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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,098 2,401 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.59% 15.86% 17.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.69% 17.20% 18.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,180 1,532 4,352
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,025 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,375 £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 17,512 13,957 31,238
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.18% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,900 8,883 24,881
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,013
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 May 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 May 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.

1 617 (19.92%) Mentoring
2 598 (19.30%) Agile
3 583 (18.82%) Azure
4 507 (16.37%) AWS
5 453 (14.62%) Software Engineering
6 402 (12.98%) AI
7 392 (12.65%) CI/CD
8 391 (12.62%) Coaching
9 389 (12.56%) SQL
10 357 (11.52%) DevOps
11 352 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
12 349 (11.27%) Microsoft
13 346 (11.17%) Python
14 301 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 283 (9.13%) Degree
16 271 (8.75%) Security Cleared
17 269 (8.68%) Roadmaps
18 268 (8.65%) Analytics
19 263 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
20 242 (7.81%) Java
21 212 (6.84%) SC Cleared
22 205 (6.62%) Test Automation
23 201 (6.49%) GCP
24 196 (6.33%) .NET
25 193 (6.23%) Decision-Making
26 183 (5.91%) Kubernetes
27 177 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
28 175 (5.65%) Terraform
29 174 (5.62%) SaaS
30 172 (5.55%) Project Delivery

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 84 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 30 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (0.81%) CMS
4 23 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.71%) Confluence
6 21 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.26%) SAS
7 8 (0.26%) WordPress
8 7 (0.23%) Apache
8 7 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.16%) IIS
9 5 (0.16%) JBoss
9 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.097%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.065%) Artix
12 2 (0.065%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.032%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.032%) nginx
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 66 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
7 6 (0.19%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.097%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.065%) Civil 3D
11 2 (0.065%) Revit
11 2 (0.065%) Weka
12 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (0.77%) Cloudability
2 23 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
3 21 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
4 16 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 13 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
5 13 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 12 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
6 12 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.36%) Visualfiles
8 10 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
9 9 (0.29%) Shopify
10 6 (0.19%) Hyperion Planning
10 6 (0.19%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.16%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.16%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 583 (18.82%) Azure
2 507 (16.37%) AWS
3 201 (6.49%) GCP
4 174 (5.62%) SaaS
5 124 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 116 (3.74%) Serverless
7 102 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
8 101 (3.26%) GitHub
9 94 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (2.94%) Entra ID
11 47 (1.52%) PowerApps
12 42 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 42 (1.36%) Snowflake
13 39 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (1.16%) Figma
14 36 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 35 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 35 (1.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 129 (4.16%) Broadband
2 81 (2.61%) Firewall
3 57 (1.84%) DNS
4 56 (1.81%) VPN
5 47 (1.52%) WAN
6 40 (1.29%) DHCP
7 37 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 31 (1.00%) Network Security
10 30 (0.97%) LAN
11 28 (0.90%) BGP
11 28 (0.90%) Wireless
12 20 (0.65%) RS-232
13 19 (0.61%) HTTP
14 18 (0.58%) Ethernet
14 18 (0.58%) OSPF
14 18 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (0.32%) VSAN
16 10 (0.32%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 95 (3.07%) Power BI
3 81 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.71%) Metadata
6 47 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (1.13%) NoSQL
8 32 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (1.03%) OLTP
9 31 (1.00%) BigQuery
10 27 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (0.87%) Tableau
11 25 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (0.81%) Relational Database
12 24 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (0.77%) MySQL
13 21 (0.68%) Data Lake
14 19 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (0.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 83 (2.68%) Git
2 68 (2.19%) JIRA
3 47 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.23%) GitLab
5 36 (1.16%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.77%) Snyk
7 22 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
8 21 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.45%) Selenium
10 10 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.32%) MLflow
11 9 (0.29%) Postman
12 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.23%) JMeter
12 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.23%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
13 6 (0.19%) Subversion
13 6 (0.19%) webpack
14 5 (0.16%) REST Assured
General
1 581 (18.75%) Finance
2 577 (18.62%) Social Skills
3 385 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 217 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 185 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 133 (4.29%) Law
7 130 (4.20%) Marketing
8 126 (4.07%) Banking
9 101 (3.26%) Legal
10 92 (2.97%) Retail
11 87 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.39%) Games
13 54 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 52 (1.68%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.87%) Back Office
18 26 (0.84%) Financial Institution
19 24 (0.77%) Publishing
20 23 (0.74%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (6.33%) .NET
2 141 (4.55%) React
3 114 (3.68%) REST
4 91 (2.94%) Node.js
5 80 (2.58%) HTML
5 80 (2.58%) SOAP
6 72 (2.32%) RESTful
7 54 (1.74%) CSS
8 53 (1.71%) GraphQL
9 46 (1.48%) OAuth
10 43 (1.39%) Spring
11 39 (1.26%) OpenID
12 38 (1.23%) .NET Core
13 36 (1.16%) Spring Boot
14 35 (1.13%) SAML
15 34 (1.10%) JSON
16 31 (1.00%) React Native
16 31 (1.00%) XML
17 30 (0.97%) Kafka
18 28 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 182 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 112 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 77 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 59 (1.90%) Social Media
5 57 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
6 51 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 45 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 45 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 44 (1.42%) Cyberattack
10 43 (1.39%) Driving Licence
11 40 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 38 (1.23%) Low-Code
14 35 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
14 35 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
16 32 (1.03%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.03%) Over-the-Top Content
17 31 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 138 (4.45%) Linux
2 105 (3.39%) Windows
3 62 (2.00%) Android
4 59 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 39 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 36 (1.16%) Unix
7 20 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.23%) VMS
10 5 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.097%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.065%) CentOS
14 1 (0.032%) AIX
14 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.032%) Solaris
14 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (19.92%) Mentoring
2 598 (19.30%) Agile
3 453 (14.62%) Software Engineering
4 402 (12.98%) AI
5 392 (12.65%) CI/CD
6 391 (12.62%) Coaching
7 357 (11.52%) DevOps
8 352 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 301 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 269 (8.68%) Roadmaps
11 268 (8.65%) Analytics
12 263 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
13 205 (6.62%) Test Automation
14 193 (6.23%) Decision-Making
15 177 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 172 (5.55%) Project Delivery
17 169 (5.46%) Full-Stack Development
18 165 (5.33%) User Experience
19 163 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
20 154 (4.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 389 (12.56%) SQL
2 346 (11.17%) Python
3 242 (7.81%) Java
4 164 (5.29%) C#
5 163 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 145 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 96 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 81 (2.61%) C++
9 70 (2.26%) Go
10 65 (2.10%) Bash
11 56 (1.81%) PHP
12 55 (1.78%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.48%) Scala
14 39 (1.26%) T-SQL
15 38 (1.23%) C
16 33 (1.07%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.74%) VBA
18 21 (0.68%) Bicep
19 19 (0.61%) R
20 18 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 283 (9.13%) Degree
2 271 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 212 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 64 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 43 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 42 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 40 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 30 (0.97%) ACCA
12 28 (0.90%) CISSP
13 26 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (0.77%) CIMA
14 24 (0.77%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.68%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.52%) CIPFA
16 16 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (3.65%) QA
2 82 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 68 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 51 (1.65%) NIST
5 43 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.19%) GDPR
7 33 (1.07%) GRC
8 26 (0.84%) NCSC
9 25 (0.81%) PMO
10 19 (0.61%) SLA
11 12 (0.39%) P3O
12 11 (0.36%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.36%) MISRA
12 11 (0.36%) MISRA C
12 11 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.23%) IFRS
14 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (4.62%) Docker
2 101 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.68%) vSphere
6 20 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.58%) Firmware
8 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.32%) vCloud
9 9 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.032%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 183 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 175 (5.65%) Terraform
3 40 (1.29%) Ansible
4 38 (1.23%) Grafana
5 30 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.65%) FortiGate
6 20 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 19 (0.61%) Argo
8 18 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.45%) SCCM
10 11 (0.36%) Functional Safety
11 7 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.16%) Istio
12 5 (0.16%) Plesk
12 5 (0.16%) Puppet
12 5 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 349 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 150 (4.84%) Oracle
3 111 (3.58%) Adobe
4 68 (2.19%) VMware
5 64 (2.07%) SAP
6 62 (2.00%) Databricks
7 60 (1.94%) Google
8 55 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 51 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 51 (1.65%) Salesforce
10 46 (1.48%) Cisco
11 41 (1.32%) Apple
12 29 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (0.84%) Dell
14 24 (0.77%) Tenable
15 19 (0.61%) Okta
16 16 (0.52%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.45%) Citrix
17 14 (0.45%) NetApp
18 13 (0.42%) Computacenter