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 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,835 2,163 4,157
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.59% 13.39% 18.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.63% 14.44% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,514 1,430 2,459
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £53,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.11% -6.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.74%

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 23,064 14,979 21,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 92.70% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 16,125 8,882 13,898
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 £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 23 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 23 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.

1 748 (19.50%) Agile
2 745 (19.43%) Mentoring
3 716 (18.67%) Azure
4 657 (17.13%) Software Engineering
5 631 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 625 (16.30%) AWS
7 602 (15.70%) AI
8 586 (15.28%) CI/CD
9 530 (13.82%) Python
10 499 (13.01%) DevOps
11 490 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
12 479 (12.49%) Microsoft
13 436 (11.37%) SQL
14 391 (10.20%) Coaching
15 374 (9.75%) Degree
16 362 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
17 354 (9.23%) Security Cleared
18 353 (9.20%) Decision-Making
19 352 (9.18%) Project Delivery
20 350 (9.13%) Analytics
21 312 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 300 (7.82%) SC Cleared
23 284 (7.41%) C#
24 277 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
25 251 (6.54%) Roadmaps
26 238 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
27 235 (6.13%) GCP
27 235 (6.13%) Test Automation
28 230 (6.00%) JavaScript
29 229 (5.97%) 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 96 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.57%) Confluence
5 20 (0.52%) CMS
6 16 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.34%) Apache
7 13 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.34%) WordPress
8 10 (0.26%) IIS
8 10 (0.26%) SAS
9 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.078%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.078%) Artix
11 3 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.078%) Moodle
12 2 (0.052%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 76 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
1 76 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
2 33 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.44%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.31%) Civil 3D
5 12 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.23%) InDesign
6 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.10%) Revit
11 3 (0.078%) Blender
11 3 (0.078%) Maya
11 3 (0.078%) Trello
12 2 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.63%) Cloudability
2 20 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
8 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.23%) Shopify
9 6 (0.16%) Primavera
10 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.078%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.078%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.078%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.052%) HFM
12 2 (0.052%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 716 (18.67%) Azure
2 625 (16.30%) AWS
3 235 (6.13%) GCP
4 225 (5.87%) SaaS
5 164 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
6 158 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 145 (3.78%) Entra ID
8 117 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.95%) Serverless
10 112 (2.92%) GitHub
11 54 (1.41%) Amazon S3
12 50 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
15 42 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (1.10%) Azure AKS
15 42 (1.10%) PowerApps
16 41 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.12%) Firewall
2 92 (2.40%) Network Security
3 79 (2.06%) DNS
4 77 (2.01%) VLAN
5 66 (1.72%) VPN
6 59 (1.54%) Broadband
6 59 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
7 56 (1.46%) Wireless
8 54 (1.41%) TCP/IP
9 53 (1.38%) WAN
10 48 (1.25%) LAN
11 45 (1.17%) DHCP
12 30 (0.78%) BGP
13 22 (0.57%) OSPF
13 22 (0.57%) SMS
14 19 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.42%) RS-232
17 15 (0.39%) HTTP
17 15 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (3.16%) Power BI
3 101 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 70 (1.83%) Metadata
5 63 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 55 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (1.23%) MySQL
8 47 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 42 (1.10%) DynamoDB
10 26 (0.68%) Tableau
11 24 (0.63%) Data Lake
12 21 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
14 17 (0.44%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.44%) OLTP
15 16 (0.42%) Big Data
16 15 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 134 (3.49%) Git
2 60 (1.56%) JIRA
3 39 (1.02%) GitLab
4 25 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 25 (0.65%) Snyk
5 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 14 (0.37%) JUnit
7 12 (0.31%) Selenium
8 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.26%) Postman
10 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.23%) Maven
11 7 (0.18%) Mockito
12 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.13%) Gatling
12 5 (0.13%) Poetry
13 4 (0.10%) MLflow
13 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 972 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 620 (16.17%) Finance
3 450 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 347 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 265 (6.91%) Legal
7 236 (6.15%) Law
8 149 (3.89%) Banking
9 129 (3.36%) Marketing
10 101 (2.63%) Retail
11 73 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 73 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (1.75%) Telecoms
13 64 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 60 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
15 56 (1.46%) Local Government
16 55 (1.43%) Electronics
17 49 (1.28%) Games
18 45 (1.17%) Legal Technology
19 44 (1.15%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (5.79%) Terraform
2 210 (5.48%) .NET
3 163 (4.25%) React
4 117 (3.05%) Node.js
5 102 (2.66%) REST
6 91 (2.37%) HTML
7 85 (2.22%) CSS
8 81 (2.11%) RESTful
9 65 (1.69%) Spring
10 44 (1.15%) AngularJS
10 44 (1.15%) PySpark
10 44 (1.15%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.91%) Laravel
12 34 (0.89%) .NET Core
12 34 (0.89%) Kafka
13 33 (0.86%) Vue
14 31 (0.81%) Next.js
15 28 (0.73%) Web Services
16 27 (0.70%) OAuth
16 27 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 225 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 107 (2.79%) Driving Licence
3 101 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 63 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 60 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 55 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 43 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 41 (1.07%) Blog
13 41 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (0.99%) Mobile App
15 34 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.86%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
18 30 (0.78%) Data Structures
19 29 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 162 (4.22%) Linux
2 150 (3.91%) Windows
3 62 (1.62%) Unix
4 61 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.65%) Android
7 21 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 10 (0.26%) VMS
11 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.078%) Debian
14 2 (0.052%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.052%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.026%) AIX
15 1 (0.026%) CentOS
15 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (19.50%) Agile
2 745 (19.43%) Mentoring
3 657 (17.13%) Software Engineering
4 631 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 602 (15.70%) AI
6 586 (15.28%) CI/CD
7 499 (13.01%) DevOps
8 490 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
9 391 (10.20%) Coaching
10 362 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
11 353 (9.20%) Decision-Making
12 352 (9.18%) Project Delivery
13 350 (9.13%) Analytics
14 312 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 277 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 251 (6.54%) Roadmaps
17 238 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
18 235 (6.13%) Test Automation
19 204 (5.32%) Technical Leadership
20 202 (5.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 530 (13.82%) Python
2 436 (11.37%) SQL
3 284 (7.41%) C#
4 230 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 226 (5.89%) Java
6 206 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 138 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.53%) C++
9 54 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 52 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 52 (1.36%) PHP
11 51 (1.33%) Go
12 48 (1.25%) C
13 36 (0.94%) Bash
14 29 (0.76%) Bicep
15 23 (0.60%) Embedded C
16 21 (0.55%) R
17 20 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.52%) Ruby
17 20 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 374 (9.75%) Degree
2 354 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 300 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.50%) CISSP
5 91 (2.37%) CISM
6 70 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 61 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.41%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
9 49 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.15%) HNC
12 43 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 38 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 38 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.86%) DBS Check
16 32 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.65%) ACCA
18 24 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.97%) QA
2 128 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 114 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.90%) GDPR
6 56 (1.46%) NIST
7 47 (1.23%) GRC
8 30 (0.78%) PMO
9 23 (0.60%) WCAG
10 21 (0.55%) SLA
11 20 (0.52%) NCSC
12 13 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.26%) COBIT
15 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.21%) GxP
16 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 178 (4.64%) Docker
2 142 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.86%) vSphere
6 25 (0.65%) Firmware
6 25 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.18%) vCloud
10 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.078%) iptables
12 2 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.026%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.026%) GPFS
13 1 (0.026%) Lustre
13 1 (0.026%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 205 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 109 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.10%) Ansible
4 32 (0.83%) Grafana
5 18 (0.47%) Argo
5 18 (0.47%) FortiGate
6 11 (0.29%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.16%) Avamar
9 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.16%) 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 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.26%) Oracle
3 87 (2.27%) Adobe
4 85 (2.22%) Google
5 68 (1.77%) Cisco
6 67 (1.75%) VMware
7 64 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 59 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.43%) CyberArk
11 51 (1.33%) SAP
12 50 (1.30%) Databricks
13 35 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
14 32 (0.83%) Informatica
15 31 (0.81%) Apple
15 31 (0.81%) OpenAI
16 28 (0.73%) Pega
16 28 (0.73%) Tenable
17 23 (0.60%) YouTube
18 22 (0.57%) Aruba