Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,070 3,135 3,418
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.78% 18.80% 16.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.73% 19.55% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,451 1,995 2,814
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,094 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,958 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 14,055 16,038 20,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 96.16% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,062 9,746 16,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,398
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £60,691 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +1.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,363 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%

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 January 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 January 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.

1 503 (24.30%) Azure
2 479 (23.14%) Agile
3 371 (17.92%) AWS
4 369 (17.83%) Mentoring
5 363 (17.54%) SQL
6 340 (16.43%) CI/CD
7 331 (15.99%) DevOps
8 305 (14.73%) Python
9 288 (13.91%) Software Engineering
10 246 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
11 244 (11.79%) Microsoft
12 236 (11.40%) Coaching
13 235 (11.35%) AI
14 232 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 231 (11.16%) Degree
16 192 (9.28%) .NET
17 184 (8.89%) Java
18 181 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
19 178 (8.60%) C#
20 177 (8.55%) Roadmaps
21 176 (8.50%) Asset Management
22 165 (7.97%) JavaScript
22 165 (7.97%) Terraform
23 157 (7.58%) TypeScript
24 155 (7.49%) SaaS
25 153 (7.39%) Test Automation
26 148 (7.15%) Kubernetes
27 147 (7.10%) Analytics
28 142 (6.86%) Security Cleared
29 141 (6.81%) GitHub

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 44 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (1.84%) Apache
4 29 (1.40%) Confluence
5 21 (1.01%) IIS
5 21 (1.01%) WordPress
6 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.43%) CMS
9 8 (0.39%) JBoss
9 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
13 2 (0.097%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.097%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.097%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.048%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 53 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.68%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.48%) InDesign
6 8 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.29%) Sketch
7 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.24%) Maya
8 5 (0.24%) MotionBuilder
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.097%) InVision
10 2 (0.097%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.097%) Revit
10 2 (0.097%) Simulink
11 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 40 (1.93%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.45%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.35%) Oracle Financials
5 23 (1.11%) Shopify
6 20 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
7 14 (0.68%) Hyperion Planning
8 12 (0.58%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.24%) Magento
11 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.19%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.19%) Visualfiles
13 2 (0.097%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 503 (24.30%) Azure
2 371 (17.92%) AWS
3 155 (7.49%) SaaS
4 141 (6.81%) GitHub
5 127 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
5 127 (6.14%) GCP
6 91 (4.40%) Serverless
7 88 (4.25%) Power Platform
8 84 (4.06%) Entra ID
9 80 (3.86%) Snowflake
10 78 (3.77%) dbt
11 74 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
12 53 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (1.84%) GitHub Copilot
15 37 (1.79%) Amazon S3
15 37 (1.79%) OCI
16 35 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (1.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.56%) Firewall
2 51 (2.46%) Broadband
3 39 (1.88%) Network Security
3 39 (1.88%) VPN
4 36 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.74%) WAN
5 31 (1.50%) DNS
6 24 (1.16%) LAN
7 22 (1.06%) Unified Communications
8 21 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.92%) BGP
9 19 (0.92%) DHCP
10 14 (0.68%) Ethernet
11 12 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.58%) Wireless
12 11 (0.53%) OSPF
13 10 (0.48%) HTTP
14 9 (0.43%) RS-232
15 7 (0.34%) IPsec
15 7 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 88 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 69 (3.33%) Power BI
5 55 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 36 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
8 35 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
9 33 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 31 (1.50%) Apache Arrow
10 31 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
10 31 (1.50%) Dremio
11 30 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 29 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (1.16%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.16%) MySQL
14 21 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (0.92%) Redis
16 18 (0.87%) Metadata
17 17 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 83 (4.01%) JIRA
2 69 (3.33%) Git
3 58 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.37%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (1.40%) Selenium
6 21 (1.01%) GitLab
7 19 (0.92%) Postman
7 19 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.63%) WebDriver
9 12 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.58%) SoapUI
9 12 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.39%) Subversion
12 7 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.34%) git-flow
13 6 (0.29%) JUnit
14 5 (0.24%) Babel
14 5 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 551 (26.62%) Finance
2 462 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 157 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 134 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (5.22%) Banking
6 107 (5.17%) Retail
7 106 (5.12%) Public Sector
8 94 (4.54%) Marketing
9 77 (3.72%) Law
10 72 (3.48%) Telecoms
11 62 (3.00%) Legal
12 53 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (2.32%) Games
14 47 (2.27%) Front Office
15 38 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.64%) Investment Banking
17 26 (1.26%) Manufacturing
18 23 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
19 22 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (9.28%) .NET
2 137 (6.62%) React
3 98 (4.73%) REST
4 97 (4.69%) RESTful
5 93 (4.49%) SOAP
6 84 (4.06%) HTML
7 62 (3.00%) GraphQL
8 60 (2.90%) Node.js
9 58 (2.80%) CSS
10 54 (2.61%) gRPC
11 44 (2.13%) OAuth
12 42 (2.03%) Spring
13 38 (1.84%) Kafka
14 36 (1.74%) .NET Core
14 36 (1.74%) XML
15 35 (1.69%) Pandas
16 34 (1.64%) Spring Boot
17 32 (1.55%) NumPy
18 31 (1.50%) Protocol Buffers
18 31 (1.50%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 88 (4.25%) Onboarding
3 76 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (1.93%) Derivative
6 38 (1.84%) Hedge funds
7 36 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 32 (1.55%) Fixed Income
9 32 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (1.55%) Social Media
10 31 (1.50%) Equities
10 31 (1.50%) Pricing Data
11 30 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 27 (1.30%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 26 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 22 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 87 (4.20%) Linux
2 69 (3.33%) Windows
3 41 (1.98%) Android
4 34 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.21%) Unix
7 12 (0.58%) VMS
7 12 (0.58%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.097%) CentOS
9 2 (0.097%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (23.14%) Agile
2 369 (17.83%) Mentoring
3 340 (16.43%) CI/CD
4 331 (15.99%) DevOps
5 288 (13.91%) Software Engineering
6 246 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
7 236 (11.40%) Coaching
8 235 (11.35%) AI
9 232 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 181 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
11 177 (8.55%) Roadmaps
12 176 (8.50%) Asset Management
13 153 (7.39%) Test Automation
14 147 (7.10%) Analytics
15 137 (6.62%) Microservices
16 126 (6.09%) User Experience
17 125 (6.04%) Clean Code
18 123 (5.94%) Infrastructure as Code
19 117 (5.65%) Stakeholder Management
20 113 (5.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 363 (17.54%) SQL
2 305 (14.73%) Python
3 184 (8.89%) Java
4 178 (8.60%) C#
5 165 (7.97%) JavaScript
6 157 (7.58%) TypeScript
7 77 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 47 (2.27%) Bash
8 47 (2.27%) Go
9 42 (2.03%) PL/SQL
10 40 (1.93%) C++
11 33 (1.59%) PHP
12 31 (1.50%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.35%) Scala
14 25 (1.21%) Bicep
15 24 (1.16%) Shell Script
15 24 (1.16%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.97%) C
17 18 (0.87%) Ruby
18 16 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 231 (11.16%) Degree
2 142 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 107 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 75 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (2.46%) ACCA
6 43 (2.08%) CISSP
7 38 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.50%) CISM
10 29 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 28 (1.35%) AWS Certification
12 27 (1.30%) CIMA
12 27 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (1.16%) CCNP
14 21 (1.01%) AAT
15 17 (0.82%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.77%) CISMP
16 16 (0.77%) IISP
16 16 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.69%) QA
2 66 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 53 (2.56%) NIST
4 51 (2.46%) GDPR
5 47 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.59%) NCSC
7 23 (1.11%) Data Quality
8 20 (0.97%) IFRS
9 18 (0.87%) PMO
10 17 (0.82%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (0.77%) JSP 440
11 16 (0.77%) RMADS
12 13 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.58%) GRC
14 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.39%) IEC 61508
15 8 (0.39%) MISRA
15 8 (0.39%) MISRA C
System Software
1 131 (6.33%) Docker
2 78 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.34%) vSphere
7 6 (0.29%) Firmware
7 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.097%) pfSense
9 2 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.097%) vCloud
9 2 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) Ceph
10 1 (0.048%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 165 (7.97%) Terraform
2 148 (7.15%) Kubernetes
3 48 (2.32%) Grafana
4 44 (2.13%) Ansible
5 43 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.39%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.24%) Argo
11 3 (0.14%) Control-M
11 3 (0.14%) cPanel
11 3 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 3 (0.14%) Nessus
11 3 (0.14%) Plesk
12 2 (0.097%) Nagios
12 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 2 (0.097%) SCOM
13 1 (0.048%) Puppet
Vendors
1 244 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 115 (5.56%) Oracle
3 64 (3.09%) Databricks
4 48 (2.32%) Cisco
5 47 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 40 (1.93%) SAP
7 38 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 33 (1.59%) Google
9 32 (1.55%) VMware
10 26 (1.26%) Okta
11 25 (1.21%) Adobe
12 22 (1.06%) Workday
13 14 (0.68%) Hyperion
13 14 (0.68%) Screaming Frog
14 13 (0.63%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.58%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.53%) Sage
17 10 (0.48%) Talend
17 10 (0.48%) Xero
18 9 (0.43%) Meraki