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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,950 2,147 4,057
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.93% 12.78% 18.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 13.73% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,584 1,406 2,408
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,281 15,632 21,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 93.07% 96.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 8,758 13,156
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -4.22% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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.

1 750 (18.99%) Mentoring
2 748 (18.94%) Agile
3 712 (18.03%) Azure
4 690 (17.47%) Software Engineering
5 646 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 636 (16.10%) AWS
7 601 (15.22%) CI/CD
8 600 (15.19%) AI
9 543 (13.75%) Python
10 515 (13.04%) DevOps
11 502 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 462 (11.70%) Microsoft
13 448 (11.34%) SQL
14 401 (10.15%) Coaching
15 378 (9.57%) Security Cleared
16 377 (9.54%) Degree
17 356 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
18 354 (8.96%) Analytics
19 346 (8.76%) Project Delivery
20 344 (8.71%) Decision-Making
21 315 (7.97%) SC Cleared
22 309 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 288 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
24 283 (7.16%) C#
25 266 (6.73%) Java
26 250 (6.33%) Test Automation
27 248 (6.28%) Infrastructure as Code
28 244 (6.18%) Roadmaps
29 239 (6.05%) SaaS
30 238 (6.03%) Terraform

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 83 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.56%) Confluence
5 20 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.43%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.33%) WordPress
9 10 (0.25%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) IIS
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.076%) Artix
12 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.076%) Moodle
13 2 (0.051%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.025%) nginx
Applications
1 78 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.30%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.23%) InDesign
7 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.15%) Revit
11 3 (0.076%) Blender
11 3 (0.076%) Maya
12 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.051%) SPSS
12 2 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.48%) Cloudability
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 14 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 11 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
10 6 (0.15%) Primavera
11 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
12 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
12 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
13 2 (0.051%) HFM
13 2 (0.051%) SAP CO
13 2 (0.051%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 712 (18.03%) Azure
2 636 (16.10%) AWS
3 239 (6.05%) SaaS
4 236 (5.97%) GCP
5 158 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 155 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 151 (3.82%) Entra ID
8 117 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (2.84%) GitHub
10 106 (2.68%) Serverless
11 55 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 49 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
15 44 (1.11%) Azure AKS
16 43 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (0.96%) IaaS
18 37 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 152 (3.85%) Firewall
2 97 (2.46%) Network Security
3 77 (1.95%) VLAN
4 76 (1.92%) DNS
5 68 (1.72%) VPN
6 59 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 59 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.47%) Wireless
8 55 (1.39%) Broadband
9 50 (1.27%) WAN
10 47 (1.19%) LAN
11 39 (0.99%) DHCP
12 31 (0.78%) BGP
13 24 (0.61%) SMS
14 22 (0.56%) OSPF
15 18 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.41%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.41%) WLAN
17 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
18 12 (0.30%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (2.99%) Power BI
3 101 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 73 (1.85%) Metadata
5 60 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 59 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.19%) MySQL
9 44 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 44 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 40 (1.01%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.68%) Tableau
12 24 (0.61%) Data Lake
13 21 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.51%) OLTP
15 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.43%) Big Data
18 15 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 134 (3.39%) Git
2 62 (1.57%) JIRA
3 45 (1.14%) GitLab
4 27 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.66%) TeamCity
6 19 (0.48%) Snyk
7 16 (0.41%) JUnit
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.25%) Maven
11 9 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.23%) Mockito
11 9 (0.23%) Postman
12 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.13%) Gatling
12 5 (0.13%) Poetry
13 4 (0.10%) MLflow
13 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 977 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 644 (16.30%) Finance
3 470 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 354 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 289 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 260 (6.58%) Legal
7 244 (6.18%) Law
8 156 (3.95%) Banking
9 128 (3.24%) Marketing
10 118 (2.99%) Retail
11 75 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 71 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 63 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.49%) Electronics
16 56 (1.42%) Local Government
17 55 (1.39%) Aerospace
17 55 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
18 51 (1.29%) Games
19 46 (1.16%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (6.03%) Terraform
2 207 (5.24%) .NET
3 155 (3.92%) React
4 111 (2.81%) Node.js
5 105 (2.66%) REST
6 87 (2.20%) HTML
7 85 (2.15%) RESTful
8 82 (2.08%) CSS
9 70 (1.77%) Spring
10 49 (1.24%) Spring Boot
11 44 (1.11%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.01%) PySpark
13 36 (0.91%) Kafka
14 34 (0.86%) Vue
15 33 (0.84%) Laravel
16 31 (0.78%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.78%) Next.js
17 30 (0.76%) OAuth
18 27 (0.68%) XML
19 26 (0.66%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.08%) Cloud Native
2 111 (2.81%) Driving Licence
3 107 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 84 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 66 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 49 (1.24%) Blog
10 49 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 48 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 35 (0.89%) Mobile App
16 32 (0.81%) Algorithms
16 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
17 31 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
18 28 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 166 (4.20%) Linux
2 145 (3.67%) Windows
3 64 (1.62%) Unix
3 64 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.53%) Android
5 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.25%) VMS
8 9 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.076%) Debian
12 2 (0.051%) Rocky
12 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.025%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (18.99%) Mentoring
2 748 (18.94%) Agile
3 690 (17.47%) Software Engineering
4 646 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 601 (15.22%) CI/CD
6 600 (15.19%) AI
7 515 (13.04%) DevOps
8 502 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
9 401 (10.15%) Coaching
10 356 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
11 354 (8.96%) Analytics
12 346 (8.76%) Project Delivery
13 344 (8.71%) Decision-Making
14 309 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 288 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 250 (6.33%) Test Automation
17 248 (6.28%) Infrastructure as Code
18 244 (6.18%) Roadmaps
19 211 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 208 (5.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 543 (13.75%) Python
2 448 (11.34%) SQL
3 283 (7.16%) C#
4 266 (6.73%) Java
5 221 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 196 (4.96%) TypeScript
7 135 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.48%) C++
9 60 (1.52%) Go
10 59 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 50 (1.27%) PHP
13 47 (1.19%) C
14 42 (1.06%) Bash
15 31 (0.78%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.48%) Ruby
18 19 (0.48%) Rust
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 378 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 377 (9.54%) Degree
3 315 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.48%) CISSP
5 93 (2.35%) CISM
6 70 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 58 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.37%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (1.22%) HNC
10 47 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 37 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 35 (0.89%) DBS Check
15 35 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.63%) PhD
17 24 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.80%) QA
2 120 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 114 (2.89%) Data Quality
4 85 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.85%) GDPR
6 59 (1.49%) NIST
7 40 (1.01%) GRC
8 30 (0.76%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 21 (0.53%) NCSC
11 18 (0.46%) SLA
12 15 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.25%) COBIT
16 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.20%) GxP
17 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 194 (4.91%) Docker
2 142 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 54 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.81%) vSphere
6 31 (0.78%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.61%) Firmware
8 11 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.18%) vCloud
11 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.076%) iptables
13 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.025%) GPFS
14 1 (0.025%) Lustre
14 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 222 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 113 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 45 (1.14%) Ansible
4 43 (1.09%) Grafana
5 20 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.46%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.15%) Avamar
10 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.15%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
12 4 (0.10%) FTK
12 4 (0.10%) SCCM
13 3 (0.076%) CASB
13 3 (0.076%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 462 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 123 (3.11%) Oracle
3 97 (2.46%) Google
4 69 (1.75%) VMware
5 68 (1.72%) Adobe
5 68 (1.72%) Cisco
6 61 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 58 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.39%) CyberArk
9 49 (1.24%) Databricks
9 49 (1.24%) Palo Alto
10 43 (1.09%) SAP
11 31 (0.78%) Informatica
11 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 28 (0.71%) Pega
13 27 (0.68%) Apple
13 27 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
14 26 (0.66%) YouTube
15 22 (0.56%) Aruba
16 21 (0.53%) Tenable