Senior Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote or hybrid work is £67,563 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,870 6,462 6,168
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.79% 18.18% 16.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.21% 18.88% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 4,556 4,552
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,184 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,563 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% -10.71% -

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 17,710 34,224 35,955
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 96.28% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,684 25,903 26,271
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,250 £36,875
25th Percentile £40,240 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior.

Senior salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior over the 6 months to 13 June 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 13 June 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 1,194 (41.60%) Agile
2 958 (33.38%) Python
3 890 (31.01%) AWS
4 810 (28.22%) Azure
5 806 (28.08%) Mentoring
6 751 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
7 692 (24.11%) Software Engineering
8 617 (21.50%) Social Skills
9 613 (21.36%) Finance
10 611 (21.29%) Degree
11 594 (20.70%) Broadband
12 569 (19.83%) CI/CD
13 558 (19.44%) JavaScript
14 532 (18.54%) GCP
15 526 (18.33%) TypeScript
16 501 (17.46%) Machine Learning
17 495 (17.25%) Artificial Intelligence
18 453 (15.78%) Self-Motivation
19 437 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
20 417 (14.53%) Java
21 391 (13.62%) SQL
21 391 (13.62%) Serverless
22 379 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
23 378 (13.17%) .NET
24 377 (13.14%) Clean Code
25 370 (12.89%) Games
26 369 (12.86%) User Experience
27 363 (12.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
28 362 (12.61%) Microservices
29 334 (11.64%) Prototyping

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 80 (2.79%) Apache
2 72 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 24 (0.84%) Confluence
7 23 (0.80%) Jupyter
8 15 (0.52%) IIS
9 12 (0.42%) SAS
10 9 (0.31%) CMS
11 7 (0.24%) Appian
12 4 (0.14%) nginx
13 2 (0.070%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.070%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.070%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.070%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.070%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.035%) CICS
14 1 (0.035%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 62 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (1.39%) Simulink
4 13 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.17%) Stata
7 4 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.10%) Maya
8 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.070%) MotionBuilder
9 2 (0.070%) Sketch
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.035%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 32 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.21%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.21%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payroll
6 3 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.035%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.035%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.035%) FastStats PeopleStage
7 1 (0.035%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.035%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.035%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.035%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 890 (31.01%) AWS
2 810 (28.22%) Azure
3 532 (18.54%) GCP
4 391 (13.62%) Serverless
5 379 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
6 137 (4.77%) SaaS
7 127 (4.43%) Power Platform
8 110 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 81 (2.82%) Snowflake
10 76 (2.65%) dbt
11 74 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
12 71 (2.47%) GitHub
13 68 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
14 66 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
15 52 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
16 34 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.11%) PowerApps
18 31 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 594 (20.70%) Broadband
2 52 (1.81%) Firewall
3 44 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 26 (0.91%) WAN
5 25 (0.87%) DNS
5 25 (0.87%) HTTP
5 25 (0.87%) Wireless
6 24 (0.84%) VPN
7 18 (0.63%) OSPF
8 15 (0.52%) BGP
9 14 (0.49%) Internet
10 13 (0.45%) 5G
11 12 (0.42%) DHCP
11 12 (0.42%) Modbus
11 12 (0.42%) Network Security
11 12 (0.42%) SSL
11 12 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.38%) Bluetooth
12 11 (0.38%) SSH
13 10 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 119 (4.15%) DynamoDB
3 114 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
4 97 (3.38%) Power BI
5 89 (3.10%) Big Data
6 79 (2.75%) Data Lake
7 62 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
8 60 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
9 57 (1.99%) MySQL
10 56 (1.95%) NoSQL
11 54 (1.88%) Apache Arrow
11 54 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
11 54 (1.88%) Apache Ignite
11 54 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
11 54 (1.88%) Dremio
12 45 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 45 (1.57%) Tableau
13 42 (1.46%) Relational Database
14 36 (1.25%) MongoDB
15 35 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 181 (6.31%) Git
2 75 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 67 (2.33%) JIRA
4 39 (1.36%) Visual Studio
5 30 (1.05%) Maven
6 29 (1.01%) JUnit
7 24 (0.84%) GitLab
8 18 (0.63%) Selenium
9 17 (0.59%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.45%) NUnit
12 12 (0.42%) IntelliJ
12 12 (0.42%) Mockito
13 11 (0.38%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.31%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.28%) Subversion
15 8 (0.28%) webpack
16 7 (0.24%) Moq
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 617 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 613 (21.36%) Finance
3 437 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 370 (12.89%) Games
5 363 (12.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 290 (10.10%) Banking
7 109 (3.80%) Marketing
8 104 (3.62%) Retail
9 85 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.89%) Advertising
11 80 (2.79%) Legal
12 78 (2.72%) Front Office
13 63 (2.20%) Law
13 63 (2.20%) Public Sector
14 60 (2.09%) Investment Banking
15 55 (1.92%) Aerospace
16 53 (1.85%) Electronics
17 52 (1.81%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.22%) Tech for Good
19 31 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (13.17%) .NET
2 325 (11.32%) GraphQL
3 288 (10.03%) React
4 259 (9.02%) Node.js
5 216 (7.53%) WebGL
6 215 (7.49%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 127 (4.43%) HTML
8 91 (3.17%) CSS
9 90 (3.14%) AngularJS
10 87 (3.03%) RESTful
11 72 (2.51%) Serverless Framework
12 70 (2.44%) .NET Framework
12 70 (2.44%) REST
13 69 (2.40%) Pandas
14 63 (2.20%) .NET Core
15 59 (2.06%) Kafka
16 56 (1.95%) gRPC
17 54 (1.88%) NumPy
17 54 (1.88%) Protocol Buffers
17 54 (1.88%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 453 (15.78%) Self-Motivation
2 219 (7.63%) Animation
3 203 (7.07%) Cyberattack
4 181 (6.31%) Linux Command Line
5 135 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 130 (4.53%) Management Information System
7 79 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
8 74 (2.58%) Algorithms
9 66 (2.30%) Derivative
9 66 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 59 (2.06%) Fixed Income
11 56 (1.95%) Hedge funds
12 55 (1.92%) Cloud Native
13 54 (1.88%) Equities
14 52 (1.81%) Driving Licence
15 50 (1.74%) Digital Media
15 50 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
16 49 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
16 49 (1.71%) Pricing Data
17 41 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 332 (11.57%) Linux
2 110 (3.83%) Windows
3 59 (2.06%) Unix
4 26 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.73%) Android
5 21 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.24%) CentOS
8 7 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.24%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.17%) VMS
11 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.10%) AIX
12 3 (0.10%) HPUX
12 3 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
12 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (41.60%) Agile
2 806 (28.08%) Mentoring
3 751 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
4 692 (24.11%) Software Engineering
5 569 (19.83%) CI/CD
6 501 (17.46%) Machine Learning
7 495 (17.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 377 (13.14%) Clean Code
9 369 (12.86%) User Experience
10 362 (12.61%) Microservices
11 334 (11.64%) Prototyping
12 325 (11.32%) Data Science
13 322 (11.22%) Project Management
14 299 (10.42%) DevOps
15 259 (9.02%) Scrum
16 257 (8.95%) Storytelling
17 235 (8.19%) Performance Metrics
18 233 (8.12%) Creative Thinking
19 230 (8.01%) Data Engineering
20 217 (7.56%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 958 (33.38%) Python
2 558 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 526 (18.33%) TypeScript
4 417 (14.53%) Java
5 391 (13.62%) SQL
6 279 (9.72%) C++
7 230 (8.01%) C#
8 215 (7.49%) HLSL
9 213 (7.42%) Go
10 184 (6.41%) Rust
11 81 (2.82%) C
12 53 (1.85%) PowerShell
13 51 (1.78%) PHP
14 50 (1.74%) T-SQL
15 44 (1.53%) Bash
16 34 (1.18%) PL/SQL
17 28 (0.98%) R
18 27 (0.94%) Scala
19 18 (0.63%) VB.NET
20 16 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 611 (21.29%) Degree
2 323 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 285 (9.93%) AWS Certification
4 223 (7.77%) PhD
5 217 (7.56%) DV Cleared
6 193 (6.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 179 (6.24%) AWS Certified Developer
8 150 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 92 (3.21%) SC Cleared
10 63 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 57 (1.99%) DBS Check
12 42 (1.46%) Master's Degree
13 39 (1.36%) Azure Certification
14 37 (1.29%) Chartered Engineer
15 27 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.77%) MRICS
17 19 (0.66%) CISA
17 19 (0.66%) CISSP
18 13 (0.45%) HNC
18 13 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 95 (3.31%) QA
3 44 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.32%) GDPR
5 19 (0.66%) ITGC
6 18 (0.63%) PMO
7 16 (0.56%) NIST
8 13 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.38%) NCSC
10 9 (0.31%) SLA
11 8 (0.28%) CDISC
11 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.14%) COREP
15 3 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.10%) GRC
15 3 (0.10%) JTAG
16 2 (0.070%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (6.17%) Docker
2 40 (1.39%) Firmware
3 39 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 30 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.070%) vSphere
11 1 (0.035%) IAG
11 1 (0.035%) NFS
11 1 (0.035%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 180 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 159 (5.54%) Terraform
3 75 (2.61%) Ansible
4 22 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.70%) Grafana
5 20 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (0.59%) Istio
7 14 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
8 13 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.42%) SCCM
10 11 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
11 10 (0.35%) Argo
12 7 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.24%) Puppet
13 5 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (0.17%) Nagios
13 5 (0.17%) SCOM
14 4 (0.14%) SCOrch
15 3 (0.10%) SmoothWall
16 2 (0.070%) Packer
Vendors
1 300 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.32%) ServiceNow
3 98 (3.41%) Google
4 73 (2.54%) Oracle
5 70 (2.44%) Databricks
6 53 (1.85%) Cisco
7 49 (1.71%) VMware
8 45 (1.57%) SAP
9 40 (1.39%) MathWorks
10 36 (1.25%) IBM
11 29 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 22 (0.77%) Apple
13 19 (0.66%) Adobe
13 19 (0.66%) SolarWinds
14 12 (0.42%) Meraki
15 11 (0.38%) CheckPoint
15 11 (0.38%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.35%) EMC
16 10 (0.35%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.35%) Rollbar