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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,983 2,137 3,985
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.94% 12.95% 18.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 13.89% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,584 1,404 2,373
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,475 15,383 20,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.25% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,102 8,694 12,681
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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.

1 771 (19.36%) Agile
2 746 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 710 (17.83%) Azure
3 710 (17.83%) Software Engineering
4 657 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 641 (16.09%) AWS
6 612 (15.37%) CI/CD
7 603 (15.14%) AI
8 554 (13.91%) Python
9 528 (13.26%) DevOps
10 509 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
11 463 (11.62%) Microsoft
12 459 (11.52%) SQL
13 404 (10.14%) Coaching
14 380 (9.54%) Degree
14 380 (9.54%) Security Cleared
15 362 (9.09%) Analytics
16 350 (8.79%) Decision-Making
17 342 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
17 342 (8.59%) Project Delivery
18 317 (7.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 315 (7.91%) SC Cleared
20 295 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
21 290 (7.28%) C#
22 279 (7.00%) Java
23 259 (6.50%) Test Automation
24 250 (6.28%) SaaS
25 248 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
26 245 (6.15%) Roadmaps
27 243 (6.10%) Terraform

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 83 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 23 (0.58%) Confluence
5 19 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.40%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.30%) WordPress
10 11 (0.28%) SAS
11 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.18%) IIS
14 3 (0.075%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.075%) Artix
14 3 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.075%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.075%) Moodle
14 3 (0.075%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 78 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.33%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.23%) Revit
8 8 (0.20%) InDesign
8 8 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.10%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.075%) Blender
12 3 (0.075%) Maya
13 2 (0.050%) Lightworks
13 2 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.050%) SPSS
13 2 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.38%) Cloudability
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 11 (0.28%) Shopify
6 10 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.15%) Primavera
10 5 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
11 4 (0.10%) SAP Business One
12 3 (0.075%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 3 (0.075%) Misys Midas
12 3 (0.075%) SAP BPC
13 2 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
13 2 (0.050%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 710 (17.83%) Azure
2 641 (16.09%) AWS
3 250 (6.28%) SaaS
4 236 (5.93%) GCP
5 164 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 160 (4.02%) Power Platform
7 156 (3.92%) Entra ID
8 118 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (2.86%) GitHub
10 98 (2.46%) Serverless
11 55 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.00%) IaaS
16 40 (1.00%) PowerApps
17 38 (0.95%) Power Automate
18 37 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 153 (3.84%) Firewall
2 100 (2.51%) Network Security
3 79 (1.98%) VLAN
4 75 (1.88%) DNS
5 69 (1.73%) VPN
6 63 (1.58%) TCP/IP
7 60 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
8 59 (1.48%) Wireless
9 54 (1.36%) Broadband
10 48 (1.21%) WAN
11 46 (1.15%) LAN
12 39 (0.98%) DHCP
13 34 (0.85%) BGP
14 24 (0.60%) SMS
15 22 (0.55%) OSPF
16 18 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.40%) WLAN
18 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
19 12 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (3.06%) Power BI
3 98 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 73 (1.83%) Metadata
5 59 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 50 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 47 (1.18%) MySQL
10 42 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 38 (0.95%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.70%) Tableau
13 23 (0.58%) Data Lake
14 20 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.50%) OLTP
14 20 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.45%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 135 (3.39%) Git
2 64 (1.61%) JIRA
3 39 (0.98%) GitLab
4 34 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 28 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.43%) JUnit
7 15 (0.38%) Snyk
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 12 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.25%) Maven
11 10 (0.25%) Mockito
12 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.23%) Postman
13 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.13%) Gatling
15 5 (0.13%) Poetry
16 4 (0.10%) MLflow
16 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 993 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 654 (16.42%) Finance
3 470 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 362 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 302 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 262 (6.58%) Legal
7 251 (6.30%) Law
8 160 (4.02%) Banking
9 131 (3.29%) Marketing
10 129 (3.24%) Retail
11 74 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 73 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 72 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 67 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 58 (1.46%) Electronics
15 58 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 57 (1.43%) Aerospace
17 54 (1.36%) Local Government
18 52 (1.31%) Games
19 45 (1.13%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (6.10%) Terraform
2 211 (5.30%) .NET
3 152 (3.82%) React
4 109 (2.74%) REST
5 106 (2.66%) Node.js
6 93 (2.33%) RESTful
7 88 (2.21%) HTML
8 83 (2.08%) CSS
9 72 (1.81%) Spring
10 51 (1.28%) Spring Boot
11 45 (1.13%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.00%) PySpark
13 36 (0.90%) Kafka
14 35 (0.88%) Vue
15 34 (0.85%) Laravel
16 32 (0.80%) .NET Core
17 31 (0.78%) Next.js
18 29 (0.73%) OAuth
19 27 (0.68%) Playwright
19 27 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 251 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 115 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
2 115 (2.89%) Driving Licence
3 90 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 86 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (1.81%) Virtual Team
6 69 (1.73%) Management Information System
7 66 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 56 (1.41%) Blog
9 51 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 45 (1.13%) Data Centre
12 41 (1.03%) Security Posture
13 40 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (0.88%) Mobile App
16 33 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
18 31 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
19 30 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.12%) Linux
2 136 (3.41%) Windows
3 61 (1.53%) Unix
3 61 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 19 (0.48%) Android
7 11 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.25%) VMS
9 9 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 7 (0.18%) macOS
11 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.075%) Debian
13 2 (0.050%) Rocky
13 2 (0.050%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.050%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (19.36%) Agile
2 746 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 710 (17.83%) Software Engineering
4 657 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 612 (15.37%) CI/CD
6 603 (15.14%) AI
7 528 (13.26%) DevOps
8 509 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
9 404 (10.14%) Coaching
10 362 (9.09%) Analytics
11 350 (8.79%) Decision-Making
12 342 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
12 342 (8.59%) Project Delivery
13 317 (7.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 295 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 259 (6.50%) Test Automation
16 248 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
17 245 (6.15%) Roadmaps
18 216 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
19 213 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 554 (13.91%) Python
2 459 (11.52%) SQL
3 290 (7.28%) C#
4 279 (7.00%) Java
5 225 (5.65%) JavaScript
6 198 (4.97%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.46%) C++
9 66 (1.66%) Go
10 59 (1.48%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.28%) PHP
13 48 (1.21%) C
14 42 (1.05%) Bash
15 31 (0.78%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.50%) Ruby
17 20 (0.50%) Rust
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 380 (9.54%) Degree
1 380 (9.54%) Security Cleared
2 315 (7.91%) SC Cleared
3 100 (2.51%) CISSP
4 95 (2.39%) CISM
5 70 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 58 (1.46%) Azure Certification
7 54 (1.36%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.31%) HNC
9 46 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 39 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (0.98%) Master's Degree
12 37 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 37 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 33 (0.83%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.70%) PhD
15 25 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.75%) QA
2 127 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 116 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 88 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.83%) GDPR
6 61 (1.53%) NIST
7 37 (0.93%) GRC
8 30 (0.75%) PMO
9 22 (0.55%) WCAG
10 21 (0.53%) NCSC
11 19 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.40%) SLA
13 15 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.25%) COBIT
17 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.20%) GxP
18 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 202 (5.07%) Docker
2 145 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 54 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.78%) vSphere
6 30 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 24 (0.60%) Firmware
8 11 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.18%) vCloud
12 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.075%) iptables
14 2 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.025%) GPFS
15 1 (0.025%) Lustre
15 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 235 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 116 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (1.26%) Grafana
4 44 (1.10%) Ansible
5 19 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.38%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 12 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.15%) Avamar
9 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.15%) VxRail
10 5 (0.13%) Cilium
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 4 (0.10%) FTK
11 4 (0.10%) Packer
11 4 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 463 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.06%) Oracle
3 104 (2.61%) Google
4 68 (1.71%) VMware
5 67 (1.68%) Cisco
6 61 (1.53%) Adobe
7 60 (1.51%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 49 (1.23%) Databricks
11 45 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 39 (0.98%) SAP
13 32 (0.80%) Informatica
14 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.70%) Pega
15 28 (0.70%) YouTube
16 23 (0.58%) Apple
16 23 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
17 22 (0.55%) Aruba
18 20 (0.50%) Zscaler