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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,399 2,295 5,758
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.92% 13.90% 18.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.93% 15.06% 18.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,321 1,482 4,262
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -10.71%

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 20,074 15,237 30,562
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.31% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14,571 9,480 23,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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.

1 678 (19.95%) Agile
2 676 (19.89%) Mentoring
3 627 (18.45%) Azure
4 595 (17.51%) AWS
5 570 (16.77%) Software Engineering
6 512 (15.06%) AI
7 495 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 479 (14.09%) CI/CD
9 461 (13.56%) Python
10 458 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
11 423 (12.44%) Microsoft
12 417 (12.27%) DevOps
13 365 (10.74%) SQL
14 361 (10.62%) Coaching
15 323 (9.50%) Degree
16 302 (8.88%) Analytics
17 296 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
18 292 (8.59%) Roadmaps
19 286 (8.41%) Project Delivery
20 280 (8.24%) Security Cleared
21 270 (7.94%) Decision-Making
22 249 (7.33%) C#
22 249 (7.33%) Test Automation
23 241 (7.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 224 (6.59%) Java
25 223 (6.56%) SC Cleared
26 222 (6.53%) JavaScript
27 213 (6.27%) .NET
28 212 (6.24%) GCP
29 210 (6.18%) SaaS

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 92 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.65%) CMS
5 20 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.44%) Confluence
6 15 (0.44%) SAS
7 12 (0.35%) IIS
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 9 (0.26%) Apache
10 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.088%) Artix
12 3 (0.088%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.059%) JBoss
13 2 (0.059%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 84 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Civil 3D
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.088%) Blender
11 3 (0.088%) Maya
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.059%) InVision
12 2 (0.059%) Sketch
12 2 (0.059%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.71%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (0.26%) Visualfiles
6 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.15%) Shopify
9 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 627 (18.45%) Azure
2 595 (17.51%) AWS
3 212 (6.24%) GCP
4 210 (6.18%) SaaS
5 148 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 141 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 134 (3.94%) Entra ID
8 127 (3.74%) Serverless
9 89 (2.62%) GitHub
10 87 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
12 50 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 44 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 44 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (1.03%) Figma
17 34 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
18 33 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 125 (3.68%) Firewall
2 119 (3.50%) Broadband
3 70 (2.06%) DNS
4 63 (1.85%) VPN
5 57 (1.68%) Network Security
6 54 (1.59%) WAN
6 54 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (1.44%) Wireless
8 46 (1.35%) LAN
9 45 (1.32%) DHCP
10 44 (1.29%) VLAN
11 33 (0.97%) TCP/IP
12 26 (0.76%) BGP
13 24 (0.71%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.68%) RS-232
15 19 (0.56%) OSPF
16 16 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.47%) WLAN
17 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
17 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (3.15%) Power BI
2 100 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.91%) MongoDB
5 45 (1.32%) Metadata
6 39 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.09%) MySQL
8 33 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 29 (0.85%) Tableau
12 28 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.82%) OLTP
13 26 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 97 (2.85%) Git
2 52 (1.53%) JIRA
3 38 (1.12%) GitLab
4 34 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.74%) Snyk
6 24 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 24 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 12 (0.35%) Selenium
8 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
10 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.21%) JUnit
10 7 (0.21%) Postman
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.15%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) Gatling
13 4 (0.12%) MLflow
13 4 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 786 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 553 (16.27%) Finance
3 387 (11.39%) Public Sector
4 258 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 230 (6.77%) Legal
6 222 (6.53%) Law
7 216 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (3.65%) Banking
9 115 (3.38%) Marketing
10 83 (2.44%) Retail
11 75 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 69 (2.03%) Games
13 60 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 57 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 50 (1.47%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.18%) Legal Technology
17 38 (1.12%) Local Government
18 36 (1.06%) Electronics
19 27 (0.79%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (6.27%) .NET
2 143 (4.21%) React
3 108 (3.18%) Node.js
4 82 (2.41%) REST
5 79 (2.32%) HTML
6 77 (2.27%) RESTful
7 62 (1.82%) CSS
8 50 (1.47%) Spring
9 41 (1.21%) Vue
10 39 (1.15%) SOAP
11 35 (1.03%) HTML5 Canvas
11 35 (1.03%) Kafka
11 35 (1.03%) Spring Boot
12 30 (0.88%) Laravel
13 28 (0.82%) AngularJS
13 28 (0.82%) OAuth
14 26 (0.76%) JSON
14 26 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
15 25 (0.74%) GraphQL
15 25 (0.74%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 79 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
4 67 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 62 (1.82%) Driving Licence
6 56 (1.65%) Social Media
7 53 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 52 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 48 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 46 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 42 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 41 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.21%) Onboarding
13 40 (1.18%) Security Posture
14 38 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 37 (1.09%) Cyberattack
15 37 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 36 (1.06%) Low-Code
16 36 (1.06%) Management Information System
17 35 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 165 (4.85%) Linux
2 130 (3.82%) Windows
3 47 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.29%) Unix
6 42 (1.24%) Android
7 25 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.29%) VMS
8 10 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.088%) Debian
11 3 (0.088%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) CentOS
12 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (19.95%) Agile
2 676 (19.89%) Mentoring
3 570 (16.77%) Software Engineering
4 512 (15.06%) AI
5 495 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 479 (14.09%) CI/CD
7 458 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
8 417 (12.27%) DevOps
9 361 (10.62%) Coaching
10 302 (8.88%) Analytics
11 296 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
12 292 (8.59%) Roadmaps
13 286 (8.41%) Project Delivery
14 270 (7.94%) Decision-Making
15 249 (7.33%) Test Automation
16 241 (7.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 207 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 190 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
19 180 (5.30%) Microservices
20 178 (5.24%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 461 (13.56%) Python
2 365 (10.74%) SQL
3 249 (7.33%) C#
4 224 (6.59%) Java
5 222 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 188 (5.53%) TypeScript
7 130 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 92 (2.71%) C++
9 63 (1.85%) Go
10 60 (1.77%) PHP
11 54 (1.59%) Bash
12 48 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.35%) C
14 25 (0.74%) Bicep
14 25 (0.74%) Scala
15 24 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 23 (0.68%) Rust
17 21 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.59%) Embedded C
18 20 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 323 (9.50%) Degree
2 280 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 223 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 90 (2.65%) CISSP
5 80 (2.35%) CISM
6 66 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
10 46 (1.35%) A+ Certification
11 41 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 38 (1.12%) AWS Certification
13 38 (1.12%) DV Cleared
14 36 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
15 31 (0.91%) PhD
16 28 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.76%) ACCA
18 25 (0.74%) DBS Check
19 24 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (5.91%) QA
2 77 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 75 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 70 (2.06%) NIST
6 53 (1.56%) GDPR
7 47 (1.38%) GRC
8 31 (0.91%) PMO
9 20 (0.59%) NCSC
9 20 (0.59%) SLA
10 15 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (0.29%) P3O
11 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.24%) WCAG
14 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.21%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.18%) COBIT
16 5 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 144 (4.24%) Docker
2 139 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.91%) vSphere
6 21 (0.62%) Firmware
7 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.26%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.088%) iptables
13 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 189 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 173 (5.09%) Terraform
3 85 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.03%) Ansible
5 31 (0.91%) Grafana
6 21 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.53%) Argo
8 13 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.35%) SCCM
10 8 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.21%) Puppet
12 6 (0.18%) Avamar
12 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.18%) VxRail
13 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.15%) Istio
13 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 423 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.82%) Oracle
3 112 (3.30%) Adobe
4 68 (2.00%) Palo Alto
5 67 (1.97%) VMware
6 65 (1.91%) Cisco
7 64 (1.88%) SAP
8 63 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 62 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 61 (1.79%) Google
11 47 (1.38%) Databricks
12 45 (1.32%) CyberArk
13 40 (1.18%) Apple
14 32 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (0.82%) Dell
15 28 (0.82%) Pega
16 27 (0.79%) Tenable
17 20 (0.59%) Aruba
17 20 (0.59%) Computacenter
17 20 (0.59%) Informatica