Senior Software Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software 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 330 386 420
Rank change year-on-year +56 +34 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 67 214 274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.63% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.66% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55 185 235
10th Percentile £51,750 £46,250 £53,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £110,000 £96,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £63,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.79% -9.29% -

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% -

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 a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 43 (64.18%) AWS
2 38 (56.72%) React
3 35 (52.24%) TypeScript
4 29 (43.28%) Microservices
5 28 (41.79%) Serverless
5 28 (41.79%) Test Automation
6 27 (40.30%) Unit Testing
6 27 (40.30%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (40.30%) Clean Code
7 26 (38.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 25 (37.31%) Event-Driven
8 25 (37.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 25 (37.31%) DynamoDB
9 24 (35.82%) Node.js
9 24 (35.82%) Software Engineering
10 22 (32.84%) Agile
11 20 (29.85%) QA
11 20 (29.85%) Functional Programming
11 20 (29.85%) Secure Coding
11 20 (29.85%) GraphQL
12 19 (28.36%) Kanban
12 19 (28.36%) Technology Strategy
13 17 (25.37%) SQL
14 16 (23.88%) C#
14 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (22.39%) Azure
16 14 (20.90%) Computer Science
16 14 (20.90%) Degree
16 14 (20.90%) Software Testing
16 14 (20.90%) Social Skills

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 (2.99%) CMS
1 2 (2.99%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.49%) EPiServer
2 1 (1.49%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.49%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 43 (64.18%) AWS
2 28 (41.79%) Serverless
3 27 (40.30%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (22.39%) Azure
5 8 (11.94%) GCP
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.99%) SaaS
9 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.49%) Contentful
9 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) BGP
1 5 (7.46%) IPsec
1 5 (7.46%) MPLS
1 5 (7.46%) OSPF
2 3 (4.48%) Multicast
3 1 (1.49%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.49%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.31%) DynamoDB
2 9 (13.43%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (10.45%) MySQL
5 6 (8.96%) MongoDB
6 5 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.99%) Metadata
8 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) Gradle
2 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 6 (8.96%) Maven
3 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.49%) Grunt
4 1 (1.49%) gulp
4 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.49%) Subversion
4 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Games
2 6 (8.96%) Health Technology
2 6 (8.96%) Publishing
2 6 (8.96%) Tech for Good
3 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Electronics
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (56.72%) React
2 24 (35.82%) Node.js
3 20 (29.85%) GraphQL
4 13 (19.40%) RESTful
5 9 (13.43%) .NET
6 6 (8.96%) ASP.NET
6 6 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (8.96%) Kafka
6 6 (8.96%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (8.96%) Spring
7 5 (7.46%) Swagger
8 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (4.48%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (4.48%) CSS
8 3 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (4.48%) pytest
8 3 (4.48%) React Native
8 3 (4.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.96%) Mobile Games
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.48%) Derivative
5 3 (4.48%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.99%) Acoustics
6 2 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Unix
3 2 (2.99%) Android
3 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) Microservices
2 28 (41.79%) Test Automation
3 27 (40.30%) Clean Code
3 27 (40.30%) Unit Testing
4 26 (38.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (37.31%) Event-Driven
5 25 (37.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 24 (35.82%) Software Engineering
7 22 (32.84%) Agile
8 20 (29.85%) Functional Programming
8 20 (29.85%) Secure Coding
9 19 (28.36%) Kanban
9 19 (28.36%) Technology Strategy
10 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (20.90%) Computer Science
11 14 (20.90%) Software Testing
12 12 (17.91%) CI/CD
12 12 (17.91%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (16.42%) DevOps
14 10 (14.93%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) TypeScript
2 17 (25.37%) SQL
3 16 (23.88%) C#
4 13 (19.40%) Python
5 9 (13.43%) C++
6 8 (11.94%) Java
6 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.48%) C
8 2 (2.99%) Bash
8 2 (2.99%) Fortran
8 2 (2.99%) Ruby
9 1 (1.49%) Dart
9 1 (1.49%) F#
9 1 (1.49%) Haskell
9 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.49%) OpenEdge ABL
9 1 (1.49%) PHP
9 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.96%) AWS Certification
3 6 (8.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.99%) PhD
5 1 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (29.85%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) IEC 62304
2 1 (1.49%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.96%) Argo
2 6 (8.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (8.96%) Google
1 6 (8.96%) New Relic
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.49%) Intel
3 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.49%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.49%) Telerik