Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 119 144
Rank change year-on-year +36 +25 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 369 516 817
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.45% 2.06% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.62% 2.16% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 337 563
10th Percentile £450 £438 £415
25th Percentile £485 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £688
90th Percentile £888 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £625 £590 £580
% change year-on-year +5.93% +1.72% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 45 36
10th Percentile - £46.25 £41.88
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +14.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £71.87 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £84.40 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £64.52 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +3.23% +8.70% +27.78%

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 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

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
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 Engineer.

Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
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 Engineer.

Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Software Engineer hourly rate 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 May 2024, Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 367 (99.46%) Software Engineering
2 172 (46.61%) AWS
3 145 (39.30%) Agile
4 130 (35.23%) Python
5 124 (33.60%) JavaScript
6 117 (31.71%) Java
7 115 (31.17%) Finance
8 109 (29.54%) TypeScript
9 86 (23.31%) Front Office
10 79 (21.41%) Asset Management
11 75 (20.33%) Fixed Income
12 70 (18.97%) gRPC
12 70 (18.97%) Apache Airflow
13 69 (18.70%) Protocol Buffers
14 64 (17.34%) GCP
14 64 (17.34%) Banking
14 64 (17.34%) Apache
15 63 (17.07%) Investment Management
15 63 (17.07%) Pandas
15 63 (17.07%) Fintech
15 63 (17.07%) Apache Ignite
16 61 (16.53%) Test Automation
17 57 (15.45%) SciPy
17 57 (15.45%) NumPy
17 57 (15.45%) Amazon Athena
17 57 (15.45%) Dremio
17 57 (15.45%) Apache Arrow
17 57 (15.45%) dbt
18 55 (14.91%) React
19 54 (14.63%) Derivative

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 70 (18.97%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (17.34%) Apache
3 7 (1.90%) Confluence
4 5 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) Drupal
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.27%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (5.96%) Simulink
1 22 (5.96%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 172 (46.61%) AWS
2 64 (17.34%) GCP
3 57 (15.45%) dbt
4 47 (12.74%) Snowflake
5 46 (12.47%) Azure
6 17 (4.61%) GitHub
7 16 (4.34%) Serverless
8 10 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.44%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.36%) npm
13 4 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.81%) Amazon EMR
15 2 (0.54%) AWS IoT
15 2 (0.54%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.98%) HTTP
2 9 (2.44%) 802.11
2 9 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.36%) J1939
4 4 (1.08%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (1.08%) Wireless
5 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.27%) HbbTV
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) MQTT
7 1 (0.27%) NFC
7 1 (0.27%) PPP
7 1 (0.27%) RS-232
7 1 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.07%) Apache Ignite
2 57 (15.45%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (15.45%) Apache Arrow
2 57 (15.45%) Dremio
3 44 (11.92%) Data Lake
4 31 (8.40%) Apache Cassandra
5 14 (3.79%) MySQL
6 10 (2.71%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.71%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.36%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.08%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.54%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 35 (9.49%) Git
2 21 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.15%) JIRA
4 12 (3.25%) GitLab
5 10 (2.71%) Rational DOORS
5 10 (2.71%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.44%) Selenium
7 8 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.17%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.63%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.36%) MSI
10 5 (1.36%) Subversion
10 5 (1.36%) WiX
11 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.08%) Maven
11 4 (1.08%) Postman
11 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.81%) Artifactory
General
1 115 (31.17%) Finance
2 86 (23.31%) Front Office
3 64 (17.34%) Banking
4 52 (14.09%) Social Skills
5 51 (13.82%) Investment Banking
6 40 (10.84%) Automotive
7 19 (5.15%) Legal
8 16 (4.34%) Electronics
9 13 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.25%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.90%) Retail
13 6 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.36%) Law
15 4 (1.08%) Police
16 3 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.54%) Military
18 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
18 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.97%) gRPC
2 69 (18.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 63 (17.07%) Pandas
4 57 (15.45%) NumPy
4 57 (15.45%) SciPy
5 55 (14.91%) React
6 48 (13.01%) Node.js
7 44 (11.92%) Kafka
8 34 (9.21%) AngularJS
9 28 (7.59%) RESTful
10 26 (7.05%) REST
11 23 (6.23%) .NET
12 21 (5.69%) Redux
13 17 (4.61%) HTML
13 17 (4.61%) XML
14 16 (4.34%) Vue
15 15 (4.07%) CSS
15 15 (4.07%) Material-UI
15 15 (4.07%) Spring Boot
16 14 (3.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 75 (20.33%) Fixed Income
2 54 (14.63%) Derivative
2 54 (14.63%) Equities
2 54 (14.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 48 (13.01%) Hedge funds
4 30 (8.13%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.17%) Pricing Data
7 5 (1.36%) CAN bus
7 5 (1.36%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.36%) IoT
7 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.36%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.08%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.81%) iPad
9 3 (0.81%) iPhone
9 3 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.81%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.42%) Linux
2 13 (3.52%) Windows
3 5 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Android
5 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (99.46%) Software Engineering
2 145 (39.30%) Agile
3 79 (21.41%) Asset Management
4 63 (17.07%) Fintech
4 63 (17.07%) Investment Management
5 61 (16.53%) Test Automation
6 48 (13.01%) User Experience
7 47 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (12.47%) Computer Science
9 41 (11.11%) Validation
10 33 (8.94%) Analytics
11 32 (8.67%) Full Stack Development
12 30 (8.13%) UX Design
13 29 (7.86%) User Research
13 29 (7.86%) UX Research
13 29 (7.86%) Verification and Validation
14 25 (6.78%) CI/CD
14 25 (6.78%) DevOps
15 22 (5.96%) Performance Attribution
15 22 (5.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 130 (35.23%) Python
2 124 (33.60%) JavaScript
3 117 (31.71%) Java
4 109 (29.54%) TypeScript
5 50 (13.55%) C
6 46 (12.47%) C++
7 36 (9.76%) C#
7 36 (9.76%) SQL
8 33 (8.94%) Go
9 26 (7.05%) MATLAB
10 23 (6.23%) Embedded C
11 14 (3.79%) Perl
11 14 (3.79%) PHP
12 13 (3.52%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.44%) Tcl
14 7 (1.90%) Embedded C++
14 7 (1.90%) Scala
15 6 (1.63%) Bash
16 5 (1.36%) Ruby
16 5 (1.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.49%) Degree
3 27 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.08%) PhD
7 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.34%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.90%) AUTOSAR
2 7 (1.90%) QA
3 4 (1.08%) JTAG
4 2 (0.54%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (14.36%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.36%) ACF2
3 5 (1.36%) Firmware
3 5 (1.36%) IAG
3 5 (1.36%) RACF
4 4 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.81%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.81%) zsh
Systems Management
1 52 (14.09%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.79%) Terraform
3 6 (1.63%) Ansible
3 6 (1.63%) Functional Safety
4 5 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (1.36%) Podman
5 1 (0.27%) Argo
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (3.25%) Oracle
2 9 (2.44%) Google
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.36%) Sybase
5 4 (1.08%) ION Trading
5 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.81%) MathWorks
6 3 (0.81%) NVIDIA
6 3 (0.81%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.54%) Databricks
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe
8 1 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.27%) New Relic
8 1 (0.27%) Typelevel