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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,406 2,293 5,774
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.95% 13.91% 18.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 15.06% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,328 1,481 4,280
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -10.71%

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 20,071 15,221 30,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 92.31% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 14,571 9,459 23,646
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,023
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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.

1 684 (20.08%) Agile
1 684 (20.08%) Mentoring
2 627 (18.41%) Azure
3 596 (17.50%) AWS
4 565 (16.59%) Software Engineering
5 510 (14.97%) AI
6 493 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 477 (14.00%) CI/CD
8 458 (13.45%) Python
9 453 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
10 429 (12.60%) Microsoft
11 414 (12.16%) DevOps
12 372 (10.92%) Coaching
13 366 (10.75%) SQL
14 322 (9.45%) Degree
15 303 (8.90%) Analytics
16 296 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
17 292 (8.57%) Project Delivery
17 292 (8.57%) Roadmaps
18 281 (8.25%) Security Cleared
19 268 (7.87%) Decision-Making
20 249 (7.31%) C#
21 248 (7.28%) Test Automation
22 240 (7.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 227 (6.66%) Java
24 224 (6.58%) SC Cleared
25 223 (6.55%) JavaScript
26 216 (6.34%) GCP
27 212 (6.22%) .NET
28 211 (6.19%) 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 92 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.65%) CMS
5 20 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.44%) Confluence
6 15 (0.44%) SAS
7 12 (0.35%) IIS
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 8 (0.23%) Apache
9 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.088%) Artix
11 3 (0.088%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.059%) JBoss
12 2 (0.059%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 84 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Civil 3D
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.088%) Blender
11 3 (0.088%) Maya
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.059%) InVision
12 2 (0.059%) Sketch
12 2 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.70%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.26%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 627 (18.41%) Azure
2 596 (17.50%) AWS
3 216 (6.34%) GCP
4 211 (6.19%) SaaS
5 151 (4.43%) Power Platform
6 141 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
7 134 (3.93%) Entra ID
8 127 (3.73%) Serverless
9 89 (2.61%) GitHub
10 84 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 51 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 43 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.20%) Amazon S3
16 39 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (1.03%) Figma
18 34 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
19 33 (0.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 124 (3.64%) Firewall
2 119 (3.49%) Broadband
3 70 (2.06%) DNS
4 66 (1.94%) VPN
5 53 (1.56%) Network Security
6 50 (1.47%) WAN
7 49 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (1.32%) DHCP
8 45 (1.32%) Wireless
9 42 (1.23%) LAN
10 40 (1.17%) VLAN
11 33 (0.97%) TCP/IP
12 26 (0.76%) BGP
13 24 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.68%) RS-232
15 19 (0.56%) OSPF
16 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
16 15 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
17 13 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.11%) Power BI
2 99 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 66 (1.94%) MongoDB
5 49 (1.44%) Metadata
6 38 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.06%) MySQL
8 33 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 30 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 29 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (0.85%) Tableau
11 28 (0.82%) OLTP
12 27 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 27 (0.79%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 15 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 96 (2.82%) Git
2 53 (1.56%) JIRA
3 38 (1.12%) GitLab
4 35 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.73%) Snyk
6 24 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 24 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.38%) Selenium
8 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.23%) Postman
9 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
10 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.21%) JUnit
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.15%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.15%) MLflow
12 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) JMeter
13 4 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 785 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 549 (16.12%) Finance
3 405 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 257 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 231 (6.78%) Legal
6 223 (6.55%) Law
7 216 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (3.64%) Banking
9 116 (3.41%) Marketing
10 83 (2.44%) Retail
11 74 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 69 (2.03%) Games
13 59 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 57 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
17 38 (1.12%) Local Government
18 36 (1.06%) Electronics
19 27 (0.79%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (6.22%) .NET
2 140 (4.11%) React
3 106 (3.11%) Node.js
4 80 (2.35%) REST
5 79 (2.32%) HTML
6 75 (2.20%) RESTful
7 62 (1.82%) CSS
8 50 (1.47%) Spring
9 40 (1.17%) SOAP
9 40 (1.17%) Vue
10 35 (1.03%) HTML5 Canvas
10 35 (1.03%) Kafka
10 35 (1.03%) Spring Boot
11 29 (0.85%) Laravel
12 28 (0.82%) OAuth
13 27 (0.79%) AngularJS
14 26 (0.76%) JSON
14 26 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
15 25 (0.73%) GraphQL
15 25 (0.73%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 105 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 76 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
4 67 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 62 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 57 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 56 (1.64%) Social Media
8 52 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 48 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 46 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 42 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.20%) Low-Code
12 41 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 41 (1.20%) Security Posture
13 38 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 37 (1.09%) Cyberattack
14 37 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 35 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
15 35 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.79%) Linux
2 129 (3.79%) Windows
3 49 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 43 (1.26%) Android
5 43 (1.26%) Unix
6 25 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.29%) VMS
7 10 (0.29%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.088%) Debian
10 3 (0.088%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (20.08%) Agile
1 684 (20.08%) Mentoring
2 565 (16.59%) Software Engineering
3 510 (14.97%) AI
4 493 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 477 (14.00%) CI/CD
6 453 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
7 414 (12.16%) DevOps
8 372 (10.92%) Coaching
9 303 (8.90%) Analytics
10 296 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
11 292 (8.57%) Project Delivery
11 292 (8.57%) Roadmaps
12 268 (7.87%) Decision-Making
13 248 (7.28%) Test Automation
14 240 (7.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 205 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 188 (5.52%) Infrastructure as Code
17 181 (5.31%) Project Management
18 177 (5.20%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 458 (13.45%) Python
2 366 (10.75%) SQL
3 249 (7.31%) C#
4 227 (6.66%) Java
5 223 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 188 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 130 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 92 (2.70%) C++
9 65 (1.91%) Go
10 59 (1.73%) PHP
11 55 (1.61%) Bash
12 48 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.35%) C
14 26 (0.76%) Scala
15 25 (0.73%) Bicep
16 24 (0.70%) T-SQL
17 23 (0.68%) Rust
17 23 (0.68%) VBA
18 21 (0.62%) Kotlin
19 20 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 322 (9.45%) Degree
2 281 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 224 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 90 (2.64%) CISSP
5 80 (2.35%) CISM
6 66 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
10 46 (1.35%) A+ Certification
11 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (1.17%) Master's Degree
13 39 (1.15%) DV Cleared
14 38 (1.12%) AWS Certification
15 36 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.91%) PhD
17 26 (0.76%) ACCA
17 26 (0.76%) DBS Check
18 24 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (5.93%) QA
2 77 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 76 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 69 (2.03%) NIST
5 53 (1.56%) GDPR
6 47 (1.38%) GRC
7 31 (0.91%) PMO
8 20 (0.59%) SLA
9 19 (0.56%) NCSC
10 14 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (0.29%) P3O
11 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.23%) WCAG
14 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.18%) COBIT
15 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 145 (4.26%) Docker
2 139 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.91%) vSphere
6 20 (0.59%) Firmware
7 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.26%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.088%) iptables
13 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 190 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 171 (5.02%) Terraform
3 85 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.03%) Ansible
5 31 (0.91%) Grafana
6 21 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.53%) Argo
8 13 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.35%) SCCM
10 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.21%) Puppet
11 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.18%) Avamar
12 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.18%) VxRail
13 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 429 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.82%) Oracle
3 112 (3.29%) Adobe
4 67 (1.97%) Palo Alto
4 67 (1.97%) VMware
5 65 (1.91%) Google
6 63 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 63 (1.85%) SAP
6 63 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 60 (1.76%) Cisco
8 46 (1.35%) Databricks
9 45 (1.32%) CyberArk
10 41 (1.20%) Apple
11 32 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (0.82%) Dell
12 28 (0.82%) Pega
13 27 (0.79%) Tenable
14 20 (0.59%) Computacenter
15 19 (0.56%) Informatica
16 18 (0.53%) OpenAI