Senior Software Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 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 138 105 204
Rank change year-on-year -33 +99 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 341 947 713
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.28% 2.80% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 2.92% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 300 627 538
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,250 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £112,500 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £135,375 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer 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 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 341 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 180 (52.79%) Agile
3 152 (44.57%) Python
4 145 (42.52%) Finance
5 130 (38.12%) Java
6 121 (35.48%) AWS
7 120 (35.19%) JavaScript
8 114 (33.43%) TypeScript
9 109 (31.96%) Banking
10 78 (22.87%) TDD
11 75 (21.99%) Azure
12 73 (21.41%) GCP
13 71 (20.82%) Microservices
14 68 (19.94%) DevOps
15 67 (19.65%) C#
16 64 (18.77%) .NET
17 61 (17.89%) Test Automation
17 61 (17.89%) CI/CD
18 60 (17.60%) Amazon Athena
18 60 (17.60%) Kubernetes
18 60 (17.60%) Derivative
18 60 (17.60%) Degree
18 60 (17.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 60 (17.60%) Fixed Income
19 58 (17.01%) Data Lake
19 58 (17.01%) Asset Management
19 58 (17.01%) Front Office
20 57 (16.72%) Equities
20 57 (16.72%) Apache
20 57 (16.72%) Investment Banking

Senior 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 57 (16.72%) Apache
1 57 (16.72%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (6.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.59%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 121 (35.48%) AWS
2 75 (21.99%) Azure
3 73 (21.41%) GCP
4 57 (16.72%) dbt
4 57 (16.72%) Snowflake
5 24 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (6.45%) GitHub
7 20 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (5.28%) Dagster
10 11 (3.23%) Apigee
10 11 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (3.23%) SaaS
10 11 (3.23%) Serverless
11 8 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.76%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.45%) HTTP
2 18 (5.28%) Wireless
3 17 (4.99%) Bluetooth
4 10 (2.93%) RS-232
5 7 (2.05%) Modbus
5 7 (2.05%) Profibus
5 7 (2.05%) RS-485
5 7 (2.05%) ZigBee
6 5 (1.47%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (1.17%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.88%) Multicast
9 1 (0.29%) GSM
9 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.29%) MQTT
9 1 (0.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.60%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (17.01%) Data Lake
3 57 (16.72%) Apache Arrow
3 57 (16.72%) Apache Iceberg
3 57 (16.72%) Apache Ignite
3 57 (16.72%) Dremio
4 25 (7.33%) NoSQL
5 24 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.87%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.93%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.93%) MySQL
8 5 (1.47%) Redis
9 4 (1.17%) Biml
9 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.17%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.17%) Power BI
9 4 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (12.90%) Git
2 25 (7.33%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.81%) JIRA
4 11 (3.23%) JUnit
4 11 (3.23%) Maven
4 11 (3.23%) SonarQube
4 11 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (2.64%) Visual Studio
5 9 (2.64%) webpack
6 6 (1.76%) Moq
6 6 (1.76%) SpecFlow
7 5 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.59%) Postman
9 2 (0.59%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.29%) gcov
10 1 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.29%) Storybook
General
1 145 (42.52%) Finance
2 109 (31.96%) Banking
3 58 (17.01%) Front Office
4 57 (16.72%) Investment Banking
4 57 (16.72%) Social Skills
5 50 (14.66%) Games
6 31 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (7.04%) Retail
8 23 (6.74%) Advertising
9 20 (5.87%) Electronics
10 17 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (4.11%) Automotive
12 12 (3.52%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.93%) Legal
14 8 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.35%) Tech for Good
14 8 (2.35%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.76%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.77%) .NET
2 57 (16.72%) gRPC
2 57 (16.72%) NumPy
2 57 (16.72%) Pandas
2 57 (16.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 57 (16.72%) SciPy
3 56 (16.42%) React
4 37 (10.85%) Spring
5 34 (9.97%) Spring Boot
6 32 (9.38%) Kafka
7 27 (7.92%) HTML
8 25 (7.33%) CSS
9 23 (6.74%) RESTful
10 18 (5.28%) AngularJS
10 18 (5.28%) Node.js
10 18 (5.28%) PySpark
11 17 (4.99%) .NET Framework
12 16 (4.69%) .NET Core
13 15 (4.40%) REST
14 14 (4.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.60%) Derivative
1 60 (17.60%) Fixed Income
1 60 (17.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 57 (16.72%) Equities
2 57 (16.72%) Hedge funds
3 39 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.44%) Pricing Data
4 36 (10.56%) Algorithms
5 23 (6.74%) Embedded Systems
6 13 (3.81%) IoT
7 11 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.64%) Device Driver
9 8 (2.35%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.05%) Client/Server
10 7 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 7 (2.05%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.47%) Robotics
12 4 (1.17%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 45 (13.20%) Linux
2 16 (4.69%) Unix
3 11 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.35%) Windows
5 7 (2.05%) Android
5 7 (2.05%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (1.76%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (1.17%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 180 (52.79%) Agile
3 78 (22.87%) TDD
4 71 (20.82%) Microservices
5 68 (19.94%) DevOps
6 61 (17.89%) CI/CD
6 61 (17.89%) Test Automation
7 58 (17.01%) Asset Management
8 57 (16.72%) Computer Science
9 56 (16.42%) Mentoring
10 48 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (11.44%) Investment Management
12 34 (9.97%) Clean Code
12 34 (9.97%) Machine Learning
13 31 (9.09%) Unit Testing
14 29 (8.50%) BDD
15 27 (7.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (7.92%) Pair Programming
15 27 (7.92%) SDLC
16 24 (7.04%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 152 (44.57%) Python
2 130 (38.12%) Java
3 120 (35.19%) JavaScript
4 114 (33.43%) TypeScript
5 67 (19.65%) C#
6 52 (15.25%) C
7 50 (14.66%) SQL
8 47 (13.78%) C++
9 29 (8.50%) Go
10 23 (6.74%) Scala
11 19 (5.57%) PHP
12 13 (3.81%) Embedded C
13 10 (2.93%) Ruby
14 7 (2.05%) Rust
15 6 (1.76%) Bash
15 6 (1.76%) Ladder Logic
16 5 (1.47%) Perl
16 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
17 4 (1.17%) Fortran
17 4 (1.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 60 (17.60%) Degree
2 18 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.40%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.23%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.17%) PhD
5 4 (1.17%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.74%) QA
2 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.17%) CDISC
System Software
1 50 (14.66%) Docker
2 11 (3.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 11 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (17.60%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.74%) Terraform
3 11 (3.23%) Istio
4 3 (0.88%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.59%) MAINVIEW
6 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 32 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.21%) Google
3 21 (6.16%) Apple
4 6 (1.76%) Siemens
5 5 (1.47%) Xilinx
6 4 (1.17%) Adobe
6 4 (1.17%) Tealium
7 3 (0.88%) IBM
8 2 (0.59%) BMC
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle
9 1 (0.29%) Databricks
9 1 (0.29%) QNX
9 1 (0.29%) SAP
9 1 (0.29%) Splunk
9 1 (0.29%) Telerik