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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,564 2,322 4,693
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.73% 14.08% 18.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.72% 15.30% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 1,524 3,276
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,125 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -9.29%

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 21,313 15,178 23,979
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.05% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,299 9,381 17,630
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 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 8 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.

1 740 (20.76%) Agile
2 702 (19.70%) Mentoring
3 682 (19.14%) Azure
4 634 (17.79%) AWS
5 614 (17.23%) Software Engineering
6 563 (15.80%) AI
7 561 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 547 (15.35%) CI/CD
9 514 (14.42%) Python
10 471 (13.22%) DevOps
10 471 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
11 451 (12.65%) Microsoft
12 378 (10.61%) SQL
13 367 (10.30%) Coaching
14 345 (9.68%) Degree
15 339 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
16 330 (9.26%) Security Cleared
17 328 (9.20%) Analytics
18 324 (9.09%) Project Delivery
19 310 (8.70%) Decision-Making
20 286 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 278 (7.80%) C#
22 274 (7.69%) SC Cleared
23 268 (7.52%) Roadmaps
24 263 (7.38%) Test Automation
25 255 (7.15%) JavaScript
26 239 (6.71%) GCP
27 232 (6.51%) QA
28 223 (6.26%) SaaS
29 220 (6.17%) .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
1 100 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.67%) CMS
4 22 (0.62%) Confluence
5 18 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) SAS
7 15 (0.42%) WordPress
8 12 (0.34%) IIS
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.22%) Apache
10 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.084%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.084%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.084%) Artix
11 3 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.084%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.084%) Moodle
12 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 81 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.25%) Civil 3D
6 9 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 15 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.084%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.084%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.084%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 682 (19.14%) Azure
2 634 (17.79%) AWS
3 239 (6.71%) GCP
4 223 (6.26%) SaaS
5 157 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (4.21%) Power Platform
7 140 (3.93%) Entra ID
8 122 (3.42%) Serverless
9 97 (2.72%) GitHub
10 95 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.35%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 45 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (0.98%) Azure AKS
17 35 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 154 (4.32%) Firewall
2 100 (2.81%) Broadband
3 83 (2.33%) Network Security
4 75 (2.10%) DNS
5 65 (1.82%) VLAN
6 61 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.63%) VPN
8 51 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 50 (1.40%) WAN
10 49 (1.37%) Wireless
11 46 (1.29%) LAN
12 45 (1.26%) DHCP
13 26 (0.73%) BGP
14 21 (0.59%) RS-232
15 19 (0.53%) OSPF
16 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 16 (0.45%) WLAN
19 15 (0.42%) Bluetooth
19 15 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (3.28%) Power BI
3 95 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 55 (1.54%) Metadata
6 47 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 45 (1.26%) MySQL
8 36 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 31 (0.87%) Tableau
11 30 (0.84%) DynamoDB
11 30 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (0.70%) OLTP
13 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.56%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.45%) Redis
16 15 (0.42%) Big Data
16 15 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 118 (3.31%) Git
2 61 (1.71%) JIRA
3 41 (1.15%) GitLab
4 34 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 21 (0.59%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.56%) 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
12 8 (0.22%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.11%) JMeter
General
1 872 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 597 (16.75%) Finance
3 381 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 306 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 278 (7.80%) Legal
6 254 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
7 227 (6.37%) Law
8 136 (3.82%) Marketing
9 125 (3.51%) Banking
10 86 (2.41%) Retail
11 76 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 65 (1.82%) Games
14 57 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 53 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 50 (1.40%) Electronics
17 48 (1.35%) Local Government
18 45 (1.26%) Legal Technology
19 43 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
20 29 (0.81%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (6.17%) .NET
2 171 (4.80%) React
3 116 (3.25%) Node.js
4 92 (2.58%) HTML
5 88 (2.47%) REST
6 81 (2.27%) CSS
7 74 (2.08%) RESTful
8 54 (1.52%) Spring
9 39 (1.09%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.07%) Vue
11 37 (1.04%) Spring Boot
12 35 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
13 32 (0.90%) Kafka
13 32 (0.90%) Laravel
14 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
15 28 (0.79%) .NET Core
15 28 (0.79%) Playwright
15 28 (0.79%) SPFx
16 27 (0.76%) Next.js
17 26 (0.73%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.89%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (2.10%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 59 (1.66%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.37%) Social Media
10 48 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 45 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 42 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.15%) Management Information System
15 39 (1.09%) Algorithms
16 37 (1.04%) Security Posture
17 36 (1.01%) Blog
18 34 (0.95%) Low-Code
18 34 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 177 (4.97%) Linux
2 131 (3.68%) Windows
3 58 (1.63%) Unix
4 54 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 43 (1.21%) Android
7 26 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (0.22%) VMS
11 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.084%) Debian
13 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (20.76%) Agile
2 702 (19.70%) Mentoring
3 614 (17.23%) Software Engineering
4 563 (15.80%) AI
5 561 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 547 (15.35%) CI/CD
7 471 (13.22%) DevOps
7 471 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
8 367 (10.30%) Coaching
9 339 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
10 328 (9.20%) Analytics
11 324 (9.09%) Project Delivery
12 310 (8.70%) Decision-Making
13 286 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 268 (7.52%) Roadmaps
15 263 (7.38%) Test Automation
16 218 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 217 (6.09%) Infrastructure as Code
18 188 (5.27%) Microservices
19 187 (5.25%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 514 (14.42%) Python
2 378 (10.61%) SQL
3 278 (7.80%) C#
4 255 (7.15%) JavaScript
5 211 (5.92%) Java
6 208 (5.84%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.76%) PowerShell
8 100 (2.81%) C++
9 62 (1.74%) PHP
10 59 (1.66%) Go
11 49 (1.37%) C
12 47 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 41 (1.15%) Bash
14 27 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.73%) Embedded C
16 25 (0.70%) R
17 23 (0.65%) Bicep
18 21 (0.59%) Swift
19 20 (0.56%) Rust
20 19 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 345 (9.68%) Degree
2 330 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 274 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.83%) CISSP
5 91 (2.55%) CISM
6 66 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (1.54%) A+ Certification
8 55 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 51 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (1.29%) DV Cleared
12 45 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (1.04%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.81%) PhD
16 26 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.65%) ACCA
19 20 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.51%) QA
2 106 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 82 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 76 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 65 (1.82%) NIST
6 62 (1.74%) GDPR
7 47 (1.32%) GRC
8 29 (0.81%) PMO
9 22 (0.62%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) NCSC
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 15 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 170 (4.77%) Docker
2 137 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.90%) vSphere
6 30 (0.84%) Firmware
7 18 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.25%) vCloud
10 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.084%) iptables
13 2 (0.056%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 200 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 198 (5.56%) Terraform
3 100 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.95%) Ansible
5 27 (0.76%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.51%) 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%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 451 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 129 (3.62%) Oracle
3 107 (3.00%) Adobe
4 85 (2.38%) Google
5 71 (1.99%) Cisco
6 69 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 66 (1.85%) SAP
7 66 (1.85%) VMware
8 61 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
11 48 (1.35%) Databricks
12 39 (1.09%) Apple
13 35 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.79%) Dell
14 28 (0.79%) Pega
15 27 (0.76%) Tenable
16 26 (0.73%) Informatica
17 21 (0.59%) Meraki
17 21 (0.59%) Veeam