Software Developer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 96 127
Rank change year-on-year -165 +31 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 234 1,041 952
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 3.04% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 3.16% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 150 924 855
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £84,688 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 18,743 32,911 34,529
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 96.21% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,476 24,767 25,553
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Software Developer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025, 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 120 (51.28%) Agile
2 118 (50.43%) AWS
3 115 (49.15%) .NET
4 112 (47.86%) Azure
5 109 (46.58%) Software Engineering
6 101 (43.16%) JavaScript
7 97 (41.45%) Python
8 94 (40.17%) C#
9 88 (37.61%) SQL
10 85 (36.32%) Java
11 76 (32.48%) Node.js
12 70 (29.91%) C++
13 67 (28.63%) CI/CD
14 63 (26.92%) Secure Coding
15 62 (26.50%) Kanban
16 61 (26.07%) Line Management
17 59 (25.21%) Docker
17 59 (25.21%) Design Patterns
18 58 (24.79%) Security Cleared
19 57 (24.36%) Linux
19 57 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
20 56 (23.93%) Elasticsearch
21 55 (23.50%) Mathematics
21 55 (23.50%) OOP
21 55 (23.50%) Kubernetes
22 54 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 54 (23.08%) OWASP
23 53 (22.65%) Collaborative Working
24 51 (21.79%) Terraform
24 51 (21.79%) Rust

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 16 (6.84%) Apache
1 16 (6.84%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.71%) CMS
3 3 (1.28%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.85%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.85%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 6 (2.56%) Revit
2 2 (0.85%) Trello
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Magento
1 8 (3.42%) Shopify
2 7 (2.99%) Infor CloudSuite
2 7 (2.99%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.85%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (50.43%) AWS
2 112 (47.86%) Azure
3 49 (20.94%) Amazon EKS
3 49 (20.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (11.54%) Serverless
5 20 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (7.69%) SaaS
7 17 (7.26%) dbt
8 16 (6.84%) Snowflake
9 12 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (4.70%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.42%) BigCommerce
12 7 (2.99%) GitHub
13 5 (2.14%) GCP
14 3 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 2 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.85%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.14%) BGP
1 5 (2.14%) IPsec
1 5 (2.14%) MPLS
1 5 (2.14%) OSPF
2 3 (1.28%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (23.93%) Elasticsearch
2 25 (10.68%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.12%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.84%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (6.84%) Apache Arrow
4 16 (6.84%) Apache Iceberg
4 16 (6.84%) Dremio
5 14 (5.98%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.70%) Power BI
7 10 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.85%) MySQL
9 7 (2.99%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.71%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (1.71%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.85%) Metadata
14 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.27%) JIRA
2 9 (3.85%) Git
3 6 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.28%) Selenium
5 2 (0.85%) Gatling
5 2 (0.85%) GitLab
5 2 (0.85%) Gradle
5 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.85%) JMeter
5 2 (0.85%) Maven
5 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.43%) Grunt
6 1 (0.43%) gulp
6 1 (0.43%) NUnit
6 1 (0.43%) Postman
6 1 (0.43%) Subversion
6 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 57 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (15.81%) Social Skills
4 27 (11.54%) Finance
5 24 (10.26%) Banking
6 18 (7.69%) Front Office
6 18 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 17 (7.26%) Tech for Good
8 15 (6.41%) Retail
9 9 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.42%) Health Technology
10 8 (3.42%) Law
10 8 (3.42%) Publishing
11 5 (2.14%) Social Housing
12 4 (1.71%) Electronics
12 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.28%) Legal
14 2 (0.85%) Games
14 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (49.15%) .NET
2 76 (32.48%) Node.js
3 49 (20.94%) Pandas
4 42 (17.95%) React
5 25 (10.68%) HTML
6 24 (10.26%) ASP.NET
7 19 (8.12%) .NET Framework
8 16 (6.84%) .NET Core
8 16 (6.84%) PySpark
9 15 (6.41%) CSS
10 14 (5.98%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.98%) RESTful
10 14 (5.98%) Web Services
11 12 (5.13%) Entity Framework
11 12 (5.13%) GraphQL
11 12 (5.13%) REST
12 8 (3.42%) Swagger
13 7 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
14 6 (2.56%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.94%) Cyberattack
2 20 (8.55%) Derivative
3 19 (8.12%) Fixed Income
4 18 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (6.84%) Equities
5 16 (6.84%) Hedge funds
6 12 (5.13%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.85%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.42%) EPoS
10 7 (2.99%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
12 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (2.14%) IoT
13 4 (1.71%) Smart Home
14 3 (1.28%) Legacy Code
14 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (24.36%) Linux
2 50 (21.37%) Android
3 4 (1.71%) Unix
3 4 (1.71%) Windows
4 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (51.28%) Agile
2 109 (46.58%) Software Engineering
3 67 (28.63%) CI/CD
4 63 (26.92%) Secure Coding
5 62 (26.50%) Kanban
6 61 (26.07%) Line Management
7 59 (25.21%) Design Patterns
8 55 (23.50%) Mathematics
8 55 (23.50%) OOP
9 54 (23.08%) OWASP
10 53 (22.65%) Collaborative Working
11 51 (21.79%) Containerisation
12 49 (20.94%) Android Development
12 49 (20.94%) OO
12 49 (20.94%) Statistics
13 37 (15.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 33 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (13.25%) Clean Code
16 27 (11.54%) Computer Science
17 26 (11.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 101 (43.16%) JavaScript
2 97 (41.45%) Python
3 94 (40.17%) C#
4 88 (37.61%) SQL
5 85 (36.32%) Java
6 70 (29.91%) C++
7 51 (21.79%) Rust
8 50 (21.37%) Go
9 39 (16.67%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.85%) VB.NET
11 8 (3.42%) Delphi
12 7 (2.99%) C
13 6 (2.56%) PHP
14 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.28%) Ruby
14 3 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.85%) Bash
15 2 (0.85%) Bicep
15 2 (0.85%) Fortran
15 2 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.94%) DV Cleared
3 38 (16.24%) Degree
4 16 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.85%) PhD
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.82%) QA
2 2 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 59 (25.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (23.50%) Kubernetes
2 51 (21.79%) Terraform
3 49 (20.94%) Ansible
4 2 (0.85%) Argo
4 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.99%) Infor
3 6 (2.56%) PayPal
4 3 (1.28%) Google
5 2 (0.85%) Mercator
5 2 (0.85%) New Relic
5 2 (0.85%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle
6 1 (0.43%) Progress