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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 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 3,998 2,142 3,769
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.95% 12.96% 17.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.98% 13.90% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,594 1,408 2,370
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 £81,500 £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 23,547 15,413 20,278
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.26% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 16,155 8,720 12,665
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £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 £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -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 14 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 14 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.

1 775 (19.38%) Agile
2 748 (18.71%) Mentoring
3 718 (17.96%) Azure
4 714 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 657 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 642 (16.06%) AWS
7 617 (15.43%) CI/CD
8 605 (15.13%) AI
9 554 (13.86%) Python
10 532 (13.31%) DevOps
11 510 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 473 (11.83%) Microsoft
13 465 (11.63%) SQL
14 404 (10.11%) Coaching
15 382 (9.55%) Degree
16 381 (9.53%) Security Cleared
17 361 (9.03%) Analytics
18 350 (8.75%) Decision-Making
19 343 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
20 342 (8.55%) Project Delivery
21 320 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 316 (7.90%) SC Cleared
23 298 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
24 292 (7.30%) C#
25 282 (7.05%) Java
26 262 (6.55%) Test Automation
27 253 (6.33%) SaaS
28 248 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
29 245 (6.13%) Roadmaps
30 243 (6.08%) 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 52 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 23 (0.58%) Confluence
5 19 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.38%) CMS
6 15 (0.38%) WordPress
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.28%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 7 (0.18%) IIS
13 3 (0.075%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.075%) Artix
13 3 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.075%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.075%) Moodle
13 3 (0.075%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 79 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.90%) 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 25 (0.63%) 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 4 (0.10%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.075%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.075%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.075%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.075%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.050%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 718 (17.96%) Azure
2 642 (16.06%) AWS
3 253 (6.33%) SaaS
4 236 (5.90%) GCP
5 166 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
6 162 (4.05%) Power Platform
7 157 (3.93%) Entra ID
8 122 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (2.85%) GitHub
10 98 (2.45%) Serverless
11 55 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.03%) IaaS
17 40 (1.00%) PowerApps
18 38 (0.95%) Power Automate
19 37 (0.93%) Azure AKS
19 37 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 153 (3.83%) Firewall
2 100 (2.50%) 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 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
8 59 (1.48%) Wireless
9 51 (1.28%) Broadband
10 48 (1.20%) 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%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (3.10%) Power BI
3 100 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 74 (1.85%) Metadata
5 59 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 52 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.23%) MySQL
9 48 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
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
1 137 (3.43%) Git
2 64 (1.60%) 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
1 996 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 658 (16.46%) Finance
3 472 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 363 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 303 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 261 (6.53%) Legal
7 252 (6.30%) Law
8 162 (4.05%) Banking
9 132 (3.30%) Marketing
10 130 (3.25%) Retail
11 74 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 74 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 72 (1.80%) Manufacturing
13 67 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 60 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
15 58 (1.45%) Electronics
16 57 (1.43%) Aerospace
17 54 (1.35%) Local Government
18 51 (1.28%) Games
19 45 (1.13%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (6.08%) Terraform
2 213 (5.33%) .NET
3 155 (3.88%) React
4 111 (2.78%) REST
5 107 (2.68%) Node.js
6 94 (2.35%) RESTful
7 89 (2.23%) HTML
8 84 (2.10%) CSS
9 72 (1.80%) Spring
10 51 (1.28%) Spring Boot
11 46 (1.15%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.00%) PySpark
13 36 (0.90%) Kafka
14 35 (0.88%) Laravel
15 34 (0.85%) Vue
16 32 (0.80%) .NET Core
16 32 (0.80%) Next.js
17 29 (0.73%) OAuth
18 28 (0.70%) Playwright
19 27 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 251 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 116 (2.90%) Driving Licence
3 115 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 70 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 66 (1.65%) AI Agents
9 56 (1.40%) Blog
10 52 (1.30%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 45 (1.13%) Data Centre
13 41 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 41 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 38 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (0.88%) Mobile App
16 33 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
17 32 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
18 30 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.10%) Linux
2 136 (3.40%) 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
1 775 (19.38%) Agile
2 748 (18.71%) Mentoring
3 714 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 657 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 617 (15.43%) CI/CD
6 605 (15.13%) AI
7 532 (13.31%) DevOps
8 510 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
9 404 (10.11%) Coaching
10 361 (9.03%) Analytics
11 350 (8.75%) Decision-Making
12 343 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
13 342 (8.55%) Project Delivery
14 320 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 298 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 262 (6.55%) Test Automation
17 248 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 245 (6.13%) Roadmaps
19 218 (5.45%) Technical Leadership
20 214 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 554 (13.86%) Python
2 465 (11.63%) SQL
3 292 (7.30%) C#
4 282 (7.05%) Java
5 227 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 201 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.45%) C++
9 66 (1.65%) Go
10 60 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 52 (1.30%) PHP
13 48 (1.20%) C
14 42 (1.05%) Bash
15 32 (0.80%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.50%) Ruby
17 20 (0.50%) Rust
17 20 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 382 (9.55%) Degree
2 381 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 316 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.50%) CISSP
5 95 (2.38%) CISM
6 70 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 58 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.35%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
9 52 (1.30%) HNC
10 46 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 39 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 39 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 38 (0.95%) DBS Check
15 37 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 33 (0.83%) AWS Certification
17 28 (0.70%) PhD
18 25 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.73%) QA
2 127 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 118 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 88 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.83%) GDPR
6 61 (1.53%) NIST
7 37 (0.93%) GRC
8 30 (0.75%) PMO
9 21 (0.53%) NCSC
9 21 (0.53%) WCAG
10 19 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.40%) SLA
12 15 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.25%) COBIT
16 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.20%) GxP
17 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 205 (5.13%) Docker
2 145 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 54 (1.35%) 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 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 116 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (1.25%) Grafana
4 44 (1.10%) Ansible
5 19 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.38%) Argo
7 13 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 10 (0.25%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.15%) Avamar
10 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.15%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Cilium
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
12 4 (0.10%) FTK
12 4 (0.10%) Packer
12 4 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 473 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.05%) Oracle
3 104 (2.60%) Google
4 68 (1.70%) VMware
5 67 (1.68%) Cisco
6 61 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 58 (1.45%) Adobe
8 57 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 50 (1.25%) 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 24 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
17 23 (0.58%) Apple
18 22 (0.55%) Aruba
19 20 (0.50%) Zscaler