Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote or hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,179 4,289 4,088
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.46% 18.43% 16.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.51% 19.14% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,447 2,565 3,512
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,375 £54,500 £55,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,465 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -6.48% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 15,013 22,405 24,213
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 96.27% 96.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,958 14,401 20,076
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,500 £47,429
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Senior job vacancies

Senior
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Senior salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior in the job title.

1 841 (38.60%) Agile
2 595 (27.31%) Finance
3 594 (27.26%) Python
4 593 (27.21%) AWS
5 564 (25.88%) Azure
6 489 (22.44%) Software Engineering
7 457 (20.97%) Mentoring
8 448 (20.56%) JavaScript
9 409 (18.77%) Social Skills
10 397 (18.22%) Java
11 353 (16.20%) User Experience
12 335 (15.37%) .NET
13 312 (14.32%) SQL
14 303 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 300 (13.77%) Security Cleared
16 292 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
17 288 (13.22%) Microservices
18 271 (12.44%) Linux
19 265 (12.16%) Banking
20 263 (12.07%) GCP
21 261 (11.98%) DevOps
22 259 (11.89%) TypeScript
23 257 (11.79%) CI/CD
24 255 (11.70%) Scrum
25 251 (11.52%) Microsoft
26 233 (10.69%) Node.js
27 227 (10.42%) C++
28 226 (10.37%) Data Engineering
29 224 (10.28%) AWS Certification
30 221 (10.14%) Self-Motivation

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 106 (4.86%) Apache
2 100 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (1.51%) IIS
4 33 (1.51%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.06%) Confluence
6 22 (1.01%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.46%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.41%) CMS
9 7 (0.32%) Appian
9 7 (0.32%) SAS
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.092%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.046%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.046%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.046%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.046%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.046%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.23%) Maya
7 4 (0.18%) MotionBuilder
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
8 2 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.092%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.092%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.092%) Sketch
9 1 (0.046%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.046%) Blender
9 1 (0.046%) InDesign
9 1 (0.046%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.046%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 20 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.46%) Shopify
5 9 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
5 9 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 9 (0.41%) SAP CO
5 9 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 9 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
6 8 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.32%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.28%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
9 5 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.18%) Hyperion Planning
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 593 (27.21%) AWS
2 564 (25.88%) Azure
3 263 (12.07%) GCP
4 125 (5.74%) Power Platform
5 121 (5.55%) Snowflake
6 112 (5.14%) Serverless
7 111 (5.09%) SaaS
8 99 (4.54%) dbt
9 93 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
10 82 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (3.26%) GitHub
12 67 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
13 50 (2.29%) Amazon S3
14 33 (1.51%) Entra ID
15 30 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
15 30 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.38%) PowerApps
16 29 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
18 26 (1.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.75%) Firewall
2 38 (1.74%) Network Security
3 37 (1.70%) VPN
4 28 (1.28%) DNS
5 24 (1.10%) Broadband
5 24 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.73%) WAN
6 16 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (0.69%) BGP
7 15 (0.69%) LAN
7 15 (0.69%) Wireless
8 13 (0.60%) DHCP
8 13 (0.60%) Unified Communications
9 12 (0.55%) Ethernet
10 9 (0.41%) OSPF
10 9 (0.41%) RS-232
11 8 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (0.32%) SSL
12 7 (0.32%) VoIP
13 6 (0.28%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (5.74%) Data Lake
2 97 (4.45%) SQL Server
3 95 (4.36%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (4.13%) Power BI
5 88 (4.04%) Apache Arrow
5 88 (4.04%) Apache Iceberg
5 88 (4.04%) Apache Ignite
5 88 (4.04%) Dremio
6 65 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (2.43%) DynamoDB
8 52 (2.39%) NoSQL
9 44 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 32 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 31 (1.42%) MySQL
12 30 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
13 26 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 24 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
15 22 (1.01%) Tableau
16 21 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (4.04%) Git
2 68 (3.12%) JIRA
3 50 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.19%) Selenium
5 17 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 16 (0.73%) JUnit
6 16 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.69%) GitLab
7 15 (0.69%) Maven
8 14 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 14 (0.64%) Postman
9 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.41%) NUnit
12 9 (0.41%) SoapUI
12 9 (0.41%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.37%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.28%) LabVIEW
General
1 595 (27.31%) Finance
2 409 (18.77%) Social Skills
3 303 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 265 (12.16%) Banking
5 147 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 112 (5.14%) Front Office
7 92 (4.22%) Investment Banking
8 83 (3.81%) Legal
9 80 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
10 73 (3.35%) Public Sector
11 71 (3.26%) Retail
12 65 (2.98%) Marketing
13 56 (2.57%) Law
14 53 (2.43%) Games
15 42 (1.93%) Tech for Good
16 41 (1.88%) Electronics
17 37 (1.70%) Health Technology
18 36 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
18 36 (1.65%) Telecoms
19 35 (1.61%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (15.37%) .NET
2 233 (10.69%) Node.js
3 171 (7.85%) React
4 94 (4.31%) gRPC
5 90 (4.13%) Pandas
6 88 (4.04%) NumPy
6 88 (4.04%) Protocol Buffers
6 88 (4.04%) SciPy
7 86 (3.95%) HTML
8 82 (3.76%) RESTful
9 66 (3.03%) REST
10 64 (2.94%) CSS
11 52 (2.39%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.79%) .NET Framework
12 39 (1.79%) ASP.NET
13 38 (1.74%) GraphQL
14 35 (1.61%) .NET Core
14 35 (1.61%) Swagger
15 33 (1.51%) SOAP
15 33 (1.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 221 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
2 181 (8.31%) Cyberattack
3 179 (8.21%) Linux Command Line
4 102 (4.68%) Derivative
5 93 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 92 (4.22%) Fixed Income
7 91 (4.18%) Hedge funds
8 88 (4.04%) Equities
8 88 (4.04%) Pricing Data
9 67 (3.07%) Cloud Native
10 66 (3.03%) Product Ownership
11 55 (2.52%) Onboarding
12 53 (2.43%) Management Information System
13 49 (2.25%) Data Centre
14 29 (1.33%) FPGA
15 28 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 28 (1.28%) Virtual Team
16 27 (1.24%) Social Media
17 26 (1.19%) Mobile App
17 26 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 271 (12.44%) Linux
2 78 (3.58%) Windows
3 38 (1.74%) Unix
4 28 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.10%) Android
7 9 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.37%) CentOS
9 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.28%) VMS
11 5 (0.23%) Solaris
11 5 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.18%) HPUX
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.046%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (38.60%) Agile
2 489 (22.44%) Software Engineering
3 457 (20.97%) Mentoring
4 353 (16.20%) User Experience
5 292 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
6 288 (13.22%) Microservices
7 261 (11.98%) DevOps
8 257 (11.79%) CI/CD
9 255 (11.70%) Scrum
10 226 (10.37%) Data Engineering
11 219 (10.05%) Project Management
12 214 (9.82%) Machine Learning
13 202 (9.27%) Cloud Security
14 189 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 187 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
16 164 (7.53%) Analytics
17 161 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 146 (6.70%) Artificial Intelligence
19 144 (6.61%) Asset Management
20 130 (5.97%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 594 (27.26%) Python
2 448 (20.56%) JavaScript
3 397 (18.22%) Java
4 312 (14.32%) SQL
5 259 (11.89%) TypeScript
6 227 (10.42%) C++
7 212 (9.73%) Go
8 182 (8.35%) Rust
9 181 (8.31%) C#
10 58 (2.66%) PowerShell
11 39 (1.79%) Bash
12 32 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 30 (1.38%) C
14 24 (1.10%) R
15 23 (1.06%) PHP
16 19 (0.87%) Scala
17 18 (0.83%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.64%) Bicep
19 13 (0.60%) Ruby
20 12 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 300 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 224 (10.28%) AWS Certification
3 210 (9.64%) DV Cleared
4 208 (9.55%) Degree
5 197 (9.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 180 (8.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 94 (4.31%) SC Cleared
8 47 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.88%) CISSP
10 37 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.33%) ACCA
12 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (1.10%) DBS Check
15 22 (1.01%) CISM
16 21 (0.96%) CCNP
16 21 (0.96%) CIMA
16 21 (0.96%) ISTQB
16 21 (0.96%) Master's Degree
16 21 (0.96%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.57%) Accessibility
2 101 (4.64%) QA
3 55 (2.52%) GDPR
4 44 (2.02%) NIST
5 25 (1.15%) PMO
6 22 (1.01%) Data Quality
7 21 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.78%) NCSC
8 17 (0.78%) NIST 800
9 16 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 16 (0.73%) JSP 440
9 16 (0.73%) RMADS
10 15 (0.69%) ITGC
11 14 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.28%) CDISC
13 6 (0.28%) WCAG
14 5 (0.23%) GRC
14 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 113 (5.19%) Docker
2 49 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.15%) Firmware
5 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.32%) vSphere
8 6 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.092%) pfSense
10 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.046%) NFS
11 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.046%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 159 (7.30%) Terraform
2 132 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 58 (2.66%) Ansible
4 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.01%) Grafana
6 17 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
8 11 (0.50%) Istio
9 10 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.28%) Argo
11 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.23%) SCCM
12 4 (0.18%) Puppet
12 4 (0.18%) SCOM
13 3 (0.14%) Nessus
13 3 (0.14%) SmoothWall
14 1 (0.046%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.046%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.046%) Nmap
14 1 (0.046%) WSUS
Vendors
1 251 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 74 (3.40%) Oracle
2 74 (3.40%) ServiceNow
3 53 (2.43%) SAP
4 49 (2.25%) Cisco
4 49 (2.25%) VMware
5 46 (2.11%) Google
6 45 (2.07%) Databricks
7 25 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 19 (0.87%) Apple
9 18 (0.83%) Meraki
10 17 (0.78%) Adobe
11 16 (0.73%) EMC
11 16 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 15 (0.69%) Workday
12 15 (0.69%) Xero
13 12 (0.55%) Sage
14 10 (0.46%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.46%) Rollbar
14 10 (0.46%) TikTok