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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,616 2,241 4,510
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.50% 13.57% 18.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.48% 14.66% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,379 1,510 2,899
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +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 21,947 15,289 23,373
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.58% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,637 9,335 16,129
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 31 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 31 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.

1 738 (20.41%) Agile
2 688 (19.03%) Mentoring
3 684 (18.92%) Azure
4 633 (17.51%) AWS
5 622 (17.20%) Software Engineering
6 596 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 570 (15.76%) AI
8 556 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 512 (14.16%) Python
10 483 (13.36%) DevOps
11 457 (12.64%) Microsoft
12 439 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
13 393 (10.87%) SQL
14 360 (9.96%) Degree
15 358 (9.90%) Project Delivery
16 350 (9.68%) Coaching
17 337 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
18 333 (9.21%) Decision-Making
19 310 (8.57%) Analytics
20 302 (8.35%) Security Cleared
21 299 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 277 (7.66%) C#
23 255 (7.05%) SC Cleared
24 252 (6.97%) Roadmaps
25 250 (6.91%) Test Automation
26 241 (6.66%) JavaScript
27 236 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
28 235 (6.50%) GCP
29 233 (6.44%) QA
30 224 (6.19%) 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
1 101 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.69%) CMS
4 22 (0.61%) Confluence
5 14 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.36%) WordPress
7 12 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.33%) IIS
8 10 (0.28%) SAS
9 9 (0.25%) Apache
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.083%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.083%) Artix
11 3 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.083%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.083%) Moodle
12 2 (0.055%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.055%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 75 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
7 10 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.25%) InDesign
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.083%) Blender
11 3 (0.083%) Maya
11 3 (0.083%) Trello
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.66%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 11 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.28%) Shopify
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) Primavera
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.083%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.083%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.055%) HFM
11 2 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.055%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.055%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 684 (18.92%) Azure
2 633 (17.51%) AWS
3 235 (6.50%) GCP
4 222 (6.14%) SaaS
5 163 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 155 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 135 (3.73%) Entra ID
8 113 (3.13%) Serverless
9 105 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 103 (2.85%) GitHub
11 49 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.33%) PowerApps
13 46 (1.27%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 43 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.13%) Azure AKS
16 41 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
17 40 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.42%) Firewall
2 89 (2.46%) Network Security
3 79 (2.18%) Broadband
3 79 (2.18%) DNS
4 75 (2.07%) VLAN
5 62 (1.71%) VPN
6 58 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
7 51 (1.41%) WAN
7 51 (1.41%) Wireless
8 49 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 46 (1.27%) DHCP
9 46 (1.27%) LAN
10 29 (0.80%) BGP
11 21 (0.58%) OSPF
12 19 (0.53%) RS-232
12 19 (0.53%) SMS
13 18 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
14 16 (0.44%) HTTP
14 16 (0.44%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (3.35%) Power BI
3 100 (2.77%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 60 (1.66%) Metadata
6 49 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.33%) MySQL
8 45 (1.24%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 38 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 26 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.72%) Tableau
13 21 (0.58%) OLTP
14 19 (0.53%) Data Lake
15 17 (0.47%) Big Data
16 15 (0.41%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.36%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
19 11 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 123 (3.40%) Git
2 60 (1.66%) JIRA
3 42 (1.16%) GitLab
4 34 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.69%) Snyk
6 19 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.44%) Claude Code
7 16 (0.44%) Selenium
8 15 (0.41%) JUnit
9 11 (0.30%) LabVIEW
9 11 (0.30%) Postman
10 9 (0.25%) Maven
11 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.22%) Gatling
12 7 (0.19%) Mockito
13 4 (0.11%) Appium
13 4 (0.11%) JMeter
13 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 919 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 583 (16.12%) Finance
3 390 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 325 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 271 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 258 (7.13%) Legal
7 233 (6.44%) Law
8 134 (3.71%) Marketing
9 131 (3.62%) Banking
10 89 (2.46%) Retail
11 70 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 63 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 59 (1.63%) Games
14 59 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 58 (1.60%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.49%) Local Government
17 51 (1.41%) Electronics
18 43 (1.19%) Legal Technology
19 35 (0.97%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (5.86%) .NET
2 206 (5.70%) Terraform
3 161 (4.45%) React
4 126 (3.48%) Node.js
5 96 (2.65%) HTML
6 91 (2.52%) REST
7 88 (2.43%) CSS
8 76 (2.10%) RESTful
9 61 (1.69%) Spring
10 41 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 39 (1.08%) AngularJS
12 35 (0.97%) Kafka
12 35 (0.97%) Vue
13 34 (0.94%) Laravel
14 33 (0.91%) .NET Core
15 32 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
16 31 (0.86%) Next.js
16 31 (0.86%) PySpark
17 29 (0.80%) Playwright
18 28 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 210 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 100 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 94 (2.60%) Driving Licence
5 67 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 60 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 53 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 47 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 42 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (1.11%) Onboarding
15 38 (1.05%) Blog
16 37 (1.02%) Algorithms
17 36 (1.00%) Security Posture
18 35 (0.97%) Low-Code
19 30 (0.83%) Data Structures
19 30 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.54%) Linux
2 142 (3.93%) Windows
3 61 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.66%) Unix
5 32 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 28 (0.77%) Android
7 22 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
11 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.083%) Debian
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (20.41%) Agile
2 688 (19.03%) Mentoring
3 622 (17.20%) Software Engineering
4 596 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 570 (15.76%) AI
6 556 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 483 (13.36%) DevOps
8 439 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
9 358 (9.90%) Project Delivery
10 350 (9.68%) Coaching
11 337 (9.32%) Cybersecurity
12 333 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 310 (8.57%) Analytics
14 299 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 252 (6.97%) Roadmaps
16 250 (6.91%) Test Automation
17 236 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
18 224 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
19 189 (5.23%) Information Security
20 187 (5.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 512 (14.16%) Python
2 393 (10.87%) SQL
3 277 (7.66%) C#
4 241 (6.66%) JavaScript
5 211 (5.84%) TypeScript
6 199 (5.50%) Java
7 138 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.60%) C++
9 57 (1.58%) Go
10 53 (1.47%) PHP
11 46 (1.27%) C
12 43 (1.19%) PL/SQL
13 37 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 34 (0.94%) Bash
15 26 (0.72%) Bicep
16 24 (0.66%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.61%) Swift
18 21 (0.58%) R
18 21 (0.58%) Ruby
19 17 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 360 (9.96%) Degree
2 302 (8.35%) Security Cleared
3 255 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.60%) CISSP
5 88 (2.43%) CISM
6 67 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.49%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
8 53 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 51 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 45 (1.24%) DV Cleared
12 43 (1.19%) Master's Degree
13 41 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 38 (1.05%) AWS Certification
15 34 (0.94%) HNC
16 27 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 27 (0.75%) PhD
17 24 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (6.44%) QA
2 120 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 87 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (1.66%) GDPR
6 59 (1.63%) NIST
7 47 (1.30%) GRC
8 29 (0.80%) PMO
9 24 (0.66%) WCAG
10 23 (0.64%) SLA
11 17 (0.47%) NCSC
12 12 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.22%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.19%) GxP
16 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 170 (4.70%) Docker
2 139 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.94%) vSphere
6 27 (0.75%) Firmware
7 21 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.083%) iptables
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 198 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 100 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (0.97%) Ansible
4 24 (0.66%) Grafana
5 20 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.47%) Argo
7 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.19%) 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%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.11%) SCCM
11 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 457 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 108 (2.99%) Oracle
3 99 (2.74%) Adobe
4 80 (2.21%) Google
5 70 (1.94%) VMware
6 69 (1.91%) Cisco
7 66 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 59 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.52%) SAP
11 54 (1.49%) CyberArk
12 46 (1.27%) Databricks
13 35 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
14 30 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 29 (0.80%) Apple
16 28 (0.77%) Informatica
16 28 (0.77%) Tenable
17 27 (0.75%) Pega
18 25 (0.69%) Dell
19 21 (0.58%) Veeam