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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 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 3,188 2,222 5,980
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.48% 14.93% 17.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.50% 16.24% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,255 1,376 4,488
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,692 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +7.22% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -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 18,219 13,683 32,437
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 91.92% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13,294 8,466 25,546
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,531 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 6 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 6 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.

1 625 (19.60%) Agile
2 600 (18.82%) Mentoring
3 566 (17.75%) Azure
4 527 (16.53%) AWS
5 466 (14.62%) Software Engineering
6 422 (13.24%) AI
7 386 (12.11%) Coaching
8 383 (12.01%) SQL
9 380 (11.92%) CI/CD
10 377 (11.83%) Python
11 376 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
12 353 (11.07%) Microsoft
13 337 (10.57%) DevOps
14 314 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 304 (9.54%) Analytics
16 302 (9.47%) Degree
17 289 (9.07%) Roadmaps
18 286 (8.97%) Security Cleared
19 243 (7.62%) Java
20 236 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
21 227 (7.12%) SC Cleared
22 214 (6.71%) Decision-Making
23 204 (6.40%) Test Automation
24 201 (6.30%) Project Delivery
25 196 (6.15%) GCP
26 183 (5.74%) Kubernetes
27 182 (5.71%) .NET
27 182 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
28 180 (5.65%) Project Management
29 175 (5.49%) SaaS

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 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (0.75%) CMS
5 20 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.60%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) IIS
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.13%) JBoss
10 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.094%) Artix
12 2 (0.063%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.063%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 88 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.094%) Blender
10 3 (0.094%) Maya
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.063%) InDesign
11 2 (0.063%) Revit
11 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
4 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.31%) Visualfiles
6 9 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.22%) Shopify
8 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.094%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 566 (17.75%) Azure
2 527 (16.53%) AWS
3 196 (6.15%) GCP
4 175 (5.49%) SaaS
5 132 (4.14%) Power Platform
6 121 (3.80%) Serverless
7 118 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 91 (2.85%) Entra ID
9 84 (2.63%) GitHub
10 76 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.47%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 37 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (1.13%) Figma
15 36 (1.13%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.10%) Amazon S3
17 34 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.04%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 135 (4.23%) Broadband
2 82 (2.57%) Firewall
3 58 (1.82%) DNS
4 54 (1.69%) VPN
5 45 (1.41%) WAN
6 39 (1.22%) DHCP
7 34 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 34 (1.07%) Wireless
8 32 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 30 (0.94%) LAN
9 30 (0.94%) Network Security
10 28 (0.88%) BGP
11 22 (0.69%) RS-232
12 20 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (0.60%) OSPF
14 18 (0.56%) Ethernet
15 15 (0.47%) HTTP
16 13 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (0.35%) Bluetooth
17 11 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (3.11%) Power BI
2 96 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 78 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.91%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.63%) Metadata
6 37 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (1.00%) OLTP
8 31 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.97%) BigQuery
8 31 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 29 (0.91%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.88%) Tableau
11 27 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 25 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (0.78%) MySQL
14 23 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (0.56%) Delta Lake
15 18 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 77 (2.42%) Git
2 63 (1.98%) JIRA
3 46 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.13%) GitLab
4 36 (1.13%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.78%) Snyk
6 24 (0.75%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.53%) Selenium
8 11 (0.35%) Postman
9 10 (0.31%) MLflow
9 10 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
11 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.22%) JMeter
11 7 (0.22%) JUnit
11 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 641 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 562 (17.63%) Finance
3 404 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 225 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.11%) Law
7 129 (4.05%) Marketing
8 127 (3.98%) Banking
9 98 (3.07%) Legal
10 86 (2.70%) Retail
11 82 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
12 68 (2.13%) Games
13 54 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 37 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (0.88%) Local Government
18 27 (0.85%) Financial Institution
19 26 (0.82%) Back Office
20 25 (0.78%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (5.71%) .NET
2 141 (4.42%) React
3 101 (3.17%) REST
4 97 (3.04%) Node.js
5 76 (2.38%) HTML
6 68 (2.13%) SOAP
7 62 (1.94%) RESTful
8 52 (1.63%) CSS
9 51 (1.60%) Spring
10 42 (1.32%) GraphQL
10 42 (1.32%) OAuth
11 37 (1.16%) OpenID
12 36 (1.13%) Spring Boot
13 34 (1.07%) SAML
14 33 (1.04%) Vue
15 32 (1.00%) JSON
16 31 (0.97%) Kafka
17 28 (0.88%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
18 27 (0.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 191 (5.99%) Cloud Native
2 111 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 75 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 60 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
4 60 (1.88%) Social Media
5 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (1.38%) Cyberattack
6 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
7 43 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 42 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 39 (1.22%) Onboarding
11 38 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 37 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 36 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
15 33 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
16 32 (1.00%) Management Information System
16 32 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.58%) Linux
2 103 (3.23%) Windows
3 58 (1.82%) Apple iOS
4 53 (1.66%) Android
5 37 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.07%) Unix
7 18 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.16%) 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
1 625 (19.60%) Agile
2 600 (18.82%) Mentoring
3 466 (14.62%) Software Engineering
4 422 (13.24%) AI
5 386 (12.11%) Coaching
6 380 (11.92%) CI/CD
7 376 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
8 337 (10.57%) DevOps
9 314 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (9.54%) Analytics
11 289 (9.07%) Roadmaps
12 236 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
13 214 (6.71%) Decision-Making
14 204 (6.40%) Test Automation
15 201 (6.30%) Project Delivery
16 182 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 180 (5.65%) Project Management
18 174 (5.46%) Full-Stack Development
19 165 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
20 155 (4.86%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 383 (12.01%) SQL
2 377 (11.83%) Python
3 243 (7.62%) Java
4 171 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 157 (4.92%) C#
6 151 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 95 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 88 (2.76%) C++
9 68 (2.13%) Bash
10 67 (2.10%) Go
11 59 (1.85%) PHP
12 53 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 48 (1.51%) Scala
14 41 (1.29%) C
15 39 (1.22%) T-SQL
16 27 (0.85%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.72%) VBA
18 20 (0.63%) R
19 19 (0.60%) Bicep
19 19 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 302 (9.47%) Degree
2 286 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 227 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 53 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 49 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 33 (1.04%) CISSP
12 24 (0.75%) ACCA
12 24 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 23 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 23 (0.72%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.66%) CIMA
15 20 (0.63%) CISM
16 19 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
16 19 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (3.67%) QA
2 76 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 76 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 57 (1.79%) NIST
4 55 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (1.29%) GDPR
6 38 (1.19%) GRC
7 28 (0.88%) PMO
8 26 (0.82%) NCSC
9 16 (0.50%) SLA
10 12 (0.38%) P3O
11 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (0.31%) IEC 61508
11 10 (0.31%) MISRA
11 10 (0.31%) MISRA C
11 10 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.25%) WCAG
13 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 138 (4.33%) Docker
2 98 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.78%) vSphere
6 19 (0.60%) Firmware
6 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.28%) vCloud
9 8 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.031%) iptables
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 183 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 162 (5.08%) Terraform
3 35 (1.10%) Ansible
4 34 (1.07%) Grafana
5 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.63%) Argo
6 20 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.44%) SCCM
9 12 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.31%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.19%) Avamar
12 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.19%) VxRail
13 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.16%) Istio
13 5 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 353 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 140 (4.39%) Oracle
3 113 (3.54%) Adobe
4 68 (2.13%) VMware
5 65 (2.04%) SAP
6 63 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 59 (1.85%) Databricks
8 58 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 56 (1.76%) Google
9 56 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 50 (1.57%) Cisco
11 41 (1.29%) Apple
12 32 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.88%) Dell
14 26 (0.82%) Tenable
15 19 (0.60%) Computacenter
16 17 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.47%) NetApp
17 15 (0.47%) Nimble Storage
17 15 (0.47%) Okta