Software Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 136 140
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 828 1,096 1,966
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.46% 2.65% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% 2.76% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 728 965 1,323
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £91,934 £96,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 32,351 39,695 67,533
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 96.00% 97.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,813 28,246 42,069
10th Percentile £33,036 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,318 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +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%

Software Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
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 Developer.

Software Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Software Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 442 (53.38%) C#
2 383 (46.26%) .NET
3 292 (35.27%) Agile
4 285 (34.42%) JavaScript
5 249 (30.07%) Software Engineering
6 231 (27.90%) Social Skills
7 215 (25.97%) SQL
8 214 (25.85%) Azure
9 205 (24.76%) AWS
10 181 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
11 180 (21.74%) DevOps
12 175 (21.14%) Java
13 165 (19.93%) Python
14 162 (19.57%) SQL Server
15 151 (18.24%) Finance
16 140 (16.91%) TypeScript
17 139 (16.79%) Degree
18 131 (15.82%) HTML
19 120 (14.49%) Full Stack Development
20 119 (14.37%) .NET Core
21 118 (14.25%) CSS
22 112 (13.53%) Computer Science
23 110 (13.29%) React
24 109 (13.16%) ASP.NET
25 108 (13.04%) .NET Framework
26 107 (12.92%) Microservices
27 100 (12.08%) MVC
28 98 (11.84%) Microsoft
29 92 (11.11%) AngularJS
29 92 (11.11%) Docker

Software Developer 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 69 (8.33%) Apache
2 59 (7.13%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.57%) CMS
3 13 (1.57%) Mendix
4 5 (0.60%) Drupal
4 5 (0.60%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.48%) IIS
5 4 (0.48%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.24%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.69%) Simulink
2 1 (0.12%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Shopify
2 2 (0.24%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Endur
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 214 (25.85%) Azure
2 205 (24.76%) AWS
3 87 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
4 76 (9.18%) GCP
5 59 (7.13%) dbt
6 49 (5.92%) SaaS
7 48 (5.80%) Snowflake
8 39 (4.71%) GitHub
8 39 (4.71%) Serverless
9 21 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (2.17%) Power Platform
11 15 (1.81%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (0.85%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.85%) Pulumi
15 6 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (0.72%) Azure Storage
15 6 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.45%) Internet
2 7 (0.85%) Network Security
2 7 (0.85%) Wireless
3 5 (0.60%) 4G
3 5 (0.60%) 5G
3 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.12%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 59 (7.13%) Amazon Athena
2 59 (7.13%) Apache Arrow
2 59 (7.13%) Apache Ignite
2 59 (7.13%) Dremio
3 58 (7.00%) MySQL
4 44 (5.31%) Data Lake
5 22 (2.66%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (1.93%) DynamoDB
9 16 (1.93%) Redis
10 11 (1.33%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.72%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.60%) Power BI
14 3 (0.36%) Couchbase
14 3 (0.36%) DB2
Development Applications
1 85 (10.27%) Git
2 47 (5.68%) Visual Studio
3 29 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.29%) JIRA
5 14 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (1.45%) Selenium
6 12 (1.45%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.85%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.85%) CMake
9 7 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.85%) Jasmine
9 7 (0.85%) NUnit
10 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.60%) Bugzilla
10 5 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.60%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.48%) GCC
11 4 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 231 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 151 (18.24%) Finance
3 66 (7.97%) Banking
4 60 (7.25%) Front Office
4 60 (7.25%) Investment Banking
5 38 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.74%) Retail
7 30 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.66%) Marketing
10 18 (2.17%) Automotive
10 18 (2.17%) Electronics
10 18 (2.17%) Tech for Good
11 14 (1.69%) Law
12 13 (1.57%) Publishing
13 11 (1.33%) Fire and Rescue
13 11 (1.33%) Health Technology
13 11 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.33%) Police
14 10 (1.21%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (46.26%) .NET
2 131 (15.82%) HTML
3 119 (14.37%) .NET Core
4 118 (14.25%) CSS
5 110 (13.29%) React
6 109 (13.16%) ASP.NET
7 108 (13.04%) .NET Framework
8 92 (11.11%) AngularJS
9 69 (8.33%) Entity Framework
9 69 (8.33%) RESTful
10 63 (7.61%) Node.js
11 59 (7.13%) gRPC
11 59 (7.13%) NumPy
11 59 (7.13%) Pandas
11 59 (7.13%) Protocol Buffers
11 59 (7.13%) SciPy
12 39 (4.71%) ASP.NET Web API
13 38 (4.59%) ASP.NET MVC
14 36 (4.35%) Blazor
15 33 (3.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.00%) Fixed Income
2 55 (6.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 52 (6.28%) Derivative
3 52 (6.28%) Equities
3 52 (6.28%) Hedge funds
4 35 (4.23%) Mobile App
5 33 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
6 31 (3.74%) IoT
7 27 (3.26%) Algorithms
7 27 (3.26%) Client/Server
8 22 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.81%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.21%) CUDA
12 10 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.21%) Podcast
13 8 (0.97%) Cloud Native
13 8 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
14 7 (0.85%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.25%) Windows
2 59 (7.13%) Linux
3 39 (4.71%) Apple iOS
4 29 (3.50%) Android
5 14 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
5 14 (1.69%) Unix
6 7 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.60%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (0.24%) AIX
8 2 (0.24%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (35.27%) Agile
2 249 (30.07%) Software Engineering
3 181 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
4 180 (21.74%) DevOps
5 120 (14.49%) Full Stack Development
6 112 (13.53%) Computer Science
7 107 (12.92%) Microservices
8 100 (12.08%) MVC
9 77 (9.30%) CI/CD
10 68 (8.21%) Clean Code
10 68 (8.21%) Mentoring
10 68 (8.21%) Test Automation
11 66 (7.97%) Code Quality
11 66 (7.97%) SDLC
12 65 (7.85%) Asset Management
13 63 (7.61%) TDD
14 62 (7.49%) Unit Testing
15 56 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (6.76%) Line Management
16 55 (6.64%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 442 (53.38%) C#
2 285 (34.42%) JavaScript
3 215 (25.97%) SQL
4 175 (21.14%) Java
5 165 (19.93%) Python
6 140 (16.91%) TypeScript
7 61 (7.37%) C
8 53 (6.40%) PHP
9 48 (5.80%) C++
10 39 (4.71%) VB.NET
11 35 (4.23%) Ruby
12 17 (2.05%) Go
13 12 (1.45%) PowerShell
14 11 (1.33%) Embedded C
15 10 (1.21%) Bicep
15 10 (1.21%) Kotlin
16 9 (1.09%) Scala
17 8 (0.97%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.85%) Perl
19 6 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 139 (16.79%) Degree
2 58 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 17 (2.05%) DBS Check
5 15 (1.81%) PhD
6 14 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.97%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.48%) CIPD
10 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.31%) QA
2 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.24%) WCAG
4 1 (0.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 92 (11.11%) Docker
2 8 (0.97%) Firmware
3 7 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.05%) Terraform
3 10 (1.21%) Ansible
4 7 (0.85%) Kibana
4 7 (0.85%) MIIS
5 5 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (0.48%) Grafana
6 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.14%) Google
3 20 (2.42%) Xamarin
4 14 (1.69%) Xilinx
5 13 (1.57%) Oracle
6 10 (1.21%) Facebook
7 9 (1.09%) NVIDIA
8 5 (0.60%) HP
8 5 (0.60%) New Relic
8 5 (0.60%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.60%) Twitter
9 4 (0.48%) Databricks
9 4 (0.48%) Peregrine
9 4 (0.48%) Splunk
10 3 (0.36%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.36%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.24%) Northgate
11 2 (0.24%) QNX
11 2 (0.24%) SAP
12 1 (0.12%) Zend