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 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,159 2,213 5,802
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.70% 15.16% 17.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.77% 16.47% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,228 1,362 4,407
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,025 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,956 £95,500
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 17,776 13,434 31,408
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 92.05% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,123 8,282 24,979
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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.

1 630 (19.94%) Agile
2 616 (19.50%) Mentoring
3 576 (18.23%) Azure
4 511 (16.18%) AWS
5 462 (14.62%) Software Engineering
6 417 (13.20%) AI
7 413 (13.07%) Coaching
8 391 (12.38%) SQL
9 386 (12.22%) CI/CD
10 360 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
11 357 (11.30%) Python
12 348 (11.02%) DevOps
12 348 (11.02%) Microsoft
13 312 (9.88%) Degree
14 310 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 278 (8.80%) Security Cleared
16 276 (8.74%) Analytics
17 271 (8.58%) Roadmaps
18 257 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
19 247 (7.82%) Java
20 217 (6.87%) SC Cleared
21 210 (6.65%) Test Automation
22 199 (6.30%) GCP
23 198 (6.27%) Decision-Making
24 197 (6.24%) Project Delivery
25 193 (6.11%) .NET
26 182 (5.76%) Kubernetes
27 180 (5.70%) Project Management
27 180 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
28 174 (5.51%) SaaS

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 84 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 30 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (0.79%) CMS
3 25 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.70%) Confluence
5 21 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.28%) SAS
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.25%) WordPress
8 7 (0.22%) Apache
8 7 (0.22%) IIS
9 5 (0.16%) JBoss
9 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.095%) Artix
11 3 (0.095%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.063%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.032%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.032%) nginx
Applications
1 91 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.19%) Sketch
9 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 5 (0.16%) Trello
10 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 3 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.095%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.095%) Revit
12 2 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.063%) Civil 3D
12 2 (0.063%) SPSS
12 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.76%) Cloudability
2 21 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
2 21 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
3 16 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 14 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
6 11 (0.35%) Visualfiles
7 10 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 10 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 9 (0.28%) Shopify
9 6 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
10 5 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 576 (18.23%) Azure
2 511 (16.18%) AWS
3 199 (6.30%) GCP
4 174 (5.51%) SaaS
5 130 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 118 (3.74%) Serverless
7 106 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
8 94 (2.98%) GitHub
9 93 (2.94%) Entra ID
10 87 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 39 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
12 39 (1.23%) Snowflake
13 38 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (1.14%) Figma
14 36 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.14%) Power Automate
15 35 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
16 34 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 132 (4.18%) Broadband
2 79 (2.50%) Firewall
3 57 (1.80%) DNS
4 54 (1.71%) VPN
5 47 (1.49%) WAN
6 40 (1.27%) DHCP
7 36 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 31 (0.98%) LAN
10 30 (0.95%) Network Security
10 30 (0.95%) Wireless
11 27 (0.85%) BGP
12 22 (0.70%) RS-232
13 19 (0.60%) Ethernet
14 18 (0.57%) HTTP
14 18 (0.57%) OSPF
14 18 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (0.32%) VSAN
16 10 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 99 (3.13%) Power BI
3 80 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.65%) Metadata
6 45 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.04%) OLTP
9 32 (1.01%) BigQuery
10 31 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 28 (0.89%) Tableau
12 25 (0.79%) DynamoDB
12 25 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 24 (0.76%) MySQL
14 23 (0.73%) Relational Database
15 19 (0.60%) Data Lake
15 19 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (2.44%) Git
2 67 (2.12%) JIRA
3 48 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.17%) GitLab
5 36 (1.14%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.79%) Snyk
7 23 (0.73%) Claude Code
8 19 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.44%) Selenium
10 10 (0.32%) MLflow
11 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.28%) Postman
12 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.22%) JMeter
12 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.22%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
14 5 (0.16%) JUnit
14 5 (0.16%) NUnit
14 5 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 613 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 573 (18.14%) Finance
3 394 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 221 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 192 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.15%) Law
7 129 (4.08%) Marketing
8 121 (3.83%) Banking
9 102 (3.23%) Legal
10 91 (2.88%) Retail
11 84 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.22%) Games
13 53 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 51 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.85%) Back Office
18 26 (0.82%) Financial Institution
19 25 (0.79%) Local Government
20 24 (0.76%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (6.11%) .NET
2 138 (4.37%) React
3 114 (3.61%) REST
4 93 (2.94%) Node.js
5 79 (2.50%) HTML
5 79 (2.50%) SOAP
6 70 (2.22%) RESTful
7 53 (1.68%) CSS
8 51 (1.61%) GraphQL
9 46 (1.46%) Spring
10 44 (1.39%) OAuth
11 38 (1.20%) Spring Boot
12 37 (1.17%) OpenID
13 36 (1.14%) .NET Core
14 34 (1.08%) SAML
15 32 (1.01%) JSON
16 29 (0.92%) Kafka
16 29 (0.92%) React Native
16 29 (0.92%) XML
17 27 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 182 (5.76%) Cloud Native
2 112 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 76 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 60 (1.90%) Social Media
5 58 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (1.46%) Mobile App
8 44 (1.39%) Cyberattack
8 44 (1.39%) Driving Licence
8 44 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 42 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 42 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.23%) Low-Code
12 36 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
13 35 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
15 33 (1.04%) Management Information System
16 32 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.56%) Linux
2 104 (3.29%) Windows
3 60 (1.90%) Android
4 58 (1.84%) Apple iOS
5 39 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.11%) Unix
7 19 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.095%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.063%) CentOS
12 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.032%) AIX
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (19.94%) Agile
2 616 (19.50%) Mentoring
3 462 (14.62%) Software Engineering
4 417 (13.20%) AI
5 413 (13.07%) Coaching
6 386 (12.22%) CI/CD
7 360 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
8 348 (11.02%) DevOps
9 310 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 276 (8.74%) Analytics
11 271 (8.58%) Roadmaps
12 257 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
13 210 (6.65%) Test Automation
14 198 (6.27%) Decision-Making
15 197 (6.24%) Project Delivery
16 180 (5.70%) Project Management
16 180 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 171 (5.41%) Full-Stack Development
18 160 (5.06%) Infrastructure as Code
18 160 (5.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 391 (12.38%) SQL
2 357 (11.30%) Python
3 247 (7.82%) Java
4 166 (5.25%) JavaScript
5 163 (5.16%) C#
6 143 (4.53%) TypeScript
7 96 (3.04%) PowerShell
8 87 (2.75%) C++
9 70 (2.22%) Go
10 66 (2.09%) Bash
11 58 (1.84%) PL/SQL
12 53 (1.68%) PHP
13 47 (1.49%) Scala
14 41 (1.30%) C
15 40 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 31 (0.98%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.73%) VBA
18 20 (0.63%) R
19 19 (0.60%) Rust
20 18 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 312 (9.88%) Degree
2 278 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 217 (6.87%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 61 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 45 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.89%) ACCA
11 28 (0.89%) CISSP
12 27 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 24 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 24 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.73%) CIMA
14 23 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.57%) PhD
16 17 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
17 16 (0.51%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (3.64%) QA
2 85 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 73 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 52 (1.65%) NIST
5 46 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.23%) GDPR
7 36 (1.14%) GRC
8 26 (0.82%) NCSC
8 26 (0.82%) PMO
9 18 (0.57%) SLA
10 12 (0.38%) P3O
11 11 (0.35%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.35%) MISRA
11 11 (0.35%) MISRA C
11 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (4.50%) Docker
2 100 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.73%) vSphere
6 20 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.60%) Firmware
8 10 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.28%) vCloud
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.032%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 182 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 167 (5.29%) Terraform
3 38 (1.20%) Ansible
4 37 (1.17%) Grafana
5 30 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.63%) Argo
6 20 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 16 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.44%) SCCM
10 11 (0.35%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.16%) Avamar
12 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
12 5 (0.16%) Istio
12 5 (0.16%) Puppet
12 5 (0.16%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 348 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 154 (4.87%) Oracle
3 112 (3.55%) Adobe
4 68 (2.15%) VMware
5 65 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 64 (2.03%) SAP
7 60 (1.90%) Google
8 59 (1.87%) Databricks
9 57 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 52 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 47 (1.49%) Cisco
12 41 (1.30%) Apple
13 31 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
14 27 (0.85%) Dell
15 25 (0.79%) Tenable
16 18 (0.57%) Okta
17 17 (0.54%) Fortinet
18 15 (0.47%) Computacenter
19 14 (0.44%) Citrix
19 14 (0.44%) NetApp