Software Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 12 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 4,073 5,814 11,812
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 13.72% 17.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.16% 14.27% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,202 3,994 5,410
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +10.66%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,315 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,625 £116,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,949 40,734 65,929
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.59% 96.10% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,494 28,287 41,473
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,617
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
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 Engineering.

Software Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Software Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Engineering
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
1 226 (5.55%) Apache Airflow
2 221 (5.43%) ArcGIS
3 219 (5.38%) Apache
4 214 (5.25%) GeoServer
5 56 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 34 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.66%) nginx
8 22 (0.54%) Confluence
9 14 (0.34%) IIS
10 12 (0.29%) NServiceBus
11 8 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.12%) Appian
13 5 (0.12%) CMS
13 5 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.12%) WordPress
14 3 (0.074%) Drupal
14 3 (0.074%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.074%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.049%) Umbraco
Applications
1 50 (1.23%) Simulink
2 10 (0.25%) Adobe XD
3 8 (0.20%) OrCAD
4 7 (0.17%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.074%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.074%) Sketch
8 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.049%) Microsoft Office
9 1 (0.025%) Blender
9 1 (0.025%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.025%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.025%) Notion
9 1 (0.025%) UXPin
9 1 (0.025%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 28 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
3 3 (0.074%) Endur
3 3 (0.074%) Shopify
4 2 (0.049%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.049%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.025%) Findur
5 1 (0.025%) Magento
5 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,539 (37.79%) AWS
2 1,057 (25.95%) Azure
3 500 (12.28%) GCP
4 255 (6.26%) SaaS
5 238 (5.84%) Serverless
6 197 (4.84%) dbt
7 177 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 159 (3.90%) Snowflake
9 136 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
10 134 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
11 121 (2.97%) GitHub
12 96 (2.36%) Power Platform
13 59 (1.45%) Amazon S3
14 47 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (0.86%) PaaS
17 27 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
18 26 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (0.64%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 103 (2.53%) Wireless
2 75 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 56 (1.37%) Ethernet
4 49 (1.20%) RS-232
5 41 (1.01%) Network Security
6 37 (0.91%) HTTP
7 34 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (0.52%) Internet
9 18 (0.44%) Modbus
10 15 (0.37%) 5G
10 15 (0.37%) Firewall
10 15 (0.37%) RS-485
11 14 (0.34%) ZigBee
12 12 (0.29%) AMQP
12 12 (0.29%) Bluetooth
13 10 (0.25%) VoIP
14 9 (0.22%) CTI
14 9 (0.22%) MQTT
15 8 (0.20%) WAN
16 7 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
2 235 (5.77%) GIS
3 214 (5.25%) QGIS
4 212 (5.21%) MySQL
5 198 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
6 197 (4.84%) Apache Ignite
7 196 (4.81%) Apache Arrow
7 196 (4.81%) Dremio
8 169 (4.15%) Data Lake
8 169 (4.15%) SQL Server
9 153 (3.76%) Relational Database
10 106 (2.60%) NoSQL
11 87 (2.14%) Redis
12 81 (1.99%) MongoDB
13 72 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
14 60 (1.47%) Big Data
15 49 (1.20%) Oracle Database
16 48 (1.18%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.06%) RDBMS
18 40 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 386 (9.48%) Git
2 152 (3.73%) GitLab
3 136 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 110 (2.70%) JIRA
5 90 (2.21%) Visual Studio
6 43 (1.06%) Subversion
7 36 (0.88%) JDeveloper
8 31 (0.76%) JUnit
8 31 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 29 (0.71%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.71%) LabVIEW
10 27 (0.66%) TeamCity
11 25 (0.61%) CMake
12 24 (0.59%) Maven
13 23 (0.56%) Bitbucket
14 22 (0.54%) webpack
15 21 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
16 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
16 20 (0.49%) Selenium
17 19 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 758 (18.61%) Finance
2 662 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 332 (8.15%) Front Office
4 310 (7.61%) Banking
5 263 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 198 (4.86%) Investment Banking
7 147 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 141 (3.46%) Electronics
9 129 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 111 (2.73%) Public Sector
11 100 (2.46%) Retail
12 82 (2.01%) Law
13 81 (1.99%) Tech for Good
14 78 (1.92%) Automotive
15 75 (1.84%) Marketing
16 61 (1.50%) Legal
17 58 (1.42%) Back Office
18 57 (1.40%) Games
19 53 (1.30%) Telecoms
20 44 (1.08%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,312 (56.76%) Software Engineer
2 1,287 (31.60%) Senior
3 955 (23.45%) Developer
4 953 (23.40%) Senior Software Engineer
5 368 (9.04%) Embedded Engineer
6 348 (8.54%) Lead
7 320 (7.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 244 (5.99%) Senior Developer
9 241 (5.92%) Software Developer
10 235 (5.77%) Java Engineer
11 216 (5.30%) Java Software Engineer
12 178 (4.37%) Python Engineer
13 158 (3.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 151 (3.71%) Python Software Engineer
15 147 (3.61%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 143 (3.51%) Python Developer
16 143 (3.51%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 136 (3.34%) Architect
18 132 (3.24%) .NET Developer
19 131 (3.22%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 924 (22.69%) .NET
2 871 (21.38%) React
3 401 (9.85%) CSS
4 384 (9.43%) .NET Core
5 346 (8.49%) Node.js
6 320 (7.86%) AngularJS
7 264 (6.48%) RESTful
8 233 (5.72%) HTML
9 228 (5.60%) gRPC
10 218 (5.35%) Protocol Buffers
11 216 (5.30%) Pandas
12 215 (5.28%) Leaflet
12 215 (5.28%) OpenLayers
12 215 (5.28%) PostGIS
13 200 (4.91%) NumPy
14 187 (4.59%) SciPy
15 182 (4.47%) ASP.NET
16 175 (4.30%) Vue
17 161 (3.95%) Kafka
18 156 (3.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 325 (7.98%) Fixed Income
2 284 (6.97%) Derivative
3 279 (6.85%) Equities
4 277 (6.80%) Hedge funds
5 251 (6.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 185 (4.54%) Algorithms
7 182 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
8 158 (3.88%) Client/Server
9 142 (3.49%) Data Structures
10 108 (2.65%) Cloud Native
11 101 (2.48%) Product Ownership
12 92 (2.26%) IoT
13 89 (2.19%) Onboarding
14 84 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
15 77 (1.89%) Virtual Team
16 73 (1.79%) Mobile App
17 69 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
18 63 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
19 57 (1.40%) Private Cloud
20 52 (1.28%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 551 (13.53%) Linux
2 181 (4.44%) Windows
3 129 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
4 95 (2.33%) Android
5 88 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 82 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.69%) Unix
8 26 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
9 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 20 (0.49%) CentOS
11 11 (0.27%) Debian
12 9 (0.22%) Windows Server
13 6 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
14 5 (0.12%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.12%) VxWorks
14 5 (0.12%) Windows Mobile
15 2 (0.049%) VMS
15 2 (0.049%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,751 (42.99%) Agile
2 928 (22.78%) DevOps
3 725 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
4 559 (13.72%) Computer Science
5 521 (12.79%) Full Stack Development
6 515 (12.64%) CI/CD
7 502 (12.33%) Mentoring
8 431 (10.58%) Microservices
9 354 (8.69%) Actionable Insight
10 346 (8.49%) TDD
11 323 (7.93%) Asset Management
12 315 (7.73%) Web Development
13 306 (7.51%) Continuous Integration
14 288 (7.07%) SDLC
15 287 (7.05%) Test Automation
16 284 (6.97%) Investment Management
17 262 (6.43%) Coaching
18 259 (6.36%) Scrum
19 249 (6.11%) Design Patterns
20 241 (5.92%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,479 (36.31%) Python
2 1,112 (27.30%) JavaScript
3 1,005 (24.67%) C#
4 1,003 (24.63%) Java
5 653 (16.03%) TypeScript
6 620 (15.22%) SQL
7 540 (13.26%) C
8 394 (9.67%) C++
9 180 (4.42%) Embedded C
10 171 (4.20%) Go
11 165 (4.05%) Bash
12 164 (4.03%) PHP
13 153 (3.76%) Kotlin
14 124 (3.04%) Ruby
15 98 (2.41%) Scala
16 89 (2.19%) Rust
17 68 (1.67%) T-SQL
18 54 (1.33%) R
19 41 (1.01%) Perl
20 40 (0.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 717 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 656 (16.11%) Degree
3 472 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 234 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 120 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 94 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 40 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 33 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 29 (0.71%) PhD
10 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.32%) HNC
12 12 (0.29%) HND
13 8 (0.20%) MCSE
13 8 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.15%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.12%) CCIE
15 5 (0.12%) JNCIE
15 5 (0.12%) OCP
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
15 5 (0.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (4.35%) QA
2 71 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 60 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 24 (0.59%) MISRA
5 23 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
6 13 (0.32%) NCSC
7 10 (0.25%) Def Stans
7 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.20%) WCAG
9 6 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.15%) ISO 9000
10 5 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.098%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.098%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.098%) MISRA C
12 3 (0.074%) GDPR
12 3 (0.074%) NIST
12 3 (0.074%) PMO
13 2 (0.049%) NIST 800
System Software
1 424 (10.41%) Docker
2 143 (3.51%) Firmware
3 64 (1.57%) Embedded Firmware
4 16 (0.39%) Active Directory
5 11 (0.27%) IAG
6 4 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.074%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.025%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.025%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 385 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 263 (6.46%) Terraform
3 127 (3.12%) Ansible
4 26 (0.64%) Grafana
4 26 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 17 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (0.12%) Kibana
7 4 (0.098%) Packer
7 4 (0.098%) Puppet
8 3 (0.074%) Consul
8 3 (0.074%) Istio
8 3 (0.074%) logstash
8 3 (0.074%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.049%) Argo
9 2 (0.049%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.049%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.049%) Nessus
9 2 (0.049%) SCCM
9 2 (0.049%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 310 (7.61%) Microsoft
2 215 (5.28%) ESRI
3 114 (2.80%) Google
4 88 (2.16%) Oracle
5 38 (0.93%) Bloomberg
5 38 (0.93%) Xamarin
6 37 (0.91%) Dell
7 29 (0.71%) Micro Focus
7 29 (0.71%) SAP
8 26 (0.64%) IBM
9 24 (0.59%) Xilinx
10 23 (0.56%) Adobe
11 17 (0.42%) Twitter
12 14 (0.34%) NVIDIA
13 13 (0.32%) Databricks
14 12 (0.29%) DevExpress
15 11 (0.27%) EMC
15 11 (0.27%) Siemens
16 9 (0.22%) Sage
16 9 (0.22%) Splunk