Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,343 3,092 5,919
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.94% 7.17% 8.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.23% 7.46% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 1,862 2,091
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £40,399
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,588 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +8.60% +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,474 £98,750
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

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 32,387 41,467 65,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,861 29,388 41,856
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 2,329 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 995 (42.47%) Agile
3 971 (41.44%) Python
4 944 (40.29%) AWS
5 732 (31.24%) JavaScript
6 634 (27.06%) Azure
7 629 (26.85%) Java
8 628 (26.80%) React
9 578 (24.67%) C#
10 564 (24.07%) .NET
11 495 (21.13%) DevOps
12 438 (18.69%) Security Cleared
13 397 (16.94%) Linux
14 390 (16.65%) Finance
15 385 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
16 373 (15.92%) C
17 357 (15.24%) SQL
18 346 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
19 341 (14.55%) TypeScript
20 327 (13.96%) Actionable Insight
21 307 (13.10%) Degree
22 299 (12.76%) .NET Core
23 298 (12.72%) SC Cleared
24 295 (12.59%) GCP
25 293 (12.51%) Microservices
26 276 (11.78%) C++
27 270 (11.52%) Full Stack Development
28 267 (11.40%) CSS
29 261 (11.14%) AngularJS
30 257 (10.97%) Mentoring

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
1 221 (9.43%) ArcGIS
2 214 (9.13%) GeoServer
3 133 (5.68%) Apache Airflow
4 129 (5.51%) Apache
5 42 (1.79%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.43%) Confluence
7 9 (0.38%) NServiceBus
8 6 (0.26%) nginx
8 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.13%) CMS
9 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.085%) Drupal
10 2 (0.085%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.085%) WordPress
11 1 (0.043%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.043%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.043%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.043%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (1.49%) Simulink
2 7 (0.30%) Stateflow
3 6 (0.26%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.13%) Sketch
6 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.043%) UXPin
7 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
2 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 944 (40.29%) AWS
2 634 (27.06%) Azure
3 295 (12.59%) GCP
4 147 (6.27%) Serverless
5 128 (5.46%) SaaS
6 104 (4.44%) dbt
7 72 (3.07%) Snowflake
8 69 (2.94%) GitHub
9 55 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (1.66%) Amazon S3
12 29 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (1.02%) Slack
14 23 (0.98%) Google Docs
14 23 (0.98%) Lucidchart
14 23 (0.98%) Miro
15 19 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 9 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 49 (2.09%) Wireless
3 47 (2.01%) RS-232
4 41 (1.75%) Ethernet
5 28 (1.20%) Network Security
6 27 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (0.94%) HTTP
8 18 (0.77%) Modbus
9 17 (0.73%) Bluetooth
10 15 (0.64%) Internet
10 15 (0.64%) RS-485
11 14 (0.60%) ZigBee
12 9 (0.38%) 5G
13 8 (0.34%) Firewall
13 8 (0.34%) VoIP
14 4 (0.17%) 3GPP
14 4 (0.17%) Profibus
14 4 (0.17%) RS-422
14 4 (0.17%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 234 (9.99%) GIS
3 214 (9.13%) QGIS
4 173 (7.38%) MySQL
5 114 (4.87%) Apache Ignite
6 104 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
6 104 (4.44%) Apache Arrow
6 104 (4.44%) Dremio
7 92 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 87 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 76 (3.24%) NoSQL
10 73 (3.12%) Data Lake
11 58 (2.48%) Redis
12 57 (2.43%) MongoDB
13 56 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
14 46 (1.96%) Oracle Database
15 40 (1.71%) RDBMS
16 38 (1.62%) Big Data
17 26 (1.11%) Hadoop
18 23 (0.98%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 226 (9.65%) Git
2 79 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 69 (2.94%) JIRA
4 55 (2.35%) GitLab
5 36 (1.54%) JDeveloper
6 35 (1.49%) Subversion
6 35 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 25 (1.07%) Maven
8 19 (0.81%) LabVIEW
9 18 (0.77%) CMake
10 16 (0.68%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
13 11 (0.47%) Selenium
13 11 (0.47%) Spinnaker
14 10 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
14 10 (0.43%) Vagrant
15 9 (0.38%) Postman
16 8 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 390 (16.65%) Finance
2 244 (10.41%) Social Skills
3 196 (8.37%) Banking
4 192 (8.19%) Front Office
5 136 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 110 (4.69%) Investment Banking
7 105 (4.48%) Electronics
8 89 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 72 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
10 68 (2.90%) Automotive
11 56 (2.39%) Public Sector
12 47 (2.01%) Tech for Good
13 46 (1.96%) Retail
14 44 (1.88%) Back Office
15 40 (1.71%) Aerospace
16 37 (1.58%) Law
17 36 (1.54%) Games
18 29 (1.24%) Legal
19 28 (1.20%) Military
20 21 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 628 (26.80%) React
2 564 (24.07%) .NET
3 299 (12.76%) .NET Core
4 267 (11.40%) CSS
5 261 (11.14%) AngularJS
6 215 (9.18%) Leaflet
6 215 (9.18%) OpenLayers
6 215 (9.18%) PostGIS
7 214 (9.13%) Node.js
8 167 (7.13%) RESTful
9 139 (5.93%) Vue
10 131 (5.59%) gRPC
11 128 (5.46%) Protocol Buffers
12 121 (5.16%) Pandas
13 112 (4.78%) ASP.NET
13 112 (4.78%) HTML
13 112 (4.78%) NumPy
14 105 (4.48%) Spring
15 104 (4.44%) SciPy
16 102 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 186 (7.94%) Fixed Income
2 143 (6.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 141 (6.02%) Derivative
4 138 (5.89%) Equities
5 125 (5.34%) Hedge funds
6 107 (4.57%) Algorithms
7 71 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 64 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
8 64 (2.73%) IoT
9 62 (2.65%) Client/Server
10 59 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.96%) Cloud Native
12 45 (1.92%) Device Driver
13 38 (1.62%) Mobile App
14 36 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
15 31 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 29 (1.24%) Product Ownership
16 29 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 22 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
18 21 (0.90%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 397 (16.94%) Linux
2 120 (5.12%) Windows
3 109 (4.65%) Embedded Linux
4 75 (3.20%) Ubuntu
5 61 (2.60%) Android
6 47 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.07%) FreeRTOS
7 25 (1.07%) Unix
8 19 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.47%) Debian
10 10 (0.43%) CentOS
11 9 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.21%) VxWorks
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server
14 2 (0.085%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.043%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,329 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 995 (42.47%) Agile
3 495 (21.13%) DevOps
4 385 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
5 327 (13.96%) Actionable Insight
6 293 (12.51%) Microservices
7 270 (11.52%) Full Stack Development
8 257 (10.97%) Mentoring
9 254 (10.84%) Web Development
10 233 (9.94%) Computer Science
11 191 (8.15%) Asset Management
12 190 (8.11%) TDD
13 181 (7.73%) CI/CD
14 172 (7.34%) Test Automation
15 169 (7.21%) SDLC
16 161 (6.87%) Investment Management
17 149 (6.36%) Design Patterns
18 148 (6.32%) Code Quality
19 143 (6.10%) Continuous Integration
19 143 (6.10%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 971 (41.44%) Python
2 732 (31.24%) JavaScript
3 629 (26.85%) Java
4 578 (24.67%) C#
5 373 (15.92%) C
6 357 (15.24%) SQL
7 341 (14.55%) TypeScript
8 276 (11.78%) C++
9 157 (6.70%) Bash
10 122 (5.21%) Embedded C
11 112 (4.78%) Go
12 106 (4.52%) Kotlin
13 98 (4.18%) Ruby
14 78 (3.33%) PHP
15 73 (3.12%) Rust
16 63 (2.69%) Scala
17 48 (2.05%) Perl
18 45 (1.92%) T-SQL
19 25 (1.07%) Ada
20 16 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 438 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 307 (13.10%) Degree
3 298 (12.72%) SC Cleared
4 99 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (0.77%) DV Cleared
7 18 (0.77%) PhD
8 16 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 11 (0.47%) HNC
9 11 (0.47%) HND
10 7 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.13%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.085%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.085%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.043%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.043%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.043%) OCP
13 1 (0.043%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.23%) QA
2 28 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.02%) MISRA
4 23 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
5 10 (0.43%) Def Stans
6 6 (0.26%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.21%) IEC 61508
8 4 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
8 4 (0.17%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.17%) PMO
9 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.085%) SEPA
10 1 (0.043%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.043%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.043%) JTAG
System Software
1 193 (8.24%) Docker
2 74 (3.16%) Firmware
3 36 (1.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.043%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 167 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.63%) Terraform
3 59 (2.52%) Ansible
4 16 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 6 (0.26%) Grafana
6 3 (0.13%) Consul
6 3 (0.13%) Packer
7 2 (0.085%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.043%) Argo
8 1 (0.043%) Istio
8 1 (0.043%) Kibana
8 1 (0.043%) Rancher
8 1 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 215 (9.18%) ESRI
2 98 (4.18%) Microsoft
3 66 (2.82%) Oracle
4 64 (2.73%) Google
5 35 (1.49%) Dell
6 26 (1.11%) IBM
7 12 (0.51%) DevExpress
7 12 (0.51%) Xamarin
8 10 (0.43%) SAP
8 10 (0.43%) Siemens
8 10 (0.43%) Xilinx
9 9 (0.38%) Twitter
10 8 (0.34%) Confluent
10 8 (0.34%) Siebel
11 7 (0.30%) Lauterbach
12 6 (0.26%) Facebook
12 6 (0.26%) QNX
13 5 (0.21%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.21%) YouTube
14 4 (0.17%) Apple