Developer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Developer salary for remote or hybrid work is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 6,759 7,182 19,379
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.01% 19.16% 25.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.75% 19.98% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,885 6,205 12,319
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £105,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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%

Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Developer.

Developer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Developer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 Developer in the job title.

1 2,724 (40.30%) JavaScript
2 2,528 (37.40%) C#
3 2,483 (36.74%) .NET
4 2,326 (34.41%) Agile
5 2,223 (32.89%) Azure
6 1,757 (25.99%) Full Stack Development
7 1,644 (24.32%) SQL
8 1,614 (23.88%) Microsoft
9 1,539 (22.77%) AWS
10 1,464 (21.66%) SQL Server
11 1,437 (21.26%) HTML
12 1,387 (20.52%) React
13 1,314 (19.44%) AngularJS
14 1,267 (18.75%) Social Skills
15 1,203 (17.80%) .NET Core
15 1,203 (17.80%) ASP.NET
16 1,202 (17.78%) CSS
17 1,161 (17.18%) MVC
18 1,160 (17.16%) TypeScript
19 1,059 (15.67%) Finance
20 1,034 (15.30%) Software Engineering
21 994 (14.71%) Microservices
22 979 (14.48%) DevOps
23 967 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
24 872 (12.90%) TDD
25 848 (12.55%) ASP.NET MVC
26 830 (12.28%) Java
27 799 (11.82%) .NET Framework
28 790 (11.69%) Python
29 761 (11.26%) Node.js

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
1 170 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 164 (2.43%) Apache
3 160 (2.37%) CMS
4 149 (2.20%) WordPress
5 141 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
6 135 (2.00%) IIS
7 88 (1.30%) Umbraco
8 52 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
9 46 (0.68%) nginx
10 44 (0.65%) Kentico
11 42 (0.62%) Drupal
12 37 (0.55%) Headless CMS
13 27 (0.40%) Confluence
14 24 (0.36%) SAS
15 23 (0.34%) OpenEdge
16 22 (0.33%) OpenStack
17 14 (0.21%) Mendix
17 14 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
18 12 (0.18%) Appian
19 11 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 39 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.38%) Simulink
4 18 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 10 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.10%) GNU Octave
7 7 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.089%) InfoPath
9 5 (0.074%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.059%) Maya
10 4 (0.059%) Sketch
10 4 (0.059%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.044%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.044%) S-PLUS
11 3 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.030%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.030%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 88 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 61 (0.90%) Shopify
3 41 (0.61%) Magento
4 29 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 18 (0.27%) Visualfiles
6 12 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.074%) Odoo
8 5 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.059%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.044%) ProductWriter
11 2 (0.030%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.030%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.030%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.030%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.030%) R3 Corda
11 2 (0.030%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.030%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,223 (32.89%) Azure
2 1,539 (22.77%) AWS
3 457 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 431 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
5 345 (5.10%) SaaS
6 339 (5.02%) GCP
7 287 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
8 249 (3.68%) Serverless
9 223 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
10 190 (2.81%) Power Automate
11 184 (2.72%) GitHub
12 181 (2.68%) PowerApps
13 107 (1.58%) dbt
14 100 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 86 (1.27%) Snowflake
16 64 (0.95%) Azure Functions
17 55 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
18 54 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
19 49 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
20 48 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 135 (2.00%) Internet
2 47 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 34 (0.50%) DNS
4 32 (0.47%) SSL
5 31 (0.46%) Firewall
6 20 (0.30%) Broadband
7 17 (0.25%) HTTP
8 16 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
9 15 (0.22%) Mobile Broadband
10 11 (0.16%) MQTT
10 11 (0.16%) Network Security
11 9 (0.13%) Wireless
12 7 (0.10%) VPN
13 6 (0.089%) AMQP
13 6 (0.089%) OpenVPN
13 6 (0.089%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.089%) VoIP
13 6 (0.089%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.074%) 4G
14 5 (0.074%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,464 (21.66%) SQL Server
2 407 (6.02%) MySQL
3 312 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 293 (4.33%) MongoDB
5 264 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
6 262 (3.88%) Power BI
7 234 (3.46%) Relational Database
8 222 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 166 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 143 (2.12%) NoSQL
11 140 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
12 129 (1.91%) Apache Ignite
13 111 (1.64%) Oracle Database
14 106 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
14 106 (1.57%) Apache Arrow
14 106 (1.57%) Dremio
15 99 (1.46%) Data Lake
16 87 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 80 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
18 71 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 630 (9.32%) Git
2 179 (2.65%) Visual Studio
3 138 (2.04%) JIRA
4 111 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 84 (1.24%) GitLab
6 46 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 42 (0.62%) NUnit
7 42 (0.62%) webpack
8 40 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 39 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 36 (0.53%) Jasmine
11 32 (0.47%) JUnit
12 28 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
13 27 (0.40%) gulp
13 27 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
14 23 (0.34%) Selenium
14 23 (0.34%) TeamCity
15 21 (0.31%) Postman
15 21 (0.31%) Storybook
General
1 1,267 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1,059 (15.67%) Finance
3 270 (3.99%) Front Office
4 269 (3.98%) Marketing
5 235 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 221 (3.27%) Retail
7 204 (3.02%) Banking
8 175 (2.59%) Public Sector
9 163 (2.41%) Law
10 160 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 149 (2.20%) Games
12 130 (1.92%) Investment Banking
13 93 (1.38%) Tech for Good
14 89 (1.32%) Back Office
15 86 (1.27%) Advertising
16 85 (1.26%) Telecoms
17 71 (1.05%) Legal
18 68 (1.01%) Manufacturing
19 53 (0.78%) Health Technology
20 50 (0.74%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,483 (36.74%) .NET
2 1,437 (21.26%) HTML
3 1,387 (20.52%) React
4 1,314 (19.44%) AngularJS
5 1,203 (17.80%) .NET Core
5 1,203 (17.80%) ASP.NET
6 1,202 (17.78%) CSS
7 848 (12.55%) ASP.NET MVC
8 799 (11.82%) .NET Framework
9 761 (11.26%) Node.js
10 736 (10.89%) Vue
11 700 (10.36%) Entity Framework
12 644 (9.53%) ASP.NET Web API
13 564 (8.34%) HTML5
14 538 (7.96%) RESTful
15 404 (5.98%) REST
16 403 (5.96%) Laravel
17 342 (5.06%) Web Services
18 316 (4.68%) jQuery
19 298 (4.41%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 418 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
2 245 (3.62%) Fixed Income
3 216 (3.20%) Mobile App
4 190 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 184 (2.72%) Hedge funds
6 183 (2.71%) Equities
7 174 (2.57%) Derivative
8 149 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 145 (2.15%) Client/Server
10 142 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 140 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
12 107 (1.58%) IoT
13 96 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 92 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 86 (1.27%) Algorithms
16 70 (1.04%) Onboarding
17 62 (0.92%) Cloud Native
18 58 (0.86%) NHS
19 52 (0.77%) Private Cloud
20 47 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 246 (3.64%) Linux
2 191 (2.83%) Android
3 167 (2.47%) Windows
4 132 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.44%) Unix
6 26 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
7 25 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.089%) Alpine Linux
11 6 (0.089%) CentOS
12 5 (0.074%) Windows Mobile
13 4 (0.059%) AIX
14 3 (0.044%) VMS
15 2 (0.030%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.015%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,326 (34.41%) Agile
2 1,757 (25.99%) Full Stack Development
3 1,161 (17.18%) MVC
4 1,034 (15.30%) Software Engineering
5 994 (14.71%) Microservices
6 979 (14.48%) DevOps
7 967 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
8 872 (12.90%) TDD
9 648 (9.59%) Scrum
10 566 (8.37%) CI/CD
11 555 (8.21%) Front End Development
12 507 (7.50%) Web Development
13 483 (7.15%) Computer Science
14 477 (7.06%) BDD
15 430 (6.36%) User Experience
16 419 (6.20%) Unit Testing
17 416 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
18 408 (6.04%) Mentoring
19 382 (5.65%) Kanban
20 343 (5.07%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2,724 (40.30%) JavaScript
2 2,528 (37.40%) C#
3 1,644 (24.32%) SQL
4 1,160 (17.16%) TypeScript
5 830 (12.28%) Java
6 790 (11.69%) Python
7 674 (9.97%) PHP
8 189 (2.80%) T-SQL
9 169 (2.50%) C++
10 139 (2.06%) PL/SQL
11 137 (2.03%) Go
12 136 (2.01%) C
12 136 (2.01%) VB.NET
13 115 (1.70%) Kotlin
14 82 (1.21%) PowerShell
15 73 (1.08%) Scala
16 64 (0.95%) Ruby
17 53 (0.78%) VB
18 46 (0.68%) Swift
19 43 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 656 (9.71%) Degree
2 383 (5.67%) Security Cleared
3 303 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 274 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 67 (0.99%) DBS Check
6 65 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 42 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 31 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 29 (0.43%) PhD
11 27 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
12 25 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (0.31%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.089%) CIPD
15 5 (0.074%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.059%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.030%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 2 (0.030%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 2 (0.030%) HNC
17 2 (0.030%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (3.65%) QA
2 71 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 35 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 25 (0.37%) GDPR
5 11 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.10%) WCAG
7 6 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.059%) EMIR
8 4 (0.059%) MiFID
8 4 (0.059%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.044%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.044%) SLA
10 2 (0.030%) GRC
10 2 (0.030%) HL7
10 2 (0.030%) MISRA
10 2 (0.030%) MISRA C
System Software
1 495 (7.32%) Docker
2 23 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 18 (0.27%) Firmware
5 9 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.044%) KVM
7 3 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.030%) Varnish
9 1 (0.015%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 298 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 125 (1.85%) Terraform
3 57 (0.84%) Ansible
4 18 (0.27%) Grafana
5 12 (0.18%) Kibana
5 12 (0.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.12%) MIIS
7 5 (0.074%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (0.074%) Rancher
8 4 (0.059%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.044%) Galera Cluster
10 2 (0.030%) cPanel
10 2 (0.030%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.030%) Packer
11 1 (0.015%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.015%) Plesk
11 1 (0.015%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,614 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 216 (3.20%) Oracle
3 191 (2.83%) Google
4 109 (1.61%) Facebook
5 71 (1.05%) Xamarin
6 70 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 56 (0.83%) Sitecore
8 49 (0.72%) Adobe
9 46 (0.68%) Apple
10 42 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 41 (0.61%) Salesforce
12 39 (0.58%) Optimizely
13 36 (0.53%) SAP
13 36 (0.53%) Sony
13 36 (0.53%) Yahoo!
14 31 (0.46%) WooCommerce
15 26 (0.38%) UiPath
16 23 (0.34%) YouTube
17 22 (0.33%) WSO2
17 22 (0.33%) Xilinx