Developer/Software Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer/Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 285 376
Rank change year-on-year +74 +91 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 93 60 101
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 60 88
10th Percentile £550 £500 £438
25th Percentile £588 £659 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £850 £888 £750
90th Percentile £875 - £788
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £600
% change year-on-year - +20.83% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Developer/Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Developer/Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Developer/Software Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Developer/Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 93 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 91 (97.85%) Front Office
2 91 (97.85%) Finance
3 86 (92.47%) Fixed Income
3 86 (92.47%) Agile
3 86 (92.47%) AWS
4 81 (87.10%) Asset Management
5 78 (83.87%) Investment Management
5 78 (83.87%) JavaScript
5 78 (83.87%) TypeScript
5 78 (83.87%) GCP
5 78 (83.87%) React
6 75 (80.65%) Python
7 73 (78.49%) Fintech
8 62 (66.67%) Redux
9 57 (61.29%) Node.js
10 46 (49.46%) PostgreSQL
11 43 (46.24%) AngularJS
11 43 (46.24%) Vue
12 38 (40.86%) Banking
13 35 (37.63%) Equities
13 35 (37.63%) Apache Airflow
13 35 (37.63%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (37.63%) User Experience
13 35 (37.63%) Dremio
13 35 (37.63%) dbt
13 35 (37.63%) Apache Arrow
13 35 (37.63%) Apache Iceberg
14 30 (32.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (29.03%) SciPy

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 35 (37.63%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (20.43%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 86 (92.47%) AWS
2 78 (83.87%) GCP
3 35 (37.63%) dbt
4 16 (17.20%) Azure
5 8 (8.60%) Snowflake
6 5 (5.38%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (49.46%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (37.63%) Amazon Athena
2 35 (37.63%) Apache Arrow
2 35 (37.63%) Apache Iceberg
2 35 (37.63%) Dremio
3 11 (11.83%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Ant
1 5 (5.38%) Git
1 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.38%) Maven
1 5 (5.38%) Subversion
General
1 91 (97.85%) Finance
1 91 (97.85%) Front Office
2 38 (40.86%) Banking
3 8 (8.60%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.38%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (1.08%) Retail
5 1 (1.08%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (83.87%) React
2 62 (66.67%) Redux
3 57 (61.29%) Node.js
4 43 (46.24%) AngularJS
4 43 (46.24%) Vue
5 27 (29.03%) NumPy
5 27 (29.03%) Pandas
5 27 (29.03%) SciPy
6 11 (11.83%) gRPC
6 11 (11.83%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (8.60%) PySpark
8 5 (5.38%) .NET
8 5 (5.38%) OpenFin
9 1 (1.08%) Akka
9 1 (1.08%) Play Framework
9 1 (1.08%) RESTful
9 1 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 86 (92.47%) Fixed Income
2 35 (37.63%) Equities
3 30 (32.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 24 (25.81%) Hedge funds
5 13 (13.98%) Derivative
6 10 (10.75%) Product Ownership
7 5 (5.38%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
1 5 (5.38%) Unix
1 5 (5.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 86 (92.47%) Agile
3 81 (87.10%) Asset Management
4 78 (83.87%) Investment Management
5 73 (78.49%) Fintech
6 35 (37.63%) User Experience
7 27 (29.03%) Performance Attribution
8 16 (17.20%) Analytics
8 16 (17.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (17.20%) Order Management
8 16 (17.20%) Risk Management
8 16 (17.20%) TDD
9 11 (11.83%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 10 (10.75%) Visualisation
11 8 (8.60%) Data Management
12 5 (5.38%) Concurrent Programming
12 5 (5.38%) Front End Development
12 5 (5.38%) High Availability
12 5 (5.38%) OO
12 5 (5.38%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 78 (83.87%) JavaScript
1 78 (83.87%) TypeScript
2 75 (80.65%) Python
3 14 (15.05%) Java
4 13 (13.98%) SQL
5 5 (5.38%) C#
Vendors
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
18 Developer/Software Engineer jobs Nationwide