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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 1,825 4,090 5,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.19% 12.08% 13.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.09% 13.19% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,486 3,213 4,016
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £65,000 £70,588
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -7.92% +4.57%
75th Percentile £108,750 £86,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £113,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £66,206 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -10.71% -

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 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 2 May 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
1 237 (12.99%) Apache Airflow
2 188 (10.30%) Apache
3 97 (5.32%) Apache Spark
4 35 (1.92%) Confluence
5 23 (1.26%) Jupyter
6 15 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.60%) CMS
8 6 (0.33%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.22%) IIS
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.16%) CICS
12 2 (0.11%) Kinematics
12 2 (0.11%) Solana
12 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.055%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.055%) Mendix
13 1 (0.055%) Mule
13 1 (0.055%) nginx
13 1 (0.055%) Strapi
Applications
1 53 (2.90%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.16%) Trello
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.11%) Simulink
5 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.49%) Shopify
3 5 (0.27%) Magento
3 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.055%) BASE24
6 1 (0.055%) Endur
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.055%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 764 (41.86%) AWS
2 467 (25.59%) Azure
3 369 (20.22%) GCP
4 232 (12.71%) dbt
5 188 (10.30%) Serverless
6 165 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
7 148 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
8 112 (6.14%) GitHub
9 110 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
10 100 (5.48%) SaaS
11 96 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 94 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
13 93 (5.10%) Snowflake
14 83 (4.55%) OpenShift
15 78 (4.27%) Amazon S3
16 60 (3.29%) Power Platform
17 45 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
18 39 (2.14%) Dagster
19 31 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.48%) Wireless
2 23 (1.26%) HTTP
3 22 (1.21%) Bluetooth
4 14 (0.77%) Network Security
5 11 (0.60%) Modbus
6 10 (0.55%) RS-232
6 10 (0.55%) WAN
6 10 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.49%) ZigBee
8 8 (0.44%) 5G
8 8 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.38%) Profibus
9 7 (0.38%) RS-485
10 6 (0.33%) Internet
10 6 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
11 5 (0.27%) BGP
11 5 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.27%) MPLS
11 5 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (13.04%) Amazon Athena
2 224 (12.27%) Apache Iceberg
2 224 (12.27%) Dremio
3 217 (11.89%) Apache Arrow
4 165 (9.04%) Apache Ignite
5 145 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
6 83 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 82 (4.49%) Data Lake
8 76 (4.16%) NoSQL
9 68 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
10 66 (3.62%) MySQL
11 52 (2.85%) MongoDB
12 42 (2.30%) Relational Database
13 33 (1.81%) Big Data
14 31 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
14 31 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (0.99%) Power BI
17 15 (0.82%) Redis
18 13 (0.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 208 (11.40%) Git
2 96 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 73 (4.00%) Artifactory
4 63 (3.45%) JIRA
5 55 (3.01%) GitLab
6 43 (2.36%) SonarQube
7 37 (2.03%) Visual Studio
8 36 (1.97%) Maven
9 29 (1.59%) JUnit
10 23 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.26%) webpack
11 19 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (0.88%) Gradle
13 14 (0.77%) IntelliJ
13 14 (0.77%) Mockito
14 11 (0.60%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.60%) Moq
15 10 (0.55%) SpecFlow
16 9 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 726 (39.78%) Finance
2 412 (22.58%) Banking
3 311 (17.04%) Front Office
4 308 (16.88%) Social Skills
5 157 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 131 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
7 114 (6.25%) Games
8 86 (4.71%) Investment Banking
9 64 (3.51%) Retail
10 52 (2.85%) Electronics
11 50 (2.74%) Law
12 44 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.36%) Public Sector
14 41 (2.25%) Tech for Good
15 34 (1.86%) Advertising
15 34 (1.86%) Legal
16 26 (1.42%) Automotive
16 26 (1.42%) Marketing
17 23 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
18 21 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 930 (50.96%) Software Engineer
2 559 (30.63%) Senior
3 373 (20.44%) Developer
4 339 (18.58%) Senior Software Engineer
5 261 (14.30%) AWS Engineer
6 219 (12.00%) Python Engineer
7 195 (10.68%) Lead
8 158 (8.66%) AWS Software Engineer
9 141 (7.73%) Java Engineer
10 139 (7.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 133 (7.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 118 (6.47%) Python Software Engineer
13 112 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
14 111 (6.08%) AWS DevOps
15 105 (5.75%) Software Developer
16 99 (5.42%) Data Engineer
17 97 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 93 (5.10%) AWS Developer
19 91 (4.99%) Senior Developer
20 76 (4.16%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (21.97%) React
2 332 (18.19%) .NET
3 282 (15.45%) Node.js
4 193 (10.58%) AngularJS
5 187 (10.25%) Pandas
6 180 (9.86%) Kafka
7 144 (7.89%) NumPy
8 137 (7.51%) HTML
9 135 (7.40%) SciPy
10 129 (7.07%) PySpark
10 129 (7.07%) Spring
11 107 (5.86%) Vue
12 101 (5.53%) Spring Boot
13 100 (5.48%) CSS
13 100 (5.48%) Redux
14 96 (5.26%) gRPC
15 95 (5.21%) .NET Core
15 95 (5.21%) Protocol Buffers
16 90 (4.93%) RESTful
17 76 (4.16%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 200 (10.96%) Fixed Income
2 137 (7.51%) Algorithms
3 134 (7.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 127 (6.96%) Equities
5 102 (5.59%) Hedge funds
6 96 (5.26%) Derivative
7 90 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
8 88 (4.82%) Product Ownership
9 80 (4.38%) Cloud Native
10 77 (4.22%) Mobile App
11 72 (3.95%) Cyberattack
12 69 (3.78%) Management Information System
13 50 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (2.41%) Public Cloud
15 41 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
16 36 (1.97%) Pricing Data
17 31 (1.70%) Data Structures
18 30 (1.64%) IoT
19 27 (1.48%) Private Cloud
20 26 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 176 (9.64%) Linux
2 83 (4.55%) Android
3 39 (2.14%) Apple iOS
4 32 (1.75%) Windows
5 30 (1.64%) Unix
6 12 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
7 11 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
8 10 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (0.49%) zOS
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.11%) VMS
13 1 (0.055%) CentOS
13 1 (0.055%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (52.05%) Agile
2 544 (29.81%) DevOps
3 485 (26.58%) CI/CD
4 360 (19.73%) Mentoring
5 326 (17.86%) Microservices
6 298 (16.33%) Asset Management
7 273 (14.96%) Fintech
8 258 (14.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 257 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
10 247 (13.53%) Computer Science
11 219 (12.00%) TDD
12 197 (10.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 196 (10.74%) Containerisation
14 189 (10.36%) Mathematics
15 178 (9.75%) Test Automation
16 169 (9.26%) Line Management
17 162 (8.88%) SDLC
18 154 (8.44%) Roadmaps
19 152 (8.33%) Investment Management
20 145 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 748 (40.99%) Python
2 658 (36.05%) JavaScript
3 630 (34.52%) Java
4 420 (23.01%) TypeScript
5 376 (20.60%) C#
6 323 (17.70%) SQL
7 233 (12.77%) C++
8 199 (10.90%) Go
9 124 (6.79%) C
10 79 (4.33%) PHP
11 76 (4.16%) Rust
12 42 (2.30%) Kotlin
13 37 (2.03%) Scala
14 35 (1.92%) Bash
15 33 (1.81%) Ruby
16 21 (1.15%) PowerShell
17 20 (1.10%) Swift
18 19 (1.04%) Embedded C
19 14 (0.77%) Shell Script
20 13 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 421 (23.07%) Degree
2 182 (9.97%) Security Cleared
3 137 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 87 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 81 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 77 (4.22%) Master's Degree
7 43 (2.36%) PhD
8 27 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.16%) HNC
14 3 (0.16%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.11%) CCA
15 2 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.055%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.58%) QA
2 53 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.93%) GDPR
4 14 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 10 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.44%) NCSC
7 8 (0.44%) PMO
8 6 (0.33%) CDISC
8 6 (0.33%) IEC 61131
8 6 (0.33%) NIST
8 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.27%) SLA
10 4 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.22%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.22%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.16%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 391 (21.42%) Docker
2 22 (1.21%) Firmware
3 13 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.16%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 430 (23.56%) Kubernetes
2 262 (14.36%) Terraform
3 82 (4.49%) Ansible
4 26 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.15%) Grafana
6 13 (0.71%) Istio
7 7 (0.38%) Argo
7 7 (0.38%) CA Endevor
8 6 (0.33%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.16%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) MAINVIEW
10 2 (0.11%) Packer
10 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.055%) CA Service Virtualization
11 1 (0.055%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.055%) Kibana
11 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 162 (8.88%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.19%) Google
3 46 (2.52%) IBM
4 36 (1.97%) PayPal
5 29 (1.59%) Oracle
6 25 (1.37%) Apple
7 21 (1.15%) Databricks
8 16 (0.88%) New Relic
8 16 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 10 (0.55%) Siemens
10 9 (0.49%) Adobe
11 8 (0.44%) Telerik
12 7 (0.38%) Cisco
13 6 (0.33%) Sawtooth Software
13 6 (0.33%) VMware
14 5 (0.27%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.27%) Intel
14 5 (0.27%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.27%) Xilinx
15 4 (0.22%) F5