Software Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 115 145
Rank change year-on-year +33 +30 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Software Engineer 374 518 810
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.53% 2.10% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 2.21% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 338 559
10th Percentile £450 £438 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £577 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% +4.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £800 £688 £688
90th Percentile £888 £750 £758
UK median daily rate £625 £590 £590
% change year-on-year +5.93% - +18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 48 34
10th Percentile - £46.25 £42.88
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £47.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +9.95% +17.22%
75th Percentile £71.87 £68.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £90.00 £66.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +1.96% +10.87% +27.78%

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 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Software Engineer.

Software Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Software Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
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 Engineer.

Software Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Software Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 372 (99.47%) Software Engineering
2 180 (48.13%) AWS
3 151 (40.37%) Agile
4 135 (36.10%) Python
5 130 (34.76%) JavaScript
6 124 (33.16%) Java
7 121 (32.35%) Finance
8 116 (31.02%) TypeScript
9 93 (24.87%) Front Office
10 86 (22.99%) Asset Management
11 82 (21.93%) Fixed Income
12 78 (20.86%) gRPC
13 77 (20.59%) Apache Airflow
13 77 (20.59%) Protocol Buffers
14 72 (19.25%) Apache
15 71 (18.98%) Banking
15 71 (18.98%) Apache Ignite
16 70 (18.72%) Pandas
17 68 (18.18%) GCP
17 68 (18.18%) Investment Management
18 64 (17.11%) SciPy
18 64 (17.11%) NumPy
18 64 (17.11%) Dremio
18 64 (17.11%) Amazon Athena
18 64 (17.11%) Fintech
18 64 (17.11%) dbt
18 64 (17.11%) Apache Arrow
19 60 (16.04%) Equities
19 60 (16.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 60 (16.04%) Test Automation

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 77 (20.59%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (19.25%) Apache
3 6 (1.60%) Confluence
4 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.53%) Drupal
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.27%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (5.88%) Simulink
1 22 (5.88%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 180 (48.13%) AWS
2 68 (18.18%) GCP
3 64 (17.11%) dbt
4 53 (14.17%) Snowflake
5 47 (12.57%) Azure
6 17 (4.55%) Serverless
7 16 (4.28%) GitHub
8 11 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (2.14%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.34%) npm
13 4 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (0.53%) AWS IoT
15 2 (0.53%) Google App Engine
15 2 (0.53%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.94%) HTTP
2 8 (2.14%) 802.11
2 8 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (1.34%) Diameter Protocol
3 5 (1.34%) J1939
4 4 (1.07%) Wireless
5 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) HbbTV
6 1 (0.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) MQTT
6 1 (0.27%) RS-232
6 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (18.98%) Apache Ignite
2 64 (17.11%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (17.11%) Apache Arrow
2 64 (17.11%) Dremio
3 50 (13.37%) Data Lake
4 31 (8.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 14 (3.74%) MySQL
6 10 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.34%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.07%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.53%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (8.82%) Git
2 19 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.55%) JIRA
4 12 (3.21%) GitLab
5 10 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.41%) Selenium
7 8 (2.14%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.14%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.87%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.34%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.34%) MSI
10 5 (1.34%) Subversion
10 5 (1.34%) WiX
11 4 (1.07%) Maven
11 4 (1.07%) Postman
11 4 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.80%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 121 (32.35%) Finance
2 93 (24.87%) Front Office
3 71 (18.98%) Banking
4 57 (15.24%) Investment Banking
5 49 (13.10%) Social Skills
6 40 (10.70%) Automotive
7 19 (5.08%) Legal
8 16 (4.28%) Electronics
9 13 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.87%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.87%) Retail
12 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.34%) Law
13 4 (1.07%) Police
14 3 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.53%) Military
16 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (20.86%) gRPC
2 77 (20.59%) Protocol Buffers
3 70 (18.72%) Pandas
4 64 (17.11%) NumPy
4 64 (17.11%) SciPy
5 56 (14.97%) React
6 50 (13.37%) Node.js
7 44 (11.76%) Kafka
8 35 (9.36%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.75%) RESTful
10 24 (6.42%) REST
11 22 (5.88%) .NET
11 22 (5.88%) Redux
12 17 (4.55%) Spring Boot
12 17 (4.55%) Vue
13 16 (4.28%) XML
14 15 (4.01%) HTML
14 15 (4.01%) Spring
15 14 (3.74%) Material-UI
16 13 (3.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.93%) Fixed Income
2 60 (16.04%) Derivative
2 60 (16.04%) Equities
2 60 (16.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (14.44%) Hedge funds
4 30 (8.02%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.67%) Pricing Data
7 5 (1.34%) CAN bus
7 5 (1.34%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.34%) IoT
7 5 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.34%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.34%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.07%) Device Driver
9 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.80%) iPad
9 3 (0.80%) iPhone
9 3 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.55%) Linux
2 12 (3.21%) Windows
3 6 (1.60%) Android
4 5 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.07%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (99.47%) Software Engineering
2 151 (40.37%) Agile
3 86 (22.99%) Asset Management
4 68 (18.18%) Investment Management
5 64 (17.11%) Fintech
6 60 (16.04%) Test Automation
7 48 (12.83%) User Experience
8 44 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 44 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (10.43%) Validation
10 33 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
11 31 (8.29%) Analytics
12 30 (8.02%) UX Design
13 29 (7.75%) User Research
13 29 (7.75%) UX Research
14 27 (7.22%) Verification and Validation
15 26 (6.95%) CI/CD
15 26 (6.95%) DevOps
16 24 (6.42%) TDD
17 23 (6.15%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 135 (36.10%) Python
2 130 (34.76%) JavaScript
3 124 (33.16%) Java
4 116 (31.02%) TypeScript
5 49 (13.10%) C
6 42 (11.23%) C++
7 37 (9.89%) SQL
8 34 (9.09%) C#
9 33 (8.82%) Go
10 26 (6.95%) MATLAB
11 22 (5.88%) Embedded C
12 16 (4.28%) PHP
13 13 (3.48%) Perl
14 12 (3.21%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.14%) Tcl
16 7 (1.87%) Scala
17 6 (1.60%) Bash
17 6 (1.60%) Embedded C++
18 5 (1.34%) Ruby
18 5 (1.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 33 (8.82%) Degree
3 27 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.07%) PhD
8 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.87%) AUTOSAR
2 7 (1.87%) QA
3 4 (1.07%) JTAG
4 2 (0.53%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (13.90%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.34%) ACF2
3 5 (1.34%) IAG
3 5 (1.34%) RACF
4 4 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.07%) Firmware
4 4 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.80%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.80%) zsh
Systems Management
1 51 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.48%) Terraform
3 6 (1.60%) Ansible
3 6 (1.60%) Functional Safety
4 5 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
4 5 (1.34%) Podman
5 1 (0.27%) Argo
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (3.21%) Oracle
2 7 (1.87%) Google
3 6 (1.60%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.34%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.34%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.34%) Sybase
5 4 (1.07%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.80%) MathWorks
6 3 (0.80%) NVIDIA
6 3 (0.80%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe
7 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.27%) Databricks
7 1 (0.27%) New Relic
7 1 (0.27%) Typelevel