Software Manager Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Manager salary for remote or hybrid work is £83,577 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 397 499
Rank change year-on-year +30 +102 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Manager 53 195 161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.60% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 43 161 117
10th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £54,550
25th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.58% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £130,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +26.92% -13.33% -6.25%

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 14,010 32,437 40,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 96.00% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,891 24,889 28,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,626
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,411
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 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Software Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Software Manager
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Manager salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Manager
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Software Manager over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Software Manager salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Software 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 Manager in the job title.

1 47 (88.68%) Software Engineering
2 36 (67.92%) Agile
3 21 (39.62%) C#
4 19 (35.85%) .NET
5 17 (32.08%) JavaScript
6 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
6 15 (28.30%) Finance
6 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
7 14 (26.42%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (24.53%) DevOps
8 13 (24.53%) React
9 12 (22.64%) SDLC
9 12 (22.64%) Coaching
9 12 (22.64%) Azure
9 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
10 11 (20.75%) Line Management
10 11 (20.75%) AngularJS
11 10 (18.87%) People Management
11 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (18.87%) Banking
11 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
12 9 (16.98%) Project Delivery
12 9 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
12 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (16.98%) Scrum
12 9 (16.98%) SaaS
12 9 (16.98%) Performance Management
13 8 (15.09%) Java
13 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.55%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.89%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (16.98%) SaaS
3 7 (13.21%) AWS
4 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.89%) GCP
7 1 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) JIRA
2 4 (7.55%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 15 (28.30%) Finance
2 10 (18.87%) Banking
2 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Electronics
4 3 (5.66%) Retail
4 3 (5.66%) Retail Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.85%) .NET
2 13 (24.53%) React
3 11 (20.75%) AngularJS
4 8 (15.09%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.55%) Node.js
6 3 (5.66%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.66%) J2EE
6 3 (5.66%) JSR 170
6 3 (5.66%) OSGi
7 2 (3.77%) Next.js
8 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.89%) CSS
8 1 (1.89%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (1.89%) HTML
8 1 (1.89%) MACH
8 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.89%) RESTful
8 1 (1.89%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.32%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (11.32%) Virtual Team
3 5 (9.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (88.68%) Software Engineering
2 36 (67.92%) Agile
3 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
4 14 (26.42%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (24.53%) DevOps
6 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
6 12 (22.64%) Coaching
6 12 (22.64%) SDLC
7 11 (20.75%) Line Management
8 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (18.87%) People Management
9 9 (16.98%) Performance Management
9 9 (16.98%) Project Delivery
9 9 (16.98%) Roadmaps
9 9 (16.98%) Scrum
9 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (13.21%) ITIL
10 7 (13.21%) Microservices
10 7 (13.21%) Risk Management
10 7 (13.21%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) C#
2 17 (32.08%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.09%) Java
4 7 (13.21%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.43%) Python
6 4 (7.55%) C++
6 4 (7.55%) PHP
7 3 (5.66%) C
7 3 (5.66%) Scala
8 2 (3.77%) Go
9 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (7.55%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) ISO 13485
3 2 (3.77%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Grafana
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) IBM
3 4 (7.55%) Oracle
4 3 (5.66%) Adobe
5 2 (3.77%) Cisco
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow