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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,839 2,372 5,614
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.02% 17.95% 17.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.13% 19.31% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,028 1,703 4,334
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,100 £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 16,573 12,283 31,172
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 92.93% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,925 9,030 24,989
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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.

1 583 (20.54%) Mentoring
2 577 (20.32%) Azure
3 550 (19.37%) Agile
4 481 (16.94%) AWS
5 420 (14.79%) Software Engineering
6 383 (13.49%) SQL
7 375 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 363 (12.79%) Coaching
9 360 (12.68%) DevOps
10 352 (12.40%) Microsoft
11 351 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
12 348 (12.26%) AI
13 319 (11.24%) Python
14 290 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 257 (9.05%) Roadmaps
15 257 (9.05%) Security Cleared
16 249 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
17 247 (8.70%) Degree
18 221 (7.78%) Java
19 219 (7.71%) Analytics
20 214 (7.54%) GCP
21 197 (6.94%) SC Cleared
22 195 (6.87%) .NET
23 193 (6.80%) Kubernetes
24 190 (6.69%) Test Automation
25 185 (6.52%) SaaS
26 179 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
26 179 (6.31%) Terraform
27 171 (6.02%) Microservices
28 170 (5.99%) Docker

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 74 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.77%) CMS
4 22 (0.77%) Confluence
5 10 (0.35%) JBoss
5 10 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Apache
7 7 (0.25%) IIS
7 7 (0.25%) WordPress
8 6 (0.21%) SAS
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.070%) nginx
12 2 (0.070%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.035%) Appian
13 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 35 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.25%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.14%) InVision
9 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.11%) InDesign
10 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.11%) Weka
11 2 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.070%) Maya
11 2 (0.070%) Revit
Business Applications
1 31 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
2 23 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 21 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
3 21 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
6 13 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.39%) Visualfiles
8 10 (0.35%) Hyperion Planning
9 9 (0.32%) Cloudability
9 9 (0.32%) Shopify
10 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.18%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 577 (20.32%) Azure
2 481 (16.94%) AWS
3 214 (7.54%) GCP
4 185 (6.52%) SaaS
5 112 (3.95%) GitHub
6 111 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 100 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 98 (3.45%) Serverless
9 97 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
10 96 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
11 50 (1.76%) Snowflake
12 48 (1.69%) dbt
13 42 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (1.48%) PowerApps
14 41 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 39 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
17 36 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
18 34 (1.20%) Figma
19 32 (1.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 117 (4.12%) Broadband
2 81 (2.85%) Firewall
3 56 (1.97%) VPN
4 53 (1.87%) DNS
5 50 (1.76%) WAN
6 45 (1.59%) DHCP
7 42 (1.48%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.16%) SD-WAN
9 31 (1.09%) LAN
10 27 (0.95%) Network Security
11 21 (0.74%) BGP
11 21 (0.74%) Wireless
12 20 (0.70%) Ethernet
12 20 (0.70%) HTTP
12 20 (0.70%) RS-232
13 18 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.39%) OSPF
15 9 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.32%) MPLS
16 8 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (3.87%) SQL Server
2 83 (2.92%) Power BI
3 74 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.55%) Metadata
5 44 (1.55%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 33 (1.16%) BigQuery
8 30 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 27 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (0.88%) Tableau
12 24 (0.85%) Redis
12 24 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (0.81%) OLTP
14 21 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 21 (0.74%) MySQL
15 18 (0.63%) Looker
15 18 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 80 (2.82%) Git
2 73 (2.57%) JIRA
3 56 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.34%) TeamCity
5 37 (1.30%) GitLab
6 29 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
7 20 (0.70%) Selenium
8 15 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.39%) Snyk
10 10 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.35%) MLflow
11 9 (0.32%) Postman
12 8 (0.28%) JUnit
12 8 (0.28%) Subversion
13 7 (0.25%) JMeter
13 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.25%) webpack
13 7 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 587 (20.68%) Finance
2 546 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 331 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 182 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 170 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (4.65%) Law
7 130 (4.58%) Marketing
8 121 (4.26%) Banking
9 101 (3.56%) Retail
10 97 (3.42%) Legal
11 88 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.57%) Telecoms
13 72 (2.54%) Games
14 48 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.95%) Back Office
18 20 (0.70%) Electronics
18 20 (0.70%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (6.87%) .NET
2 136 (4.79%) React
3 123 (4.33%) REST
4 87 (3.06%) SOAP
5 78 (2.75%) HTML
5 78 (2.75%) Node.js
6 72 (2.54%) RESTful
7 65 (2.29%) GraphQL
8 64 (2.25%) OAuth
9 55 (1.94%) CSS
10 51 (1.80%) Spring
11 48 (1.69%) Kafka
12 44 (1.55%) OpenID
13 40 (1.41%) Spring Boot
14 38 (1.34%) SAML
15 36 (1.27%) .NET Core
16 32 (1.13%) LDAP
16 32 (1.13%) React Native
17 31 (1.09%) Django
18 30 (1.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 178 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 98 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 63 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 61 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 60 (2.11%) Social Media
6 57 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 49 (1.73%) Public Cloud
9 47 (1.66%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.44%) Cyberattack
11 37 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
13 32 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
14 30 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 30 (1.06%) Over-the-Top Content
14 30 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (1.02%) Low-Code
16 28 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 151 (5.32%) Linux
2 114 (4.02%) Windows
3 73 (2.57%) Android
4 61 (2.15%) Apple iOS
5 53 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.23%) Unix
7 21 (0.74%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (0.32%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
11 3 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.070%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.035%) AIX
13 1 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (20.54%) Mentoring
2 550 (19.37%) Agile
3 420 (14.79%) Software Engineering
4 375 (13.21%) CI/CD
5 363 (12.79%) Coaching
6 360 (12.68%) DevOps
7 351 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
8 348 (12.26%) AI
9 290 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 257 (9.05%) Roadmaps
11 249 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
12 219 (7.71%) Analytics
13 190 (6.69%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 171 (6.02%) Microservices
16 168 (5.92%) User Experience
17 166 (5.85%) Decision-Making
18 150 (5.28%) Full-Stack Development
18 150 (5.28%) Infrastructure as Code
19 134 (4.72%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 383 (13.49%) SQL
2 319 (11.24%) Python
3 221 (7.78%) Java
4 157 (5.53%) C#
5 147 (5.18%) JavaScript
6 136 (4.79%) TypeScript
7 94 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.54%) Go
9 69 (2.43%) Bash
9 69 (2.43%) C++
10 54 (1.90%) PHP
11 46 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 46 (1.62%) Scala
12 37 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 37 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.27%) C
14 23 (0.81%) Bicep
14 23 (0.81%) VBA
15 16 (0.56%) R
16 14 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 257 (9.05%) Security Cleared
2 247 (8.70%) Degree
3 197 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 81 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 38 (1.34%) ACCA
6 38 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.06%) CISSP
9 27 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (0.92%) CIMA
10 26 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.56%) CISM
15 15 (0.53%) CIPFA
15 15 (0.53%) CREST Certified
15 15 (0.53%) PhD
16 13 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.24%) QA
2 70 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 62 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 58 (2.04%) NIST
5 51 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.44%) GDPR
7 31 (1.09%) NCSC
8 22 (0.77%) GRC
9 18 (0.63%) PMO
10 17 (0.60%) SLA
11 14 (0.49%) IFRS
11 14 (0.49%) P3O
12 11 (0.39%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.39%) MISRA
12 11 (0.39%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 170 (5.99%) Docker
2 115 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.46%) Firmware
6 13 (0.46%) vSphere
7 8 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vCloud
8 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.035%) Ceph
11 1 (0.035%) Lustre
11 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 193 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 179 (6.31%) Terraform
3 52 (1.83%) Grafana
4 44 (1.55%) Ansible
5 37 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.49%) SCCM
9 11 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.39%) Functional Safety
10 9 (0.32%) Argo
11 7 (0.25%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.18%) Puppet
12 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.14%) Istio
13 4 (0.14%) Plesk
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 352 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 136 (4.79%) Oracle
3 84 (2.96%) Adobe
4 71 (2.50%) VMware
5 67 (2.36%) Databricks
6 65 (2.29%) Google
7 61 (2.15%) SAP
8 48 (1.69%) Cisco
9 46 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.27%) ServiceNow
11 28 (0.99%) Apple
11 28 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 25 (0.88%) Okta
13 20 (0.70%) Dell
14 14 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.46%) Citrix
15 13 (0.46%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.42%) Samsung
16 12 (0.42%) SolarWinds
16 12 (0.42%) Splunk