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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 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 2,297 3,104 3,959
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.72% 18.96% 15.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.71% 19.75% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,615 1,943 3,289
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,631 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 14,620 15,720 23,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 96.01% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9,539 9,451 19,773
10th Percentile £30,250 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%

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 24 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 24 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.

1 555 (24.16%) Azure
2 523 (22.77%) Agile
3 457 (19.90%) Mentoring
4 397 (17.28%) AWS
5 376 (16.37%) CI/CD
5 376 (16.37%) SQL
6 361 (15.72%) DevOps
7 328 (14.28%) Software Engineering
8 308 (13.41%) Coaching
9 303 (13.19%) Python
10 287 (12.49%) Microsoft
11 271 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
12 267 (11.62%) AI
13 263 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 244 (10.62%) Degree
15 206 (8.97%) Roadmaps
16 202 (8.79%) .NET
17 195 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
18 190 (8.27%) Java
19 181 (7.88%) SaaS
20 179 (7.79%) C#
20 179 (7.79%) Terraform
21 177 (7.71%) Security Cleared
22 176 (7.66%) Analytics
23 170 (7.40%) Kubernetes
24 169 (7.36%) Test Automation
25 164 (7.14%) Asset Management
26 154 (6.70%) Microservices
27 152 (6.62%) GCP
28 150 (6.53%) Docker

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 55 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.22%) Apache
3 28 (1.22%) Confluence
4 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.91%) WordPress
6 20 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.87%) IIS
7 11 (0.48%) JBoss
7 11 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.44%) CMS
9 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.087%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.087%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.087%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.044%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.61%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.44%) InDesign
6 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.26%) Sketch
8 5 (0.22%) Maya
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.22%) MotionBuilder
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.13%) Weka
11 2 (0.087%) InVision
11 2 (0.087%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.087%) Revit
11 2 (0.087%) Simulink
12 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.74%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.31%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.31%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
5 22 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.87%) Shopify
7 14 (0.61%) Hyperion Planning
8 12 (0.52%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.22%) Magento
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.22%) Visualfiles
12 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.17%) NetSuite
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
13 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 555 (24.16%) Azure
2 397 (17.28%) AWS
3 181 (7.88%) SaaS
4 152 (6.62%) GCP
5 145 (6.31%) GitHub
6 135 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 107 (4.66%) Power Platform
8 101 (4.40%) Entra ID
9 90 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
10 88 (3.83%) Serverless
11 73 (3.18%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.00%) dbt
13 49 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.96%) PowerApps
15 43 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
17 36 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.57%) OCI
18 34 (1.48%) Amazon S3
19 33 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.96%) Broadband
2 56 (2.44%) Firewall
3 47 (2.05%) VPN
4 41 (1.78%) WAN
5 36 (1.57%) DNS
6 35 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.13%) LAN
7 26 (1.13%) Network Security
7 26 (1.13%) SD-WAN
8 25 (1.09%) DHCP
9 18 (0.78%) BGP
10 14 (0.61%) Ethernet
10 14 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.61%) Wireless
11 11 (0.48%) HTTP
12 10 (0.44%) Unified Communications
13 9 (0.39%) OSPF
13 9 (0.39%) RS-232
14 7 (0.30%) MPLS
15 6 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.18%) Power BI
4 68 (2.96%) Data Lake
5 59 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 29 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 29 (1.26%) DynamoDB
8 28 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
8 28 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (1.22%) Metadata
8 28 (1.22%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (1.09%) MySQL
11 21 (0.91%) Apache Arrow
11 21 (0.91%) Apache Ignite
11 21 (0.91%) Dremio
12 19 (0.83%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (3.74%) JIRA
2 71 (3.09%) Git
3 67 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (1.26%) Selenium
5 29 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 21 (0.91%) GitLab
7 18 (0.78%) Postman
8 12 (0.52%) WebDriver
9 11 (0.48%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.35%) Subversion
12 7 (0.30%) git-flow
12 7 (0.30%) MLflow
13 6 (0.26%) JMeter
13 6 (0.26%) JUnit
14 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 552 (24.03%) Finance
2 507 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 196 (8.53%) Public Sector
4 162 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 112 (4.88%) Retail
7 107 (4.66%) Banking
8 94 (4.09%) Marketing
9 84 (3.66%) Law
10 70 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 66 (2.87%) Legal
12 64 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
13 58 (2.53%) Games
14 41 (1.78%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.61%) Front Office
16 36 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (1.22%) Manufacturing
18 26 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (1.09%) Investment Banking
20 21 (0.91%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (8.79%) .NET
2 135 (5.88%) React
3 114 (4.96%) REST
4 107 (4.66%) SOAP
5 95 (4.14%) RESTful
6 82 (3.57%) HTML
7 66 (2.87%) GraphQL
8 59 (2.57%) Node.js
9 56 (2.44%) CSS
10 54 (2.35%) OAuth
11 46 (2.00%) Spring
12 42 (1.83%) gRPC
13 40 (1.74%) XML
14 39 (1.70%) Kafka
15 36 (1.57%) .NET Core
16 34 (1.48%) SAML
16 34 (1.48%) Spring Boot
17 32 (1.39%) OpenID
18 30 (1.31%) .NET Framework
19 29 (1.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 148 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 97 (4.22%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 34 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 33 (1.44%) Social Media
10 32 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 29 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 28 (1.22%) Hedge funds
14 27 (1.18%) Driving Licence
15 26 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
15 26 (1.13%) Derivative
16 25 (1.09%) Cyberattack
17 24 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
17 24 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (0.96%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.66%) Linux
2 84 (3.66%) Windows
3 47 (2.05%) Android
4 38 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.22%) Unix
7 20 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.57%) VMS
9 4 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.087%) CentOS
10 2 (0.087%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (22.77%) Agile
2 457 (19.90%) Mentoring
3 376 (16.37%) CI/CD
4 361 (15.72%) DevOps
5 328 (14.28%) Software Engineering
6 308 (13.41%) Coaching
7 271 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (11.62%) AI
9 263 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 206 (8.97%) Roadmaps
11 195 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
12 176 (7.66%) Analytics
13 169 (7.36%) Test Automation
14 164 (7.14%) Asset Management
15 154 (6.70%) Microservices
16 150 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 136 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
18 134 (5.83%) User Experience
19 132 (5.75%) Clean Code
20 124 (5.40%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 376 (16.37%) SQL
2 303 (13.19%) Python
3 190 (8.27%) Java
4 179 (7.79%) C#
5 150 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 143 (6.23%) TypeScript
7 86 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 62 (2.70%) Bash
9 55 (2.39%) Go
10 50 (2.18%) C++
11 47 (2.05%) PL/SQL
12 37 (1.61%) PHP
13 33 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 32 (1.39%) Scala
14 32 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.13%) Bicep
16 24 (1.04%) Shell Script
17 23 (1.00%) C
18 20 (0.87%) Ruby
19 17 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 244 (10.62%) Degree
2 177 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 129 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 78 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.96%) CISSP
6 43 (1.87%) ACCA
7 38 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.44%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.39%) CISM
12 28 (1.22%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.91%) CIMA
15 20 (0.87%) CCNP
16 16 (0.70%) AAT
16 16 (0.70%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.70%) Master's Degree
17 15 (0.65%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.53%) QA
2 60 (2.61%) NIST
3 59 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.35%) GDPR
5 53 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 40 (1.74%) NCSC
8 20 (0.87%) IFRS
9 18 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 16 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 16 (0.70%) NIST 800
10 16 (0.70%) PMO
11 15 (0.65%) RMADS
12 14 (0.61%) GRC
13 13 (0.57%) P3O
14 11 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.44%) IEC 61508
15 10 (0.44%) MISRA
15 10 (0.44%) MISRA C
16 9 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 150 (6.53%) Docker
2 101 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.30%) vSphere
8 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.22%) Firmware
10 2 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.087%) vCloud
10 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.044%) Ceph
11 1 (0.044%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 179 (7.79%) Terraform
2 170 (7.40%) Kubernetes
3 55 (2.39%) Grafana
4 49 (2.13%) Ansible
5 47 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 38 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.44%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.26%) SCCM
11 5 (0.22%) Argo
12 4 (0.17%) Puppet
13 3 (0.13%) Control-M
13 3 (0.13%) cPanel
13 3 (0.13%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.087%) Nagios
14 2 (0.087%) Nessus
14 2 (0.087%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 287 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 126 (5.49%) Oracle
3 75 (3.27%) Databricks
4 49 (2.13%) Cisco
5 42 (1.83%) Google
5 42 (1.83%) VMware
6 41 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 40 (1.74%) SAP
8 38 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.31%) Adobe
10 29 (1.26%) Okta
11 22 (0.96%) Workday
12 14 (0.61%) Hyperion
12 14 (0.61%) Screaming Frog
13 13 (0.57%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.57%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.48%) Talend
15 10 (0.44%) Meraki
16 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
16 9 (0.39%) Zoho