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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,023 2,502 5,673
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.40% 17.12% 17.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.50% 18.55% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,132 1,626 4,346
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 17,275 13,485 31,193
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 92.26% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,676 9,055 24,903
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,152
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%

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 11 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 11 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.

1 609 (20.15%) Mentoring
2 585 (19.35%) Azure
3 565 (18.69%) Agile
4 498 (16.47%) AWS
5 432 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 401 (13.26%) AI
7 391 (12.93%) SQL
8 381 (12.60%) CI/CD
9 363 (12.01%) Coaching
10 357 (11.81%) Microsoft
11 354 (11.71%) DevOps
12 345 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
13 341 (11.28%) Python
14 297 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 271 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
16 266 (8.80%) Roadmaps
16 266 (8.80%) Security Cleared
17 256 (8.47%) Analytics
18 254 (8.40%) Degree
19 227 (7.51%) Java
20 208 (6.88%) SC Cleared
21 205 (6.78%) GCP
22 200 (6.62%) Test Automation
23 197 (6.52%) .NET
24 188 (6.22%) Decision-Making
25 180 (5.95%) Kubernetes
26 176 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
27 172 (5.69%) SaaS
28 171 (5.66%) Terraform
29 169 (5.59%) User Experience

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 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.79%) CMS
3 24 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.73%) Confluence
6 9 (0.30%) Apache
7 7 (0.23%) JBoss
7 7 (0.23%) SAS
7 7 (0.23%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.23%) WordPress
8 5 (0.17%) IIS
9 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.099%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.099%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.066%) Artix
11 2 (0.066%) nginx
11 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.033%) Appian
12 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 41 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
7 6 (0.20%) Sketch
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 3 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.099%) Trello
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.066%) Civil 3D
11 2 (0.066%) Revit
11 2 (0.066%) Weka
12 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
2 24 (0.79%) Cloudability
3 23 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 16 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
5 15 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
5 15 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 14 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
7 13 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.36%) Visualfiles
9 9 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
9 9 (0.30%) Shopify
10 7 (0.23%) Hyperion Planning
11 6 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.17%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 585 (19.35%) Azure
2 498 (16.47%) AWS
3 205 (6.78%) GCP
4 172 (5.69%) SaaS
5 122 (4.04%) Power Platform
6 116 (3.84%) Serverless
7 105 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
8 104 (3.44%) GitHub
9 92 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (3.01%) Entra ID
11 48 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 45 (1.49%) Snowflake
13 42 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (1.22%) Power Automate
17 36 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 36 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
17 36 (1.19%) OneDrive
18 35 (1.16%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 129 (4.27%) Broadband
2 78 (2.58%) Firewall
3 56 (1.85%) VPN
4 53 (1.75%) DNS
5 50 (1.65%) WAN
6 43 (1.42%) DHCP
7 38 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.12%) SD-WAN
9 33 (1.09%) LAN
10 30 (0.99%) Network Security
11 26 (0.86%) Wireless
12 22 (0.73%) BGP
13 20 (0.66%) RS-232
14 19 (0.63%) Ethernet
14 19 (0.63%) HTTP
15 18 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (0.40%) OSPF
17 9 (0.30%) MPLS
17 9 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.08%) Power BI
3 81 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 60 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.72%) Metadata
6 51 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 30 (0.99%) OLTP
10 27 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (0.89%) Tableau
11 26 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 26 (0.86%) MySQL
12 25 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.79%) Relational Database
14 23 (0.76%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 19 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 75 (2.48%) Git
2 69 (2.28%) JIRA
3 48 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.29%) GitLab
5 31 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
7 23 (0.76%) Snyk
8 19 (0.63%) Claude Code
9 14 (0.46%) Selenium
10 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.33%) MLflow
12 9 (0.30%) Postman
13 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.23%) JMeter
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.23%) XCUITest
14 6 (0.20%) SoapUI
14 6 (0.20%) Subversion
14 6 (0.20%) webpack
15 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 575 (19.02%) Finance
2 541 (17.90%) Social Skills
3 369 (12.21%) Public Sector
4 202 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (4.37%) Marketing
7 126 (4.17%) Law
8 119 (3.94%) Banking
9 99 (3.27%) Legal
10 87 (2.88%) Retail
11 85 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.48%) Games
13 56 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 52 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (0.79%) Publishing
18 23 (0.76%) Back Office
19 22 (0.73%) Financial Institution
20 20 (0.66%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (6.52%) .NET
2 140 (4.63%) React
3 118 (3.90%) REST
4 93 (3.08%) Node.js
5 81 (2.68%) SOAP
6 80 (2.65%) HTML
7 79 (2.61%) RESTful
8 55 (1.82%) GraphQL
9 54 (1.79%) CSS
10 50 (1.65%) OAuth
11 42 (1.39%) Spring
12 39 (1.29%) .NET Core
12 39 (1.29%) OpenID
13 37 (1.22%) Kafka
14 35 (1.16%) SAML
15 34 (1.12%) JSON
16 33 (1.09%) Spring Boot
17 32 (1.06%) React Native
18 31 (1.03%) XML
19 29 (0.96%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 184 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 110 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 68 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 58 (1.92%) Social Media
5 57 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 47 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 46 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 46 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 43 (1.42%) Cyberattack
10 42 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (1.26%) Low-Code
11 38 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.19%) Driving Licence
13 35 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 33 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
15 32 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.06%) Over-the-Top Content
16 31 (1.03%) Management Information System
17 29 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.70%) Linux
2 111 (3.67%) Windows
3 65 (2.15%) Android
4 59 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 36 (1.19%) Unix
7 21 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.099%) CentOS
12 3 (0.099%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.033%) AIX
14 1 (0.033%) Solaris
14 1 (0.033%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (20.15%) Mentoring
2 565 (18.69%) Agile
3 432 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 401 (13.26%) AI
5 381 (12.60%) CI/CD
6 363 (12.01%) Coaching
7 354 (11.71%) DevOps
8 345 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
9 297 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 271 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
11 266 (8.80%) Roadmaps
12 256 (8.47%) Analytics
13 200 (6.62%) Test Automation
14 188 (6.22%) Decision-Making
15 176 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 169 (5.59%) User Experience
17 164 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
18 156 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 155 (5.13%) Microservices
20 144 (4.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 391 (12.93%) SQL
2 341 (11.28%) Python
3 227 (7.51%) Java
4 161 (5.33%) C#
5 156 (5.16%) JavaScript
6 143 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 95 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 76 (2.51%) C++
9 75 (2.48%) Go
10 64 (2.12%) Bash
11 56 (1.85%) PHP
12 55 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.52%) Scala
14 38 (1.26%) C
14 38 (1.26%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.76%) VBA
17 22 (0.73%) Bicep
18 18 (0.60%) R
18 18 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 266 (8.80%) Security Cleared
2 254 (8.40%) Degree
3 208 (6.88%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 41 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 40 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.03%) ACCA
11 27 (0.89%) CISSP
12 26 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 25 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (0.79%) CIMA
15 18 (0.60%) DBS Check
16 17 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 16 (0.53%) CIPFA
17 16 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (3.61%) QA
2 77 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 67 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 50 (1.65%) NIST
5 43 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.26%) GDPR
7 34 (1.12%) GRC
8 27 (0.89%) NCSC
9 24 (0.79%) PMO
10 20 (0.66%) SLA
11 13 (0.43%) 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 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.26%) IFRS
15 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 149 (4.93%) Docker
2 104 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.63%) vSphere
6 16 (0.53%) Firmware
7 10 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.30%) vCloud
9 7 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.033%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 180 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 171 (5.66%) Terraform
3 40 (1.32%) Ansible
4 34 (1.12%) Grafana
5 30 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.63%) Argo
9 17 (0.56%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.46%) SCCM
11 11 (0.36%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.17%) Istio
13 5 (0.17%) Plesk
13 5 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.099%) Avamar
15 3 (0.099%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 357 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 149 (4.93%) Oracle
3 109 (3.61%) Adobe
4 69 (2.28%) VMware
5 63 (2.08%) SAP
6 61 (2.02%) Databricks
7 60 (1.98%) Google
8 54 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 48 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 47 (1.55%) Cisco
11 43 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.36%) Apple
13 28 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (0.83%) Dell
15 23 (0.76%) Tenable
16 21 (0.69%) Okta
17 14 (0.46%) Citrix
17 14 (0.46%) Fortinet
18 13 (0.43%) SolarWinds
19 12 (0.40%) NetApp