Software Engineering Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,046 4,384 4,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.76% 13.15% 12.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.49% 14.72% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 3,555 3,407
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £112,500 £93,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £68,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.80% -10.71% +1.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,506 29,782 34,134
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.01% 89.31% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,359 21,960 25,129
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Software Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Software Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Software Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
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
1 220 (10.75%) Apache Airflow
2 177 (8.65%) Confluence
3 137 (6.70%) Apache
4 53 (2.59%) Apache Spark
5 23 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.68%) IIS
6 14 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.64%) CMS
8 12 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.098%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.049%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.049%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.049%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.049%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.049%) nginx
12 1 (0.049%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.049%) Solana
12 1 (0.049%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (2.39%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.15%) Trello
3 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.098%) Simulink
3 2 (0.098%) Sketch
4 1 (0.049%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.049%) Blender
4 1 (0.049%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Shopify
2 10 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.39%) Magento
4 7 (0.34%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.098%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.098%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.049%) BASE24
7 1 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (52.44%) AWS
2 797 (38.95%) Azure
3 618 (30.21%) GCP
4 212 (10.36%) dbt
5 111 (5.43%) Serverless
6 100 (4.89%) SaaS
7 97 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
8 92 (4.50%) Snowflake
9 82 (4.01%) GitHub
10 80 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
11 69 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 65 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
13 63 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
14 49 (2.39%) OpenShift
15 46 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (1.86%) Amazon S3
17 32 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
17 32 (1.56%) Power Platform
18 19 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
19 16 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.06%) Broadband
2 44 (2.15%) Wireless
3 30 (1.47%) Software-Defined Radio
4 13 (0.64%) HTTP
5 12 (0.59%) Network Security
5 12 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.49%) Bluetooth
7 7 (0.34%) DNS
7 7 (0.34%) Firewall
7 7 (0.34%) RS-232
8 6 (0.29%) Modbus
8 6 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.29%) WAN
9 5 (0.24%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.20%) BGP
10 4 (0.20%) DHCP
10 4 (0.20%) Internet
10 4 (0.20%) MPLS
10 4 (0.20%) MQTT
10 4 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (16.08%) SQL Server
2 215 (10.51%) Amazon Athena
3 210 (10.26%) Apache Arrow
3 210 (10.26%) Apache Iceberg
3 210 (10.26%) Dremio
4 146 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 115 (5.62%) Apache Ignite
6 79 (3.86%) Data Lake
7 62 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 43 (2.10%) MySQL
11 35 (1.71%) Relational Database
12 27 (1.32%) Big Data
13 17 (0.83%) Redis
14 16 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.78%) Power BI
15 14 (0.68%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.64%) Data Hub
16 13 (0.64%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 296 (14.47%) JIRA
2 286 (13.98%) GitLab
3 273 (13.34%) Maven
4 272 (13.29%) SonarQube
5 263 (12.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 262 (12.81%) Cucumber
7 250 (12.22%) Selenium
8 248 (12.12%) Bitbucket
9 146 (7.14%) Git
10 56 (2.74%) Jenkins
11 39 (1.91%) Artifactory
12 27 (1.32%) Visual Studio
13 23 (1.12%) JUnit
14 16 (0.78%) webpack
15 13 (0.64%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.49%) IntelliJ
16 10 (0.49%) Mockito
16 10 (0.49%) Moq
16 10 (0.49%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 883 (43.16%) Finance
2 565 (27.61%) Banking
3 546 (26.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 335 (16.37%) Social Skills
5 292 (14.27%) Front Office
6 182 (8.90%) Investment Banking
7 136 (6.65%) Retail
8 133 (6.50%) Games
9 102 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
10 90 (4.40%) Corporate Banking
11 38 (1.86%) Law
11 38 (1.86%) Public Sector
12 33 (1.61%) Tech for Good
13 30 (1.47%) Electronics
14 29 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.17%) Advertising
16 19 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (0.83%) Automotive
17 17 (0.83%) Back Office
18 16 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,241 (60.65%) Software Engineer
2 669 (32.70%) Senior
3 435 (21.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 411 (20.09%) Developer
5 225 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
6 187 (9.14%) Lead
7 180 (8.80%) AWS Software Engineer
8 176 (8.60%) Python Engineer
9 175 (8.55%) Java Engineer
9 175 (8.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 172 (8.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 137 (6.70%) Python Software Engineer
12 120 (5.87%) Engineering Manager
13 113 (5.52%) AWS Developer
14 107 (5.23%) Software Developer
15 90 (4.40%) Senior Manager
16 87 (4.25%) Senior Java Engineer
16 87 (4.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 79 (3.86%) ServiceNow Manager
18 78 (3.81%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 605 (29.57%) React
2 468 (22.87%) .NET
3 466 (22.78%) Node.js
4 382 (18.67%) Kafka
5 352 (17.20%) HTML
6 347 (16.96%) Spring
7 335 (16.37%) Redux
8 324 (15.84%) Spring Boot
9 313 (15.30%) CSS
10 250 (12.22%) JPA
11 213 (10.41%) Pandas
12 192 (9.38%) AngularJS
13 170 (8.31%) Hibernate
14 168 (8.21%) NumPy
15 158 (7.72%) SciPy
16 156 (7.62%) RESTful
17 146 (7.14%) REST
18 136 (6.65%) Vue
19 116 (5.67%) Jest
20 108 (5.28%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 416 (20.33%) Product Ownership
2 260 (12.71%) Enterprise Software
3 250 (12.22%) Cyberattack
4 246 (12.02%) Fixed Income
5 202 (9.87%) Self-Motivation
6 189 (9.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 183 (8.94%) Equities
8 180 (8.80%) Linux Command Line
9 120 (5.87%) Management Information System
10 111 (5.43%) Hedge funds
11 104 (5.08%) Derivative
12 99 (4.84%) Algorithms
13 80 (3.91%) Video\Live Streaming
14 79 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
15 70 (3.42%) Cloud Native
16 64 (3.13%) Pricing Data
17 46 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
18 39 (1.91%) Mobile App
19 36 (1.76%) e-Learning
20 29 (1.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 345 (16.86%) Linux
2 72 (3.52%) Android
3 40 (1.96%) Windows
4 36 (1.76%) Embedded Linux
5 28 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.93%) Unix
7 14 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.29%) zOS
9 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.098%) Debian
11 2 (0.098%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.098%) VMS
12 1 (0.049%) CentOS
12 1 (0.049%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (58.70%) Agile
2 692 (33.82%) Microservices
3 602 (29.42%) DevOps
4 595 (29.08%) CI/CD
5 543 (26.54%) Mentoring
6 443 (21.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 401 (19.60%) Containerisation
8 363 (17.74%) Test Automation
9 352 (17.20%) User Experience
10 351 (17.16%) SDLC
11 316 (15.44%) TDD
12 314 (15.35%) Front End Development
13 275 (13.44%) Machine Learning
14 273 (13.34%) Performance Optimisation
15 271 (13.25%) Computer Science
16 262 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 257 (12.56%) Scrum
18 255 (12.46%) Data Engineering
19 253 (12.37%) Asset Management
20 244 (11.93%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 994 (48.58%) JavaScript
2 954 (46.63%) Java
3 780 (38.12%) Python
4 523 (25.56%) SQL
5 499 (24.39%) TypeScript
6 377 (18.43%) C++
7 339 (16.57%) Go
8 305 (14.91%) C#
9 238 (11.63%) Rust
10 94 (4.59%) C
11 42 (2.05%) PHP
12 29 (1.42%) Bash
13 20 (0.98%) Ruby
13 20 (0.98%) Scala
14 17 (0.83%) Embedded C
15 16 (0.78%) PowerShell
16 15 (0.73%) Swift
17 14 (0.68%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.54%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 415 (20.28%) Degree
2 359 (17.55%) Security Cleared
3 264 (12.90%) DV Cleared
4 195 (9.53%) AWS Certification
4 195 (9.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 194 (9.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 78 (3.81%) SC Cleared
8 37 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.12%) PhD
10 10 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
11 8 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.15%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.098%) CCA
15 2 (0.098%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.049%) MCSD
16 1 (0.049%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 329 (16.08%) QA
2 119 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.83%) GDPR
4 14 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.64%) HIPAA
6 11 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.34%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.29%) CDISC
8 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.24%) NCSC
10 4 (0.20%) NIST
10 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.20%) PMO
11 3 (0.15%) JTAG
12 2 (0.098%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.098%) Dublin Core
12 2 (0.098%) GMP
12 2 (0.098%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.098%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.098%) NIST 800
System Software
1 541 (26.44%) Docker
2 49 (2.39%) Firmware
3 30 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
4 14 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 546 (26.69%) Kubernetes
2 193 (9.43%) Terraform
3 77 (3.76%) Ansible
4 25 (1.22%) Grafana
5 24 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.54%) Istio
7 2 (0.098%) Argo
7 2 (0.098%) Kibana
7 2 (0.098%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.098%) Packer
8 1 (0.049%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.049%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (12.07%) Solace
2 121 (5.91%) Microsoft
3 84 (4.11%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.18%) Google
5 40 (1.96%) PayPal
6 19 (0.93%) IBM
7 18 (0.88%) Oracle
8 14 (0.68%) Databricks
8 14 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 14 (0.68%) VMware
9 13 (0.64%) Apple
10 11 (0.54%) Adobe
11 8 (0.39%) DevExpress
11 8 (0.39%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.34%) Cisco
13 6 (0.29%) Sage
13 6 (0.29%) SAP
14 5 (0.24%) New Relic
15 4 (0.20%) F5
15 4 (0.20%) Tealium