Software Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 128 133
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 809 1,165 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.39% 2.68% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 2.79% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 707 1,017 1,332
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,249 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,487 41,727 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 96.06% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,961 29,529 41,700
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 25 April 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 25 April 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.

1 432 (53.40%) C#
2 379 (46.85%) .NET
3 282 (34.86%) Agile
4 279 (34.49%) JavaScript
5 239 (29.54%) Software Engineering
6 225 (27.81%) Social Skills
7 212 (26.21%) SQL
8 209 (25.83%) Azure
9 193 (23.86%) AWS
10 175 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (21.26%) DevOps
12 171 (21.14%) Java
13 164 (20.27%) SQL Server
14 157 (19.41%) Python
15 141 (17.43%) Finance
16 137 (16.93%) Degree
17 135 (16.69%) HTML
18 132 (16.32%) TypeScript
19 121 (14.96%) Full Stack Development
20 117 (14.46%) CSS
21 116 (14.34%) .NET Core
22 114 (14.09%) ASP.NET
23 110 (13.60%) Computer Science
24 109 (13.47%) React
25 107 (13.23%) Microservices
26 106 (13.10%) .NET Framework
27 103 (12.73%) MVC
28 97 (11.99%) AngularJS
29 95 (11.74%) Docker
30 93 (11.50%) Microsoft

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 61 (7.54%) Apache
2 51 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.61%) Mendix
4 12 (1.48%) CMS
5 5 (0.62%) Drupal
5 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.62%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.49%) IIS
6 4 (0.49%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.25%) Confluence
7 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.24%) Simulink
2 1 (0.12%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Endur
1 4 (0.49%) Shopify
2 2 (0.25%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 209 (25.83%) Azure
2 193 (23.86%) AWS
3 86 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
4 67 (8.28%) GCP
5 51 (6.30%) dbt
6 45 (5.56%) SaaS
7 41 (5.07%) Serverless
8 38 (4.70%) GitHub
9 36 (4.45%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.10%) Power Platform
12 15 (1.85%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (0.99%) Amazon S3
16 7 (0.87%) Pulumi
17 6 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (0.74%) Azure Functions
17 6 (0.74%) Azure Pipelines
17 6 (0.74%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.36%) Internet
2 7 (0.87%) Network Security
2 7 (0.87%) Wireless
3 5 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.49%) 4G
4 4 (0.49%) 5G
5 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.12%) HTTP
5 1 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (20.27%) SQL Server
2 58 (7.17%) MySQL
3 51 (6.30%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (6.30%) Apache Arrow
3 51 (6.30%) Apache Ignite
3 51 (6.30%) Dremio
4 32 (3.96%) Data Lake
5 24 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (2.35%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (1.98%) DynamoDB
9 16 (1.98%) Redis
10 10 (1.24%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.99%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.62%) Power BI
15 3 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 88 (10.88%) Git
2 47 (5.81%) Visual Studio
3 33 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.22%) JIRA
5 13 (1.61%) Selenium
5 13 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (1.48%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.87%) CMake
9 7 (0.87%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.87%) NUnit
9 7 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.74%) Maven
11 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.62%) Bugzilla
11 5 (0.62%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.49%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.37%) GCC
General
1 225 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 141 (17.43%) Finance
3 60 (7.42%) Banking
4 52 (6.43%) Front Office
4 52 (6.43%) Investment Banking
5 36 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (3.58%) Retail
8 27 (3.34%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.72%) Marketing
10 19 (2.35%) Automotive
11 18 (2.22%) Electronics
12 17 (2.10%) Tech for Good
13 14 (1.73%) Law
14 13 (1.61%) Games
14 13 (1.61%) Publishing
15 11 (1.36%) Fire and Rescue
15 11 (1.36%) Health Technology
15 11 (1.36%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.24%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (46.85%) .NET
2 135 (16.69%) HTML
3 117 (14.46%) CSS
4 116 (14.34%) .NET Core
5 114 (14.09%) ASP.NET
6 109 (13.47%) React
7 106 (13.10%) .NET Framework
8 97 (11.99%) AngularJS
9 69 (8.53%) Entity Framework
10 68 (8.41%) RESTful
11 61 (7.54%) Node.js
12 51 (6.30%) gRPC
12 51 (6.30%) NumPy
12 51 (6.30%) Pandas
12 51 (6.30%) Protocol Buffers
12 51 (6.30%) SciPy
13 42 (5.19%) ASP.NET MVC
14 41 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
15 36 (4.45%) Blazor
16 32 (3.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.69%) Fixed Income
2 43 (5.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 40 (4.94%) Derivative
3 40 (4.94%) Equities
3 40 (4.94%) Hedge funds
4 37 (4.57%) Mobile App
5 34 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
6 30 (3.71%) IoT
7 27 (3.34%) Client/Server
8 25 (3.09%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.60%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.24%) CUDA
13 10 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.24%) Podcast
14 9 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.99%) Cloud Native
15 8 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (7.29%) Windows
2 56 (6.92%) Linux
3 38 (4.70%) Apple iOS
4 28 (3.46%) Android
5 14 (1.73%) Unix
6 10 (1.24%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.62%) Windows Mobile
9 2 (0.25%) AIX
9 2 (0.25%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (34.86%) Agile
2 239 (29.54%) Software Engineering
3 175 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (21.26%) DevOps
5 121 (14.96%) Full Stack Development
6 110 (13.60%) Computer Science
7 107 (13.23%) Microservices
8 103 (12.73%) MVC
9 75 (9.27%) CI/CD
10 69 (8.53%) Mentoring
11 68 (8.41%) Test Automation
12 67 (8.28%) Clean Code
13 62 (7.66%) Code Quality
13 62 (7.66%) SDLC
14 59 (7.29%) TDD
14 59 (7.29%) Unit Testing
15 56 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 55 (6.80%) Asset Management
16 55 (6.80%) Web Development
17 53 (6.55%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 432 (53.40%) C#
2 279 (34.49%) JavaScript
3 212 (26.21%) SQL
4 171 (21.14%) Java
5 157 (19.41%) Python
6 132 (16.32%) TypeScript
7 56 (6.92%) C
8 52 (6.43%) PHP
9 41 (5.07%) C++
10 40 (4.94%) VB.NET
11 39 (4.82%) Ruby
12 19 (2.35%) Go
13 15 (1.85%) Scala
14 13 (1.61%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.24%) Bicep
15 10 (1.24%) Embedded C
15 10 (1.24%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.11%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.99%) Rust
18 7 (0.87%) VB
Qualifications
1 137 (16.93%) Degree
2 56 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (3.58%) Security Cleared
4 15 (1.85%) DBS Check
4 15 (1.85%) PhD
5 10 (1.24%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.24%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.49%) CIPD
9 4 (0.49%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.25%) OCP
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.07%) QA
2 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.25%) WCAG
4 1 (0.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 95 (11.74%) Docker
2 8 (0.99%) Firmware
3 7 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.22%) Terraform
3 10 (1.24%) Ansible
4 7 (0.87%) Kibana
4 7 (0.87%) MIIS
5 5 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (0.49%) Grafana
6 4 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.21%) Google
3 19 (2.35%) Xamarin
4 17 (2.10%) Oracle
5 10 (1.24%) Facebook
5 10 (1.24%) Xilinx
6 9 (1.11%) NVIDIA
7 5 (0.62%) HP
7 5 (0.62%) New Relic
7 5 (0.62%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.62%) Twitter
8 4 (0.49%) Databricks
8 4 (0.49%) OpenLink
8 4 (0.49%) Peregrine
8 4 (0.49%) Splunk
8 4 (0.49%) Sybase
8 4 (0.49%) TIBCO
9 3 (0.37%) Rackspace
9 3 (0.37%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.25%) QNX