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 £75,000 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 37 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 934 2,340 3,061
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.25% 6.92% 7.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.89% 7.20% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 821 1,711 1,851
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £70,900
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.85% +9.08%
75th Percentile £110,000 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £112,500 £117,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.60% +6.84%

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 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 1 May 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 1 May 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.

1 928 (99.36%) Software Engineering
2 486 (52.03%) Agile
3 443 (47.43%) Python
4 401 (42.93%) Finance
5 394 (42.18%) AWS
6 380 (40.69%) JavaScript
7 314 (33.62%) Java
8 312 (33.40%) TypeScript
9 285 (30.51%) GCP
10 266 (28.48%) React
11 238 (25.48%) Banking
12 217 (23.23%) SQL
13 201 (21.52%) Front Office
13 201 (21.52%) Azure
14 199 (21.31%) C#
14 199 (21.31%) Fixed Income
15 192 (20.56%) Asset Management
16 181 (19.38%) DevOps
17 180 (19.27%) Degree
18 170 (18.20%) Node.js
19 167 (17.88%) CI/CD
20 163 (17.45%) Kubernetes
21 159 (17.02%) Microservices
22 155 (16.60%) Amazon Athena
23 152 (16.27%) Apache Airflow
24 151 (16.17%) TDD
25 149 (15.95%) dbt
26 148 (15.85%) Dremio
26 148 (15.85%) Apache Arrow
26 148 (15.85%) Apache Iceberg

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
1 152 (16.27%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (12.42%) Apache
3 27 (2.89%) Confluence
4 21 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.54%) CMS
6 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.21%) CICS
7 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Solana
Applications
1 44 (4.71%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.32%) Trello
4 2 (0.21%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.11%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 394 (42.18%) AWS
2 285 (30.51%) GCP
3 201 (21.52%) Azure
4 149 (15.95%) dbt
5 89 (9.53%) Snowflake
6 60 (6.42%) GitHub
7 46 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
7 46 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (3.64%) Dagster
10 33 (3.53%) SaaS
11 32 (3.43%) Serverless
12 26 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (2.46%) Amazon S3
13 23 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.39%) Apigee
14 13 (1.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (0.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.78%) HTTP
2 24 (2.57%) Wireless
3 20 (2.14%) Bluetooth
4 10 (1.07%) RS-232
4 10 (1.07%) WAN
5 9 (0.96%) 5G
5 9 (0.96%) Modbus
5 9 (0.96%) ZigBee
6 8 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.75%) Profibus
7 7 (0.75%) RS-485
8 6 (0.64%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.54%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
10 4 (0.43%) Multicast
11 3 (0.32%) Internet
11 3 (0.32%) MQTT
12 2 (0.21%) DNS
12 2 (0.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (16.60%) Amazon Athena
2 148 (15.85%) Apache Arrow
2 148 (15.85%) Apache Iceberg
2 148 (15.85%) Dremio
3 111 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
4 99 (10.60%) Apache Ignite
5 75 (8.03%) Data Lake
6 51 (5.46%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.71%) SQL Server
8 36 (3.85%) MySQL
9 31 (3.32%) MongoDB
10 25 (2.68%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.50%) Redis
12 13 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.86%) Big Data
15 6 (0.64%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.43%) Biml
17 4 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 123 (13.17%) Git
2 51 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.82%) JIRA
4 25 (2.68%) GitLab
5 23 (2.46%) SonarQube
5 23 (2.46%) Visual Studio
6 18 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 17 (1.82%) webpack
8 15 (1.61%) Maven
9 14 (1.50%) JUnit
10 10 (1.07%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.07%) Moq
11 9 (0.96%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.54%) Subversion
13 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.54%) Xcode
13 5 (0.54%) XCUITest
14 3 (0.32%) XCTest
General
1 401 (42.93%) Finance
2 238 (25.48%) Banking
3 201 (21.52%) Front Office
4 130 (13.92%) Social Skills
5 89 (9.53%) Investment Banking
6 64 (6.85%) Games
7 55 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (3.96%) Retail
9 35 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (3.75%) Electronics
10 28 (3.00%) Advertising
11 24 (2.57%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.25%) Tech for Good
13 17 (1.82%) Automotive
13 17 (1.82%) Legal
14 14 (1.50%) Law
15 12 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.18%) Marketing
16 11 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.18%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (28.48%) React
2 170 (18.20%) Node.js
3 141 (15.10%) .NET
4 133 (14.24%) Pandas
5 132 (14.13%) NumPy
5 132 (14.13%) SciPy
6 122 (13.06%) AngularJS
7 102 (10.92%) gRPC
8 99 (10.60%) Protocol Buffers
9 89 (9.53%) Vue
10 88 (9.42%) Spring
11 87 (9.31%) Redux
12 81 (8.67%) HTML
13 69 (7.39%) Spring Boot
14 56 (6.00%) Kafka
15 50 (5.35%) .NET Core
15 50 (5.35%) PySpark
15 50 (5.35%) RESTful
16 48 (5.14%) CSS
17 43 (4.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 199 (21.31%) Fixed Income
2 131 (14.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 126 (13.49%) Equities
4 104 (11.13%) Hedge funds
5 92 (9.85%) Derivative
6 78 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
7 73 (7.82%) Algorithms
8 43 (4.60%) Cloud Native
9 39 (4.18%) Pricing Data
9 39 (4.18%) Product Ownership
10 36 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
11 35 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (3.53%) Public Cloud
13 26 (2.78%) Mobile App
14 23 (2.46%) IoT
15 17 (1.82%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.61%) Client/Server
17 11 (1.18%) GNSS
17 11 (1.18%) Robotics
18 9 (0.96%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 91 (9.74%) Linux
2 24 (2.57%) Unix
3 21 (2.25%) Windows
4 20 (2.14%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.61%) Android
6 12 (1.28%) FreeRTOS
7 9 (0.96%) Robot Operating System
8 7 (0.75%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (99.36%) Software Engineering
2 486 (52.03%) Agile
3 192 (20.56%) Asset Management
4 181 (19.38%) DevOps
5 167 (17.88%) CI/CD
6 159 (17.02%) Microservices
7 151 (16.17%) TDD
8 147 (15.74%) Investment Management
9 143 (15.31%) Fintech
10 137 (14.67%) Mentoring
11 123 (13.17%) Test Automation
12 122 (13.06%) Computer Science
13 109 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
15 94 (10.06%) SDLC
16 89 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
17 80 (8.57%) Code Quality
18 66 (7.07%) Machine Learning
19 63 (6.75%) Continuous Integration
19 63 (6.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 443 (47.43%) Python
2 380 (40.69%) JavaScript
3 314 (33.62%) Java
4 312 (33.40%) TypeScript
5 217 (23.23%) SQL
6 199 (21.31%) C#
7 138 (14.78%) C++
8 96 (10.28%) C
9 50 (5.35%) Go
10 34 (3.64%) PHP
11 30 (3.21%) Scala
12 26 (2.78%) Ruby
13 24 (2.57%) Bash
14 22 (2.36%) Rust
15 19 (2.03%) Embedded C
16 13 (1.39%) Perl
17 12 (1.28%) Kotlin
17 12 (1.28%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.96%) Fortran
18 9 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 180 (19.27%) Degree
2 52 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 33 (3.53%) Master's Degree
5 23 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.39%) PhD
7 12 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
8 11 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.32%) HNC
10 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.21%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.93%) QA
2 19 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.86%) PMO
5 5 (0.54%) CDISC
6 4 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.32%) IEC 61131
7 3 (0.32%) IEC 62304
7 3 (0.32%) MISRA
8 2 (0.21%) GDPR
8 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 126 (13.49%) Docker
2 14 (1.50%) Firmware
3 11 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 163 (17.45%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.03%) Terraform
3 13 (1.39%) Istio
4 6 (0.64%) Grafana
4 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
4 6 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.54%) Ansible
6 3 (0.32%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.21%) MAINVIEW
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (6.32%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.25%) Google
3 36 (3.85%) PayPal
4 24 (2.57%) Apple
5 17 (1.82%) Oracle
6 7 (0.75%) Adobe
6 7 (0.75%) Siemens
7 6 (0.64%) Sawtooth Software
8 5 (0.54%) Databricks
8 5 (0.54%) Intel
8 5 (0.54%) Xilinx
9 4 (0.43%) F5
9 4 (0.43%) Tealium
10 3 (0.32%) ESRI
10 3 (0.32%) IBM
10 3 (0.32%) Ping Identity
10 3 (0.32%) Splunk
10 3 (0.32%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.21%) BMC
12 1 (0.11%) Red Hat