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 £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 385 496
Rank change year-on-year -11 +111 -196
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer/Software Engineer 185 301 411
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.74% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.77% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 181 291 314
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £102,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £142,500 £125,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £165,000 £151,250 £130,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £97,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% +11.76%

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 32,489 38,930 69,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,845 27,706 42,291
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £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%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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.

1 177 (95.68%) Software Engineering
2 176 (95.14%) AWS
3 172 (92.97%) Python
4 168 (90.81%) Agile
5 167 (90.27%) Finance
6 165 (89.19%) JavaScript
7 163 (88.11%) GCP
8 161 (87.03%) Front Office
8 161 (87.03%) Asset Management
9 160 (86.49%) Fixed Income
10 156 (84.32%) TypeScript
11 127 (68.65%) Investment Management
12 112 (60.54%) Derivative
13 110 (59.46%) Equities
13 110 (59.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 105 (56.76%) React
15 103 (55.68%) gRPC
15 103 (55.68%) Apache Airflow
15 103 (55.68%) Protocol Buffers
16 98 (52.97%) Hedge funds
17 91 (49.19%) Apache
17 91 (49.19%) Apache Ignite
18 89 (48.11%) Pandas
19 86 (46.49%) Redux
20 85 (45.95%) Java
21 77 (41.62%) SciPy
21 77 (41.62%) NumPy
21 77 (41.62%) Amazon Athena
21 77 (41.62%) Dremio
21 77 (41.62%) dbt

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
1 103 (55.68%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (49.19%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 176 (95.14%) AWS
2 163 (88.11%) GCP
3 77 (41.62%) dbt
4 65 (35.14%) Azure
5 48 (25.95%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.32%) Serverless
7 3 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (49.19%) Apache Ignite
2 77 (41.62%) Amazon Athena
2 77 (41.62%) Apache Arrow
2 77 (41.62%) Dremio
3 48 (25.95%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.32%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.78%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.24%) MySQL
7 2 (1.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (3.24%) JIRA
2 3 (1.62%) Git
3 2 (1.08%) Maven
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 167 (90.27%) Finance
2 161 (87.03%) Front Office
3 69 (37.30%) Banking
4 63 (34.05%) Investment Banking
5 44 (23.78%) Back Office
6 4 (2.16%) Retail
7 2 (1.08%) Advertising
7 2 (1.08%) Automotive
7 2 (1.08%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (56.76%) React
2 103 (55.68%) gRPC
2 103 (55.68%) Protocol Buffers
3 89 (48.11%) Pandas
4 86 (46.49%) Redux
5 77 (41.62%) NumPy
5 77 (41.62%) SciPy
6 69 (37.30%) AngularJS
6 69 (37.30%) Vue
7 52 (28.11%) Node.js
8 45 (24.32%) .NET
9 30 (16.22%) ASP.NET
10 28 (15.14%) Material-UI
11 27 (14.59%) ASP.NET Core
12 17 (9.19%) GraphQL
13 15 (8.11%) .NET Core
14 5 (2.70%) HTML
14 5 (2.70%) RESTful
15 4 (2.16%) Web Services
16 3 (1.62%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 160 (86.49%) Fixed Income
2 112 (60.54%) Derivative
3 110 (59.46%) Equities
3 110 (59.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 98 (52.97%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.08%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.08%) IoT
6 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.41%) Linux
2 8 (4.32%) Unix
3 6 (3.24%) Android
3 6 (3.24%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (95.68%) Software Engineering
2 168 (90.81%) Agile
3 161 (87.03%) Asset Management
4 127 (68.65%) Investment Management
5 48 (25.95%) Line Management
6 44 (23.78%) Fintech
6 44 (23.78%) Performance Attribution
7 43 (23.24%) Analytics
8 41 (22.16%) Full Stack Development
9 21 (11.35%) Mentoring
10 16 (8.65%) Risk Analytics
10 16 (8.65%) User Experience
11 14 (7.57%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 14 (7.57%) Front End Development
12 10 (5.41%) CI/CD
13 9 (4.86%) Data Architecture
14 8 (4.32%) Product Management
15 6 (3.24%) Cybersecurity
15 6 (3.24%) Data Engineering
15 6 (3.24%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 172 (92.97%) Python
2 165 (89.19%) JavaScript
3 156 (84.32%) TypeScript
4 85 (45.95%) Java
5 47 (25.41%) SQL
6 45 (24.32%) C#
7 22 (11.89%) Kotlin
8 15 (8.11%) Ruby
9 9 (4.86%) Scala
10 8 (4.32%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.24%) Perl
12 4 (2.16%) Rust
13 2 (1.08%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (3.24%) AWS Certification
1 6 (3.24%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.08%) EMIR
1 2 (1.08%) MiFID
2 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 6 (3.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.24%) Facebook
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.08%) Google
3 2 (1.08%) QNX