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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 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 3,200 2,246 6,053
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.45% 14.86% 17.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.47% 16.15% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,253 1,383 4,536
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,338 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.43% +9.34% -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 18,313 13,906 32,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 91.99% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 13,356 8,568 25,832
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 £55,314
Median % change year-on-year - +8.47% -11.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 10 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 10 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.

1 628 (19.63%) Agile
2 599 (18.72%) Mentoring
3 566 (17.69%) Azure
4 532 (16.63%) AWS
5 470 (14.69%) Software Engineering
6 434 (13.56%) AI
7 391 (12.22%) CI/CD
8 384 (12.00%) Coaching
9 382 (11.94%) Python
10 379 (11.84%) SQL
11 378 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
12 355 (11.09%) Microsoft
13 337 (10.53%) DevOps
14 325 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 302 (9.44%) Analytics
16 300 (9.38%) Degree
17 291 (9.09%) Roadmaps
18 280 (8.75%) Security Cleared
19 241 (7.53%) Java
20 232 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
21 223 (6.97%) SC Cleared
22 218 (6.81%) Decision-Making
23 210 (6.56%) Test Automation
24 202 (6.31%) Project Delivery
25 196 (6.13%) GCP
26 184 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
27 182 (5.69%) Kubernetes
28 181 (5.66%) .NET
29 180 (5.63%) Full-Stack Development
30 178 (5.56%) 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 85 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (0.84%) 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%) IIS
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.13%) JBoss
10 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.094%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.094%) Artix
11 3 (0.094%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.063%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 88 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.13%) 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 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.094%) Blender
10 3 (0.094%) InDesign
10 3 (0.094%) Maya
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.063%) SPSS
11 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
2 17 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 16 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 15 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 12 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (0.28%) Visualfiles
8 8 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.19%) Shopify
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.16%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.13%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
12 3 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 566 (17.69%) Azure
2 532 (16.63%) AWS
3 196 (6.13%) GCP
4 174 (5.44%) SaaS
5 132 (4.13%) Power Platform
6 120 (3.75%) Serverless
7 119 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
8 91 (2.84%) Entra ID
9 85 (2.66%) GitHub
10 77 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.38%) 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 36 (1.13%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.09%) Amazon S3
17 34 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 143 (4.47%) Broadband
2 81 (2.53%) Firewall
3 59 (1.84%) DNS
4 54 (1.69%) VPN
5 44 (1.38%) 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 (0.88%) Network Security
12 27 (0.84%) BGP
13 22 (0.69%) RS-232
14 20 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (0.56%) OSPF
16 17 (0.53%) Ethernet
17 15 (0.47%) HTTP
18 13 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
19 11 (0.34%) Bluetooth
19 11 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (3.06%) Power BI
2 95 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 83 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.63%) Metadata
6 36 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 31 (0.97%) OLTP
8 30 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 30 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 28 (0.88%) Tableau
10 27 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 24 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (0.75%) MySQL
13 23 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (0.56%) Delta Lake
14 18 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 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 (1.13%) GitLab
6 25 (0.78%) Snyk
7 24 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.53%) Selenium
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
10 10 (0.31%) MLflow
11 9 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.22%) JMeter
13 7 (0.22%) JUnit
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
15 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 647 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 559 (17.47%) Finance
3 402 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 233 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 200 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (4.06%) Law
7 126 (3.94%) Banking
7 126 (3.94%) Marketing
8 98 (3.06%) Legal
9 84 (2.63%) Retail
10 81 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 75 (2.34%) Games
12 52 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.41%) 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 (5.66%) .NET
2 139 (4.34%) React
3 99 (3.09%) REST
4 96 (3.00%) Node.js
5 76 (2.38%) HTML
6 68 (2.13%) RESTful
7 66 (2.06%) SOAP
8 52 (1.63%) CSS
9 51 (1.59%) Spring
10 41 (1.28%) GraphQL
11 40 (1.25%) OAuth
12 36 (1.13%) Spring Boot
13 35 (1.09%) OpenID
14 33 (1.03%) Vue
15 32 (1.00%) SAML
16 31 (0.97%) JSON
17 30 (0.94%) Kafka
18 29 (0.91%) HTML5 Canvas
19 28 (0.88%) .NET Core
20 27 (0.84%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 197 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 111 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.28%) Data Centre
4 67 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (1.91%) Social Media
6 56 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.50%) Driving Licence
8 46 (1.44%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.38%) Low-Code
9 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 42 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 39 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 38 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 37 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 37 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
15 36 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
16 35 (1.09%) AI Agents
16 35 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
17 33 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.56%) Linux
2 105 (3.28%) Windows
3 57 (1.78%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.63%) Android
5 38 (1.19%) 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 6 (0.19%) 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
1 628 (19.63%) Agile
2 599 (18.72%) Mentoring
3 470 (14.69%) Software Engineering
4 434 (13.56%) AI
5 391 (12.22%) CI/CD
6 384 (12.00%) Coaching
7 378 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
8 337 (10.53%) DevOps
9 325 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 302 (9.44%) Analytics
11 291 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 232 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
13 218 (6.81%) Decision-Making
14 210 (6.56%) Test Automation
15 202 (6.31%) Project Delivery
16 184 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 180 (5.63%) Full-Stack Development
18 178 (5.56%) Project Management
19 173 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
20 155 (4.84%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 382 (11.94%) Python
2 379 (11.84%) SQL
3 241 (7.53%) Java
4 169 (5.28%) JavaScript
5 157 (4.91%) C#
6 149 (4.66%) TypeScript
7 94 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 87 (2.72%) C++
9 73 (2.28%) Go
10 68 (2.13%) Bash
11 61 (1.91%) PHP
12 53 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.47%) Scala
14 40 (1.25%) C
15 37 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 27 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.72%) VBA
18 20 (0.63%) Bicep
18 20 (0.63%) R
19 19 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 300 (9.38%) Degree
2 280 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 223 (6.97%) 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 (0.63%) CISM
16 20 (0.63%) PhD
17 19 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (3.66%) QA
2 79 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.38%) 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 (0.88%) PMO
9 25 (0.78%) NCSC
10 16 (0.50%) SLA
11 12 (0.38%) P3O
12 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.28%) IEC 61508
13 9 (0.28%) MISRA
13 9 (0.28%) MISRA C
14 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.22%) WCAG
15 6 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 135 (4.22%) Docker
2 98 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.81%) 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 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.031%) iptables
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 182 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 162 (5.06%) Terraform
3 35 (1.09%) Ansible
4 34 (1.06%) Grafana
5 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.59%) Argo
8 17 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.44%) SCCM
10 11 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.28%) 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 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.16%) Istio
14 5 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 355 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 139 (4.34%) Oracle
3 114 (3.56%) Adobe
4 68 (2.13%) VMware
5 64 (2.00%) SAP
6 62 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 59 (1.84%) Databricks
7 59 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 55 (1.72%) Google
10 51 (1.59%) Cisco
11 41 (1.28%) Apple
12 32 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.88%) Dell
14 26 (0.81%) Tenable
15 19 (0.59%) Computacenter
16 16 (0.50%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.47%) Meraki
17 15 (0.47%) NetApp
17 15 (0.47%) Nimble Storage