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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 13 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 2,973 8,716 7,396
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.06% 15.83% 14.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.69% 16.47% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,083 5,140 4,979
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £113,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

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 21,722 52,931 48,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.40% 96.16% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,948 36,786 36,186
10th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £35,745
25th Percentile £46,306 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,070 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 1 December 2023.

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
1 107 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (3.57%) Apache
3 42 (1.41%) Confluence
4 35 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 29 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.57%) nginx
7 14 (0.47%) CMS
7 14 (0.47%) NServiceBus
8 13 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.30%) Drupal
9 9 (0.30%) WordPress
10 7 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.24%) WinCC
11 6 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 5 (0.17%) Luigi
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
14 3 (0.10%) IIS
14 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.57%) Simulink
2 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.20%) OrCAD
4 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.067%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.067%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.034%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.034%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.034%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.034%) Trello
6 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.13%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.067%) Ripple
4 2 (0.067%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.067%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.034%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.034%) Endur
5 1 (0.034%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 981 (33.00%) AWS
2 707 (23.78%) Azure
3 542 (18.23%) GCP
4 424 (14.26%) Serverless
5 178 (5.99%) SaaS
6 156 (5.25%) OpenShift
7 150 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (3.94%) GitHub
9 71 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (2.39%) dbt
10 56 (1.88%) Power Platform
11 49 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 40 (1.35%) PaaS
14 29 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (0.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 27 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
17 26 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
18 24 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.09%) Internet
2 40 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 36 (1.21%) Wireless
4 27 (0.91%) 5G
4 27 (0.91%) WAN
5 25 (0.84%) Firewall
6 24 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 21 (0.71%) Ethernet
8 19 (0.64%) HTTP
9 13 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
10 11 (0.37%) RS-232
11 10 (0.34%) VoIP
12 9 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.27%) AMQP
13 8 (0.27%) Modbus
14 6 (0.20%) ATM
14 6 (0.20%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.20%) Network Security
14 6 (0.20%) OpenVPN
15 5 (0.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
2 164 (5.52%) SQL Server
3 143 (4.81%) MongoDB
4 129 (4.34%) Relational Database
5 112 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 102 (3.43%) Oracle Database
7 99 (3.33%) MySQL
8 87 (2.93%) Big Data
9 82 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
10 77 (2.59%) RDBMS
11 69 (2.32%) Apache Ignite
12 68 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
13 52 (1.75%) Apache Arrow
13 52 (1.75%) Dremio
14 46 (1.55%) Redis
15 38 (1.28%) DynamoDB
16 29 (0.98%) Hadoop
17 21 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
17 21 (0.71%) Power BI
18 19 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 498 (16.75%) Git
2 167 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 109 (3.67%) JIRA
4 70 (2.35%) Cypress.io
5 68 (2.29%) GitLab
6 50 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 42 (1.41%) Visual Studio
8 40 (1.35%) Maven
9 38 (1.28%) Bitbucket
10 37 (1.24%) Selenium
11 35 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 29 (0.98%) Artifactory
12 29 (0.98%) TeamCity
13 24 (0.81%) JDeveloper
13 24 (0.81%) webpack
14 23 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
15 21 (0.71%) Subversion
16 20 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
17 19 (0.64%) Spinnaker
18 18 (0.61%) CircleCI
General
1 791 (26.61%) Finance
2 551 (18.53%) Social Skills
3 391 (13.15%) Banking
4 279 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 229 (7.70%) Front Office
6 162 (5.45%) Retail
7 159 (5.35%) Police
8 132 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
9 73 (2.46%) Public Sector
10 72 (2.42%) Marketing
11 68 (2.29%) Aerospace
12 60 (2.02%) Investment Banking
13 58 (1.95%) Games
14 52 (1.75%) Manufacturing
15 48 (1.61%) Electronics
16 43 (1.45%) Law
17 42 (1.41%) Legal
18 39 (1.31%) Military
19 37 (1.24%) Automotive
20 36 (1.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,644 (55.30%) Software Engineer
2 691 (23.24%) Senior
3 637 (21.43%) Developer
4 430 (14.46%) Senior Software Engineer
5 352 (11.84%) Lead
6 284 (9.55%) Java Engineer
7 259 (8.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 174 (5.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 137 (4.61%) Full Stack Engineer
10 128 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 116 (3.90%) Python Engineer
12 113 (3.80%) Software Developer
13 111 (3.73%) Python Developer
14 108 (3.63%) Architect
15 107 (3.60%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 105 (3.53%) Python Software Engineer
17 100 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
17 100 (3.36%) Embedded Engineer
18 99 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
18 99 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 797 (26.81%) React
2 554 (18.63%) .NET
3 399 (13.42%) Node.js
4 277 (9.32%) Spring
5 265 (8.91%) HTML
6 256 (8.61%) AngularJS
7 206 (6.93%) CSS
8 158 (5.31%) J2EE
9 152 (5.11%) .NET Framework
10 150 (5.05%) RESTful
11 148 (4.98%) .NET Core
12 147 (4.94%) Ruby on Rails
13 138 (4.64%) Kafka
14 126 (4.24%) REST
15 120 (4.04%) Spring Boot
16 112 (3.77%) ASP.NET
17 94 (3.16%) Redux
18 90 (3.03%) gRPC
19 83 (2.79%) GraphQL
20 79 (2.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 156 (5.25%) Greenfield Project
3 95 (3.20%) Algorithms
4 92 (3.09%) Fixed Income
5 91 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 85 (2.86%) Derivative
7 82 (2.76%) Cloud Native
8 57 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 55 (1.85%) Cyberattack
10 53 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 51 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
12 49 (1.65%) Data Structures
13 44 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 36 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.08%) Hedge funds
15 32 (1.08%) IoT
16 31 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
16 31 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 31 (1.04%) Public Cloud
17 30 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 393 (13.22%) Linux
2 114 (3.83%) Windows
3 69 (2.32%) Android
4 50 (1.68%) Unix
5 41 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
8 14 (0.47%) CentOS
9 12 (0.40%) HPUX
9 12 (0.40%) Solaris
10 11 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.37%) VMS
11 10 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
12 7 (0.24%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.20%) Debian
14 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.17%) Windows Server
14 5 (0.17%) zOS
15 4 (0.13%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.067%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,357 (45.64%) Agile
2 788 (26.51%) DevOps
3 730 (24.55%) Microservices
4 659 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
5 553 (18.60%) Mentoring
6 520 (17.49%) CI/CD
7 461 (15.51%) Containerisation
8 449 (15.10%) Continuous Integration
9 435 (14.63%) Design Patterns
10 430 (14.46%) Actionable Insight
11 412 (13.86%) Full Stack Development
12 351 (11.81%) Unit Testing
13 317 (10.66%) Code Quality
14 315 (10.60%) Computer Science
15 302 (10.16%) Coaching
16 286 (9.62%) Scrum
17 281 (9.45%) SDLC
18 265 (8.91%) Clean Code
19 263 (8.85%) Test Automation
20 232 (7.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,081 (36.36%) Java
2 1,022 (34.38%) Python
3 758 (25.50%) JavaScript
4 706 (23.75%) C#
5 482 (16.21%) SQL
6 467 (15.71%) TypeScript
7 338 (11.37%) C++
8 275 (9.25%) Ruby
9 196 (6.59%) C
10 184 (6.19%) Go
11 147 (4.94%) Bash
12 114 (3.83%) Kotlin
13 89 (2.99%) Perl
14 77 (2.59%) PHP
15 67 (2.25%) PowerShell
16 61 (2.05%) Rust
17 59 (1.98%) Scala
18 51 (1.72%) R
19 41 (1.38%) T-SQL
20 38 (1.28%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 645 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 426 (14.33%) Degree
3 423 (14.23%) SC Cleared
4 163 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 146 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 48 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 26 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 23 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
12 18 (0.61%) OCP
12 18 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
13 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.34%) HND
15 9 (0.30%) PhD
16 6 (0.20%) HNC
16 6 (0.20%) PMP
17 5 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
17 5 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (7.03%) QA
2 33 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.64%) PMO
4 16 (0.54%) WCAG
5 15 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 10 (0.34%) MISRA
6 10 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
7 9 (0.30%) DO-178B
8 7 (0.24%) IEC 61508
9 6 (0.20%) NCSC
10 4 (0.13%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.13%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.10%) ISO 9000
11 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.067%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.067%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.067%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.067%) SLA
13 1 (0.034%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 477 (16.04%) Docker
2 84 (2.83%) Firmware
3 41 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 14 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.34%) Active Directory
6 9 (0.30%) OpenSIPS
6 9 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.10%) Ceph
9 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.034%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.034%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 443 (14.90%) Kubernetes
2 198 (6.66%) Terraform
3 94 (3.16%) Ansible
4 16 (0.54%) Puppet
5 13 (0.44%) Grafana
6 11 (0.37%) Istio
7 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.27%) Functional Safety
8 8 (0.27%) Kibana
9 4 (0.13%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.13%) vRealize
9 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 3 (0.10%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.067%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.067%) SCCM
12 1 (0.034%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.034%) Oozie
12 1 (0.034%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.034%) SCOM
Vendors
1 203 (6.83%) Microsoft
2 178 (5.99%) Google
3 136 (4.57%) Oracle
4 36 (1.21%) Xamarin
5 30 (1.01%) IBM
6 23 (0.77%) Dell
6 23 (0.77%) SAP
7 19 (0.64%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.57%) Apple
8 17 (0.57%) Splunk
9 16 (0.54%) Databricks
10 14 (0.47%) Confluent
11 13 (0.44%) HP
12 12 (0.40%) Sun
12 12 (0.40%) Unisys
13 11 (0.37%) Adobe
13 11 (0.37%) Cadence
14 10 (0.34%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.34%) VMware
15 8 (0.27%) Dynatrace