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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,933 2,150 4,180
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.84% 12.99% 18.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.88% 13.98% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,580 1,403 2,423
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.11% -5.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,294 15,382 21,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.90% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16,189 8,750 13,539
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 September 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 29 September 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.

1 752 (19.12%) Mentoring
2 748 (19.02%) Agile
3 719 (18.28%) Azure
4 678 (17.24%) Software Engineering
5 638 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 634 (16.12%) AWS
7 604 (15.36%) AI
8 597 (15.18%) CI/CD
9 542 (13.78%) Python
10 510 (12.97%) DevOps
11 500 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 479 (12.18%) Microsoft
13 449 (11.42%) SQL
14 394 (10.02%) Coaching
15 376 (9.56%) Degree
16 367 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
16 367 (9.33%) Security Cleared
17 353 (8.98%) Analytics
18 352 (8.95%) Project Delivery
19 349 (8.87%) Decision-Making
20 312 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 307 (7.81%) SC Cleared
22 289 (7.35%) C#
23 283 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
24 244 (6.20%) Java
24 244 (6.20%) Roadmaps
25 242 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
25 242 (6.15%) Test Automation
26 237 (6.03%) GCP
27 231 (5.87%) QA

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 93 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 21 (0.53%) Confluence
5 20 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (0.48%) CMS
7 14 (0.36%) Apache
7 14 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.33%) WordPress
9 10 (0.25%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) IIS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.076%) Artix
12 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.076%) Moodle
13 2 (0.051%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.025%) nginx
Applications
1 77 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.43%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.31%) Civil 3D
7 11 (0.28%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.23%) InDesign
8 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
12 5 (0.13%) Revit
13 4 (0.10%) DaVinci Resolve
14 3 (0.076%) Blender
14 3 (0.076%) Maya
14 3 (0.076%) Trello
15 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
15 2 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.61%) Cloudability
2 20 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
8 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.23%) Shopify
10 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
11 6 (0.15%) Primavera
12 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
13 4 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
14 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
14 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
15 2 (0.051%) SAP ERP
15 2 (0.051%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 719 (18.28%) Azure
2 634 (16.12%) AWS
3 237 (6.03%) GCP
4 230 (5.85%) SaaS
5 162 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
5 162 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 147 (3.74%) Entra ID
7 118 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (2.90%) GitHub
9 113 (2.87%) Serverless
10 54 (1.37%) Amazon S3
11 52 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 43 (1.09%) Azure AKS
15 42 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
16 41 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 39 (0.99%) Power Automate
18 38 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 157 (3.99%) Firewall
2 93 (2.36%) Network Security
3 79 (2.01%) DNS
4 77 (1.96%) VLAN
5 65 (1.65%) VPN
6 59 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.47%) Wireless
8 56 (1.42%) TCP/IP
9 55 (1.40%) Broadband
10 51 (1.30%) WAN
11 47 (1.20%) LAN
12 45 (1.14%) DHCP
13 30 (0.76%) BGP
14 23 (0.58%) SMS
15 22 (0.56%) OSPF
16 18 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (0.43%) VXLAN
18 15 (0.38%) RS-232
18 15 (0.38%) WLAN
19 14 (0.36%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (3.15%) Power BI
3 102 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 70 (1.78%) Metadata
5 62 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 58 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.22%) MySQL
9 46 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 42 (1.07%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.69%) Tableau
12 25 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 22 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (0.48%) OLTP
15 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.46%) Big Data
16 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 137 (3.48%) Git
2 62 (1.58%) JIRA
3 42 (1.07%) GitLab
4 26 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.64%) Snyk
6 21 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.36%) JUnit
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.25%) Maven
10 10 (0.25%) Postman
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.18%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.10%) MLflow
14 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 976 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 640 (16.27%) Finance
3 464 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 353 (8.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 295 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 264 (6.71%) Legal
7 241 (6.13%) Law
8 152 (3.86%) Banking
9 129 (3.28%) Marketing
10 110 (2.80%) Retail
11 74 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 70 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 65 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 60 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 57 (1.45%) Electronics
17 56 (1.42%) Local Government
18 50 (1.27%) Aerospace
18 50 (1.27%) Games
19 46 (1.17%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (5.87%) Terraform
2 213 (5.42%) .NET
3 164 (4.17%) React
4 115 (2.92%) Node.js
5 104 (2.64%) REST
6 90 (2.29%) HTML
7 84 (2.14%) CSS
8 83 (2.11%) RESTful
9 66 (1.68%) Spring
10 45 (1.14%) Spring Boot
11 43 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.09%) PySpark
12 35 (0.89%) Kafka
13 34 (0.86%) .NET Core
13 34 (0.86%) Laravel
13 34 (0.86%) Vue
14 31 (0.79%) Next.js
15 30 (0.76%) OAuth
16 27 (0.69%) Web Services
16 27 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 236 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 107 (2.72%) Driving Licence
3 103 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 64 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 61 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 57 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (1.09%) Blog
12 41 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
13 38 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 35 (0.89%) Security Posture
15 33 (0.84%) Algorithms
16 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
17 29 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
17 29 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 166 (4.22%) Linux
2 151 (3.84%) Windows
3 63 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.58%) Unix
5 27 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.56%) Android
6 22 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 10 (0.25%) VMS
9 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.076%) Debian
12 2 (0.051%) Rocky
12 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.025%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (19.12%) Mentoring
2 748 (19.02%) Agile
3 678 (17.24%) Software Engineering
4 638 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 604 (15.36%) AI
6 597 (15.18%) CI/CD
7 510 (12.97%) DevOps
8 500 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
9 394 (10.02%) Coaching
10 367 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
11 353 (8.98%) Analytics
12 352 (8.95%) Project Delivery
13 349 (8.87%) Decision-Making
14 312 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 283 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 244 (6.20%) Roadmaps
17 242 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
17 242 (6.15%) Test Automation
18 210 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
19 209 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 542 (13.78%) Python
2 449 (11.42%) SQL
3 289 (7.35%) C#
4 244 (6.20%) Java
5 228 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 203 (5.16%) TypeScript
7 139 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.52%) C++
9 54 (1.37%) Go
9 54 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 53 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 51 (1.30%) PHP
12 49 (1.25%) C
13 39 (0.99%) Bash
14 29 (0.74%) Bicep
15 24 (0.61%) Embedded C
16 21 (0.53%) R
17 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.51%) Ruby
18 18 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 376 (9.56%) Degree
2 367 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 307 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.42%) CISSP
5 90 (2.29%) CISM
6 70 (1.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 59 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.37%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
9 49 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 48 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 44 (1.12%) HNC
13 41 (1.04%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
15 37 (0.94%) Master's Degree
16 34 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
17 33 (0.84%) DBS Check
18 24 (0.61%) ACCA
18 24 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (5.87%) QA
2 126 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 118 (3.00%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.86%) GDPR
6 57 (1.45%) NIST
7 48 (1.22%) GRC
8 31 (0.79%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 20 (0.51%) NCSC
11 19 (0.48%) SLA
12 13 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.25%) COBIT
15 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.20%) GxP
16 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (4.75%) Docker
2 145 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.89%) vSphere
6 27 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.61%) Firmware
8 13 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.18%) vCloud
12 3 (0.076%) iptables
13 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.025%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.025%) GPFS
14 1 (0.025%) Lustre
14 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 217 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 110 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 46 (1.17%) Ansible
4 35 (0.89%) Grafana
5 18 (0.46%) Argo
5 18 (0.46%) FortiGate
6 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.15%) Avamar
9 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.15%) VxRail
10 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
10 5 (0.13%) SCCM
11 4 (0.10%) FTK
11 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 479 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.18%) Oracle
3 88 (2.24%) Google
4 79 (2.01%) Adobe
5 70 (1.78%) VMware
6 69 (1.75%) Cisco
7 65 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.40%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.27%) Databricks
12 48 (1.22%) SAP
13 35 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
14 31 (0.79%) Apple
14 31 (0.79%) Informatica
15 30 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 28 (0.71%) Pega
16 28 (0.71%) Tenable
17 23 (0.58%) Splunk
17 23 (0.58%) YouTube