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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 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 3,535 2,312 4,744
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.69% 14.03% 18.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% 15.24% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,358 1,519 3,318
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,439 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,515 £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 £100,000 £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 21,203 15,171 24,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.06% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,259 9,382 17,881
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 £76,750
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 6 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 6 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.

1 730 (20.65%) Agile
2 697 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 677 (19.15%) Azure
4 632 (17.88%) AWS
5 609 (17.23%) Software Engineering
6 559 (15.81%) AI
7 556 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 545 (15.42%) CI/CD
9 511 (14.46%) Python
10 468 (13.24%) DevOps
11 467 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
12 448 (12.67%) Microsoft
13 375 (10.61%) SQL
14 363 (10.27%) Coaching
15 336 (9.50%) Cybersecurity
15 336 (9.50%) Degree
16 322 (9.11%) Security Cleared
17 321 (9.08%) Analytics
18 320 (9.05%) Project Delivery
19 306 (8.66%) Decision-Making
20 285 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 274 (7.75%) C#
22 268 (7.58%) Roadmaps
22 268 (7.58%) SC Cleared
23 262 (7.41%) Test Automation
24 253 (7.16%) JavaScript
25 236 (6.68%) GCP
26 228 (6.45%) QA
27 219 (6.20%) .NET
27 219 (6.20%) 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 99 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.68%) CMS
4 21 (0.59%) Confluence
5 20 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) SAS
8 14 (0.40%) WordPress
9 12 (0.34%) IIS
10 9 (0.25%) Apache
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.085%) Artix
12 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.057%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 81 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.25%) Civil 3D
5 9 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.17%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.085%) Blender
11 3 (0.085%) Maya
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.057%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.42%) 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 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.085%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 677 (19.15%) Azure
2 632 (17.88%) AWS
3 236 (6.68%) GCP
4 219 (6.20%) SaaS
5 155 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 138 (3.90%) Entra ID
8 123 (3.48%) Serverless
9 96 (2.72%) GitHub
10 94 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.36%) PowerApps
13 46 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
18 38 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
19 35 (0.99%) Azure AKS
20 34 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 152 (4.30%) Firewall
2 101 (2.86%) Broadband
3 82 (2.32%) Network Security
4 74 (2.09%) DNS
5 65 (1.84%) VLAN
6 61 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
7 57 (1.61%) VPN
8 50 (1.41%) TCP/IP
8 50 (1.41%) WAN
9 49 (1.39%) Wireless
10 46 (1.30%) LAN
11 44 (1.24%) DHCP
12 26 (0.74%) BGP
13 21 (0.59%) RS-232
14 19 (0.54%) OSPF
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) WLAN
18 15 (0.42%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (3.28%) Power BI
3 92 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 63 (1.78%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.44%) Metadata
6 47 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 45 (1.27%) MySQL
8 35 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 30 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.85%) Tableau
11 26 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 26 (0.74%) OLTP
12 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 20 (0.57%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.45%) Redis
15 15 (0.42%) Big Data
15 15 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 115 (3.25%) Git
2 59 (1.67%) JIRA
3 41 (1.16%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 21 (0.59%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.42%) JUnit
8 15 (0.42%) Selenium
9 11 (0.31%) Postman
10 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.23%) Gatling
11 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
12 7 (0.20%) Maven
12 7 (0.20%) Mockito
13 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 863 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 589 (16.66%) Finance
3 379 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 297 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 274 (7.75%) Legal
6 249 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
7 224 (6.34%) Law
8 131 (3.71%) Marketing
9 124 (3.51%) Banking
10 86 (2.43%) Retail
11 75 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 68 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.81%) Games
14 56 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 55 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 48 (1.36%) Electronics
17 47 (1.33%) Local Government
18 45 (1.27%) Legal Technology
19 41 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
20 24 (0.68%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (6.20%) .NET
2 171 (4.84%) React
3 114 (3.22%) Node.js
4 92 (2.60%) HTML
5 89 (2.52%) REST
6 80 (2.26%) CSS
7 73 (2.07%) RESTful
8 53 (1.50%) Spring
9 39 (1.10%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.07%) Vue
11 36 (1.02%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
13 32 (0.91%) Kafka
13 32 (0.91%) Laravel
14 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 28 (0.79%) .NET Core
15 28 (0.79%) SPFx
16 27 (0.76%) Playwright
17 26 (0.74%) Next.js
17 26 (0.74%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 221 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.80%) Product Ownership
3 98 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (2.12%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 59 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 53 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 53 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 49 (1.39%) Social Media
9 48 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 45 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.19%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 40 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (1.07%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 34 (0.96%) Low-Code
17 33 (0.93%) Blog
17 33 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.01%) Linux
2 127 (3.59%) Windows
3 58 (1.64%) Unix
4 52 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.19%) Android
5 42 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.085%) Debian
12 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (20.65%) Agile
2 697 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 609 (17.23%) Software Engineering
4 559 (15.81%) AI
5 556 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 545 (15.42%) CI/CD
7 468 (13.24%) DevOps
8 467 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
9 363 (10.27%) Coaching
10 336 (9.50%) Cybersecurity
11 321 (9.08%) Analytics
12 320 (9.05%) Project Delivery
13 306 (8.66%) Decision-Making
14 285 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 268 (7.58%) Roadmaps
16 262 (7.41%) Test Automation
17 219 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 213 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
19 189 (5.35%) Microservices
20 186 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 511 (14.46%) Python
2 375 (10.61%) SQL
3 274 (7.75%) C#
4 253 (7.16%) JavaScript
5 211 (5.97%) Java
6 208 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.77%) C++
9 62 (1.75%) PHP
10 60 (1.70%) Go
11 49 (1.39%) C
12 48 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 43 (1.22%) Bash
14 26 (0.74%) Embedded C
15 25 (0.71%) Kotlin
16 24 (0.68%) R
17 23 (0.65%) Bicep
18 20 (0.57%) Rust
19 19 (0.54%) Scala
19 19 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 336 (9.50%) Degree
2 322 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 268 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.83%) CISSP
5 91 (2.57%) CISM
6 66 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.56%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
8 54 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 46 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 43 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 41 (1.16%) DV Cleared
13 38 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.79%) PhD
15 26 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.65%) ACCA
18 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (6.45%) QA
2 101 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 81 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 64 (1.81%) NIST
6 59 (1.67%) GDPR
7 47 (1.33%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 22 (0.62%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) NCSC
11 17 (0.48%) WCAG
12 15 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.28%) COBIT
15 9 (0.25%) 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
1 165 (4.67%) Docker
2 135 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.91%) vSphere
6 27 (0.76%) Firmware
7 16 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.25%) vCloud
10 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.085%) iptables
13 2 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 198 (5.60%) Terraform
2 197 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 99 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.96%) Ansible
5 27 (0.76%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.51%) Argo
8 9 (0.25%) 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%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 448 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.68%) Oracle
3 104 (2.94%) Adobe
4 82 (2.32%) Google
5 71 (2.01%) Cisco
6 69 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 65 (1.84%) SAP
7 65 (1.84%) VMware
8 61 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.41%) Databricks
12 39 (1.10%) Apple
13 34 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.79%) Dell
14 28 (0.79%) Pega
15 27 (0.76%) Tenable
16 25 (0.71%) Informatica
17 21 (0.59%) Meraki
18 20 (0.57%) Zscaler