Software Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 132 142
Rank change year-on-year +40 +10 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 844 831 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.02% 2.53% 2.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.14% 2.64% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 749 757 1,343
10th Percentile £34,900 £40,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

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 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 409 (48.46%) C#
2 339 (40.17%) .NET
3 322 (38.15%) Agile
4 293 (34.72%) Software Engineering
4 293 (34.72%) JavaScript
5 247 (29.27%) AWS
6 236 (27.96%) Azure
7 234 (27.73%) Python
8 217 (25.71%) SQL
9 210 (24.88%) Java
10 192 (22.75%) Social Skills
11 189 (22.39%) Finance
12 173 (20.50%) DevOps
13 160 (18.96%) TypeScript
14 146 (17.30%) SQL Server
15 139 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
16 133 (15.76%) Degree
17 128 (15.17%) dbt
18 126 (14.93%) Asset Management
19 124 (14.69%) Apache
19 124 (14.69%) Line Management
19 124 (14.69%) GCP
20 119 (14.10%) Banking
21 118 (13.98%) Fixed Income
21 118 (13.98%) Pandas
21 118 (13.98%) SciPy
21 118 (13.98%) NumPy
22 117 (13.86%) Front Office
23 116 (13.74%) Investment Banking
23 116 (13.74%) Protocol Buffers

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
1 124 (14.69%) Apache
2 116 (13.74%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.54%) Mendix
4 9 (1.07%) CMS
5 7 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.47%) IIS
7 4 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.36%) Drupal
8 3 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 32 (3.79%) Simulink
2 1 (0.12%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (1.18%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.24%) ProductWriter
2 2 (0.24%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 247 (29.27%) AWS
2 236 (27.96%) Azure
3 128 (15.17%) dbt
4 124 (14.69%) GCP
5 103 (12.20%) Snowflake
6 76 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (6.04%) SaaS
8 34 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (3.79%) Serverless
11 28 (3.32%) GitHub
12 16 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (1.54%) Power Platform
14 8 (0.95%) Azure Functions
14 8 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (0.83%) Pulumi
16 6 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) Network Security
2 5 (0.59%) Internet
2 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.47%) 4G
3 4 (0.47%) 5G
3 4 (0.47%) Wireless
4 2 (0.24%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (17.30%) SQL Server
2 116 (13.74%) Amazon Athena
2 116 (13.74%) Apache Arrow
2 116 (13.74%) Apache Ignite
2 116 (13.74%) Dremio
3 103 (12.20%) Data Lake
4 39 (4.62%) MySQL
5 19 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 15 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.54%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.42%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.71%) Redis
13 4 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.47%) Power BI
14 3 (0.36%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (5.92%) Git
2 24 (2.84%) Visual Studio
3 22 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.13%) JIRA
5 12 (1.42%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.30%) Selenium
7 10 (1.18%) NUnit
7 10 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
7 10 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.95%) SpecFlow
8 8 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.83%) Jasmine
10 6 (0.71%) GitLab
10 6 (0.71%) Moq
11 5 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.47%) Bugzilla
12 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.36%) GCC
General
1 192 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 189 (22.39%) Finance
3 119 (14.10%) Banking
4 117 (13.86%) Front Office
5 116 (13.74%) Investment Banking
6 36 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 21 (2.49%) Tech for Good
10 19 (2.25%) Police
11 18 (2.13%) Marketing
12 16 (1.90%) Retail
13 13 (1.54%) Electronics
14 12 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.18%) Local Government
15 10 (1.18%) Music Industry
16 9 (1.07%) Automotive
16 9 (1.07%) Back Office
16 9 (1.07%) Law
16 9 (1.07%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (40.17%) .NET
2 118 (13.98%) NumPy
2 118 (13.98%) Pandas
2 118 (13.98%) SciPy
3 116 (13.74%) gRPC
3 116 (13.74%) Protocol Buffers
4 108 (12.80%) .NET Core
5 99 (11.73%) HTML
6 94 (11.14%) ASP.NET
7 85 (10.07%) React
8 84 (9.95%) CSS
9 71 (8.41%) .NET Framework
10 64 (7.58%) AngularJS
11 55 (6.52%) Node.js
12 52 (6.16%) RESTful
13 51 (6.04%) Entity Framework
14 38 (4.50%) Blazor
15 31 (3.67%) ASP.NET MVC
16 30 (3.55%) PySpark
16 30 (3.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 118 (13.98%) Fixed Income
2 113 (13.39%) Equities
2 113 (13.39%) Hedge funds
3 111 (13.15%) Derivative
3 111 (13.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 22 (2.61%) IoT
5 21 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.37%) NHS
7 17 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 15 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.78%) Client/Server
8 15 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (1.18%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.95%) Podcast
13 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.71%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.71%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 68 (8.06%) Linux
2 36 (4.27%) Windows
3 32 (3.79%) Embedded Linux
4 19 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 14 (1.66%) Android
5 14 (1.66%) Unix
6 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (38.15%) Agile
2 293 (34.72%) Software Engineering
3 173 (20.50%) DevOps
4 139 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (14.93%) Asset Management
6 124 (14.69%) Line Management
7 112 (13.27%) Full Stack Development
8 105 (12.44%) Computer Science
9 87 (10.31%) Microservices
10 73 (8.65%) MVC
11 66 (7.82%) CI/CD
11 66 (7.82%) TDD
12 63 (7.46%) Mentoring
13 62 (7.35%) Code Quality
14 60 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
15 58 (6.87%) Continuous Integration
16 55 (6.52%) Unit Testing
17 53 (6.28%) Test Automation
18 49 (5.81%) Scrum
18 49 (5.81%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 409 (48.46%) C#
2 293 (34.72%) JavaScript
3 234 (27.73%) Python
4 217 (25.71%) SQL
5 210 (24.88%) Java
6 160 (18.96%) TypeScript
7 73 (8.65%) C
8 68 (8.06%) C++
9 35 (4.15%) PHP
9 35 (4.15%) Ruby
10 24 (2.84%) VB.NET
11 13 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.42%) Go
13 11 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.18%) Bicep
15 9 (1.07%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.95%) Perl
16 8 (0.95%) Scala
17 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 133 (15.76%) Degree
2 72 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 60 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 24 (2.84%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.18%) PhD
8 6 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.59%) CIPD
10 3 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.55%) QA
2 14 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.36%) GDPR
3 3 (0.36%) WCAG
4 2 (0.24%) MISRA
4 2 (0.24%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.12%) EMIR
5 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 62 (7.35%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Firmware
3 5 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.66%) Terraform
3 9 (1.07%) Ansible
4 7 (0.83%) Kibana
4 7 (0.83%) MIIS
5 4 (0.47%) Grafana
5 4 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 88 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.79%) Xilinx
3 30 (3.55%) Bloomberg
3 30 (3.55%) Reuters
4 19 (2.25%) Oracle
5 10 (1.18%) Facebook
5 10 (1.18%) NEC
6 8 (0.95%) Xamarin
7 7 (0.83%) Google
8 5 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.47%) HP
9 4 (0.47%) New Relic
9 4 (0.47%) Splunk
10 3 (0.36%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.36%) Twitter
11 2 (0.24%) DevExpress
11 2 (0.24%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.24%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.24%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.12%) Northgate