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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,723 2,189 4,317
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.55% 13.44% 18.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.58% 14.51% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,440 1,452 2,632
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,295 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £56,888 £53,750
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 £84,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 22,460 15,089 22,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 92.66% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,866 9,075 14,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,557
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 13 September 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 13 September 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.

1 734 (19.72%) Agile
2 709 (19.04%) Mentoring
3 690 (18.53%) Azure
4 628 (16.87%) Software Engineering
5 625 (16.79%) AWS
6 612 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 581 (15.61%) AI
8 568 (15.26%) CI/CD
9 513 (13.78%) Python
10 486 (13.05%) DevOps
11 470 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
12 466 (12.52%) Microsoft
13 405 (10.88%) SQL
14 369 (9.91%) Coaching
15 368 (9.88%) Degree
16 356 (9.56%) Project Delivery
17 352 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
18 340 (9.13%) Decision-Making
19 338 (9.08%) Security Cleared
20 330 (8.86%) Analytics
21 304 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 287 (7.71%) SC Cleared
23 270 (7.25%) C#
24 257 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
25 250 (6.72%) Roadmaps
26 240 (6.45%) Test Automation
27 234 (6.29%) JavaScript
28 232 (6.23%) QA
29 230 (6.18%) GCP
30 229 (6.15%) 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
1 100 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.59%) Confluence
4 20 (0.54%) CMS
5 16 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 13 (0.35%) WordPress
7 12 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.30%) Apache
8 11 (0.30%) IIS
9 10 (0.27%) SAS
10 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.081%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.081%) Artix
12 3 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.081%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.081%) Moodle
13 2 (0.054%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 75 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
1 75 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
2 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.27%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.24%) InDesign
7 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.081%) Blender
11 3 (0.081%) Maya
11 3 (0.081%) Trello
12 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.054%) Revit
12 2 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.64%) Cloudability
2 18 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 11 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 9 (0.24%) Shopify
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.16%) Primavera
13 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
13 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
14 3 (0.081%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 3 (0.081%) Misys Midas
14 3 (0.081%) SAP BPC
14 3 (0.081%) SAP Payroll
15 2 (0.054%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 690 (18.53%) Azure
2 625 (16.79%) AWS
3 230 (6.18%) GCP
4 215 (5.77%) SaaS
5 165 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
6 152 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 138 (3.71%) Entra ID
8 112 (3.01%) Serverless
9 108 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (2.69%) GitHub
11 53 (1.42%) Amazon S3
12 47 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 45 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.21%) PowerApps
14 42 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (1.10%) Azure AKS
15 41 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
16 40 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 156 (4.19%) Firewall
2 89 (2.39%) Network Security
3 78 (2.10%) DNS
4 76 (2.04%) VLAN
5 71 (1.91%) Broadband
6 61 (1.64%) VPN
7 57 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
8 52 (1.40%) TCP/IP
8 52 (1.40%) WAN
9 51 (1.37%) Wireless
10 47 (1.26%) DHCP
11 46 (1.24%) LAN
12 29 (0.78%) BGP
13 22 (0.59%) OSPF
14 21 (0.56%) SMS
15 19 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.46%) RS-232
16 17 (0.46%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.43%) HTTP
18 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (3.14%) Power BI
3 95 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.75%) Metadata
5 63 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 52 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 46 (1.24%) MySQL
9 44 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 43 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.67%) Tableau
13 24 (0.64%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.48%) OLTP
17 16 (0.43%) Big Data
17 16 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
18 14 (0.38%) BigQuery
18 14 (0.38%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 128 (3.44%) Git
2 57 (1.53%) JIRA
3 38 (1.02%) GitLab
4 31 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.67%) Snyk
6 17 (0.46%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.38%) JUnit
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.30%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.30%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.27%) Postman
11 9 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.24%) Maven
12 7 (0.19%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.11%) MLflow
14 4 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 938 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 605 (16.25%) Finance
3 426 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 330 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 277 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 261 (7.01%) Legal
7 231 (6.20%) Law
8 141 (3.79%) Banking
9 127 (3.41%) Marketing
10 95 (2.55%) Retail
11 74 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 62 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
16 56 (1.50%) Local Government
17 54 (1.45%) Electronics
18 51 (1.37%) Games
19 42 (1.13%) Legal Technology
20 41 (1.10%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (5.67%) Terraform
2 203 (5.45%) .NET
3 159 (4.27%) React
4 121 (3.25%) Node.js
5 95 (2.55%) REST
6 93 (2.50%) HTML
7 86 (2.31%) CSS
8 78 (2.10%) RESTful
9 65 (1.75%) Spring
10 44 (1.18%) Spring Boot
11 41 (1.10%) AngularJS
11 41 (1.10%) PySpark
12 37 (0.99%) Kafka
13 35 (0.94%) Laravel
14 33 (0.89%) Vue
15 31 (0.83%) .NET Core
15 31 (0.83%) Next.js
16 29 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
17 28 (0.75%) JSON
18 26 (0.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 215 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.74%) Driving Licence
3 97 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 75 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.93%) Virtual Team
7 56 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 55 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 42 (1.13%) Onboarding
12 40 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.05%) Blog
14 35 (0.94%) Algorithms
15 34 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 31 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
16 31 (0.83%) Low-Code
17 29 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.38%) Linux
2 146 (3.92%) Windows
3 62 (1.67%) Unix
4 59 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.67%) Android
7 21 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
10 9 (0.24%) VMS
11 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.081%) Debian
14 2 (0.054%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.027%) AIX
15 1 (0.027%) CentOS
15 1 (0.027%) Solaris
15 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (19.72%) Agile
2 709 (19.04%) Mentoring
3 628 (16.87%) Software Engineering
4 612 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 581 (15.61%) AI
6 568 (15.26%) CI/CD
7 486 (13.05%) DevOps
8 470 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
9 369 (9.91%) Coaching
10 356 (9.56%) Project Delivery
11 352 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
12 340 (9.13%) Decision-Making
13 330 (8.86%) Analytics
14 304 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 257 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 250 (6.72%) Roadmaps
17 240 (6.45%) Test Automation
18 229 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
19 190 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
20 187 (5.02%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 513 (13.78%) Python
2 405 (10.88%) SQL
3 270 (7.25%) C#
4 234 (6.29%) JavaScript
5 208 (5.59%) Java
6 206 (5.53%) TypeScript
7 137 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 96 (2.58%) C++
9 53 (1.42%) Go
10 52 (1.40%) PHP
10 52 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 47 (1.26%) C
12 43 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 33 (0.89%) Bash
14 26 (0.70%) Bicep
15 23 (0.62%) Embedded C
16 21 (0.56%) R
16 21 (0.56%) Swift
17 20 (0.54%) Ruby
18 18 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 368 (9.88%) Degree
2 338 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 287 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.61%) CISSP
5 91 (2.44%) CISM
6 68 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.45%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 49 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 43 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 38 (1.02%) HNC
13 38 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.99%) AWS Certification
15 32 (0.86%) DBS Check
16 27 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.23%) QA
2 125 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 101 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (1.77%) GDPR
6 60 (1.61%) NIST
7 48 (1.29%) GRC
8 31 (0.83%) PMO
9 23 (0.62%) WCAG
10 22 (0.59%) SLA
11 20 (0.54%) NCSC
12 12 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.27%) COBIT
15 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.21%) GxP
17 7 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 174 (4.67%) Docker
2 140 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.94%) vSphere
6 27 (0.73%) Firmware
7 21 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.24%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.081%) iptables
13 2 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.027%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.027%) GPFS
14 1 (0.027%) Lustre
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 195 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 104 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.07%) Ansible
4 24 (0.64%) Grafana
5 17 (0.46%) Argo
5 17 (0.46%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.16%) Avamar
8 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.16%) VxRail
9 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.13%) Puppet
9 5 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.11%) Istio
11 3 (0.081%) CASB
Vendors
1 466 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.20%) Oracle
3 91 (2.44%) Adobe
4 83 (2.23%) Google
5 67 (1.80%) VMware
6 65 (1.75%) Cisco
7 62 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 61 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 54 (1.45%) CyberArk
11 53 (1.42%) SAP
12 47 (1.26%) Databricks
13 35 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 30 (0.81%) Apple
14 30 (0.81%) Informatica
14 30 (0.81%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.75%) Tenable
16 27 (0.73%) Pega
17 22 (0.59%) Dell
18 20 (0.54%) Aruba