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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 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 2,574 2,734 4,634
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.49% 18.90% 16.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.53% 19.88% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,819 1,778 3,891
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £57,508 £56,250 £52,823
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +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 15,571 13,750 27,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.04% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,451 8,756 22,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,724 £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 £81,250 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 4 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 4 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.

1 582 (22.61%) Azure
2 535 (20.78%) Mentoring
3 525 (20.40%) Agile
4 439 (17.06%) AWS
5 389 (15.11%) CI/CD
6 375 (14.57%) SQL
7 368 (14.30%) Software Engineering
8 365 (14.18%) Coaching
9 360 (13.99%) DevOps
10 321 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
11 315 (12.24%) Microsoft
12 306 (11.89%) Python
13 301 (11.69%) AI
14 287 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 259 (10.06%) Degree
16 240 (9.32%) Security Cleared
17 216 (8.39%) Roadmaps
18 215 (8.35%) Analytics
18 215 (8.35%) Java
19 211 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
20 205 (7.96%) .NET
21 203 (7.89%) SaaS
22 189 (7.34%) GCP
23 188 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
24 186 (7.23%) Kubernetes
25 181 (7.03%) Test Automation
26 174 (6.76%) SC Cleared
27 173 (6.72%) Terraform
28 170 (6.60%) Microservices
29 169 (6.57%) Docker

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 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.89%) WordPress
5 22 (0.85%) Confluence
5 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.54%) CMS
7 13 (0.51%) Apache
8 11 (0.43%) JBoss
8 11 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.23%) SAS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.12%) IIS
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.039%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.43%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.39%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.16%) Maya
9 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.12%) InVision
10 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.12%) Trello
10 3 (0.12%) Weka
11 2 (0.078%) Revit
11 2 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.039%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 34 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
2 25 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
3 23 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
3 23 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 22 (0.85%) Shopify
5 16 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 13 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.43%) Hyperion Planning
8 9 (0.35%) Visualfiles
9 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.19%) Magento
10 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 582 (22.61%) Azure
2 439 (17.06%) AWS
3 203 (7.89%) SaaS
4 189 (7.34%) GCP
5 127 (4.93%) GitHub
6 116 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (4.51%) Entra ID
7 112 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 94 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
9 82 (3.19%) Serverless
10 62 (2.41%) dbt
11 60 (2.33%) Snowflake
12 47 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
13 40 (1.55%) PowerApps
14 37 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
15 35 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
16 32 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (1.24%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.73%) Broadband
2 62 (2.41%) Firewall
3 45 (1.75%) VPN
4 43 (1.67%) WAN
5 39 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.44%) DNS
7 32 (1.24%) DHCP
8 28 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.05%) LAN
10 26 (1.01%) Network Security
11 18 (0.70%) BGP
12 17 (0.66%) Ethernet
12 17 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.58%) Wireless
14 12 (0.47%) RS-232
15 11 (0.43%) HTTP
16 10 (0.39%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.35%) OSPF
18 8 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
19 7 (0.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (3.07%) Power BI
4 61 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 40 (1.55%) Metadata
8 31 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.17%) BigQuery
10 27 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.01%) MySQL
12 25 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (0.97%) Redis
12 25 (0.97%) Tableau
13 21 (0.82%) OLTP
14 17 (0.66%) Relational Database
15 16 (0.62%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.58%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 78 (3.03%) JIRA
2 69 (2.68%) Git
3 60 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
5 33 (1.28%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.89%) GitLab
7 22 (0.85%) Selenium
8 11 (0.43%) Postman
9 10 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.35%) MLflow
11 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.31%) Subversion
11 8 (0.31%) webpack
12 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.27%) git-flow
12 7 (0.27%) JUnit
12 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.27%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.23%) Babel
General
1 573 (22.26%) Finance
2 534 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 265 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 181 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 160 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (4.90%) Retail
7 121 (4.70%) Law
8 120 (4.66%) Marketing
9 98 (3.81%) Banking
10 81 (3.15%) Legal
10 81 (3.15%) Telecoms
11 78 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (2.56%) Games
13 51 (1.98%) Financial Institution
14 43 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (1.48%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (0.89%) Back Office
18 20 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (0.70%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (7.96%) .NET
2 135 (5.24%) React
3 122 (4.74%) REST
4 112 (4.35%) SOAP
5 84 (3.26%) HTML
5 84 (3.26%) RESTful
6 71 (2.76%) GraphQL
7 67 (2.60%) Node.js
8 66 (2.56%) OAuth
9 58 (2.25%) CSS
10 55 (2.14%) Spring
11 49 (1.90%) Kafka
12 44 (1.71%) OpenID
13 43 (1.67%) SAML
13 43 (1.67%) Spring Boot
14 39 (1.52%) XML
15 36 (1.40%) LDAP
16 35 (1.36%) .NET Core
17 28 (1.09%) Django
17 28 (1.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 173 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 98 (3.81%) Onboarding
3 89 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 61 (2.37%) Social Media
5 59 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 40 (1.55%) Cyberattack
9 38 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 36 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 31 (1.20%) Security Posture
13 27 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 26 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 24 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (0.85%) Management Information System
18 20 (0.78%) Low-Code
18 20 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 130 (5.05%) Linux
2 82 (3.19%) Windows
3 62 (2.41%) Android
4 51 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 38 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 32 (1.24%) Unix
7 24 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 10 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.078%) CentOS
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (20.78%) Mentoring
2 525 (20.40%) Agile
3 389 (15.11%) CI/CD
4 368 (14.30%) Software Engineering
5 365 (14.18%) Coaching
6 360 (13.99%) DevOps
7 321 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (11.69%) AI
9 287 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (8.39%) Roadmaps
11 215 (8.35%) Analytics
12 211 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
13 188 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 181 (7.03%) Test Automation
15 170 (6.60%) Microservices
16 151 (5.87%) User Experience
17 140 (5.44%) Decision-Making
18 139 (5.40%) Full-Stack Development
19 138 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
20 133 (5.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 375 (14.57%) SQL
2 306 (11.89%) Python
3 215 (8.35%) Java
4 164 (6.37%) C#
5 150 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 131 (5.09%) TypeScript
7 85 (3.30%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.87%) Bash
9 62 (2.41%) Go
10 59 (2.29%) C++
11 52 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.98%) PHP
13 46 (1.79%) Scala
14 37 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 29 (1.13%) C
17 21 (0.82%) Bicep
18 20 (0.78%) VBA
19 17 (0.66%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (10.06%) Degree
2 240 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 174 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 84 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.55%) ACCA
7 39 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.32%) CISSP
9 32 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.78%) CIMA
14 17 (0.66%) CISM
15 16 (0.62%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (0.58%) CCNP
17 14 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 12 (0.47%) OSCP
19 11 (0.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (3.65%) QA
2 56 (2.18%) Accessibility
2 56 (2.18%) NIST
3 55 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.02%) GDPR
6 35 (1.36%) NCSC
7 21 (0.82%) IFRS
8 15 (0.58%) PMO
9 14 (0.54%) GRC
9 14 (0.54%) P3O
10 11 (0.43%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.43%) MISRA
10 11 (0.43%) MISRA C
11 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.35%) SLA
12 8 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 169 (6.57%) Docker
2 115 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) Firmware
6 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.078%) vCloud
8 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.039%) Ceph
9 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.039%) Lustre
9 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 186 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 173 (6.72%) Terraform
3 57 (2.21%) Grafana
4 46 (1.79%) Ansible
5 45 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.89%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.47%) SCCM
9 11 (0.43%) Functional Safety
10 8 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.19%) Argo
11 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.19%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.19%) Puppet
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) cPanel
12 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
12 3 (0.12%) Plesk
13 2 (0.078%) Nagios
13 2 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 315 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 139 (5.40%) Oracle
3 78 (3.03%) Databricks
4 58 (2.25%) Google
5 52 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 52 (2.02%) VMware
6 50 (1.94%) Cisco
6 50 (1.94%) SAP
7 48 (1.86%) Adobe
8 29 (1.13%) Okta
9 28 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.74%) Apple
10 19 (0.74%) Workday
11 14 (0.54%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.54%) Screaming Frog
12 12 (0.47%) Samsung
12 12 (0.47%) Talend
13 11 (0.43%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.43%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.43%) Palo Alto