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 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,902 2,160 4,222
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.77% 13.04% 18.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.82% 14.04% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,559 1,413 2,454
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.11% -6.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 23,203 15,385 21,899
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 92.89% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 16,136 8,826 13,716
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,598 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.54% - -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 28 September 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 28 September 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.

1 746 (19.12%) Mentoring
2 742 (19.02%) Agile
3 714 (18.30%) Azure
4 670 (17.17%) Software Engineering
5 634 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 629 (16.12%) AWS
7 604 (15.48%) AI
8 589 (15.09%) CI/CD
9 537 (13.76%) Python
10 507 (12.99%) DevOps
11 494 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
12 475 (12.17%) Microsoft
13 440 (11.28%) SQL
14 391 (10.02%) Coaching
15 375 (9.61%) Degree
16 364 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
17 361 (9.25%) Security Cleared
18 352 (9.02%) Project Delivery
19 350 (8.97%) Analytics
20 348 (8.92%) Decision-Making
21 310 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 305 (7.82%) SC Cleared
23 286 (7.33%) C#
24 281 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
25 243 (6.23%) Roadmaps
26 239 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
27 238 (6.10%) Java
28 236 (6.05%) GCP
29 235 (6.02%) Test Automation
30 229 (5.87%) QA

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 93 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
4 21 (0.54%) Confluence
5 19 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.49%) CMS
6 14 (0.36%) Apache
7 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.33%) WordPress
8 10 (0.26%) SAS
9 9 (0.23%) IIS
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.077%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.077%) Artix
11 3 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.077%) Moodle
12 2 (0.051%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 77 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.31%) Civil 3D
7 11 (0.28%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.23%) InDesign
8 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
12 5 (0.13%) Revit
13 4 (0.10%) DaVinci Resolve
14 3 (0.077%) Blender
14 3 (0.077%) Maya
14 3 (0.077%) Trello
15 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
15 2 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.62%) Cloudability
2 20 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.23%) Shopify
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
9 6 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.15%) Primavera
10 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
12 3 (0.077%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 3 (0.077%) Misys Midas
12 3 (0.077%) SAP BPC
13 2 (0.051%) HFM
13 2 (0.051%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 714 (18.30%) Azure
2 629 (16.12%) AWS
3 236 (6.05%) GCP
4 225 (5.77%) SaaS
5 162 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
6 159 (4.07%) Power Platform
7 146 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 117 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.90%) GitHub
10 112 (2.87%) Serverless
11 53 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 51 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 42 (1.08%) Azure AKS
14 42 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (1.03%) PowerApps
16 38 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 38 (0.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 157 (4.02%) Firewall
2 92 (2.36%) Network Security
3 79 (2.02%) DNS
4 77 (1.97%) VLAN
5 65 (1.67%) VPN
6 59 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.49%) Wireless
8 56 (1.44%) TCP/IP
9 55 (1.41%) Broadband
10 51 (1.31%) WAN
11 47 (1.20%) LAN
12 45 (1.15%) DHCP
13 30 (0.77%) BGP
14 22 (0.56%) OSPF
14 22 (0.56%) SMS
15 18 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.38%) RS-232
17 15 (0.38%) WLAN
18 14 (0.36%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (3.10%) Power BI
3 100 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 70 (1.79%) Metadata
5 62 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 56 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.23%) MySQL
9 46 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 45 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.69%) Tableau
13 24 (0.62%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.46%) OLTP
17 16 (0.41%) Big Data
18 15 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 135 (3.46%) Git
2 61 (1.56%) JIRA
3 42 (1.08%) GitLab
4 26 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.64%) Snyk
6 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.36%) JUnit
8 12 (0.31%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.26%) Maven
10 10 (0.26%) Postman
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.18%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.10%) MLflow
14 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 970 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 635 (16.27%) Finance
3 460 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 348 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 290 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 264 (6.77%) Legal
7 237 (6.07%) Law
8 149 (3.82%) Banking
9 129 (3.31%) Marketing
10 105 (2.69%) Retail
11 74 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 70 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 66 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 60 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
16 57 (1.46%) Electronics
17 56 (1.44%) Local Government
18 49 (1.26%) Aerospace
19 48 (1.23%) Games
20 46 (1.18%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (5.74%) Terraform
2 211 (5.41%) .NET
3 165 (4.23%) React
4 116 (2.97%) Node.js
5 103 (2.64%) REST
6 90 (2.31%) HTML
7 84 (2.15%) CSS
8 80 (2.05%) RESTful
9 65 (1.67%) Spring
10 44 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 43 (1.10%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.10%) PySpark
12 34 (0.87%) Kafka
12 34 (0.87%) Laravel
12 34 (0.87%) Vue
13 32 (0.82%) .NET Core
14 31 (0.79%) Next.js
15 27 (0.69%) OAuth
15 27 (0.69%) Web Services
15 27 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 231 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 107 (2.74%) Driving Licence
3 101 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 63 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 61 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 57 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.23%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 41 (1.05%) Blog
11 41 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 40 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 35 (0.90%) Security Posture
15 33 (0.85%) Algorithms
16 32 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
17 29 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
17 29 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.18%) Linux
2 149 (3.82%) Windows
3 62 (1.59%) Unix
4 61 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.56%) Android
6 22 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 10 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.077%) Debian
12 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.026%) AIX
13 1 (0.026%) CentOS
13 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (19.12%) Mentoring
2 742 (19.02%) Agile
3 670 (17.17%) Software Engineering
4 634 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 604 (15.48%) AI
6 589 (15.09%) CI/CD
7 507 (12.99%) DevOps
8 494 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
9 391 (10.02%) Coaching
10 364 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
11 352 (9.02%) Project Delivery
12 350 (8.97%) Analytics
13 348 (8.92%) Decision-Making
14 310 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 281 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 243 (6.23%) Roadmaps
17 239 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
18 235 (6.02%) Test Automation
19 208 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
20 206 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 537 (13.76%) Python
2 440 (11.28%) SQL
3 286 (7.33%) C#
4 238 (6.10%) Java
5 228 (5.84%) JavaScript
6 204 (5.23%) TypeScript
7 137 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.54%) C++
9 54 (1.38%) PL/SQL
10 53 (1.36%) Go
11 52 (1.33%) Kotlin
12 51 (1.31%) PHP
13 49 (1.26%) C
14 37 (0.95%) Bash
15 29 (0.74%) Bicep
16 24 (0.62%) Embedded C
17 21 (0.54%) R
18 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.51%) Ruby
19 18 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 375 (9.61%) Degree
2 361 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 305 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.43%) CISSP
5 90 (2.31%) CISM
6 70 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 59 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.38%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.13%) HNC
12 40 (1.03%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 34 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
16 33 (0.85%) DBS Check
17 24 (0.62%) ACCA
17 24 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.87%) QA
2 125 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 117 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.87%) GDPR
6 56 (1.44%) NIST
7 47 (1.20%) GRC
8 31 (0.79%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 20 (0.51%) NCSC
11 19 (0.49%) SLA
12 13 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.26%) COBIT
15 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.21%) GxP
16 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 182 (4.66%) Docker
2 142 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.85%) vSphere
6 26 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.62%) Firmware
8 13 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.18%) vCloud
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.077%) iptables
14 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.026%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.026%) GPFS
15 1 (0.026%) Lustre
15 1 (0.026%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 211 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 110 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.08%) Ansible
4 33 (0.85%) Grafana
5 18 (0.46%) Argo
5 18 (0.46%) FortiGate
6 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.15%) Avamar
9 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.15%) VxRail
10 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
10 5 (0.13%) SCCM
11 4 (0.10%) FTK
11 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 475 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 124 (3.18%) Oracle
3 88 (2.26%) Google
4 79 (2.02%) Adobe
5 69 (1.77%) Cisco
6 67 (1.72%) VMware
7 65 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.46%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.41%) CyberArk
11 48 (1.23%) Databricks
11 48 (1.23%) SAP
12 35 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
13 31 (0.79%) Apple
13 31 (0.79%) Informatica
14 30 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.72%) Pega
15 28 (0.72%) Tenable
16 23 (0.59%) YouTube
17 22 (0.56%) Splunk