Software Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 246 323
Rank change year-on-year +170 +77 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 392 237 336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.61% 0.94% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 0.99% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 158 221
10th Percentile £413 £371 £363
25th Percentile £456 £421 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% +2.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £763 £663 £600
90th Percentile £888 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £511
% change year-on-year -0.48% +2.69% +13.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 21 11
10th Percentile - £55.00 -
25th Percentile - £56.25 -
Median hourly rate - £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +67.40% +19.66%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £49.75
90th Percentile - £85.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £60.70 £58.59 £48.12
% change year-on-year +3.61% +21.76% +42.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,049 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,416 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Developer.

Software Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Software Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Developer.

Software Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Software Developer contract 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 contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 249 (63.52%) Degree
2 248 (63.27%) Code Quality
3 243 (61.99%) Artificial Intelligence
4 241 (61.48%) PayPal
4 241 (61.48%) Chatbot
4 241 (61.48%) Conversational UI
5 178 (45.41%) JavaScript
6 175 (44.64%) Python
7 169 (43.11%) C#
8 164 (41.84%) Software Engineering
9 158 (40.31%) SQL
10 135 (34.44%) HTML
11 82 (20.92%) Agile
12 60 (15.31%) Java
13 57 (14.54%) AWS
14 47 (11.99%) Azure
15 45 (11.48%) .NET
16 40 (10.20%) TypeScript
17 39 (9.95%) CI/CD
18 37 (9.44%) Finance
19 34 (8.67%) Microsoft
20 33 (8.42%) SQL Server
20 33 (8.42%) DevOps
21 32 (8.16%) PowerShell
22 31 (7.91%) Front Office
23 30 (7.65%) Asset Management
24 28 (7.14%) GCP
25 27 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
25 27 (6.89%) Banking
25 27 (6.89%) Scrum

Software Developer 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 25 (6.38%) Apache
1 25 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.28%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.77%) CMS
4 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
Applications
1 241 (61.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 57 (14.54%) AWS
2 47 (11.99%) Azure
3 28 (7.14%) GCP
4 27 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.38%) dbt
6 20 (5.10%) Snowflake
7 11 (2.81%) Serverless
8 8 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.79%) GitHub
10 6 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.53%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.28%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.77%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.51%) Rekognition
14 2 (0.51%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.77%) SAN
1 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.26%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.38%) Amazon Athena
2 25 (6.38%) Apache Arrow
2 25 (6.38%) Apache Ignite
2 25 (6.38%) Dremio
3 21 (5.36%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.81%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.02%) MySQL
8 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.51%) Big Data
10 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.51%) Redis
10 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.81%) SpecFlow
2 7 (1.79%) Git
2 7 (1.79%) Selenium
3 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
3 5 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.77%) WebDriver
5 2 (0.51%) JUnit
5 2 (0.51%) Maven
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.51%) Postman
5 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.26%) git-flow
6 1 (0.26%) JMeter
6 1 (0.26%) NUnit
6 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.26%) Protractor
6 1 (0.26%) TestNG
General
1 37 (9.44%) Finance
2 31 (7.91%) Front Office
3 27 (6.89%) Banking
4 26 (6.63%) Investment Banking
4 26 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.10%) Social Skills
6 6 (1.53%) Law
7 4 (1.02%) Tech for Good
8 3 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.51%) Local Government
10 1 (0.26%) Back Office
10 1 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.26%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (34.44%) HTML
2 45 (11.48%) .NET
3 26 (6.63%) NumPy
3 26 (6.63%) Pandas
3 26 (6.63%) SciPy
4 25 (6.38%) gRPC
4 25 (6.38%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (5.61%) XML
6 18 (4.59%) .NET Framework
7 14 (3.57%) CSS
8 12 (3.06%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.06%) React
9 11 (2.81%) Node.js
9 11 (2.81%) RESTful
10 10 (2.55%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.55%) REST
11 7 (1.79%) AWS CDK
11 7 (1.79%) Spring
11 7 (1.79%) WebSockets
12 6 (1.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.38%) Derivative
2 24 (6.12%) Equities
2 24 (6.12%) Fixed Income
2 24 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (6.12%) Hedge funds
3 8 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.28%) Contactless
4 5 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.28%) NHS
5 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.51%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.51%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.26%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.26%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.26%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.26%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.30%) Linux
2 3 (0.77%) Debian
2 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (63.27%) Code Quality
2 243 (61.99%) Artificial Intelligence
3 241 (61.48%) Conversational UI
4 164 (41.84%) Software Engineering
5 82 (20.92%) Agile
6 39 (9.95%) CI/CD
7 33 (8.42%) DevOps
8 30 (7.65%) Asset Management
9 27 (6.89%) Scrum
10 20 (5.10%) Line Management
11 18 (4.59%) Investment Management
12 17 (4.34%) Test Automation
13 15 (3.83%) Microservices
14 14 (3.57%) Analytics
15 12 (3.06%) API Development
16 11 (2.81%) Front End Development
16 11 (2.81%) Full Stack Development
16 11 (2.81%) TDD
17 10 (2.55%) Clean Code
17 10 (2.55%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 178 (45.41%) JavaScript
2 175 (44.64%) Python
3 169 (43.11%) C#
4 158 (40.31%) SQL
5 60 (15.31%) Java
6 40 (10.20%) TypeScript
7 32 (8.16%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.04%) Bicep
9 6 (1.53%) Ruby
10 5 (1.28%) Bash
10 5 (1.28%) Scala
11 4 (1.02%) PHP
12 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.51%) C++
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) Rust
14 1 (0.26%) Go
14 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 249 (63.52%) Degree
2 17 (4.34%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.81%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.26%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.28%) HL7
3 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.26%) QA
4 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (3.32%) Docker
2 6 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.77%) zsh
4 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.04%) Terraform
3 5 (1.28%) Grafana
4 2 (0.51%) Kibana
5 1 (0.26%) Istio
5 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 241 (61.48%) PayPal
2 34 (8.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.30%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.79%) Oracle
5 3 (0.77%) Google
5 3 (0.77%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.77%) RedGate
5 3 (0.77%) VMware
6 2 (0.51%) Databricks
6 2 (0.51%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.26%) Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.26%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir
7 1 (0.26%) Remedy
7 1 (0.26%) Splunk