Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,243 3,084 3,689
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.62% 18.93% 15.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.60% 19.71% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,583 1,918 3,039
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 14,374 15,649 22,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 96.05% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,363 9,387 18,301
10th Percentile £30,125 £35,090 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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.

1 539 (24.03%) Azure
2 515 (22.96%) Agile
3 427 (19.04%) Mentoring
4 383 (17.08%) AWS
5 373 (16.63%) SQL
6 367 (16.36%) CI/CD
7 355 (15.83%) DevOps
8 317 (14.13%) Software Engineering
9 304 (13.55%) Python
10 283 (12.62%) Coaching
11 266 (11.86%) Microsoft
12 265 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
13 258 (11.50%) AI
14 247 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 239 (10.66%) Degree
16 197 (8.78%) .NET
17 191 (8.52%) Roadmaps
18 190 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
19 183 (8.16%) Java
20 176 (7.85%) C#
21 175 (7.80%) Terraform
22 173 (7.71%) SaaS
22 173 (7.71%) Security Cleared
23 170 (7.58%) Analytics
24 164 (7.31%) Asset Management
25 162 (7.22%) Kubernetes
26 161 (7.18%) Test Automation
27 153 (6.82%) JavaScript
28 149 (6.64%) Docker
29 147 (6.55%) 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 52 (2.32%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (1.34%) Apache
4 29 (1.29%) Confluence
5 21 (0.94%) IIS
5 21 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.94%) WordPress
6 19 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.45%) CMS
7 10 (0.45%) JBoss
7 10 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.089%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.089%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.089%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.089%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.62%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.45%) InDesign
6 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.22%) Maya
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.22%) MotionBuilder
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.089%) InVision
11 2 (0.089%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.089%) Revit
11 2 (0.089%) Simulink
11 2 (0.089%) Weka
12 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.78%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.34%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.25%) Oracle Financials
5 20 (0.89%) Shopify
6 19 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
7 14 (0.62%) Hyperion Planning
8 12 (0.53%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.40%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.22%) Magento
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.22%) Visualfiles
12 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.18%) SAP PP
13 2 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 539 (24.03%) Azure
2 383 (17.08%) AWS
3 173 (7.71%) SaaS
4 144 (6.42%) GitHub
5 143 (6.38%) GCP
6 135 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (4.41%) Power Platform
8 95 (4.24%) Entra ID
9 91 (4.06%) Serverless
10 85 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
11 73 (3.25%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.08%) dbt
13 48 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
16 38 (1.69%) PowerApps
17 37 (1.65%) OCI
18 36 (1.60%) Amazon S3
19 35 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
20 33 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.08%) Broadband
2 52 (2.32%) Firewall
3 45 (2.01%) VPN
4 39 (1.74%) WAN
5 35 (1.56%) Network Security
6 34 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.47%) DNS
8 25 (1.11%) LAN
9 24 (1.07%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.94%) DHCP
11 20 (0.89%) Unified Communications
12 19 (0.85%) BGP
13 14 (0.62%) Ethernet
13 14 (0.62%) Wireless
14 13 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.49%) HTTP
16 10 (0.45%) OSPF
17 9 (0.40%) RS-232
18 7 (0.31%) MPLS
19 6 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.68%) SQL Server
2 95 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.25%) Power BI
4 71 (3.17%) Data Lake
5 58 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (1.78%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.43%) DynamoDB
8 30 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
9 28 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 27 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (1.20%) Metadata
11 25 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (1.07%) MySQL
13 22 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
13 22 (0.98%) Apache Ignite
13 22 (0.98%) Dremio
14 19 (0.85%) BigQuery
14 19 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (3.83%) JIRA
2 71 (3.17%) Git
3 67 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.18%) Oracle Forms
5 30 (1.34%) Selenium
6 26 (1.16%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.98%) GitLab
8 20 (0.89%) Postman
9 13 (0.58%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.53%) SoapUI
11 10 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.36%) Subversion
14 7 (0.31%) git-flow
14 7 (0.31%) JMeter
15 6 (0.27%) JUnit
15 6 (0.27%) MLflow
15 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 536 (23.90%) Finance
2 484 (21.58%) Social Skills
3 169 (7.53%) Public Sector
4 159 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 144 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 107 (4.77%) Retail
7 104 (4.64%) Banking
8 91 (4.06%) Marketing
9 82 (3.66%) Law
10 70 (3.12%) Telecoms
11 62 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 61 (2.72%) Legal
13 56 (2.50%) Games
14 38 (1.69%) Front Office
15 37 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (1.60%) Financial Institution
17 27 (1.20%) Manufacturing
18 26 (1.16%) Investment Banking
19 25 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
20 23 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (8.78%) .NET
2 138 (6.15%) React
3 111 (4.95%) REST
4 105 (4.68%) SOAP
5 96 (4.28%) RESTful
6 83 (3.70%) HTML
7 68 (3.03%) GraphQL
8 59 (2.63%) Node.js
9 56 (2.50%) CSS
10 52 (2.32%) OAuth
11 46 (2.05%) Spring
12 44 (1.96%) gRPC
13 40 (1.78%) XML
14 39 (1.74%) Kafka
15 36 (1.60%) .NET Core
16 35 (1.56%) Spring Boot
17 32 (1.43%) SAML
18 30 (1.34%) JSON
18 30 (1.34%) OpenID
19 29 (1.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 141 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 96 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 33 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 33 (1.47%) Social Media
8 31 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 29 (1.29%) Hedge funds
9 29 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.25%) Derivative
11 27 (1.20%) Driving Licence
12 26 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 26 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
13 25 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.03%) Cyberattack
14 23 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 22 (0.98%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 101 (4.50%) Linux
2 80 (3.57%) Windows
3 45 (2.01%) Android
4 36 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.20%) Unix
7 19 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.53%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.089%) CentOS
10 2 (0.089%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.089%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (22.96%) Agile
2 427 (19.04%) Mentoring
3 367 (16.36%) CI/CD
4 355 (15.83%) DevOps
5 317 (14.13%) Software Engineering
6 283 (12.62%) Coaching
7 265 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
8 258 (11.50%) AI
9 247 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 191 (8.52%) Roadmaps
11 190 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
12 170 (7.58%) Analytics
13 164 (7.31%) Asset Management
14 161 (7.18%) Test Automation
15 147 (6.55%) Microservices
16 134 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 134 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
17 131 (5.84%) User Experience
18 129 (5.75%) Clean Code
19 122 (5.44%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 373 (16.63%) SQL
2 304 (13.55%) Python
3 183 (8.16%) Java
4 176 (7.85%) C#
5 153 (6.82%) JavaScript
6 146 (6.51%) TypeScript
7 84 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 59 (2.63%) Bash
9 51 (2.27%) Go
10 47 (2.10%) C++
11 46 (2.05%) PL/SQL
12 35 (1.56%) Scala
13 33 (1.47%) Kotlin
13 33 (1.47%) PHP
14 31 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.16%) Bicep
16 24 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.98%) C
18 21 (0.94%) Ruby
19 15 (0.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 239 (10.66%) Degree
2 173 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 125 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 77 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.01%) ACCA
6 41 (1.83%) CISSP
7 37 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.38%) CISM
11 30 (1.34%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.20%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.03%) CIMA
14 21 (0.94%) CCNP
15 17 (0.76%) AAT
15 17 (0.76%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.71%) CISMP
16 16 (0.71%) IISP
16 16 (0.71%) Master's Degree
17 15 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.50%) QA
2 62 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.59%) NIST
4 53 (2.36%) GDPR
5 48 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.92%) Data Quality
7 40 (1.78%) NCSC
8 20 (0.89%) IFRS
9 17 (0.76%) NIST 800
10 16 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 16 (0.71%) JSP 440
10 16 (0.71%) PMO
10 16 (0.71%) RMADS
11 14 (0.62%) GRC
12 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.40%) IEC 61508
13 9 (0.40%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.40%) MISRA
13 9 (0.40%) MISRA C
14 8 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 149 (6.64%) Docker
2 93 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.31%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.22%) Firmware
10 2 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.089%) vCloud
10 2 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.045%) Ceph
11 1 (0.045%) Lustre
11 1 (0.045%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 175 (7.80%) Terraform
2 162 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 51 (2.27%) Grafana
4 48 (2.14%) Ansible
5 47 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.40%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.27%) Argo
11 5 (0.22%) SCCM
12 3 (0.13%) Control-M
12 3 (0.13%) cPanel
12 3 (0.13%) FlexNet
12 3 (0.13%) Plesk
12 3 (0.13%) Puppet
13 2 (0.089%) Nagios
13 2 (0.089%) Nessus
13 2 (0.089%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.089%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 266 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 122 (5.44%) Oracle
3 73 (3.25%) Databricks
4 48 (2.14%) Cisco
5 41 (1.83%) SAP
5 41 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 39 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 37 (1.65%) Google
7 37 (1.65%) VMware
8 28 (1.25%) Adobe
8 28 (1.25%) Okta
9 21 (0.94%) Workday
10 14 (0.62%) Hyperion
10 14 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
11 13 (0.58%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.53%) Fortinet
13 11 (0.49%) Talend
14 9 (0.40%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.40%) Zoho
15 8 (0.36%) Northgate