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 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,622 2,500 5,027
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.50% 18.71% 16.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.51% 19.77% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,863 1,775 4,176
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,272 £45,650
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,896
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 15,877 12,644 28,887
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 94.62% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,775 8,888 24,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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.

1 567 (21.62%) Azure
2 530 (20.21%) Agile
2 530 (20.21%) Mentoring
3 450 (17.16%) AWS
4 386 (14.72%) Software Engineering
5 379 (14.45%) SQL
6 376 (14.34%) CI/CD
7 346 (13.20%) Coaching
8 345 (13.16%) DevOps
9 329 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
10 316 (12.05%) Microsoft
10 316 (12.05%) Python
11 315 (12.01%) AI
12 297 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 261 (9.95%) Degree
14 237 (9.04%) Security Cleared
15 230 (8.77%) Roadmaps
16 221 (8.43%) Analytics
17 217 (8.28%) Java
18 208 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
19 207 (7.89%) .NET
20 206 (7.86%) SaaS
21 201 (7.67%) GCP
22 193 (7.36%) Test Automation
23 188 (7.17%) Kubernetes
24 184 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
25 172 (6.56%) Docker
25 172 (6.56%) Terraform
26 171 (6.52%) Microservices
26 171 (6.52%) SC Cleared

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 61 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.88%) WordPress
5 22 (0.84%) Confluence
6 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.69%) CMS
8 12 (0.46%) Apache
9 11 (0.42%) JBoss
9 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.076%) nginx
14 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) InVision
9 3 (0.11%) Maya
9 3 (0.11%) MotionBuilder
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Weka
10 2 (0.076%) Revit
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 25 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
3 23 (0.88%) Shopify
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.42%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
11 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.19%) Magento
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 567 (21.62%) Azure
2 450 (17.16%) AWS
3 206 (7.86%) SaaS
4 201 (7.67%) GCP
5 115 (4.39%) GitHub
6 112 (4.27%) Power Platform
7 106 (4.04%) Entra ID
8 100 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
9 94 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
10 86 (3.28%) Serverless
11 58 (2.21%) dbt
12 56 (2.14%) Snowflake
13 44 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.49%) PowerApps
16 37 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
18 33 (1.26%) GitHub Copilot
19 32 (1.22%) Amazon S3
19 32 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.23%) Broadband
2 66 (2.52%) Firewall
3 47 (1.79%) VPN
4 44 (1.68%) WAN
5 41 (1.56%) DNS
6 40 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.37%) DHCP
8 29 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 26 (0.99%) LAN
9 26 (0.99%) Network Security
10 19 (0.72%) Ethernet
11 17 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.65%) Wireless
12 16 (0.61%) BGP
13 15 (0.57%) RS-232
14 12 (0.46%) HTTP
15 11 (0.42%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.34%) OSPF
17 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.16%) SQL Server
2 83 (3.17%) Power BI
3 74 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.56%) Metadata
7 36 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 35 (1.33%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.18%) BigQuery
10 27 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (0.99%) MySQL
11 26 (0.99%) Redis
11 26 (0.99%) Tableau
12 24 (0.92%) OLTP
13 19 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.69%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.61%) Looker
15 16 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 77 (2.94%) JIRA
2 75 (2.86%) Git
3 62 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 33 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.03%) GitLab
7 22 (0.84%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
10 10 (0.38%) Postman
11 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.31%) JUnit
11 8 (0.31%) Subversion
11 8 (0.31%) webpack
12 7 (0.27%) git-flow
12 7 (0.27%) JMeter
12 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 562 (21.43%) Finance
2 526 (20.06%) Social Skills
3 281 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 172 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 163 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (4.96%) Marketing
7 125 (4.77%) Law
8 116 (4.42%) Retail
9 101 (3.85%) Banking
10 82 (3.13%) Legal
11 81 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (2.90%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.86%) Games
14 41 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 40 (1.53%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (0.92%) Back Office
18 20 (0.76%) Publishing
19 18 (0.69%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (7.89%) .NET
2 132 (5.03%) React
3 116 (4.42%) REST
4 101 (3.85%) SOAP
5 85 (3.24%) HTML
6 77 (2.94%) RESTful
7 67 (2.56%) GraphQL
7 67 (2.56%) Node.js
8 65 (2.48%) OAuth
9 59 (2.25%) CSS
10 54 (2.06%) Spring
11 51 (1.95%) Kafka
12 44 (1.68%) OpenID
13 42 (1.60%) Spring Boot
14 39 (1.49%) SAML
15 35 (1.33%) .NET Core
15 35 (1.33%) LDAP
16 34 (1.30%) XML
17 31 (1.18%) Django
18 27 (1.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 94 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 84 (3.20%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.40%) Social Media
5 62 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.56%) Cyberattack
8 40 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 38 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 30 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
15 28 (1.07%) Data Structures
15 28 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.07%) Low-Code
16 24 (0.92%) Management Information System
16 24 (0.92%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.45%) Linux
2 92 (3.51%) Windows
3 66 (2.52%) Android
4 54 (2.06%) Apple iOS
5 45 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 32 (1.22%) Unix
7 24 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
9 12 (0.46%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.076%) CentOS
12 2 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (20.21%) Agile
1 530 (20.21%) Mentoring
2 386 (14.72%) Software Engineering
3 376 (14.34%) CI/CD
4 346 (13.20%) Coaching
5 345 (13.16%) DevOps
6 329 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
7 315 (12.01%) AI
8 297 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 230 (8.77%) Roadmaps
10 221 (8.43%) Analytics
11 208 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
12 193 (7.36%) Test Automation
13 184 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 171 (6.52%) Microservices
15 157 (5.99%) User Experience
16 147 (5.61%) Full-Stack Development
17 145 (5.53%) Decision-Making
18 140 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
19 136 (5.19%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 379 (14.45%) SQL
2 316 (12.05%) Python
3 217 (8.28%) Java
4 164 (6.25%) C#
5 149 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 131 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.75%) Go
9 70 (2.67%) Bash
10 65 (2.48%) C++
11 52 (1.98%) PHP
12 50 (1.91%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.75%) Scala
14 38 (1.45%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.26%) Kotlin
16 31 (1.18%) C
17 21 (0.80%) Bicep
18 20 (0.76%) VBA
19 15 (0.57%) Ruby
20 14 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 261 (9.95%) Degree
2 237 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 171 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 81 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.49%) ACCA
8 31 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.14%) CISSP
10 26 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 22 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.76%) CIMA
14 18 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.65%) CISM
16 16 (0.61%) PhD
17 14 (0.53%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 12 (0.46%) OSCP
19 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (3.62%) QA
2 60 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 56 (2.14%) NIST
5 54 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.68%) GDPR
7 34 (1.30%) NCSC
8 20 (0.76%) IFRS
9 15 (0.57%) PMO
10 14 (0.53%) P3O
11 13 (0.50%) GRC
12 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
12 11 (0.42%) SLA
13 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.31%) GAAP
14 8 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 172 (6.56%) Docker
2 112 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.34%) Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.19%) vSphere
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.076%) vCloud
11 1 (0.038%) Ceph
11 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.038%) Lustre
11 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 188 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 172 (6.56%) Terraform
3 52 (1.98%) Grafana
4 43 (1.64%) Ansible
5 42 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.50%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 10 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.15%) Argo
13 4 (0.15%) Istio
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.11%) Plesk
15 2 (0.076%) Nagios
Vendors
1 316 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 131 (5.00%) Oracle
3 75 (2.86%) Databricks
4 63 (2.40%) Google
5 58 (2.21%) Adobe
5 58 (2.21%) VMware
6 52 (1.98%) Cisco
7 50 (1.91%) SAP
8 48 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 25 (0.95%) Okta
10 24 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.72%) Apple
12 14 (0.53%) Dell
12 14 (0.53%) Palo Alto
12 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
13 13 (0.50%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.50%) Workday
14 12 (0.46%) Samsung
15 11 (0.42%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.42%) Wrike