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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,241 2,237 6,154
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.09% 14.46% 17.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.12% 15.69% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,298 1,391 4,589
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £86,875 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,813 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% +8.50% -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 18,928 14,257 33,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 92.13% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,810 8,734 26,113
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 20 June 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 June 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.

1 640 (19.75%) Agile
2 607 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 570 (17.59%) Azure
4 542 (16.72%) AWS
5 484 (14.93%) Software Engineering
6 439 (13.55%) AI
7 400 (12.34%) CI/CD
8 388 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
9 379 (11.69%) Python
10 374 (11.54%) Coaching
11 362 (11.17%) SQL
12 359 (11.08%) Microsoft
13 348 (10.74%) DevOps
14 327 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 302 (9.32%) Degree
16 298 (9.19%) Analytics
17 293 (9.04%) Security Cleared
18 292 (9.01%) Roadmaps
19 235 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
20 233 (7.19%) Java
21 231 (7.13%) SC Cleared
22 227 (7.00%) Decision-Making
23 211 (6.51%) Project Delivery
24 210 (6.48%) Test Automation
25 199 (6.14%) GCP
26 194 (5.99%) Kubernetes
27 191 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
28 180 (5.55%) .NET
29 179 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
30 176 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code

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 88 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 31 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.71%) CMS
5 18 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.46%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) SAS
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) IIS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.093%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.093%) Artix
10 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.093%) JBoss
10 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.093%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 84 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
3 28 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.15%) InDesign
9 4 (0.12%) InVision
9 4 (0.12%) Sketch
9 4 (0.12%) Trello
10 3 (0.093%) Blender
10 3 (0.093%) Civil 3D
10 3 (0.093%) Maya
11 2 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
3 14 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
5 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.28%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.093%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.093%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.093%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.093%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.093%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.093%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.093%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 570 (17.59%) Azure
2 542 (16.72%) AWS
3 199 (6.14%) GCP
4 175 (5.40%) SaaS
5 139 (4.29%) Power Platform
6 125 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
7 122 (3.76%) Serverless
8 88 (2.72%) Entra ID
9 80 (2.47%) GitHub
10 77 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.54%) PowerApps
12 46 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
14 41 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 41 (1.27%) Figma
15 38 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.02%) Amazon S3
17 33 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
17 33 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 149 (4.60%) Broadband
2 94 (2.90%) Firewall
3 63 (1.94%) DNS
4 59 (1.82%) VPN
5 44 (1.36%) WAN
6 40 (1.23%) DHCP
7 36 (1.11%) Wireless
8 32 (0.99%) LAN
8 32 (0.99%) Network Security
8 32 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 28 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.83%) BGP
10 27 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 23 (0.71%) RS-232
12 19 (0.59%) OSPF
13 17 (0.52%) Ethernet
14 14 (0.43%) HTTP
14 14 (0.43%) VLAN
15 13 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (3.09%) Power BI
2 91 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 86 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.60%) Metadata
6 34 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (0.99%) OLTP
8 31 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 30 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 30 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 27 (0.83%) MySQL
10 27 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (0.83%) Tableau
11 26 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 22 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (0.52%) Delta Lake
14 17 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 83 (2.56%) Git
2 59 (1.82%) JIRA
3 47 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.20%) GitLab
5 38 (1.17%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.77%) Snyk
7 24 (0.74%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.52%) Selenium
9 11 (0.34%) Postman
10 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.25%) MLflow
10 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
11 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.22%) JMeter
11 7 (0.22%) JUnit
11 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.19%) NUnit
13 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 654 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 546 (16.85%) Finance
3 407 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 235 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 211 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (4.07%) Law
7 124 (3.83%) Banking
8 123 (3.80%) Marketing
9 98 (3.02%) Legal
10 80 (2.47%) Retail
11 78 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (2.34%) Games
13 56 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 31 (0.96%) Local Government
17 27 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.74%) Back Office
19 23 (0.71%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (5.55%) .NET
2 143 (4.41%) React
3 94 (2.90%) Node.js
4 91 (2.81%) REST
5 78 (2.41%) HTML
6 67 (2.07%) RESTful
7 57 (1.76%) CSS
8 56 (1.73%) SOAP
9 52 (1.60%) Spring
10 38 (1.17%) Spring Boot
11 37 (1.14%) GraphQL
11 37 (1.14%) Vue
12 35 (1.08%) OAuth
13 33 (1.02%) OpenID
14 31 (0.96%) SAML
15 30 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
16 29 (0.89%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.89%) JSON
17 28 (0.86%) Kafka
18 27 (0.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 203 (6.26%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 71 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (1.88%) Social Media
6 57 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (1.64%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.45%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 43 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 39 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
12 39 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 38 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 38 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.11%) Onboarding
14 36 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 36 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 155 (4.78%) Linux
2 113 (3.49%) Windows
3 53 (1.64%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.42%) Android
5 40 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.08%) Unix
7 19 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
8 15 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.25%) VMS
10 5 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.093%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.062%) Debian
13 1 (0.031%) AIX
13 1 (0.031%) CentOS
13 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (19.75%) Agile
2 607 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 484 (14.93%) Software Engineering
4 439 (13.55%) AI
5 400 (12.34%) CI/CD
6 388 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
7 374 (11.54%) Coaching
8 348 (10.74%) DevOps
9 327 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 298 (9.19%) Analytics
11 292 (9.01%) Roadmaps
12 235 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
13 227 (7.00%) Decision-Making
14 211 (6.51%) Project Delivery
15 210 (6.48%) Test Automation
16 191 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 179 (5.52%) Full-Stack Development
18 176 (5.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 176 (5.43%) Project Management
19 156 (4.81%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 379 (11.69%) Python
2 362 (11.17%) SQL
3 233 (7.19%) Java
4 174 (5.37%) JavaScript
5 162 (5.00%) C#
6 150 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 94 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 84 (2.59%) C++
9 67 (2.07%) Go
10 66 (2.04%) Bash
11 56 (1.73%) PHP
12 53 (1.64%) PL/SQL
13 42 (1.30%) Scala
14 40 (1.23%) C
15 35 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 24 (0.74%) VBA
18 22 (0.68%) Bicep
19 19 (0.59%) R
20 18 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 302 (9.32%) Degree
2 293 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 231 (7.13%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 48 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (1.17%) CISSP
11 37 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 26 (0.80%) CISM
12 26 (0.80%) DBS Check
13 25 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.74%) ACCA
14 24 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 22 (0.68%) PhD
16 21 (0.65%) CIMA
16 21 (0.65%) PMI Certification
17 19 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (3.67%) QA
2 79 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 79 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 65 (2.01%) NIST
4 64 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.33%) GDPR
6 39 (1.20%) GRC
7 29 (0.89%) PMO
8 27 (0.83%) NCSC
9 16 (0.49%) SLA
10 12 (0.37%) P3O
11 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.22%) IEC 61508
13 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.22%) MISRA
13 7 (0.22%) MISRA C
13 7 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 146 (4.50%) Docker
2 96 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.89%) vSphere
6 19 (0.59%) Firmware
7 18 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.28%) vCloud
10 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.062%) iptables
13 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 194 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 155 (4.78%) Terraform
3 35 (1.08%) Ansible
3 35 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (0.96%) Grafana
5 19 (0.59%) Argo
5 19 (0.59%) FortiGate
6 14 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.43%) SCCM
7 7 (0.22%) Functional Safety
7 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
7 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.19%) Avamar
8 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.19%) Puppet
8 6 (0.19%) VxRail
9 5 (0.15%) Istio
9 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 359 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.07%) Oracle
3 117 (3.61%) Adobe
4 68 (2.10%) VMware
5 63 (1.94%) Palo Alto
5 63 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 60 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 60 (1.85%) SAP
7 58 (1.79%) Google
8 55 (1.70%) Cisco
8 55 (1.70%) Databricks
9 41 (1.27%) Apple
10 32 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (0.86%) Dell
12 26 (0.80%) Tenable
13 19 (0.59%) Computacenter
14 17 (0.52%) Meraki
15 16 (0.49%) Fortinet
15 16 (0.49%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.46%) Veeam