Senior Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 202 135
Rank change year-on-year +100 -67 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 977 703 2,029
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.89% 1.69% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.02% 1.77% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 653 527 587
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,900 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% +5.04% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £98,355
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 32,404 39,812 66,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.99% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,887 28,282 41,688
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +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%

Senior Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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, Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 977 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 543 (55.58%) Agile
3 510 (52.20%) AWS
4 461 (47.19%) Python
5 402 (41.15%) JavaScript
5 402 (41.15%) Azure
6 361 (36.95%) .NET
7 354 (36.23%) React
8 295 (30.19%) DevOps
9 293 (29.99%) C#
10 290 (29.68%) Security Cleared
11 266 (27.23%) PostgreSQL
12 243 (24.87%) SC Cleared
13 231 (23.64%) .NET Core
14 221 (22.62%) Web Development
15 218 (22.31%) Actionable Insight
16 214 (21.90%) GeoServer
16 214 (21.90%) OpenLayers
16 214 (21.90%) QGIS
16 214 (21.90%) Leaflet
16 214 (21.90%) PostGIS
16 214 (21.90%) GIS
16 214 (21.90%) ESRI
16 214 (21.90%) ArcGIS
17 211 (21.60%) CSS
18 195 (19.96%) TypeScript
19 184 (18.83%) Linux
19 184 (18.83%) SQL
20 181 (18.53%) Java
21 174 (17.81%) Finance

Senior 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
1 214 (21.90%) ArcGIS
1 214 (21.90%) GeoServer
2 72 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (6.45%) Apache
4 10 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.10%) Endur
1 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 510 (52.20%) AWS
2 402 (41.15%) Azure
3 90 (9.21%) GCP
4 60 (6.14%) dbt
5 56 (5.73%) Snowflake
6 42 (4.30%) SaaS
7 28 (2.87%) Serverless
8 20 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.64%) GitHub
10 11 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (0.72%) Azure API Management
11 7 (0.72%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (0.72%) Azure Functions
11 7 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.51%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.31%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.31%) SonarCloud
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.46%) Wireless
2 22 (2.25%) Ethernet
3 19 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.84%) RS-232
5 14 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (1.33%) Modbus
7 10 (1.02%) Network Security
8 7 (0.72%) HTTP
9 5 (0.51%) Internet
10 4 (0.41%) Profibus
11 3 (0.31%) 5G
11 3 (0.31%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.31%) WAN
12 1 (0.10%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (27.23%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (21.90%) GIS
2 214 (21.90%) QGIS
3 61 (6.24%) MySQL
4 60 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
4 60 (6.14%) Apache Arrow
4 60 (6.14%) Apache Ignite
4 60 (6.14%) Dremio
5 57 (5.83%) Data Lake
6 43 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 40 (4.09%) MongoDB
8 33 (3.38%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.33%) Redis
11 11 (1.13%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.82%) SQLite
13 5 (0.51%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (4.20%) Git
2 26 (2.66%) JIRA
3 24 (2.46%) GitLab
4 20 (2.05%) Subversion
5 19 (1.94%) Visual Studio
6 16 (1.64%) CMake
7 11 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.51%) Selenium
9 5 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.31%) Maven
12 2 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.20%) JUnit
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.20%) Postman
13 1 (0.10%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.10%) Spinnaker
General
1 174 (17.81%) Finance
2 114 (11.67%) Front Office
3 66 (6.76%) Banking
4 61 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (6.14%) Investment Banking
6 49 (5.02%) Manufacturing
6 49 (5.02%) Social Skills
7 43 (4.40%) Back Office
8 36 (3.68%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (2.46%) Games
10 24 (2.46%) Military
11 19 (1.94%) Electronics
12 17 (1.74%) Retail
12 17 (1.74%) Tech for Good
13 14 (1.43%) Automotive
14 12 (1.23%) Health Technology
15 11 (1.13%) Advertising
15 11 (1.13%) Legal
16 8 (0.82%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (36.95%) .NET
2 354 (36.23%) React
3 231 (23.64%) .NET Core
4 214 (21.90%) Leaflet
4 214 (21.90%) OpenLayers
4 214 (21.90%) PostGIS
5 211 (21.60%) CSS
6 118 (12.08%) AngularJS
7 98 (10.03%) Vue
8 88 (9.01%) ASP.NET
9 74 (7.57%) gRPC
9 74 (7.57%) Pandas
10 72 (7.37%) Protocol Buffers
11 69 (7.06%) RESTful
12 62 (6.35%) NumPy
13 60 (6.14%) SciPy
14 56 (5.73%) Django
15 54 (5.53%) ASP.NET Core
16 47 (4.81%) HTML
17 46 (4.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 118 (12.08%) Equities
2 117 (11.98%) Derivative
3 116 (11.87%) Fixed Income
3 116 (11.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 103 (10.54%) Hedge funds
5 33 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.46%) Pricing Data
7 22 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (2.05%) Device Driver
10 18 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.43%) Client/Server
13 9 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.92%) IoT
13 9 (0.92%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.82%) Hackathon
15 7 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
15 7 (0.72%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 184 (18.83%) Linux
2 66 (6.76%) Embedded Linux
3 64 (6.55%) Windows
4 48 (4.91%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.64%) Android
6 12 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.92%) Unix
8 8 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
9 5 (0.51%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 977 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 543 (55.58%) Agile
3 295 (30.19%) DevOps
4 221 (22.62%) Web Development
5 218 (22.31%) Actionable Insight
6 119 (12.18%) Asset Management
7 107 (10.95%) Microservices
8 106 (10.85%) Investment Management
9 90 (9.21%) Mentoring
10 88 (9.01%) TDD
11 73 (7.47%) Computer Science
12 68 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (6.86%) Test Automation
14 58 (5.94%) Full Stack Development
15 55 (5.63%) CI/CD
16 54 (5.53%) Coaching
17 53 (5.42%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (4.81%) Multithreading
19 44 (4.50%) SDLC
20 43 (4.40%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 461 (47.19%) Python
2 402 (41.15%) JavaScript
3 293 (29.99%) C#
4 195 (19.96%) TypeScript
5 184 (18.83%) SQL
6 181 (18.53%) Java
7 120 (12.28%) C++
8 104 (10.64%) C
9 55 (5.63%) Embedded C
10 35 (3.58%) Bash
11 28 (2.87%) Rust
12 20 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.84%) Go
14 13 (1.33%) PHP
14 13 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.23%) Scala
16 11 (1.13%) Ruby
17 8 (0.82%) Ada
18 7 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 290 (29.68%) Security Cleared
2 243 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.09%) Degree
4 37 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.41%) HND
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 8 (0.82%) QA
3 6 (0.61%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (0.41%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.31%) PMO
6 2 (0.20%) SEPA
6 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.10%) EMIR
7 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 63 (6.45%) Docker
2 21 (2.15%) Firmware
3 6 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.87%) Terraform
3 2 (0.20%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.10%) Argo
4 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 214 (21.90%) ESRI
2 19 (1.94%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.23%) DevExpress
4 9 (0.92%) Dell
4 9 (0.92%) Google
4 9 (0.92%) Xamarin
5 5 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (0.41%) Apple
6 4 (0.41%) QNX
7 2 (0.20%) Databricks
7 2 (0.20%) Finsemble
7 2 (0.20%) IFS
7 2 (0.20%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle
8 1 (0.10%) Coverity
8 1 (0.10%) Klocwork
8 1 (0.10%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.10%) SAP
8 1 (0.10%) Thales