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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,716 2,196 4,318
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.54% 13.53% 18.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.55% 14.60% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,437 1,458 2,632
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,272 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,196 £56,888 £54,386
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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -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 22,450 15,036 22,559
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 92.63% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,884 9,073 14,801
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,250
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 £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 12 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 12 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.

1 735 (19.78%) Agile
2 708 (19.05%) Mentoring
3 693 (18.65%) Azure
4 627 (16.87%) AWS
4 627 (16.87%) Software Engineering
5 613 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 581 (15.64%) AI
7 569 (15.31%) CI/CD
8 512 (13.78%) Python
9 485 (13.05%) DevOps
10 469 (12.62%) Microsoft
11 467 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
12 407 (10.95%) SQL
13 369 (9.93%) Coaching
14 368 (9.90%) Degree
15 356 (9.58%) Project Delivery
16 352 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
17 343 (9.23%) Decision-Making
18 334 (8.99%) Security Cleared
19 328 (8.83%) Analytics
20 306 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 283 (7.62%) SC Cleared
22 271 (7.29%) C#
23 257 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
24 252 (6.78%) Roadmaps
25 242 (6.51%) Test Automation
26 234 (6.30%) JavaScript
27 232 (6.24%) GCP
27 232 (6.24%) QA
28 229 (6.16%) 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 51 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.59%) Confluence
4 20 (0.54%) CMS
5 16 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 13 (0.35%) WordPress
7 12 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.32%) IIS
8 11 (0.30%) Apache
9 10 (0.27%) SAS
10 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.22%) 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 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
1 75 (2.02%) 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 (0.22%) 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 (0.65%) Cloudability
2 18 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
4 12 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 11 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 10 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 9 (0.24%) Shopify
8 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.16%) Primavera
11 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
11 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
12 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
13 3 (0.081%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.081%) Misys Midas
13 3 (0.081%) SAP BPC
14 2 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 693 (18.65%) Azure
2 627 (16.87%) AWS
3 232 (6.24%) GCP
4 217 (5.84%) SaaS
5 166 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 152 (4.09%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 111 (2.99%) Serverless
9 108 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (2.69%) GitHub
11 52 (1.40%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.21%) PowerApps
14 44 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.10%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.25%) Firewall
2 89 (2.40%) Network Security
3 79 (2.13%) DNS
4 76 (2.05%) VLAN
5 73 (1.96%) Broadband
6 63 (1.70%) VPN
7 57 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
8 53 (1.43%) WAN
9 51 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 51 (1.37%) Wireless
10 47 (1.26%) DHCP
10 47 (1.26%) LAN
11 29 (0.78%) BGP
12 22 (0.59%) OSPF
13 21 (0.57%) SMS
14 19 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (0.46%) RS-232
15 17 (0.46%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.43%) HTTP
17 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (3.18%) Power BI
3 97 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.75%) Metadata
5 64 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 52 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.26%) MySQL
9 45 (1.21%) NoSQL
10 43 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 26 (0.70%) Tableau
13 25 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (0.62%) Data Lake
15 18 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (0.48%) OLTP
16 16 (0.43%) Big Data
17 14 (0.38%) BigQuery
17 14 (0.38%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 127 (3.42%) Git
2 57 (1.53%) JIRA
3 39 (1.05%) GitLab
4 32 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.67%) Snyk
6 18 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.38%) JUnit
7 14 (0.38%) Selenium
8 11 (0.30%) Claude Code
8 11 (0.30%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.27%) Postman
10 9 (0.24%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.24%) Maven
11 7 (0.19%) Mockito
12 6 (0.16%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.16%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.11%) MLflow
14 4 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 941 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 603 (16.23%) Finance
3 422 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 330 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 275 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
6 261 (7.02%) Legal
7 231 (6.22%) Law
8 141 (3.79%) Banking
9 129 (3.47%) Marketing
10 97 (2.61%) Retail
11 74 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.78%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 62 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 61 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 56 (1.51%) Local Government
16 54 (1.45%) Electronics
17 51 (1.37%) Games
18 42 (1.13%) Legal Technology
19 41 (1.10%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (5.71%) Terraform
2 204 (5.49%) .NET
3 159 (4.28%) React
4 121 (3.26%) Node.js
5 95 (2.56%) REST
6 93 (2.50%) HTML
7 86 (2.31%) CSS
8 79 (2.13%) RESTful
9 65 (1.75%) Spring
10 44 (1.18%) Spring Boot
11 41 (1.10%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.08%) PySpark
13 37 (1.00%) Kafka
14 35 (0.94%) Laravel
15 33 (0.89%) Vue
16 31 (0.83%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.83%) Next.js
17 29 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
18 27 (0.73%) JSON
18 27 (0.73%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 216 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 101 (2.72%) Driving Licence
3 98 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 97 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 73 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 56 (1.51%) 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 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.08%) 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 (4.39%) Linux
2 150 (4.04%) Windows
3 62 (1.67%) Unix
4 61 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 30 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.67%) Android
7 21 (0.57%) 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
1 735 (19.78%) Agile
2 708 (19.05%) Mentoring
3 627 (16.87%) Software Engineering
4 613 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 581 (15.64%) AI
6 569 (15.31%) CI/CD
7 485 (13.05%) DevOps
8 467 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
9 369 (9.93%) Coaching
10 356 (9.58%) Project Delivery
11 352 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
12 343 (9.23%) Decision-Making
13 328 (8.83%) Analytics
14 306 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 257 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 252 (6.78%) Roadmaps
17 242 (6.51%) Test Automation
18 229 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 192 (5.17%) Technical Leadership
20 188 (5.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 512 (13.78%) Python
2 407 (10.95%) SQL
3 271 (7.29%) C#
4 234 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 207 (5.57%) Java
6 206 (5.54%) TypeScript
7 137 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 95 (2.56%) C++
9 53 (1.43%) Go
10 52 (1.40%) PHP
11 51 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.26%) C
13 43 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 33 (0.89%) Bash
15 26 (0.70%) Bicep
16 23 (0.62%) Embedded C
17 21 (0.57%) R
17 21 (0.57%) Swift
18 20 (0.54%) Ruby
19 18 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 368 (9.90%) Degree
2 334 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 283 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.61%) CISSP
5 91 (2.45%) 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 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 39 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 38 (1.02%) HNC
15 37 (1.00%) AWS Certification
16 31 (0.83%) DBS Check
17 27 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.24%) QA
2 124 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 100 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (1.80%) GDPR
6 60 (1.61%) NIST
7 48 (1.29%) GRC
8 31 (0.83%) PMO
9 23 (0.62%) SLA
9 23 (0.62%) WCAG
10 20 (0.54%) NCSC
11 12 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.27%) COBIT
14 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.22%) GxP
16 7 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 174 (4.68%) Docker
2 142 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.94%) vSphere
6 27 (0.73%) Firmware
7 22 (0.59%) 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
1 196 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 104 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.08%) Ansible
4 25 (0.67%) Grafana
5 17 (0.46%) Argo
5 17 (0.46%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.22%) 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
1 469 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 116 (3.12%) Oracle
3 93 (2.50%) Adobe
4 83 (2.23%) Google
5 69 (1.86%) 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
10 54 (1.45%) SAP
11 47 (1.26%) Databricks
12 35 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
13 30 (0.81%) Apple
13 30 (0.81%) Informatica
13 30 (0.81%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.75%) Tenable
15 27 (0.73%) Pega
16 22 (0.59%) Dell
17 20 (0.54%) Aruba