Software Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 45 44
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 899 1,218 2,379
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.96% 4.85% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 5.40% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 811 1,747
10th Percentile £425 £438 £413
25th Percentile £489 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% +7.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £763 £703 £663
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £590
% change year-on-year - +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 62
10th Percentile £42.88 £47.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £54.88 £44.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.60% +20.56%
75th Percentile £70.47 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.76 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £64.57 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.21% +17.40% +22.22%

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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
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 Engineering.

Software Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Software Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
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 Engineering.

Software Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Software Engineering hourly rate 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
1 102 (11.35%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (9.90%) Apache
3 24 (2.67%) Confluence
4 15 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.22%) CMS
6 4 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) MetaMask
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 122 (13.57%) Chatbot
2 22 (2.45%) Simulink
2 22 (2.45%) Stateflow
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.11%) CATIA
5 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 316 (35.15%) AWS
2 168 (18.69%) Azure
3 117 (13.01%) GCP
4 85 (9.45%) dbt
5 68 (7.56%) Snowflake
6 43 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (4.00%) GitHub
8 27 (3.00%) Serverless
9 20 (2.22%) PaaS
10 17 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (1.89%) SaaS
11 16 (1.78%) IaaS
11 16 (1.78%) npm
12 13 (1.45%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.22%) HTTP
3 10 (1.11%) Firewall
3 10 (1.11%) VPN
4 9 (1.00%) 802.11
4 9 (1.00%) SAN
4 9 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.56%) DNS
5 5 (0.56%) J1939
5 5 (0.56%) Wireless
6 4 (0.44%) Diameter Protocol
7 3 (0.33%) Internet
7 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.22%) FTP
8 2 (0.22%) SNMP
9 1 (0.11%) DHCP
9 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.11%) PPP
9 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.45%) Apache Ignite
2 82 (9.12%) Amazon Athena
2 82 (9.12%) Apache Arrow
2 82 (9.12%) Dremio
3 73 (8.12%) Data Lake
4 36 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 34 (3.78%) SQL Server
6 33 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (3.00%) MySQL
8 23 (2.56%) Oracle Database
9 20 (2.22%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.78%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.67%) Big Data
11 15 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.45%) Oracle Database 11g
14 11 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (8.68%) Git
2 52 (5.78%) JIRA
3 42 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.78%) GitLab
5 23 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 21 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.67%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.56%) Selenium
9 12 (1.33%) Maven
9 12 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
10 9 (1.00%) Postman
11 8 (0.89%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.89%) git-flow
11 8 (0.89%) JUnit
11 8 (0.89%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.89%) webpack
12 5 (0.56%) Appium
12 5 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 244 (27.14%) Finance
2 147 (16.35%) Front Office
3 142 (15.80%) Social Skills
4 110 (12.24%) Banking
5 79 (8.79%) Investment Banking
6 49 (5.45%) Automotive
7 32 (3.56%) Electronics
8 31 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 21 (2.34%) Marketing
11 19 (2.11%) Legal
11 19 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.33%) Retail
15 9 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.00%) Law
15 9 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.78%) Police
17 6 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 377 (41.94%) Developer
2 365 (40.60%) Software Engineer
3 169 (18.80%) Senior
4 164 (18.24%) Software Developer
5 90 (10.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 73 (8.12%) Java Engineer
7 68 (7.56%) Lead
8 66 (7.34%) Python Engineer
9 61 (6.79%) Python Developer
10 58 (6.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 58 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
11 56 (6.23%) Python Software Engineer
12 55 (6.12%) Java Developer
13 51 (5.67%) Senior Developer
14 41 (4.56%) C# Developer
15 39 (4.34%) Embedded Engineer
15 39 (4.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 38 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
17 34 (3.78%) AWS Software Engineer
17 34 (3.78%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (19.58%) HTML
2 125 (13.90%) React
3 96 (10.68%) gRPC
4 94 (10.46%) Protocol Buffers
5 85 (9.45%) Pandas
6 79 (8.79%) NumPy
6 79 (8.79%) SciPy
7 68 (7.56%) .NET
7 68 (7.56%) Node.js
8 65 (7.23%) REST
9 61 (6.79%) AngularJS
9 61 (6.79%) Kafka
10 60 (6.67%) CSS
11 39 (4.34%) Redux
11 39 (4.34%) RESTful
12 37 (4.12%) GraphQL
13 26 (2.89%) Spring
13 26 (2.89%) Spring Boot
14 24 (2.67%) Vue
14 24 (2.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 125 (13.90%) Fixed Income
2 96 (10.68%) Derivative
3 94 (10.46%) Equities
4 93 (10.34%) Hedge funds
5 79 (8.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 41 (4.56%) Algorithms
7 27 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.89%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.11%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.11%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.00%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.89%) IoT
13 8 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.67%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.90%) Linux
2 24 (2.67%) Windows
3 10 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.00%) Android
4 9 (1.00%) Debian
5 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.67%) Unix
7 2 (0.22%) VMS
7 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) tvOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (36.60%) Agile
2 140 (15.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 135 (15.02%) Code Quality
4 128 (14.24%) DevOps
5 122 (13.57%) Asset Management
5 122 (13.57%) Conversational UI
6 118 (13.13%) Test Automation
7 100 (11.12%) Investment Management
8 99 (11.01%) CI/CD
9 93 (10.34%) Fintech
10 84 (9.34%) Full Stack Development
11 81 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (8.23%) Computer Science
13 68 (7.56%) Analytics
14 67 (7.45%) User Experience
15 61 (6.79%) Scrum
16 57 (6.34%) SDLC
17 55 (6.12%) TDD
17 55 (6.12%) Validation
18 53 (5.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 371 (41.27%) Python
2 347 (38.60%) JavaScript
3 242 (26.92%) SQL
4 241 (26.81%) Java
5 232 (25.81%) C#
6 182 (20.24%) TypeScript
7 65 (7.23%) C++
8 58 (6.45%) C
9 51 (5.67%) Go
10 30 (3.34%) Scala
11 28 (3.11%) MATLAB
12 24 (2.67%) Embedded C
13 23 (2.56%) PL/SQL
14 22 (2.45%) PowerShell
15 21 (2.34%) PHP
15 21 (2.34%) R
16 18 (2.00%) Kotlin
16 18 (2.00%) Perl
17 10 (1.11%) Ruby
18 9 (1.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 203 (22.58%) Degree
2 100 (11.12%) Security Cleared
3 83 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.00%) PhD
9 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.22%) MBA
11 1 (0.11%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.11%) CISM
11 1 (0.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) CLAS
11 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.11%) OCP
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.34%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.78%) QA
3 11 (1.22%) NCSC
4 7 (0.78%) AUTOSAR
5 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.44%) JTAG
7 4 (0.44%) SEPA
8 2 (0.22%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (0.22%) NIST
8 2 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.11%) EMIR
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) RMADS
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (9.79%) Docker
2 10 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Firmware
4 5 (0.56%) ACF2
4 5 (0.56%) IAG
4 5 (0.56%) RACF
5 4 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.33%) zsh
7 2 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 100 (11.12%) Kubernetes
2 53 (5.90%) Terraform
3 30 (3.34%) Ansible
4 18 (2.00%) Grafana
5 16 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.89%) Podman
8 6 (0.67%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.44%) Puppet
10 3 (0.33%) Kibana
10 3 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.33%) Zipkin
11 2 (0.22%) Argo
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Istio
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 121 (13.46%) PayPal
2 44 (4.89%) Oracle
3 37 (4.12%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.22%) Google
5 16 (1.78%) Bloomberg
6 14 (1.56%) Databricks
7 12 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.33%) SAP
8 11 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.00%) VMware
10 6 (0.67%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.56%) Sybase
12 4 (0.44%) Denodo
12 4 (0.44%) IBM
12 4 (0.44%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.44%) Splunk
12 4 (0.44%) Talend
13 3 (0.33%) MathWorks
13 3 (0.33%) NVIDIA