Hybrid/Remote Senior Software Developer Job Trends

Senior Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 382 371
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 51 122 163
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.54% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 44 108 140
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,383 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £66,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +6.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £105,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,750 £114,450 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -2.99%

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 15,114 22,579 23,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 96.27% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,007 14,453 19,724
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,399
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,458 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Software Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior Software Developer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior Software Developer job vacancies

Senior Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Software Developer over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Senior Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Senior Software 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 Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 28 (54.90%) React
2 27 (52.94%) Agile
3 25 (49.02%) C#
3 25 (49.02%) TypeScript
4 24 (47.06%) AWS
5 21 (41.18%) Python
6 19 (37.25%) TDD
7 18 (35.29%) Software Testing
7 18 (35.29%) SQL
7 18 (35.29%) Serverless
8 17 (33.33%) Pair Programming
8 17 (33.33%) QA
9 16 (31.37%) RESTful
9 16 (31.37%) Scrum
9 16 (31.37%) .NET
9 16 (31.37%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (27.45%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (27.45%) Health Technology
10 14 (27.45%) Tech for Good
10 14 (27.45%) Operational Stability
10 14 (27.45%) JavaScript
10 14 (27.45%) Publishing
10 14 (27.45%) DynamoDB
11 13 (25.49%) Data Science
11 13 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (25.49%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (25.49%) Swagger
12 12 (23.53%) Azure
13 10 (19.61%) Software Engineering
13 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET

Senior 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 2 (3.92%) CMS
1 2 (3.92%) HCL Notes
1 2 (3.92%) Headless CMS
1 2 (3.92%) IIS
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.96%) EPiServer
2 1 (1.96%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) AWS
2 18 (35.29%) Serverless
3 16 (31.37%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (23.53%) Azure
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub
5 4 (7.84%) SaaS
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) GCP
6 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.96%) Contentful
7 1 (1.96%) Datadog
7 1 (1.96%) dbt
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.96%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) DynamoDB
2 13 (25.49%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.92%) Metadata
5 2 (3.92%) MySQL
5 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) Grunt
1 1 (1.96%) gulp
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
1 1 (1.96%) Selenium
1 1 (1.96%) Subversion
1 1 (1.96%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (27.45%) Health Technology
1 14 (27.45%) Publishing
1 14 (27.45%) Tech for Good
2 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.88%) Legal
3 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Automotive
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Advertising
5 1 (1.96%) Finance
5 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (54.90%) React
2 16 (31.37%) .NET
2 16 (31.37%) RESTful
3 13 (25.49%) Swagger
4 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET
5 8 (15.69%) .NET Framework
6 6 (11.76%) CSS
7 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.80%) Node.js
7 5 (9.80%) Vue
8 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
9 3 (5.88%) Laravel
9 3 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (5.88%) WCF
9 3 (5.88%) WPF
10 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (3.92%) Spring
10 2 (3.92%) Universal Windows Platform
10 2 (3.92%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.88%) Legacy Code
2 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.92%) Acoustics
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Smart City
4 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
1 3 (5.88%) Unix
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) Agile
2 19 (37.25%) TDD
3 18 (35.29%) Software Testing
4 17 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 16 (31.37%) Scrum
6 14 (27.45%) Continuous Delivery
6 14 (27.45%) Operational Stability
7 13 (25.49%) Data Science
7 13 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (19.61%) Mentoring
8 10 (19.61%) Software Engineering
9 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
10 8 (15.69%) DevOps
11 6 (11.76%) Clean Code
11 6 (11.76%) Code Quality
12 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
12 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (9.80%) MVC
13 4 (7.84%) Coaching
13 4 (7.84%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) C#
1 25 (49.02%) TypeScript
2 21 (41.18%) Python
3 18 (35.29%) SQL
4 14 (27.45%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.80%) C++
6 4 (7.84%) Java
7 3 (5.88%) C
7 3 (5.88%) PHP
7 3 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.92%) Bash
8 2 (3.92%) Fortran
8 2 (3.92%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.92%) Scala
9 1 (1.96%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.92%) PhD
4 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Lotus
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle
2 2 (3.92%) Syncfusion
2 2 (3.92%) Telerik
3 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.96%) Optimizely