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 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,736 2,194 4,323
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.58% 13.51% 18.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.60% 14.58% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,452 1,457 2,643
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,272 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -7.14%

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 22,509 15,049 22,583
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 92.64% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,954 9,078 14,853
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,250
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 11 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 11 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.

1 742 (19.86%) Agile
2 710 (19.00%) Mentoring
3 698 (18.68%) Azure
4 632 (16.92%) AWS
5 628 (16.81%) Software Engineering
6 615 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 584 (15.63%) AI
8 571 (15.28%) CI/CD
9 514 (13.76%) Python
10 486 (13.01%) DevOps
11 469 (12.55%) Microsoft
12 465 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
13 413 (11.05%) SQL
14 371 (9.93%) Coaching
15 366 (9.80%) Degree
16 359 (9.61%) Project Delivery
17 355 (9.50%) Cybersecurity
18 347 (9.29%) Decision-Making
19 333 (8.91%) Security Cleared
20 328 (8.78%) Analytics
21 308 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 280 (7.49%) SC Cleared
23 272 (7.28%) C#
24 257 (6.88%) Roadmaps
25 256 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
26 245 (6.56%) Test Automation
27 234 (6.26%) GCP
27 234 (6.26%) JavaScript
28 232 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
28 232 (6.21%) QA

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 99 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.59%) CMS
3 22 (0.59%) Confluence
4 16 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.35%) WordPress
6 12 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.32%) IIS
6 12 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 11 (0.29%) Apache
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.080%) Artix
11 3 (0.080%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.080%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.080%) Moodle
12 2 (0.054%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 76 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 75 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.43%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.27%) Civil 3D
8 9 (0.24%) InDesign
8 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
12 3 (0.080%) Blender
12 3 (0.080%) Maya
12 3 (0.080%) Trello
13 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.054%) Revit
13 2 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.64%) Cloudability
2 18 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
4 12 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.27%) Shopify
7 9 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
7 9 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.16%) Primavera
11 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
11 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
12 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
13 3 (0.080%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.080%) Misys Midas
13 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
14 2 (0.054%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 698 (18.68%) Azure
2 632 (16.92%) AWS
3 234 (6.26%) GCP
4 220 (5.89%) SaaS
5 166 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 155 (4.15%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 111 (2.97%) Serverless
9 110 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 103 (2.76%) GitHub
11 51 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 45 (1.20%) PowerApps
14 43 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (1.10%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 159 (4.26%) Firewall
2 90 (2.41%) Network Security
3 80 (2.14%) DNS
4 77 (2.06%) VLAN
5 73 (1.95%) Broadband
6 62 (1.66%) VPN
7 58 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
8 53 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 53 (1.42%) WAN
9 51 (1.37%) Wireless
10 48 (1.28%) DHCP
11 47 (1.26%) LAN
12 29 (0.78%) BGP
13 22 (0.59%) OSPF
14 21 (0.56%) SMS
15 19 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
16 18 (0.48%) RS-232
17 17 (0.46%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.43%) HTTP
19 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (3.24%) Power BI
3 100 (2.68%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.74%) Metadata
5 64 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 52 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.31%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.26%) MySQL
9 45 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 44 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.72%) Tableau
13 26 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (0.62%) Data Lake
15 18 (0.48%) OLTP
16 17 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (0.43%) Big Data
18 15 (0.40%) BigQuery
19 14 (0.37%) Delta Lake
20 13 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 131 (3.51%) Git
2 58 (1.55%) JIRA
3 41 (1.10%) GitLab
4 34 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.67%) Snyk
6 20 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.43%) Selenium
8 15 (0.40%) JUnit
9 13 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.27%) Postman
12 9 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.24%) Maven
13 7 (0.19%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.19%) Gatling
13 7 (0.19%) Mockito
14 5 (0.13%) Poetry
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
15 4 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 943 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 605 (16.19%) Finance
3 421 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 334 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 277 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 262 (7.01%) Legal
7 231 (6.18%) Law
8 141 (3.77%) Banking
9 133 (3.56%) Marketing
10 98 (2.62%) Retail
11 74 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 65 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
14 62 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 56 (1.50%) Local Government
17 53 (1.42%) Electronics
17 53 (1.42%) Games
18 42 (1.12%) Legal Technology
19 40 (1.07%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (5.75%) Terraform
2 205 (5.49%) .NET
3 160 (4.28%) React
4 122 (3.27%) Node.js
5 95 (2.54%) REST
6 93 (2.49%) HTML
7 86 (2.30%) CSS
8 80 (2.14%) RESTful
9 66 (1.77%) Spring
10 45 (1.20%) Spring Boot
11 40 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.04%) PySpark
13 38 (1.02%) Kafka
14 35 (0.94%) Laravel
15 33 (0.88%) Vue
16 31 (0.83%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.83%) Next.js
17 29 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
18 28 (0.75%) Playwright
19 26 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 217 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.73%) Driving Licence
3 98 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 97 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (1.93%) Virtual Team
6 56 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 55 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 54 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 41 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 40 (1.07%) Blog
12 40 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 37 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 35 (0.94%) Algorithms
15 31 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
15 31 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 29 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 166 (4.44%) Linux
2 152 (4.07%) Windows
3 63 (1.69%) Unix
4 62 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 32 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 28 (0.75%) Android
7 22 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
10 9 (0.24%) VMS
11 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.080%) Debian
14 1 (0.027%) AIX
14 1 (0.027%) CentOS
14 1 (0.027%) Solaris
14 1 (0.027%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (19.86%) Agile
2 710 (19.00%) Mentoring
3 628 (16.81%) Software Engineering
4 615 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 584 (15.63%) AI
6 571 (15.28%) CI/CD
7 486 (13.01%) DevOps
8 465 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
9 371 (9.93%) Coaching
10 359 (9.61%) Project Delivery
11 355 (9.50%) Cybersecurity
12 347 (9.29%) Decision-Making
13 328 (8.78%) Analytics
14 308 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 257 (6.88%) Roadmaps
16 256 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 245 (6.56%) Test Automation
18 232 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
19 193 (5.17%) Technical Leadership
20 190 (5.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 514 (13.76%) Python
2 413 (11.05%) SQL
3 272 (7.28%) C#
4 234 (6.26%) JavaScript
5 209 (5.59%) Java
6 207 (5.54%) TypeScript
7 139 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 95 (2.54%) C++
9 53 (1.42%) Go
10 52 (1.39%) PHP
11 50 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.26%) C
13 44 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 34 (0.91%) Bash
15 27 (0.72%) Bicep
16 24 (0.64%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.59%) Swift
18 21 (0.56%) R
19 20 (0.54%) Ruby
20 18 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 366 (9.80%) Degree
2 333 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 280 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.65%) CISSP
5 93 (2.49%) CISM
6 68 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.45%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
8 53 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 50 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (1.23%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 39 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 38 (1.02%) HNC
15 37 (0.99%) AWS Certification
16 30 (0.80%) DBS Check
17 27 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.21%) QA
2 125 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 101 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (1.82%) GDPR
6 62 (1.66%) NIST
7 48 (1.28%) GRC
8 31 (0.83%) PMO
9 23 (0.62%) SLA
9 23 (0.62%) WCAG
10 20 (0.54%) NCSC
11 12 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.27%) COBIT
13 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.21%) GxP
15 7 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 176 (4.71%) Docker
2 141 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.94%) vSphere
6 27 (0.72%) Firmware
7 22 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.24%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.080%) iptables
13 2 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.027%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.027%) GPFS
14 1 (0.027%) Lustre
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 200 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.10%) Ansible
4 25 (0.67%) Grafana
5 17 (0.46%) Argo
5 17 (0.46%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.16%) Avamar
8 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.16%) VxRail
9 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.13%) Puppet
9 5 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.11%) Istio
10 4 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 469 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 117 (3.13%) Oracle
3 94 (2.52%) Adobe
4 85 (2.28%) Google
5 70 (1.87%) VMware
6 67 (1.79%) Cisco
7 62 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 61 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 56 (1.50%) SAP
11 54 (1.45%) CyberArk
12 48 (1.28%) Databricks
13 35 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 30 (0.80%) Apple
14 30 (0.80%) Informatica
14 30 (0.80%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.75%) Tenable
16 27 (0.72%) Pega
17 23 (0.62%) Dell
18 20 (0.54%) Aruba