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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,410 2,310 5,493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.84% 13.98% 18.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.84% 15.16% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,499 4,029
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £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 £84,359 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 20,247 15,241 28,938
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.22% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,713 9,478 22,127
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 July 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 July 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.

1 681 (19.97%) Agile
2 675 (19.79%) Mentoring
3 632 (18.53%) Azure
4 604 (17.71%) AWS
5 569 (16.69%) Software Engineering
6 514 (15.07%) AI
7 491 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 483 (14.16%) CI/CD
9 463 (13.58%) Python
10 453 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
11 423 (12.40%) Microsoft
12 421 (12.35%) DevOps
13 363 (10.65%) Coaching
14 359 (10.53%) SQL
15 322 (9.44%) Degree
16 307 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
17 303 (8.89%) Analytics
18 294 (8.62%) Project Delivery
19 288 (8.45%) Security Cleared
20 285 (8.36%) Roadmaps
21 278 (8.15%) Decision-Making
22 249 (7.30%) Test Automation
23 247 (7.24%) C#
24 243 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 230 (6.74%) SC Cleared
26 226 (6.63%) JavaScript
27 221 (6.48%) Java
28 218 (6.39%) GCP
29 213 (6.25%) .NET
30 208 (6.10%) 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 89 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.65%) CMS
5 19 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.44%) Confluence
6 15 (0.44%) SAS
7 12 (0.35%) IIS
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 8 (0.23%) Apache
9 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.088%) Artix
11 3 (0.088%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.059%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.029%) Appian
13 1 (0.029%) OpenStack
Applications
1 83 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Civil 3D
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.088%) Blender
11 3 (0.088%) Maya
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.059%) InVision
12 2 (0.059%) Sketch
12 2 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.70%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.23%) Visualfiles
6 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.15%) Shopify
8 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.088%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 632 (18.53%) Azure
2 604 (17.71%) AWS
3 218 (6.39%) GCP
4 208 (6.10%) SaaS
5 149 (4.37%) Power Platform
6 136 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
7 128 (3.75%) Entra ID
8 125 (3.67%) Serverless
9 88 (2.58%) GitHub
10 86 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 45 (1.32%) Power Automate
13 43 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (1.20%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
18 33 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 33 (0.97%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.84%) Firewall
2 111 (3.26%) Broadband
3 69 (2.02%) DNS
4 65 (1.91%) Network Security
5 60 (1.76%) VPN
6 57 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (1.52%) WAN
8 51 (1.50%) VLAN
9 49 (1.44%) Wireless
10 45 (1.32%) LAN
11 44 (1.29%) DHCP
12 35 (1.03%) TCP/IP
13 26 (0.76%) BGP
14 23 (0.67%) RS-232
15 22 (0.65%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.56%) OSPF
17 16 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.47%) WLAN
18 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (3.14%) Power BI
2 103 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.91%) MongoDB
5 46 (1.35%) Metadata
6 40 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 38 (1.11%) MySQL
8 33 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (0.85%) Tableau
12 28 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.82%) NoSQL
13 27 (0.79%) OLTP
14 25 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.47%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 99 (2.90%) Git
2 51 (1.50%) JIRA
3 39 (1.14%) GitLab
4 34 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.73%) Snyk
6 23 (0.67%) Claude Code
6 23 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.38%) Selenium
8 9 (0.26%) JUnit
8 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.23%) Postman
9 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
10 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.18%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.15%) Gatling
11 5 (0.15%) MLflow
11 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 796 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 555 (16.28%) Finance
3 385 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 262 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 229 (6.72%) Legal
6 220 (6.45%) Law
7 218 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (3.64%) Banking
9 116 (3.40%) Marketing
10 81 (2.38%) Retail
11 72 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 65 (1.91%) Games
13 62 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 50 (1.47%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
17 39 (1.14%) Local Government
18 38 (1.11%) Electronics
19 28 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
20 27 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (6.25%) .NET
2 148 (4.34%) React
3 111 (3.26%) Node.js
4 82 (2.40%) REST
5 80 (2.35%) HTML
6 76 (2.23%) RESTful
7 64 (1.88%) CSS
8 49 (1.44%) Spring
9 40 (1.17%) Vue
10 36 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
11 35 (1.03%) Spring Boot
12 34 (1.00%) Kafka
12 34 (1.00%) SOAP
13 30 (0.88%) Laravel
14 29 (0.85%) AngularJS
15 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
16 26 (0.76%) JSON
16 26 (0.76%) SPFx
17 25 (0.73%) OAuth
18 24 (0.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 80 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 66 (1.94%) Data Centre
5 62 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 56 (1.64%) Social Media
7 52 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 49 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 46 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 42 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 40 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.09%) Management Information System
13 36 (1.06%) Low-Code
14 35 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 35 (1.03%) Onboarding
15 34 (1.00%) Cyberattack
15 34 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.99%) Linux
2 124 (3.64%) Windows
3 46 (1.35%) Unix
4 45 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 45 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.20%) Android
6 26 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.29%) VMS
8 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.088%) Debian
10 3 (0.088%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (19.97%) Agile
2 675 (19.79%) Mentoring
3 569 (16.69%) Software Engineering
4 514 (15.07%) AI
5 491 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 483 (14.16%) CI/CD
7 453 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
8 421 (12.35%) DevOps
9 363 (10.65%) Coaching
10 307 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
11 303 (8.89%) Analytics
12 294 (8.62%) Project Delivery
13 285 (8.36%) Roadmaps
14 278 (8.15%) Decision-Making
15 249 (7.30%) Test Automation
16 243 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 204 (5.98%) Stakeholder Management
18 191 (5.60%) Infrastructure as Code
19 181 (5.31%) Microservices
20 180 (5.28%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 463 (13.58%) Python
2 359 (10.53%) SQL
3 247 (7.24%) C#
4 226 (6.63%) JavaScript
5 221 (6.48%) Java
6 195 (5.72%) TypeScript
7 126 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.76%) C++
9 63 (1.85%) Go
10 61 (1.79%) PHP
11 50 (1.47%) Bash
11 50 (1.47%) C
12 48 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 24 (0.70%) Bicep
14 23 (0.67%) Embedded C
14 23 (0.67%) Scala
15 21 (0.62%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.62%) Rust
15 21 (0.62%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 322 (9.44%) Degree
2 288 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 230 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 92 (2.70%) CISSP
5 82 (2.40%) CISM
6 66 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 53 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
9 46 (1.35%) A+ Certification
10 40 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 38 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 37 (1.09%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.85%) PhD
15 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (0.73%) ACCA
17 24 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (5.92%) QA
2 80 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 80 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 70 (2.05%) NIST
5 55 (1.61%) GDPR
6 48 (1.41%) GRC
7 31 (0.91%) PMO
8 21 (0.62%) SLA
9 19 (0.56%) NCSC
10 16 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.29%) P3O
12 10 (0.29%) WCAG
13 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.21%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.18%) COBIT
16 5 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 150 (4.40%) Docker
2 130 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.91%) vSphere
6 23 (0.67%) Firmware
7 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 14 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.26%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.088%) iptables
13 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 196 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 175 (5.13%) Terraform
3 82 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.09%) Ansible
5 30 (0.88%) Grafana
6 21 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.53%) Argo
8 12 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.26%) SCCM
10 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.21%) Puppet
12 6 (0.18%) Avamar
12 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.18%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.18%) VxRail
13 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 423 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 133 (3.90%) Oracle
3 109 (3.20%) Adobe
4 68 (1.99%) Google
4 68 (1.99%) Palo Alto
5 65 (1.91%) VMware
6 64 (1.88%) Cisco
6 64 (1.88%) SAP
7 61 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 61 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.35%) Databricks
9 45 (1.32%) CyberArk
10 40 (1.17%) Apple
11 32 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (0.82%) Dell
12 28 (0.82%) Pega
13 27 (0.79%) Tenable
14 20 (0.59%) Aruba
14 20 (0.59%) Computacenter
14 20 (0.59%) Informatica