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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,952 2,289 5,645
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.30% 17.00% 17.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.39% 18.54% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,098 1,652 4,351
10th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
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 16,977 12,346 31,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 91.70% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,297 9,013 24,940
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,550 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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.

1 606 (20.53%) Mentoring
2 586 (19.85%) Azure
3 562 (19.04%) Agile
4 485 (16.43%) AWS
5 430 (14.57%) Software Engineering
6 393 (13.31%) SQL
7 376 (12.74%) CI/CD
8 374 (12.67%) AI
9 368 (12.47%) Coaching
10 358 (12.13%) DevOps
11 352 (11.92%) Microsoft
12 351 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
13 333 (11.28%) Python
14 290 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 271 (9.18%) Roadmaps
16 268 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
17 257 (8.71%) Security Cleared
18 251 (8.50%) Degree
19 238 (8.06%) Analytics
20 236 (7.99%) Java
21 209 (7.08%) GCP
22 199 (6.74%) SC Cleared
23 198 (6.71%) .NET
24 195 (6.61%) Test Automation
25 190 (6.44%) Kubernetes
26 179 (6.06%) User Experience
27 178 (6.03%) SaaS
28 177 (6.00%) Terraform
29 176 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
30 175 (5.93%) Decision-Making

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 84 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 24 (0.81%) CMS
3 24 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.75%) Confluence
5 9 (0.30%) Apache
6 8 (0.27%) JBoss
6 8 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.20%) SAS
7 6 (0.20%) WordPress
8 5 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.17%) IIS
9 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.068%) nginx
11 2 (0.068%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.034%) Appian
12 1 (0.034%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.034%) Artix
Applications
1 33 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.24%) Sketch
7 6 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.14%) InVision
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.068%) Maya
11 2 (0.068%) MotionBuilder
11 2 (0.068%) Revit
11 2 (0.068%) Weka
Business Applications
1 27 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
2 21 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
3 17 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 16 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
4 16 (0.54%) Cloudability
4 16 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
5 13 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 12 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.37%) Visualfiles
8 9 (0.30%) Shopify
9 8 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
10 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.20%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 586 (19.85%) Azure
2 485 (16.43%) AWS
3 209 (7.08%) GCP
4 178 (6.03%) SaaS
5 117 (3.96%) Power Platform
6 111 (3.76%) GitHub
7 105 (3.56%) Serverless
8 103 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
9 98 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 97 (3.29%) Entra ID
11 49 (1.66%) Snowflake
12 48 (1.63%) PowerApps
13 44 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (1.36%) Azure Service Bus
16 38 (1.29%) Figma
16 38 (1.29%) Power Automate
17 37 (1.25%) dbt
18 36 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 123 (4.17%) Broadband
2 79 (2.68%) Firewall
3 55 (1.86%) DNS
3 55 (1.86%) VPN
4 51 (1.73%) WAN
5 46 (1.56%) DHCP
6 38 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.08%) LAN
7 32 (1.08%) SD-WAN
8 28 (0.95%) Network Security
9 22 (0.75%) Wireless
10 20 (0.68%) BGP
10 20 (0.68%) HTTP
10 20 (0.68%) RS-232
11 19 (0.64%) Ethernet
12 17 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.34%) OSPF
14 9 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.30%) MPLS
15 8 (0.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 88 (2.98%) Power BI
3 75 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (1.66%) MongoDB
6 48 (1.63%) Metadata
7 41 (1.39%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.12%) BigQuery
9 30 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (0.91%) OLTP
11 26 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (0.85%) Tableau
13 24 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.75%) DynamoDB
16 18 (0.61%) Looker
16 18 (0.61%) Redis
16 18 (0.61%) Relational Database
16 18 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 78 (2.64%) Git
2 68 (2.30%) JIRA
3 54 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.46%) GitLab
5 34 (1.15%) TeamCity
6 28 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
7 20 (0.68%) Selenium
8 17 (0.58%) Claude Code
9 16 (0.54%) Snyk
10 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.34%) MLflow
12 9 (0.30%) Postman
13 8 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.27%) JUnit
14 7 (0.24%) JMeter
14 7 (0.24%) Subversion
14 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.24%) webpack
14 7 (0.24%) XCUITest
General
1 585 (19.82%) Finance
2 552 (18.70%) Social Skills
3 357 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 198 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 175 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.44%) Marketing
7 124 (4.20%) Banking
7 124 (4.20%) Law
8 103 (3.49%) Legal
9 93 (3.15%) Retail
10 88 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.51%) Games
12 68 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 51 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 45 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 24 (0.81%) Back Office
18 22 (0.75%) Publishing
19 21 (0.71%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (6.71%) .NET
2 134 (4.54%) React
3 121 (4.10%) REST
4 92 (3.12%) Node.js
5 86 (2.91%) SOAP
6 77 (2.61%) HTML
7 73 (2.47%) RESTful
8 59 (2.00%) OAuth
9 58 (1.96%) GraphQL
10 53 (1.80%) CSS
11 50 (1.69%) Spring
12 47 (1.59%) Kafka
13 42 (1.42%) OpenID
14 41 (1.39%) .NET Core
14 41 (1.39%) Spring Boot
15 38 (1.29%) SAML
16 35 (1.19%) JSON
17 32 (1.08%) LDAP
17 32 (1.08%) React Native
18 30 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (5.86%) Cloud Native
2 105 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 64 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 61 (2.07%) Onboarding
4 61 (2.07%) Social Media
5 58 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 47 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 43 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (1.42%) Cyberattack
11 35 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
12 33 (1.12%) Driving Licence
12 33 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.12%) Over-the-Top Content
12 33 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (1.05%) Data Structures
13 31 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 29 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 142 (4.81%) Linux
2 116 (3.93%) Windows
3 70 (2.37%) Android
4 58 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 48 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 38 (1.29%) Unix
7 21 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.27%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.10%) CentOS
12 3 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.068%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.068%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.034%) AIX
14 1 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (20.53%) Mentoring
2 562 (19.04%) Agile
3 430 (14.57%) Software Engineering
4 376 (12.74%) CI/CD
5 374 (12.67%) AI
6 368 (12.47%) Coaching
7 358 (12.13%) DevOps
8 351 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
9 290 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 271 (9.18%) Roadmaps
11 268 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
12 238 (8.06%) Analytics
13 195 (6.61%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.06%) User Experience
15 176 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 175 (5.93%) Decision-Making
17 171 (5.79%) Microservices
18 154 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
19 147 (4.98%) Infrastructure as Code
20 138 (4.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 393 (13.31%) SQL
2 333 (11.28%) Python
3 236 (7.99%) Java
4 162 (5.49%) C#
5 150 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 140 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 100 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.54%) Go
9 71 (2.41%) C++
10 69 (2.34%) Bash
11 52 (1.76%) PHP
11 52 (1.76%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.59%) Scala
13 40 (1.36%) T-SQL
14 38 (1.29%) C
15 36 (1.22%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.78%) VBA
17 22 (0.75%) Bicep
18 17 (0.58%) Rust
19 16 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 257 (8.71%) Security Cleared
2 251 (8.50%) Degree
3 199 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 77 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.36%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (1.08%) ACCA
9 27 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 27 (0.91%) CISSP
10 26 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 25 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.81%) CIMA
13 16 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.51%) CIPFA
14 15 (0.51%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.51%) PhD
15 14 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.35%) QA
2 75 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 60 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 54 (1.83%) NIST
5 44 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.25%) GDPR
7 31 (1.05%) NCSC
8 26 (0.88%) GRC
9 21 (0.71%) PMO
10 20 (0.68%) SLA
11 13 (0.44%) P3O
12 11 (0.37%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.37%) MISRA
12 11 (0.37%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.30%) IFRS
15 8 (0.27%) WCAG
16 7 (0.24%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (5.32%) Docker
2 114 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.61%) vSphere
6 15 (0.51%) Firmware
7 10 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.27%) vCloud
9 7 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 190 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 177 (6.00%) Terraform
3 47 (1.59%) Grafana
4 41 (1.39%) Ansible
5 32 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 22 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.64%) Argo
9 14 (0.47%) SCCM
10 13 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.37%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.24%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.17%) Istio
13 5 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.10%) Avamar
15 3 (0.10%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 352 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 144 (4.88%) Oracle
3 101 (3.42%) Adobe
4 71 (2.41%) VMware
5 65 (2.20%) Databricks
6 62 (2.10%) Google
6 62 (2.10%) SAP
7 46 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 45 (1.52%) Cisco
8 45 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.12%) Apple
9 33 (1.12%) Palo Alto
10 25 (0.85%) Dell
11 24 (0.81%) Okta
12 19 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (0.54%) Tenable
14 14 (0.47%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.44%) Citrix
15 13 (0.44%) SolarWinds
16 11 (0.37%) NetApp