Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 12 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 2,037 6,283 8,277
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.62% 18.57% 19.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.03% 19.34% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,669 5,577 7,052
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Developer.

Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Developer in the job title.

1 823 (40.40%) JavaScript
2 760 (37.31%) Agile
3 658 (32.30%) C#
4 632 (31.03%) .NET
5 617 (30.29%) SQL
6 615 (30.19%) Azure
7 546 (26.80%) AWS
8 528 (25.92%) React
9 486 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
10 478 (23.47%) Finance
11 464 (22.78%) Social Skills
12 446 (21.89%) HTML
13 426 (20.91%) Python
14 393 (19.29%) TypeScript
15 384 (18.85%) CSS
16 380 (18.65%) Java
17 372 (18.26%) Software Engineering
18 340 (16.69%) Node.js
19 328 (16.10%) Full-Stack Development
20 321 (15.76%) DevOps
21 313 (15.37%) CI/CD
22 298 (14.63%) Microsoft
23 292 (14.33%) AngularJS
24 290 (14.24%) Git
25 277 (13.60%) Degree
26 276 (13.55%) SQL Server
27 266 (13.06%) Docker
28 258 (12.67%) Microservices
29 239 (11.73%) User Experience
30 230 (11.29%) C++

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 84 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (2.90%) CMS
3 55 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 52 (2.55%) OpenEdge
5 46 (2.26%) WordPress
6 45 (2.21%) Apache
7 29 (1.42%) Confluence
8 14 (0.69%) Drupal
9 10 (0.49%) Umbraco
10 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.34%) nginx
12 6 (0.29%) IIS
13 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.20%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
14 4 (0.20%) JBoss
14 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.15%) ColdFusion
15 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 58 (2.85%) Chatbot
2 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.44%) Adobe XD
4 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.34%) Sketch
5 7 (0.34%) Trello
6 6 (0.29%) Revit
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.049%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.049%) Blender
8 1 (0.049%) InVision
8 1 (0.049%) Maya
8 1 (0.049%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.049%) Moqups
8 1 (0.049%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 60 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 17 (0.83%) Sage 200
3 17 (0.83%) Sage 50
4 15 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
6 11 (0.54%) JDE OneWorld
7 10 (0.49%) Shopify
8 8 (0.39%) Magento
9 4 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
9 4 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.20%) Orchestrade
9 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.098%) Endur
10 2 (0.098%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.098%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.098%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 615 (30.19%) Azure
2 546 (26.80%) AWS
3 210 (10.31%) Power Platform
4 156 (7.66%) GCP
5 136 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
6 128 (6.28%) Serverless
7 126 (6.19%) Power Automate
8 121 (5.94%) PowerApps
9 117 (5.74%) GitHub
10 115 (5.65%) SaaS
11 107 (5.25%) Dynamics 365
12 81 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (3.78%) dbt
14 68 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
15 54 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
17 32 (1.57%) Amazon S3
17 32 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
18 31 (1.52%) Figma
19 28 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 15 (0.74%) HTTP
3 11 (0.54%) Network Security
4 8 (0.39%) 5G
5 6 (0.29%) Broadband
6 5 (0.25%) BGP
6 5 (0.25%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.25%) Internet
6 5 (0.25%) IPsec
6 5 (0.25%) MPLS
6 5 (0.25%) OSPF
7 4 (0.20%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.20%) Intranet
8 3 (0.15%) MQTT
8 3 (0.15%) Multicast
9 2 (0.098%) DNS
10 1 (0.049%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.049%) FTP
10 1 (0.049%) SMTP
10 1 (0.049%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (13.55%) SQL Server
2 165 (8.10%) MySQL
3 159 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
4 134 (6.58%) Power BI
5 80 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (3.88%) MongoDB
7 76 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
8 75 (3.68%) Apache Arrow
8 75 (3.68%) Apache Iceberg
8 75 (3.68%) Dremio
9 74 (3.63%) NoSQL
10 63 (3.09%) Relational Database
11 51 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 50 (2.45%) DynamoDB
13 49 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 48 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
14 48 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 32 (1.57%) Redis
16 26 (1.28%) Apache Ignite
17 17 (0.83%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 290 (14.24%) Git
2 87 (4.27%) JIRA
3 81 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 63 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 55 (2.70%) JUnit
6 40 (1.96%) Mockito
7 36 (1.77%) IntelliJ
8 32 (1.57%) Jasmine
9 31 (1.52%) GitLab
10 29 (1.42%) webpack
11 27 (1.33%) Karma Test Runner
12 25 (1.23%) Maven
13 23 (1.13%) Protractor
14 22 (1.08%) Eclipse
15 18 (0.88%) Gradle
16 16 (0.79%) NUnit
17 15 (0.74%) Grunt
17 15 (0.74%) SonarQube
18 14 (0.69%) Bitbucket
18 14 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 478 (23.47%) Finance
2 464 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 160 (7.85%) Front Office
4 156 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 149 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 132 (6.48%) Banking
7 92 (4.52%) Retail
8 73 (3.58%) Law
9 69 (3.39%) Marketing
10 68 (3.34%) Games
11 47 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 46 (2.26%) Investment Banking
13 35 (1.72%) Tech for Good
14 32 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.08%) Back Office
17 20 (0.98%) Health Technology
18 19 (0.93%) Automotive
19 17 (0.83%) Local Government
19 17 (0.83%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 632 (31.03%) .NET
2 528 (25.92%) React
3 446 (21.89%) HTML
4 384 (18.85%) CSS
5 340 (16.69%) Node.js
6 292 (14.33%) AngularJS
7 195 (9.57%) RESTful
8 193 (9.47%) Vue
9 187 (9.18%) ASP.NET
10 183 (8.98%) .NET Core
11 182 (8.93%) .NET Framework
12 144 (7.07%) REST
13 118 (5.79%) jQuery
14 111 (5.45%) Pandas
15 110 (5.40%) HTML5
16 105 (5.15%) Web Services
17 98 (4.81%) Entity Framework
18 89 (4.37%) Redux
19 80 (3.93%) ASP.NET Web API
19 80 (3.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 128 (6.28%) Fixed Income
2 98 (4.81%) Mobile App
3 74 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
4 65 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 57 (2.80%) Equities
6 53 (2.60%) Algorithms
7 49 (2.41%) Cyberattack
7 49 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 43 (2.11%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.96%) Cloud Native
9 40 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
11 37 (1.82%) Hedge funds
11 37 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.77%) Management Information System
13 31 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 31 (1.52%) Mobile Games
14 24 (1.18%) Derivative
15 23 (1.13%) Educational Technology
16 20 (0.98%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 181 (8.89%) Linux
2 106 (5.20%) Android
3 53 (2.60%) Apple iOS
4 40 (1.96%) Windows
5 12 (0.59%) Unix
6 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.25%) Rocky
7 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (37.31%) Agile
2 486 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
3 372 (18.26%) Software Engineering
4 328 (16.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 321 (15.76%) DevOps
6 313 (15.37%) CI/CD
7 258 (12.67%) Microservices
8 239 (11.73%) User Experience
9 212 (10.41%) OO
10 201 (9.87%) OOP
11 199 (9.77%) Front End Development
12 187 (9.18%) MVC
13 177 (8.69%) Fintech
14 171 (8.39%) Design Patterns
15 161 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
15 161 (7.90%) Computer Science
16 157 (7.71%) Clean Code
17 153 (7.51%) Unit Testing
18 147 (7.22%) Mentoring
18 147 (7.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 823 (40.40%) JavaScript
2 658 (32.30%) C#
3 617 (30.29%) SQL
4 426 (20.91%) Python
5 393 (19.29%) TypeScript
6 380 (18.65%) Java
7 230 (11.29%) C++
8 198 (9.72%) PHP
9 68 (3.34%) Go
10 58 (2.85%) T-SQL
11 55 (2.70%) Rust
12 52 (2.55%) C
13 48 (2.36%) PowerShell
14 41 (2.01%) Kotlin
15 36 (1.77%) VB.NET
16 34 (1.67%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.37%) Objective-C
17 28 (1.37%) Swift
18 25 (1.23%) Ruby
19 17 (0.83%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 277 (13.60%) Degree
2 141 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 127 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (3.19%) SC Cleared
5 59 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (1.23%) DBS Check
8 20 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.59%) PhD
10 9 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.29%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.20%) HND
14 2 (0.098%) ACCA
15 1 (0.049%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.049%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.049%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.049%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.43%) QA
2 70 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.44%) WCAG
5 6 (0.29%) GDPR
6 4 (0.20%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.20%) NCSC
7 3 (0.15%) GRC
8 1 (0.049%) CDISC
8 1 (0.049%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.049%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.049%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.049%) PMO
8 1 (0.049%) SLA
System Software
1 266 (13.06%) Docker
2 10 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.049%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 167 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 98 (4.81%) Terraform
3 67 (3.29%) Ansible
4 14 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (0.39%) Grafana
7 7 (0.34%) Argo
8 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.15%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.098%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.049%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.049%) cPanel
11 1 (0.049%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 298 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 76 (3.73%) Oracle
3 52 (2.55%) PayPal
4 46 (2.26%) Progress
5 45 (2.21%) IBM
6 39 (1.91%) Google
7 33 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.03%) Adobe
9 19 (0.93%) Xamarin
10 17 (0.83%) Sage
11 15 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.69%) Databricks
12 14 (0.69%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.69%) New Relic
12 14 (0.69%) SAP
13 13 (0.64%) UiPath
14 11 (0.54%) Dell
15 8 (0.39%) Okta
15 8 (0.39%) VMware
16 5 (0.25%) Optimizely