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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,278 2,235 6,060
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.08% 14.29% 17.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.13% 15.51% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,331 1,396 4,503
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,009 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.44% +10.41% -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 19,132 14,414 32,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 92.17% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13,989 8,845 25,676
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,874 £32,996
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
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 25 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 25 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.

1 652 (19.89%) Agile
2 611 (18.64%) Mentoring
3 579 (17.66%) Azure
4 557 (16.99%) AWS
5 492 (15.01%) Software Engineering
6 448 (13.67%) AI
7 414 (12.63%) CI/CD
8 397 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
9 391 (11.93%) Python
10 380 (11.59%) Coaching
11 370 (11.29%) Microsoft
12 365 (11.13%) SQL
13 361 (11.01%) DevOps
14 336 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 308 (9.40%) Degree
16 304 (9.27%) Analytics
17 297 (9.06%) Roadmaps
18 295 (9.00%) Security Cleared
19 241 (7.35%) Decision-Making
20 234 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
21 233 (7.11%) Java
22 231 (7.05%) SC Cleared
23 224 (6.83%) Project Delivery
24 213 (6.50%) Test Automation
25 202 (6.16%) GCP
26 200 (6.10%) Kubernetes
27 198 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
28 183 (5.58%) Infrastructure as Code
29 178 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
29 178 (5.43%) JavaScript

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 92 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (0.70%) CMS
5 18 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.46%) Confluence
7 11 (0.34%) SAS
8 10 (0.31%) IIS
9 9 (0.27%) WordPress
10 8 (0.24%) Apache
10 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.092%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.092%) Artix
11 3 (0.092%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.092%) JBoss
11 3 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.092%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.061%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.061%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 83 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.31%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.092%) Blender
11 3 (0.092%) InVision
11 3 (0.092%) Maya
11 3 (0.092%) Sketch
12 2 (0.061%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.73%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
4 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.27%) Visualfiles
6 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
9 4 (0.12%) Shopify
10 3 (0.092%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.092%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.092%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.092%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.092%) SAP FSCM
11 2 (0.061%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 579 (17.66%) Azure
2 557 (16.99%) AWS
3 202 (6.16%) GCP
4 178 (5.43%) SaaS
5 142 (4.33%) Power Platform
6 135 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
7 126 (3.84%) Serverless
8 93 (2.84%) Entra ID
9 83 (2.53%) GitHub
10 81 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (1.62%) PowerApps
12 48 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (1.22%) Power Automate
16 39 (1.19%) Figma
17 37 (1.13%) Amazon S3
18 35 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
19 34 (1.04%) Azure AKS
19 34 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 146 (4.45%) Broadband
2 105 (3.20%) Firewall
3 69 (2.10%) DNS
4 65 (1.98%) VPN
5 47 (1.43%) WAN
6 45 (1.37%) DHCP
7 38 (1.16%) Wireless
8 37 (1.13%) Network Security
9 36 (1.10%) LAN
10 34 (1.04%) TCP/IP
11 30 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.82%) BGP
12 27 (0.82%) SD-WAN
13 24 (0.73%) RS-232
14 21 (0.64%) VLAN
15 19 (0.58%) OSPF
16 15 (0.46%) Ethernet
17 13 (0.40%) Bluetooth
17 13 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
17 13 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.08%) Power BI
2 90 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (2.68%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.62%) Metadata
6 34 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (1.01%) OLTP
8 31 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 31 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 31 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 29 (0.88%) MySQL
10 27 (0.82%) DynamoDB
10 27 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (0.82%) Tableau
11 22 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.52%) Delta Lake
13 17 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 87 (2.65%) Git
2 57 (1.74%) JIRA
3 48 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.19%) GitLab
4 39 (1.19%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.76%) Snyk
6 24 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 16 (0.49%) Selenium
8 11 (0.34%) Postman
9 8 (0.24%) MLflow
9 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
10 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.21%) JMeter
10 7 (0.21%) JUnit
10 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.18%) NUnit
12 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 666 (20.32%) Social Skills
2 546 (16.66%) Finance
3 413 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 239 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 214 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 135 (4.12%) Law
7 126 (3.84%) Banking
8 119 (3.63%) Marketing
9 100 (3.05%) Legal
10 82 (2.50%) Retail
11 80 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (2.35%) Games
13 60 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 52 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.95%) Local Government
17 28 (0.85%) Electronics
17 28 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
18 27 (0.82%) Financial Institution
19 23 (0.70%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (5.40%) .NET
2 144 (4.39%) React
3 98 (2.99%) Node.js
4 90 (2.75%) REST
5 76 (2.32%) HTML
6 69 (2.10%) RESTful
7 56 (1.71%) CSS
8 54 (1.65%) SOAP
9 53 (1.62%) Spring
10 39 (1.19%) Spring Boot
11 37 (1.13%) Vue
12 36 (1.10%) GraphQL
13 34 (1.04%) OAuth
14 32 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
14 32 (0.98%) OpenID
15 30 (0.92%) SAML
16 29 (0.88%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.85%) JSON
17 28 (0.85%) Kafka
18 27 (0.82%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 208 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 109 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.23%) Data Centre
4 71 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (1.74%) Social Media
7 55 (1.68%) Driving Licence
8 46 (1.40%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 43 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 41 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (1.22%) AI Agents
14 39 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
15 38 (1.16%) Onboarding
15 38 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 38 (1.16%) Security Posture
16 37 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
17 36 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.97%) Linux
2 124 (3.78%) Windows
3 53 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.40%) Android
5 45 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 39 (1.19%) Unix
7 21 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
8 15 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.31%) VMS
10 9 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.092%) Debian
12 3 (0.092%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.031%) AIX
13 1 (0.031%) CentOS
13 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (19.89%) Agile
2 611 (18.64%) Mentoring
3 492 (15.01%) Software Engineering
4 448 (13.67%) AI
5 414 (12.63%) CI/CD
6 397 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
7 380 (11.59%) Coaching
8 361 (11.01%) DevOps
9 336 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (9.27%) Analytics
11 297 (9.06%) Roadmaps
12 241 (7.35%) Decision-Making
13 234 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
14 224 (6.83%) Project Delivery
15 213 (6.50%) Test Automation
16 198 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 183 (5.58%) Infrastructure as Code
18 178 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
18 178 (5.43%) Project Management
19 157 (4.79%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 391 (11.93%) Python
2 365 (11.13%) SQL
3 233 (7.11%) Java
4 178 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 164 (5.00%) C#
6 152 (4.64%) TypeScript
7 99 (3.02%) PowerShell
8 86 (2.62%) C++
9 68 (2.07%) Bash
10 67 (2.04%) Go
11 57 (1.74%) PHP
12 53 (1.62%) PL/SQL
13 43 (1.31%) C
13 43 (1.31%) Scala
14 33 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 26 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 25 (0.76%) VBA
17 24 (0.73%) Bicep
18 20 (0.61%) R
19 18 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 308 (9.40%) Degree
2 295 (9.00%) Security Cleared
3 231 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 49 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.19%) CISSP
10 38 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 27 (0.82%) CISM
13 27 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 25 (0.76%) ACCA
14 25 (0.76%) PhD
15 24 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.64%) CIMA
17 20 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
17 20 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (3.63%) QA
2 82 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 68 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 66 (2.01%) NIST
6 46 (1.40%) GDPR
7 41 (1.25%) GRC
8 28 (0.85%) PMO
9 27 (0.82%) NCSC
10 16 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.37%) P3O
12 8 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.21%) IEC 61508
13 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.21%) MISRA
13 7 (0.21%) MISRA C
13 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (4.58%) Docker
2 104 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.98%) vSphere
6 20 (0.61%) Firmware
7 18 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.34%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.27%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.092%) iptables
13 2 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.031%) GPFS
14 1 (0.031%) Lustre
14 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 200 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 162 (4.94%) Terraform
3 40 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.13%) Ansible
5 33 (1.01%) Grafana
6 21 (0.64%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.58%) Argo
8 15 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 7 (0.21%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.21%) Puppet
10 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.18%) Avamar
11 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.18%) VxRail
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 370 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 134 (4.09%) Oracle
3 116 (3.54%) Adobe
4 72 (2.20%) VMware
5 65 (1.98%) Palo Alto
6 63 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 62 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 60 (1.83%) SAP
9 59 (1.80%) Google
10 55 (1.68%) Cisco
10 55 (1.68%) Databricks
11 41 (1.25%) Apple
12 32 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.85%) Dell
14 26 (0.79%) Tenable
15 20 (0.61%) Computacenter
16 18 (0.55%) Pega
17 17 (0.52%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.52%) Meraki
17 17 (0.52%) OpenAI