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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,356 3,086 4,160
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.90% 19.04% 15.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.90% 19.84% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 1,927 3,461
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,052 £56,250 £53,750
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 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.24% +3.08% -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 14,822 15,555 25,195
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 95.97% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,684 9,351 20,927
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -5.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,338 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 31 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 31 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.

1 573 (24.32%) Azure
2 531 (22.54%) Agile
3 479 (20.33%) Mentoring
4 400 (16.98%) AWS
5 384 (16.30%) CI/CD
6 378 (16.04%) SQL
7 364 (15.45%) DevOps
8 341 (14.47%) Software Engineering
9 319 (13.54%) Coaching
10 302 (12.82%) Python
11 292 (12.39%) Microsoft
12 279 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
13 278 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 275 (11.67%) AI
15 249 (10.57%) Degree
16 209 (8.87%) Roadmaps
17 206 (8.74%) .NET
18 196 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
19 195 (8.28%) Java
20 192 (8.15%) Security Cleared
21 191 (8.11%) SaaS
22 182 (7.72%) Analytics
23 180 (7.64%) C#
24 179 (7.60%) Terraform
25 176 (7.47%) Test Automation
26 175 (7.43%) Kubernetes
27 161 (6.83%) Asset Management
27 161 (6.83%) Microservices
28 160 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
29 155 (6.58%) GCP

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 57 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.19%) Confluence
4 24 (1.02%) Apache
4 24 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.89%) WordPress
6 20 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.47%) CMS
7 11 (0.47%) IIS
7 11 (0.47%) JBoss
7 11 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.085%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.085%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.085%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.042%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.042%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.59%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.42%) InDesign
6 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.30%) Sketch
7 5 (0.21%) Maya
7 5 (0.21%) MotionBuilder
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) InVision
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.13%) Weka
10 2 (0.085%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.085%) Revit
10 2 (0.085%) Simulink
11 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.70%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.27%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.19%) Oracle Financials
5 22 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.85%) Shopify
7 14 (0.59%) Hyperion Planning
8 11 (0.47%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.38%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
11 6 (0.25%) Visualfiles
12 5 (0.21%) Magento
12 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
13 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
14 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 573 (24.32%) Azure
2 400 (16.98%) AWS
3 191 (8.11%) SaaS
4 155 (6.58%) GCP
5 147 (6.24%) GitHub
6 137 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (4.80%) Power Platform
8 110 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 94 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
10 88 (3.74%) Serverless
11 70 (2.97%) Snowflake
12 67 (2.84%) dbt
13 50 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.91%) PowerApps
15 40 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
17 37 (1.57%) OCI
18 35 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
19 34 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (1.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.18%) Broadband
2 58 (2.46%) Firewall
3 47 (1.99%) VPN
4 40 (1.70%) WAN
5 38 (1.61%) DNS
5 38 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.19%) DHCP
7 26 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 25 (1.06%) Network Security
9 23 (0.98%) LAN
10 17 (0.72%) BGP
11 15 (0.64%) Ethernet
12 13 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.51%) Wireless
14 11 (0.47%) HTTP
15 10 (0.42%) RS-232
15 10 (0.42%) Unified Communications
16 8 (0.34%) OSPF
17 6 (0.25%) MPLS
17 6 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.54%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (3.23%) Power BI
4 62 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 59 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 29 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (1.19%) Metadata
8 28 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 27 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 25 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
11 25 (1.06%) MySQL
12 24 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.81%) Tableau
16 18 (0.76%) Redis
16 18 (0.76%) Relational Database
17 17 (0.72%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 88 (3.74%) JIRA
2 71 (3.01%) Git
3 67 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
5 30 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 29 (1.23%) Selenium
7 22 (0.93%) GitLab
8 18 (0.76%) Postman
9 12 (0.51%) WebDriver
10 11 (0.47%) SoapUI
11 10 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.34%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.34%) MLflow
13 8 (0.34%) Subversion
14 7 (0.30%) git-flow
14 7 (0.30%) JUnit
15 6 (0.25%) JMeter
16 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 557 (23.64%) Finance
2 519 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 210 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 163 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (4.92%) Retail
7 105 (4.46%) Banking
8 95 (4.03%) Marketing
9 89 (3.78%) Law
10 72 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 68 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
12 63 (2.67%) Legal
13 60 (2.55%) Games
14 42 (1.78%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (1.40%) Front Office
17 29 (1.23%) Manufacturing
18 27 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.89%) Investment Banking
20 19 (0.81%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (8.74%) .NET
2 138 (5.86%) React
3 120 (5.09%) REST
4 111 (4.71%) SOAP
5 95 (4.03%) RESTful
6 83 (3.52%) HTML
7 70 (2.97%) GraphQL
8 61 (2.59%) Node.js
9 58 (2.46%) OAuth
10 56 (2.38%) CSS
11 49 (2.08%) Spring
12 41 (1.74%) Kafka
13 40 (1.70%) XML
14 38 (1.61%) .NET Core
14 38 (1.61%) gRPC
14 38 (1.61%) SAML
15 37 (1.57%) Spring Boot
16 36 (1.53%) OpenID
17 30 (1.27%) JSON
17 30 (1.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 101 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 87 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.57%) Social Media
7 35 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 34 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 32 (1.36%) Mobile App
10 30 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 30 (1.27%) Cyberattack
11 29 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 27 (1.15%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.02%) Hedge funds
14 24 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
14 24 (1.02%) Management Information System
15 22 (0.93%) Derivative
16 19 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 109 (4.63%) Linux
2 86 (3.65%) Windows
3 47 (1.99%) Android
4 39 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.19%) Unix
7 22 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.59%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.085%) CentOS
10 2 (0.085%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (22.54%) Agile
2 479 (20.33%) Mentoring
3 384 (16.30%) CI/CD
4 364 (15.45%) DevOps
5 341 (14.47%) Software Engineering
6 319 (13.54%) Coaching
7 279 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
8 278 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 275 (11.67%) AI
10 209 (8.87%) Roadmaps
11 196 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
12 182 (7.72%) Analytics
13 176 (7.47%) Test Automation
14 161 (6.83%) Asset Management
14 161 (6.83%) Microservices
15 160 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 144 (6.11%) User Experience
17 137 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
18 133 (5.65%) Full-Stack Development
19 131 (5.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 378 (16.04%) SQL
2 302 (12.82%) Python
3 195 (8.28%) Java
4 180 (7.64%) C#
5 147 (6.24%) JavaScript
6 142 (6.03%) TypeScript
7 90 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 68 (2.89%) Bash
9 55 (2.33%) Go
10 53 (2.25%) C++
11 48 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 38 (1.61%) PHP
13 35 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.40%) Scala
15 32 (1.36%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.15%) C
17 26 (1.10%) Bicep
18 24 (1.02%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.72%) Ruby
19 17 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 249 (10.57%) Degree
2 192 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 137 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 79 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.78%) ACCA
5 42 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 38 (1.61%) CISSP
7 37 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.02%) CISM
11 24 (1.02%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.85%) CIMA
13 18 (0.76%) CCNP
14 16 (0.68%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 14 (0.59%) AAT
17 13 (0.55%) CISA
18 12 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.24%) QA
2 59 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 55 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (2.33%) NIST
4 54 (2.29%) GDPR
5 47 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.53%) NCSC
7 21 (0.89%) IFRS
8 18 (0.76%) PMO
9 14 (0.59%) GRC
9 14 (0.59%) P3O
10 11 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.47%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.47%) MISRA
10 11 (0.47%) MISRA C
11 10 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 9 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 8 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 154 (6.54%) Docker
2 111 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.30%) vSphere
8 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.21%) Firmware
10 2 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.085%) vCloud
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.042%) Ceph
11 1 (0.042%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 179 (7.60%) Terraform
2 175 (7.43%) Kubernetes
3 57 (2.42%) Grafana
4 49 (2.08%) Ansible
5 47 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.47%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.30%) SCCM
10 5 (0.21%) Argo
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
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%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.13%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.085%) Nagios
13 2 (0.085%) Nessus
Vendors
1 292 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.43%) Oracle
3 77 (3.27%) Databricks
4 46 (1.95%) Cisco
4 46 (1.95%) VMware
5 44 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.74%) Google
6 41 (1.74%) SAP
7 36 (1.53%) Adobe
8 31 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.23%) Okta
10 22 (0.93%) Workday
11 14 (0.59%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.59%) Hyperion
11 14 (0.59%) Screaming Frog
12 13 (0.55%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.47%) Talend
14 9 (0.38%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.38%) Meraki
14 9 (0.38%) Zoho