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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 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 3,852 2,172 4,223
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.63% 13.28% 18.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.67% 14.31% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,524 1,438 2,476
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £53,750
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,103 15,176 22,108
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 92.79% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,128 8,958 13,965
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 24 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 24 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 (19.42%) Agile
2 745 (19.34%) Mentoring
3 717 (18.61%) Azure
4 660 (17.13%) Software Engineering
5 630 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 627 (16.28%) AWS
7 605 (15.71%) AI
8 586 (15.21%) CI/CD
9 533 (13.84%) Python
10 501 (13.01%) DevOps
11 491 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
12 478 (12.41%) Microsoft
13 439 (11.40%) SQL
14 392 (10.18%) Coaching
15 375 (9.74%) Degree
16 364 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
17 356 (9.24%) Security Cleared
18 353 (9.16%) Decision-Making
18 353 (9.16%) Project Delivery
19 352 (9.14%) Analytics
20 312 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 301 (7.81%) SC Cleared
22 285 (7.40%) C#
23 280 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
24 252 (6.54%) Roadmaps
25 238 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
26 236 (6.13%) GCP
26 236 (6.13%) Test Automation
27 231 (6.00%) JavaScript
28 230 (5.97%) Java

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 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.57%) Confluence
5 20 (0.52%) CMS
6 17 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.36%) Apache
8 13 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.34%) WordPress
9 10 (0.26%) IIS
9 10 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.078%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.078%) Artix
12 3 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.078%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.078%) Moodle
13 2 (0.052%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.026%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 77 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.31%) Civil 3D
6 12 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.23%) InDesign
7 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.10%) Revit
12 3 (0.078%) Blender
12 3 (0.078%) Maya
12 3 (0.078%) Trello
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.62%) 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
1 717 (18.61%) Azure
2 627 (16.28%) AWS
3 236 (6.13%) GCP
4 226 (5.87%) SaaS
5 164 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 160 (4.15%) Power Platform
7 145 (3.76%) Entra ID
8 117 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.93%) GitHub
9 113 (2.93%) Serverless
10 54 (1.40%) Amazon S3
11 51 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 42 (1.09%) Azure AKS
14 42 (1.09%) PowerApps
15 41 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.10%) Firewall
2 92 (2.39%) Network Security
3 78 (2.02%) DNS
4 77 (2.00%) VLAN
5 65 (1.69%) VPN
6 59 (1.53%) Broadband
6 59 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
7 57 (1.48%) Wireless
8 55 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 52 (1.35%) WAN
10 47 (1.22%) LAN
11 45 (1.17%) DHCP
12 30 (0.78%) BGP
13 22 (0.57%) OSPF
13 22 (0.57%) SMS
14 19 (0.49%) 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 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (3.17%) Power BI
3 101 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 71 (1.84%) Metadata
5 63 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 55 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (1.22%) MySQL
8 47 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 42 (1.09%) DynamoDB
10 27 (0.70%) Tableau
11 24 (0.62%) Data Lake
12 21 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
13 19 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
14 18 (0.47%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.44%) OLTP
16 16 (0.42%) Big Data
17 15 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 134 (3.48%) Git
2 60 (1.56%) JIRA
3 40 (1.04%) GitLab
4 26 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.65%) Snyk
6 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.36%) JUnit
8 12 (0.31%) Selenium
9 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.26%) Maven
10 10 (0.26%) Postman
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.18%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.10%) MLflow
14 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 975 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 627 (16.28%) Finance
3 452 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 350 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 293 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 265 (6.88%) Legal
7 236 (6.13%) Law
8 150 (3.89%) Banking
9 131 (3.40%) Marketing
10 103 (2.67%) Retail
11 74 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 73 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 67 (1.74%) Telecoms
14 66 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
16 56 (1.45%) Electronics
16 56 (1.45%) Local Government
17 49 (1.27%) Games
18 46 (1.19%) Aerospace
19 45 (1.17%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (5.79%) Terraform
2 211 (5.48%) .NET
3 165 (4.28%) React
4 117 (3.04%) Node.js
5 103 (2.67%) REST
6 92 (2.39%) HTML
7 86 (2.23%) CSS
8 81 (2.10%) RESTful
9 65 (1.69%) Spring
10 44 (1.14%) AngularJS
10 44 (1.14%) PySpark
10 44 (1.14%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.91%) Laravel
12 34 (0.88%) .NET Core
12 34 (0.88%) Kafka
12 34 (0.88%) Vue
13 31 (0.80%) Next.js
14 28 (0.73%) Web Services
15 27 (0.70%) OAuth
15 27 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 227 (5.89%) Cloud Native
2 107 (2.78%) Driving Licence
3 102 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 63 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 60 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 57 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 43 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 41 (1.06%) Blog
14 40 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (0.99%) Mobile App
16 35 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 34 (0.88%) Algorithms
18 32 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
19 30 (0.78%) Data Structures
20 29 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 162 (4.21%) Linux
2 150 (3.89%) Windows
3 62 (1.61%) Unix
4 60 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 28 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.62%) Android
7 21 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 10 (0.26%) VMS
11 8 (0.21%) 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 (19.42%) Agile
2 745 (19.34%) Mentoring
3 660 (17.13%) Software Engineering
4 630 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 605 (15.71%) AI
6 586 (15.21%) CI/CD
7 501 (13.01%) DevOps
8 491 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 392 (10.18%) Coaching
10 364 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
11 353 (9.16%) Decision-Making
11 353 (9.16%) Project Delivery
12 352 (9.14%) Analytics
13 312 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 280 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 252 (6.54%) Roadmaps
16 238 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
17 236 (6.13%) Test Automation
18 205 (5.32%) Technical Leadership
19 202 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 533 (13.84%) Python
2 439 (11.40%) SQL
3 285 (7.40%) C#
4 231 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 230 (5.97%) Java
6 207 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 138 (3.58%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.54%) C++
9 54 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 52 (1.35%) Go
10 52 (1.35%) PHP
11 51 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 48 (1.25%) C
13 36 (0.93%) Bash
14 29 (0.75%) Bicep
15 23 (0.60%) Embedded C
16 21 (0.55%) R
17 20 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.52%) Ruby
18 19 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 375 (9.74%) Degree
2 356 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 301 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.49%) CISSP
5 91 (2.36%) CISM
6 70 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 60 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.40%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
9 49 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.14%) HNC
12 39 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 38 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
14 33 (0.86%) DBS Check
15 25 (0.65%) ACCA
16 24 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.94%) QA
2 128 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 116 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (1.92%) GDPR
6 57 (1.48%) NIST
7 47 (1.22%) GRC
8 31 (0.80%) 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
1 180 (4.67%) Docker
2 142 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.27%) 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
1 207 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 109 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.09%) Ansible
4 33 (0.86%) Grafana
5 19 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.47%) Argo
7 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.21%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.16%) Avamar
10 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.16%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) SCCM
12 4 (0.10%) FTK
12 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 478 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.25%) Oracle
3 87 (2.26%) Adobe
3 87 (2.26%) Google
4 69 (1.79%) Cisco
5 66 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 66 (1.71%) VMware
6 62 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 59 (1.53%) Palo Alto
8 55 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 51 (1.32%) SAP
10 49 (1.27%) Databricks
11 35 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
12 32 (0.83%) Informatica
13 31 (0.80%) Apple
13 31 (0.80%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.73%) Pega
14 28 (0.73%) Tenable
15 23 (0.60%) YouTube
16 22 (0.57%) Splunk