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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,916 2,319 5,623
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.15% 17.19% 17.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.24% 18.74% 18.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,081 1,669 4,332
10th Percentile £46,750 £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 £110,000 £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 16,912 12,375 31,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 91.71% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 9,033 24,964
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,335 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 26 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 26 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.

1 598 (20.51%) Mentoring
2 579 (19.86%) Azure
3 563 (19.31%) Agile
4 484 (16.60%) AWS
5 429 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 395 (13.55%) SQL
7 372 (12.76%) CI/CD
7 372 (12.76%) Coaching
8 358 (12.28%) AI
8 358 (12.28%) DevOps
9 353 (12.11%) Microsoft
9 353 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
10 326 (11.18%) Python
11 288 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 268 (9.19%) Roadmaps
13 259 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
14 256 (8.78%) Security Cleared
15 251 (8.61%) Degree
16 233 (7.99%) Java
17 225 (7.72%) Analytics
18 204 (7.00%) GCP
19 199 (6.82%) .NET
20 197 (6.76%) SC Cleared
21 194 (6.65%) Test Automation
22 188 (6.45%) Kubernetes
23 180 (6.17%) User Experience
24 179 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
25 178 (6.10%) SaaS
26 171 (5.86%) Decision-Making
27 170 (5.83%) Microservices

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 80 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.82%) CMS
3 24 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.79%) Confluence
5 10 (0.34%) Apache
6 9 (0.31%) JBoss
6 9 (0.31%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.24%) IIS
8 6 (0.21%) SAS
8 6 (0.21%) WordPress
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.069%) nginx
12 2 (0.069%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.034%) Appian
13 1 (0.034%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
5 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.24%) Sketch
7 6 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.14%) InVision
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.069%) Maya
11 2 (0.069%) MotionBuilder
11 2 (0.069%) Revit
11 2 (0.069%) Weka
Business Applications
1 29 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
2 22 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 19 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
5 14 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
6 13 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.41%) Cloudability
8 11 (0.38%) Visualfiles
9 9 (0.31%) Hyperion Planning
9 9 (0.31%) 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 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 579 (19.86%) Azure
2 484 (16.60%) AWS
3 204 (7.00%) GCP
4 178 (6.10%) SaaS
5 115 (3.94%) GitHub
6 114 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 100 (3.43%) Entra ID
8 99 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 99 (3.40%) Serverless
9 97 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (1.68%) Snowflake
11 46 (1.58%) PowerApps
12 43 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 39 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.34%) dbt
15 37 (1.27%) Figma
15 37 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
16 36 (1.23%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 118 (4.05%) Broadband
2 81 (2.78%) Firewall
3 57 (1.95%) VPN
4 55 (1.89%) DNS
5 52 (1.78%) WAN
6 46 (1.58%) DHCP
7 38 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.13%) SD-WAN
9 32 (1.10%) LAN
10 28 (0.96%) Network Security
11 22 (0.75%) RS-232
11 22 (0.75%) Wireless
12 21 (0.72%) BGP
12 21 (0.72%) Ethernet
12 21 (0.72%) HTTP
13 18 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.38%) OSPF
15 9 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.31%) MPLS
16 8 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 85 (2.91%) Power BI
3 72 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (1.65%) Metadata
6 45 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 42 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.13%) BigQuery
9 30 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (0.89%) OLTP
12 25 (0.86%) Data Lake
12 25 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (0.86%) Tableau
13 22 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (0.72%) DynamoDB
15 19 (0.65%) MySQL
15 19 (0.65%) Relational Database
16 18 (0.62%) Looker
16 18 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (2.74%) Git
2 72 (2.47%) JIRA
3 54 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.44%) GitLab
5 34 (1.17%) TeamCity
6 28 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
7 20 (0.69%) Selenium
8 16 (0.55%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.45%) Snyk
10 12 (0.41%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.34%) MLflow
12 9 (0.31%) Postman
13 8 (0.27%) JUnit
13 8 (0.27%) Subversion
14 7 (0.24%) JMeter
14 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.24%) webpack
14 7 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 587 (20.13%) Finance
2 557 (19.10%) Social Skills
3 349 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 187 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 173 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (4.39%) Marketing
7 126 (4.32%) Law
8 124 (4.25%) Banking
9 102 (3.50%) Legal
10 95 (3.26%) Retail
11 87 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.50%) Games
13 69 (2.37%) Telecoms
14 51 (1.75%) Manufacturing
15 46 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
16 40 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.93%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.82%) Back Office
19 21 (0.72%) Electronics
19 21 (0.72%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (6.82%) .NET
2 138 (4.73%) React
3 123 (4.22%) REST
4 88 (3.02%) Node.js
5 87 (2.98%) SOAP
6 78 (2.67%) HTML
7 73 (2.50%) RESTful
8 61 (2.09%) GraphQL
8 61 (2.09%) OAuth
9 54 (1.85%) CSS
10 50 (1.71%) Spring
11 47 (1.61%) Kafka
12 43 (1.47%) OpenID
13 40 (1.37%) Spring Boot
14 39 (1.34%) .NET Core
15 38 (1.30%) SAML
16 33 (1.13%) JSON
16 33 (1.13%) React Native
17 32 (1.10%) LDAP
18 30 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 100 (3.43%) Product Ownership
3 62 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 58 (1.99%) Data Centre
4 58 (1.99%) Social Media
5 57 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 56 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 50 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 47 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 42 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.41%) Cyberattack
11 35 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
12 33 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.10%) Driving Licence
13 32 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 31 (1.06%) Management Information System
15 30 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 30 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
15 30 (1.03%) Over-the-Top Content
16 29 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.84%) Linux
2 112 (3.84%) Windows
3 73 (2.50%) Android
4 61 (2.09%) Apple iOS
5 48 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.20%) Unix
7 21 (0.72%) Windows 10
8 17 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.27%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.10%) CentOS
12 3 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.069%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.034%) AIX
14 1 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (20.51%) Mentoring
2 563 (19.31%) Agile
3 429 (14.71%) Software Engineering
4 372 (12.76%) CI/CD
4 372 (12.76%) Coaching
5 358 (12.28%) AI
5 358 (12.28%) DevOps
6 353 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
7 288 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 268 (9.19%) Roadmaps
9 259 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
10 225 (7.72%) Analytics
11 194 (6.65%) Test Automation
12 180 (6.17%) User Experience
13 179 (6.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 171 (5.86%) Decision-Making
15 170 (5.83%) Microservices
16 152 (5.21%) Full-Stack Development
17 140 (4.80%) Infrastructure as Code
18 135 (4.63%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 395 (13.55%) SQL
2 326 (11.18%) Python
3 233 (7.99%) Java
4 162 (5.56%) C#
5 151 (5.18%) JavaScript
6 141 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 95 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.50%) C++
8 73 (2.50%) Go
9 67 (2.30%) Bash
10 54 (1.85%) PHP
11 50 (1.71%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.61%) Scala
13 40 (1.37%) C
14 39 (1.34%) T-SQL
15 35 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.79%) VBA
17 21 (0.72%) Bicep
18 16 (0.55%) R
18 16 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 256 (8.78%) Security Cleared
2 251 (8.61%) Degree
3 197 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 78 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (1.20%) ACCA
7 35 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 33 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (0.99%) CISSP
10 25 (0.86%) CIMA
10 25 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 25 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.51%) CIPFA
13 15 (0.51%) CISM
13 15 (0.51%) PhD
14 12 (0.41%) CREST Certified
14 12 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (3.29%) QA
2 73 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 61 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.89%) NIST
5 45 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.30%) GDPR
7 31 (1.06%) NCSC
8 23 (0.79%) GRC
9 20 (0.69%) SLA
10 17 (0.58%) PMO
11 13 (0.45%) P3O
12 11 (0.38%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.38%) IFRS
12 11 (0.38%) MISRA
12 11 (0.38%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.27%) WCAG
15 7 (0.24%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 158 (5.42%) Docker
2 115 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.51%) Firmware
7 14 (0.48%) vSphere
8 9 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.21%) vCloud
10 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 188 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 169 (5.80%) Terraform
3 47 (1.61%) Grafana
4 40 (1.37%) Ansible
5 37 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.51%) Argo
9 14 (0.48%) SCCM
10 13 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.38%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.14%) Istio
15 3 (0.10%) FlexNet
15 3 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.10%) Plesk
Vendors
1 353 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 140 (4.80%) Oracle
3 91 (3.12%) Adobe
4 69 (2.37%) VMware
5 66 (2.26%) Databricks
6 62 (2.13%) SAP
7 60 (2.06%) Google
8 47 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 46 (1.58%) Cisco
10 42 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 31 (1.06%) Apple
11 31 (1.06%) Palo Alto
12 25 (0.86%) Okta
13 22 (0.75%) Dell
14 16 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.48%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.45%) Citrix
16 13 (0.45%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.45%) Tenable
17 12 (0.41%) Samsung