Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 114 143
Rank change year-on-year +38 +29 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 408 506 834
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.77% 2.12% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 2.23% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 335 574
10th Percentile £450 £438 £425
25th Percentile £500 £476 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 53 26
10th Percentile £37.50 £46.25 £46.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £47.50 £47.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66.88 £70.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £76.45 £90.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% +26.32%

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Software Engineer.

Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
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 Engineer.

Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Software Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 406 (99.51%) Software Engineering
2 201 (49.26%) AWS
3 167 (40.93%) Agile
4 162 (39.71%) Python
5 153 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 149 (36.52%) Finance
7 148 (36.27%) Java
8 141 (34.56%) TypeScript
9 119 (29.17%) Front Office
10 113 (27.70%) Asset Management
11 111 (27.21%) Fixed Income
12 107 (26.23%) gRPC
13 106 (25.98%) Apache Airflow
13 106 (25.98%) Protocol Buffers
14 101 (24.75%) Apache
15 100 (24.51%) Apache Ignite
16 96 (23.53%) Pandas
17 95 (23.28%) Banking
18 90 (22.06%) SciPy
18 90 (22.06%) NumPy
18 90 (22.06%) Dremio
18 90 (22.06%) Amazon Athena
18 90 (22.06%) Apache Arrow
18 90 (22.06%) dbt
19 86 (21.08%) Investment Management
19 86 (21.08%) Derivative
19 86 (21.08%) Equities
19 86 (21.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 81 (19.85%) GCP
21 80 (19.61%) Hedge funds

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
1 106 (25.98%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (24.75%) Apache
3 6 (1.47%) Confluence
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.49%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.25%) WildFly
Applications
1 22 (5.39%) Simulink
1 22 (5.39%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (49.26%) AWS
2 90 (22.06%) dbt
3 81 (19.85%) GCP
4 80 (19.61%) Snowflake
5 47 (11.52%) Azure
6 17 (4.17%) Serverless
7 15 (3.68%) GitHub
8 11 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.96%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.23%) npm
14 4 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 2 (0.49%) AWS IoT
16 2 (0.49%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.70%) HTTP
2 8 (1.96%) Diameter Protocol
3 5 (1.23%) 802.11
3 5 (1.23%) J1939
3 5 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.98%) Wireless
5 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.49%) RS-232
7 1 (0.25%) HbbTV
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (24.51%) Apache Ignite
2 90 (22.06%) Amazon Athena
2 90 (22.06%) Apache Arrow
2 90 (22.06%) Dremio
3 76 (18.63%) Data Lake
4 28 (6.86%) Apache Cassandra
5 15 (3.68%) MySQL
6 10 (2.45%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.21%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.98%) Couchbase
11 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 32 (7.84%) Git
2 17 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.92%) JIRA
4 10 (2.45%) GitLab
4 10 (2.45%) Selenium
5 9 (2.21%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.72%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (1.47%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.23%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.23%) MSI
8 5 (1.23%) WiX
9 4 (0.98%) Postman
9 4 (0.98%) Subversion
10 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.74%) fastlane
10 3 (0.74%) Maven
10 3 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 149 (36.52%) Finance
2 119 (29.17%) Front Office
3 95 (23.28%) Banking
4 80 (19.61%) Investment Banking
5 48 (11.76%) Social Skills
6 38 (9.31%) Automotive
7 19 (4.66%) Legal
8 16 (3.92%) Telecoms
9 14 (3.43%) Electronics
10 11 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (2.45%) Retail
12 9 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.47%) Law
14 5 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.98%) Police
15 4 (0.98%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.49%) Military
18 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (26.23%) gRPC
2 106 (25.98%) Protocol Buffers
3 96 (23.53%) Pandas
4 90 (22.06%) NumPy
4 90 (22.06%) SciPy
5 60 (14.71%) React
6 51 (12.50%) Node.js
7 40 (9.80%) Kafka
8 37 (9.07%) AngularJS
9 27 (6.62%) RESTful
10 25 (6.13%) Redux
11 24 (5.88%) REST
12 22 (5.39%) .NET
13 20 (4.90%) Vue
14 17 (4.17%) Spring Boot
15 16 (3.92%) XML
16 15 (3.68%) HTML
17 14 (3.43%) Spring
18 13 (3.19%) CSS
19 11 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 111 (27.21%) Fixed Income
2 86 (21.08%) Derivative
2 86 (21.08%) Equities
2 86 (21.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 80 (19.61%) Hedge funds
4 29 (7.11%) Algorithms
5 16 (3.92%) Pricing Data
6 12 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.47%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.47%) IoT
10 5 (1.23%) CAN bus
10 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.23%) Web 2.0
11 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.98%) Device Driver
12 3 (0.74%) iPad
12 3 (0.74%) iPhone
12 3 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.92%) Linux
2 12 (2.94%) Windows
3 10 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.96%) Android
5 4 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (99.51%) Software Engineering
2 167 (40.93%) Agile
3 113 (27.70%) Asset Management
4 86 (21.08%) Investment Management
5 64 (15.69%) Fintech
6 58 (14.22%) Test Automation
7 48 (11.76%) User Experience
8 44 (10.78%) Computer Science
9 39 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (8.58%) Full Stack Development
10 35 (8.58%) Validation
11 34 (8.33%) Line Management
12 28 (6.86%) DevOps
13 27 (6.62%) UX Design
14 26 (6.37%) Analytics
14 26 (6.37%) Greeks
14 26 (6.37%) Performance Attribution
14 26 (6.37%) User Research
14 26 (6.37%) UX Research
15 25 (6.13%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 162 (39.71%) Python
2 153 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 148 (36.27%) Java
4 141 (34.56%) TypeScript
5 50 (12.25%) C
6 42 (10.29%) SQL
7 41 (10.05%) C++
8 36 (8.82%) C#
9 29 (7.11%) Go
10 26 (6.37%) MATLAB
11 21 (5.15%) Embedded C
12 16 (3.92%) PHP
13 10 (2.45%) Kotlin
13 10 (2.45%) Perl
14 7 (1.72%) Ruby
14 7 (1.72%) Scala
15 6 (1.47%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.47%) Swift
16 5 (1.23%) Bash
16 5 (1.23%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.82%) Degree
3 26 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.98%) PhD
8 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.62%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.96%) QA
3 5 (1.23%) AUTOSAR
4 4 (0.98%) JTAG
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) MISRA
5 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.25%) SEPA
5 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (11.52%) Docker
2 6 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.23%) ACF2
3 5 (1.23%) IAG
3 5 (1.23%) RACF
4 4 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.98%) Firmware
4 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.74%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.49%) zsh
Systems Management
1 46 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.45%) Terraform
3 6 (1.47%) Ansible
3 6 (1.47%) Functional Safety
4 5 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (1.23%) Podman
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (2.94%) Oracle
2 7 (1.72%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.47%) Google
4 5 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.23%) Sybase
5 4 (0.98%) Bloomberg
5 4 (0.98%) ION Trading
5 4 (0.98%) Reuters
6 3 (0.74%) MathWorks
6 3 (0.74%) NVIDIA
6 3 (0.74%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe
7 1 (0.25%) Databricks
7 1 (0.25%) Denodo
7 1 (0.25%) Finsemble
7 1 (0.25%) IBM
7 1 (0.25%) New Relic
7 1 (0.25%) Talend
7 1 (0.25%) Typelevel