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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,253 2,231 6,158
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.10% 14.40% 17.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.14% 15.63% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,310 1,386 4,590
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,375 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,338 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.43% +9.34% -10.71%

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 18,980 14,273 33,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 92.11% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,861 8,743 26,122
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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.

1 645 (19.83%) Agile
2 608 (18.69%) Mentoring
3 577 (17.74%) Azure
4 546 (16.78%) AWS
5 482 (14.82%) Software Engineering
6 441 (13.56%) AI
7 401 (12.33%) CI/CD
8 391 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
9 383 (11.77%) Python
10 374 (11.50%) Coaching
11 365 (11.22%) SQL
12 363 (11.16%) Microsoft
13 350 (10.76%) DevOps
14 329 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 303 (9.31%) Degree
16 300 (9.22%) Analytics
17 297 (9.13%) Security Cleared
18 292 (8.98%) Roadmaps
19 235 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
20 233 (7.16%) Java
20 233 (7.16%) SC Cleared
21 232 (7.13%) Decision-Making
22 215 (6.61%) Project Delivery
23 211 (6.49%) Test Automation
24 200 (6.15%) GCP
25 196 (6.03%) Kubernetes
26 192 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
27 179 (5.50%) .NET
28 178 (5.47%) SaaS
29 177 (5.44%) 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 90 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 32 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (0.71%) CMS
5 18 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.46%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) IIS
7 10 (0.31%) SAS
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 8 (0.25%) Apache
8 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.092%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.092%) Artix
9 3 (0.092%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.092%) JBoss
9 3 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.092%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.061%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.061%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 84 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.15%) InDesign
9 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 4 (0.12%) Trello
10 3 (0.092%) Blender
10 3 (0.092%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.092%) Maya
11 2 (0.061%) SPSS
11 2 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
3 14 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
5 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.28%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.092%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.092%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.092%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.092%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.092%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.092%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 577 (17.74%) Azure
2 546 (16.78%) AWS
3 200 (6.15%) GCP
4 178 (5.47%) SaaS
5 141 (4.33%) Power Platform
6 130 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 122 (3.75%) Serverless
8 91 (2.80%) Entra ID
9 80 (2.46%) GitHub
10 78 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.60%) PowerApps
12 46 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 41 (1.26%) Figma
15 39 (1.20%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.05%) Amazon S3
16 34 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
17 33 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 149 (4.58%) Broadband
2 97 (2.98%) Firewall
3 65 (2.00%) DNS
4 61 (1.88%) VPN
5 44 (1.35%) WAN
6 41 (1.26%) DHCP
7 36 (1.11%) Wireless
8 33 (1.01%) Network Security
8 33 (1.01%) TCP/IP
9 32 (0.98%) LAN
10 28 (0.86%) BGP
10 28 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (0.83%) SD-WAN
12 23 (0.71%) RS-232
13 20 (0.61%) OSPF
14 17 (0.52%) Ethernet
15 16 (0.49%) VLAN
16 14 (0.43%) HTTP
17 13 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
18 12 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.10%) Power BI
2 91 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 87 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.60%) Metadata
6 35 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (0.98%) OLTP
8 31 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 31 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 30 (0.92%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.86%) MySQL
11 27 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 27 (0.83%) Tableau
12 26 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 22 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (0.52%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (2.58%) Git
2 59 (1.81%) JIRA
3 47 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.20%) GitLab
5 38 (1.17%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.77%) Snyk
7 24 (0.74%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.52%) Selenium
9 11 (0.34%) Postman
10 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.25%) MLflow
10 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
11 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.22%) JMeter
11 7 (0.22%) JUnit
11 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.18%) NUnit
13 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 660 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 548 (16.85%) Finance
3 408 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 234 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 212 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (4.06%) Law
7 124 (3.81%) Banking
8 123 (3.78%) Marketing
9 99 (3.04%) Legal
10 81 (2.49%) Retail
11 79 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (2.37%) Games
13 56 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 31 (0.95%) Local Government
17 27 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.74%) Back Office
19 23 (0.71%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (5.50%) .NET
2 143 (4.40%) React
3 94 (2.89%) Node.js
4 93 (2.86%) REST
5 78 (2.40%) HTML
6 68 (2.09%) RESTful
7 57 (1.75%) CSS
7 57 (1.75%) SOAP
8 52 (1.60%) Spring
9 38 (1.17%) Spring Boot
10 37 (1.14%) GraphQL
10 37 (1.14%) Vue
11 35 (1.08%) OAuth
12 33 (1.01%) OpenID
13 31 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
13 31 (0.95%) SAML
14 29 (0.89%) .NET Core
14 29 (0.89%) JSON
15 28 (0.86%) Kafka
16 27 (0.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.32%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 71 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (1.88%) Social Media
6 57 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (1.66%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.44%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 43 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 40 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 39 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
14 38 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.11%) Onboarding
15 36 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 36 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 156 (4.80%) Linux
2 117 (3.60%) Windows
3 53 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.41%) Android
5 43 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.08%) Unix
7 19 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 15 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.25%) VMS
10 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.092%) Debian
11 3 (0.092%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (19.83%) Agile
2 608 (18.69%) Mentoring
3 482 (14.82%) Software Engineering
4 441 (13.56%) AI
5 401 (12.33%) CI/CD
6 391 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
7 374 (11.50%) Coaching
8 350 (10.76%) DevOps
9 329 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 300 (9.22%) Analytics
11 292 (8.98%) Roadmaps
12 235 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
13 232 (7.13%) Decision-Making
14 215 (6.61%) Project Delivery
15 211 (6.49%) Test Automation
16 192 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
17 177 (5.44%) Infrastructure as Code
17 177 (5.44%) Project Management
18 176 (5.41%) Full-Stack Development
19 156 (4.80%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 383 (11.77%) Python
2 365 (11.22%) SQL
3 233 (7.16%) Java
4 175 (5.38%) JavaScript
5 163 (5.01%) C#
6 150 (4.61%) TypeScript
7 97 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 84 (2.58%) C++
9 67 (2.06%) Go
10 66 (2.03%) Bash
11 56 (1.72%) PHP
12 53 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 42 (1.29%) Scala
14 40 (1.23%) C
15 35 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 25 (0.77%) VBA
17 22 (0.68%) Bicep
18 19 (0.58%) R
19 18 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 303 (9.31%) Degree
2 297 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 233 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 49 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 48 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 42 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (1.20%) CISSP
9 37 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 27 (0.83%) CISM
10 27 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 26 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 24 (0.74%) ACCA
12 24 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 22 (0.68%) PhD
14 21 (0.65%) CIMA
14 21 (0.65%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (3.69%) QA
2 80 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 67 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (2.03%) NIST
6 44 (1.35%) GDPR
7 40 (1.23%) GRC
8 29 (0.89%) PMO
9 28 (0.86%) NCSC
10 16 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.37%) P3O
12 11 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.22%) IEC 61508
14 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.22%) MISRA
14 7 (0.22%) MISRA C
14 7 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 147 (4.52%) Docker
2 99 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.92%) vSphere
6 19 (0.58%) Firmware
7 18 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.34%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.28%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.092%) iptables
14 2 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 196 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 155 (4.76%) Terraform
3 37 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.11%) Ansible
5 31 (0.95%) Grafana
6 20 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.58%) Argo
8 14 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.43%) SCCM
9 7 (0.22%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.22%) Puppet
9 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.18%) Avamar
10 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.18%) VxRail
11 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 363 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 134 (4.12%) Oracle
3 117 (3.60%) Adobe
4 70 (2.15%) VMware
5 64 (1.97%) Palo Alto
5 64 (1.97%) ServiceNow
6 60 (1.84%) Salesforce
6 60 (1.84%) SAP
7 59 (1.81%) Google
8 56 (1.72%) Cisco
8 56 (1.72%) Databricks
9 41 (1.26%) Apple
10 32 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (0.86%) Dell
12 26 (0.80%) Tenable
13 19 (0.58%) Computacenter
14 17 (0.52%) Fortinet
14 17 (0.52%) Meraki
15 16 (0.49%) OpenAI
15 16 (0.49%) Veeam