Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,351 3,076 4,211
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.89% 19.06% 15.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.89% 19.86% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,645 1,918 3,507
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,028 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% +3.85% -7.14%

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 14,797 15,491 25,709
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 95.97% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,672 9,295 21,392
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
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 1 February 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 1 February 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.

1 570 (24.25%) Azure
2 524 (22.29%) Agile
3 476 (20.25%) Mentoring
4 395 (16.80%) AWS
5 382 (16.25%) CI/CD
6 377 (16.04%) SQL
7 362 (15.40%) DevOps
8 337 (14.33%) Software Engineering
9 320 (13.61%) Coaching
10 298 (12.68%) Python
11 294 (12.51%) Microsoft
12 281 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
13 278 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 275 (11.70%) AI
15 247 (10.51%) Degree
16 209 (8.89%) Roadmaps
17 204 (8.68%) .NET
18 196 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
19 193 (8.21%) Security Cleared
20 192 (8.17%) SaaS
21 191 (8.12%) Java
22 181 (7.70%) Analytics
23 178 (7.57%) Terraform
24 176 (7.49%) C#
25 175 (7.44%) Kubernetes
26 174 (7.40%) Test Automation
27 161 (6.85%) Microservices
28 160 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
29 157 (6.68%) Asset Management
30 154 (6.55%) Docker

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 59 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.19%) Confluence
4 24 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.89%) WordPress
6 20 (0.85%) Apache
6 20 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.47%) CMS
7 11 (0.47%) JBoss
7 11 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.43%) IIS
9 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.085%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.085%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.043%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.043%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.043%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.43%) InDesign
6 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.30%) Sketch
7 5 (0.21%) Maya
7 5 (0.21%) MotionBuilder
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.13%) InVision
9 3 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.13%) Weka
10 2 (0.085%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.085%) Revit
10 2 (0.085%) Simulink
11 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.70%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.28%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.19%) Oracle Financials
5 22 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.85%) Shopify
7 14 (0.60%) Hyperion Planning
8 11 (0.47%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.38%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
11 6 (0.26%) Visualfiles
12 5 (0.21%) Magento
12 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
13 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 4 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
13 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 570 (24.25%) Azure
2 395 (16.80%) AWS
3 192 (8.17%) SaaS
4 154 (6.55%) GCP
5 146 (6.21%) GitHub
6 137 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
7 113 (4.81%) Power Platform
8 110 (4.68%) Entra ID
9 96 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
10 88 (3.74%) Serverless
11 66 (2.81%) Snowflake
12 63 (2.68%) dbt
13 50 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.91%) PowerApps
15 40 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
17 37 (1.57%) OCI
18 35 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
19 34 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (1.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.19%) Broadband
2 58 (2.47%) Firewall
3 47 (2.00%) VPN
4 40 (1.70%) WAN
5 38 (1.62%) DNS
5 38 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.19%) DHCP
7 26 (1.11%) SD-WAN
8 25 (1.06%) Network Security
9 23 (0.98%) LAN
10 17 (0.72%) BGP
11 15 (0.64%) Ethernet
12 13 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.51%) Wireless
14 11 (0.47%) HTTP
15 10 (0.43%) RS-232
15 10 (0.43%) Unified Communications
16 8 (0.34%) OSPF
17 6 (0.26%) MPLS
17 6 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (3.23%) Power BI
4 59 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
5 58 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 29 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (1.19%) Metadata
8 28 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 27 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 25 (1.06%) MySQL
12 24 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
14 20 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 19 (0.81%) Tableau
16 18 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (0.77%) Redis
16 18 (0.77%) Relational Database
17 16 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 87 (3.70%) JIRA
2 71 (3.02%) Git
3 67 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
5 30 (1.28%) TeamCity
6 27 (1.15%) Selenium
7 22 (0.94%) GitLab
8 16 (0.68%) Postman
9 10 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.43%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.34%) MLflow
11 8 (0.34%) Subversion
12 7 (0.30%) git-flow
12 7 (0.30%) JUnit
12 7 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.26%) JMeter
14 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 551 (23.44%) Finance
2 520 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 210 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 163 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (4.93%) Retail
7 101 (4.30%) Banking
8 95 (4.04%) Marketing
9 89 (3.79%) Law
10 72 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 68 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
12 63 (2.68%) Legal
13 61 (2.59%) Games
14 43 (1.83%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.19%) Front Office
18 27 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.81%) Back Office
19 19 (0.81%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (8.68%) .NET
2 137 (5.83%) React
3 120 (5.10%) REST
4 109 (4.64%) SOAP
5 95 (4.04%) RESTful
6 81 (3.45%) HTML
7 70 (2.98%) GraphQL
8 61 (2.59%) Node.js
9 58 (2.47%) OAuth
10 56 (2.38%) CSS
11 49 (2.08%) Spring
12 41 (1.74%) Kafka
13 40 (1.70%) XML
14 38 (1.62%) .NET Core
14 38 (1.62%) SAML
15 37 (1.57%) Spring Boot
16 36 (1.53%) OpenID
17 34 (1.45%) gRPC
18 30 (1.28%) JSON
18 30 (1.28%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 102 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 87 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.57%) Social Media
7 35 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 35 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 32 (1.36%) Mobile App
9 30 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
9 30 (1.28%) Cyberattack
10 29 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.15%) Driving Licence
12 24 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
12 24 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (0.98%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.85%) Hedge funds
15 19 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
16 18 (0.77%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 110 (4.68%) Linux
2 87 (3.70%) Windows
3 46 (1.96%) Android
4 39 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.19%) Unix
7 23 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.60%) VMS
9 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.085%) CentOS
10 2 (0.085%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.085%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (22.29%) Agile
2 476 (20.25%) Mentoring
3 382 (16.25%) CI/CD
4 362 (15.40%) DevOps
5 337 (14.33%) Software Engineering
6 320 (13.61%) Coaching
7 281 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
8 278 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 275 (11.70%) AI
10 209 (8.89%) Roadmaps
11 196 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
12 181 (7.70%) Analytics
13 174 (7.40%) Test Automation
14 161 (6.85%) Microservices
15 160 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 157 (6.68%) Asset Management
17 143 (6.08%) User Experience
18 136 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
19 132 (5.61%) Full-Stack Development
20 131 (5.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 377 (16.04%) SQL
2 298 (12.68%) Python
3 191 (8.12%) Java
4 176 (7.49%) C#
5 142 (6.04%) JavaScript
6 137 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 90 (3.83%) PowerShell
8 68 (2.89%) Bash
9 55 (2.34%) Go
10 52 (2.21%) C++
11 48 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 39 (1.66%) PHP
13 35 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.40%) Scala
15 31 (1.32%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.15%) C
17 26 (1.11%) Bicep
18 24 (1.02%) Shell Script
19 17 (0.72%) VBA
20 16 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 247 (10.51%) Degree
2 193 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 138 (5.87%) SC Cleared
4 79 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.79%) ACCA
5 42 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 37 (1.57%) CISSP
6 37 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 33 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 23 (0.98%) CISM
10 23 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 20 (0.85%) CIMA
12 18 (0.77%) CCNP
13 16 (0.68%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.64%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.60%) AAT
16 13 (0.55%) CISA
17 12 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.25%) QA
2 59 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 55 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.30%) GDPR
4 54 (2.30%) NIST
5 47 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 35 (1.49%) NCSC
7 21 (0.89%) IFRS
8 18 (0.77%) PMO
9 14 (0.60%) GRC
9 14 (0.60%) P3O
10 11 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.47%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.47%) MISRA
10 11 (0.47%) MISRA C
11 9 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 9 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 154 (6.55%) Docker
2 112 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.30%) vSphere
8 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.21%) Firmware
10 2 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.085%) vCloud
10 2 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) Ceph
11 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 178 (7.57%) Terraform
2 175 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 57 (2.42%) Grafana
4 49 (2.08%) Ansible
5 47 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 42 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.47%) Functional Safety
9 8 (0.34%) SCCM
10 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.21%) Argo
12 4 (0.17%) Puppet
13 3 (0.13%) Control-M
13 3 (0.13%) cPanel
13 3 (0.13%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.13%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.085%) Nagios
14 2 (0.085%) Nessus
Vendors
1 294 (12.51%) Microsoft
2 129 (5.49%) Oracle
3 78 (3.32%) Databricks
4 46 (1.96%) Cisco
4 46 (1.96%) VMware
5 45 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 41 (1.74%) Google
6 41 (1.74%) SAP
7 36 (1.53%) Adobe
8 30 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.23%) Okta
10 22 (0.94%) Workday
11 14 (0.60%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.60%) Hyperion
11 14 (0.60%) Screaming Frog
12 13 (0.55%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.47%) Talend
14 9 (0.38%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.38%) Meraki
14 9 (0.38%) Zoho