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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,250 2,222 6,154
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.18% 14.40% 17.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.22% 15.63% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,296 1,373 4,593
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 £83,797 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £96,250
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 18,875 14,217 33,359
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 92.13% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13,757 8,693 26,100
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,012
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 £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 19 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 19 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.

1 640 (19.69%) Agile
2 610 (18.77%) Mentoring
3 577 (17.75%) Azure
4 541 (16.65%) AWS
5 487 (14.98%) Software Engineering
6 440 (13.54%) AI
7 403 (12.40%) CI/CD
8 391 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
9 383 (11.78%) Python
10 377 (11.60%) Coaching
11 371 (11.42%) SQL
12 360 (11.08%) Microsoft
13 347 (10.68%) DevOps
14 331 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 301 (9.26%) Degree
16 299 (9.20%) Analytics
17 293 (9.02%) Roadmaps
18 291 (8.95%) Security Cleared
19 237 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
20 235 (7.23%) Java
21 229 (7.05%) SC Cleared
22 228 (7.02%) Decision-Making
23 210 (6.46%) Test Automation
24 209 (6.43%) Project Delivery
25 201 (6.18%) GCP
26 193 (5.94%) Kubernetes
27 190 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
28 182 (5.60%) .NET
29 181 (5.57%) Full-Stack Development
30 179 (5.51%) 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 89 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 31 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (0.71%) CMS
4 18 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.46%) Confluence
6 10 (0.31%) SAS
6 10 (0.31%) WordPress
7 9 (0.28%) IIS
8 8 (0.25%) Apache
8 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.12%) JBoss
9 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.092%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.092%) Artix
10 3 (0.092%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 84 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) InDesign
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.092%) Blender
9 3 (0.092%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.092%) Maya
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 12 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.28%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.092%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.092%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.092%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.092%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.092%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 577 (17.75%) Azure
2 541 (16.65%) AWS
3 201 (6.18%) GCP
4 176 (5.42%) SaaS
5 139 (4.28%) Power Platform
6 126 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 122 (3.75%) Serverless
8 90 (2.77%) Entra ID
9 83 (2.55%) GitHub
10 81 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.54%) PowerApps
12 46 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 40 (1.23%) Figma
15 38 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 36 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.02%) Amazon S3
18 33 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.55%) Broadband
2 93 (2.86%) Firewall
3 63 (1.94%) DNS
4 59 (1.82%) VPN
5 45 (1.38%) WAN
6 40 (1.23%) DHCP
7 36 (1.11%) Wireless
8 32 (0.98%) LAN
8 32 (0.98%) TCP/IP
9 31 (0.95%) Network Security
10 29 (0.89%) SD-WAN
11 28 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (0.80%) BGP
13 23 (0.71%) RS-232
14 18 (0.55%) OSPF
15 17 (0.52%) Ethernet
16 14 (0.43%) HTTP
16 14 (0.43%) VLAN
17 13 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
18 12 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (3.08%) Power BI
2 93 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.57%) Metadata
6 35 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (1.02%) OLTP
8 32 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 30 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 30 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (0.83%) Tableau
13 26 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 26 (0.80%) MySQL
14 22 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
17 16 (0.49%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 82 (2.52%) Git
2 58 (1.78%) JIRA
3 48 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.17%) GitLab
4 38 (1.17%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.77%) Snyk
6 24 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.52%) Selenium
8 11 (0.34%) Postman
9 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.25%) MLflow
9 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
10 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.22%) JMeter
10 7 (0.22%) JUnit
10 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.18%) NUnit
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 662 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 556 (17.11%) Finance
3 402 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 234 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 209 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.03%) Law
7 124 (3.82%) Banking
7 124 (3.82%) Marketing
8 99 (3.05%) Legal
9 79 (2.43%) Retail
10 78 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 77 (2.37%) Games
12 55 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 53 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 45 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 32 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 31 (0.95%) Local Government
17 27 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.74%) Back Office
19 23 (0.71%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (5.60%) .NET
2 145 (4.46%) React
3 95 (2.92%) Node.js
4 93 (2.86%) REST
5 79 (2.43%) HTML
6 67 (2.06%) RESTful
7 60 (1.85%) SOAP
8 57 (1.75%) CSS
9 53 (1.63%) Spring
10 39 (1.20%) GraphQL
11 38 (1.17%) Spring Boot
12 37 (1.14%) Vue
13 36 (1.11%) OAuth
14 33 (1.02%) OpenID
15 31 (0.95%) SAML
16 30 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
16 30 (0.92%) JSON
17 29 (0.89%) .NET Core
18 28 (0.86%) Kafka
19 27 (0.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 205 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 109 (3.35%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 70 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (1.88%) Social Media
6 57 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (1.60%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.45%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.35%) Low-Code
9 44 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 40 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
12 39 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 38 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (1.14%) Onboarding
15 36 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 36 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.62%) Linux
2 110 (3.38%) Windows
3 54 (1.66%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.42%) Android
5 40 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.98%) Unix
7 19 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 16 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.25%) VMS
10 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.092%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Debian
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (19.69%) Agile
2 610 (18.77%) Mentoring
3 487 (14.98%) Software Engineering
4 440 (13.54%) AI
5 403 (12.40%) CI/CD
6 391 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
7 377 (11.60%) Coaching
8 347 (10.68%) DevOps
9 331 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 299 (9.20%) Analytics
11 293 (9.02%) Roadmaps
12 237 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
13 228 (7.02%) Decision-Making
14 210 (6.46%) Test Automation
15 209 (6.43%) Project Delivery
16 190 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 181 (5.57%) Full-Stack Development
18 179 (5.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 175 (5.38%) Project Management
20 156 (4.80%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 383 (11.78%) Python
2 371 (11.42%) SQL
3 235 (7.23%) Java
4 176 (5.42%) JavaScript
5 162 (4.98%) C#
6 151 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 96 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 86 (2.65%) C++
9 68 (2.09%) Go
10 66 (2.03%) Bash
11 56 (1.72%) PHP
12 55 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 42 (1.29%) Scala
14 41 (1.26%) C
15 35 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 24 (0.74%) VBA
18 22 (0.68%) Bicep
19 19 (0.58%) R
19 19 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 301 (9.26%) Degree
2 291 (8.95%) Security Cleared
3 229 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 43 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (1.17%) CISSP
10 37 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 26 (0.80%) CISM
12 25 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 25 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.74%) ACCA
13 24 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (0.68%) PhD
15 21 (0.65%) CIMA
15 21 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (3.69%) QA
2 80 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 79 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 65 (2.00%) NIST
5 64 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.32%) GDPR
7 40 (1.23%) GRC
8 29 (0.89%) PMO
9 27 (0.83%) NCSC
10 16 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.37%) P3O
12 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.25%) IEC 61508
13 8 (0.25%) MISRA
13 8 (0.25%) MISRA C
13 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 145 (4.46%) Docker
2 98 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.89%) vSphere
6 19 (0.58%) Firmware
7 18 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.28%) vCloud
10 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.031%) iptables
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 193 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 160 (4.92%) Terraform
3 36 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.08%) Ansible
5 33 (1.02%) Grafana
6 20 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.58%) Argo
8 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 8 (0.25%) Functional Safety
10 8 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.18%) Avamar
12 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.18%) VxRail
13 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 360 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 136 (4.18%) Oracle
3 116 (3.57%) Adobe
4 69 (2.12%) VMware
5 63 (1.94%) Palo Alto
5 63 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 61 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 60 (1.85%) SAP
8 57 (1.75%) Google
9 56 (1.72%) Cisco
9 56 (1.72%) Databricks
10 41 (1.26%) Apple
11 32 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (0.86%) Dell
13 26 (0.80%) Tenable
14 19 (0.58%) Computacenter
15 16 (0.49%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.49%) Meraki
15 16 (0.49%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.46%) Nimble Storage