Developer/Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer/Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer/Developer salary in Work from Home is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 350 512
Rank change year-on-year -47 +162 -218
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 204 323 424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.85% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.89% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 199 315 309
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £102,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +17.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £142,500 £132,500 £118,750
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £135,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%

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 33,942 36,431 73,676
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.95% 97.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25,713 26,497 43,021
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,436
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,242 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% +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/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
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/Software Engineer.

Developer/Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer/Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer/Software Engineer over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Developer/Software Engineer salary 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 8 June 2024, Developer/Software Engineer 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/Software Engineer in the job title.

1 196 (96.08%) Software Engineering
2 193 (94.61%) AWS
3 191 (93.63%) Python
4 186 (91.18%) Agile
5 184 (90.20%) Finance
6 183 (89.71%) JavaScript
7 181 (88.73%) GCP
8 180 (88.24%) Front Office
8 180 (88.24%) Asset Management
8 180 (88.24%) Fixed Income
9 175 (85.78%) TypeScript
10 135 (66.18%) Investment Management
11 128 (62.75%) Protocol Buffers
11 128 (62.75%) gRPC
11 128 (62.75%) Apache Airflow
12 127 (62.25%) Derivative
13 124 (60.78%) Equities
13 124 (60.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 116 (56.86%) Apache
14 116 (56.86%) Apache Ignite
15 112 (54.90%) Hedge funds
16 110 (53.92%) React
17 108 (52.94%) Pandas
18 96 (47.06%) SciPy
18 96 (47.06%) NumPy
18 96 (47.06%) Dremio
18 96 (47.06%) dbt
18 96 (47.06%) Apache Arrow
18 96 (47.06%) Amazon Athena
19 92 (45.10%) Redux

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
1 128 (62.75%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (56.86%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 193 (94.61%) AWS
2 181 (88.73%) GCP
3 96 (47.06%) dbt
4 64 (31.37%) Azure
5 62 (30.39%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.92%) Serverless
7 6 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (56.86%) Apache Ignite
2 96 (47.06%) Amazon Athena
2 96 (47.06%) Apache Arrow
2 96 (47.06%) Dremio
3 62 (30.39%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.43%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.94%) MySQL
5 6 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.94%) JIRA
2 4 (1.96%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 184 (90.20%) Finance
2 180 (88.24%) Front Office
3 80 (39.22%) Banking
4 76 (37.25%) Investment Banking
5 45 (22.06%) Back Office
6 3 (1.47%) Advertising
7 2 (0.98%) Automotive
7 2 (0.98%) Retail
7 2 (0.98%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (62.75%) gRPC
1 128 (62.75%) Protocol Buffers
2 110 (53.92%) React
3 108 (52.94%) Pandas
4 96 (47.06%) NumPy
4 96 (47.06%) SciPy
5 92 (45.10%) Redux
6 74 (36.27%) AngularJS
6 74 (36.27%) Vue
7 58 (28.43%) Node.js
8 46 (22.55%) .NET
9 31 (15.20%) ASP.NET
10 27 (13.24%) ASP.NET Core
11 22 (10.78%) Material-UI
12 15 (7.35%) .NET Core
13 11 (5.39%) GraphQL
14 6 (2.94%) HTML
14 6 (2.94%) PySpark
15 5 (2.45%) Web Services
16 3 (1.47%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 180 (88.24%) Fixed Income
2 127 (62.25%) Derivative
3 124 (60.78%) Equities
3 124 (60.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 112 (54.90%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.98%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.98%) IoT
6 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.92%) Linux
1 8 (3.92%) Unix
2 5 (2.45%) Windows
3 4 (1.96%) Android
3 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (96.08%) Software Engineering
2 186 (91.18%) Agile
3 180 (88.24%) Asset Management
4 135 (66.18%) Investment Management
5 62 (30.39%) Line Management
6 50 (24.51%) Fintech
6 50 (24.51%) Performance Attribution
7 40 (19.61%) Full Stack Development
8 36 (17.65%) Analytics
9 23 (11.27%) User Experience
10 20 (9.80%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 20 (9.80%) Front End Development
10 20 (9.80%) Mentoring
11 12 (5.88%) CI/CD
12 10 (4.90%) Risk Analytics
13 8 (3.92%) Data Architecture
13 8 (3.92%) Product Management
14 6 (2.94%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (2.94%) Data Engineering
14 6 (2.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 191 (93.63%) Python
2 183 (89.71%) JavaScript
3 175 (85.78%) TypeScript
4 90 (44.12%) Java
5 52 (25.49%) SQL
6 46 (22.55%) C#
7 14 (6.86%) Kotlin
7 14 (6.86%) Ruby
8 9 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.92%) Scala
10 6 (2.94%) Perl
11 2 (0.98%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.98%) Rust
11 2 (0.98%) Swift
12 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (3.43%) Degree
2 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.47%) EMIR
1 3 (1.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (3.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (2.94%) Bloomberg
1 6 (2.94%) Facebook
1 6 (2.94%) Reuters
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.98%) Google
3 2 (0.98%) QNX