Software Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 266 318
Rank change year-on-year +183 +52 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 366 206 352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.47% 0.84% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 0.88% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 233
10th Percentile £413 £374 £358
25th Percentile £456 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% +3.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £788 £669 £590
90th Percentile £888 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £510
% change year-on-year +0.48% +2.45% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 11
10th Percentile - £52.39 -
25th Percentile - £56.25 -
Median hourly rate - £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +67.40% +19.66%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £49.75
90th Percentile - £85.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £60.70 £58.59 £48.12
% change year-on-year +3.61% +21.76% +42.58%

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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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
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 Software Developer.

Software Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Software Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Developer hourly rate 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 17 May 2024, Software Developer 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 220 (60.11%) Degree
2 218 (59.56%) Code Quality
3 214 (58.47%) Artificial Intelligence
4 211 (57.65%) PayPal
4 211 (57.65%) Chatbot
4 211 (57.65%) Conversational UI
5 180 (49.18%) JavaScript
6 173 (47.27%) Python
7 171 (46.72%) C#
8 166 (45.36%) Software Engineering
9 158 (43.17%) SQL
10 137 (37.43%) HTML
11 80 (21.86%) Agile
12 64 (17.49%) Java
13 60 (16.39%) AWS
14 54 (14.75%) Azure
15 47 (12.84%) .NET
16 42 (11.48%) TypeScript
17 39 (10.66%) Finance
17 39 (10.66%) CI/CD
18 38 (10.38%) DevOps
19 35 (9.56%) SQL Server
20 33 (9.02%) Front Office
20 33 (9.02%) Microsoft
21 32 (8.74%) Asset Management
21 32 (8.74%) PowerShell
22 31 (8.47%) GCP
23 30 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
24 29 (7.92%) Banking
24 29 (7.92%) Scrum

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 27 (7.38%) Apache
1 27 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.37%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.82%) CMS
4 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 211 (57.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 60 (16.39%) AWS
2 54 (14.75%) Azure
3 31 (8.47%) GCP
4 30 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (7.38%) dbt
6 22 (6.01%) Snowflake
7 10 (2.73%) GitHub
7 10 (2.73%) Serverless
8 7 (1.91%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (1.64%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.64%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.55%) Rekognition
12 2 (0.55%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) 5G
1 1 (0.27%) DHCP
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
1 1 (0.27%) Internet
1 1 (0.27%) LTE
1 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.27%) RFID
1 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.27%) VPN
1 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.56%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.38%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (7.38%) Apache Arrow
2 27 (7.38%) Apache Ignite
2 27 (7.38%) Dremio
3 23 (6.28%) Data Lake
4 11 (3.01%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.09%) MySQL
8 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.55%) Big Data
10 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.55%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.55%) Redis
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.01%) SpecFlow
2 8 (2.19%) Git
3 7 (1.91%) Selenium
4 5 (1.37%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.82%) Maven
5 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.82%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.55%) JUnit
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.55%) Postman
6 2 (0.55%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.27%) git-flow
7 1 (0.27%) Moq
7 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.27%) TestNG
7 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 39 (10.66%) Finance
2 33 (9.02%) Front Office
3 29 (7.92%) Banking
4 28 (7.65%) Investment Banking
5 27 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.19%) Social Skills
7 6 (1.64%) Law
8 4 (1.09%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.55%) Local Government
11 1 (0.27%) Back Office
11 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.27%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (37.43%) HTML
2 47 (12.84%) .NET
3 28 (7.65%) NumPy
3 28 (7.65%) Pandas
3 28 (7.65%) SciPy
4 27 (7.38%) gRPC
4 27 (7.38%) Protocol Buffers
5 22 (6.01%) XML
6 20 (5.46%) .NET Framework
7 15 (4.10%) CSS
7 15 (4.10%) React
8 13 (3.55%) RESTful
9 12 (3.28%) FastAPI
9 12 (3.28%) REST
10 11 (3.01%) Node.js
11 10 (2.73%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.19%) Spring
12 8 (2.19%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.91%) AWS CDK
13 7 (1.91%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.38%) Derivative
2 26 (7.10%) Equities
2 26 (7.10%) Fixed Income
2 26 (7.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (7.10%) Hedge funds
3 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.37%) Contactless
4 5 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.37%) NHS
5 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
5 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.55%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.55%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.27%) Clustering
7 1 (0.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.27%) Replication
7 1 (0.27%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.64%) Linux
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (59.56%) Code Quality
2 214 (58.47%) Artificial Intelligence
3 211 (57.65%) Conversational UI
4 166 (45.36%) Software Engineering
5 80 (21.86%) Agile
6 39 (10.66%) CI/CD
7 38 (10.38%) DevOps
8 32 (8.74%) Asset Management
9 29 (7.92%) Scrum
10 22 (6.01%) Line Management
11 18 (4.92%) Investment Management
11 18 (4.92%) Test Automation
12 17 (4.64%) Microservices
13 14 (3.83%) Analytics
13 14 (3.83%) Software Testing
14 12 (3.28%) API Development
14 12 (3.28%) Full Stack Development
15 11 (3.01%) Front End Development
15 11 (3.01%) Mentoring
15 11 (3.01%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 180 (49.18%) JavaScript
2 173 (47.27%) Python
3 171 (46.72%) C#
4 158 (43.17%) SQL
5 64 (17.49%) Java
6 42 (11.48%) TypeScript
7 32 (8.74%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.19%) Bicep
9 6 (1.64%) Ruby
10 5 (1.37%) Bash
10 5 (1.37%) Scala
11 3 (0.82%) PHP
11 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.55%) C++
12 2 (0.55%) Perl
12 2 (0.55%) Rust
13 1 (0.27%) Go
13 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 220 (60.11%) Degree
2 17 (4.64%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.46%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.09%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.19%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.37%) HL7
3 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.27%) QA
4 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (3.83%) Docker
2 6 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.82%) zsh
Systems Management
1 13 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.19%) Terraform
3 5 (1.37%) Grafana
4 2 (0.55%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) Istio
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 211 (57.65%) PayPal
2 33 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.46%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.91%) Oracle
5 4 (1.09%) Google
6 3 (0.82%) RedGate
7 2 (0.55%) Databricks
7 2 (0.55%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.27%) Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.27%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir
8 1 (0.27%) Splunk