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 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,504 2,314 4,744
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.73% 14.02% 18.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.72% 15.23% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,336 1,520 3,318
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,462 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,125 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 20,956 15,194 24,337
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.07% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,101 9,406 17,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4 August 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 4 August 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.

1 721 (20.58%) Agile
2 691 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 671 (19.15%) Azure
4 627 (17.89%) AWS
5 604 (17.24%) Software Engineering
6 555 (15.84%) AI
7 549 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 535 (15.27%) CI/CD
9 509 (14.53%) Python
10 465 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
11 463 (13.21%) DevOps
12 442 (12.61%) Microsoft
13 372 (10.62%) SQL
14 360 (10.27%) Coaching
15 331 (9.45%) Degree
16 327 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
17 320 (9.13%) Analytics
18 316 (9.02%) Security Cleared
19 313 (8.93%) Project Delivery
20 293 (8.36%) Decision-Making
21 282 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 272 (7.76%) C#
23 267 (7.62%) Roadmaps
24 262 (7.48%) SC Cleared
25 259 (7.39%) Test Automation
26 250 (7.13%) JavaScript
27 234 (6.68%) GCP
28 227 (6.48%) QA
29 217 (6.19%) .NET
29 217 (6.19%) SaaS

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 95 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.68%) CMS
4 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.60%) Confluence
6 19 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 14 (0.40%) WordPress
9 12 (0.34%) IIS
10 9 (0.26%) Apache
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.086%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.086%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.086%) Artix
12 3 (0.086%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.086%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.057%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.029%) Appian
Applications
1 81 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.23%) Civil 3D
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.17%) InDesign
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.086%) Blender
10 3 (0.086%) Maya
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.057%) SPSS
12 1 (0.029%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.17%) Shopify
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.086%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.086%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 671 (19.15%) Azure
2 627 (17.89%) AWS
3 234 (6.68%) GCP
4 217 (6.19%) SaaS
5 150 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
6 148 (4.22%) Power Platform
7 135 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 121 (3.45%) Serverless
9 92 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (2.60%) GitHub
11 52 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (1.34%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 44 (1.26%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 39 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 39 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (1.00%) Azure AKS
18 34 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 144 (4.11%) Firewall
2 102 (2.91%) Broadband
3 75 (2.14%) Network Security
4 72 (2.05%) DNS
5 60 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
6 58 (1.66%) VLAN
7 56 (1.60%) VPN
8 50 (1.43%) WAN
9 49 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 49 (1.40%) Wireless
10 46 (1.31%) LAN
11 43 (1.23%) DHCP
12 26 (0.74%) BGP
13 22 (0.63%) RS-232
14 19 (0.54%) OSPF
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.46%) WLAN
18 15 (0.43%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (3.28%) Power BI
3 90 (2.57%) SQL Server
4 63 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 50 (1.43%) Metadata
6 42 (1.20%) MySQL
6 42 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 35 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (0.86%) Tableau
10 28 (0.80%) DynamoDB
11 26 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 26 (0.74%) OLTP
12 24 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 19 (0.54%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.46%) Redis
15 15 (0.43%) Big Data
16 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 111 (3.17%) Git
2 57 (1.63%) JIRA
3 41 (1.17%) GitLab
4 34 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 21 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.43%) Selenium
9 14 (0.40%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
12 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.17%) Maven
14 6 (0.17%) Mockito
15 5 (0.14%) MLflow
15 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 849 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 580 (16.55%) Finance
3 374 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 296 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 271 (7.73%) Legal
6 245 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
7 223 (6.36%) Law
8 127 (3.62%) Marketing
9 123 (3.51%) Banking
10 84 (2.40%) Retail
11 73 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 68 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.77%) Games
14 55 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (1.34%) Electronics
17 45 (1.28%) Local Government
18 44 (1.26%) Legal Technology
19 39 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
20 25 (0.71%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (6.19%) .NET
2 165 (4.71%) React
3 113 (3.22%) Node.js
4 89 (2.54%) HTML
5 86 (2.45%) REST
6 76 (2.17%) CSS
7 73 (2.08%) RESTful
8 50 (1.43%) Spring
9 37 (1.06%) Vue
10 36 (1.03%) AngularJS
10 36 (1.03%) HTML5 Canvas
11 34 (0.97%) Spring Boot
12 33 (0.94%) Kafka
13 32 (0.91%) Laravel
14 29 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
15 28 (0.80%) SPFx
16 26 (0.74%) Playwright
16 26 (0.74%) PySpark
17 25 (0.71%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.71%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 220 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.83%) Product Ownership
3 96 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (2.11%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.86%) Virtual Team
6 60 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 53 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 53 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (1.43%) Social Media
9 45 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 45 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 40 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 39 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 39 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 38 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 37 (1.06%) Security Posture
15 34 (0.97%) Low-Code
16 33 (0.94%) Onboarding
17 31 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 175 (4.99%) Linux
2 125 (3.57%) Windows
3 57 (1.63%) Unix
4 51 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.20%) Android
5 42 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.086%) Debian
13 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.029%) AIX
14 1 (0.029%) CentOS
14 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (20.58%) Agile
2 691 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 604 (17.24%) Software Engineering
4 555 (15.84%) AI
5 549 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 535 (15.27%) CI/CD
7 465 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
8 463 (13.21%) DevOps
9 360 (10.27%) Coaching
10 327 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
11 320 (9.13%) Analytics
12 313 (8.93%) Project Delivery
13 293 (8.36%) Decision-Making
14 282 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 267 (7.62%) Roadmaps
16 259 (7.39%) Test Automation
17 214 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
18 210 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 186 (5.31%) Collaborative Working
20 185 (5.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 509 (14.53%) Python
2 372 (10.62%) SQL
3 272 (7.76%) C#
4 250 (7.13%) JavaScript
5 209 (5.96%) Java
6 206 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 132 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.83%) C++
9 62 (1.77%) PHP
10 61 (1.74%) Go
11 50 (1.43%) C
12 47 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 43 (1.23%) Bash
14 27 (0.77%) Embedded C
15 23 (0.66%) Bicep
15 23 (0.66%) R
16 22 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.57%) Rust
17 20 (0.57%) Scala
18 19 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 331 (9.45%) Degree
2 316 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 262 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.85%) CISSP
5 91 (2.60%) CISM
6 66 (1.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.57%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
8 54 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 41 (1.17%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 38 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.80%) PhD
15 26 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.66%) ACCA
18 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (6.48%) QA
2 100 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 73 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 64 (1.83%) NIST
6 58 (1.66%) GDPR
7 47 (1.34%) GRC
8 29 (0.83%) PMO
9 22 (0.63%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) NCSC
11 16 (0.46%) WCAG
12 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.29%) COBIT
15 9 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
18 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 163 (4.65%) Docker
2 133 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.91%) vSphere
6 27 (0.77%) Firmware
7 15 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.26%) vCloud
10 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.086%) iptables
13 2 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 195 (5.57%) Kubernetes
2 193 (5.51%) Terraform
3 95 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.97%) Ansible
5 27 (0.77%) Grafana
6 21 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.51%) Argo
8 9 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.17%) Avamar
10 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.17%) SCCM
10 6 (0.17%) VxRail
11 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.14%) Istio
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 442 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 129 (3.68%) Oracle
3 103 (2.94%) Adobe
4 79 (2.25%) Google
5 70 (2.00%) Cisco
6 69 (1.97%) Palo Alto
7 65 (1.86%) SAP
8 64 (1.83%) VMware
9 61 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 59 (1.68%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.54%) CyberArk
12 50 (1.43%) Databricks
13 38 (1.08%) Apple
14 33 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (0.80%) Dell
15 28 (0.80%) Pega
16 27 (0.77%) Tenable
17 23 (0.66%) Informatica
18 20 (0.57%) Aruba
18 20 (0.57%) Meraki