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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,548 2,316 4,687
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.64% 14.09% 18.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.62% 15.30% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,358 1,523 3,244
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
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 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,879
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.35% -10.17%

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 21,347 15,142 24,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.09% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,330 9,342 17,539
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,503
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.01% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -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 11 August 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 11 August 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.

1 737 (20.77%) Agile
2 692 (19.50%) Mentoring
3 681 (19.19%) Azure
4 629 (17.73%) AWS
5 614 (17.31%) Software Engineering
6 560 (15.78%) AI
7 559 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 543 (15.30%) CI/CD
9 515 (14.52%) Python
10 469 (13.22%) DevOps
11 456 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 446 (12.57%) Microsoft
13 374 (10.54%) SQL
14 357 (10.06%) Coaching
15 342 (9.64%) Degree
16 335 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
17 327 (9.22%) Security Cleared
18 325 (9.16%) Project Delivery
19 320 (9.02%) Analytics
20 304 (8.57%) Decision-Making
21 281 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 277 (7.81%) C#
23 273 (7.69%) SC Cleared
24 264 (7.44%) Roadmaps
25 260 (7.33%) Test Automation
26 251 (7.07%) JavaScript
27 240 (6.76%) GCP
28 231 (6.51%) QA
29 219 (6.17%) SaaS
30 218 (6.14%) 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 99 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.68%) CMS
4 22 (0.62%) Confluence
5 18 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) WordPress
8 14 (0.39%) SAS
9 12 (0.34%) IIS
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.23%) Apache
11 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.085%) Artix
12 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.085%) Moodle
13 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 80 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.25%) Civil 3D
6 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.23%) InDesign
7 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.085%) Blender
11 3 (0.085%) Maya
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.14%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.085%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 681 (19.19%) Azure
2 629 (17.73%) AWS
3 240 (6.76%) GCP
4 219 (6.17%) SaaS
5 155 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 137 (3.86%) Entra ID
8 121 (3.41%) Serverless
9 97 (2.73%) GitHub
10 95 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.35%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 43 (1.21%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
16 40 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (0.99%) Azure AKS
17 35 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 154 (4.34%) Firewall
2 97 (2.73%) Broadband
3 84 (2.37%) Network Security
4 77 (2.17%) DNS
5 66 (1.86%) VLAN
6 60 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
7 59 (1.66%) VPN
8 52 (1.47%) TCP/IP
8 52 (1.47%) WAN
9 48 (1.35%) Wireless
10 47 (1.32%) LAN
11 45 (1.27%) DHCP
12 28 (0.79%) BGP
13 21 (0.59%) RS-232
14 20 (0.56%) OSPF
15 18 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.45%) HTTP
16 16 (0.45%) WLAN
17 14 (0.39%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (3.18%) Power BI
3 94 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 56 (1.58%) Metadata
6 48 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.30%) MySQL
8 36 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (0.87%) NoSQL
11 29 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 29 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (0.76%) Tableau
13 24 (0.68%) OLTP
14 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
15 20 (0.56%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.48%) Redis
17 15 (0.42%) Big Data
17 15 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 118 (3.33%) Git
2 59 (1.66%) JIRA
3 42 (1.18%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 20 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.54%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
13 7 (0.20%) XCUITest
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 869 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 590 (16.63%) Finance
3 380 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 310 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 276 (7.78%) Legal
6 252 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
7 228 (6.43%) Law
8 136 (3.83%) Marketing
9 123 (3.47%) Banking
10 85 (2.40%) Retail
11 72 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.75%) Games
14 59 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 53 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (1.38%) Electronics
17 48 (1.35%) Local Government
18 45 (1.27%) Legal Technology
19 44 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
20 30 (0.85%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (6.12%) .NET
2 168 (4.74%) React
3 114 (3.21%) Node.js
4 90 (2.54%) HTML
5 88 (2.48%) REST
6 79 (2.23%) CSS
7 74 (2.09%) RESTful
8 54 (1.52%) Spring
9 38 (1.07%) Vue
10 37 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 37 (1.04%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
12 33 (0.93%) Laravel
13 32 (0.90%) Kafka
14 29 (0.82%) .NET Core
14 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 28 (0.79%) Next.js
15 28 (0.79%) Playwright
15 28 (0.79%) SPFx
16 27 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 98 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 57 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 54 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (1.35%) Social Media
9 42 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 42 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 40 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.04%) Security Posture
13 36 (1.01%) Blog
14 35 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 33 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 175 (4.93%) Linux
2 128 (3.61%) Windows
3 59 (1.66%) Unix
4 54 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.16%) Android
5 41 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.085%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
13 1 (0.028%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (20.77%) Agile
2 692 (19.50%) Mentoring
3 614 (17.31%) Software Engineering
4 560 (15.78%) AI
5 559 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 543 (15.30%) CI/CD
7 469 (13.22%) DevOps
8 456 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
9 357 (10.06%) Coaching
10 335 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
11 325 (9.16%) Project Delivery
12 320 (9.02%) Analytics
13 304 (8.57%) Decision-Making
14 281 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 264 (7.44%) Roadmaps
16 260 (7.33%) Test Automation
17 218 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 217 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
19 186 (5.24%) Microservices
20 184 (5.19%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 515 (14.52%) Python
2 374 (10.54%) SQL
3 277 (7.81%) C#
4 251 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 208 (5.86%) Java
6 203 (5.72%) TypeScript
7 132 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 100 (2.82%) C++
9 62 (1.75%) PHP
10 59 (1.66%) Go
11 49 (1.38%) C
12 45 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 37 (1.04%) Bash
14 28 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.73%) Embedded C
16 24 (0.68%) R
17 23 (0.65%) Bicep
18 21 (0.59%) Swift
19 19 (0.54%) Ruby
19 19 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 342 (9.64%) Degree
2 327 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 273 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.85%) CISSP
5 91 (2.56%) CISM
6 66 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.55%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
8 54 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.07%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.79%) PhD
15 26 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.62%) ACCA
18 20 (0.56%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (6.51%) QA
2 106 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 81 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 73 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 63 (1.78%) NIST
6 59 (1.66%) GDPR
7 47 (1.32%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 22 (0.62%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 15 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 15 (0.42%) NCSC
12 10 (0.28%) COBIT
12 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.23%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 170 (4.79%) Docker
2 136 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.90%) vSphere
6 29 (0.82%) Firmware
7 18 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) iptables
14 2 (0.056%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.028%) GPFS
15 1 (0.028%) Lustre
15 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 199 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 198 (5.58%) Terraform
3 98 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.96%) Ansible
5 26 (0.73%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.48%) Argo
8 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) SCCM
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 446 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 126 (3.55%) Oracle
3 106 (2.99%) Adobe
4 86 (2.42%) Google
5 72 (2.03%) Cisco
6 69 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 67 (1.89%) VMware
8 64 (1.80%) SAP
9 61 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 58 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 46 (1.30%) Databricks
13 36 (1.01%) Apple
14 35 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (0.79%) Dell
15 28 (0.79%) Pega
16 27 (0.76%) Tenable
17 25 (0.70%) Informatica
18 21 (0.59%) Meraki
18 21 (0.59%) Veeam