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 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 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 2,225 3,093 3,643
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.58% 18.89% 15.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.55% 19.66% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,926 3,003
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £54,149
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £80,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £98,750
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 14,307 15,733 21,954
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 96.07% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,333 9,460 18,068
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
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 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 19 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 19 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.

1 534 (24.00%) Azure
2 511 (22.97%) Agile
3 421 (18.92%) Mentoring
4 379 (17.03%) AWS
5 369 (16.58%) SQL
6 361 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 352 (15.82%) DevOps
8 308 (13.84%) Software Engineering
9 300 (13.48%) Python
10 283 (12.72%) Coaching
11 266 (11.96%) Microsoft
12 258 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
13 254 (11.42%) AI
14 240 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 234 (10.52%) Degree
16 196 (8.81%) .NET
17 189 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
18 187 (8.40%) Roadmaps
19 181 (8.13%) Java
20 175 (7.87%) C#
21 173 (7.78%) Security Cleared
21 173 (7.78%) Terraform
22 172 (7.73%) SaaS
23 169 (7.60%) Analytics
24 164 (7.37%) Asset Management
25 161 (7.24%) Kubernetes
26 158 (7.10%) Test Automation
27 153 (6.88%) JavaScript
28 147 (6.61%) Docker
29 146 (6.56%) TypeScript

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 50 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (1.30%) Apache
3 29 (1.30%) Confluence
4 21 (0.94%) IIS
4 21 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.94%) WordPress
5 18 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.45%) CMS
6 10 (0.45%) JBoss
6 10 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.090%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.090%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.090%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.090%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.63%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.45%) InDesign
6 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.22%) Maya
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.22%) MotionBuilder
8 5 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.090%) InVision
11 2 (0.090%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.090%) Revit
11 2 (0.090%) Simulink
11 2 (0.090%) Weka
12 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.80%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.35%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.26%) Oracle Financials
5 20 (0.90%) Shopify
6 19 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
7 14 (0.63%) Hyperion Planning
8 12 (0.54%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.40%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (0.22%) Magento
11 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.22%) Visualfiles
12 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
12 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
12 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.18%) SAP PP
13 2 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 534 (24.00%) Azure
2 379 (17.03%) AWS
3 172 (7.73%) SaaS
4 143 (6.43%) GitHub
5 141 (6.34%) GCP
6 135 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 94 (4.22%) Entra ID
9 91 (4.09%) Serverless
10 83 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
11 73 (3.28%) Snowflake
12 69 (3.10%) dbt
13 47 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
15 38 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 37 (1.66%) OCI
17 35 (1.57%) Amazon S3
17 35 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 33 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.88%) Broadband
2 51 (2.29%) Firewall
3 44 (1.98%) VPN
4 38 (1.71%) WAN
5 35 (1.57%) Network Security
6 34 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 33 (1.48%) DNS
8 24 (1.08%) LAN
9 23 (1.03%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.94%) DHCP
11 20 (0.90%) Unified Communications
12 19 (0.85%) BGP
13 14 (0.63%) Ethernet
14 13 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.58%) Wireless
15 11 (0.49%) HTTP
16 10 (0.45%) OSPF
17 9 (0.40%) RS-232
18 7 (0.31%) MPLS
19 6 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.24%) Power BI
4 71 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 57 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.44%) DynamoDB
8 30 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (1.26%) Apache Iceberg
10 27 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 27 (1.21%) Metadata
10 27 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (1.08%) MySQL
12 22 (0.99%) Apache Arrow
12 22 (0.99%) Apache Ignite
12 22 (0.99%) Dremio
13 19 (0.85%) Redis
14 18 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 85 (3.82%) JIRA
2 70 (3.15%) Git
3 67 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
5 30 (1.35%) Selenium
6 26 (1.17%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.99%) GitLab
8 20 (0.90%) Postman
9 13 (0.58%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.54%) SoapUI
11 10 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.36%) Subversion
14 7 (0.31%) git-flow
14 7 (0.31%) JMeter
15 6 (0.27%) JUnit
15 6 (0.27%) MLflow
15 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 534 (24.00%) Finance
2 480 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 168 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 159 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 144 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
6 107 (4.81%) Retail
7 103 (4.63%) Banking
8 92 (4.13%) Marketing
9 81 (3.64%) Law
10 69 (3.10%) Telecoms
11 61 (2.74%) Legal
11 61 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
12 55 (2.47%) Games
13 38 (1.71%) Front Office
14 36 (1.62%) Financial Institution
15 34 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.17%) Investment Banking
18 24 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
19 23 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (8.81%) .NET
2 137 (6.16%) React
3 110 (4.94%) REST
4 104 (4.67%) SOAP
5 95 (4.27%) RESTful
6 83 (3.73%) HTML
7 67 (3.01%) GraphQL
8 59 (2.65%) Node.js
9 56 (2.52%) CSS
10 51 (2.29%) OAuth
11 46 (2.07%) Spring
12 44 (1.98%) gRPC
13 40 (1.80%) XML
14 38 (1.71%) Kafka
15 36 (1.62%) .NET Core
16 35 (1.57%) Spring Boot
17 31 (1.39%) SAML
18 30 (1.35%) JSON
19 29 (1.30%) .NET Framework
19 29 (1.30%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 140 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 94 (4.22%) Onboarding
3 83 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 33 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 33 (1.48%) Social Media
8 29 (1.30%) Hedge funds
8 29 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 28 (1.26%) Derivative
9 28 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 27 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 26 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.17%) Security Posture
12 25 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
14 23 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 22 (0.99%) Equities
15 22 (0.99%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 99 (4.45%) Linux
2 78 (3.51%) Windows
3 45 (2.02%) Android
4 36 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.21%) Unix
7 17 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.54%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.090%) CentOS
10 2 (0.090%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.090%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (22.97%) Agile
2 421 (18.92%) Mentoring
3 361 (16.22%) CI/CD
4 352 (15.82%) DevOps
5 308 (13.84%) Software Engineering
6 283 (12.72%) Coaching
7 258 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
8 254 (11.42%) AI
9 240 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 189 (8.49%) Cybersecurity
11 187 (8.40%) Roadmaps
12 169 (7.60%) Analytics
13 164 (7.37%) Asset Management
14 158 (7.10%) Test Automation
15 145 (6.52%) Microservices
16 132 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 130 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
18 129 (5.80%) Clean Code
19 127 (5.71%) User Experience
20 118 (5.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 369 (16.58%) SQL
2 300 (13.48%) Python
3 181 (8.13%) Java
4 175 (7.87%) C#
5 153 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 146 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 83 (3.73%) PowerShell
8 57 (2.56%) Bash
9 50 (2.25%) Go
10 46 (2.07%) C++
10 46 (2.07%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.53%) Scala
12 33 (1.48%) Kotlin
12 33 (1.48%) PHP
13 30 (1.35%) T-SQL
14 26 (1.17%) Bicep
15 24 (1.08%) Shell Script
16 22 (0.99%) C
17 21 (0.94%) Ruby
18 15 (0.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 234 (10.52%) Degree
2 173 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 125 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 76 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.02%) ACCA
6 41 (1.84%) CISSP
7 37 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (1.39%) CISM
9 31 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.21%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.03%) CIMA
13 20 (0.90%) CCNP
14 17 (0.76%) AAT
14 17 (0.76%) CESG Certified Professional
15 16 (0.72%) CISMP
15 16 (0.72%) IISP
16 15 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 14 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.45%) QA
2 61 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.56%) NIST
4 53 (2.38%) GDPR
5 47 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 39 (1.75%) NCSC
8 20 (0.90%) IFRS
9 17 (0.76%) NIST 800
10 16 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 16 (0.72%) JSP 440
10 16 (0.72%) RMADS
11 15 (0.67%) PMO
12 14 (0.63%) GRC
13 10 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.40%) IEC 61508
14 9 (0.40%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.40%) MISRA
14 9 (0.40%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 147 (6.61%) Docker
2 90 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.31%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.22%) Firmware
10 2 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.090%) vCloud
10 2 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.045%) Ceph
11 1 (0.045%) Lustre
11 1 (0.045%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 173 (7.78%) Terraform
2 161 (7.24%) Kubernetes
3 51 (2.29%) Grafana
4 48 (2.16%) Ansible
5 47 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.99%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.40%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.27%) Argo
11 3 (0.13%) Control-M
11 3 (0.13%) cPanel
11 3 (0.13%) FlexNet
11 3 (0.13%) Plesk
11 3 (0.13%) Puppet
11 3 (0.13%) SCCM
12 2 (0.090%) Nagios
12 2 (0.090%) Nessus
12 2 (0.090%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.090%) SCOM
Vendors
1 266 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 122 (5.48%) Oracle
3 73 (3.28%) Databricks
4 47 (2.11%) Cisco
5 40 (1.80%) SAP
5 40 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 39 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 37 (1.66%) Google
7 37 (1.66%) VMware
8 28 (1.26%) Okta
9 25 (1.12%) Adobe
10 21 (0.94%) Workday
11 14 (0.63%) Hyperion
11 14 (0.63%) Screaming Frog
12 13 (0.58%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.54%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.49%) Talend
15 9 (0.40%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.40%) Zoho
16 8 (0.36%) Northgate