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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,879 2,181 4,224
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.65% 13.20% 18.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.69% 14.23% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,539 1,429 2,464
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £54,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.11% -6.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,243 15,331 22,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.81% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,172 8,912 13,883
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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.

1 748 (19.28%) Mentoring
2 744 (19.18%) Agile
3 716 (18.46%) Azure
4 663 (17.09%) Software Engineering
5 634 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 627 (16.16%) AWS
7 606 (15.62%) AI
8 588 (15.16%) CI/CD
9 536 (13.82%) Python
10 505 (13.02%) DevOps
11 493 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 475 (12.25%) Microsoft
13 439 (11.32%) SQL
14 392 (10.11%) Coaching
15 376 (9.69%) Degree
16 364 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
17 359 (9.25%) Security Cleared
18 352 (9.07%) Decision-Making
18 352 (9.07%) Project Delivery
19 351 (9.05%) Analytics
20 311 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 303 (7.81%) SC Cleared
22 287 (7.40%) C#
23 282 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
24 249 (6.42%) Roadmaps
25 239 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
26 237 (6.11%) GCP
27 236 (6.08%) Test Automation
28 231 (5.96%) Java
29 230 (5.93%) JavaScript

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 94 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
4 21 (0.54%) Confluence
5 19 (0.49%) CMS
6 18 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.36%) Apache
8 13 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.34%) WordPress
9 10 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) IIS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.077%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.077%) Artix
12 3 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.077%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.077%) Moodle
13 2 (0.052%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 77 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.31%) Civil 3D
7 11 (0.28%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.23%) InDesign
8 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.18%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 5 (0.13%) Revit
12 4 (0.10%) DaVinci Resolve
13 3 (0.077%) Blender
13 3 (0.077%) Maya
13 3 (0.077%) Trello
14 2 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
14 2 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.62%) Cloudability
2 20 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
9 9 (0.23%) Shopify
10 6 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.15%) Primavera
11 5 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
12 3 (0.077%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 3 (0.077%) Misys Midas
12 3 (0.077%) SAP BPC
13 2 (0.052%) HFM
13 2 (0.052%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 716 (18.46%) Azure
2 627 (16.16%) AWS
3 237 (6.11%) GCP
4 228 (5.88%) SaaS
5 163 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 161 (4.15%) Power Platform
7 145 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 117 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.91%) GitHub
10 112 (2.89%) Serverless
11 53 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 51 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (1.08%) Azure AKS
15 42 (1.08%) PowerApps
16 39 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 39 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.07%) Firewall
2 93 (2.40%) Network Security
3 78 (2.01%) DNS
4 77 (1.99%) VLAN
5 64 (1.65%) VPN
6 60 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
7 59 (1.52%) Wireless
8 58 (1.50%) Broadband
9 56 (1.44%) TCP/IP
10 52 (1.34%) WAN
11 47 (1.21%) LAN
12 45 (1.16%) DHCP
13 31 (0.80%) BGP
14 23 (0.59%) OSPF
15 22 (0.57%) SMS
16 19 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.41%) WLAN
19 15 (0.39%) RS-232
20 14 (0.36%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (3.17%) Power BI
3 99 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 70 (1.80%) Metadata
5 62 (1.60%) MongoDB
6 55 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.24%) MySQL
9 46 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 41 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.70%) Tableau
12 24 (0.62%) Data Lake
13 21 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.46%) OLTP
16 16 (0.41%) Big Data
17 15 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 135 (3.48%) Git
2 61 (1.57%) JIRA
3 41 (1.06%) GitLab
4 26 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.64%) Snyk
6 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.36%) JUnit
8 12 (0.31%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.26%) Maven
10 10 (0.26%) Postman
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.18%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.10%) MLflow
14 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 975 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 637 (16.42%) Finance
3 455 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 348 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 293 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 266 (6.86%) Legal
7 237 (6.11%) Law
8 147 (3.79%) Banking
9 133 (3.43%) Marketing
10 104 (2.68%) Retail
11 74 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 70 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 66 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
16 57 (1.47%) Electronics
17 56 (1.44%) Local Government
18 48 (1.24%) Aerospace
18 48 (1.24%) Games
19 46 (1.19%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (5.77%) Terraform
2 212 (5.47%) .NET
3 166 (4.28%) React
4 117 (3.02%) Node.js
5 103 (2.66%) REST
6 91 (2.35%) HTML
7 85 (2.19%) CSS
8 81 (2.09%) RESTful
9 65 (1.68%) Spring
10 44 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 43 (1.11%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.11%) PySpark
12 34 (0.88%) Kafka
12 34 (0.88%) Laravel
12 34 (0.88%) Vue
13 33 (0.85%) .NET Core
14 31 (0.80%) Next.js
15 27 (0.70%) OAuth
15 27 (0.70%) Web Services
15 27 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 229 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 107 (2.76%) Driving Licence
3 101 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 63 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 61 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 57 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 41 (1.06%) Blog
13 40 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 35 (0.90%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.85%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
18 29 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
18 29 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.20%) Linux
2 148 (3.82%) Windows
3 62 (1.60%) Unix
4 60 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 28 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.62%) Android
7 22 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 10 (0.26%) VMS
10 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.077%) Debian
13 2 (0.052%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.052%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) CentOS
14 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (19.28%) Mentoring
2 744 (19.18%) Agile
3 663 (17.09%) Software Engineering
4 634 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 606 (15.62%) AI
6 588 (15.16%) CI/CD
7 505 (13.02%) DevOps
8 493 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
9 392 (10.11%) Coaching
10 364 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
11 352 (9.07%) Decision-Making
11 352 (9.07%) Project Delivery
12 351 (9.05%) Analytics
13 311 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 282 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 249 (6.42%) Roadmaps
16 239 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 236 (6.08%) Test Automation
18 209 (5.39%) Technical Leadership
19 203 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 536 (13.82%) Python
2 439 (11.32%) SQL
3 287 (7.40%) C#
4 231 (5.96%) Java
5 230 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 206 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 138 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.55%) C++
9 54 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 53 (1.37%) Go
11 52 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 51 (1.31%) PHP
13 49 (1.26%) C
14 37 (0.95%) Bash
15 29 (0.75%) Bicep
16 24 (0.62%) Embedded C
17 21 (0.54%) R
18 20 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.52%) Ruby
19 19 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 376 (9.69%) Degree
2 359 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 303 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.45%) CISSP
5 90 (2.32%) CISM
6 70 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 60 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.39%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.13%) HNC
12 40 (1.03%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 38 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 33 (0.85%) DBS Check
16 25 (0.64%) ACCA
17 24 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.90%) QA
2 125 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 116 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.88%) GDPR
6 56 (1.44%) NIST
7 47 (1.21%) GRC
8 31 (0.80%) PMO
9 22 (0.57%) WCAG
10 20 (0.52%) NCSC
11 19 (0.49%) SLA
12 13 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.26%) COBIT
15 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.21%) GxP
16 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 182 (4.69%) Docker
2 141 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.85%) vSphere
6 25 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.62%) Firmware
8 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.18%) vCloud
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.077%) iptables
14 2 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.026%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.026%) GPFS
15 1 (0.026%) Lustre
15 1 (0.026%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 210 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 109 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.08%) Ansible
4 33 (0.85%) Grafana
5 19 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.46%) Argo
7 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.21%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.15%) Avamar
10 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.15%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) SCCM
12 4 (0.10%) FTK
12 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 475 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.22%) Oracle
3 88 (2.27%) Google
4 84 (2.17%) Adobe
5 69 (1.78%) Cisco
6 66 (1.70%) VMware
7 65 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.42%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.29%) SAP
12 48 (1.24%) Databricks
13 35 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
14 31 (0.80%) Apple
14 31 (0.80%) Informatica
14 31 (0.80%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.72%) Pega
15 28 (0.72%) Tenable
16 23 (0.59%) YouTube
17 22 (0.57%) Splunk