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 £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 180 132 125
Rank change year-on-year -48 -7 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 257 810 1,152
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.72% 2.39% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.49% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 158 709 1,010
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,063 £42,500 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £91,934 £95,125
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 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% -

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 1 May 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 1 May 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.

1 130 (50.58%) AWS
2 127 (49.42%) Agile
3 117 (45.53%) .NET
4 111 (43.19%) Azure
5 107 (41.63%) Software Engineering
6 103 (40.08%) Python
7 101 (39.30%) JavaScript
8 90 (35.02%) Java
9 87 (33.85%) C#
10 86 (33.46%) Node.js
11 82 (31.91%) SQL
12 77 (29.96%) CI/CD
13 74 (28.79%) Secure Coding
14 71 (27.63%) Kanban
15 70 (27.24%) C++
16 65 (25.29%) Docker
17 64 (24.90%) Design Patterns
18 63 (24.51%) Kubernetes
19 59 (22.96%) TypeScript
19 59 (22.96%) Linux
20 58 (22.57%) React
21 57 (22.18%) Line Management
22 56 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
22 56 (21.79%) Containerisation
22 56 (21.79%) OOP
23 55 (21.40%) OWASP
23 55 (21.40%) Mathematics
23 55 (21.40%) Go
23 55 (21.40%) Collaborative Working
24 54 (21.01%) Elasticsearch

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 (6.23%) Apache
1 16 (6.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.56%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.17%) CMS
3 3 (1.17%) OpenEdge
4 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Chatbot
1 6 (2.33%) Revit
2 2 (0.78%) Trello
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Magento
2 5 (1.95%) Shopify
3 4 (1.56%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (1.56%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.78%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 130 (50.58%) AWS
2 111 (43.19%) Azure
3 49 (19.07%) Amazon EKS
3 49 (19.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (14.40%) Serverless
5 31 (12.06%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.23%) dbt
6 16 (6.23%) Snowflake
7 15 (5.84%) GitHub
8 12 (4.67%) SaaS
9 11 (4.28%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.11%) GCP
12 7 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.33%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.95%) BigCommerce
15 4 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
16 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
17 2 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) BGP
1 5 (1.95%) IPsec
1 5 (1.95%) MPLS
1 5 (1.95%) OSPF
2 4 (1.56%) 3GPP
2 4 (1.56%) 5G
2 4 (1.56%) Network Security
3 3 (1.17%) Multicast
4 1 (0.39%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (21.01%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (10.51%) DynamoDB
2 27 (10.51%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.61%) MySQL
4 16 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (6.23%) Apache Arrow
4 16 (6.23%) Apache Iceberg
4 16 (6.23%) Dremio
5 14 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 11 (4.28%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.89%) Power BI
9 6 (2.33%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.78%) Metadata
13 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.61%) Git
2 11 (4.28%) JIRA
3 6 (2.33%) Gradle
3 6 (2.33%) Maven
3 6 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (2.33%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.95%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.17%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) Gatling
6 2 (0.78%) GitLab
6 2 (0.78%) JMeter
6 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.39%) Grunt
7 1 (0.39%) gulp
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Subversion
7 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (20.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (18.29%) Social Skills
4 30 (11.67%) Finance
5 29 (11.28%) Banking
6 19 (7.39%) Tech for Good
7 18 (7.00%) Front Office
7 18 (7.00%) Investment Banking
8 15 (5.84%) Retail
9 12 (4.67%) Law
10 9 (3.50%) Health Technology
10 9 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.50%) Publishing
11 8 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 8 (3.11%) Social Housing
12 6 (2.33%) Games
13 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.95%) Electronics
14 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (45.53%) .NET
2 86 (33.46%) Node.js
3 58 (22.57%) React
4 49 (19.07%) Pandas
5 30 (11.67%) ASP.NET
6 25 (9.73%) HTML
7 24 (9.34%) .NET Framework
8 22 (8.56%) GraphQL
9 20 (7.78%) RESTful
10 18 (7.00%) Entity Framework
11 17 (6.61%) .NET Core
11 17 (6.61%) AngularJS
11 17 (6.61%) CSS
12 16 (6.23%) PySpark
13 13 (5.06%) REST
14 12 (4.67%) Web Services
15 11 (4.28%) ASP.NET MVC
16 9 (3.50%) LINQ
16 9 (3.50%) Spring
17 8 (3.11%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.07%) Cyberattack
2 20 (7.78%) Derivative
3 19 (7.39%) Fixed Income
4 18 (7.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (6.23%) Equities
5 16 (6.23%) Hedge funds
6 14 (5.45%) Cloud Native
7 12 (4.67%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.50%) IoT
9 9 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (3.11%) Data Structures
10 8 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.72%) Smart Home
12 6 (2.33%) Mobile Games
12 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.95%) EPoS
13 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
14 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.96%) Linux
2 51 (19.84%) Android
3 8 (3.11%) Windows
4 7 (2.72%) Unix
5 5 (1.95%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (49.42%) Agile
2 107 (41.63%) Software Engineering
3 77 (29.96%) CI/CD
4 74 (28.79%) Secure Coding
5 71 (27.63%) Kanban
6 64 (24.90%) Design Patterns
7 57 (22.18%) Line Management
8 56 (21.79%) Containerisation
8 56 (21.79%) OOP
9 55 (21.40%) Collaborative Working
9 55 (21.40%) Mathematics
9 55 (21.40%) OWASP
10 50 (19.46%) Android Development
11 49 (19.07%) OO
11 49 (19.07%) Statistics
12 48 (18.68%) Clean Code
13 44 (17.12%) Full-Stack Development
14 43 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (15.56%) Test Automation
16 38 (14.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 103 (40.08%) Python
2 101 (39.30%) JavaScript
3 90 (35.02%) Java
4 87 (33.85%) C#
5 82 (31.91%) SQL
6 70 (27.24%) C++
7 59 (22.96%) TypeScript
8 55 (21.40%) Go
9 50 (19.46%) Rust
10 11 (4.28%) PHP
11 10 (3.89%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.72%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.95%) Delphi
14 4 (1.56%) C
14 4 (1.56%) Ruby
15 3 (1.17%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.78%) Bash
16 2 (0.78%) Fortran
16 2 (0.78%) Scala
16 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.46%) DV Cleared
3 42 (16.34%) Degree
4 20 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.78%) PhD
7 2 (0.78%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.28%) QA
2 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.56%) NCSC
3 1 (0.39%) GDPR
3 1 (0.39%) IEC 62304
3 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 65 (25.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (24.51%) Kubernetes
2 50 (19.46%) Terraform
3 49 (19.07%) Ansible
4 6 (2.33%) Argo
4 6 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (6.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.72%) Google
3 6 (2.33%) New Relic
3 6 (2.33%) PayPal
4 4 (1.56%) Infor
5 2 (0.78%) Mercator
6 1 (0.39%) Intel
6 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.39%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle
6 1 (0.39%) Progress
6 1 (0.39%) Telerik
6 1 (0.39%) Xamarin