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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,544 2,283 4,660
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.46% 13.79% 18.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.44% 14.92% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 1,512 3,160
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
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 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,879
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.35% -6.89%

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 21,560 15,304 23,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.41% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,389 9,283 17,118
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 20 August 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 August 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.

1 722 (20.37%) Agile
2 667 (18.82%) Mentoring
3 664 (18.74%) Azure
4 621 (17.52%) AWS
5 619 (17.47%) Software Engineering
6 578 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 564 (15.91%) AI
8 546 (15.41%) CI/CD
9 503 (14.19%) Python
10 472 (13.32%) DevOps
11 450 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
12 442 (12.47%) Microsoft
13 381 (10.75%) SQL
14 354 (9.99%) Degree
15 353 (9.96%) Project Delivery
16 334 (9.42%) Coaching
17 332 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
18 328 (9.26%) Decision-Making
19 311 (8.78%) Analytics
19 311 (8.78%) Security Cleared
20 294 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 277 (7.82%) C#
22 259 (7.31%) SC Cleared
23 258 (7.28%) Roadmaps
24 254 (7.17%) Test Automation
25 247 (6.97%) JavaScript
26 234 (6.60%) QA
27 230 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
28 226 (6.38%) GCP
29 221 (6.24%) 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 99 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (0.73%) CMS
4 23 (0.65%) Confluence
5 14 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.37%) WordPress
7 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.34%) IIS
8 11 (0.31%) SAS
9 9 (0.25%) Apache
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.085%) Artix
11 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.085%) Moodle
12 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 76 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
6 10 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.23%) InDesign
8 8 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.085%) Blender
11 3 (0.085%) Maya
11 3 (0.085%) Trello
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
9 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.085%) Primavera
9 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.085%) Visualfiles
10 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 664 (18.74%) Azure
2 621 (17.52%) AWS
3 226 (6.38%) GCP
4 221 (6.24%) SaaS
5 156 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 132 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 121 (3.41%) Serverless
9 100 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (2.82%) GitHub
10 52 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (1.35%) PowerApps
12 46 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 43 (1.21%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (1.16%) Azure AKS
16 40 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
17 37 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.46%) Firewall
2 90 (2.54%) Network Security
3 87 (2.45%) Broadband
4 77 (2.17%) DNS
5 73 (2.06%) VLAN
6 61 (1.72%) VPN
7 58 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
8 50 (1.41%) WAN
9 48 (1.35%) Wireless
10 47 (1.33%) TCP/IP
11 45 (1.27%) LAN
12 44 (1.24%) DHCP
13 27 (0.76%) BGP
14 20 (0.56%) RS-232
15 19 (0.54%) OSPF
16 17 (0.48%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) HTTP
18 15 (0.42%) WLAN
19 14 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (3.16%) Power BI
3 98 (2.77%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.41%) Metadata
7 48 (1.35%) MySQL
8 39 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 36 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 35 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 27 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 27 (0.76%) Tableau
12 22 (0.62%) OLTP
13 17 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.42%) Big Data
14 15 (0.42%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.37%) Delta Lake
16 12 (0.34%) Redis
16 12 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 120 (3.39%) Git
2 59 (1.66%) JIRA
3 42 (1.19%) GitLab
4 33 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 19 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 10 (0.28%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
13 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) XCUITest
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) JMeter
General
1 897 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 595 (16.79%) Finance
3 372 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 322 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 269 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 266 (7.51%) Legal
7 231 (6.52%) Law
8 132 (3.72%) Marketing
9 127 (3.58%) Banking
10 84 (2.37%) Retail
11 68 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 64 (1.81%) Games
15 56 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 52 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (1.41%) Local Government
18 49 (1.38%) Electronics
19 44 (1.24%) Legal Technology
20 35 (0.99%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.15%) .NET
2 202 (5.70%) Terraform
3 166 (4.68%) React
4 121 (3.41%) Node.js
5 93 (2.62%) HTML
6 87 (2.45%) REST
7 84 (2.37%) CSS
8 75 (2.12%) RESTful
9 57 (1.61%) Spring
10 41 (1.16%) AngularJS
11 37 (1.04%) Spring Boot
12 36 (1.02%) Vue
13 33 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
13 33 (0.93%) Laravel
14 32 (0.90%) .NET Core
14 32 (0.90%) Kafka
15 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 29 (0.82%) Next.js
15 29 (0.82%) Playwright
15 29 (0.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 212 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 100 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 85 (2.40%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 55 (1.55%) Data Centre
6 55 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 51 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 42 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.10%) Blog
12 38 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.04%) Social Media
14 36 (1.02%) Onboarding
15 34 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 34 (0.96%) Low-Code
15 34 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.74%) Linux
2 134 (3.78%) Windows
3 59 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 58 (1.64%) Unix
5 33 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 32 (0.90%) Android
7 23 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.085%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (20.37%) Agile
2 667 (18.82%) Mentoring
3 619 (17.47%) Software Engineering
4 578 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 564 (15.91%) AI
6 546 (15.41%) CI/CD
7 472 (13.32%) DevOps
8 450 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
9 353 (9.96%) Project Delivery
10 334 (9.42%) Coaching
11 332 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
12 328 (9.26%) Decision-Making
13 311 (8.78%) Analytics
14 294 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 258 (7.28%) Roadmaps
16 254 (7.17%) Test Automation
17 230 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 221 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
19 187 (5.28%) Information Security
19 187 (5.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 503 (14.19%) Python
2 381 (10.75%) SQL
3 277 (7.82%) C#
4 247 (6.97%) JavaScript
5 210 (5.93%) TypeScript
6 199 (5.62%) Java
7 133 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 95 (2.68%) C++
9 59 (1.66%) Go
10 56 (1.58%) PHP
11 47 (1.33%) C
12 43 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 36 (1.02%) Bash
14 33 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.73%) Bicep
16 25 (0.71%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.62%) Swift
18 21 (0.59%) Ruby
19 19 (0.54%) R
20 18 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 354 (9.99%) Degree
2 311 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 259 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.71%) CISSP
5 89 (2.51%) CISM
6 66 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.52%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 52 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 48 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 46 (1.30%) Master's Degree
13 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 38 (1.07%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.82%) HNC
16 28 (0.79%) PhD
17 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
18 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 22 (0.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (6.60%) QA
2 112 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 79 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 78 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 60 (1.69%) NIST
6 57 (1.61%) GDPR
7 47 (1.33%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 23 (0.65%) SLA
10 20 (0.56%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 166 (4.68%) Docker
2 138 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.93%) vSphere
6 27 (0.76%) Firmware
7 20 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) iptables
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 196 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 96 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (0.90%) Ansible
4 25 (0.71%) Grafana
5 20 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.48%) Argo
7 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.11%) SCCM
11 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 442 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 113 (3.19%) Oracle
3 104 (2.93%) Adobe
4 76 (2.14%) Google
5 68 (1.92%) Cisco
5 68 (1.92%) VMware
6 67 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 60 (1.69%) SAP
8 59 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 57 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
11 46 (1.30%) Databricks
12 35 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 29 (0.82%) Apple
14 28 (0.79%) Tenable
15 27 (0.76%) Pega
16 26 (0.73%) Informatica
17 25 (0.71%) Dell
18 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
19 21 (0.59%) Veeam