Developer/Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer/Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 346 484
Rank change year-on-year +72 +138 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 68 119 135
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.52% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 108 112
10th Percentile £538 £438 -
25th Percentile £644 £494 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £613 £573
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +6.99% -11.92%
75th Percentile £888 £738 £688
90th Percentile - £750 £750
UK median daily rate £725 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +20.83% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,614 23,092 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,191 16,381 30,896
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 531 571
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +37.60% +64.39%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.23 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Developer/Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer/Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Developer/Software Engineer.

Developer/Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer/Software Engineer over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Developer/Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Developer/Software Engineer contract 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 contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Developer/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (98.53%) Software Engineering
2 64 (94.12%) JavaScript
2 64 (94.12%) AWS
2 64 (94.12%) TypeScript
2 64 (94.12%) GCP
3 62 (91.18%) Python
3 62 (91.18%) Fixed Income
3 62 (91.18%) Front Office
3 62 (91.18%) Finance
3 62 (91.18%) Asset Management
4 56 (82.35%) Agile
4 56 (82.35%) Protocol Buffers
4 56 (82.35%) gRPC
4 56 (82.35%) Apache Airflow
5 50 (73.53%) Apache Ignite
5 50 (73.53%) Apache
6 47 (69.12%) Pandas
7 42 (61.76%) Java
7 42 (61.76%) Investment Management
8 41 (60.29%) SciPy
8 41 (60.29%) NumPy
8 41 (60.29%) Dremio
8 41 (60.29%) Amazon Athena
8 41 (60.29%) dbt
8 41 (60.29%) Apache Arrow
9 38 (55.88%) Derivative
9 38 (55.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 38 (55.88%) Equities
10 32 (47.06%) Banking
10 32 (47.06%) Investment Banking

Developer/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 56 (82.35%) Apache Airflow
2 50 (73.53%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 64 (94.12%) AWS
1 64 (94.12%) GCP
2 41 (60.29%) dbt
3 28 (41.18%) Snowflake
4 6 (8.82%) Azure
5 2 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (73.53%) Apache Ignite
2 41 (60.29%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (60.29%) Apache Arrow
2 41 (60.29%) Dremio
3 28 (41.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Git
1 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.47%) fastlane
2 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.47%) Selenium
General
1 62 (91.18%) Finance
1 62 (91.18%) Front Office
2 32 (47.06%) Banking
2 32 (47.06%) Investment Banking
3 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.47%) Retail
4 1 (1.47%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (82.35%) gRPC
1 56 (82.35%) Protocol Buffers
2 47 (69.12%) Pandas
3 41 (60.29%) NumPy
3 41 (60.29%) SciPy
4 32 (47.06%) React
5 25 (36.76%) Node.js
6 24 (35.29%) Redux
7 15 (22.06%) AngularJS
7 15 (22.06%) Vue
8 12 (17.65%) Material-UI
9 6 (8.82%) GraphQL
10 1 (1.47%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (1.47%) Apache Camel
10 1 (1.47%) Bazel
10 1 (1.47%) REST
10 1 (1.47%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 62 (91.18%) Fixed Income
2 38 (55.88%) Derivative
2 38 (55.88%) Equities
2 38 (55.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 32 (47.06%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (98.53%) Software Engineering
2 62 (91.18%) Asset Management
3 56 (82.35%) Agile
4 42 (61.76%) Investment Management
5 28 (41.18%) Line Management
6 24 (35.29%) Fintech
6 24 (35.29%) Performance Attribution
7 16 (23.53%) Analytics
8 15 (22.06%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (16.18%) Front End Development
10 9 (13.24%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 9 (13.24%) User Experience
11 6 (8.82%) Risk Analytics
12 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
13 4 (5.88%) Data Architecture
13 4 (5.88%) Product Management
14 3 (4.41%) Test Automation
15 2 (2.94%) Continuous Integration
15 2 (2.94%) Software Testing
15 2 (2.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (94.12%) JavaScript
1 64 (94.12%) TypeScript
2 62 (91.18%) Python
3 42 (61.76%) Java
4 6 (8.82%) Kotlin
5 5 (7.35%) Ruby
6 4 (5.88%) Scala
7 2 (2.94%) Bash
7 2 (2.94%) SQL
8 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (2.94%) zsh
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (1.47%) IBM
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.47%) Temenos