Developer/Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer/Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 363 491
Rank change year-on-year +75 +128 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 59 103 131
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.43% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 90 108
10th Percentile £500 £438 -
25th Percentile £656 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +6.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £888 £750 £700
90th Percentile - £788 £750
UK median daily rate £725 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -

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 14,071 23,886 42,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.33% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,442 16,861 30,355
10th Percentile £325 £361 £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 572 544 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.66 £13.38
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.81 £57.44
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.18 £68.16
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Developer/Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer/Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer.

Developer/Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer/Software Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Developer/Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Developer/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 Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (98.31%) Software Engineering
2 57 (96.61%) JavaScript
2 57 (96.61%) TypeScript
2 57 (96.61%) GCP
3 56 (94.92%) AWS
4 54 (91.53%) Python
4 54 (91.53%) Asset Management
4 54 (91.53%) Front Office
4 54 (91.53%) Finance
5 51 (86.44%) Fixed Income
6 48 (81.36%) Agile
7 45 (76.27%) Protocol Buffers
7 45 (76.27%) gRPC
7 45 (76.27%) Apache Airflow
8 39 (66.10%) Apache Ignite
8 39 (66.10%) Pandas
8 39 (66.10%) Java
8 39 (66.10%) Apache
8 39 (66.10%) Investment Management
9 33 (55.93%) SciPy
9 33 (55.93%) NumPy
9 33 (55.93%) Amazon Athena
9 33 (55.93%) Dremio
9 33 (55.93%) dbt
9 33 (55.93%) Apache Arrow
10 30 (50.85%) React
10 30 (50.85%) Derivative
10 30 (50.85%) Equities
10 30 (50.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 27 (45.76%) Investment Banking

Developer/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 45 (76.27%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (66.10%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 57 (96.61%) GCP
2 56 (94.92%) AWS
3 33 (55.93%) dbt
4 20 (33.90%) Snowflake
5 6 (10.17%) Azure
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (66.10%) Apache Ignite
2 33 (55.93%) Amazon Athena
2 33 (55.93%) Apache Arrow
2 33 (55.93%) Dremio
3 20 (33.90%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
1 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 54 (91.53%) Finance
1 54 (91.53%) Front Office
2 27 (45.76%) Banking
2 27 (45.76%) Investment Banking
3 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (76.27%) gRPC
1 45 (76.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 39 (66.10%) Pandas
3 33 (55.93%) NumPy
3 33 (55.93%) SciPy
4 30 (50.85%) React
5 22 (37.29%) Node.js
6 21 (35.59%) Redux
7 15 (25.42%) Material-UI
8 12 (20.34%) AngularJS
8 12 (20.34%) Vue
9 9 (15.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 51 (86.44%) Fixed Income
2 30 (50.85%) Derivative
2 30 (50.85%) Equities
2 30 (50.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 24 (40.68%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (98.31%) Software Engineering
2 54 (91.53%) Asset Management
3 48 (81.36%) Agile
4 39 (66.10%) Investment Management
5 22 (37.29%) Analytics
6 21 (35.59%) Fintech
6 21 (35.59%) Performance Attribution
7 20 (33.90%) Line Management
8 15 (25.42%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (15.25%) Front End Development
9 9 (15.25%) Risk Analytics
10 7 (11.86%) Data Architecture
11 6 (10.17%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 6 (10.17%) User Experience
12 4 (6.78%) Mentoring
12 4 (6.78%) Product Management
12 4 (6.78%) Test Automation
13 3 (5.08%) Continuous Integration
13 3 (5.08%) Pair Programming
13 3 (5.08%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 57 (96.61%) JavaScript
1 57 (96.61%) TypeScript
2 54 (91.53%) Python
3 39 (66.10%) Java
4 9 (15.25%) Kotlin
5 5 (8.47%) Ruby
5 5 (8.47%) Scala
6 3 (5.08%) Bash
7 2 (3.39%) SQL
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) zsh
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (5.08%) Google
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
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