Senior Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 209 136
Rank change year-on-year +109 -73 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 977 688 2,030
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.89% 1.67% 2.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.01% 1.74% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 655 527 587
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,230 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +7.01% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,375 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £98,513
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,448 39,583 66,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.98% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,900 28,176 41,784
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Senior Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Software Engineer 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 remote work options featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 977 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 542 (55.48%) Agile
3 511 (52.30%) AWS
4 461 (47.19%) Python
5 404 (41.35%) Azure
6 403 (41.25%) JavaScript
7 362 (37.05%) .NET
8 355 (36.34%) React
9 297 (30.40%) DevOps
10 294 (30.09%) C#
11 290 (29.68%) Security Cleared
12 266 (27.23%) PostgreSQL
13 243 (24.87%) SC Cleared
14 231 (23.64%) .NET Core
15 221 (22.62%) Web Development
16 218 (22.31%) Actionable Insight
17 214 (21.90%) GeoServer
17 214 (21.90%) OpenLayers
17 214 (21.90%) QGIS
17 214 (21.90%) PostGIS
17 214 (21.90%) Leaflet
17 214 (21.90%) GIS
17 214 (21.90%) ESRI
17 214 (21.90%) ArcGIS
18 211 (21.60%) CSS
19 195 (19.96%) TypeScript
20 185 (18.94%) SQL
21 182 (18.63%) Linux
22 181 (18.53%) Java
23 173 (17.71%) Finance

Senior Software Engineer 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
1 214 (21.90%) ArcGIS
1 214 (21.90%) GeoServer
2 72 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (6.45%) Apache
4 10 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.10%) Endur
1 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 511 (52.30%) AWS
2 404 (41.35%) Azure
3 90 (9.21%) GCP
4 60 (6.14%) dbt
5 56 (5.73%) Snowflake
6 43 (4.40%) SaaS
7 29 (2.97%) Serverless
8 21 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.64%) GitHub
10 11 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (0.72%) Azure API Management
11 7 (0.72%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (0.72%) Azure Functions
11 7 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (0.61%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.41%) SonarCloud
14 3 (0.31%) Amazon Cognito
14 3 (0.31%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.46%) Wireless
2 22 (2.25%) Ethernet
3 19 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.84%) RS-232
5 14 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (1.33%) Modbus
7 10 (1.02%) Network Security
8 7 (0.72%) HTTP
9 5 (0.51%) Internet
10 4 (0.41%) Profibus
11 2 (0.20%) 5G
11 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.20%) WAN
12 1 (0.10%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (27.23%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (21.90%) GIS
2 214 (21.90%) QGIS
3 61 (6.24%) MySQL
4 60 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
4 60 (6.14%) Apache Arrow
4 60 (6.14%) Apache Ignite
4 60 (6.14%) Dremio
5 57 (5.83%) Data Lake
6 43 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 40 (4.09%) MongoDB
8 33 (3.38%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.33%) Redis
11 11 (1.13%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.82%) SQLite
13 6 (0.61%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (4.30%) Git
2 26 (2.66%) JIRA
3 24 (2.46%) GitLab
4 20 (2.05%) Subversion
5 18 (1.84%) Visual Studio
6 16 (1.64%) CMake
7 11 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.51%) Selenium
9 5 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.31%) Maven
11 3 (0.31%) Postman
12 2 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.20%) JUnit
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.10%) PHPUnit
13 1 (0.10%) Spinnaker
General
1 173 (17.71%) Finance
2 114 (11.67%) Front Office
3 66 (6.76%) Banking
4 61 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (6.14%) Investment Banking
6 49 (5.02%) Manufacturing
6 49 (5.02%) Social Skills
7 44 (4.50%) Back Office
8 36 (3.68%) Public Sector
9 29 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (2.46%) Games
10 24 (2.46%) Military
11 19 (1.94%) Electronics
12 17 (1.74%) Tech for Good
13 16 (1.64%) Retail
14 14 (1.43%) Automotive
15 13 (1.33%) Advertising
16 12 (1.23%) Health Technology
17 11 (1.13%) Legal
18 7 (0.72%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (37.05%) .NET
2 355 (36.34%) React
3 231 (23.64%) .NET Core
4 214 (21.90%) Leaflet
4 214 (21.90%) OpenLayers
4 214 (21.90%) PostGIS
5 211 (21.60%) CSS
6 118 (12.08%) AngularJS
7 98 (10.03%) Vue
8 89 (9.11%) ASP.NET
9 74 (7.57%) gRPC
9 74 (7.57%) Pandas
10 72 (7.37%) Protocol Buffers
11 69 (7.06%) RESTful
12 62 (6.35%) NumPy
13 60 (6.14%) SciPy
14 56 (5.73%) Django
15 54 (5.53%) ASP.NET Core
16 48 (4.91%) HTML
17 47 (4.81%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 118 (12.08%) Derivative
1 118 (12.08%) Equities
2 116 (11.87%) Fixed Income
2 116 (11.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 103 (10.54%) Hedge funds
4 33 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (2.46%) Pricing Data
6 22 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.05%) Device Driver
9 18 (1.84%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.43%) Client/Server
10 14 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.92%) IoT
11 9 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 9 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.82%) Hackathon
13 7 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
13 7 (0.72%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 182 (18.63%) Linux
2 66 (6.76%) Embedded Linux
3 64 (6.55%) Windows
4 48 (4.91%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.64%) Android
6 12 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.92%) Unix
8 8 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
8 8 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.51%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 977 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 542 (55.48%) Agile
3 297 (30.40%) DevOps
4 221 (22.62%) Web Development
5 218 (22.31%) Actionable Insight
6 119 (12.18%) Asset Management
7 108 (11.05%) Microservices
8 106 (10.85%) Investment Management
9 90 (9.21%) Mentoring
10 88 (9.01%) TDD
11 72 (7.37%) Computer Science
12 68 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (6.76%) Test Automation
14 58 (5.94%) Full Stack Development
15 57 (5.83%) CI/CD
16 54 (5.53%) Coaching
17 51 (5.22%) Cybersecurity
18 45 (4.61%) Multithreading
19 43 (4.40%) BDD
19 43 (4.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 461 (47.19%) Python
2 403 (41.25%) JavaScript
3 294 (30.09%) C#
4 195 (19.96%) TypeScript
5 185 (18.94%) SQL
6 181 (18.53%) Java
7 119 (12.18%) C++
8 104 (10.64%) C
9 55 (5.63%) Embedded C
10 34 (3.48%) Bash
11 28 (2.87%) Rust
12 20 (2.05%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.84%) Go
14 13 (1.33%) PHP
14 13 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.23%) Scala
16 11 (1.13%) Ruby
17 8 (0.82%) Ada
18 7 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 290 (29.68%) Security Cleared
2 243 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.98%) Degree
4 37 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.41%) HND
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 8 (0.82%) QA
3 6 (0.61%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (0.41%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.20%) EMIR
5 2 (0.20%) MiFID
5 2 (0.20%) PMO
5 2 (0.20%) SEPA
5 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 63 (6.45%) Docker
2 21 (2.15%) Firmware
3 6 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.87%) Terraform
3 2 (0.20%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.10%) Argo
4 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 214 (21.90%) ESRI
2 20 (2.05%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.23%) DevExpress
4 9 (0.92%) Google
4 9 (0.92%) Xamarin
5 8 (0.82%) Dell
6 5 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.41%) Apple
7 4 (0.41%) QNX
8 2 (0.20%) Databricks
8 2 (0.20%) Finsemble
8 2 (0.20%) IFS
8 2 (0.20%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.10%) Coverity
9 1 (0.10%) Klocwork
9 1 (0.10%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.10%) SAP
9 1 (0.10%) Thales