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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,320 2,245 5,930
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.05% 14.21% 17.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.08% 15.41% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,360 1,409 4,400
10th Percentile £47,930 £48,306 £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 £82,500 £86,250 £79,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 19,433 14,564 32,137
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 92.21% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,210 9,006 25,037
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,956 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -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 30 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 30 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.

1 658 (19.82%) Agile
2 617 (18.58%) Mentoring
3 584 (17.59%) Azure
4 570 (17.17%) AWS
5 494 (14.88%) Software Engineering
6 455 (13.70%) AI
7 421 (12.68%) CI/CD
8 404 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
9 399 (12.02%) Python
10 384 (11.57%) Coaching
11 379 (11.42%) Microsoft
12 377 (11.36%) DevOps
13 363 (10.93%) SQL
14 348 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 316 (9.52%) Degree
16 301 (9.07%) Analytics
17 300 (9.04%) Security Cleared
18 296 (8.92%) Roadmaps
19 255 (7.68%) Decision-Making
20 240 (7.23%) Project Delivery
21 239 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
22 233 (7.02%) SC Cleared
23 230 (6.93%) Java
24 218 (6.57%) Test Automation
25 207 (6.23%) GCP
26 202 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
27 195 (5.87%) Kubernetes
28 187 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
29 182 (5.48%) JavaScript
30 181 (5.45%) 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 95 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.66%) CMS
5 17 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.48%) Confluence
7 11 (0.33%) IIS
7 11 (0.33%) SAS
8 9 (0.27%) WordPress
9 8 (0.24%) Apache
9 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.090%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.090%) Artix
11 3 (0.090%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.090%) JBoss
11 3 (0.090%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.060%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.030%) Appian
Applications
1 85 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) Civil 3D
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.090%) Blender
11 3 (0.090%) InVision
11 3 (0.090%) Maya
11 3 (0.090%) Sketch
12 2 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.72%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
5 11 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.27%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 4 (0.12%) Shopify
11 3 (0.090%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.090%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.090%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.090%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 584 (17.59%) Azure
2 570 (17.17%) AWS
3 207 (6.23%) GCP
4 178 (5.36%) SaaS
5 148 (4.46%) Power Platform
6 141 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
7 127 (3.83%) Serverless
8 94 (2.83%) Entra ID
9 86 (2.59%) GitHub
10 84 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (1.69%) PowerApps
12 49 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 42 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 38 (1.14%) Amazon S3
15 38 (1.14%) Figma
16 37 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (1.02%) Azure AKS
17 34 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 135 (4.07%) Broadband
2 116 (3.49%) Firewall
3 72 (2.17%) DNS
4 66 (1.99%) VPN
5 48 (1.45%) WAN
6 47 (1.42%) DHCP
7 44 (1.33%) Network Security
8 38 (1.14%) LAN
8 38 (1.14%) Wireless
9 34 (1.02%) TCP/IP
10 33 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (0.87%) VLAN
12 27 (0.81%) BGP
13 26 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 24 (0.72%) RS-232
15 19 (0.57%) OSPF
16 15 (0.45%) Ethernet
17 14 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
18 13 (0.39%) Bluetooth
18 13 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.13%) Power BI
2 91 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 66 (1.99%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.60%) Metadata
6 35 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (0.96%) OLTP
8 32 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 31 (0.93%) NoSQL
10 30 (0.90%) BigQuery
10 30 (0.90%) MySQL
11 27 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 27 (0.81%) Tableau
12 21 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.48%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 89 (2.68%) Git
2 56 (1.69%) JIRA
3 43 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.17%) GitLab
5 31 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.75%) Snyk
7 24 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.48%) Selenium
9 11 (0.33%) Postman
10 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
11 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.21%) JMeter
11 7 (0.21%) JUnit
11 7 (0.21%) MLflow
11 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.18%) LabVIEW
12 6 (0.18%) NUnit
13 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 684 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 548 (16.51%) Finance
3 427 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 242 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 220 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
6 139 (4.19%) Law
7 126 (3.80%) Banking
8 115 (3.46%) Marketing
9 99 (2.98%) Legal
10 83 (2.50%) Retail
11 80 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.26%) Games
13 60 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 51 (1.54%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.02%) Local Government
17 30 (0.90%) Electronics
18 28 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
19 27 (0.81%) Financial Institution
20 23 (0.69%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (5.27%) .NET
2 142 (4.28%) React
3 100 (3.01%) Node.js
4 87 (2.62%) REST
5 77 (2.32%) HTML
6 69 (2.08%) RESTful
7 58 (1.75%) CSS
8 51 (1.54%) SOAP
8 51 (1.54%) Spring
9 37 (1.11%) Spring Boot
9 37 (1.11%) Vue
10 34 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
11 32 (0.96%) GraphQL
12 31 (0.93%) OAuth
13 29 (0.87%) OpenID
14 28 (0.84%) AngularJS
14 28 (0.84%) Kafka
15 27 (0.81%) .NET Core
15 27 (0.81%) JSON
15 27 (0.81%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 212 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 109 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 72 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 72 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 58 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (1.72%) Social Media
6 56 (1.69%) Driving Licence
7 44 (1.33%) AI Agents
7 44 (1.33%) Low-Code
8 43 (1.30%) Cyberattack
8 43 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 43 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 38 (1.14%) Security Posture
11 37 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
11 37 (1.11%) Public Cloud
12 36 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 33 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 167 (5.03%) Linux
2 131 (3.95%) Windows
3 52 (1.57%) Apple iOS
4 47 (1.42%) Android
4 47 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.33%) Unix
6 21 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
7 14 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.30%) VMS
9 9 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.090%) Debian
11 3 (0.090%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.030%) AIX
12 1 (0.030%) CentOS
12 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (19.82%) Agile
2 617 (18.58%) Mentoring
3 494 (14.88%) Software Engineering
4 455 (13.70%) AI
5 421 (12.68%) CI/CD
6 404 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
7 384 (11.57%) Coaching
8 377 (11.36%) DevOps
9 348 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 301 (9.07%) Analytics
11 296 (8.92%) Roadmaps
12 255 (7.68%) Decision-Making
13 240 (7.23%) Project Delivery
14 239 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
15 218 (6.57%) Test Automation
16 202 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 187 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
18 181 (5.45%) Project Management
19 176 (5.30%) Full-Stack Development
20 156 (4.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 399 (12.02%) Python
2 363 (10.93%) SQL
3 230 (6.93%) Java
4 182 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 166 (5.00%) C#
6 152 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 96 (2.89%) PowerShell
8 86 (2.59%) C++
9 67 (2.02%) Go
10 64 (1.93%) Bash
11 58 (1.75%) PHP
12 53 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 42 (1.27%) C
14 34 (1.02%) Scala
15 30 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.78%) Kotlin
16 26 (0.78%) VBA
17 24 (0.72%) Bicep
18 20 (0.60%) R
18 20 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 316 (9.52%) Degree
2 300 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 233 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 66 (1.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 48 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 44 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.20%) CISSP
10 38 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 32 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 28 (0.84%) CISM
13 28 (0.84%) DBS Check
13 28 (0.84%) PhD
14 25 (0.75%) ACCA
15 24 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 21 (0.63%) CIMA
17 21 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (3.58%) QA
2 84 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 69 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (1.93%) NIST
6 47 (1.42%) GDPR
7 43 (1.30%) GRC
8 30 (0.90%) PMO
9 25 (0.75%) NCSC
10 18 (0.54%) SLA
11 13 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.36%) P3O
13 8 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.21%) WCAG
15 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.15%) MISRA
15 5 (0.15%) MISRA C
System Software
1 142 (4.28%) Docker
2 103 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.96%) vSphere
6 20 (0.60%) Firmware
7 18 (0.54%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.27%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.090%) iptables
13 2 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.030%) GPFS
14 1 (0.030%) Lustre
14 1 (0.030%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 195 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 165 (4.97%) Terraform
3 42 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.11%) Ansible
5 33 (0.99%) Grafana
6 21 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.57%) Argo
8 15 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.42%) SCCM
10 7 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.21%) Puppet
10 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.18%) Avamar
11 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.18%) VxRail
12 5 (0.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 379 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 135 (4.07%) Oracle
3 116 (3.49%) Adobe
4 72 (2.17%) VMware
5 66 (1.99%) Palo Alto
6 65 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 63 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 61 (1.84%) Google
9 60 (1.81%) SAP
10 56 (1.69%) Cisco
11 53 (1.60%) Databricks
12 41 (1.23%) Apple
13 32 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.84%) Dell
14 28 (0.84%) Pega
15 26 (0.78%) Tenable
16 20 (0.60%) Computacenter
17 18 (0.54%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.51%) Fortinet
18 17 (0.51%) Meraki