Software Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £537 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 246 321
Rank change year-on-year +166 +75 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 394 247 332
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.59% 0.96% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 1.01% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 161 221
10th Percentile £413 £374 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £669 £600
90th Percentile £888 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 24 11
10th Percentile - £55.38 -
25th Percentile - £56.25 -
Median hourly rate - £58.05 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +65.84% +19.66%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £49.75
90th Percentile - £85.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £60.70 £57.50 £48.74
% change year-on-year +5.57% +17.97% +43.35%

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 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £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 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
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 Developer.

Software Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Software Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
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 Developer.

Software Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 249 (63.20%) Degree
1 249 (63.20%) Code Quality
2 243 (61.68%) Artificial Intelligence
3 241 (61.17%) Conversational UI
3 241 (61.17%) PayPal
3 241 (61.17%) Chatbot
4 177 (44.92%) JavaScript
5 175 (44.42%) Python
6 171 (43.40%) C#
7 162 (41.12%) Software Engineering
8 158 (40.10%) SQL
9 135 (34.26%) HTML
10 81 (20.56%) Agile
11 61 (15.48%) Java
12 55 (13.96%) AWS
13 48 (12.18%) Azure
14 46 (11.68%) .NET
15 42 (10.66%) CI/CD
16 38 (9.64%) TypeScript
17 36 (9.14%) Finance
18 34 (8.63%) Microsoft
18 34 (8.63%) DevOps
19 33 (8.38%) SQL Server
20 32 (8.12%) PowerShell
21 29 (7.36%) Front Office
22 28 (7.11%) Asset Management
23 27 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
23 27 (6.85%) Public Sector
23 27 (6.85%) Scrum
24 26 (6.60%) GCP

Software Developer 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 23 (5.84%) Apache
1 23 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.27%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.76%) CMS
4 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 241 (61.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 55 (13.96%) AWS
2 48 (12.18%) Azure
3 27 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (6.60%) GCP
5 23 (5.84%) dbt
6 18 (4.57%) Snowflake
7 11 (2.79%) Serverless
8 8 (2.03%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.78%) GitHub
10 6 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.52%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.27%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.76%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.51%) Rekognition
14 2 (0.51%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.76%) SAN
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
3 1 (0.25%) RFID
3 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.38%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
2 23 (5.84%) Apache Arrow
2 23 (5.84%) Apache Ignite
2 23 (5.84%) Dremio
3 19 (4.82%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.79%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.02%) MySQL
8 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.51%) Big Data
10 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.51%) Power BI
10 2 (0.51%) Redis
10 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.05%) SpecFlow
2 8 (2.03%) Git
2 8 (2.03%) Selenium
3 7 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.27%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.76%) JUnit
5 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.76%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.51%) Maven
6 2 (0.51%) NUnit
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.51%) Postman
6 2 (0.51%) TestNG
7 1 (0.25%) git-flow
7 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.25%) Protractor
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.25%) tSQLt
General
1 36 (9.14%) Finance
2 29 (7.36%) Front Office
3 27 (6.85%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.35%) Banking
5 24 (6.09%) Investment Banking
6 20 (5.08%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.52%) Law
8 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.02%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Local Government
11 1 (0.25%) Back Office
11 1 (0.25%) Electronics
11 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.25%) Legal
11 1 (0.25%) Marketing
11 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (34.26%) HTML
2 46 (11.68%) .NET
3 24 (6.09%) NumPy
3 24 (6.09%) Pandas
3 24 (6.09%) SciPy
4 23 (5.84%) gRPC
4 23 (5.84%) Protocol Buffers
4 23 (5.84%) XML
5 18 (4.57%) .NET Framework
6 14 (3.55%) CSS
7 12 (3.05%) FastAPI
7 12 (3.05%) React
8 11 (2.79%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.79%) Node.js
8 11 (2.79%) REST
8 11 (2.79%) RESTful
9 7 (1.78%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.78%) Spring
9 7 (1.78%) WebSockets
10 6 (1.52%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.84%) Derivative
2 22 (5.58%) Equities
2 22 (5.58%) Fixed Income
2 22 (5.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 22 (5.58%) Hedge funds
3 8 (2.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.27%) Contactless
4 5 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.27%) NHS
5 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.51%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.51%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.51%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.25%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.25%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.54%) Linux
2 3 (0.76%) Debian
2 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (63.20%) Code Quality
2 243 (61.68%) Artificial Intelligence
3 241 (61.17%) Conversational UI
4 162 (41.12%) Software Engineering
5 81 (20.56%) Agile
6 42 (10.66%) CI/CD
7 34 (8.63%) DevOps
8 28 (7.11%) Asset Management
9 27 (6.85%) Scrum
10 18 (4.57%) Investment Management
10 18 (4.57%) Line Management
10 18 (4.57%) Test Automation
11 15 (3.81%) Microservices
12 14 (3.55%) Analytics
13 13 (3.30%) API Development
14 11 (2.79%) Front End Development
14 11 (2.79%) Full Stack Development
14 11 (2.79%) Software Testing
14 11 (2.79%) TDD
15 10 (2.54%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 177 (44.92%) JavaScript
2 175 (44.42%) Python
3 171 (43.40%) C#
4 158 (40.10%) SQL
5 61 (15.48%) Java
6 38 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 32 (8.12%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.03%) Bicep
9 6 (1.52%) Bash
9 6 (1.52%) Ruby
10 5 (1.27%) Scala
11 4 (1.02%) PHP
12 3 (0.76%) Perl
12 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.51%) C++
13 2 (0.51%) Rust
14 1 (0.25%) Go
14 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 249 (63.20%) Degree
2 18 (4.57%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.25%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.03%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.27%) HL7
3 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.25%) QA
4 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (3.30%) Docker
2 6 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.76%) zsh
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.28%) Terraform
3 5 (1.27%) Grafana
4 2 (0.51%) Kibana
5 1 (0.25%) Istio
5 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 241 (61.17%) PayPal
2 34 (8.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.28%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.78%) Oracle
5 3 (0.76%) Google
5 3 (0.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.76%) RedGate
5 3 (0.76%) VMware
6 2 (0.51%) Databricks
6 2 (0.51%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.25%) Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.25%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.25%) Palantir
7 1 (0.25%) Remedy
7 1 (0.25%) SAP
7 1 (0.25%) Splunk