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 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,570 2,668 4,947
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.52% 18.99% 16.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.56% 20.00% 17.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,825 1,820 4,140
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,650
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -9.29%

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 15,522 13,339 28,660
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 94.92% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,431 9,007 23,924
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,446 £93,750
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 9 March 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 9 March 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.

1 568 (22.10%) Azure
2 530 (20.62%) Mentoring
3 518 (20.16%) Agile
4 443 (17.24%) AWS
5 379 (14.75%) CI/CD
6 373 (14.51%) SQL
7 372 (14.47%) Software Engineering
8 354 (13.77%) Coaching
8 354 (13.77%) DevOps
9 320 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
10 310 (12.06%) Python
11 304 (11.83%) AI
11 304 (11.83%) Microsoft
12 286 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 256 (9.96%) Degree
14 234 (9.11%) Security Cleared
15 216 (8.40%) Analytics
16 215 (8.37%) Roadmaps
17 213 (8.29%) Java
18 208 (8.09%) .NET
19 205 (7.98%) SaaS
20 204 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
21 192 (7.47%) GCP
22 189 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
23 187 (7.28%) Kubernetes
24 177 (6.89%) Test Automation
25 175 (6.81%) Terraform
26 171 (6.65%) SC Cleared
27 168 (6.54%) Docker
28 165 (6.42%) C#

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 60 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.89%) WordPress
5 22 (0.86%) Confluence
6 21 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.58%) CMS
8 14 (0.54%) Apache
9 11 (0.43%) JBoss
9 11 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.12%) IIS
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.039%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.39%) InDesign
4 10 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
5 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.23%) Sketch
7 4 (0.16%) Maya
7 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.12%) Weka
9 2 (0.078%) Revit
10 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.039%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.039%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 31 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
2 23 (0.89%) Oracle Financials
3 22 (0.86%) Shopify
4 21 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
6 15 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.43%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.39%) Hyperion Planning
10 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.19%) Magento
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 568 (22.10%) Azure
2 443 (17.24%) AWS
3 205 (7.98%) SaaS
4 192 (7.47%) GCP
5 124 (4.82%) GitHub
6 110 (4.28%) Entra ID
6 110 (4.28%) Power Platform
7 109 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
9 84 (3.27%) Serverless
10 61 (2.37%) dbt
11 59 (2.30%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (1.52%) PowerApps
14 38 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (1.36%) GitHub Copilot
16 34 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (1.21%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 97 (3.77%) Broadband
2 63 (2.45%) Firewall
3 44 (1.71%) VPN
4 43 (1.67%) WAN
5 38 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.40%) DNS
7 32 (1.25%) DHCP
8 28 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 26 (1.01%) Network Security
10 25 (0.97%) LAN
11 17 (0.66%) Ethernet
12 16 (0.62%) BGP
12 16 (0.62%) Wireless
13 15 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.51%) RS-232
15 11 (0.43%) HTTP
16 10 (0.39%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
17 9 (0.35%) OSPF
18 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 81 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (3.07%) Power BI
4 62 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (1.60%) Metadata
5 41 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 40 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 32 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 28 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (0.97%) MySQL
11 25 (0.97%) Redis
11 25 (0.97%) Tableau
12 24 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (0.86%) OLTP
14 18 (0.70%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.70%) Relational Database
15 15 (0.58%) Delta Lake
15 15 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 78 (3.04%) JIRA
2 70 (2.72%) Git
3 59 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
5 33 (1.28%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.89%) GitLab
7 19 (0.74%) Selenium
8 11 (0.43%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.39%) Postman
10 9 (0.35%) MLflow
11 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.31%) Subversion
11 8 (0.31%) webpack
12 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.27%) git-flow
12 7 (0.27%) JUnit
12 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.27%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.23%) Babel
General
1 563 (21.91%) Finance
2 520 (20.23%) Social Skills
3 267 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 178 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 155 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (4.90%) Law
7 124 (4.82%) Retail
8 123 (4.79%) Marketing
9 100 (3.89%) Banking
10 80 (3.11%) Legal
11 79 (3.07%) Telecoms
12 77 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.65%) Games
14 41 (1.60%) Financial Institution
14 41 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 29 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (0.89%) Back Office
18 20 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (0.74%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (8.09%) .NET
2 132 (5.14%) React
3 119 (4.63%) REST
4 109 (4.24%) SOAP
5 84 (3.27%) HTML
6 81 (3.15%) RESTful
7 68 (2.65%) GraphQL
8 67 (2.61%) Node.js
9 64 (2.49%) OAuth
10 59 (2.30%) CSS
11 54 (2.10%) Spring
12 49 (1.91%) Kafka
13 43 (1.67%) OpenID
14 42 (1.63%) Spring Boot
15 41 (1.60%) SAML
16 37 (1.44%) XML
17 36 (1.40%) .NET Core
18 35 (1.36%) LDAP
19 28 (1.09%) Django
20 27 (1.05%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.69%) Cloud Native
2 95 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 92 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 61 (2.37%) Social Media
5 57 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.60%) Cyberattack
7 41 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 38 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 38 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.17%) Security Posture
12 28 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
13 27 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 25 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (0.89%) Low-Code
16 21 (0.82%) Management Information System
16 21 (0.82%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 136 (5.29%) Linux
2 83 (3.23%) Windows
3 62 (2.41%) Android
4 51 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 38 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 32 (1.25%) Unix
7 24 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 11 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.078%) CentOS
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (20.62%) Mentoring
2 518 (20.16%) Agile
3 379 (14.75%) CI/CD
4 372 (14.47%) Software Engineering
5 354 (13.77%) Coaching
5 354 (13.77%) DevOps
6 320 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (11.83%) AI
8 286 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 216 (8.40%) Analytics
10 215 (8.37%) Roadmaps
11 204 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
12 189 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 177 (6.89%) Test Automation
14 164 (6.38%) Microservices
15 152 (5.91%) User Experience
16 139 (5.41%) Decision-Making
16 139 (5.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 138 (5.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 131 (5.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 373 (14.51%) SQL
2 310 (12.06%) Python
3 213 (8.29%) Java
4 165 (6.42%) C#
5 151 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 131 (5.10%) TypeScript
7 83 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.88%) Bash
9 66 (2.57%) Go
10 61 (2.37%) C++
11 53 (2.06%) PL/SQL
12 52 (2.02%) PHP
13 46 (1.79%) Scala
14 37 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.17%) C
17 20 (0.78%) Bicep
17 20 (0.78%) VBA
18 16 (0.62%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 256 (9.96%) Degree
2 234 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 171 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 81 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 39 (1.52%) ACCA
7 38 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.25%) CISSP
9 31 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.01%) PMI Certification
11 25 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.74%) CIMA
14 18 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.62%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.62%) CISM
16 14 (0.54%) CREST Certified
17 12 (0.47%) CCNP
17 12 (0.47%) OSCP
17 12 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.50%) QA
2 56 (2.18%) Accessibility
2 56 (2.18%) Data Quality
3 55 (2.14%) NIST
4 53 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.95%) GDPR
6 34 (1.32%) NCSC
7 21 (0.82%) IFRS
8 15 (0.58%) PMO
9 14 (0.54%) P3O
10 13 (0.51%) GRC
11 11 (0.43%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.43%) MISRA
11 11 (0.43%) MISRA C
12 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.35%) SLA
13 8 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.31%) GAAP
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 168 (6.54%) Docker
2 111 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) Firmware
7 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.16%) vSphere
10 2 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.078%) vCloud
10 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.039%) Ceph
11 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.039%) Lustre
11 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 187 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 175 (6.81%) Terraform
3 58 (2.26%) Grafana
4 47 (1.83%) Ansible
5 44 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 37 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.47%) SCCM
9 11 (0.43%) Functional Safety
10 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) Argo
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 3 (0.12%) Control-M
13 3 (0.12%) cPanel
13 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.12%) Plesk
14 2 (0.078%) Nagios
14 2 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 304 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.18%) Oracle
3 76 (2.96%) Databricks
4 58 (2.26%) Google
5 53 (2.06%) VMware
6 50 (1.95%) Cisco
7 49 (1.91%) Adobe
7 49 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 48 (1.87%) SAP
9 28 (1.09%) Okta
10 27 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.74%) Apple
12 18 (0.70%) Workday
13 14 (0.54%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.54%) Screaming Frog
14 13 (0.51%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.47%) Dell
15 12 (0.47%) Samsung
15 12 (0.47%) Talend
16 11 (0.43%) IBM