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 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,170 2,188 5,824
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.63% 15.07% 17.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.70% 16.38% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,229 1,339 4,415
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
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 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 17,912 13,354 31,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,218 8,198 25,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 27 May 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 27 May 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.

1 635 (20.03%) Agile
2 615 (19.40%) Mentoring
3 573 (18.08%) Azure
4 516 (16.28%) AWS
5 462 (14.57%) Software Engineering
6 423 (13.34%) AI
7 413 (13.03%) Coaching
8 393 (12.40%) SQL
9 388 (12.24%) CI/CD
10 369 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
11 366 (11.55%) Python
12 351 (11.07%) Microsoft
13 350 (11.04%) DevOps
14 312 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 306 (9.65%) Degree
16 290 (9.15%) Analytics
17 283 (8.93%) Roadmaps
18 281 (8.86%) Security Cleared
19 256 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
20 248 (7.82%) Java
21 218 (6.88%) SC Cleared
22 211 (6.66%) Test Automation
23 205 (6.47%) Decision-Making
24 199 (6.28%) Project Delivery
25 198 (6.25%) GCP
26 190 (5.99%) .NET
27 184 (5.80%) Kubernetes
28 181 (5.71%) Project Management
29 179 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
30 178 (5.62%) SaaS

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 84 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 30 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (0.76%) CMS
5 22 (0.69%) Confluence
6 20 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.28%) SAS
8 8 (0.25%) Apache
8 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.25%) WordPress
9 7 (0.22%) IIS
10 5 (0.16%) JBoss
10 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.095%) Artix
13 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.063%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.032%) Apache Pulsar
14 1 (0.032%) Appian
Applications
1 90 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
8 5 (0.16%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.095%) Revit
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.063%) Blender
11 2 (0.063%) Maya
11 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.76%) Cloudability
2 21 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
3 16 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 14 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.35%) Visualfiles
7 10 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 10 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (0.28%) Shopify
9 6 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
10 5 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 573 (18.08%) Azure
2 516 (16.28%) AWS
3 198 (6.25%) GCP
4 178 (5.62%) SaaS
5 129 (4.07%) Power Platform
6 118 (3.72%) Serverless
7 110 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
8 95 (3.00%) Entra ID
9 94 (2.97%) GitHub
10 87 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.45%) PowerApps
12 40 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (1.20%) Snowflake
14 37 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (1.14%) Figma
15 36 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 33 (1.04%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 133 (4.20%) Broadband
2 79 (2.49%) Firewall
3 58 (1.83%) DNS
4 53 (1.67%) VPN
5 46 (1.45%) WAN
6 40 (1.26%) DHCP
7 35 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.04%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.98%) LAN
9 31 (0.98%) Wireless
10 29 (0.91%) Network Security
11 26 (0.82%) BGP
12 21 (0.66%) RS-232
13 18 (0.57%) Ethernet
13 18 (0.57%) OSPF
13 18 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (0.54%) HTTP
15 12 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (0.32%) VSAN
16 10 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (3.25%) SQL Server
2 98 (3.09%) Power BI
3 81 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.64%) Metadata
6 44 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.04%) OLTP
8 31 (0.98%) BigQuery
9 30 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 26 (0.82%) Relational Database
11 26 (0.82%) Tableau
12 25 (0.79%) MySQL
13 24 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 18 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.54%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 77 (2.43%) Git
2 67 (2.11%) JIRA
3 48 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.14%) GitLab
4 36 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.79%) Snyk
6 23 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
8 15 (0.47%) Selenium
9 10 (0.32%) MLflow
9 10 (0.32%) Postman
10 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.22%) JMeter
11 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.22%) XCUITest
12 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.16%) JUnit
13 5 (0.16%) NUnit
13 5 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 623 (19.65%) Social Skills
2 576 (18.17%) Finance
3 399 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 223 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 198 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.13%) Marketing
7 130 (4.10%) Law
8 123 (3.88%) Banking
9 104 (3.28%) Legal
10 90 (2.84%) Retail
11 82 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.21%) Games
13 53 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 50 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.85%) Back Office
17 27 (0.85%) Financial Institution
18 26 (0.82%) Local Government
19 24 (0.76%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (5.99%) .NET
2 135 (4.26%) React
3 110 (3.47%) REST
4 93 (2.93%) Node.js
5 78 (2.46%) SOAP
6 77 (2.43%) HTML
7 66 (2.08%) RESTful
8 52 (1.64%) CSS
9 48 (1.51%) GraphQL
9 48 (1.51%) Spring
10 45 (1.42%) OAuth
11 39 (1.23%) Spring Boot
12 37 (1.17%) OpenID
13 34 (1.07%) SAML
14 33 (1.04%) JSON
15 32 (1.01%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.98%) Kafka
17 29 (0.91%) XML
18 27 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
18 27 (0.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 185 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 113 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 76 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 60 (1.89%) Social Media
5 58 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (1.39%) Cyberattack
7 44 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 44 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 43 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 42 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 42 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.23%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
13 34 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
14 32 (1.01%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.48%) Linux
2 104 (3.28%) Windows
3 56 (1.77%) Android
3 56 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 38 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.10%) Unix
6 18 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
6 18 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.19%) VMS
8 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.095%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.063%) CentOS
10 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.032%) AIX
11 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (20.03%) Agile
2 615 (19.40%) Mentoring
3 462 (14.57%) Software Engineering
4 423 (13.34%) AI
5 413 (13.03%) Coaching
6 388 (12.24%) CI/CD
7 369 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
8 350 (11.04%) DevOps
9 312 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 290 (9.15%) Analytics
11 283 (8.93%) Roadmaps
12 256 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
13 211 (6.66%) Test Automation
14 205 (6.47%) Decision-Making
15 199 (6.28%) Project Delivery
16 181 (5.71%) Project Management
17 179 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 167 (5.27%) Full-Stack Development
19 163 (5.14%) Infrastructure as Code
20 158 (4.98%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 393 (12.40%) SQL
2 366 (11.55%) Python
3 248 (7.82%) Java
4 167 (5.27%) JavaScript
5 159 (5.02%) C#
6 143 (4.51%) TypeScript
7 97 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 87 (2.74%) C++
9 70 (2.21%) Go
10 65 (2.05%) Bash
11 58 (1.83%) PL/SQL
12 53 (1.67%) PHP
13 48 (1.51%) Scala
14 41 (1.29%) C
15 40 (1.26%) T-SQL
16 30 (0.95%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.73%) VBA
18 20 (0.63%) R
19 19 (0.60%) Rust
20 18 (0.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 306 (9.65%) Degree
2 281 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 218 (6.88%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 55 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 46 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 29 (0.91%) CISSP
12 26 (0.82%) ACCA
12 26 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 24 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 22 (0.69%) CIMA
16 18 (0.57%) PhD
17 17 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.50%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (3.60%) QA
2 86 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 75 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 53 (1.67%) NIST
5 47 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.26%) GDPR
7 37 (1.17%) GRC
8 27 (0.85%) PMO
9 26 (0.82%) NCSC
10 17 (0.54%) SLA
11 12 (0.38%) P3O
12 11 (0.35%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.35%) MISRA
12 11 (0.35%) MISRA C
12 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (4.48%) Docker
2 102 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.79%) vSphere
6 20 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.60%) Firmware
8 10 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.28%) vCloud
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.032%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 184 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 168 (5.30%) Terraform
3 37 (1.17%) Grafana
4 36 (1.14%) Ansible
5 30 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.63%) Argo
6 20 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.57%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.44%) SCCM
10 11 (0.35%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.19%) Avamar
12 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.19%) VxRail
13 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.16%) Istio
13 5 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 351 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 153 (4.83%) Oracle
3 113 (3.56%) Adobe
4 70 (2.21%) VMware
5 65 (2.05%) SAP
5 65 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 58 (1.83%) Databricks
6 58 (1.83%) Google
7 57 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 52 (1.64%) Palo Alto
9 47 (1.48%) Cisco
10 40 (1.26%) Apple
11 32 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
12 29 (0.91%) Dell
13 25 (0.79%) Tenable
14 18 (0.57%) Okta
15 17 (0.54%) Computacenter
15 17 (0.54%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.47%) NetApp
16 15 (0.47%) Nimble Storage