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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,636 2,441 5,118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.62% 18.78% 16.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.65% 19.90% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,890 1,772 4,229
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £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 15,833 12,267 29,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.39% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,948 8,894 24,254
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,763
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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.

1 561 (21.28%) Azure
2 533 (20.22%) Agile
3 531 (20.14%) Mentoring
4 451 (17.11%) AWS
5 388 (14.72%) Software Engineering
6 378 (14.34%) SQL
7 372 (14.11%) CI/CD
8 344 (13.05%) Coaching
9 342 (12.97%) DevOps
10 333 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
11 322 (12.22%) Microsoft
12 313 (11.87%) AI
13 312 (11.84%) Python
14 295 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 257 (9.75%) Degree
16 239 (9.07%) Security Cleared
17 229 (8.69%) Roadmaps
18 221 (8.38%) Analytics
19 217 (8.23%) Java
20 208 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
21 207 (7.85%) .NET
22 204 (7.74%) GCP
22 204 (7.74%) SaaS
23 192 (7.28%) Kubernetes
24 188 (7.13%) Test Automation
25 185 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
26 174 (6.60%) Docker
27 173 (6.56%) Microservices
28 172 (6.53%) SC Cleared
29 170 (6.45%) 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 61 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.87%) Confluence
4 23 (0.87%) WordPress
5 19 (0.72%) CMS
5 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.46%) Apache
7 11 (0.42%) JBoss
7 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.23%) SAS
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.19%) IIS
10 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.076%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.076%) nginx
12 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) InVision
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Weka
10 2 (0.076%) Maya
10 2 (0.076%) MotionBuilder
10 2 (0.076%) Revit
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 26 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
2 25 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 23 (0.87%) Shopify
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.42%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
11 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.19%) Magento
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 561 (21.28%) Azure
2 451 (17.11%) AWS
3 204 (7.74%) GCP
3 204 (7.74%) SaaS
4 113 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 110 (4.17%) GitHub
6 102 (3.87%) Entra ID
7 96 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 85 (3.22%) Serverless
10 56 (2.12%) dbt
11 54 (2.05%) Snowflake
12 44 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.48%) PowerApps
15 36 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
18 32 (1.21%) Amazon S3
19 31 (1.18%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.17%) Broadband
2 66 (2.50%) Firewall
3 46 (1.75%) VPN
4 43 (1.63%) WAN
5 42 (1.59%) DNS
6 39 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.37%) DHCP
8 29 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.95%) LAN
9 25 (0.95%) Network Security
10 18 (0.68%) Ethernet
11 17 (0.64%) Wireless
12 16 (0.61%) RS-232
13 15 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.53%) BGP
15 12 (0.46%) HTTP
15 12 (0.46%) Unified Communications
16 8 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
16 8 (0.30%) OSPF
17 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.22%) Power BI
3 71 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.59%) Metadata
5 42 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.29%) Data Lake
7 33 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 31 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 27 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.99%) Tableau
11 25 (0.95%) MySQL
11 25 (0.95%) Redis
12 23 (0.87%) OLTP
13 20 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.68%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.61%) Looker
15 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (2.85%) Git
2 74 (2.81%) JIRA
3 61 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.44%) TeamCity
5 31 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.02%) GitLab
7 21 (0.80%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.30%) JUnit
11 8 (0.30%) Postman
11 8 (0.30%) Subversion
11 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.30%) webpack
12 7 (0.27%) git-flow
12 7 (0.27%) JMeter
12 7 (0.27%) XCUITest
General
1 554 (21.02%) Finance
2 534 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 288 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 166 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 165 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (4.93%) Marketing
7 125 (4.74%) Law
8 113 (4.29%) Retail
9 104 (3.95%) Banking
10 85 (3.22%) Legal
11 82 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.85%) Telecoms
13 74 (2.81%) Games
14 41 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
18 26 (0.99%) Back Office
19 20 (0.76%) Publishing
20 19 (0.72%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (7.85%) .NET
2 132 (5.01%) React
3 114 (4.32%) REST
4 94 (3.57%) SOAP
5 83 (3.15%) HTML
6 75 (2.85%) RESTful
7 67 (2.54%) Node.js
8 66 (2.50%) GraphQL
9 64 (2.43%) OAuth
10 59 (2.24%) CSS
11 54 (2.05%) Spring
12 51 (1.93%) Kafka
13 44 (1.67%) OpenID
14 42 (1.59%) Spring Boot
15 38 (1.44%) SAML
16 36 (1.37%) .NET Core
17 34 (1.29%) LDAP
18 31 (1.18%) Django
18 31 (1.18%) XML
19 27 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 90 (3.41%) Product Ownership
3 81 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (2.35%) Social Media
6 53 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.56%) Cyberattack
8 40 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 40 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 38 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
11 34 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
13 31 (1.18%) Security Posture
14 29 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 29 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
16 25 (0.95%) Management Information System
17 24 (0.91%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.42%) Linux
2 94 (3.57%) Windows
3 68 (2.58%) Android
4 56 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 45 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.18%) Unix
7 24 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.42%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.076%) CentOS
12 2 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (20.22%) Agile
2 531 (20.14%) Mentoring
3 388 (14.72%) Software Engineering
4 372 (14.11%) CI/CD
5 344 (13.05%) Coaching
6 342 (12.97%) DevOps
7 333 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 313 (11.87%) AI
9 295 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 229 (8.69%) Roadmaps
11 221 (8.38%) Analytics
12 208 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
13 188 (7.13%) Test Automation
14 185 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 173 (6.56%) Microservices
16 158 (5.99%) User Experience
17 149 (5.65%) Full-Stack Development
18 146 (5.54%) Decision-Making
19 140 (5.31%) Infrastructure as Code
20 138 (5.24%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 378 (14.34%) SQL
2 312 (11.84%) Python
3 217 (8.23%) Java
4 164 (6.22%) C#
5 148 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 131 (4.97%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.69%) Go
9 68 (2.58%) Bash
10 65 (2.47%) C++
11 52 (1.97%) PHP
12 48 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.78%) Scala
14 37 (1.40%) T-SQL
15 35 (1.33%) Kotlin
16 31 (1.18%) C
17 22 (0.83%) Bicep
18 20 (0.76%) VBA
19 14 (0.53%) Ruby
19 14 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 257 (9.75%) Degree
2 239 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 172 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.48%) ACCA
8 32 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.21%) CISSP
9 26 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.80%) CIMA
13 18 (0.68%) CISM
14 17 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.57%) PhD
16 14 (0.53%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.53%) CREST Certified
17 12 (0.46%) OSCP
18 11 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (3.60%) QA
2 60 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.16%) NIST
4 45 (1.71%) GDPR
5 32 (1.21%) NCSC
6 19 (0.72%) IFRS
7 17 (0.64%) PMO
8 14 (0.53%) P3O
9 12 (0.46%) GRC
9 12 (0.46%) SLA
10 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.42%) MISRA
10 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
11 9 (0.34%) GAAP
11 9 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 174 (6.60%) Docker
2 110 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.38%) Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.27%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) vCloud
9 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.038%) Ceph
11 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.038%) Lustre
11 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 192 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 170 (6.45%) Terraform
3 53 (2.01%) Grafana
4 43 (1.63%) Ansible
5 40 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.49%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.15%) Argo
13 4 (0.15%) Istio
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.11%) Plesk
15 2 (0.076%) Nagios
Vendors
1 322 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.93%) Oracle
3 75 (2.85%) Databricks
4 65 (2.47%) Google
5 62 (2.35%) VMware
6 61 (2.31%) Adobe
7 51 (1.93%) Cisco
7 51 (1.93%) SAP
8 47 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 24 (0.91%) Okta
9 24 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.72%) Apple
11 17 (0.64%) Dell
12 15 (0.57%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
14 12 (0.46%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.46%) Meraki
14 12 (0.46%) Samsung
15 11 (0.42%) IBM
15 11 (0.42%) Talend