Senior Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 203 135
Rank change year-on-year +104 -68 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 998 682 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.95% 1.69% 3.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 1.76% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 673 519 592
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £121,750 £102,500 £98,355
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.67%

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 32,493 38,794 68,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 27,614 41,915
10th Percentile £33,009 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +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%

Senior Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Software Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Senior Software Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 998 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 555 (55.61%) Agile
3 525 (52.61%) AWS
4 477 (47.80%) Python
5 419 (41.98%) JavaScript
6 404 (40.48%) Azure
7 363 (36.37%) .NET
8 355 (35.57%) React
9 305 (30.56%) DevOps
10 297 (29.76%) Security Cleared
11 295 (29.56%) C#
12 267 (26.75%) PostgreSQL
13 250 (25.05%) SC Cleared
14 232 (23.25%) .NET Core
15 221 (22.14%) Web Development
16 218 (21.84%) Actionable Insight
17 214 (21.44%) QGIS
17 214 (21.44%) GeoServer
17 214 (21.44%) OpenLayers
17 214 (21.44%) PostGIS
17 214 (21.44%) Leaflet
17 214 (21.44%) GIS
17 214 (21.44%) ESRI
17 214 (21.44%) ArcGIS
18 213 (21.34%) TypeScript
19 209 (20.94%) CSS
20 192 (19.24%) Java
21 184 (18.44%) SQL
21 184 (18.44%) Finance
22 180 (18.04%) Linux

Senior 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
1 214 (21.44%) ArcGIS
1 214 (21.44%) GeoServer
2 83 (8.32%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (7.41%) Apache
4 11 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.10%) Confluence
6 1 (0.10%) Drupal
6 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Endur
2 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 525 (52.61%) AWS
2 404 (40.48%) Azure
3 91 (9.12%) GCP
4 71 (7.11%) dbt
5 67 (6.71%) Snowflake
6 44 (4.41%) SaaS
7 29 (2.91%) Serverless
8 21 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.70%) GitHub
10 11 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (0.70%) Azure API Management
11 7 (0.70%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (0.70%) Azure Functions
11 7 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (0.60%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.40%) SonarCloud
14 3 (0.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (0.30%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.30%) Wireless
2 20 (2.00%) Ethernet
3 18 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.70%) RS-232
5 13 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (1.20%) Modbus
7 10 (1.00%) Network Security
8 8 (0.80%) HTTP
9 5 (0.50%) Internet
10 4 (0.40%) Profibus
11 1 (0.10%) 5G
11 1 (0.10%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (26.75%) PostgreSQL
2 214 (21.44%) GIS
2 214 (21.44%) QGIS
3 71 (7.11%) Amazon Athena
3 71 (7.11%) Apache Arrow
3 71 (7.11%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (7.11%) Dremio
4 68 (6.81%) Data Lake
5 62 (6.21%) MySQL
6 45 (4.51%) NoSQL
7 40 (4.01%) MongoDB
8 33 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.40%) Redis
10 12 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.80%) SQLite
12 6 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (4.31%) Git
2 24 (2.40%) JIRA
3 22 (2.20%) GitLab
4 20 (2.00%) Subversion
5 16 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.50%) CMake
7 11 (1.10%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.50%) Selenium
9 5 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.40%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.30%) Postman
12 2 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.20%) JUnit
12 2 (0.20%) Maven
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.10%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 184 (18.44%) Finance
2 125 (12.53%) Front Office
3 77 (7.72%) Banking
4 71 (7.11%) Investment Banking
5 58 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (5.11%) Social Skills
7 49 (4.91%) Manufacturing
8 44 (4.41%) Back Office
9 36 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (2.40%) Games
11 24 (2.40%) Military
12 19 (1.90%) Electronics
13 16 (1.60%) Retail
13 16 (1.60%) Tech for Good
14 14 (1.40%) Automotive
15 13 (1.30%) Advertising
16 12 (1.20%) Legal
17 11 (1.10%) Health Technology
18 5 (0.50%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (36.37%) .NET
2 355 (35.57%) React
3 232 (23.25%) .NET Core
4 214 (21.44%) Leaflet
4 214 (21.44%) OpenLayers
4 214 (21.44%) PostGIS
5 209 (20.94%) CSS
6 118 (11.82%) AngularJS
7 98 (9.82%) Vue
8 90 (9.02%) ASP.NET
9 85 (8.52%) gRPC
9 85 (8.52%) Pandas
10 83 (8.32%) Protocol Buffers
11 73 (7.31%) NumPy
12 71 (7.11%) SciPy
13 70 (7.01%) RESTful
14 57 (5.71%) Django
15 55 (5.51%) ASP.NET Core
16 46 (4.61%) Node.js
16 46 (4.61%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 129 (12.93%) Derivative
1 129 (12.93%) Equities
2 127 (12.73%) Fixed Income
2 127 (12.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 114 (11.42%) Hedge funds
4 31 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (3.01%) Pricing Data
6 22 (2.20%) Cloud Native
7 21 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.90%) Device Driver
9 18 (1.80%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.40%) Client/Server
12 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.00%) IoT
13 9 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 9 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.80%) Hackathon
15 7 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
15 7 (0.70%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 180 (18.04%) Linux
2 65 (6.51%) Embedded Linux
2 65 (6.51%) Windows
3 48 (4.81%) Ubuntu
4 17 (1.70%) Android
5 13 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
6 8 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.80%) Unix
7 4 (0.40%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.10%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 998 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 555 (55.61%) Agile
3 305 (30.56%) DevOps
4 221 (22.14%) Web Development
5 218 (21.84%) Actionable Insight
6 130 (13.03%) Asset Management
7 117 (11.72%) Investment Management
8 106 (10.62%) Microservices
9 96 (9.62%) Mentoring
10 89 (8.92%) TDD
11 71 (7.11%) Computer Science
11 71 (7.11%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (6.61%) Test Automation
13 59 (5.91%) Full Stack Development
14 57 (5.71%) CI/CD
14 57 (5.71%) Coaching
15 50 (5.01%) Cybersecurity
16 45 (4.51%) Design Patterns
17 43 (4.31%) BDD
18 42 (4.21%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 477 (47.80%) Python
2 419 (41.98%) JavaScript
3 295 (29.56%) C#
4 213 (21.34%) TypeScript
5 192 (19.24%) Java
6 184 (18.44%) SQL
7 115 (11.52%) C++
8 102 (10.22%) C
9 54 (5.41%) Embedded C
10 33 (3.31%) Bash
11 28 (2.81%) Rust
12 21 (2.10%) Kotlin
13 19 (1.90%) Go
14 14 (1.40%) PHP
15 13 (1.30%) Scala
15 13 (1.30%) T-SQL
16 10 (1.00%) Ruby
17 9 (0.90%) Ada
18 7 (0.70%) XAML
19 6 (0.60%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 297 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 250 (25.05%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.92%) Degree
4 38 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.40%) HND
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.71%) Data Quality
2 9 (0.90%) QA
3 6 (0.60%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (0.40%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.20%) EMIR
5 2 (0.20%) MiFID
5 2 (0.20%) SEPA
5 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (6.41%) Docker
2 20 (2.00%) Firmware
3 5 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.01%) Terraform
3 2 (0.20%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.10%) Ansible
4 1 (0.10%) Argo
4 1 (0.10%) Grafana
4 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 214 (21.44%) ESRI
2 21 (2.10%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.20%) DevExpress
4 9 (0.90%) Google
4 9 (0.90%) Xamarin
5 8 (0.80%) Dell
6 5 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.40%) Apple
7 4 (0.40%) QNX
8 2 (0.20%) Databricks
8 2 (0.20%) Finsemble
8 2 (0.20%) IFS
8 2 (0.20%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle
9 1 (0.10%) Coverity
9 1 (0.10%) Klocwork
9 1 (0.10%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.10%) SAP
9 1 (0.10%) Thales