Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,762 2,185 4,286
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.60% 13.45% 18.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.64% 14.51% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,466 1,452 2,571
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,027 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,322 £56,791 £53,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.11% -6.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -6.47%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 22,608 15,056 22,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 92.68% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 8,997 14,462
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior job vacancies

Senior
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Senior salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior in the job title.

1 744 (19.78%) Agile
2 728 (19.35%) Mentoring
3 702 (18.66%) Azure
4 631 (16.77%) Software Engineering
5 624 (16.59%) AWS
6 614 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 583 (15.50%) AI
8 575 (15.28%) CI/CD
9 510 (13.56%) Python
10 489 (13.00%) DevOps
11 476 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
12 469 (12.47%) Microsoft
13 423 (11.24%) SQL
14 384 (10.21%) Coaching
15 373 (9.91%) Degree
16 356 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
16 356 (9.46%) Project Delivery
17 346 (9.20%) Decision-Making
18 345 (9.17%) Security Cleared
19 341 (9.06%) Analytics
20 306 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 293 (7.79%) SC Cleared
22 279 (7.42%) C#
23 262 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
24 250 (6.65%) Roadmaps
25 235 (6.25%) Test Automation
26 233 (6.19%) JavaScript
27 232 (6.17%) GCP
28 230 (6.11%) QA
29 229 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code

Senior Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 97 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.58%) Confluence
5 20 (0.53%) CMS
6 14 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.35%) WordPress
8 12 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 10 (0.27%) Apache
9 10 (0.27%) IIS
9 10 (0.27%) SAS
10 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.080%) Artix
12 3 (0.080%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.080%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.080%) Moodle
13 2 (0.053%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 76 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
1 76 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.27%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.24%) InDesign
7 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.080%) Blender
11 3 (0.080%) Maya
11 3 (0.080%) Trello
12 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.053%) Revit
12 2 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.64%) Cloudability
2 19 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 9 (0.24%) Shopify
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.16%) Primavera
12 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
13 3 (0.080%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.080%) Misys Midas
13 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
13 3 (0.080%) SAP Payroll
14 2 (0.053%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 702 (18.66%) Azure
2 624 (16.59%) AWS
3 232 (6.17%) GCP
4 217 (5.77%) SaaS
5 163 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
6 154 (4.09%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.69%) Entra ID
8 110 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
8 110 (2.92%) Serverless
9 104 (2.76%) GitHub
10 52 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 48 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 45 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (1.14%) PowerApps
15 42 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (1.09%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 159 (4.23%) Firewall
2 89 (2.37%) Network Security
3 78 (2.07%) DNS
4 76 (2.02%) VLAN
5 62 (1.65%) Broadband
5 62 (1.65%) VPN
6 59 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
7 53 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 53 (1.41%) Wireless
8 52 (1.38%) WAN
9 47 (1.25%) DHCP
10 45 (1.20%) LAN
11 29 (0.77%) BGP
12 22 (0.58%) OSPF
13 21 (0.56%) SMS
14 19 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (0.45%) RS-232
15 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.43%) HTTP
17 14 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (3.16%) Power BI
3 97 (2.58%) SQL Server
4 68 (1.81%) Metadata
5 63 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 55 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 46 (1.22%) MySQL
9 45 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 40 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 26 (0.69%) Tableau
12 24 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 21 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.48%) OLTP
16 16 (0.43%) Big Data
17 15 (0.40%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 131 (3.48%) Git
2 59 (1.57%) JIRA
3 38 (1.01%) GitLab
4 27 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.66%) Snyk
6 19 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.37%) JUnit
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.27%) Postman
11 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.24%) Maven
12 7 (0.19%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.11%) MLflow
14 4 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 949 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 614 (16.32%) Finance
3 440 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 333 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 285 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 265 (7.04%) Legal
7 234 (6.22%) Law
8 146 (3.88%) Banking
9 126 (3.35%) Marketing
10 98 (2.60%) Retail
11 73 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 70 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 66 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 64 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 62 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
16 56 (1.49%) Local Government
17 53 (1.41%) Electronics
18 48 (1.28%) Games
19 43 (1.14%) Legal Technology
20 42 (1.12%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (5.69%) Terraform
2 205 (5.45%) .NET
3 156 (4.15%) React
4 119 (3.16%) Node.js
5 95 (2.53%) REST
6 92 (2.45%) HTML
7 85 (2.26%) CSS
8 78 (2.07%) RESTful
9 65 (1.73%) Spring
10 44 (1.17%) Spring Boot
11 42 (1.12%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.12%) PySpark
12 35 (0.93%) Laravel
13 34 (0.90%) Kafka
14 33 (0.88%) Vue
15 32 (0.85%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.82%) Next.js
17 28 (0.74%) JSON
17 28 (0.74%) Web Services
18 27 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.74%) Driving Licence
3 97 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 94 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 83 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 57 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 56 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 55 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 45 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 44 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 41 (1.09%) Blog
14 40 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (1.04%) Mobile App
16 34 (0.90%) Security Posture
17 33 (0.88%) Algorithms
18 32 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
19 30 (0.80%) Low-Code
20 28 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.36%) Linux
2 149 (3.96%) Windows
3 63 (1.67%) Unix
4 60 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.64%) Android
7 22 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 10 (0.27%) VMS
11 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.080%) Debian
14 2 (0.053%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.027%) AIX
15 1 (0.027%) CentOS
15 1 (0.027%) Solaris
15 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (19.78%) Agile
2 728 (19.35%) Mentoring
3 631 (16.77%) Software Engineering
4 614 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 583 (15.50%) AI
6 575 (15.28%) CI/CD
7 489 (13.00%) DevOps
8 476 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
9 384 (10.21%) Coaching
10 356 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
10 356 (9.46%) Project Delivery
11 346 (9.20%) Decision-Making
12 341 (9.06%) Analytics
13 306 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 262 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 250 (6.65%) Roadmaps
16 235 (6.25%) Test Automation
17 229 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code
18 199 (5.29%) Technical Leadership
19 188 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 510 (13.56%) Python
2 423 (11.24%) SQL
3 279 (7.42%) C#
4 233 (6.19%) JavaScript
5 217 (5.77%) Java
6 202 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 139 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.60%) C++
9 56 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 52 (1.38%) PHP
11 49 (1.30%) Go
12 48 (1.28%) C
13 46 (1.22%) Kotlin
14 34 (0.90%) Bash
15 26 (0.69%) Bicep
16 24 (0.64%) Embedded C
17 21 (0.56%) R
17 21 (0.56%) Swift
18 20 (0.53%) Ruby
19 19 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 373 (9.91%) Degree
2 345 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 293 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.58%) CISSP
5 91 (2.42%) CISM
6 70 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 56 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.44%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
9 50 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 48 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.04%) HNC
13 38 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 38 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 29 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.66%) ACCA
17 24 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (6.11%) QA
2 124 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 106 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 70 (1.86%) GDPR
6 60 (1.59%) NIST
7 48 (1.28%) GRC
8 32 (0.85%) PMO
9 23 (0.61%) WCAG
10 21 (0.56%) SLA
11 20 (0.53%) NCSC
12 13 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.27%) COBIT
15 9 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.21%) GxP
16 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 175 (4.65%) Docker
2 140 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (0.96%) vSphere
6 26 (0.69%) Firmware
7 22 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.24%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.080%) iptables
13 2 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.027%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.027%) GPFS
14 1 (0.027%) Lustre
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 197 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 105 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.12%) Ansible
4 26 (0.69%) Grafana
5 18 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.45%) Argo
7 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.16%) Avamar
10 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.16%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.11%) FTK
12 4 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 469 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 127 (3.38%) Oracle
3 89 (2.37%) Adobe
4 82 (2.18%) Google
5 69 (1.83%) VMware
6 65 (1.73%) Cisco
7 64 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 62 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.59%) Palo Alto
10 54 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 53 (1.41%) SAP
12 48 (1.28%) Databricks
13 35 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
14 32 (0.85%) Informatica
15 31 (0.82%) Apple
16 30 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 28 (0.74%) Tenable
18 27 (0.72%) Pega
19 21 (0.56%) Aruba
19 21 (0.56%) Dell