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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 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 3,638 2,141 4,387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.56% 13.34% 18.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.55% 14.42% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 1,424 2,773
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £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 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -4.89%

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 21,988 14,847 22,816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.53% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,627 8,962 15,506
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,077
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.99% -7.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £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 4 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 4 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.

1 741 (20.37%) Agile
2 697 (19.16%) Mentoring
3 691 (18.99%) Azure
4 630 (17.32%) AWS
5 621 (17.07%) Software Engineering
6 602 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 573 (15.75%) AI
8 565 (15.53%) CI/CD
9 509 (13.99%) Python
10 487 (13.39%) DevOps
11 464 (12.75%) Microsoft
12 451 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
13 402 (11.05%) SQL
14 363 (9.98%) Coaching
15 358 (9.84%) Degree
16 356 (9.79%) Project Delivery
17 346 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
18 335 (9.21%) Decision-Making
19 316 (8.69%) Analytics
20 305 (8.38%) Security Cleared
21 300 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 272 (7.48%) C#
23 255 (7.01%) SC Cleared
24 251 (6.90%) Roadmaps
25 248 (6.82%) Test Automation
26 240 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
27 236 (6.49%) JavaScript
28 234 (6.43%) GCP
29 233 (6.40%) QA
30 227 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (0.63%) CMS
4 22 (0.60%) Confluence
5 15 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.36%) WordPress
7 12 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.33%) IIS
8 10 (0.27%) Apache
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.082%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.082%) Artix
12 3 (0.082%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.082%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.082%) Moodle
13 2 (0.055%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 75 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.27%) Civil 3D
7 10 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.25%) InDesign
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.082%) Blender
11 3 (0.082%) Maya
11 3 (0.082%) Trello
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.66%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.27%) Shopify
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
8 6 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.11%) Primavera
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.082%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.082%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.082%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.055%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 691 (18.99%) Azure
2 630 (17.32%) AWS
3 234 (6.43%) GCP
4 220 (6.05%) SaaS
5 162 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 156 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 136 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 112 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (3.00%) Serverless
10 102 (2.80%) GitHub
11 47 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.26%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 44 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (1.15%) Power Automate
16 41 (1.13%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
18 39 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 155 (4.26%) Firewall
2 88 (2.42%) Network Security
3 78 (2.14%) DNS
4 77 (2.12%) Broadband
5 75 (2.06%) VLAN
6 60 (1.65%) VPN
7 58 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 51 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 50 (1.37%) WAN
9 50 (1.37%) Wireless
10 46 (1.26%) DHCP
11 44 (1.21%) LAN
12 27 (0.74%) BGP
13 20 (0.55%) OSPF
13 20 (0.55%) SMS
14 18 (0.49%) RS-232
15 17 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.44%) HTTP
17 15 (0.41%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (3.38%) Power BI
3 101 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 63 (1.73%) Metadata
6 51 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (1.32%) MySQL
7 48 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 46 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 45 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 38 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 26 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (0.71%) Tableau
12 21 (0.58%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.55%) OLTP
14 17 (0.47%) Big Data
15 15 (0.41%) BigQuery
16 14 (0.38%) Delta Lake
17 13 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
18 12 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 126 (3.46%) Git
2 59 (1.62%) JIRA
3 42 (1.15%) GitLab
4 34 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.69%) Snyk
6 19 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.47%) Selenium
8 15 (0.41%) JUnit
9 13 (0.36%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.30%) LabVIEW
10 11 (0.30%) Postman
11 9 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.25%) Maven
12 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.22%) Gatling
13 7 (0.19%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) JMeter
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 925 (25.43%) Social Skills
2 577 (15.86%) Finance
3 399 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 320 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 269 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 259 (7.12%) Legal
7 230 (6.32%) Law
8 134 (3.68%) Banking
9 130 (3.57%) Marketing
10 88 (2.42%) Retail
11 71 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 63 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 63 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 61 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 58 (1.59%) Games
15 57 (1.57%) Telecoms
16 54 (1.48%) Local Government
17 51 (1.40%) Electronics
18 43 (1.18%) Legal Technology
19 35 (0.96%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (5.72%) Terraform
2 206 (5.66%) .NET
3 159 (4.37%) React
4 123 (3.38%) Node.js
5 95 (2.61%) HTML
6 92 (2.53%) REST
7 87 (2.39%) CSS
8 77 (2.12%) RESTful
9 62 (1.70%) Spring
10 41 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 39 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 37 (1.02%) Kafka
13 36 (0.99%) PySpark
14 35 (0.96%) Laravel
15 33 (0.91%) Vue
16 32 (0.88%) .NET Core
17 31 (0.85%) Next.js
18 30 (0.82%) HTML5 Canvas
18 30 (0.82%) Playwright
19 27 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 208 (5.72%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 95 (2.61%) Driving Licence
5 69 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 68 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 53 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 48 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 41 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.07%) Blog
13 39 (1.07%) Onboarding
14 36 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 35 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 33 (0.91%) Low-Code
17 31 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
18 29 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (4.54%) Linux
2 147 (4.04%) Windows
3 63 (1.73%) Unix
4 60 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 32 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 28 (0.77%) Android
7 22 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.082%) Debian
12 1 (0.027%) AIX
12 1 (0.027%) CentOS
12 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (20.37%) Agile
2 697 (19.16%) Mentoring
3 621 (17.07%) Software Engineering
4 602 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 573 (15.75%) AI
6 565 (15.53%) CI/CD
7 487 (13.39%) DevOps
8 451 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
9 363 (9.98%) Coaching
10 356 (9.79%) Project Delivery
11 346 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
12 335 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 316 (8.69%) Analytics
14 300 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 251 (6.90%) Roadmaps
16 248 (6.82%) Test Automation
17 240 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
18 227 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code
19 191 (5.25%) Technical Leadership
20 188 (5.17%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 509 (13.99%) Python
2 402 (11.05%) SQL
3 272 (7.48%) C#
4 236 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 207 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 202 (5.55%) Java
7 138 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 96 (2.64%) C++
9 54 (1.48%) Go
10 52 (1.43%) PHP
11 48 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 46 (1.26%) C
13 38 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 33 (0.91%) Bash
15 27 (0.74%) Bicep
16 24 (0.66%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.60%) Swift
18 21 (0.58%) R
18 21 (0.58%) Ruby
19 17 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 358 (9.84%) Degree
2 305 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 255 (7.01%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.67%) CISSP
5 91 (2.50%) CISM
6 67 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.48%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 54 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
8 50 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 34 (0.93%) HNC
14 27 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.71%) PhD
16 24 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (6.40%) QA
2 119 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 94 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (1.76%) GDPR
6 60 (1.65%) NIST
7 47 (1.29%) GRC
8 29 (0.80%) PMO
9 24 (0.66%) WCAG
10 23 (0.63%) SLA
11 18 (0.49%) NCSC
12 12 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.27%) COBIT
15 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.25%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.19%) GxP
16 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 172 (4.73%) Docker
2 139 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.96%) vSphere
6 27 (0.74%) Firmware
7 21 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.082%) iptables
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%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 198 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 101 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (0.99%) Ansible
4 24 (0.66%) Grafana
5 18 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.47%) Argo
7 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.16%) Avamar
9 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.16%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.11%) Istio
11 4 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 464 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.13%) Oracle
3 97 (2.67%) Adobe
4 82 (2.25%) Google
5 68 (1.87%) VMware
6 66 (1.81%) Cisco
7 63 (1.73%) Palo Alto
8 60 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 59 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.51%) SAP
11 54 (1.48%) CyberArk
12 48 (1.32%) Databricks
13 35 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
14 30 (0.82%) Informatica
14 30 (0.82%) OpenAI
15 29 (0.80%) Apple
16 28 (0.77%) Tenable
17 27 (0.74%) Pega
18 24 (0.66%) Dell
19 20 (0.55%) Aruba