Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,376 3,022 4,310
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.92% 19.00% 15.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.92% 19.80% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,670 1,896 3,603
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,007 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +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 14,924 15,264 26,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.96% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 9,226 21,884
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,010 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 4 February 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 4 February 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.

1 573 (24.12%) Azure
2 525 (22.10%) Agile
3 479 (20.16%) Mentoring
4 399 (16.79%) AWS
5 384 (16.16%) CI/CD
6 379 (15.95%) SQL
7 363 (15.28%) DevOps
8 344 (14.48%) Software Engineering
9 320 (13.47%) Coaching
10 298 (12.54%) Python
11 292 (12.29%) Microsoft
12 282 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
13 278 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 277 (11.66%) AI
15 249 (10.48%) Degree
16 209 (8.80%) Roadmaps
17 208 (8.75%) .NET
18 196 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
18 196 (8.25%) SaaS
19 195 (8.21%) Security Cleared
20 192 (8.08%) Java
21 181 (7.62%) Terraform
22 180 (7.58%) Analytics
23 178 (7.49%) Kubernetes
24 177 (7.45%) C#
25 176 (7.41%) Test Automation
26 168 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
27 162 (6.82%) Microservices
28 156 (6.57%) Asset Management
28 156 (6.57%) Docker

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 58 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.09%) Confluence
4 24 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.88%) WordPress
6 20 (0.84%) Apache
6 20 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.46%) CMS
7 11 (0.46%) JBoss
7 11 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.25%) IIS
9 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.084%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.084%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.084%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.042%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.042%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.59%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.42%) InDesign
6 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.29%) Sketch
7 5 (0.21%) Maya
7 5 (0.21%) MotionBuilder
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.13%) InVision
9 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.13%) Weka
10 2 (0.084%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.084%) Revit
10 2 (0.084%) Simulink
11 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.26%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.22%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
5 22 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.84%) Shopify
7 14 (0.59%) Hyperion Planning
8 11 (0.46%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.38%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
10 8 (0.34%) Visualfiles
11 5 (0.21%) Magento
11 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 573 (24.12%) Azure
2 399 (16.79%) AWS
3 196 (8.25%) SaaS
4 154 (6.48%) GCP
5 146 (6.14%) GitHub
6 136 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
7 111 (4.67%) Entra ID
7 111 (4.67%) Power Platform
8 96 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
9 87 (3.66%) Serverless
10 66 (2.78%) Snowflake
11 63 (2.65%) dbt
12 50 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 40 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
16 37 (1.56%) OCI
17 35 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
18 34 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.20%) Broadband
2 56 (2.36%) Firewall
3 47 (1.98%) VPN
4 39 (1.64%) WAN
5 38 (1.60%) DNS
6 37 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.18%) DHCP
8 25 (1.05%) Network Security
8 25 (1.05%) SD-WAN
9 23 (0.97%) LAN
10 15 (0.63%) BGP
10 15 (0.63%) Ethernet
11 13 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.51%) Wireless
13 11 (0.46%) HTTP
14 10 (0.42%) RS-232
14 10 (0.42%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.29%) OSPF
16 6 (0.25%) MPLS
16 6 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.59%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.16%) Power BI
4 59 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
5 58 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 29 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 28 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (1.18%) Metadata
9 27 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 25 (1.05%) MySQL
12 24 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
14 20 (0.84%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.80%) Tableau
16 18 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.76%) Redis
16 18 (0.76%) Relational Database
17 17 (0.72%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 86 (3.62%) JIRA
2 70 (2.95%) Git
3 67 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.06%) Oracle Forms
5 30 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 26 (1.09%) Selenium
7 22 (0.93%) GitLab
8 15 (0.63%) Postman
9 10 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.42%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.34%) MLflow
11 8 (0.34%) Subversion
12 7 (0.29%) git-flow
12 7 (0.29%) JUnit
12 7 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.21%) Storybook
13 5 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 556 (23.40%) Finance
2 519 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 211 (8.88%) Public Sector
4 164 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 144 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 115 (4.84%) Retail
7 102 (4.29%) Banking
8 96 (4.04%) Marketing
9 90 (3.79%) Law
10 75 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 70 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 61 (2.57%) Games
12 61 (2.57%) Legal
13 44 (1.85%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.18%) Front Office
15 28 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.80%) Back Office
16 19 (0.80%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (8.75%) .NET
2 139 (5.85%) React
3 122 (5.13%) REST
4 111 (4.67%) SOAP
5 95 (4.00%) RESTful
6 81 (3.41%) HTML
7 71 (2.99%) GraphQL
8 62 (2.61%) Node.js
9 59 (2.48%) OAuth
10 55 (2.31%) CSS
11 50 (2.10%) Spring
12 42 (1.77%) Kafka
13 41 (1.73%) XML
14 39 (1.64%) SAML
15 38 (1.60%) Spring Boot
16 37 (1.56%) .NET Core
16 37 (1.56%) OpenID
17 34 (1.43%) gRPC
18 31 (1.30%) LDAP
19 30 (1.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 154 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 87 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (1.60%) Social Media
7 37 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 31 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
10 31 (1.30%) Cyberattack
11 30 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 29 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.05%) Driving Licence
13 25 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 24 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (0.84%) Hedge funds
15 20 (0.84%) Management Information System
16 19 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
17 18 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 111 (4.67%) Linux
2 88 (3.70%) Windows
3 46 (1.94%) Android
4 39 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.18%) Unix
7 23 (0.97%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.59%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.084%) CentOS
10 2 (0.084%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.084%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (22.10%) Agile
2 479 (20.16%) Mentoring
3 384 (16.16%) CI/CD
4 363 (15.28%) DevOps
5 344 (14.48%) Software Engineering
6 320 (13.47%) Coaching
7 282 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
8 278 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 277 (11.66%) AI
10 209 (8.80%) Roadmaps
11 196 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
12 180 (7.58%) Analytics
13 176 (7.41%) Test Automation
14 168 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 162 (6.82%) Microservices
16 156 (6.57%) Asset Management
17 143 (6.02%) User Experience
18 137 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
19 134 (5.64%) Full-Stack Development
20 132 (5.56%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 379 (15.95%) SQL
2 298 (12.54%) Python
3 192 (8.08%) Java
4 177 (7.45%) C#
5 144 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 138 (5.81%) TypeScript
7 91 (3.83%) PowerShell
8 69 (2.90%) Bash
9 55 (2.31%) Go
10 51 (2.15%) C++
11 50 (2.10%) PL/SQL
12 40 (1.68%) PHP
13 35 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.39%) Scala
15 31 (1.30%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.14%) Bicep
16 27 (1.14%) C
17 24 (1.01%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.72%) Ruby
18 17 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 249 (10.48%) Degree
2 195 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 140 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 79 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.68%) ACCA
7 37 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.43%) CISSP
9 33 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 23 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.84%) CISM
13 19 (0.80%) CIMA
14 18 (0.76%) CCNP
15 16 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.55%) AAT
17 13 (0.55%) CISA
18 12 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.08%) QA
2 58 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (2.31%) GDPR
5 52 (2.19%) NIST
6 48 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 33 (1.39%) NCSC
8 21 (0.88%) IFRS
9 17 (0.72%) PMO
10 16 (0.67%) GRC
11 14 (0.59%) P3O
12 11 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.46%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.46%) MISRA
12 11 (0.46%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.38%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.29%) GAAP
15 7 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 156 (6.57%) Docker
2 113 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.29%) vSphere
8 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.21%) Firmware
10 2 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.084%) vCloud
10 2 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.042%) Ceph
11 1 (0.042%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 181 (7.62%) Terraform
2 178 (7.49%) Kubernetes
3 57 (2.40%) Grafana
4 49 (2.06%) Ansible
5 47 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
6 42 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.46%) Functional Safety
9 8 (0.34%) SCCM
10 6 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.21%) Argo
12 4 (0.17%) Puppet
13 3 (0.13%) Control-M
13 3 (0.13%) cPanel
13 3 (0.13%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.13%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.084%) Nagios
14 2 (0.084%) Nessus
Vendors
1 292 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.43%) Oracle
3 78 (3.28%) Databricks
4 46 (1.94%) VMware
5 45 (1.89%) Cisco
5 45 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 42 (1.77%) SAP
7 41 (1.73%) Google
8 36 (1.52%) Adobe
9 29 (1.22%) Okta
10 28 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 22 (0.93%) Workday
12 14 (0.59%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.59%) Hyperion
12 14 (0.59%) Screaming Frog
13 13 (0.55%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.46%) Talend
15 9 (0.38%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.38%) Zoho
16 8 (0.34%) Juniper