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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,241 2,228 6,146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.19% 14.46% 17.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.24% 15.70% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,290 1,378 4,587
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 £84,734 £87,500 £78,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £96,250
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 18,802 14,192 33,322
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 92.10% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,698 8,671 26,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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 18 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 18 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.

1 639 (19.72%) Agile
2 606 (18.70%) Mentoring
3 575 (17.74%) Azure
4 540 (16.66%) AWS
5 487 (15.03%) Software Engineering
6 440 (13.58%) AI
7 400 (12.34%) CI/CD
8 392 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
9 382 (11.79%) Python
10 378 (11.66%) Coaching
11 374 (11.54%) SQL
12 358 (11.05%) Microsoft
13 339 (10.46%) DevOps
14 329 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 300 (9.26%) Degree
16 299 (9.23%) Analytics
17 291 (8.98%) Roadmaps
17 291 (8.98%) Security Cleared
18 236 (7.28%) Java
19 235 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
20 229 (7.07%) SC Cleared
21 226 (6.97%) Decision-Making
22 211 (6.51%) Test Automation
23 208 (6.42%) Project Delivery
24 200 (6.17%) GCP
25 192 (5.92%) Kubernetes
26 191 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
27 183 (5.65%) .NET
28 181 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
29 177 (5.46%) 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 32 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.71%) CMS
5 19 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.49%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) IIS
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.12%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.093%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.093%) Artix
11 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 84 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) InDesign
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.093%) Blender
9 3 (0.093%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.093%) Maya
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 12 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.093%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
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
1 575 (17.74%) Azure
2 540 (16.66%) AWS
3 200 (6.17%) GCP
4 177 (5.46%) SaaS
5 138 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 124 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
7 121 (3.73%) Serverless
8 90 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 82 (2.53%) GitHub
10 79 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (1.54%) PowerApps
12 46 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 40 (1.23%) Figma
15 38 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.02%) Amazon S3
18 33 (1.02%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.57%) Broadband
2 92 (2.84%) Firewall
3 62 (1.91%) DNS
4 58 (1.79%) VPN
5 44 (1.36%) WAN
6 39 (1.20%) DHCP
7 36 (1.11%) Wireless
8 32 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 31 (0.96%) LAN
10 30 (0.93%) Network Security
11 29 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 27 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (0.80%) BGP
14 23 (0.71%) RS-232
15 18 (0.56%) OSPF
16 17 (0.52%) Ethernet
17 14 (0.43%) HTTP
17 14 (0.43%) VLAN
18 13 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
19 12 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (3.09%) Power BI
2 93 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 50 (1.54%) Metadata
6 36 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (1.02%) OLTP
8 31 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.96%) BigQuery
8 31 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 30 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.86%) Tableau
11 27 (0.83%) MySQL
12 26 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 23 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.52%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 81 (2.50%) Git
2 59 (1.82%) JIRA
3 48 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.17%) GitLab
4 38 (1.17%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.77%) Snyk
6 24 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.52%) Selenium
8 11 (0.34%) Postman
9 9 (0.28%) MLflow
10 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
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
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 658 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 557 (17.19%) Finance
3 403 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 233 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 208 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (3.98%) Law
7 125 (3.86%) Banking
8 124 (3.83%) Marketing
9 99 (3.05%) Legal
10 79 (2.44%) Retail
11 77 (2.38%) Games
11 77 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 55 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 52 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 43 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 31 (0.96%) Local Government
17 27 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.74%) Back Office
19 23 (0.71%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (5.65%) .NET
2 145 (4.47%) React
3 95 (2.93%) Node.js
4 93 (2.87%) REST
5 79 (2.44%) HTML
6 67 (2.07%) RESTful
7 60 (1.85%) SOAP
8 57 (1.76%) CSS
9 52 (1.60%) Spring
10 39 (1.20%) GraphQL
11 37 (1.14%) Spring Boot
11 37 (1.14%) Vue
12 36 (1.11%) OAuth
13 33 (1.02%) OpenID
14 31 (0.96%) SAML
15 30 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
15 30 (0.93%) JSON
16 29 (0.89%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.86%) Kafka
18 27 (0.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 206 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 110 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 70 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (1.88%) Social Media
6 57 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (1.60%) 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 40 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 39 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
13 39 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 38 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (1.11%) Onboarding
15 36 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
16 34 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.63%) Linux
2 109 (3.36%) Windows
3 54 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.42%) Android
5 40 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 33 (1.02%) Unix
7 19 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
8 16 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
10 7 (0.22%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.093%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.031%) AIX
13 1 (0.031%) CentOS
13 1 (0.031%) Debian
13 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (19.72%) Agile
2 606 (18.70%) Mentoring
3 487 (15.03%) Software Engineering
4 440 (13.58%) AI
5 400 (12.34%) CI/CD
6 392 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
7 378 (11.66%) Coaching
8 339 (10.46%) DevOps
9 329 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 299 (9.23%) Analytics
11 291 (8.98%) Roadmaps
12 235 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
13 226 (6.97%) Decision-Making
14 211 (6.51%) Test Automation
15 208 (6.42%) Project Delivery
16 191 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 181 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
18 177 (5.46%) Infrastructure as Code
19 175 (5.40%) Project Management
20 157 (4.84%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 382 (11.79%) Python
2 374 (11.54%) SQL
3 236 (7.28%) Java
4 175 (5.40%) JavaScript
5 162 (5.00%) C#
6 152 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 95 (2.93%) PowerShell
8 86 (2.65%) C++
9 68 (2.10%) Go
10 66 (2.04%) Bash
11 56 (1.73%) PHP
12 55 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 43 (1.33%) Scala
14 41 (1.27%) C
15 35 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 24 (0.74%) VBA
18 21 (0.65%) Bicep
19 19 (0.59%) R
19 19 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 300 (9.26%) Degree
2 291 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 229 (7.07%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 46 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 37 (1.14%) CISSP
11 25 (0.77%) CISM
11 25 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 24 (0.74%) ACCA
12 24 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 23 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.65%) CIMA
14 21 (0.65%) PhD
14 21 (0.65%) PMI Certification
15 20 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (3.67%) QA
2 80 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 78 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 63 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 63 (1.94%) NIST
5 42 (1.30%) GDPR
6 39 (1.20%) GRC
7 28 (0.86%) PMO
8 26 (0.80%) NCSC
9 16 (0.49%) SLA
10 12 (0.37%) P3O
11 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.25%) IEC 61508
12 8 (0.25%) MISRA
12 8 (0.25%) MISRA C
12 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 145 (4.47%) Docker
2 97 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.86%) 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 3 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.031%) iptables
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 192 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.91%) Terraform
3 35 (1.08%) Ansible
3 35 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.02%) Grafana
5 20 (0.62%) FortiGate
6 19 (0.59%) Argo
7 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.43%) SCCM
9 8 (0.25%) Functional Safety
9 8 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.19%) Avamar
11 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.19%) VxRail
12 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 358 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 137 (4.23%) Oracle
3 116 (3.58%) Adobe
4 68 (2.10%) VMware
5 63 (1.94%) Palo Alto
5 63 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 62 (1.91%) SAP
7 61 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 58 (1.79%) Databricks
9 57 (1.76%) Google
10 56 (1.73%) Cisco
11 41 (1.27%) Apple
12 32 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.86%) Dell
14 26 (0.80%) Tenable
15 19 (0.59%) Computacenter
16 16 (0.49%) Fortinet
16 16 (0.49%) Meraki
16 16 (0.49%) OpenAI
17 15 (0.46%) Nimble Storage