Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,465 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 26 36 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,138 2,257 7,886
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.65% 6.88% 10.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.95% 7.18% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 1,581 2,500
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,227
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,465 £72,230 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% +7.01% +12.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%

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 Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
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 Engineer.

Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 2,127 (99.49%) Software Engineering
2 965 (45.14%) AWS
3 960 (44.90%) Python
4 866 (40.51%) Agile
5 778 (36.39%) JavaScript
6 643 (30.07%) Java
7 581 (27.17%) TypeScript
8 542 (25.35%) Finance
9 498 (23.29%) Azure
10 464 (21.70%) C#
11 434 (20.30%) React
12 425 (19.88%) .NET
13 392 (18.33%) Asset Management
14 388 (18.15%) Front Office
15 387 (18.10%) Fixed Income
16 367 (17.17%) SQL
17 356 (16.65%) gRPC
18 354 (16.56%) Apache
19 351 (16.42%) Apache Airflow
20 349 (16.32%) Protocol Buffers
21 341 (15.95%) Apache Ignite
22 326 (15.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
23 325 (15.20%) Equities
24 323 (15.11%) Banking
24 323 (15.11%) Derivative
25 322 (15.06%) Pandas
26 321 (15.01%) Security Cleared
26 321 (15.01%) NumPy
27 313 (14.64%) Hedge funds
28 308 (14.41%) GCP

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
1 354 (16.56%) Apache
2 351 (16.42%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (4.72%) ArcGIS
4 98 (4.58%) GeoServer
5 24 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.70%) NServiceBus
7 11 (0.51%) Tuxedo
8 6 (0.28%) nginx
8 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.19%) Confluence
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.094%) Drupal
12 1 (0.047%) CMS
12 1 (0.047%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.047%) SharePoint
Applications
1 53 (2.48%) Simulink
2 12 (0.56%) CPLEX
3 5 (0.23%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.094%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.094%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.094%) Fusion 360
5 2 (0.094%) Revit
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.047%) Sketch
6 1 (0.047%) UXPin
6 1 (0.047%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.094%) Endur
3 2 (0.094%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 965 (45.14%) AWS
2 498 (23.29%) Azure
3 308 (14.41%) GCP
4 307 (14.36%) dbt
5 273 (12.77%) Snowflake
6 81 (3.79%) Serverless
7 66 (3.09%) SaaS
8 61 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
9 59 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (1.68%) GitHub
14 17 (0.80%) Amazon S3
15 15 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (0.33%) Azure API Management
17 7 (0.33%) Azure Functions
17 7 (0.33%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.34%) Network Security
2 26 (1.22%) Wireless
3 21 (0.98%) RS-232
4 19 (0.89%) Ethernet
5 18 (0.84%) HTTP
6 11 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.23%) RS-485
8 4 (0.19%) Internet
8 4 (0.19%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.14%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.14%) Modbus
10 2 (0.094%) Firewall
10 2 (0.094%) MQTT
11 1 (0.047%) AMQP
11 1 (0.047%) Broadband
11 1 (0.047%) FlexRay
11 1 (0.047%) Multicast
11 1 (0.047%) NGN
11 1 (0.047%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (15.95%) Apache Ignite
2 308 (14.41%) Amazon Athena
3 307 (14.36%) Apache Arrow
3 307 (14.36%) Dremio
4 274 (12.82%) Data Lake
5 233 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
6 116 (5.43%) MySQL
7 110 (5.14%) GIS
8 102 (4.77%) NoSQL
9 98 (4.58%) QGIS
10 61 (2.85%) Relational Database
10 61 (2.85%) SQL Server
11 44 (2.06%) MongoDB
12 32 (1.50%) Redis
13 30 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (1.26%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.56%) Hadoop
17 11 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.37%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 133 (6.22%) Git
2 42 (1.96%) GitLab
3 33 (1.54%) Vagrant
4 30 (1.40%) JIRA
5 21 (0.98%) LabVIEW
6 20 (0.94%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.70%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.70%) Maven
8 13 (0.61%) Subversion
9 11 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.42%) Selenium
11 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.33%) CMake
13 5 (0.23%) ClearCase
13 5 (0.23%) ClearQuest
13 5 (0.23%) Plastic SCM
13 5 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 542 (25.35%) Finance
2 388 (18.15%) Front Office
3 323 (15.11%) Banking
4 306 (14.31%) Investment Banking
5 176 (8.23%) Social Skills
6 147 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 94 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 64 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 63 (2.95%) Retail
10 58 (2.71%) Electronics
11 53 (2.48%) Automotive
12 52 (2.43%) Analytical Skills
13 39 (1.82%) Law
14 34 (1.59%) Tech for Good
15 33 (1.54%) Back Office
15 33 (1.54%) Games
15 33 (1.54%) Legal
16 31 (1.45%) Aerospace
17 22 (1.03%) Advertising
18 19 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (20.30%) React
2 425 (19.88%) .NET
3 356 (16.65%) gRPC
4 349 (16.32%) Protocol Buffers
5 322 (15.06%) Pandas
6 321 (15.01%) NumPy
7 307 (14.36%) SciPy
8 202 (9.45%) AngularJS
9 196 (9.17%) Node.js
10 180 (8.42%) .NET Core
11 168 (7.86%) CSS
12 117 (5.47%) Vue
13 116 (5.43%) RESTful
14 99 (4.63%) Leaflet
14 99 (4.63%) OpenLayers
14 99 (4.63%) PostGIS
15 97 (4.54%) Redux
16 69 (3.23%) ASP.NET
17 68 (3.18%) HTML
18 66 (3.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 387 (18.10%) Fixed Income
2 326 (15.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 325 (15.20%) Equities
4 323 (15.11%) Derivative
5 313 (14.64%) Hedge funds
6 72 (3.37%) Pricing Data
7 61 (2.85%) Embedded Systems
8 56 (2.62%) Algorithms
9 48 (2.25%) Cloud Native
10 39 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 29 (1.36%) Client/Server
13 27 (1.26%) Device Driver
13 27 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 27 (1.26%) IoT
14 22 (1.03%) Product Ownership
15 21 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 19 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
18 15 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 300 (14.03%) Linux
2 108 (5.05%) Windows
3 95 (4.44%) Embedded Linux
4 70 (3.27%) Android
5 44 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 33 (1.54%) Apple iOS
7 33 (1.54%) CentOS
8 22 (1.03%) Unix
9 16 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
10 9 (0.42%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.14%) Debian
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.047%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,127 (99.49%) Software Engineering
2 866 (40.51%) Agile
3 392 (18.33%) Asset Management
4 300 (14.03%) Investment Management
5 295 (13.80%) DevOps
6 262 (12.25%) Full Stack Development
7 227 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
8 203 (9.49%) Microservices
9 186 (8.70%) Computer Science
10 181 (8.47%) Mentoring
11 176 (8.23%) CI/CD
12 172 (8.04%) TDD
13 153 (7.16%) Test Automation
14 130 (6.08%) Fintech
15 129 (6.03%) SDLC
16 124 (5.80%) Actionable Insight
17 123 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence
18 121 (5.66%) Web Development
19 110 (5.14%) Machine Learning
20 106 (4.96%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 960 (44.90%) Python
2 778 (36.39%) JavaScript
3 643 (30.07%) Java
4 581 (27.17%) TypeScript
5 464 (21.70%) C#
6 367 (17.17%) SQL
7 293 (13.70%) C++
8 237 (11.09%) C
9 113 (5.29%) Kotlin
10 107 (5.00%) Embedded C
11 72 (3.37%) Bash
12 56 (2.62%) Rust
13 50 (2.34%) Go
14 46 (2.15%) PHP
15 44 (2.06%) Scala
16 33 (1.54%) Ruby
17 29 (1.36%) T-SQL
18 27 (1.26%) Embedded C++
19 15 (0.70%) Groovy
20 12 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 321 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 243 (11.37%) Degree
3 207 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 101 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 32 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 19 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.33%) PhD
11 5 (0.23%) HND
12 2 (0.094%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.094%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.047%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.047%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.047%) HNC
13 1 (0.047%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.047%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.047%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 40 (1.87%) QA
3 12 (0.56%) MISRA
4 11 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
5 9 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.28%) ISO 9000
7 4 (0.19%) MISRA C
8 3 (0.14%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.14%) EMIR
8 3 (0.14%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.14%) MiFID
9 2 (0.094%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.094%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 115 (5.38%) Docker
2 47 (2.20%) Firmware
3 31 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 153 (7.16%) Terraform
2 136 (6.36%) Kubernetes
3 67 (3.13%) Ansible
4 19 (0.89%) Grafana
5 3 (0.14%) Consul
5 3 (0.14%) Packer
6 2 (0.094%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.047%) Argo
7 1 (0.047%) Kibana
7 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.047%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (4.63%) ESRI
2 83 (3.88%) Microsoft
3 32 (1.50%) Xilinx
4 30 (1.40%) Bloomberg
4 30 (1.40%) Reuters
5 27 (1.26%) Google
6 12 (0.56%) Apple
7 11 (0.51%) Micro Focus
7 11 (0.51%) Oracle
8 9 (0.42%) Xamarin
9 8 (0.37%) SAP
10 7 (0.33%) IBM
10 7 (0.33%) Splunk
11 6 (0.28%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.28%) Facebook
11 6 (0.28%) Twitter
12 5 (0.23%) Lauterbach
13 4 (0.19%) Databricks
13 4 (0.19%) Dell
13 4 (0.19%) DevExpress