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 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 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 3,168 2,217 5,947
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.52% 14.93% 17.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.55% 16.23% 18.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,235 1,365 4,484
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,888 £97,500
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 18,056 13,657 32,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 91.98% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13,245 8,414 25,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,433 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 3 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 3 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.

1 626 (19.76%) Agile
2 602 (19.00%) Mentoring
3 568 (17.93%) Azure
4 523 (16.51%) AWS
5 465 (14.68%) Software Engineering
6 423 (13.35%) AI
7 392 (12.37%) Coaching
8 386 (12.18%) SQL
9 383 (12.09%) CI/CD
10 374 (11.81%) Python
11 372 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
12 351 (11.08%) Microsoft
13 342 (10.80%) DevOps
14 312 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 301 (9.50%) Analytics
16 299 (9.44%) Degree
17 290 (9.15%) Roadmaps
18 282 (8.90%) Security Cleared
19 241 (7.61%) Java
20 240 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
21 221 (6.98%) SC Cleared
22 213 (6.72%) Decision-Making
23 209 (6.60%) Test Automation
24 197 (6.22%) GCP
24 197 (6.22%) Project Delivery
25 183 (5.78%) .NET
25 183 (5.78%) Kubernetes
26 181 (5.71%) Project Management
27 180 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
28 176 (5.56%) SaaS

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 86 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (0.76%) CMS
5 21 (0.66%) Confluence
6 20 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.28%) SAS
7 9 (0.28%) WordPress
8 8 (0.25%) Apache
8 8 (0.25%) IIS
8 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.13%) JBoss
9 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.095%) Artix
11 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.063%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.032%) Appian
12 1 (0.032%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 88 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.095%) Blender
10 3 (0.095%) Maya
10 3 (0.095%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.063%) InDesign
11 2 (0.063%) Revit
11 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.76%) Cloudability
2 17 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 17 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
3 16 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 14 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.32%) Visualfiles
6 9 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.22%) Shopify
8 6 (0.19%) NEC Housing
8 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 568 (17.93%) Azure
2 523 (16.51%) AWS
3 197 (6.22%) GCP
4 176 (5.56%) SaaS
5 132 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 119 (3.76%) Serverless
7 118 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
8 92 (2.90%) Entra ID
9 86 (2.71%) GitHub
10 80 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.48%) PowerApps
12 42 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 37 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 37 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 36 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (1.14%) Figma
16 35 (1.10%) Snowflake
17 34 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 135 (4.26%) Broadband
2 80 (2.53%) Firewall
3 57 (1.80%) DNS
4 53 (1.67%) VPN
5 43 (1.36%) WAN
6 38 (1.20%) DHCP
7 34 (1.07%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.04%) Wireless
9 32 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.95%) Network Security
11 29 (0.92%) LAN
12 27 (0.85%) BGP
13 22 (0.69%) RS-232
14 19 (0.60%) OSPF
14 19 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 18 (0.57%) Ethernet
16 15 (0.47%) HTTP
17 13 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
18 11 (0.35%) Bluetooth
18 11 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (3.13%) Power BI
2 97 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 80 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.93%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.61%) Metadata
6 39 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 32 (1.01%) OLTP
8 31 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 28 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 28 (0.88%) Tableau
10 27 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 25 (0.79%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (0.79%) MySQL
12 23 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.57%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.57%) Delta Lake
13 18 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 78 (2.46%) Git
2 65 (2.05%) JIRA
3 46 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.14%) GitLab
4 36 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.79%) Snyk
6 24 (0.76%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.54%) Selenium
8 13 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (0.35%) Postman
10 10 (0.32%) MLflow
11 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.22%) JMeter
12 7 (0.22%) JUnit
12 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.22%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
14 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 634 (20.01%) Social Skills
2 566 (17.87%) Finance
3 403 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 223 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (4.10%) Law
6 130 (4.10%) Marketing
7 126 (3.98%) Banking
8 98 (3.09%) Legal
9 87 (2.75%) Retail
10 82 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
11 69 (2.18%) Games
12 55 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 45 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (0.88%) Local Government
17 27 (0.85%) Financial Institution
18 26 (0.82%) Back Office
19 25 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (5.78%) .NET
2 140 (4.42%) React
3 102 (3.22%) REST
4 96 (3.03%) Node.js
5 76 (2.40%) HTML
6 70 (2.21%) SOAP
7 62 (1.96%) RESTful
8 52 (1.64%) CSS
9 49 (1.55%) Spring
10 44 (1.39%) GraphQL
11 43 (1.36%) OAuth
12 37 (1.17%) OpenID
12 37 (1.17%) Spring Boot
13 34 (1.07%) SAML
14 32 (1.01%) JSON
15 30 (0.95%) .NET Core
15 30 (0.95%) Kafka
15 30 (0.95%) Vue
16 28 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
17 27 (0.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 186 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 111 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 75 (2.37%) Data Centre
4 61 (1.93%) Social Media
5 58 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (1.39%) Cyberattack
7 44 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (1.36%) Driving Licence
9 41 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 40 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 39 (1.23%) Low-Code
11 39 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 37 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 36 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
15 33 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
16 32 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
17 31 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.51%) Linux
2 102 (3.22%) Windows
3 56 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.64%) Android
5 37 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.07%) Unix
7 18 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 17 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.095%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.095%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) CentOS
12 1 (0.032%) Debian
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (19.76%) Agile
2 602 (19.00%) Mentoring
3 465 (14.68%) Software Engineering
4 423 (13.35%) AI
5 392 (12.37%) Coaching
6 383 (12.09%) CI/CD
7 372 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
8 342 (10.80%) DevOps
9 312 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 301 (9.50%) Analytics
11 290 (9.15%) Roadmaps
12 240 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
13 213 (6.72%) Decision-Making
14 209 (6.60%) Test Automation
15 197 (6.22%) Project Delivery
16 181 (5.71%) Project Management
17 180 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 168 (5.30%) Full-Stack Development
19 164 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
20 154 (4.86%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 386 (12.18%) SQL
2 374 (11.81%) Python
3 241 (7.61%) Java
4 172 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 158 (4.99%) C#
6 151 (4.77%) TypeScript
7 95 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 87 (2.75%) C++
9 68 (2.15%) Go
10 67 (2.11%) Bash
11 57 (1.80%) PHP
12 54 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 48 (1.52%) Scala
14 42 (1.33%) C
15 39 (1.23%) T-SQL
16 27 (0.85%) Kotlin
17 23 (0.73%) VBA
18 20 (0.63%) R
19 19 (0.60%) Bicep
19 19 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 299 (9.44%) Degree
2 282 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 221 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 52 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 48 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 31 (0.98%) CISSP
12 25 (0.79%) ACCA
13 24 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 24 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 24 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.66%) CIMA
16 19 (0.60%) PhD
17 18 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (3.63%) QA
2 79 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 76 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 55 (1.74%) NIST
5 51 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.29%) GDPR
7 38 (1.20%) GRC
8 28 (0.88%) PMO
9 26 (0.82%) NCSC
10 16 (0.51%) SLA
11 12 (0.38%) P3O
12 11 (0.35%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.35%) MISRA
12 11 (0.35%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.25%) WCAG
15 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 138 (4.36%) Docker
2 99 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.79%) vSphere
6 19 (0.60%) Firmware
6 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.28%) vCloud
9 8 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.032%) iptables
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.032%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 183 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 163 (5.15%) Terraform
3 35 (1.10%) Ansible
3 35 (1.10%) Grafana
4 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.63%) Argo
5 20 (0.63%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.44%) SCCM
7 14 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.35%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.19%) Avamar
10 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.19%) VxRail
11 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.16%) Istio
11 5 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 351 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 143 (4.51%) Oracle
3 113 (3.57%) Adobe
4 68 (2.15%) VMware
5 65 (2.05%) SAP
6 64 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 59 (1.86%) Databricks
7 59 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.80%) Google
9 55 (1.74%) Palo Alto
10 49 (1.55%) Cisco
11 41 (1.29%) Apple
12 32 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.88%) Dell
14 26 (0.82%) Tenable
15 19 (0.60%) Computacenter
16 17 (0.54%) Fortinet
17 16 (0.51%) Okta
18 15 (0.47%) NetApp
18 15 (0.47%) Nimble Storage