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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,556 2,312 4,678
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.65% 13.92% 18.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.64% 15.10% 19.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 1,521 3,238
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,275
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.68% -9.61%

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 21,376 15,314 23,957
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.18% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,297 9,319 17,469
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,050
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 13 August 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 13 August 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.

1 742 (20.87%) Agile
2 686 (19.29%) Mentoring
3 684 (19.24%) Azure
4 637 (17.91%) AWS
5 621 (17.46%) Software Engineering
6 562 (15.80%) AI
7 558 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 551 (15.49%) CI/CD
9 519 (14.60%) Python
10 477 (13.41%) DevOps
11 456 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
12 451 (12.68%) Microsoft
13 376 (10.57%) SQL
14 350 (9.84%) Coaching
15 345 (9.70%) Degree
16 338 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
17 337 (9.48%) Project Delivery
18 326 (9.17%) Security Cleared
19 316 (8.89%) Analytics
20 314 (8.83%) Decision-Making
21 279 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 277 (7.79%) C#
23 273 (7.68%) SC Cleared
24 263 (7.40%) Roadmaps
25 260 (7.31%) Test Automation
26 253 (7.11%) JavaScript
27 243 (6.83%) GCP
28 234 (6.58%) QA
29 227 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
30 220 (6.19%) .NET

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
1 101 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.70%) CMS
4 22 (0.62%) Confluence
5 18 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) WordPress
8 12 (0.34%) IIS
9 11 (0.31%) SAS
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.22%) Apache
11 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.084%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.084%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.084%) Artix
12 3 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.084%) Moodle
13 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 79 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.25%) Civil 3D
6 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.22%) InDesign
7 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.084%) Blender
11 3 (0.084%) Maya
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.67%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.25%) Shopify
7 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.084%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.084%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.084%) Primavera
10 3 (0.084%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.084%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.084%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.084%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 684 (19.24%) Azure
2 637 (17.91%) AWS
3 243 (6.83%) GCP
4 219 (6.16%) SaaS
5 159 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 134 (3.77%) Entra ID
8 123 (3.46%) Serverless
9 99 (2.78%) GitHub
10 96 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (1.38%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 44 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 37 (1.04%) Azure AKS
18 36 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 163 (4.58%) Firewall
2 97 (2.73%) Broadband
3 92 (2.59%) Network Security
4 77 (2.17%) DNS
5 73 (2.05%) VLAN
6 60 (1.69%) VPN
6 60 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (1.46%) TCP/IP
7 52 (1.46%) WAN
8 48 (1.35%) Wireless
9 47 (1.32%) LAN
10 45 (1.27%) DHCP
11 28 (0.79%) BGP
12 21 (0.59%) RS-232
13 20 (0.56%) OSPF
14 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.45%) HTTP
16 16 (0.45%) WLAN
17 14 (0.39%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (3.18%) Power BI
3 97 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 54 (1.52%) Metadata
6 50 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.35%) MySQL
8 36 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 31 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (0.87%) DynamoDB
11 29 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (0.76%) Tableau
13 23 (0.65%) OLTP
14 20 (0.56%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.48%) Data Lake
15 17 (0.48%) Redis
16 15 (0.42%) Big Data
16 15 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 119 (3.35%) Git
2 60 (1.69%) JIRA
3 42 (1.18%) GitLab
4 35 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 20 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.53%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.22%) Gatling
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
13 7 (0.20%) XCUITest
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 880 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 590 (16.59%) Finance
3 380 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 318 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 276 (7.76%) Legal
6 253 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
7 228 (6.41%) Law
8 138 (3.88%) Marketing
9 124 (3.49%) Banking
10 86 (2.42%) Retail
11 73 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 65 (1.83%) Games
14 56 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 53 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (1.38%) Electronics
16 49 (1.38%) Local Government
17 46 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
18 45 (1.27%) Legal Technology
19 32 (0.90%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (6.19%) .NET
2 171 (4.81%) React
3 116 (3.26%) Node.js
4 91 (2.56%) HTML
5 89 (2.50%) REST
6 81 (2.28%) CSS
7 75 (2.11%) RESTful
8 56 (1.57%) Spring
9 39 (1.10%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.07%) Vue
11 37 (1.04%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
13 34 (0.96%) Kafka
14 33 (0.93%) Laravel
15 31 (0.87%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
17 28 (0.79%) Next.js
17 28 (0.79%) Playwright
17 28 (0.79%) SPFx
18 27 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 101 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (2.25%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 57 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (1.35%) Social Media
10 43 (1.21%) Mobile App
11 42 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 41 (1.15%) Blog
12 41 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 38 (1.07%) Algorithms
14 38 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
15 36 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.01%) Security Posture
16 32 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 178 (5.01%) Linux
2 130 (3.66%) Windows
3 61 (1.72%) Unix
4 55 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.07%) Android
5 38 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.084%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (20.87%) Agile
2 686 (19.29%) Mentoring
3 621 (17.46%) Software Engineering
4 562 (15.80%) AI
5 558 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 551 (15.49%) CI/CD
7 477 (13.41%) DevOps
8 456 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
9 350 (9.84%) Coaching
10 338 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
11 337 (9.48%) Project Delivery
12 316 (8.89%) Analytics
13 314 (8.83%) Decision-Making
14 279 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 263 (7.40%) Roadmaps
16 260 (7.31%) Test Automation
17 227 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
18 220 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
19 190 (5.34%) Microservices
20 188 (5.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 519 (14.60%) Python
2 376 (10.57%) SQL
3 277 (7.79%) C#
4 253 (7.11%) JavaScript
5 211 (5.93%) Java
6 206 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 131 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 100 (2.81%) C++
9 60 (1.69%) Go
9 60 (1.69%) PHP
10 49 (1.38%) C
11 44 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 38 (1.07%) Bash
13 29 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 26 (0.73%) Embedded C
15 24 (0.67%) Bicep
16 23 (0.65%) R
17 21 (0.59%) Swift
18 20 (0.56%) Ruby
19 19 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 345 (9.70%) Degree
2 326 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 273 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.84%) CISSP
5 91 (2.56%) CISM
6 66 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 56 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.52%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 48 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 45 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.79%) PhD
14 26 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.65%) HNC
17 22 (0.62%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (6.58%) QA
2 110 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 70 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 63 (1.77%) NIST
6 59 (1.66%) GDPR
7 47 (1.32%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 23 (0.65%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 16 (0.45%) NCSC
12 15 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.22%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.17%) GxP
16 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 171 (4.81%) Docker
2 137 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.90%) vSphere
6 29 (0.82%) Firmware
7 18 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.084%) iptables
14 2 (0.056%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.028%) GPFS
15 1 (0.028%) Lustre
15 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 203 (5.71%) Terraform
2 197 (5.54%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.96%) Ansible
5 26 (0.73%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.48%) Argo
8 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) SCCM
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 451 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.52%) Oracle
3 109 (3.07%) Adobe
4 90 (2.53%) Google
5 71 (2.00%) Cisco
6 69 (1.94%) VMware
7 68 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 65 (1.83%) SAP
9 60 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 58 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 46 (1.29%) Databricks
13 35 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
14 34 (0.96%) Apple
15 28 (0.79%) Dell
15 28 (0.79%) Pega
16 27 (0.76%) Tenable
17 25 (0.70%) Informatica
18 21 (0.59%) Veeam
19 20 (0.56%) Aruba