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 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 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 2,279 3,110 3,874
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.66% 18.97% 15.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.65% 19.76% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,603 1,944 3,207
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 £83,250 £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 14,558 15,740 23,366
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 96.01% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9,497 9,472 19,288
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,713 £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 £81,000 £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% -8.33%

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 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 23 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.

1 548 (24.05%) Azure
2 519 (22.77%) Agile
3 447 (19.61%) Mentoring
4 391 (17.16%) AWS
5 375 (16.45%) SQL
6 371 (16.28%) CI/CD
7 358 (15.71%) DevOps
8 324 (14.22%) Software Engineering
9 302 (13.25%) Python
10 299 (13.12%) Coaching
11 281 (12.33%) Microsoft
12 266 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
13 262 (11.50%) AI
14 256 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 243 (10.66%) Degree
16 201 (8.82%) .NET
16 201 (8.82%) Roadmaps
17 196 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
18 186 (8.16%) Java
19 178 (7.81%) C#
19 178 (7.81%) SaaS
19 178 (7.81%) Security Cleared
20 176 (7.72%) Terraform
21 172 (7.55%) Analytics
22 167 (7.33%) Test Automation
23 165 (7.24%) Kubernetes
24 164 (7.20%) Asset Management
25 152 (6.67%) Microservices
26 150 (6.58%) Docker
26 150 (6.58%) JavaScript

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 53 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (1.27%) Confluence
4 28 (1.23%) Apache
5 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.92%) IIS
6 21 (0.92%) WordPress
7 20 (0.88%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.44%) CMS
8 10 (0.44%) JBoss
8 10 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.088%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.088%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.088%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.088%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.044%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.61%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.44%) InDesign
6 7 (0.31%) 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 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.13%) Weka
11 2 (0.088%) InVision
11 2 (0.088%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.088%) Revit
11 2 (0.088%) Simulink
12 1 (0.044%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.76%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.32%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
5 21 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.88%) Shopify
7 14 (0.61%) Hyperion Planning
8 12 (0.53%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.35%) 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 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 548 (24.05%) Azure
2 391 (17.16%) AWS
3 178 (7.81%) SaaS
4 148 (6.49%) GCP
5 145 (6.36%) GitHub
6 135 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
7 103 (4.52%) Power Platform
8 99 (4.34%) Entra ID
9 89 (3.91%) Serverless
10 87 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
11 73 (3.20%) Snowflake
12 68 (2.98%) dbt
13 48 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.84%) PowerApps
16 39 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
17 36 (1.58%) OCI
18 35 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (1.49%) Amazon S3
20 33 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.98%) Broadband
2 55 (2.41%) Firewall
3 46 (2.02%) VPN
4 40 (1.76%) WAN
5 34 (1.49%) DNS
5 34 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.14%) LAN
7 25 (1.10%) Network Security
7 25 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 23 (1.01%) DHCP
9 19 (0.83%) 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%) OSPF
12 10 (0.44%) Unified Communications
13 9 (0.39%) RS-232
14 7 (0.31%) MPLS
15 6 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.16%) Power BI
4 68 (2.98%) Data Lake
5 59 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (1.76%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.36%) DynamoDB
8 30 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
9 28 (1.23%) MongoDB
10 27 (1.18%) Metadata
11 26 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (1.10%) MySQL
13 21 (0.92%) Apache Arrow
13 21 (0.92%) Apache Ignite
13 21 (0.92%) Dremio
14 19 (0.83%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (3.82%) JIRA
2 72 (3.16%) Git
3 67 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.15%) Oracle Forms
5 31 (1.36%) Selenium
6 28 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.92%) GitLab
8 20 (0.88%) Postman
9 13 (0.57%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.53%) SoapUI
11 10 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.39%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.35%) Subversion
14 7 (0.31%) git-flow
14 7 (0.31%) JMeter
14 7 (0.31%) MLflow
15 6 (0.26%) JUnit
15 6 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 548 (24.05%) Finance
2 499 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 186 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 160 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 110 (4.83%) Retail
7 105 (4.61%) Banking
8 93 (4.08%) Marketing
9 83 (3.64%) Law
10 70 (3.07%) Telecoms
11 68 (2.98%) Legal
12 64 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
13 57 (2.50%) Games
14 39 (1.71%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.62%) Front Office
15 37 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.23%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (1.10%) Investment Banking
19 23 (1.01%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (8.82%) .NET
2 138 (6.06%) React
3 113 (4.96%) REST
4 107 (4.70%) SOAP
5 98 (4.30%) RESTful
6 84 (3.69%) HTML
7 66 (2.90%) GraphQL
8 60 (2.63%) Node.js
9 57 (2.50%) CSS
10 54 (2.37%) OAuth
11 45 (1.97%) Spring
12 42 (1.84%) gRPC
13 40 (1.76%) XML
14 39 (1.71%) Kafka
15 36 (1.58%) .NET Core
16 34 (1.49%) SAML
16 34 (1.49%) Spring Boot
17 32 (1.40%) OpenID
18 30 (1.32%) .NET Framework
19 29 (1.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 145 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 97 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 84 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 34 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 33 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 32 (1.40%) Social Media
10 31 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 28 (1.23%) Hedge funds
11 28 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 27 (1.18%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
13 26 (1.14%) Derivative
14 25 (1.10%) Cyberattack
14 25 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (0.97%) Fixed Income
15 22 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 105 (4.61%) Linux
2 82 (3.60%) Windows
3 46 (2.02%) Android
4 37 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.23%) Unix
7 19 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.53%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.088%) CentOS
10 2 (0.088%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (22.77%) Agile
2 447 (19.61%) Mentoring
3 371 (16.28%) CI/CD
4 358 (15.71%) DevOps
5 324 (14.22%) Software Engineering
6 299 (13.12%) Coaching
7 266 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
8 262 (11.50%) AI
9 256 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 201 (8.82%) Roadmaps
11 196 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
12 172 (7.55%) Analytics
13 167 (7.33%) Test Automation
14 164 (7.20%) Asset Management
15 152 (6.67%) Microservices
16 145 (6.36%) Stakeholder Management
17 133 (5.84%) Infrastructure as Code
18 132 (5.79%) Clean Code
18 132 (5.79%) User Experience
19 124 (5.44%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 375 (16.45%) SQL
2 302 (13.25%) Python
3 186 (8.16%) Java
4 178 (7.81%) C#
5 150 (6.58%) JavaScript
6 144 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 86 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.68%) Bash
9 52 (2.28%) Go
10 49 (2.15%) C++
11 47 (2.06%) PL/SQL
12 37 (1.62%) PHP
13 33 (1.45%) Kotlin
14 32 (1.40%) Scala
14 32 (1.40%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.14%) Bicep
16 24 (1.05%) Shell Script
17 23 (1.01%) C
18 20 (0.88%) Ruby
19 15 (0.66%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 243 (10.66%) Degree
2 178 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 129 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 78 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.97%) CISSP
6 43 (1.89%) ACCA
7 38 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.40%) CISM
11 27 (1.18%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.92%) CCNP
12 21 (0.92%) CIMA
13 19 (0.83%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.75%) CESG Certified Professional
15 16 (0.70%) AAT
15 16 (0.70%) CISMP
15 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
15 16 (0.70%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.52%) QA
2 61 (2.68%) NIST
3 60 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.37%) GDPR
5 51 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.97%) Data Quality
7 41 (1.80%) NCSC
8 20 (0.88%) IFRS
9 18 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 17 (0.75%) JSP 440
10 17 (0.75%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.70%) PMO
11 16 (0.70%) RMADS
12 14 (0.61%) GRC
13 10 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.44%) IEC 61508
13 10 (0.44%) MISRA
13 10 (0.44%) MISRA C
14 9 (0.39%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.39%) P3O
System Software
1 150 (6.58%) Docker
2 99 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.31%) vSphere
8 6 (0.26%) Firmware
8 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.088%) vCloud
9 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.044%) Ceph
10 1 (0.044%) Lustre
10 1 (0.044%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 176 (7.72%) Terraform
2 165 (7.24%) Kubernetes
3 53 (2.33%) Grafana
4 48 (2.11%) Ansible
5 47 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 37 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.44%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.26%) SCCM
11 5 (0.22%) Argo
12 4 (0.18%) 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 (0.088%) Nagios
14 2 (0.088%) Nessus
14 2 (0.088%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 281 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 125 (5.48%) Oracle
3 75 (3.29%) Databricks
4 50 (2.19%) Cisco
5 42 (1.84%) Google
5 42 (1.84%) SAP
6 40 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 39 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.71%) VMware
8 29 (1.27%) Adobe
8 29 (1.27%) Okta
9 22 (0.97%) Workday
10 14 (0.61%) Hyperion
10 14 (0.61%) Screaming Frog
11 13 (0.57%) Fortinet
11 13 (0.57%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.48%) Talend
13 10 (0.44%) Meraki
14 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.39%) Zoho