Software Engineering Director Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Director of Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The median Director of Software Engineering salary for remote or hybrid work is £132,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 586 657
Rank change year-on-year +175 +71 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Director 2 3 14
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.009% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.009% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £117,750 £70,250 £120,000
25th Percentile £121,875 £78,125 £125,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £132,500 £95,000 £140,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.47% -32.14% +24.44%
75th Percentile £141,875 £115,625 £162,500
90th Percentile £145,250 £125,750 £175,000
UK median annual salary £132,500 £95,000 £140,000
% change year-on-year +39.47% -32.14% +21.74%

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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Software Engineering Director
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Engineering Director trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Software Engineering Director
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Engineering Director.

Software Engineering Director salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Software Engineering Director 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 Engineering Director in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Development Roadmap

Software Engineering Director 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Educational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
2 1 (50.00%) Development Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA