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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,956 2,154 4,179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.90% 12.78% 18.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.95% 13.75% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 1,414 2,426
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,750 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% -1.13% -2.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,341 15,671 21,499
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 92.99% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16,153 8,810 13,365
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,848 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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.

1 753 (19.03%) Mentoring
2 752 (19.01%) Agile
3 716 (18.10%) Azure
4 685 (17.32%) Software Engineering
5 644 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 638 (16.13%) AWS
7 607 (15.34%) AI
8 602 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 544 (13.75%) Python
10 517 (13.07%) DevOps
11 504 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
12 470 (11.88%) Microsoft
13 452 (11.43%) SQL
14 397 (10.04%) Coaching
15 380 (9.61%) Degree
16 370 (9.35%) Security Cleared
17 358 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (9.00%) Analytics
19 349 (8.82%) Project Delivery
20 348 (8.80%) Decision-Making
21 312 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 308 (7.79%) SC Cleared
23 287 (7.25%) C#
24 285 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
25 252 (6.37%) Java
26 247 (6.24%) Test Automation
27 244 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
28 243 (6.14%) Roadmaps
29 236 (5.97%) GCP
30 232 (5.86%) 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 87 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.56%) Confluence
5 21 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.46%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
7 14 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.33%) WordPress
9 10 (0.25%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) IIS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.076%) Artix
12 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.076%) Moodle
13 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.025%) Appian
Applications
1 78 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.40%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.30%) Civil 3D
7 10 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.23%) InDesign
8 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.15%) Revit
12 3 (0.076%) Blender
12 3 (0.076%) DaVinci Resolve
12 3 (0.076%) Maya
12 3 (0.076%) Trello
13 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 22 (0.56%) Cloudability
2 21 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
8 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.23%) Shopify
10 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
11 6 (0.15%) Primavera
12 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
13 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
13 3 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
13 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
14 2 (0.051%) HFM
14 2 (0.051%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 716 (18.10%) Azure
2 638 (16.13%) AWS
3 236 (5.97%) GCP
4 232 (5.86%) SaaS
5 161 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 160 (4.04%) Power Platform
7 146 (3.69%) Entra ID
8 117 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (2.88%) GitHub
10 109 (2.76%) Serverless
11 54 (1.37%) Amazon S3
11 54 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
12 46 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (1.11%) Azure AKS
14 40 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 40 (1.01%) PowerApps
15 38 (0.96%) IaaS
15 38 (0.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 154 (3.89%) Firewall
2 95 (2.40%) Network Security
3 77 (1.95%) DNS
3 77 (1.95%) VLAN
4 66 (1.67%) VPN
5 58 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
5 58 (1.47%) Wireless
6 57 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 55 (1.39%) Broadband
8 51 (1.29%) WAN
9 45 (1.14%) LAN
10 42 (1.06%) DHCP
11 30 (0.76%) BGP
12 23 (0.58%) SMS
13 22 (0.56%) OSPF
14 18 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
15 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.40%) WLAN
16 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
16 14 (0.35%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (3.08%) Power BI
3 105 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 72 (1.82%) Metadata
5 61 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 59 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.24%) MySQL
9 45 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (1.14%) NoSQL
10 42 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.68%) Tableau
12 25 (0.63%) Data Lake
13 22 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.51%) OLTP
15 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.46%) Big Data
16 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.38%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 136 (3.44%) Git
2 63 (1.59%) JIRA
3 43 (1.09%) GitLab
4 26 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 23 (0.58%) Snyk
5 23 (0.58%) TeamCity
6 15 (0.38%) JUnit
7 13 (0.33%) Selenium
8 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.25%) Maven
9 10 (0.25%) Postman
10 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.20%) Mockito
12 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.13%) Gatling
12 5 (0.13%) Poetry
13 4 (0.10%) MLflow
13 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 978 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 645 (16.30%) Finance
3 467 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 358 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 293 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (6.65%) Legal
7 241 (6.09%) Law
8 150 (3.79%) Banking
9 130 (3.29%) Marketing
10 116 (2.93%) Retail
11 75 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 70 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 65 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
16 58 (1.47%) Electronics
17 56 (1.42%) Local Government
18 53 (1.34%) Aerospace
19 50 (1.26%) Games
20 46 (1.16%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (5.84%) Terraform
2 211 (5.33%) .NET
3 161 (4.07%) React
4 113 (2.86%) Node.js
5 103 (2.60%) REST
6 90 (2.28%) HTML
7 85 (2.15%) CSS
7 85 (2.15%) RESTful
8 68 (1.72%) Spring
9 47 (1.19%) Spring Boot
10 43 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 40 (1.01%) PySpark
12 36 (0.91%) Kafka
13 34 (0.86%) Vue
14 33 (0.83%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.83%) Laravel
15 31 (0.78%) Next.js
16 29 (0.73%) OAuth
17 26 (0.66%) Web Services
17 26 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 111 (2.81%) Driving Licence
3 105 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 65 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 54 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 49 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.19%) Blog
13 41 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 37 (0.94%) Mobile App
15 36 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
18 29 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
19 28 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 169 (4.27%) Linux
2 147 (3.72%) Windows
3 65 (1.64%) Unix
4 62 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.56%) Android
7 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 10 (0.25%) VMS
10 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.076%) Debian
12 2 (0.051%) Rocky
12 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.025%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (19.03%) Mentoring
2 752 (19.01%) Agile
3 685 (17.32%) Software Engineering
4 644 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 607 (15.34%) AI
6 602 (15.22%) CI/CD
7 517 (13.07%) DevOps
8 504 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (10.04%) Coaching
10 358 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
11 356 (9.00%) Analytics
12 349 (8.82%) Project Delivery
13 348 (8.80%) Decision-Making
14 312 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 285 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 247 (6.24%) Test Automation
17 244 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 243 (6.14%) Roadmaps
19 210 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
20 204 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 544 (13.75%) Python
2 452 (11.43%) SQL
3 287 (7.25%) C#
4 252 (6.37%) Java
5 225 (5.69%) JavaScript
6 199 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 138 (3.49%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.50%) C++
9 58 (1.47%) Go
10 56 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 50 (1.26%) PHP
13 48 (1.21%) C
14 42 (1.06%) Bash
15 29 (0.73%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.51%) Ruby
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
19 18 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 380 (9.61%) Degree
2 370 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 308 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.43%) CISSP
5 91 (2.30%) CISM
6 70 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.37%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 48 (1.21%) HNC
10 47 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 43 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 39 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 37 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 36 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 36 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (0.61%) ACCA
15 24 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (5.84%) QA
2 125 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 115 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (1.87%) GDPR
6 59 (1.49%) NIST
7 45 (1.14%) GRC
8 30 (0.76%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 20 (0.51%) NCSC
11 19 (0.48%) SLA
12 14 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.25%) COBIT
15 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.20%) GxP
16 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 192 (4.85%) Docker
2 144 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.86%) vSphere
6 29 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.61%) Firmware
8 12 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.18%) vCloud
10 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.076%) iptables
12 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.025%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.025%) GPFS
13 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 221 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 111 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (1.11%) Ansible
4 38 (0.96%) Grafana
5 20 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.46%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (0.23%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.15%) Avamar
11 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.15%) VxRail
12 5 (0.13%) Puppet
12 5 (0.13%) SCCM
13 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.10%) FTK
14 3 (0.076%) CASB
Vendors
1 470 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.16%) Oracle
3 94 (2.38%) Google
4 75 (1.90%) Adobe
5 68 (1.72%) Cisco
5 68 (1.72%) VMware
6 66 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 64 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.39%) CyberArk
9 54 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 50 (1.26%) Databricks
11 47 (1.19%) SAP
12 32 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
13 31 (0.78%) Informatica
13 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.76%) Apple
15 28 (0.71%) Pega
16 26 (0.66%) Tenable
16 26 (0.66%) YouTube
17 22 (0.56%) Aruba