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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,549 2,287 4,648
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.46% 13.80% 18.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.43% 14.92% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,333 1,511 3,133
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -5.97%

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 21,595 15,325 23,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.48% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,427 9,279 17,053
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
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 21 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 21 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.

1 724 (20.40%) Agile
2 666 (18.77%) Azure
2 666 (18.77%) Mentoring
3 619 (17.44%) AWS
3 619 (17.44%) Software Engineering
4 582 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 563 (15.86%) AI
6 545 (15.36%) CI/CD
7 502 (14.14%) Python
8 473 (13.33%) DevOps
9 447 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
10 441 (12.43%) Microsoft
11 383 (10.79%) SQL
12 354 (9.97%) Degree
12 354 (9.97%) Project Delivery
13 335 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
14 333 (9.38%) Coaching
15 330 (9.30%) Decision-Making
16 311 (8.76%) Analytics
16 311 (8.76%) Security Cleared
17 296 (8.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 277 (7.81%) C#
19 259 (7.30%) SC Cleared
20 257 (7.24%) Roadmaps
21 253 (7.13%) Test Automation
22 247 (6.96%) JavaScript
23 233 (6.57%) QA
24 229 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
25 227 (6.40%) GCP
26 222 (6.26%) Stakeholder 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 99 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (0.73%) CMS
4 23 (0.65%) Confluence
5 14 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.37%) WordPress
7 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.34%) IIS
8 11 (0.31%) SAS
9 9 (0.25%) Apache
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.085%) Artix
11 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.085%) Moodle
12 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 75 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
6 10 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.23%) InDesign
9 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.085%) Blender
11 3 (0.085%) Maya
11 3 (0.085%) Trello
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (0.25%) Shopify
6 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.085%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.085%) Primavera
9 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.085%) Visualfiles
10 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 666 (18.77%) Azure
2 619 (17.44%) AWS
3 227 (6.40%) GCP
4 221 (6.23%) SaaS
5 156 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 147 (4.14%) Power Platform
7 133 (3.75%) Entra ID
8 120 (3.38%) Serverless
9 102 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (2.82%) GitHub
11 51 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (1.38%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.27%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.16%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
18 38 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
18 38 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 159 (4.48%) Firewall
2 90 (2.54%) Network Security
3 87 (2.45%) Broadband
4 78 (2.20%) DNS
5 74 (2.09%) VLAN
6 61 (1.72%) VPN
7 58 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
8 51 (1.44%) WAN
9 50 (1.41%) Wireless
10 48 (1.35%) TCP/IP
11 46 (1.30%) LAN
12 45 (1.27%) DHCP
13 28 (0.79%) BGP
14 20 (0.56%) OSPF
14 20 (0.56%) RS-232
15 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.45%) HTTP
17 15 (0.42%) SMS
17 15 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (3.18%) Power BI
3 100 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 66 (1.86%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.47%) Metadata
6 51 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.35%) MySQL
8 40 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 36 (1.01%) NoSQL
11 27 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.73%) Tableau
13 22 (0.62%) OLTP
14 18 (0.51%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.45%) Big Data
16 15 (0.42%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.37%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.34%) Redis
18 12 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 122 (3.44%) Git
2 58 (1.63%) JIRA
3 42 (1.18%) GitLab
4 35 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 19 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 10 (0.28%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.25%) Maven
13 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.23%) Gatling
14 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.20%) Mockito
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
15 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 899 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 593 (16.71%) Finance
3 376 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 325 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 270 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 264 (7.44%) Legal
7 233 (6.57%) Law
8 135 (3.80%) Marketing
9 128 (3.61%) Banking
10 85 (2.40%) Retail
11 68 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 64 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 63 (1.78%) Games
15 56 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (1.41%) Local Government
18 49 (1.38%) Electronics
19 44 (1.24%) Legal Technology
20 35 (0.99%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.14%) .NET
2 202 (5.69%) Terraform
3 165 (4.65%) React
4 120 (3.38%) Node.js
5 93 (2.62%) HTML
6 88 (2.48%) REST
7 84 (2.37%) CSS
8 75 (2.11%) RESTful
9 57 (1.61%) Spring
10 41 (1.16%) AngularJS
11 37 (1.04%) Spring Boot
12 36 (1.01%) Vue
13 33 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
13 33 (0.93%) Laravel
14 32 (0.90%) .NET Core
14 32 (0.90%) Kafka
15 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 29 (0.82%) Next.js
15 29 (0.82%) Playwright
15 29 (0.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 86 (2.42%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 56 (1.58%) Data Centre
6 56 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 51 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 41 (1.16%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.10%) Blog
12 38 (1.07%) Algorithms
12 38 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.04%) Social Media
14 36 (1.01%) Onboarding
14 36 (1.01%) Security Posture
15 34 (0.96%) Low-Code
16 33 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (4.65%) Linux
2 134 (3.78%) Windows
3 59 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 57 (1.61%) Unix
5 32 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 31 (0.87%) Android
7 23 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.085%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (20.40%) Agile
2 666 (18.77%) Mentoring
3 619 (17.44%) Software Engineering
4 582 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 563 (15.86%) AI
6 545 (15.36%) CI/CD
7 473 (13.33%) DevOps
8 447 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
9 354 (9.97%) Project Delivery
10 335 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
11 333 (9.38%) Coaching
12 330 (9.30%) Decision-Making
13 311 (8.76%) Analytics
14 296 (8.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 257 (7.24%) Roadmaps
16 253 (7.13%) Test Automation
17 229 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 222 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 189 (5.33%) Information Security
20 187 (5.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 502 (14.14%) Python
2 383 (10.79%) SQL
3 277 (7.81%) C#
4 247 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 209 (5.89%) TypeScript
6 196 (5.52%) Java
7 133 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.65%) C++
9 58 (1.63%) Go
10 55 (1.55%) PHP
11 47 (1.32%) C
12 43 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 34 (0.96%) Bash
14 33 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.73%) Bicep
16 25 (0.70%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.62%) Swift
18 21 (0.59%) Ruby
19 19 (0.54%) R
20 17 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 354 (9.97%) Degree
2 311 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 259 (7.30%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.70%) CISSP
5 89 (2.51%) CISM
6 66 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.52%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 48 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 45 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.07%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.82%) HNC
15 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.76%) PhD
16 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (6.57%) QA
2 111 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 82 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 79 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 61 (1.72%) NIST
6 58 (1.63%) GDPR
7 47 (1.32%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 23 (0.65%) SLA
10 20 (0.56%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 165 (4.65%) Docker
2 138 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.93%) vSphere
6 27 (0.76%) Firmware
7 20 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) iptables
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
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
1 194 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 96 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (0.93%) Ansible
4 25 (0.70%) Grafana
5 20 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.48%) Argo
7 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.085%) CASB
Vendors
1 441 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 109 (3.07%) Oracle
3 103 (2.90%) Adobe
4 77 (2.17%) Google
5 69 (1.94%) Cisco
6 67 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 67 (1.89%) VMware
7 59 (1.66%) SAP
7 59 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 57 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
10 46 (1.30%) Databricks
11 35 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
12 29 (0.82%) Apple
13 28 (0.79%) Tenable
14 27 (0.76%) Informatica
14 27 (0.76%) Pega
15 25 (0.70%) Dell
16 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
17 21 (0.59%) Veeam