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 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,621 2,598 4,986
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.54% 18.73% 16.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.56% 19.75% 17.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,858 1,791 4,155
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,650
25th Percentile £59,438 £56,250 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 15,824 13,152 28,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 94.81% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,722 8,976 23,963
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 15 March 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 15 March 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.

1 575 (21.94%) Azure
2 538 (20.53%) Mentoring
3 534 (20.37%) Agile
4 454 (17.32%) AWS
5 387 (14.77%) Software Engineering
6 385 (14.69%) CI/CD
7 383 (14.61%) SQL
8 354 (13.51%) Coaching
9 353 (13.47%) DevOps
10 328 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
11 320 (12.21%) AI
12 319 (12.17%) Python
13 314 (11.98%) Microsoft
14 302 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 260 (9.92%) Degree
16 233 (8.89%) Security Cleared
17 228 (8.70%) Roadmaps
18 224 (8.55%) Analytics
19 218 (8.32%) Java
20 214 (8.16%) SaaS
21 209 (7.97%) .NET
22 206 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
23 198 (7.55%) GCP
24 191 (7.29%) Test Automation
25 190 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
26 189 (7.21%) Kubernetes
27 173 (6.60%) Terraform
28 170 (6.49%) Microservices
29 169 (6.45%) SC Cleared
30 168 (6.41%) C#

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 61 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.88%) Confluence
4 23 (0.88%) WordPress
5 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.69%) CMS
7 13 (0.50%) Apache
8 11 (0.42%) JBoss
8 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.23%) SAS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.076%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.076%) nginx
14 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) InVision
9 3 (0.11%) Maya
9 3 (0.11%) MotionBuilder
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Weka
10 2 (0.076%) Revit
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
2 24 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 23 (0.88%) Shopify
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.42%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
10 6 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
10 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.19%) Magento
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 575 (21.94%) Azure
2 454 (17.32%) AWS
3 214 (8.16%) SaaS
4 198 (7.55%) GCP
5 120 (4.58%) GitHub
6 114 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 108 (4.12%) Entra ID
8 107 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
10 84 (3.20%) Serverless
11 60 (2.29%) dbt
12 58 (2.21%) Snowflake
13 45 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.49%) PowerApps
15 38 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
16 35 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
17 33 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (1.22%) Figma
19 31 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 109 (4.16%) Broadband
2 66 (2.52%) Firewall
3 45 (1.72%) VPN
4 43 (1.64%) WAN
5 40 (1.53%) DNS
5 40 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.34%) DHCP
7 27 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.99%) LAN
8 26 (0.99%) Network Security
9 18 (0.69%) Ethernet
10 17 (0.65%) Wireless
11 16 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.57%) BGP
13 14 (0.53%) RS-232
14 12 (0.46%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.42%) HTTP
16 9 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
17 8 (0.31%) OSPF
18 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.16%) SQL Server
2 84 (3.20%) Power BI
3 77 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.56%) Metadata
7 38 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 36 (1.37%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.18%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (1.03%) Tableau
12 26 (0.99%) MySQL
12 26 (0.99%) Redis
13 23 (0.88%) OLTP
14 18 (0.69%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
15 17 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (0.61%) Looker
Development Applications
1 80 (3.05%) JIRA
2 76 (2.90%) Git
3 64 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 35 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.03%) GitLab
7 22 (0.84%) Selenium
8 13 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
10 10 (0.38%) Postman
11 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.31%) JUnit
11 8 (0.31%) Subversion
11 8 (0.31%) webpack
12 7 (0.27%) git-flow
12 7 (0.27%) JMeter
12 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.27%) XCUITest
General
1 569 (21.71%) Finance
2 529 (20.18%) Social Skills
3 274 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 173 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 163 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (4.96%) Marketing
7 129 (4.92%) Law
8 115 (4.39%) Retail
9 99 (3.78%) Banking
10 82 (3.13%) Legal
11 80 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 78 (2.98%) Telecoms
13 74 (2.82%) Games
14 43 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 42 (1.60%) Financial Institution
16 40 (1.53%) Manufacturing
17 32 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (0.95%) Back Office
19 21 (0.80%) Publishing
20 20 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (7.97%) .NET
2 138 (5.27%) React
3 118 (4.50%) REST
4 104 (3.97%) SOAP
5 85 (3.24%) HTML
6 82 (3.13%) RESTful
7 69 (2.63%) GraphQL
7 69 (2.63%) Node.js
8 65 (2.48%) OAuth
9 60 (2.29%) CSS
10 54 (2.06%) Spring
11 50 (1.91%) Kafka
12 44 (1.68%) OpenID
13 42 (1.60%) Spring Boot
14 40 (1.53%) SAML
15 37 (1.41%) .NET Core
16 36 (1.37%) XML
17 35 (1.34%) LDAP
18 31 (1.18%) Django
19 26 (0.99%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 176 (6.71%) Cloud Native
2 95 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 84 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.44%) Social Media
5 62 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.56%) Cyberattack
7 41 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 39 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 38 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 37 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
12 31 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 28 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
16 26 (0.99%) Low-Code
17 23 (0.88%) Over-the-Top Content
18 22 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 141 (5.38%) Linux
2 89 (3.40%) Windows
3 67 (2.56%) Android
4 55 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.18%) Unix
7 24 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.46%) VMS
9 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.076%) CentOS
11 2 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (20.53%) Mentoring
2 534 (20.37%) Agile
3 387 (14.77%) Software Engineering
4 385 (14.69%) CI/CD
5 354 (13.51%) Coaching
6 353 (13.47%) DevOps
7 328 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
8 320 (12.21%) AI
9 302 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 228 (8.70%) Roadmaps
11 224 (8.55%) Analytics
12 206 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
13 191 (7.29%) Test Automation
14 190 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 170 (6.49%) Microservices
16 159 (6.07%) User Experience
17 147 (5.61%) Decision-Making
17 147 (5.61%) Full-Stack Development
18 141 (5.38%) Infrastructure as Code
19 139 (5.30%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 383 (14.61%) SQL
2 319 (12.17%) Python
3 218 (8.32%) Java
4 168 (6.41%) C#
5 151 (5.76%) JavaScript
6 135 (5.15%) TypeScript
7 83 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.71%) Bash
9 68 (2.59%) Go
10 63 (2.40%) C++
11 52 (1.98%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.95%) PHP
13 46 (1.76%) Scala
14 38 (1.45%) T-SQL
15 34 (1.30%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.14%) C
17 21 (0.80%) Bicep
18 20 (0.76%) VBA
19 15 (0.57%) Ruby
20 14 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 260 (9.92%) Degree
2 233 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 169 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.53%) ACCA
6 40 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 31 (1.18%) CISSP
9 26 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.76%) CIMA
13 17 (0.65%) CISM
14 15 (0.57%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.57%) PhD
15 14 (0.53%) CREST Certified
16 12 (0.46%) OSCP
17 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (3.62%) QA
2 63 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.06%) NIST
5 53 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.79%) GDPR
7 34 (1.30%) NCSC
8 21 (0.80%) IFRS
9 15 (0.57%) PMO
10 14 (0.53%) P3O
11 13 (0.50%) GRC
12 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.38%) SLA
14 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.31%) GAAP
16 7 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 168 (6.41%) Docker
2 112 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.31%) Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) vSphere
10 2 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.076%) vCloud
10 2 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.038%) Ceph
11 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.038%) Lustre
11 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 189 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 173 (6.60%) Terraform
3 54 (2.06%) Grafana
4 44 (1.68%) Ansible
5 43 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.50%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 10 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.15%) Argo
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.11%) Plesk
15 2 (0.076%) Nagios
15 2 (0.076%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 314 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.07%) Oracle
3 77 (2.94%) Databricks
4 62 (2.37%) Google
5 57 (2.17%) VMware
6 56 (2.14%) Adobe
7 52 (1.98%) Cisco
8 51 (1.95%) SAP
9 50 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 27 (1.03%) Okta
11 26 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.72%) Apple
13 16 (0.61%) Workday
14 15 (0.57%) Dell
15 14 (0.53%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
16 13 (0.50%) Palo Alto
17 12 (0.46%) IBM
17 12 (0.46%) Samsung
17 12 (0.46%) Talend