Research Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Research Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Research Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £46,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary 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 566 - 837
Rank change year-on-year - - -272
Permanent jobs requiring a Research Software Engineer 17 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.050% - 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% - 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £39,792 - £72,250
25th Percentile £41,750 - £83,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 - £87,050
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.39%
75th Percentile £51,332 - £97,438
90th Percentile £52,193 - £102,875
UK median annual salary £58,000 £42,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +38.10% -11.58% -22.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,479 40,829 66,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.03% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,933 29,012 42,088
10th Percentile £33,036 £36,532 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Research Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Research Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Research Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Research Software Engineer.

Research Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Research Software Engineer 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 remote work options featuring Research Software Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (94.12%) Python
3 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
3 13 (76.47%) MySQL
3 13 (76.47%) OO
3 13 (76.47%) Relational Database
3 13 (76.47%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (76.47%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (70.59%) React
4 12 (70.59%) SDLC
4 12 (70.59%) Finance
5 11 (64.71%) Law
5 11 (64.71%) Publishing
5 11 (64.71%) Agile
5 11 (64.71%) Banking
5 11 (64.71%) OOP
5 11 (64.71%) SQL
5 11 (64.71%) T-SQL
5 11 (64.71%) Java
5 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
5 11 (64.71%) Spring
5 11 (64.71%) Maven
5 11 (64.71%) Groovy
5 11 (64.71%) AWS
5 11 (64.71%) Spring Boot
5 11 (64.71%) Technology Strategy
5 11 (64.71%) Distributed Applications
5 11 (64.71%) Terraform
5 11 (64.71%) Cloud Native
5 11 (64.71%) IT Strategy

Research 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 2 (11.76%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) MySQL
1 13 (76.47%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) GIS
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Maven
2 2 (11.76%) CMake
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Banking
2 11 (64.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (64.71%) Investment Banking
2 11 (64.71%) Law
2 11 (64.71%) Publishing
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) React
2 11 (64.71%) Spring
2 11 (64.71%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (11.76%) OpenACC
3 2 (11.76%) OpenCL
3 2 (11.76%) OpenMP
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) Blazor
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) GeoJSON
4 1 (5.88%) GeoPandas
4 1 (5.88%) GeoTools
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) OpenLayers
4 1 (5.88%) PostGIS
4 1 (5.88%) Svelte
4 1 (5.88%) Vue
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Cloud Native
1 11 (64.71%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.76%) CUDA
4 1 (5.88%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (76.47%) Full Stack Development
2 13 (76.47%) OO
2 13 (76.47%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (70.59%) SDLC
4 11 (64.71%) Agile
4 11 (64.71%) IT Strategy
4 11 (64.71%) OOP
4 11 (64.71%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (29.41%) Open Source
6 3 (17.65%) Parallel Programming
7 2 (11.76%) Build Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
7 2 (11.76%) MVVM
7 2 (11.76%) Physics
7 2 (11.76%) System Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Python
2 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
3 11 (64.71%) Groovy
3 11 (64.71%) Java
3 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 11 (64.71%) T-SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Fortran
5 2 (11.76%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) C++
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) Haskell
6 1 (5.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) PhD
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) ESRI
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
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