Software Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 February 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 31 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 1,426 2,094 3,051
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.02% 7.18% 6.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.54% 7.48% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 852 1,387 1,898
10th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,528 £82,500 £89,852
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £66,274 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.04% -7.41% +8.00%

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 16,706 27,996 45,045
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 96.01% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,452 22,029 32,769
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,430 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.05% -8.33% -

Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

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 19 February 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1,423 (99.79%) Software Engineering
2 867 (60.80%) Agile
3 754 (52.88%) AWS
4 673 (47.19%) TypeScript
5 658 (46.14%) React
6 557 (39.06%) Python
7 473 (33.17%) JavaScript
8 466 (32.68%) Node.js
9 421 (29.52%) Finance
10 386 (27.07%) Kubernetes
11 385 (27.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 385 (27.00%) PostgreSQL
12 376 (26.37%) AngularJS
13 374 (26.23%) Docker
14 351 (24.61%) Java
15 338 (23.70%) C#
16 330 (23.14%) User Experience
17 318 (22.30%) Serverless
18 315 (22.09%) Scrum
19 306 (21.46%) GCP
20 304 (21.32%) AWS Lambda
21 298 (20.90%) REST
22 293 (20.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 289 (20.27%) GitHub
24 276 (19.35%) Jenkins
25 274 (19.21%) Advertising
26 272 (19.07%) SQL
27 271 (19.00%) Azure
28 263 (18.44%) Amazon S3
29 262 (18.37%) Amazon SQS

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
1 142 (9.96%) Apache Airflow
2 136 (9.54%) Apache
3 28 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.61%) Confluence
5 9 (0.63%) WinCC
6 6 (0.42%) nginx
7 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.14%) CICS
9 2 (0.14%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.070%) Appian
10 1 (0.070%) Solana
Applications
1 44 (3.09%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Simulink
4 2 (0.14%) Trello
5 1 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.070%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 754 (52.88%) AWS
2 318 (22.30%) Serverless
3 306 (21.46%) GCP
4 304 (21.32%) AWS Lambda
5 289 (20.27%) GitHub
6 271 (19.00%) Azure
7 263 (18.44%) Amazon S3
8 262 (18.37%) Amazon SQS
9 233 (16.34%) Amazon Kinesis
10 120 (8.42%) dbt
11 79 (5.54%) Snowflake
12 55 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
13 52 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (2.81%) SaaS
17 31 (2.17%) Dagster
18 20 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (0.98%) Azure API Management
20 13 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.65%) HTTP
2 25 (1.75%) Wireless
3 20 (1.40%) Bluetooth
4 13 (0.91%) Broadband
5 9 (0.63%) RS-232
6 8 (0.56%) Modbus
6 8 (0.56%) ZigBee
7 7 (0.49%) Profibus
7 7 (0.49%) RS-485
8 6 (0.42%) Internet
9 4 (0.28%) 5G
9 4 (0.28%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
9 4 (0.28%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.28%) WAN
10 3 (0.21%) MQTT
10 3 (0.21%) Multicast
10 3 (0.21%) SMTP
10 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (27.00%) PostgreSQL
2 245 (17.18%) Redis
3 243 (17.04%) DynamoDB
4 130 (9.12%) Apache Ignite
5 129 (9.05%) Amazon Athena
6 119 (8.35%) Apache Arrow
6 119 (8.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 119 (8.35%) Dremio
7 76 (5.33%) Data Lake
8 64 (4.49%) NoSQL
9 52 (3.65%) MongoDB
10 42 (2.95%) MySQL
11 38 (2.66%) SQL Server
12 21 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (1.33%) Relational Database
14 16 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.98%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 276 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 105 (7.36%) Git
3 48 (3.37%) GitLab
4 34 (2.38%) JIRA
5 21 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 17 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.98%) webpack
8 13 (0.91%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.70%) Selenium
9 10 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.63%) Maven
11 8 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.49%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.49%) Subversion
13 5 (0.35%) CMake
14 3 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.21%) JUnit
14 3 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 421 (29.52%) Finance
2 293 (20.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 274 (19.21%) Advertising
4 248 (17.39%) Marketing
5 199 (13.96%) Front Office
6 196 (13.74%) Social Skills
7 188 (13.18%) Banking
8 85 (5.96%) Games
9 84 (5.89%) Investment Banking
10 53 (3.72%) Retail
11 46 (3.23%) Electronics
12 37 (2.59%) Automotive
13 34 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
14 32 (2.24%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.89%) Law
16 26 (1.82%) Tech for Good
17 25 (1.75%) Legal
18 19 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
20 14 (0.98%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 658 (46.14%) React
2 466 (32.68%) Node.js
3 376 (26.37%) AngularJS
4 298 (20.90%) REST
5 235 (16.48%) Tailwind CSS
6 213 (14.94%) .NET
7 143 (10.03%) gRPC
8 134 (9.40%) Redux
9 130 (9.12%) Protocol Buffers
10 116 (8.13%) Pandas
11 115 (8.06%) NumPy
11 115 (8.06%) SciPy
12 92 (6.45%) HTML
13 87 (6.10%) Vue
14 67 (4.70%) RESTful
14 67 (4.70%) Spring
15 66 (4.63%) Kafka
16 63 (4.42%) .NET Core
16 63 (4.42%) Electron
17 58 (4.07%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 232 (16.27%) Blog
1 232 (16.27%) Digital Media
2 197 (13.81%) Fixed Income
3 91 (6.38%) Derivative
3 91 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 90 (6.31%) Hedge funds
5 83 (5.82%) Equities
6 81 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
7 75 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
8 69 (4.84%) Algorithms
9 45 (3.16%) Product Ownership
10 42 (2.95%) Cloud Native
11 38 (2.66%) Robotics
12 36 (2.52%) Pricing Data
13 32 (2.24%) Embedded Systems
14 28 (1.96%) Public Cloud
15 25 (1.75%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.61%) IoT
17 20 (1.40%) Client/Server
18 15 (1.05%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 116 (8.13%) Linux
2 32 (2.24%) Windows
3 29 (2.03%) Unix
4 16 (1.12%) Android
5 15 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
7 10 (0.70%) Robot Operating System
8 8 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.14%) CentOS
10 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,423 (99.79%) Software Engineering
2 867 (60.80%) Agile
3 385 (27.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 330 (23.14%) User Experience
5 315 (22.09%) Scrum
6 249 (17.46%) E-Commerce
7 241 (16.90%) Continuous Delivery
8 232 (16.27%) Epics
9 213 (14.94%) CI/CD
10 208 (14.59%) TDD
11 206 (14.45%) DevOps
11 206 (14.45%) Microservices
12 195 (13.67%) Asset Management
13 171 (11.99%) Fintech
14 156 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
15 149 (10.45%) Investment Management
16 140 (9.82%) Computer Science
17 136 (9.54%) Mentoring
18 135 (9.47%) Test Automation
19 119 (8.35%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 673 (47.19%) TypeScript
2 557 (39.06%) Python
3 473 (33.17%) JavaScript
4 351 (24.61%) Java
5 338 (23.70%) C#
6 272 (19.07%) SQL
7 210 (14.73%) C++
8 122 (8.56%) C
9 82 (5.75%) Go
10 47 (3.30%) Rust
11 44 (3.09%) PHP
12 41 (2.88%) Scala
13 35 (2.45%) Ruby
14 26 (1.82%) Perl
15 23 (1.61%) Bash
16 21 (1.47%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.98%) Embedded C
18 13 (0.91%) Clojure
18 13 (0.91%) Elixir
19 11 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 208 (14.59%) Degree
2 63 (4.42%) Security Cleared
3 59 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 30 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 20 (1.40%) DBS Check
6 20 (1.40%) PhD
7 14 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 13 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
9 10 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.35%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.21%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.63%) QA
2 29 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.49%) IEC 61131
4 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.28%) PMO
6 3 (0.21%) IEC 62304
6 3 (0.21%) MISRA
7 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.070%) CDISC
8 1 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 374 (26.23%) Docker
2 15 (1.05%) Firmware
3 11 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.070%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 386 (27.07%) Kubernetes
2 78 (5.47%) Terraform
3 17 (1.19%) Consul
3 17 (1.19%) Packer
4 8 (0.56%) Ansible
4 8 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.42%) Grafana
5 6 (0.42%) Kustomize
6 5 (0.35%) Kibana
7 3 (0.21%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.14%) Istio
8 2 (0.14%) MAINVIEW
9 1 (0.070%) Argo
9 1 (0.070%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.070%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (6.24%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.07%) Google
3 36 (2.52%) PayPal
4 30 (2.10%) Apple
5 19 (1.33%) Oracle
6 17 (1.19%) Siemens
7 14 (0.98%) Databricks
8 6 (0.42%) Sawtooth Software
8 6 (0.42%) Sybase
8 6 (0.42%) Xilinx
9 5 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.35%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.28%) F5
10 4 (0.28%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.14%) ESRI
11 2 (0.14%) IBM
11 2 (0.14%) IFS
11 2 (0.14%) Splunk
11 2 (0.14%) Telerik
11 2 (0.14%) Xamarin