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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,983 2,358 5,658
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.41% 16.96% 17.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.52% 18.44% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,119 1,654 4,352
10th Percentile £47,024 £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 £110,875 £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 17,026 12,788 31,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 91.97% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,370 9,045 24,881
10th Percentile £32,875 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £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 £104,399 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,900
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.53% -11.83%

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 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 4 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.

1 604 (20.25%) Mentoring
2 585 (19.61%) Azure
3 557 (18.67%) Agile
4 486 (16.29%) AWS
5 428 (14.35%) Software Engineering
6 394 (13.21%) SQL
7 379 (12.71%) AI
8 377 (12.64%) CI/CD
9 365 (12.24%) Coaching
10 359 (12.03%) DevOps
11 354 (11.87%) Microsoft
12 348 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
13 337 (11.30%) Python
14 287 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 273 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
16 272 (9.12%) Roadmaps
17 261 (8.75%) Security Cleared
18 245 (8.21%) Degree
19 242 (8.11%) Analytics
20 233 (7.81%) Java
21 208 (6.97%) GCP
22 204 (6.84%) SC Cleared
23 201 (6.74%) Test Automation
24 198 (6.64%) .NET
25 185 (6.20%) Kubernetes
26 179 (6.00%) Decision-Making
26 179 (6.00%) SaaS
27 176 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
27 176 (5.90%) Terraform
28 173 (5.80%) 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 87 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (0.80%) CMS
4 24 (0.80%) Confluence
5 23 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.30%) Apache
7 8 (0.27%) JBoss
7 8 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.20%) SAS
8 6 (0.20%) WordPress
9 5 (0.17%) IIS
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.067%) nginx
12 2 (0.067%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.034%) Appian
13 1 (0.034%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.034%) Artix
Applications
1 33 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.20%) Sketch
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.10%) Trello
11 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.067%) Revit
11 2 (0.067%) Weka
12 1 (0.034%) MotionBuilder
12 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
2 22 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 19 (0.64%) Cloudability
4 17 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 17 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 16 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
5 16 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
7 12 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
8 11 (0.37%) Visualfiles
9 9 (0.30%) Shopify
10 8 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
11 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
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 (19.61%) Azure
2 486 (16.29%) AWS
3 208 (6.97%) GCP
4 179 (6.00%) SaaS
5 118 (3.96%) Power Platform
6 115 (3.86%) GitHub
7 107 (3.59%) Serverless
8 106 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 48 (1.61%) PowerApps
11 48 (1.61%) Snowflake
12 44 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 44 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
15 37 (1.24%) dbt
15 37 (1.24%) Figma
15 37 (1.24%) Power Automate
16 36 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 123 (4.12%) Broadband
2 80 (2.68%) Firewall
3 55 (1.84%) VPN
4 54 (1.81%) DNS
5 52 (1.74%) WAN
6 45 (1.51%) DHCP
7 38 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.14%) LAN
8 34 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 30 (1.01%) Network Security
10 25 (0.84%) Wireless
11 21 (0.70%) BGP
12 20 (0.67%) HTTP
13 19 (0.64%) RS-232
14 18 (0.60%) Ethernet
14 18 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
15 11 (0.37%) OSPF
16 9 (0.30%) MPLS
17 8 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 89 (2.98%) Power BI
3 77 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (1.78%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.64%) Metadata
7 40 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 34 (1.14%) BigQuery
9 29 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (0.91%) OLTP
10 27 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (0.84%) Tableau
13 24 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 24 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 22 (0.74%) MySQL
15 21 (0.70%) Relational Database
16 19 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (2.65%) Git
2 69 (2.31%) JIRA
3 56 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.48%) GitLab
5 33 (1.11%) TeamCity
6 28 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
7 20 (0.67%) Selenium
8 18 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.60%) Snyk
9 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.34%) MLflow
11 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.30%) Postman
12 8 (0.27%) JUnit
13 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.23%) JMeter
13 7 (0.23%) Subversion
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.23%) webpack
13 7 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 579 (19.41%) Finance
2 544 (18.24%) Social Skills
3 361 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 203 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 174 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (4.32%) Marketing
7 126 (4.22%) Law
8 121 (4.06%) Banking
9 100 (3.35%) Legal
10 95 (3.18%) Retail
11 85 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 71 (2.38%) Games
13 63 (2.11%) Telecoms
14 55 (1.84%) Manufacturing
15 45 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
17 25 (0.84%) Back Office
17 25 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 23 (0.77%) Publishing
19 22 (0.74%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (6.64%) .NET
2 135 (4.53%) React
3 118 (3.96%) REST
4 95 (3.18%) Node.js
5 82 (2.75%) SOAP
6 78 (2.61%) HTML
7 77 (2.58%) RESTful
8 56 (1.88%) GraphQL
9 54 (1.81%) CSS
9 54 (1.81%) OAuth
10 47 (1.58%) Spring
11 44 (1.48%) Kafka
12 40 (1.34%) OpenID
13 39 (1.31%) .NET Core
14 38 (1.27%) Spring Boot
15 36 (1.21%) SAML
16 35 (1.17%) JSON
17 31 (1.04%) React Native
18 30 (1.01%) XML
19 29 (0.97%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 178 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 107 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 65 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 61 (2.04%) Social Media
5 59 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 56 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 48 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 45 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 43 (1.44%) Cyberattack
10 43 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
12 34 (1.14%) Driving Licence
12 34 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 32 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 32 (1.07%) Over-the-Top Content
14 31 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 30 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
16 29 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.76%) Linux
2 116 (3.89%) Windows
3 66 (2.21%) Android
4 58 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 47 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 36 (1.21%) Unix
7 21 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.27%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.10%) CentOS
12 3 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.034%) AIX
14 1 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (20.25%) Mentoring
2 557 (18.67%) Agile
3 428 (14.35%) Software Engineering
4 379 (12.71%) AI
5 377 (12.64%) CI/CD
6 365 (12.24%) Coaching
7 359 (12.03%) DevOps
8 348 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
9 287 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 273 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
11 272 (9.12%) Roadmaps
12 242 (8.11%) Analytics
13 201 (6.74%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.00%) Decision-Making
15 176 (5.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 173 (5.80%) User Experience
17 168 (5.63%) Microservices
18 157 (5.26%) Full-Stack Development
19 148 (4.96%) Infrastructure as Code
20 139 (4.66%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 394 (13.21%) SQL
2 337 (11.30%) Python
3 233 (7.81%) Java
4 164 (5.50%) C#
5 151 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 142 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 98 (3.29%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.41%) Go
9 71 (2.38%) C++
10 66 (2.21%) Bash
11 54 (1.81%) PHP
12 52 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.54%) Scala
14 38 (1.27%) C
14 38 (1.27%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.77%) VBA
17 22 (0.74%) Bicep
18 17 (0.57%) Rust
19 16 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 261 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 245 (8.21%) Degree
3 204 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 72 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.51%) DV Cleared
6 41 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.01%) ACCA
10 29 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 27 (0.91%) CISSP
12 26 (0.87%) PMI Certification
13 25 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.77%) CIMA
15 19 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
17 16 (0.54%) DBS Check
18 15 (0.50%) CIPFA
18 15 (0.50%) PhD
19 14 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.35%) QA
2 75 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 63 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 52 (1.74%) NIST
5 45 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.31%) GDPR
7 29 (0.97%) GRC
7 29 (0.97%) NCSC
8 22 (0.74%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) SLA
10 13 (0.44%) P3O
11 11 (0.37%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.37%) MISRA
11 11 (0.37%) MISRA C
12 10 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.27%) IFRS
13 8 (0.27%) WCAG
14 7 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 153 (5.13%) Docker
2 110 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.60%) vSphere
6 16 (0.54%) Firmware
7 10 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.27%) vCloud
9 7 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 185 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 176 (5.90%) Terraform
3 44 (1.48%) Grafana
4 39 (1.31%) Ansible
5 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.64%) Argo
9 15 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.47%) SCCM
11 11 (0.37%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.17%) Istio
13 5 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.13%) Plesk
15 3 (0.10%) EMC VPLEX
15 3 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 354 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 146 (4.89%) Oracle
3 104 (3.49%) Adobe
4 71 (2.38%) VMware
5 65 (2.18%) Databricks
6 63 (2.11%) SAP
7 61 (2.04%) Google
8 48 (1.61%) Cisco
8 48 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 45 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 37 (1.24%) Palo Alto
11 36 (1.21%) Apple
12 24 (0.80%) Dell
13 23 (0.77%) Okta
14 22 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (0.60%) Tenable
16 14 (0.47%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.44%) Citrix
17 13 (0.44%) SolarWinds
18 11 (0.37%) NetApp