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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,511 2,336 4,718
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.74% 14.07% 18.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.73% 15.27% 19.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 1,539 3,323
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,515 £56,694 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 20,985 15,293 24,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.09% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,133 9,495 17,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 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 3 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.

1 721 (20.54%) Agile
2 691 (19.68%) Mentoring
3 662 (18.86%) Azure
4 629 (17.92%) AWS
5 598 (17.03%) Software Engineering
6 551 (15.69%) AI
7 547 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 530 (15.10%) CI/CD
9 508 (14.47%) Python
10 468 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 460 (13.10%) DevOps
12 435 (12.39%) Microsoft
13 369 (10.51%) SQL
14 360 (10.25%) Coaching
15 335 (9.54%) Degree
16 329 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
17 319 (9.09%) Analytics
17 319 (9.09%) Security Cleared
18 314 (8.94%) Project Delivery
19 291 (8.29%) Decision-Making
20 283 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 268 (7.63%) C#
21 268 (7.63%) Roadmaps
22 264 (7.52%) SC Cleared
23 258 (7.35%) Test Automation
24 250 (7.12%) JavaScript
25 232 (6.61%) GCP
26 227 (6.47%) QA
27 219 (6.24%) SaaS
28 216 (6.15%) .NET

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 93 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.68%) CMS
4 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.60%) Confluence
6 19 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 14 (0.40%) WordPress
9 12 (0.34%) IIS
10 9 (0.26%) Apache
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.085%) Artix
12 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.057%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 81 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Civil 3D
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.17%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.085%) Blender
11 3 (0.085%) Maya
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.057%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.17%) Shopify
8 6 (0.17%) Visualfiles
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.085%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 662 (18.86%) Azure
2 629 (17.92%) AWS
3 232 (6.61%) GCP
4 219 (6.24%) SaaS
5 147 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
5 147 (4.19%) Power Platform
6 135 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 121 (3.45%) Serverless
8 91 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (2.59%) GitHub
9 52 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (1.31%) PowerApps
11 44 (1.25%) Amazon S3
11 44 (1.25%) Power Automate
12 39 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 38 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 33 (0.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 142 (4.04%) Firewall
2 103 (2.93%) Broadband
3 74 (2.11%) Network Security
4 71 (2.02%) DNS
5 59 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
6 58 (1.65%) VLAN
7 57 (1.62%) VPN
8 49 (1.40%) WAN
8 49 (1.40%) Wireless
9 47 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 45 (1.28%) LAN
11 42 (1.20%) DHCP
12 26 (0.74%) BGP
13 22 (0.63%) RS-232
14 19 (0.54%) OSPF
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.46%) WLAN
18 15 (0.43%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (3.28%) Power BI
3 87 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 63 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 50 (1.42%) Metadata
6 43 (1.22%) MySQL
7 42 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.85%) Tableau
11 28 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.77%) OLTP
13 24 (0.68%) BigQuery
13 24 (0.68%) NoSQL
14 19 (0.54%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.46%) Redis
16 15 (0.43%) Big Data
17 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 110 (3.13%) Git
2 59 (1.68%) JIRA
3 42 (1.20%) GitLab
4 34 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 21 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.43%) Selenium
9 14 (0.40%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
12 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.17%) Maven
14 6 (0.17%) Mockito
15 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.11%) NUnit
General
1 849 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 582 (16.58%) Finance
3 374 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 297 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 271 (7.72%) Legal
6 242 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
7 225 (6.41%) Law
8 128 (3.65%) Marketing
9 122 (3.47%) Banking
10 83 (2.36%) Retail
11 74 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 68 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.77%) Games
14 56 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 55 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 46 (1.31%) Electronics
17 45 (1.28%) Local Government
18 44 (1.25%) Legal Technology
19 39 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
20 25 (0.71%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (6.15%) .NET
2 163 (4.64%) React
3 114 (3.25%) Node.js
4 89 (2.53%) HTML
5 86 (2.45%) REST
6 75 (2.14%) CSS
7 73 (2.08%) RESTful
8 50 (1.42%) Spring
9 37 (1.05%) Vue
10 35 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 34 (0.97%) AngularJS
11 34 (0.97%) Spring Boot
12 33 (0.94%) Kafka
13 32 (0.91%) Laravel
14 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
15 27 (0.77%) SPFx
16 26 (0.74%) Playwright
16 26 (0.74%) PySpark
16 26 (0.74%) SOAP
17 25 (0.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.21%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 95 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (2.11%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 61 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 51 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (1.45%) Social Media
8 50 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 45 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 43 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (1.08%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 37 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.94%) Low-Code
16 33 (0.94%) Onboarding
17 31 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.04%) Linux
2 124 (3.53%) Windows
3 56 (1.59%) Unix
4 50 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.20%) Android
5 42 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.085%) Debian
13 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (20.54%) Agile
2 691 (19.68%) Mentoring
3 598 (17.03%) Software Engineering
4 551 (15.69%) AI
5 547 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 530 (15.10%) CI/CD
7 468 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 460 (13.10%) DevOps
9 360 (10.25%) Coaching
10 329 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
11 319 (9.09%) Analytics
12 314 (8.94%) Project Delivery
13 291 (8.29%) Decision-Making
14 283 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 268 (7.63%) Roadmaps
16 258 (7.35%) Test Automation
17 213 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 212 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
19 186 (5.30%) Collaborative Working
20 185 (5.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 508 (14.47%) Python
2 369 (10.51%) SQL
3 268 (7.63%) C#
4 250 (7.12%) JavaScript
5 209 (5.95%) Java
6 208 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 133 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.76%) C++
9 64 (1.82%) PHP
10 62 (1.77%) Go
11 49 (1.40%) C
12 48 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 45 (1.28%) Bash
14 26 (0.74%) Embedded C
15 24 (0.68%) Bicep
16 23 (0.66%) R
17 22 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.57%) Rust
18 20 (0.57%) Scala
19 19 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 335 (9.54%) Degree
2 319 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 264 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.85%) CISSP
5 91 (2.59%) CISM
6 66 (1.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.57%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
8 51 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 38 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 38 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (0.80%) PhD
13 26 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 23 (0.66%) ACCA
16 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (6.47%) QA
2 100 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 66 (1.88%) NIST
6 59 (1.68%) GDPR
7 48 (1.37%) GRC
8 29 (0.83%) PMO
9 21 (0.60%) SLA
10 19 (0.54%) NCSC
11 16 (0.46%) WCAG
12 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.28%) COBIT
15 9 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.17%) GAAP
18 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 165 (4.70%) Docker
2 133 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.91%) vSphere
6 27 (0.77%) Firmware
7 15 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.26%) vCloud
10 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.085%) iptables
13 2 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
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 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 196 (5.58%) Terraform
3 94 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.00%) Ansible
5 27 (0.77%) Grafana
6 21 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.51%) Argo
8 9 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.17%) Avamar
10 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.17%) Puppet
10 6 (0.17%) SCCM
10 6 (0.17%) VxRail
11 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 435 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.70%) Oracle
3 103 (2.93%) Adobe
4 78 (2.22%) Google
5 69 (1.97%) Palo Alto
6 68 (1.94%) Cisco
7 65 (1.85%) SAP
8 63 (1.79%) VMware
9 61 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 59 (1.68%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.54%) CyberArk
12 50 (1.42%) Databricks
13 38 (1.08%) Apple
14 33 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (0.80%) Dell
15 28 (0.80%) Pega
16 27 (0.77%) Tenable
17 23 (0.66%) Informatica
18 20 (0.57%) Aruba
19 19 (0.54%) Veeam