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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,238 2,227 6,116
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.26% 14.53% 17.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.30% 15.77% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,283 1,373 4,557
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 £83,938 £87,500 £77,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -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 18,713 14,121 33,212
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.11% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,634 8,624 25,955
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,005
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 16 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 16 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.

1 643 (19.86%) Agile
2 608 (18.78%) Mentoring
3 574 (17.73%) Azure
4 538 (16.62%) AWS
5 483 (14.92%) Software Engineering
6 436 (13.47%) AI
7 395 (12.20%) CI/CD
8 389 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
9 380 (11.74%) Coaching
9 380 (11.74%) Python
10 378 (11.67%) SQL
11 356 (10.99%) Microsoft
12 335 (10.35%) DevOps
13 329 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 302 (9.33%) Degree
15 300 (9.26%) Analytics
16 291 (8.99%) Security Cleared
17 290 (8.96%) Roadmaps
18 238 (7.35%) Java
19 231 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
20 230 (7.10%) SC Cleared
21 224 (6.92%) Decision-Making
22 212 (6.55%) Test Automation
23 208 (6.42%) Project Delivery
24 200 (6.18%) GCP
25 192 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
26 191 (5.90%) Kubernetes
27 186 (5.74%) .NET
28 182 (5.62%) Full-Stack Development
29 178 (5.50%) SaaS

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 85 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 32 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.71%) CMS
5 19 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.53%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) IIS
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.12%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.093%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.093%) Artix
11 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 85 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) InDesign
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.093%) Blender
9 3 (0.093%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.093%) Maya
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.28%) Visualfiles
6 8 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.093%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.093%) NEC Housing
10 3 (0.093%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.093%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.093%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.093%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 574 (17.73%) Azure
2 538 (16.62%) AWS
3 200 (6.18%) GCP
4 178 (5.50%) SaaS
5 138 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 121 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
6 121 (3.74%) Serverless
7 90 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 81 (2.50%) GitHub
9 79 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (1.51%) PowerApps
11 46 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
12 40 (1.24%) Figma
13 36 (1.11%) Power Automate
14 35 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 34 (1.05%) Azure AKS
16 33 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
16 33 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.57%) Broadband
2 91 (2.81%) Firewall
3 61 (1.88%) DNS
4 58 (1.79%) VPN
5 45 (1.39%) WAN
6 39 (1.20%) DHCP
7 36 (1.11%) Wireless
8 32 (0.99%) LAN
8 32 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 31 (0.96%) Network Security
10 30 (0.93%) SD-WAN
11 28 (0.86%) BGP
12 25 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.71%) RS-232
14 19 (0.59%) OSPF
15 17 (0.53%) Ethernet
16 14 (0.43%) HTTP
16 14 (0.43%) VLAN
17 13 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
18 12 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.12%) Power BI
2 94 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 84 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 49 (1.51%) Metadata
6 35 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 32 (0.99%) OLTP
8 31 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 30 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.86%) Tableau
11 26 (0.80%) DynamoDB
11 26 (0.80%) MySQL
12 23 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.49%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 79 (2.44%) Git
2 63 (1.95%) JIRA
3 47 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.14%) GitLab
4 37 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.77%) Snyk
6 24 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 18 (0.56%) Selenium
8 13 (0.40%) Postman
9 9 (0.28%) MLflow
10 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
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 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.19%) NUnit
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 661 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 564 (17.42%) Finance
3 407 (12.57%) Public Sector
4 234 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 208 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.05%) Law
7 127 (3.92%) Banking
8 126 (3.89%) Marketing
9 99 (3.06%) Legal
10 81 (2.50%) Retail
11 79 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (2.38%) Games
13 54 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 51 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.96%) Local Government
18 27 (0.83%) Financial Institution
19 25 (0.77%) Back Office
20 24 (0.74%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (5.74%) .NET
2 143 (4.42%) React
3 95 (2.93%) REST
4 94 (2.90%) Node.js
5 79 (2.44%) HTML
6 67 (2.07%) RESTful
7 64 (1.98%) SOAP
8 55 (1.70%) CSS
9 52 (1.61%) Spring
10 40 (1.24%) GraphQL
11 38 (1.17%) OAuth
12 37 (1.14%) Spring Boot
13 35 (1.08%) OpenID
13 35 (1.08%) Vue
14 32 (0.99%) SAML
15 30 (0.93%) JSON
16 29 (0.90%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
17 28 (0.86%) Kafka
18 27 (0.83%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 205 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 111 (3.43%) Product Ownership
3 74 (2.29%) Data Centre
4 69 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (1.91%) Social Media
6 57 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.45%) Cyberattack
9 45 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 42 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 40 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
13 39 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 38 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 38 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (1.17%) Onboarding
15 37 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 36 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
17 34 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.54%) Linux
2 107 (3.30%) Windows
3 55 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 47 (1.45%) Android
5 39 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 33 (1.02%) Unix
7 18 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 16 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
10 7 (0.22%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.093%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.031%) AIX
13 1 (0.031%) CentOS
13 1 (0.031%) Debian
13 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (19.86%) Agile
2 608 (18.78%) Mentoring
3 483 (14.92%) Software Engineering
4 436 (13.47%) AI
5 395 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 389 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
7 380 (11.74%) Coaching
8 335 (10.35%) DevOps
9 329 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 300 (9.26%) Analytics
11 290 (8.96%) Roadmaps
12 231 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
13 224 (6.92%) Decision-Making
14 212 (6.55%) Test Automation
15 208 (6.42%) Project Delivery
16 192 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
17 182 (5.62%) Full-Stack Development
18 177 (5.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 177 (5.47%) Project Management
19 157 (4.85%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 380 (11.74%) Python
2 378 (11.67%) SQL
3 238 (7.35%) Java
4 171 (5.28%) JavaScript
5 164 (5.06%) C#
6 151 (4.66%) TypeScript
7 95 (2.93%) PowerShell
8 84 (2.59%) C++
9 69 (2.13%) Go
10 67 (2.07%) Bash
11 57 (1.76%) PHP
12 54 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 43 (1.33%) Scala
14 40 (1.24%) C
15 37 (1.14%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 24 (0.74%) VBA
18 21 (0.65%) Bicep
19 19 (0.59%) R
19 19 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 302 (9.33%) Degree
2 291 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 230 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 46 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 37 (1.14%) CISSP
11 25 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 24 (0.74%) ACCA
12 24 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.74%) CISM
13 23 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.68%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.65%) CIMA
15 21 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (3.74%) QA
2 80 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 77 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 62 (1.91%) NIST
5 61 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.33%) GDPR
7 39 (1.20%) GRC
8 28 (0.86%) PMO
9 27 (0.83%) NCSC
10 16 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.37%) P3O
12 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.25%) IEC 61508
14 8 (0.25%) MISRA
14 8 (0.25%) MISRA C
14 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (4.39%) Docker
2 97 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.86%) vSphere
6 19 (0.59%) Firmware
6 19 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.28%) vCloud
9 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.031%) iptables
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 191 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 158 (4.88%) Terraform
3 35 (1.08%) Ansible
4 34 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.02%) Grafana
6 21 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.59%) Argo
8 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 9 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.25%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.19%) Avamar
13 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
13 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.19%) VxRail
14 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.15%) Istio
14 5 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 356 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 137 (4.23%) Oracle
3 116 (3.58%) Adobe
4 69 (2.13%) VMware
5 64 (1.98%) SAP
6 63 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 62 (1.91%) Palo Alto
7 62 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 58 (1.79%) Databricks
9 57 (1.76%) Google
10 56 (1.73%) Cisco
11 41 (1.27%) Apple
12 32 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.86%) Dell
14 26 (0.80%) Tenable
15 19 (0.59%) Computacenter
16 17 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 16 (0.49%) OpenAI
18 15 (0.46%) Meraki
18 15 (0.46%) Nimble Storage