Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,022 3,577 3,557
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.24% 18.26% 16.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.11% 18.90% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,479 2,298 2,973
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,979 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £54,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £81,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -3.57%

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 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 14,332 18,924 20,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 96.61% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,112 11,778 16,793
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,631 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -2.44% -1.13%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025, 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.

1 528 (26.11%) Agile
2 471 (23.29%) Azure
3 415 (20.52%) AWS
4 359 (17.75%) Python
5 335 (16.57%) SQL
6 324 (16.02%) Mentoring
7 313 (15.48%) CI/CD
8 300 (14.84%) DevOps
9 290 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
10 271 (13.40%) Software Engineering
11 270 (13.35%) Microsoft
12 227 (11.23%) Degree
13 226 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 221 (10.93%) JavaScript
15 207 (10.24%) TypeScript
16 194 (9.59%) C#
17 189 (9.35%) AI
18 187 (9.25%) Java
19 180 (8.90%) .NET
19 180 (8.90%) Analytics
20 178 (8.80%) Coaching
21 161 (7.96%) Asset Management
21 161 (7.96%) Terraform
22 160 (7.91%) React
23 151 (7.47%) Security Cleared
24 147 (7.27%) SaaS
25 140 (6.92%) Kubernetes
26 131 (6.48%) Microservices
27 127 (6.28%) Roadmaps
28 126 (6.23%) Test Automation

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 69 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (3.36%) Apache
3 42 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 27 (1.34%) IIS
5 24 (1.19%) Confluence
5 24 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.89%) WordPress
7 13 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.40%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.35%) Appian
10 6 (0.30%) JBoss
10 6 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.25%) CMS
12 4 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.20%) SAS
13 2 (0.099%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.099%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.099%) nginx
13 2 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 57 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.49%) InDesign
5 8 (0.40%) Maya
5 8 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.35%) MotionBuilder
6 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.099%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.099%) OrCAD
8 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.099%) Simulink
8 2 (0.099%) Sketch
8 2 (0.099%) Trello
9 1 (0.049%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 28 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
2 23 (1.14%) Shopify
3 21 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
4 17 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 17 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
5 16 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
6 14 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.40%) Hyperion Planning
7 8 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
7 8 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 8 (0.40%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.40%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
7 8 (0.40%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.30%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
10 4 (0.20%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 471 (23.29%) Azure
2 415 (20.52%) AWS
3 147 (7.27%) SaaS
4 119 (5.89%) GitHub
5 118 (5.84%) GCP
6 114 (5.64%) Power Platform
7 109 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
8 101 (5.00%) Snowflake
9 97 (4.80%) Serverless
10 95 (4.70%) dbt
11 82 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
12 71 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (3.07%) Entra ID
14 48 (2.37%) Amazon S3
15 44 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 34 (1.68%) PowerApps
18 33 (1.63%) Power Automate
19 32 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
20 31 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.17%) Firewall
2 40 (1.98%) VPN
3 39 (1.93%) Network Security
4 35 (1.73%) Broadband
5 32 (1.58%) DNS
5 32 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.48%) WAN
7 27 (1.34%) LAN
8 22 (1.09%) Unified Communications
9 17 (0.84%) BGP
10 16 (0.79%) DHCP
11 15 (0.74%) Ethernet
12 13 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.59%) RS-232
14 11 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.54%) Wireless
15 10 (0.49%) OSPF
16 7 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
16 7 (0.35%) MPLS
16 7 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (5.29%) Data Lake
2 91 (4.50%) SQL Server
3 83 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
4 82 (4.06%) Power BI
5 64 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
6 59 (2.92%) Apache Arrow
6 59 (2.92%) Apache Iceberg
6 59 (2.92%) Apache Ignite
6 59 (2.92%) Dremio
7 50 (2.47%) NoSQL
7 50 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (2.23%) DynamoDB
9 35 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.48%) MySQL
12 29 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 26 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (0.94%) Redis
14 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 78 (3.86%) Git
2 69 (3.41%) JIRA
3 48 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (1.29%) Selenium
6 20 (0.99%) GitLab
6 20 (0.99%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.84%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.79%) Postman
9 11 (0.54%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.49%) SoapUI
11 9 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.35%) git-flow
13 6 (0.30%) Babel
13 6 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.30%) Jasmine
13 6 (0.30%) JUnit
13 6 (0.30%) NUnit
13 6 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 521 (25.77%) Finance
2 482 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 157 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
3 157 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (6.87%) Banking
5 110 (5.44%) Retail
6 87 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 84 (4.15%) Front Office
8 82 (4.06%) Marketing
9 73 (3.61%) Law
10 65 (3.21%) Legal
11 64 (3.17%) Investment Banking
12 61 (3.02%) Telecoms
13 51 (2.52%) Games
14 49 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.38%) Electronics
17 26 (1.29%) Advertising
18 24 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (8.90%) .NET
2 160 (7.91%) React
3 90 (4.45%) HTML
4 89 (4.40%) RESTful
5 75 (3.71%) gRPC
5 75 (3.71%) REST
6 73 (3.61%) CSS
7 62 (3.07%) Node.js
7 62 (3.07%) Pandas
8 61 (3.02%) SOAP
9 60 (2.97%) NumPy
10 59 (2.92%) Protocol Buffers
10 59 (2.92%) SciPy
11 49 (2.42%) GraphQL
12 36 (1.78%) AngularJS
12 36 (1.78%) Spring
13 33 (1.63%) .NET Framework
14 32 (1.58%) .NET Core
14 32 (1.58%) Kafka
15 30 (1.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 117 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 92 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 72 (3.56%) Derivative
5 65 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 62 (3.07%) Hedge funds
7 61 (3.02%) Fixed Income
8 59 (2.92%) Equities
8 59 (2.92%) Pricing Data
9 48 (2.37%) Data Centre
9 48 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
10 43 (2.13%) Management Information System
11 34 (1.68%) Social Media
12 29 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 28 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
14 25 (1.24%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.19%) FPGA
16 23 (1.14%) Driving Licence
17 19 (0.94%) Data Structures
17 19 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 84 (4.15%) Linux
2 80 (3.96%) Windows
3 39 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.53%) Android
4 31 (1.53%) Unix
5 30 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.49%) VMS
7 7 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.30%) CentOS
8 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.20%) HPUX
10 4 (0.20%) Solaris
11 3 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (26.11%) Agile
2 324 (16.02%) Mentoring
3 313 (15.48%) CI/CD
4 300 (14.84%) DevOps
5 290 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
6 271 (13.40%) Software Engineering
7 226 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 189 (9.35%) AI
9 180 (8.90%) Analytics
10 178 (8.80%) Coaching
11 161 (7.96%) Asset Management
12 131 (6.48%) Microservices
13 127 (6.28%) Roadmaps
14 126 (6.23%) Test Automation
15 124 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
16 121 (5.98%) Decision-Making
17 120 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
18 119 (5.89%) Business Intelligence
18 119 (5.89%) Clean Code
19 116 (5.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 359 (17.75%) Python
2 335 (16.57%) SQL
3 221 (10.93%) JavaScript
4 207 (10.24%) TypeScript
5 194 (9.59%) C#
6 187 (9.25%) Java
7 67 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 40 (1.98%) Bash
9 37 (1.83%) Go
10 33 (1.63%) C++
11 26 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 24 (1.19%) PHP
13 23 (1.14%) Bicep
14 21 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 21 (1.04%) T-SQL
15 18 (0.89%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.79%) Ruby
17 14 (0.69%) C
17 14 (0.69%) Scala
18 13 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 227 (11.23%) Degree
2 151 (7.47%) Security Cleared
3 116 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (2.57%) ACCA
6 42 (2.08%) CISSP
7 40 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 38 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (1.78%) DV Cleared
10 33 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.48%) CISM
12 29 (1.43%) CIMA
13 24 (1.19%) CCNP
14 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.94%) AAT
16 17 (0.84%) CESG Certified Professional
17 16 (0.79%) CCNA
17 16 (0.79%) CISMP
17 16 (0.79%) IISP
18 15 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.85%) QA
2 69 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 67 (3.31%) GDPR
4 50 (2.47%) NIST
5 44 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.34%) PMO
7 25 (1.24%) NCSC
8 20 (0.99%) Data Quality
9 18 (0.89%) IFRS
10 17 (0.84%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.79%) JSP 440
11 16 (0.79%) RMADS
12 15 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.54%) GRC
14 9 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.45%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.35%) WCAG
16 6 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.25%) GAAP
System Software
1 116 (5.74%) Docker
2 62 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.54%) Firmware
5 11 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.45%) vSphere
7 6 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.099%) pfSense
9 2 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.099%) vCloud
10 1 (0.049%) Ceph
10 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.049%) Lustre
10 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 161 (7.96%) Terraform
2 140 (6.92%) Kubernetes
3 52 (2.57%) Ansible
4 45 (2.23%) Grafana
5 35 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.25%) Argo
9 4 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.20%) Nessus
10 3 (0.15%) SCOM
11 2 (0.099%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.099%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.099%) SCCM
12 1 (0.049%) cPanel
12 1 (0.049%) FlexNet
12 1 (0.049%) Icinga
12 1 (0.049%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.049%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 270 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 91 (4.50%) Oracle
3 59 (2.92%) Databricks
4 56 (2.77%) ServiceNow
5 54 (2.67%) Cisco
6 49 (2.42%) SAP
7 46 (2.27%) Google
8 41 (2.03%) VMware
9 39 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 27 (1.34%) Adobe
11 19 (0.94%) Workday
12 18 (0.89%) Okta
13 16 (0.79%) Apple
14 14 (0.69%) EMC
14 14 (0.69%) Xero
15 13 (0.64%) Meraki
15 13 (0.64%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.64%) Screaming Frog
16 12 (0.59%) Sage
17 10 (0.49%) Infor