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

6 months to
29 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 4,235 5,497 13,524
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.30% 13.87% 18.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.60% 14.43% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,380 3,764 5,517
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 £87,813 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £119,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -12.14% +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 31,137 38,084 71,018
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.42% 96.09% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,468 26,396 41,605
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,871 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +4.79% +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 29 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
1 341 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 329 (7.77%) Apache
3 221 (5.22%) ArcGIS
4 214 (5.05%) GeoServer
5 47 (1.11%) 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 (0.094%) CMS
13 4 (0.094%) Drupal
13 4 (0.094%) WordPress
14 3 (0.071%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.047%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.047%) Umbraco
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 (0.094%) 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 6 (0.14%) 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 1,657 (39.13%) AWS
2 1,103 (26.04%) Azure
3 508 (12.00%) GCP
4 304 (7.18%) dbt
5 253 (5.97%) Snowflake
6 232 (5.48%) SaaS
7 201 (4.75%) Serverless
8 179 (4.23%) 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 56 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 48 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
16 30 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (0.68%) PaaS
18 27 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
19 25 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (2.20%) Wireless
2 74 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 53 (1.25%) Ethernet
4 47 (1.11%) RS-232
5 45 (1.06%) 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%) RS-485
11 14 (0.33%) Firewall
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
15 8 (0.19%) VoIP
16 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
17 6 (0.14%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 306 (7.23%) Apache Ignite
3 305 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
4 303 (7.15%) Dremio
5 297 (7.01%) Apache Arrow
6 272 (6.42%) Data Lake
7 236 (5.57%) GIS
8 214 (5.05%) QGIS
9 213 (5.03%) MySQL
10 170 (4.01%) SQL Server
11 143 (3.38%) Relational Database
12 117 (2.76%) NoSQL
13 84 (1.98%) MongoDB
14 83 (1.96%) Redis
15 65 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
16 63 (1.49%) DynamoDB
17 56 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
18 52 (1.23%) Power BI
19 48 (1.13%) Big Data
20 46 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 351 (8.29%) Git
2 157 (3.71%) GitLab
3 114 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 100 (2.36%) JIRA
5 84 (1.98%) Visual Studio
6 40 (0.94%) Subversion
7 33 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 32 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 31 (0.73%) JUnit
10 30 (0.71%) LabVIEW
11 25 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 23 (0.54%) 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
15 19 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 845 (19.95%) Finance
2 671 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 430 (10.15%) Front Office
4 380 (8.97%) Banking
5 288 (6.80%) Investment Banking
6 265 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 163 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
8 141 (3.33%) Electronics
9 139 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 114 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 107 (2.53%) Retail
12 88 (2.08%) Automotive
13 87 (2.05%) Law
14 83 (1.96%) Tech for Good
15 68 (1.61%) Marketing
16 62 (1.46%) Legal
17 61 (1.44%) Back Office
18 56 (1.32%) Games
19 53 (1.25%) Telecoms
20 41 (0.97%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,440 (57.62%) Software Engineer
2 1,358 (32.07%) Senior
3 1,024 (24.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 987 (23.31%) Developer
5 385 (9.09%) Lead
6 371 (8.76%) Embedded Engineer
7 327 (7.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 262 (6.19%) Software Developer
9 255 (6.02%) Java Engineer
10 249 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 235 (5.55%) Java Software Engineer
12 230 (5.43%) Python Engineer
13 199 (4.70%) Python Software Engineer
14 183 (4.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 168 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
16 160 (3.78%) AWS Software Engineer
17 153 (3.61%) Python Developer
18 152 (3.59%) Architect
19 149 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
20 148 (3.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 954 (22.53%) .NET
2 849 (20.05%) React
3 400 (9.45%) CSS
4 382 (9.02%) .NET Core
5 354 (8.36%) Node.js
6 338 (7.98%) AngularJS
6 338 (7.98%) gRPC
7 327 (7.72%) Protocol Buffers
8 326 (7.70%) Pandas
9 309 (7.30%) NumPy
10 294 (6.94%) SciPy
11 273 (6.45%) RESTful
12 233 (5.50%) HTML
13 215 (5.08%) Leaflet
13 215 (5.08%) OpenLayers
13 215 (5.08%) PostGIS
14 195 (4.60%) Vue
15 186 (4.39%) ASP.NET
16 165 (3.90%) Django
17 150 (3.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 421 (9.94%) Fixed Income
2 372 (8.78%) Derivative
3 371 (8.76%) Equities
4 363 (8.57%) Hedge funds
5 344 (8.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 179 (4.23%) Algorithms
7 168 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
8 165 (3.90%) Client/Server
9 134 (3.16%) Data Structures
10 110 (2.60%) Cloud Native
11 96 (2.27%) Product Ownership
12 93 (2.20%) IoT
13 91 (2.15%) Onboarding
14 84 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
15 76 (1.79%) Mobile App
16 69 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
17 65 (1.53%) Virtual Team
18 63 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
19 60 (1.42%) Private Cloud
20 50 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 546 (12.89%) Linux
2 188 (4.44%) Windows
3 138 (3.26%) Embedded Linux
4 104 (2.46%) Android
5 90 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 89 (2.10%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.64%) Unix
8 26 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
9 25 (0.59%) CentOS
10 24 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.35%) Windows Server
12 13 (0.31%) Debian
13 12 (0.28%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
15 5 (0.12%) VxWorks
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
16 3 (0.071%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 1 (0.024%) Fedora
17 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,829 (43.19%) Agile
2 922 (21.77%) DevOps
3 683 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
4 580 (13.70%) Computer Science
5 553 (13.06%) Full Stack Development
6 529 (12.49%) CI/CD
7 477 (11.26%) Mentoring
8 427 (10.08%) Asset Management
9 388 (9.16%) Microservices
10 360 (8.50%) Investment Management
11 357 (8.43%) TDD
12 310 (7.32%) Web Development
13 295 (6.97%) SDLC
14 280 (6.61%) Actionable Insight
14 280 (6.61%) Test Automation
15 258 (6.09%) Continuous Integration
16 253 (5.97%) Scrum
17 244 (5.76%) Coaching
18 239 (5.64%) Artificial Intelligence
19 221 (5.22%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,569 (37.05%) Python
2 1,239 (29.26%) JavaScript
3 1,051 (24.82%) Java
4 1,028 (24.27%) C#
5 794 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 657 (15.51%) SQL
7 536 (12.66%) C
8 418 (9.87%) C++
9 178 (4.20%) Embedded C
10 163 (3.85%) PHP
11 159 (3.75%) Kotlin
12 143 (3.38%) Go
13 128 (3.02%) Bash
14 92 (2.17%) Scala
15 90 (2.13%) Rust
16 77 (1.82%) Ruby
17 66 (1.56%) T-SQL
18 46 (1.09%) R
19 39 (0.92%) PowerShell
20 32 (0.76%) Ada
Qualifications
1 760 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 680 (16.06%) Degree
3 488 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 255 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 103 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 70 (1.65%) 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%) 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
1 151 (3.57%) QA
2 115 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 61 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 25 (0.59%) MISRA
5 21 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
6 15 (0.35%) 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 (0.094%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.094%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.071%) EMIR
12 3 (0.071%) GDPR
12 3 (0.071%) MiFID
12 3 (0.071%) NIST
System Software
1 404 (9.54%) Docker
2 138 (3.26%) Firmware
3 60 (1.42%) 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
8 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.024%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.024%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 371 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 269 (6.35%) Terraform
3 136 (3.21%) 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 (0.094%) Packer
8 4 (0.094%) 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%) FTK
11 1 (0.024%) SCCM
Vendors
1 312 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.08%) ESRI
3 91 (2.15%) Google
4 60 (1.42%) Oracle
5 40 (0.94%) Xamarin
6 36 (0.85%) Xilinx
7 34 (0.80%) Bloomberg
8 29 (0.68%) Micro Focus
9 23 (0.54%) SAP
10 20 (0.47%) Dell
10 20 (0.47%) IBM
11 18 (0.43%) Adobe
12 17 (0.40%) Twitter
13 14 (0.33%) NVIDIA
14 13 (0.31%) Databricks
15 12 (0.28%) DevExpress
15 12 (0.28%) EMC
16 11 (0.26%) Siemens
16 11 (0.26%) Splunk
17 9 (0.21%) GoCardless