (0.27%) Plastic SCM
General
1 479 (18.65%) Finance
2 295 (11.49%) Front Office
3 247 (9.62%) Social Skills
4 239 (9.31%) Banking
5 204 (7.94%) Investment Banking
6 135 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 114 (4.44%) Electronics
7 114 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 75 (2.92%) Automotive
9 70 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
10 57 (2.22%) Public Sector
11 53 (2.06%) Retail
12 51 (1.99%) Tech for Good
13 48 (1.87%) Back Office
14 41 (1.60%) Law
15 39 (1.52%) Games
16 37 (1.44%) Aerospace
17 32 (1.25%) Legal
18 27 (1.05%) Military
19 26 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 615 (23.95%) .NET
2 584 (22.74%) React
3 299 (11.64%) .NET Core
4 269 (10.48%) AngularJS
5 260 (10.12%) CSS
6 246 (9.58%) gRPC
7 240 (9.35%) Protocol Buffers
8 225 (8.76%) Pandas
9 218 (8.49%) NumPy
10 208 (8.10%) SciPy
11 203 (7.90%) Leaflet
11 203 (7.90%) OpenLayers
11 203 (7.90%) PostGIS
12 200 (7.79%) Node.js
13 165 (6.43%) Vue
14 152 (5.92%) RESTful
15 114 (4.44%) ASP.NET
16 110 (4.28%) Redux
17 95 (3.70%) HTML
18 83 (3.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 296 (11.53%) Fixed Income
2 244 (9.50%) Derivative
3 243 (9.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 240 (9.35%) Equities
5 228 (8.88%) Hedge funds
6 95 (3.70%) Algorithms
7 70 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
8 68 (2.65%) IoT
9 65 (2.53%) Client/Server
10 61 (2.38%) Data Structures
11 54 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
12 48 (1.87%) Pricing Data
13 45 (1.75%) Device Driver
14 42 (1.64%) Cloud Native
15 41 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
16 39 (1.52%) Mobile App
17 30 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 28 (1.09%) Product Ownership
19 23 (0.90%) Robotics
19 23 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 400 (15.58%) Linux
2 129 (5.02%) Windows
3 113 (4.40%) Embedded Linux
4 76 (2.96%) Android
5 74 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 49 (1.91%) Apple iOS
7 30 (1.17%) FreeRTOS
8 26 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (1.01%) Unix
9 21 (0.82%) CentOS
10 13 (0.51%) Debian
11 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.19%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.19%) VxWorks
13 3 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 2 (0.078%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.039%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,553 (99.42%) Software Engineering
2 1,050 (40.89%) Agile
3 469 (18.26%) DevOps
4 311 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (11.57%) Asset Management
6 279 (10.86%) Full Stack Development
7 253 (9.85%) Investment Management
8 248 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
9 241 (9.38%) Computer Science
10 237 (9.23%) Web Development
11 231 (9.00%) Mentoring
12 230 (8.96%) Microservices
13 195 (7.59%) TDD
14 193 (7.52%) CI/CD
15 170 (6.62%) SDLC
16 163 (6.35%) Test Automation
17 147 (5.72%) OOP
18 132 (5.14%) OO
19 127 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence
20 123 (4.79%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,061 (41.32%) Python
2 844 (32.87%) JavaScript
3 644 (25.08%) Java
4 622 (24.22%) C#
5 502 (19.55%) TypeScript
6 398 (15.50%) SQL
7 380 (14.80%) C
8 314 (12.23%) C++
9 131 (5.10%) Embedded C
10 114 (4.44%) Kotlin
11 105 (4.09%) Bash
12 79 (3.08%) PHP
13 73 (2.84%) Rust
14 71 (2.76%) Go
15 54 (2.10%) Scala
16 40 (1.56%) T-SQL
17 39 (1.52%) Ruby
18 26 (1.01%) Ada
19 22 (0.86%) Embedded C++
20 17 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 480 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 325 (12.66%) Degree
3 319 (12.42%) SC Cleared
4 115 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 46 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 19 (0.74%) PhD
9 14 (0.55%) HND
10 10 (0.39%) HNC
11 7 (0.27%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.12%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.078%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.078%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.039%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.039%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (2.49%) Data Quality
2 59 (2.30%) QA
3 25 (0.97%) MISRA
4 19 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
5 10 (0.39%) Def Stans
6 6 (0.23%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.19%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.19%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.16%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 3 (0.12%) EMIR
9 3 (0.12%) MiFID
10 2 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.078%) SEPA
11 1 (0.039%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.039%) JTAG
System Software
1 174 (6.78%) Docker
2 76 (2.96%) Firmware
3 33 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.039%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 172 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 147 (5.72%) Terraform
3 74 (2.88%) Ansible
4 16 (0.62%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.35%) Grafana
6 3 (0.12%) Consul
6 3 (0.12%) Packer
7 2 (0.078%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.039%) Argo
8 1 (0.039%) Istio
8 1 (0.039%) Kibana
8 1 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 203 (7.90%) ESRI
2 103 (4.01%) Microsoft
3 43 (1.67%) Google
4 24 (0.93%) Oracle
5 20 (0.78%) Xilinx
6 19 (0.74%) IBM
7 17 (0.66%) Xamarin
8 15 (0.58%) Dell
9 12 (0.47%) DevExpress
10 10 (0.39%) Siemens
11 9 (0.35%) SAP
11 9 (0.35%) Twitter
12 7 (0.27%) Lauterbach
12 7 (0.27%) QNX
13 6 (0.23%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.23%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.23%) Facebook
13 6 (0.23%) Reuters
14 5 (0.19%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (0.19%) YouTube