Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,254 3,113 3,805
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.56% 18.99% 15.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.55% 19.77% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,590 1,940 3,147
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £56,345 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 14,498 15,744 22,955
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 96.02% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,466 9,472 18,949
10th Percentile £30,063 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,608 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
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 22 January 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 22 January 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.

1 543 (24.09%) Azure
2 514 (22.80%) Agile
3 435 (19.30%) Mentoring
4 389 (17.26%) AWS
5 375 (16.64%) SQL
6 370 (16.42%) CI/CD
7 356 (15.79%) DevOps
8 323 (14.33%) Software Engineering
9 304 (13.49%) Python
10 283 (12.56%) Coaching
11 269 (11.93%) Microsoft
12 265 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 260 (11.54%) AI
14 247 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 238 (10.56%) Degree
16 201 (8.92%) .NET
17 194 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
17 194 (8.61%) Roadmaps
18 184 (8.16%) Java
19 180 (7.99%) C#
20 176 (7.81%) Security Cleared
20 176 (7.81%) Terraform
21 175 (7.76%) SaaS
22 170 (7.54%) Analytics
23 164 (7.28%) Asset Management
23 164 (7.28%) Test Automation
24 163 (7.23%) Kubernetes
25 153 (6.79%) JavaScript
26 149 (6.61%) Docker
27 148 (6.57%) Microservices

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 52 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (1.33%) Apache
4 29 (1.29%) Confluence
5 21 (0.93%) IIS
5 21 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.93%) WordPress
6 19 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.44%) CMS
7 10 (0.44%) JBoss
7 10 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.089%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.089%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.089%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.089%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.044%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.62%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.44%) InDesign
6 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.22%) Maya
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.22%) MotionBuilder
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.13%) Weka
11 2 (0.089%) InVision
11 2 (0.089%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.089%) Revit
11 2 (0.089%) Simulink
12 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.77%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.33%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.24%) Oracle Financials
5 20 (0.89%) Shopify
6 19 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
7 14 (0.62%) Hyperion Planning
8 12 (0.53%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.40%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.22%) Magento
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.22%) Visualfiles
12 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.18%) SAP PP
13 2 (0.089%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 543 (24.09%) Azure
2 389 (17.26%) AWS
3 175 (7.76%) SaaS
4 145 (6.43%) GitHub
5 142 (6.30%) GCP
6 135 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 97 (4.30%) Entra ID
9 90 (3.99%) Serverless
10 85 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
11 73 (3.24%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.06%) dbt
13 48 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.73%) GitHub Copilot
16 38 (1.69%) PowerApps
17 37 (1.64%) OCI
18 35 (1.55%) Amazon S3
18 35 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.02%) Broadband
2 55 (2.44%) Firewall
3 46 (2.04%) VPN
4 40 (1.77%) WAN
5 34 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.42%) DNS
7 26 (1.15%) LAN
8 25 (1.11%) Network Security
8 25 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 21 (0.93%) DHCP
10 19 (0.84%) BGP
11 14 (0.62%) Ethernet
11 14 (0.62%) Wireless
12 13 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.49%) HTTP
14 10 (0.44%) OSPF
14 10 (0.44%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.40%) RS-232
16 7 (0.31%) MPLS
17 6 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 95 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.19%) Power BI
4 71 (3.15%) Data Lake
5 59 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (1.77%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.38%) DynamoDB
8 30 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 29 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (1.29%) MongoDB
10 28 (1.24%) Apache Iceberg
11 27 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
11 27 (1.20%) Metadata
12 25 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (1.11%) MySQL
13 22 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
13 22 (0.98%) Apache Ignite
13 22 (0.98%) Dremio
14 19 (0.84%) Redis
15 18 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 86 (3.82%) JIRA
2 72 (3.19%) Git
3 67 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
5 31 (1.38%) Selenium
6 26 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.98%) GitLab
8 20 (0.89%) Postman
9 13 (0.58%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.53%) SoapUI
11 10 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.35%) Subversion
14 7 (0.31%) git-flow
14 7 (0.31%) JMeter
15 6 (0.27%) JUnit
15 6 (0.27%) MLflow
15 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 538 (23.87%) Finance
2 487 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 170 (7.54%) Public Sector
4 159 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 107 (4.75%) Retail
7 104 (4.61%) Banking
8 92 (4.08%) Marketing
9 81 (3.59%) Law
10 69 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 64 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 61 (2.71%) Legal
13 58 (2.57%) Games
14 38 (1.69%) Front Office
15 36 (1.60%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (1.15%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.15%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.02%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (8.92%) .NET
2 138 (6.12%) React
3 114 (5.06%) REST
4 107 (4.75%) SOAP
5 97 (4.30%) RESTful
6 85 (3.77%) HTML
7 67 (2.97%) GraphQL
8 60 (2.66%) Node.js
9 58 (2.57%) CSS
10 53 (2.35%) OAuth
11 46 (2.04%) Spring
12 43 (1.91%) gRPC
13 40 (1.77%) XML
14 39 (1.73%) Kafka
15 36 (1.60%) .NET Core
16 35 (1.55%) Spring Boot
17 33 (1.46%) SAML
18 31 (1.38%) OpenID
19 30 (1.33%) .NET Framework
19 30 (1.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 143 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 96 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 85 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (1.51%) Public Cloud
7 33 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 32 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 32 (1.42%) Social Media
9 31 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.29%) Hedge funds
11 27 (1.20%) Derivative
11 27 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 27 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 26 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
13 25 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.06%) Cyberattack
15 23 (1.02%) Fixed Income
15 23 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.57%) Linux
2 81 (3.59%) Windows
3 46 (2.04%) Android
4 36 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.20%) Unix
7 19 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.53%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.089%) CentOS
10 2 (0.089%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.089%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (22.80%) Agile
2 435 (19.30%) Mentoring
3 370 (16.42%) CI/CD
4 356 (15.79%) DevOps
5 323 (14.33%) Software Engineering
6 283 (12.56%) Coaching
7 265 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 260 (11.54%) AI
9 247 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 194 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
10 194 (8.61%) Roadmaps
11 170 (7.54%) Analytics
12 164 (7.28%) Asset Management
12 164 (7.28%) Test Automation
13 148 (6.57%) Microservices
14 136 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 135 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
16 131 (5.81%) Clean Code
16 131 (5.81%) User Experience
17 125 (5.55%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 375 (16.64%) SQL
2 304 (13.49%) Python
3 184 (8.16%) Java
4 180 (7.99%) C#
5 153 (6.79%) JavaScript
6 147 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 85 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 60 (2.66%) Bash
9 52 (2.31%) Go
10 49 (2.17%) C++
11 47 (2.09%) PL/SQL
12 37 (1.64%) PHP
13 34 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 34 (1.51%) Scala
14 32 (1.42%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.15%) Bicep
16 24 (1.06%) Shell Script
17 23 (1.02%) C
18 21 (0.93%) Ruby
19 15 (0.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 238 (10.56%) Degree
2 176 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 128 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 78 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.95%) ACCA
6 43 (1.91%) CISSP
7 38 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (1.42%) CISM
11 30 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 26 (1.15%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.98%) CIMA
14 21 (0.93%) CCNP
15 17 (0.75%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.71%) AAT
16 16 (0.71%) CISMP
16 16 (0.71%) IISP
17 15 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 15 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.44%) QA
2 61 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 60 (2.66%) NIST
4 53 (2.35%) GDPR
5 49 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.91%) Data Quality
7 41 (1.82%) NCSC
8 20 (0.89%) IFRS
9 17 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 17 (0.75%) JSP 440
9 17 (0.75%) NIST 800
10 16 (0.71%) PMO
10 16 (0.71%) RMADS
11 14 (0.62%) GRC
12 10 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.44%) IEC 61508
12 10 (0.44%) MISRA
12 10 (0.44%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.40%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 149 (6.61%) Docker
2 95 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.31%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Firmware
8 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.089%) vCloud
9 2 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) Ceph
10 1 (0.044%) Lustre
10 1 (0.044%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 176 (7.81%) Terraform
2 163 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 52 (2.31%) Grafana
4 48 (2.13%) Ansible
5 47 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.44%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.27%) Argo
11 5 (0.22%) SCCM
12 4 (0.18%) Puppet
13 3 (0.13%) Control-M
13 3 (0.13%) cPanel
13 3 (0.13%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.089%) Nagios
14 2 (0.089%) Nessus
14 2 (0.089%) SCOM
Vendors
1 269 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 122 (5.41%) Oracle
3 73 (3.24%) Databricks
4 49 (2.17%) Cisco
5 41 (1.82%) SAP
6 40 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 39 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 38 (1.69%) Google
8 38 (1.69%) VMware
9 28 (1.24%) Adobe
9 28 (1.24%) Okta
10 21 (0.93%) Workday
11 14 (0.62%) Hyperion
11 14 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
12 13 (0.58%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.58%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.49%) Talend
14 9 (0.40%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.40%) Meraki
14 9 (0.40%) Zoho