Software Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,085 5,860 11,564
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.10% 13.70% 17.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.20% 14.26% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,190 4,029 5,414
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £87,275
90th Percentile £112,500 £116,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,936 41,103 64,824
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.64% 96.07% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,504 28,573 41,309
10th Percentile £33,756 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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
1 221 (5.41%) ArcGIS
2 214 (5.24%) GeoServer
3 208 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
4 199 (4.87%) Apache
5 53 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 34 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.66%) nginx
8 24 (0.59%) Confluence
9 14 (0.34%) IIS
10 10 (0.24%) NServiceBus
11 8 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Appian
13 5 (0.12%) CMS
13 5 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.12%) WordPress
14 3 (0.073%) Drupal
14 3 (0.073%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.073%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.049%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.13%) Simulink
2 11 (0.27%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.17%) OrCAD
3 7 (0.17%) Stateflow
4 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.073%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.073%) Sketch
7 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (0.024%) Blender
8 1 (0.024%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.024%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.024%) Notion
8 1 (0.024%) UXPin
8 1 (0.024%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
3 3 (0.073%) Shopify
4 2 (0.049%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.049%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.024%) Endur
5 1 (0.024%) Magento
5 1 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,528 (37.41%) AWS
2 1,057 (25.88%) Azure
3 514 (12.58%) GCP
4 258 (6.32%) SaaS
5 241 (5.90%) Serverless
6 180 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 178 (4.36%) dbt
8 137 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
8 137 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
9 133 (3.26%) Snowflake
10 125 (3.06%) GitHub
11 96 (2.35%) Power Platform
12 59 (1.44%) Amazon S3
13 48 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
15 35 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (0.86%) PaaS
16 27 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (0.64%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 102 (2.50%) Wireless
2 74 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 54 (1.32%) Ethernet
4 48 (1.18%) RS-232
5 43 (1.05%) Network Security
6 37 (0.91%) HTTP
7 33 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (0.54%) Internet
9 18 (0.44%) Modbus
10 16 (0.39%) 5G
10 16 (0.39%) Firewall
11 15 (0.37%) RS-485
12 14 (0.34%) ZigBee
13 12 (0.29%) AMQP
13 12 (0.29%) Bluetooth
14 11 (0.27%) VoIP
15 9 (0.22%) CTI
15 9 (0.22%) MQTT
15 9 (0.22%) WAN
16 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 235 (5.75%) GIS
3 220 (5.39%) MySQL
4 214 (5.24%) QGIS
5 179 (4.38%) Amazon Athena
6 178 (4.36%) Apache Ignite
7 177 (4.33%) Apache Arrow
7 177 (4.33%) Dremio
8 168 (4.11%) SQL Server
9 150 (3.67%) Relational Database
10 142 (3.48%) Data Lake
11 105 (2.57%) NoSQL
12 91 (2.23%) MongoDB
13 87 (2.13%) Redis
14 73 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
15 62 (1.52%) Big Data
16 48 (1.18%) DynamoDB
16 48 (1.18%) Oracle Database
17 42 (1.03%) RDBMS
18 40 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 393 (9.62%) Git
2 152 (3.72%) GitLab
3 142 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 112 (2.74%) JIRA
5 91 (2.23%) Visual Studio
6 43 (1.05%) Subversion
7 36 (0.88%) JDeveloper
8 31 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 30 (0.73%) JUnit
10 29 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 28 (0.69%) LabVIEW
12 27 (0.66%) TeamCity
13 25 (0.61%) CMake
13 25 (0.61%) Maven
14 23 (0.56%) webpack
15 21 (0.51%) Bitbucket
15 21 (0.51%) Cucumber
16 20 (0.49%) CircleCI
16 20 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
17 19 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 764 (18.70%) Finance
2 659 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 322 (7.88%) Banking
4 316 (7.74%) Front Office
5 261 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 179 (4.38%) Investment Banking
7 159 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
8 141 (3.45%) Electronics
9 127 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 110 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 102 (2.50%) Retail
12 82 (2.01%) Law
13 80 (1.96%) Tech for Good
14 78 (1.91%) Automotive
15 76 (1.86%) Marketing
16 61 (1.49%) Legal
17 58 (1.42%) Games
18 55 (1.35%) Back Office
19 54 (1.32%) Telecoms
20 45 (1.10%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,330 (57.04%) Software Engineer
2 1,278 (31.29%) Senior
3 961 (23.53%) Developer
4 942 (23.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 366 (8.96%) Embedded Engineer
6 338 (8.27%) Lead
7 318 (7.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 244 (5.97%) Senior Developer
9 238 (5.83%) Software Developer
10 230 (5.63%) Java Engineer
11 212 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
12 173 (4.24%) Python Engineer
13 165 (4.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 146 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
15 145 (3.55%) Python Developer
16 144 (3.53%) Senior Embedded Engineer
17 140 (3.43%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 134 (3.28%) Architect
19 133 (3.26%) C++ Software Engineer
20 127 (3.11%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 915 (22.40%) .NET
2 890 (21.79%) React
3 415 (10.16%) CSS
4 382 (9.35%) .NET Core
5 362 (8.86%) Node.js
6 342 (8.37%) AngularJS
7 279 (6.83%) RESTful
8 258 (6.32%) HTML
9 215 (5.26%) Leaflet
9 215 (5.26%) OpenLayers
9 215 (5.26%) PostGIS
10 210 (5.14%) gRPC
11 201 (4.92%) Protocol Buffers
12 197 (4.82%) Pandas
13 181 (4.43%) NumPy
14 179 (4.38%) ASP.NET
15 175 (4.28%) Vue
16 169 (4.14%) Kafka
17 168 (4.11%) SciPy
18 163 (3.99%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 303 (7.42%) Fixed Income
2 259 (6.34%) Derivative
3 255 (6.24%) Equities
4 251 (6.14%) Hedge funds
5 227 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 186 (4.55%) Algorithms
7 182 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
8 157 (3.84%) Client/Server
9 140 (3.43%) Data Structures
10 109 (2.67%) Product Ownership
11 108 (2.64%) Cloud Native
12 92 (2.25%) IoT
13 90 (2.20%) Onboarding
14 84 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
15 79 (1.93%) Virtual Team
16 73 (1.79%) Mobile App
17 68 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
18 62 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
19 54 (1.32%) Private Cloud
20 52 (1.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 553 (13.54%) Linux
2 181 (4.43%) Windows
3 125 (3.06%) Embedded Linux
4 91 (2.23%) Android
5 87 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 79 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.73%) Unix
8 26 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
9 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.42%) CentOS
12 11 (0.27%) Debian
13 9 (0.22%) Windows Server
14 6 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
15 5 (0.12%) VxWorks
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.098%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.049%) VMS
17 2 (0.049%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,773 (43.40%) Agile
2 934 (22.86%) DevOps
3 737 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
4 554 (13.56%) Computer Science
5 540 (13.22%) Full Stack Development
6 521 (12.75%) CI/CD
7 505 (12.36%) Mentoring
8 439 (10.75%) Microservices
9 354 (8.67%) Actionable Insight
10 346 (8.47%) TDD
11 315 (7.71%) Web Development
12 310 (7.59%) Continuous Integration
13 307 (7.52%) Asset Management
14 306 (7.49%) SDLC
15 286 (7.00%) Test Automation
16 266 (6.51%) Investment Management
17 265 (6.49%) Coaching
18 263 (6.44%) Scrum
19 253 (6.19%) Design Patterns
20 252 (6.17%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,468 (35.94%) Python
2 1,105 (27.05%) JavaScript
3 1,003 (24.55%) Java
4 997 (24.41%) C#
5 646 (15.81%) TypeScript
6 609 (14.91%) SQL
7 536 (13.12%) C
8 394 (9.65%) C++
9 179 (4.38%) Embedded C
10 173 (4.24%) Go
11 166 (4.06%) Bash
12 163 (3.99%) PHP
13 151 (3.70%) Kotlin
14 127 (3.11%) Ruby
15 100 (2.45%) Scala
16 89 (2.18%) Rust
17 69 (1.69%) T-SQL
18 54 (1.32%) R
19 43 (1.05%) Perl
20 37 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 714 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 650 (15.91%) Degree
3 476 (11.65%) SC Cleared
4 227 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 121 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 95 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 35 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 33 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 29 (0.71%) PhD
10 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.32%) HNC
12 12 (0.29%) HND
13 8 (0.20%) MCSE
14 7 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.17%) OCP
14 7 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.15%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.12%) CCIE
16 5 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (4.28%) QA
2 61 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 58 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 24 (0.59%) MISRA
5 23 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
6 13 (0.32%) NCSC
7 10 (0.24%) Def Stans
8 9 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.22%) WCAG
9 7 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.15%) ISO 9000
11 5 (0.12%) IEC 61508
12 4 (0.098%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 4 (0.098%) ISO 13485
12 4 (0.098%) MISRA C
12 4 (0.098%) PMO
13 3 (0.073%) GDPR
13 3 (0.073%) NIST
14 2 (0.049%) NIST 800
System Software
1 442 (10.82%) Docker
2 144 (3.53%) Firmware
3 64 (1.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 17 (0.42%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.27%) IAG
6 4 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.073%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.049%) OpenSIPS
8 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.024%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 396 (9.69%) Kubernetes
2 259 (6.34%) Terraform
3 128 (3.13%) Ansible
4 26 (0.64%) Grafana
4 26 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 16 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (0.12%) Kibana
7 4 (0.098%) Packer
7 4 (0.098%) Puppet
8 3 (0.073%) Consul
8 3 (0.073%) Istio
8 3 (0.073%) logstash
8 3 (0.073%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.073%) vRealize
8 3 (0.073%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.049%) Argo
9 2 (0.049%) Nessus
9 2 (0.049%) SCCM
9 2 (0.049%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 308 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.26%) ESRI
3 118 (2.89%) Google
4 87 (2.13%) Oracle
5 40 (0.98%) Dell
6 38 (0.93%) Bloomberg
7 36 (0.88%) Xamarin
8 29 (0.71%) Micro Focus
8 29 (0.71%) SAP
9 26 (0.64%) IBM
10 24 (0.59%) Adobe
11 20 (0.49%) Xilinx
12 17 (0.42%) Twitter
13 14 (0.34%) NVIDIA
14 13 (0.32%) Databricks
15 12 (0.29%) DevExpress
16 11 (0.27%) Siemens
17 10 (0.24%) EMC
18 9 (0.22%) Sage
18 9 (0.22%) Salesforce