Senior IT Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior IT Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior IT Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 538 617
Rank change year-on-year +135 +79 +190
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 10 51 54
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 51 49
10th Percentile £35,200 £37,500 £34,201
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,125 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £59,000 £78,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior IT Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior IT Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior IT Engineer.

Senior IT Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior IT Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior IT Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Senior IT Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior IT 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (80.00%) DNS
3 7 (70.00%) Degree
3 7 (70.00%) Azure
4 6 (60.00%) AWS
4 6 (60.00%) Driving Licence
4 6 (60.00%) VPN
4 6 (60.00%) DHCP
4 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (60.00%) Firewall
5 5 (50.00%) VMware
5 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
5 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (40.00%) VLAN
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (40.00%) Linux
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (40.00%) MCP
6 4 (40.00%) VoIP
6 4 (40.00%) MCSA
6 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (30.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management

Senior IT 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 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) VPN
3 4 (40.00%) VLAN
3 4 (40.00%) VoIP
4 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (30.00%) Android
3 3 (30.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (30.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Coaching
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Presales
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) MCP
2 4 (40.00%) MCSA
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (10.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Apple
3 3 (30.00%) SonicWALL
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle