Software Engineering Manager Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Engineering Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineering Manager salary for remote or hybrid work is £90,000 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 358 559 615
Rank change year-on-year +201 +56 +122
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineering Manager 39 33 58
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.098% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 36 28 32
10th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £66,750
25th Percentile £78,438 £64,375 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £102,500 £90,313 £120,625
90th Percentile £140,677 £105,000 £137,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £86,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% -10.40% -17.62%

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 Engineering Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Engineering Manager salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering Manager
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Software Engineering Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Software Engineering Manager salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Software Engineering Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (74.36%) Agile
3 16 (41.03%) .NET
4 15 (38.46%) C#
5 14 (35.90%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 12 (30.77%) Coaching
8 11 (28.21%) AngularJS
8 11 (28.21%) Banking
8 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
9 10 (25.64%) React
9 10 (25.64%) Line Management
9 10 (25.64%) Finance
9 10 (25.64%) Azure
10 9 (23.08%) Performance Management
10 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (23.08%) Software Delivery
10 9 (23.08%) DevOps
10 9 (23.08%) Project Delivery
10 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (20.51%) .NET Core
11 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
11 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (17.95%) Java
12 7 (17.95%) People Management
12 7 (17.95%) SaaS
12 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
12 7 (17.95%) SDLC

Software Engineering Manager 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 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) SaaS
4 5 (12.82%) AWS
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (28.21%) Banking
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Front Office
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Electronics
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) .NET
2 11 (28.21%) AngularJS
3 10 (25.64%) React
4 8 (20.51%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.69%) Node.js
6 1 (2.56%) MACH
6 1 (2.56%) Next.js
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.26%) Derivative
3 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (74.36%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (30.77%) Coaching
4 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
6 10 (25.64%) Line Management
7 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (23.08%) DevOps
7 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (23.08%) Performance Management
7 9 (23.08%) Project Delivery
7 9 (23.08%) Software Delivery
8 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
8 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (17.95%) People Management
9 7 (17.95%) SDLC
10 6 (15.38%) ITIL
10 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
10 6 (15.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) C#
2 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.95%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.82%) Python
5 4 (10.26%) PHP
6 3 (7.69%) Scala
7 2 (5.13%) Go
8 1 (2.56%) C
8 1 (2.56%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.13%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Grafana
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) IBM
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft