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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,884 2,349 5,597
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.11% 17.55% 17.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.19% 18.89% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,059 1,695 4,326
10th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,000 £95,000
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 16,775 12,438 31,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 92.93% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12,095 9,104 24,978
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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.

1 597 (20.70%) Mentoring
2 578 (20.04%) Azure
3 554 (19.21%) Agile
4 482 (16.71%) AWS
5 425 (14.74%) Software Engineering
6 392 (13.59%) SQL
7 373 (12.93%) CI/CD
8 366 (12.69%) Coaching
9 358 (12.41%) DevOps
10 356 (12.34%) Microsoft
11 352 (12.21%) AI
12 351 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
13 321 (11.13%) Python
14 289 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 265 (9.19%) Roadmaps
16 255 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
17 254 (8.81%) Security Cleared
18 244 (8.46%) Degree
19 231 (8.01%) Java
20 224 (7.77%) Analytics
21 206 (7.14%) GCP
22 198 (6.87%) .NET
23 194 (6.73%) Test Automation
24 193 (6.69%) SC Cleared
25 188 (6.52%) Kubernetes
26 180 (6.24%) SaaS
26 180 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
27 179 (6.21%) User Experience
28 173 (6.00%) Terraform
29 172 (5.96%) Microservices

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 79 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.83%) CMS
3 24 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.76%) Confluence
5 10 (0.35%) Apache
6 9 (0.31%) JBoss
6 9 (0.31%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.24%) IIS
7 7 (0.24%) WordPress
8 6 (0.21%) SAS
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.069%) nginx
12 2 (0.069%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.035%) Appian
13 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 34 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
5 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.24%) Sketch
7 6 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.14%) InVision
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.10%) InDesign
10 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.069%) Maya
11 2 (0.069%) Revit
11 2 (0.069%) Weka
Business Applications
1 29 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
2 22 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 19 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
5 16 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
6 13 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.42%) Cloudability
8 11 (0.38%) Visualfiles
9 9 (0.31%) Hyperion Planning
9 9 (0.31%) Shopify
10 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 578 (20.04%) Azure
2 482 (16.71%) AWS
3 206 (7.14%) GCP
4 180 (6.24%) SaaS
5 114 (3.95%) GitHub
5 114 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 100 (3.47%) Entra ID
6 100 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
6 100 (3.47%) Serverless
7 99 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (1.73%) Snowflake
9 46 (1.60%) PowerApps
10 43 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 43 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (1.39%) dbt
12 37 (1.28%) Figma
13 36 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
13 36 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (1.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 118 (4.09%) Broadband
2 81 (2.81%) Firewall
3 56 (1.94%) VPN
4 54 (1.87%) DNS
5 52 (1.80%) WAN
6 46 (1.60%) DHCP
7 37 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 32 (1.11%) LAN
10 27 (0.94%) Network Security
11 21 (0.73%) Wireless
12 20 (0.69%) BGP
12 20 (0.69%) Ethernet
12 20 (0.69%) HTTP
12 20 (0.69%) RS-232
13 18 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.35%) OSPF
15 9 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.31%) MPLS
16 8 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 85 (2.95%) Power BI
3 72 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (1.66%) Metadata
6 46 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 43 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.14%) BigQuery
9 31 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 25 (0.87%) OLTP
12 25 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (0.87%) Tableau
13 21 (0.73%) DynamoDB
13 21 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (0.73%) MySQL
14 19 (0.66%) Relational Database
15 18 (0.62%) Looker
15 18 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (2.81%) Git
2 71 (2.46%) JIRA
3 54 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.46%) GitLab
5 34 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 28 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
7 20 (0.69%) Selenium
8 16 (0.55%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.45%) Snyk
10 11 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.35%) MLflow
12 9 (0.31%) Postman
13 8 (0.28%) JUnit
14 7 (0.24%) JMeter
14 7 (0.24%) Subversion
14 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.24%) webpack
14 7 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 584 (20.25%) Finance
2 547 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 345 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 187 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 172 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (4.44%) Marketing
7 125 (4.33%) Law
8 122 (4.23%) Banking
9 99 (3.43%) Legal
10 95 (3.29%) Retail
11 86 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.53%) Games
13 70 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 50 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 47 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.83%) Back Office
19 20 (0.69%) Electronics
19 20 (0.69%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (6.87%) .NET
2 137 (4.75%) React
3 122 (4.23%) REST
4 87 (3.02%) Node.js
5 86 (2.98%) SOAP
6 80 (2.77%) HTML
7 72 (2.50%) RESTful
8 62 (2.15%) GraphQL
8 62 (2.15%) OAuth
9 57 (1.98%) CSS
10 50 (1.73%) Spring
11 48 (1.66%) Kafka
12 43 (1.49%) OpenID
13 40 (1.39%) Spring Boot
14 39 (1.35%) .NET Core
15 38 (1.32%) SAML
16 33 (1.14%) JSON
17 32 (1.11%) LDAP
17 32 (1.11%) React Native
18 29 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 101 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 64 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 60 (2.08%) Social Media
5 58 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 57 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (1.73%) Public Cloud
8 47 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.42%) Cyberattack
10 40 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
12 33 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 31 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
14 31 (1.07%) Management Information System
15 30 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 30 (1.04%) Over-the-Top Content
16 29 (1.01%) Driving Licence
16 29 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.96%) Linux
2 112 (3.88%) Windows
3 73 (2.53%) Android
4 61 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 48 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.21%) Unix
7 21 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (0.31%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.10%) CentOS
11 3 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.069%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.035%) AIX
13 1 (0.035%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (20.70%) Mentoring
2 554 (19.21%) Agile
3 425 (14.74%) Software Engineering
4 373 (12.93%) CI/CD
5 366 (12.69%) Coaching
6 358 (12.41%) DevOps
7 352 (12.21%) AI
8 351 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
9 289 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 265 (9.19%) Roadmaps
11 255 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
12 224 (7.77%) Analytics
13 194 (6.73%) Test Automation
14 180 (6.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 179 (6.21%) User Experience
16 172 (5.96%) Microservices
17 169 (5.86%) Decision-Making
18 152 (5.27%) Full-Stack Development
19 144 (4.99%) Infrastructure as Code
20 137 (4.75%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 392 (13.59%) SQL
2 321 (11.13%) Python
3 231 (8.01%) Java
4 160 (5.55%) C#
5 152 (5.27%) JavaScript
6 141 (4.89%) TypeScript
7 96 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.53%) Go
9 70 (2.43%) C++
10 67 (2.32%) Bash
11 56 (1.94%) PHP
12 48 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.63%) Scala
14 38 (1.32%) T-SQL
15 37 (1.28%) C
16 35 (1.21%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.80%) VBA
18 22 (0.76%) Bicep
19 16 (0.55%) R
19 16 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 254 (8.81%) Security Cleared
2 244 (8.46%) Degree
3 193 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 78 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.18%) ACCA
9 30 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.01%) CISSP
11 25 (0.87%) CIMA
11 25 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 25 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 22 (0.76%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.52%) CIPFA
14 15 (0.52%) CISM
14 15 (0.52%) PhD
15 12 (0.42%) CREST Certified
15 12 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (3.26%) QA
2 73 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 61 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 56 (1.94%) NIST
5 48 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.32%) GDPR
7 31 (1.07%) NCSC
8 24 (0.83%) GRC
9 20 (0.69%) SLA
10 18 (0.62%) PMO
11 13 (0.45%) P3O
12 11 (0.38%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.38%) IFRS
12 11 (0.38%) MISRA
12 11 (0.38%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.28%) WCAG
16 7 (0.24%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 159 (5.51%) Docker
2 115 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.52%) vSphere
7 13 (0.45%) Firmware
8 9 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.21%) vCloud
9 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.035%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 188 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 173 (6.00%) Terraform
3 47 (1.63%) Grafana
4 41 (1.42%) Ansible
5 37 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.52%) Argo
9 14 (0.49%) SCCM
10 12 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.38%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.14%) Istio
14 4 (0.14%) Plesk
15 3 (0.10%) cPanel
15 3 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 356 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 138 (4.79%) Oracle
3 92 (3.19%) Adobe
4 72 (2.50%) VMware
5 65 (2.25%) Databricks
6 64 (2.22%) SAP
7 60 (2.08%) Google
8 48 (1.66%) Cisco
9 47 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 31 (1.07%) Apple
12 30 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 25 (0.87%) Okta
14 22 (0.76%) Dell
15 16 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
16 13 (0.45%) Citrix
16 13 (0.45%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.45%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.45%) Tenable
17 12 (0.42%) Samsung