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 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,202 2,249 6,034
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.45% 14.90% 17.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.47% 16.20% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,255 1,381 4,520
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 £85,000 £87,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 18,324 13,881 32,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 91.96% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 13,362 8,560 25,712
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,242
Median % change year-on-year - +8.61% -11.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,631 £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 9 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 9 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.

1 627 (19.58%) Agile
2 600 (18.74%) Mentoring
3 566 (17.68%) Azure
4 530 (16.55%) AWS
5 469 (14.65%) Software Engineering
6 431 (13.46%) AI
7 387 (12.09%) CI/CD
8 384 (11.99%) Coaching
9 380 (11.87%) Python
10 377 (11.77%) SQL
11 375 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
12 352 (10.99%) Microsoft
13 336 (10.49%) DevOps
14 320 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 301 (9.40%) Analytics
15 301 (9.40%) Degree
16 291 (9.09%) Roadmaps
17 280 (8.74%) Security Cleared
18 241 (7.53%) Java
19 234 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
20 223 (6.96%) SC Cleared
21 217 (6.78%) Decision-Making
22 209 (6.53%) Test Automation
23 202 (6.31%) Project Delivery
24 197 (6.15%) GCP
25 183 (5.72%) Kubernetes
25 183 (5.72%) Stakeholder Management
26 181 (5.65%) .NET
27 179 (5.59%) Full-Stack Development
27 179 (5.59%) Project Management

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 84 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.72%) CMS
5 19 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.56%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) IIS
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.12%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.094%) Artix
11 3 (0.094%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 88 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 4 (0.12%) Trello
10 3 (0.094%) Blender
10 3 (0.094%) InDesign
10 3 (0.094%) Maya
11 2 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.062%) SPSS
11 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
4 12 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.31%) 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 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.16%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 566 (17.68%) Azure
2 530 (16.55%) AWS
3 197 (6.15%) GCP
4 174 (5.43%) SaaS
5 131 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 121 (3.78%) Serverless
7 117 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
8 90 (2.81%) Entra ID
9 84 (2.62%) GitHub
10 76 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.47%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
13 38 (1.19%) Figma
14 37 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (1.09%) Amazon S3
15 35 (1.09%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
16 34 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 142 (4.43%) Broadband
2 81 (2.53%) Firewall
3 58 (1.81%) DNS
4 53 (1.66%) VPN
5 44 (1.37%) WAN
6 38 (1.19%) DHCP
7 35 (1.09%) Wireless
8 32 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 31 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.94%) LAN
11 28 (0.87%) Network Security
12 27 (0.84%) BGP
13 22 (0.69%) RS-232
14 21 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (0.56%) Ethernet
15 18 (0.56%) OSPF
16 15 (0.47%) HTTP
17 13 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
18 11 (0.34%) Bluetooth
18 11 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (3.06%) Power BI
2 95 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 82 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (2.03%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.62%) Metadata
6 36 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 31 (0.97%) NoSQL
8 31 (0.97%) OLTP
9 30 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.87%) Tableau
12 27 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 26 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 25 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (0.75%) MySQL
16 23 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (0.56%) Delta Lake
17 18 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 17 (0.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (2.31%) Git
2 62 (1.94%) JIRA
3 47 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.16%) TeamCity
5 36 (1.12%) GitLab
6 25 (0.78%) Snyk
7 24 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.53%) Selenium
9 12 (0.37%) Postman
10 10 (0.31%) MLflow
10 10 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
12 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.22%) JMeter
12 7 (0.22%) JUnit
12 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
14 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 645 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 559 (17.46%) Finance
3 403 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 234 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 199 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.09%) Law
7 126 (3.94%) Banking
7 126 (3.94%) Marketing
8 98 (3.06%) Legal
9 84 (2.62%) Retail
10 81 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 73 (2.28%) Games
12 52 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 48 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (0.94%) Local Government
17 27 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 25 (0.78%) Back Office
18 25 (0.78%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (5.65%) .NET
2 142 (4.43%) React
3 99 (3.09%) REST
4 97 (3.03%) Node.js
5 76 (2.37%) HTML
6 66 (2.06%) RESTful
6 66 (2.06%) SOAP
7 52 (1.62%) CSS
8 51 (1.59%) Spring
9 41 (1.28%) GraphQL
10 40 (1.25%) OAuth
11 36 (1.12%) Spring Boot
12 35 (1.09%) OpenID
13 33 (1.03%) Vue
14 32 (1.00%) SAML
15 31 (0.97%) JSON
16 30 (0.94%) Kafka
17 28 (0.87%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.87%) HTML5 Canvas
18 27 (0.84%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 111 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.28%) Data Centre
4 65 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (1.94%) Social Media
6 56 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 49 (1.53%) Driving Licence
8 46 (1.44%) Cyberattack
9 43 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 43 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 42 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 39 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 37 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
12 37 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 36 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 34 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
15 33 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 145 (4.53%) Linux
2 103 (3.22%) Windows
3 58 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 53 (1.66%) Android
5 37 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.06%) Unix
7 18 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.094%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Debian
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (19.58%) Agile
2 600 (18.74%) Mentoring
3 469 (14.65%) Software Engineering
4 431 (13.46%) AI
5 387 (12.09%) CI/CD
6 384 (11.99%) Coaching
7 375 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
8 336 (10.49%) DevOps
9 320 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 301 (9.40%) Analytics
11 291 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 234 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
13 217 (6.78%) Decision-Making
14 209 (6.53%) Test Automation
15 202 (6.31%) Project Delivery
16 183 (5.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 179 (5.59%) Full-Stack Development
17 179 (5.59%) Project Management
18 170 (5.31%) Infrastructure as Code
19 155 (4.84%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 380 (11.87%) Python
2 377 (11.77%) SQL
3 241 (7.53%) Java
4 170 (5.31%) JavaScript
5 156 (4.87%) C#
6 150 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 93 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 88 (2.75%) C++
9 71 (2.22%) Go
10 67 (2.09%) Bash
11 61 (1.91%) PHP
12 52 (1.62%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.47%) Scala
14 41 (1.28%) C
15 37 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 27 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.72%) VBA
18 20 (0.62%) R
19 19 (0.59%) Bicep
19 19 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 301 (9.40%) Degree
2 280 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 223 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 47 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 33 (1.03%) CISSP
12 25 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 24 (0.75%) ACCA
13 24 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.66%) CIMA
16 20 (0.62%) CISM
16 20 (0.62%) PhD
17 19 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (3.65%) QA
2 79 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 57 (1.78%) NIST
5 56 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.34%) GDPR
7 38 (1.19%) GRC
8 28 (0.87%) PMO
9 25 (0.78%) NCSC
10 16 (0.50%) SLA
11 12 (0.37%) P3O
12 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.31%) IEC 61508
12 10 (0.31%) MISRA
12 10 (0.31%) MISRA C
12 10 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.22%) WCAG
14 6 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 136 (4.25%) Docker
2 97 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.78%) vSphere
6 19 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.56%) Firmware
8 11 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) vCloud
10 8 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.031%) iptables
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.031%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 183 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 162 (5.06%) Terraform
3 35 (1.09%) Ansible
4 34 (1.06%) Grafana
5 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.62%) Argo
6 20 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.44%) SCCM
9 11 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.31%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.19%) Avamar
12 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.19%) VxRail
13 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.16%) Istio
13 5 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 352 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 139 (4.34%) Oracle
3 114 (3.56%) Adobe
4 67 (2.09%) VMware
5 64 (2.00%) SAP
6 62 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 59 (1.84%) Databricks
8 58 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.78%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.72%) Google
11 51 (1.59%) Cisco
12 41 (1.28%) Apple
13 32 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.87%) Dell
15 26 (0.81%) Tenable
16 19 (0.59%) Computacenter
17 16 (0.50%) Fortinet
18 15 (0.47%) Meraki
18 15 (0.47%) NetApp
18 15 (0.47%) Nimble Storage