Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 40 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 2,487 2,596 7,387
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.16% 6.75% 9.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.44% 7.04% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,893 1,776 2,166
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,413
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £120,000 £100,640
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +13.04%

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 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +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%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineer.

Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Software Engineer salary 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 1 June 2024, 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2,472 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 1,038 (41.74%) Agile
3 1,037 (41.70%) AWS
4 1,032 (41.50%) Python
5 817 (32.85%) JavaScript
6 660 (26.54%) Azure
7 621 (24.97%) Java
8 607 (24.41%) C#
9 603 (24.25%) .NET
10 584 (23.48%) React
11 481 (19.34%) Security Cleared
12 480 (19.30%) DevOps
13 467 (18.78%) TypeScript
14 448 (18.01%) Finance
15 399 (16.04%) Linux
16 384 (15.44%) SQL
17 368 (14.80%) C
18 354 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
19 324 (13.03%) SC Cleared
20 314 (12.63%) Degree
21 312 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
22 300 (12.06%) .NET Core
23 295 (11.86%) C++
24 290 (11.66%) GCP
25 273 (10.98%) Asset Management
26 272 (10.94%) Fixed Income
27 271 (10.90%) Front Office
28 270 (10.86%) Full Stack Development
29 263 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
29 263 (10.57%) AngularJS

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
1 221 (8.89%) ArcGIS
2 219 (8.81%) Apache Airflow
3 218 (8.77%) Apache
4 214 (8.60%) GeoServer
5 33 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.52%) NServiceBus
7 6 (0.24%) nginx
7 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.20%) Confluence
9 3 (0.12%) CMS
9 3 (0.12%) Drupal
10 2 (0.080%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.040%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.040%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.040%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.040%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (1.77%) Simulink
2 7 (0.28%) Stateflow
3 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 2 (0.080%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.040%) UXPin
7 1 (0.040%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.040%) Endur
4 1 (0.040%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (41.70%) AWS
2 660 (26.54%) Azure
3 290 (11.66%) GCP
4 184 (7.40%) dbt
5 152 (6.11%) Snowflake
6 99 (3.98%) SaaS
6 99 (3.98%) Serverless
7 67 (2.69%) GitHub
8 60 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 21 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (0.60%) Slack
13 14 (0.56%) Google Docs
13 14 (0.56%) Lucidchart
13 14 (0.56%) Miro
14 12 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (0.44%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.37%) TCP/IP
2 48 (1.93%) RS-232
3 42 (1.69%) Wireless
4 38 (1.53%) Ethernet
5 37 (1.49%) Network Security
6 27 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (0.88%) HTTP
8 17 (0.68%) RS-485
9 16 (0.64%) Bluetooth
9 16 (0.64%) Internet
9 16 (0.64%) Modbus
10 15 (0.60%) ZigBee
11 8 (0.32%) VoIP
12 6 (0.24%) Firewall
13 5 (0.20%) 5G
14 4 (0.16%) 3GPP
14 4 (0.16%) Profibus
14 4 (0.16%) RS-422
15 2 (0.080%) MQTT
15 2 (0.080%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 235 (9.45%) GIS
3 214 (8.60%) QGIS
4 202 (8.12%) Apache Ignite
5 184 (7.40%) Amazon Athena
5 184 (7.40%) Apache Arrow
5 184 (7.40%) Dremio
6 166 (6.67%) MySQL
7 153 (6.15%) Data Lake
8 96 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 87 (3.50%) NoSQL
10 62 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 52 (2.09%) Redis
12 46 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 46 (1.85%) MongoDB
13 30 (1.21%) DynamoDB
14 23 (0.92%) Big Data
15 20 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.68%) Hadoop
17 14 (0.56%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 166 (6.67%) Git
2 62 (2.49%) JIRA
3 61 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.13%) GitLab
5 33 (1.33%) Subversion
6 28 (1.13%) Visual Studio
7 19 (0.76%) LabVIEW
7 19 (0.76%) Maven
7 19 (0.76%) Vagrant
8 16 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.56%) CMake
10 12 (0.48%) Selenium
11 10 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
12 8 (0.32%) Gradle
12 8 (0.32%) Postman
13 7 (0.28%) ClearCase
13 7 (0.28%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.28%) Plastic SCM
General
1 448 (18.01%) Finance
2 271 (10.90%) Front Office
3 245 (9.85%) Social Skills
4 220 (8.85%) Banking
5 182 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 132 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (4.30%) Electronics
8 105 (4.22%) Manufacturing
9 74 (2.98%) Automotive
10 67 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
11 56 (2.25%) Public Sector
12 51 (2.05%) Retail
12 51 (2.05%) Tech for Good
13 47 (1.89%) Back Office
14 41 (1.65%) Law
15 37 (1.49%) Aerospace
15 37 (1.49%) Games
16 30 (1.21%) Legal
17 27 (1.09%) Military
18 26 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 603 (24.25%) .NET
2 584 (23.48%) React
3 300 (12.06%) .NET Core
4 263 (10.57%) AngularJS
5 257 (10.33%) CSS
6 219 (8.81%) gRPC
7 215 (8.64%) Leaflet
7 215 (8.64%) OpenLayers
7 215 (8.64%) PostGIS
8 214 (8.60%) Protocol Buffers
9 201 (8.08%) Pandas
10 194 (7.80%) NumPy
11 193 (7.76%) Node.js
12 184 (7.40%) SciPy
13 159 (6.39%) Vue
14 153 (6.15%) RESTful
15 113 (4.54%) ASP.NET
16 109 (4.38%) Redux
17 95 (3.82%) Django
18 90 (3.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 272 (10.94%) Fixed Income
2 221 (8.89%) Derivative
2 221 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 218 (8.77%) Equities
4 205 (8.24%) Hedge funds
5 93 (3.74%) Algorithms
6 67 (2.69%) IoT
7 66 (2.65%) Embedded Systems
8 64 (2.57%) Client/Server
9 62 (2.49%) Data Structures
10 54 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
11 45 (1.81%) Device Driver
12 42 (1.69%) Pricing Data
13 41 (1.65%) Cloud Native
14 38 (1.53%) Mobile App
15 37 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
16 31 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
17 28 (1.13%) Product Ownership
18 23 (0.92%) Virtual Team
19 21 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 399 (16.04%) Linux
2 126 (5.07%) Windows
3 113 (4.54%) Embedded Linux
4 84 (3.38%) Ubuntu
5 73 (2.94%) Android
6 48 (1.93%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
8 25 (1.01%) Unix
9 24 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.76%) CentOS
11 13 (0.52%) Debian
12 9 (0.36%) Windows Server
13 5 (0.20%) ThreadX
13 5 (0.20%) VxWorks
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 2 (0.080%) Alpine Linux
16 1 (0.040%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,472 (99.40%) Software Engineering
2 1,038 (41.74%) Agile
3 480 (19.30%) DevOps
4 312 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (10.98%) Asset Management
6 270 (10.86%) Full Stack Development
7 263 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
8 248 (9.97%) Web Development
9 238 (9.57%) Investment Management
10 234 (9.41%) Mentoring
11 233 (9.37%) Computer Science
12 230 (9.25%) Microservices
13 195 (7.84%) TDD
14 189 (7.60%) CI/CD
15 164 (6.59%) SDLC
16 163 (6.55%) Test Automation
17 148 (5.95%) OOP
18 126 (5.07%) OO
19 123 (4.95%) Fintech
20 119 (4.78%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,032 (41.50%) Python
2 817 (32.85%) JavaScript
3 621 (24.97%) Java
4 607 (24.41%) C#
5 467 (18.78%) TypeScript
6 384 (15.44%) SQL
7 368 (14.80%) C
8 295 (11.86%) C++
9 124 (4.99%) Embedded C
10 111 (4.46%) Kotlin
11 107 (4.30%) Bash
12 79 (3.18%) PHP
13 73 (2.94%) Rust
14 70 (2.81%) Go
15 54 (2.17%) Scala
16 42 (1.69%) T-SQL
17 39 (1.57%) Ruby
18 26 (1.05%) Ada
19 16 (0.64%) Embedded C++
19 16 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 481 (19.34%) Security Cleared
2 324 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 314 (12.63%) Degree
4 107 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 45 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 17 (0.68%) PhD
10 11 (0.44%) HND
11 10 (0.40%) HNC
12 7 (0.28%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.12%) Sun Certification
14 2 (0.080%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.080%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.040%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.040%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (2.53%) QA
2 58 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.01%) MISRA
4 20 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
5 10 (0.40%) Def Stans
6 6 (0.24%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.20%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.20%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.16%) ISO 13485
9 3 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.080%) EMIR
10 2 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.080%) MiFID
10 2 (0.080%) SEPA
11 1 (0.040%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.040%) JTAG
System Software
1 171 (6.88%) Docker
2 70 (2.81%) Firmware
3 33 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.040%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 165 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 144 (5.79%) Terraform
3 71 (2.85%) Ansible
4 16 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.36%) Grafana
6 3 (0.12%) Consul
6 3 (0.12%) Packer
7 2 (0.080%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.080%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.040%) Argo
8 1 (0.040%) Istio
8 1 (0.040%) Kibana
8 1 (0.040%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 215 (8.64%) ESRI
2 103 (4.14%) Microsoft
3 45 (1.81%) Google
4 25 (1.01%) Oracle
5 20 (0.80%) IBM
6 18 (0.72%) Xilinx
7 16 (0.64%) Dell
7 16 (0.64%) Xamarin
8 12 (0.48%) DevExpress
9 10 (0.40%) Siemens
10 9 (0.36%) SAP
10 9 (0.36%) Twitter
11 7 (0.28%) Lauterbach
11 7 (0.28%) QNX
12 6 (0.24%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.24%) Facebook
13 5 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (0.20%) Siebel
13 5 (0.20%) YouTube
14 4 (0.16%) Apple