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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,952 2,143 4,037
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.90% 12.85% 18.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.93% 13.78% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,566 1,407 2,396
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £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% - -3.70%

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 23,342 15,548 20,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.24% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 8,763 12,969
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -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 10 October 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 10 October 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.

1 751 (19.00%) Agile
2 740 (18.72%) Mentoring
3 707 (17.89%) Azure
4 699 (17.69%) Software Engineering
5 650 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 636 (16.09%) AWS
7 609 (15.41%) CI/CD
8 603 (15.26%) AI
9 550 (13.92%) Python
10 518 (13.11%) DevOps
11 500 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
12 461 (11.66%) Microsoft
13 458 (11.59%) SQL
14 395 (9.99%) Coaching
15 375 (9.49%) Degree
15 375 (9.49%) Security Cleared
16 357 (9.03%) Analytics
17 352 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
18 344 (8.70%) Decision-Making
19 343 (8.68%) Project Delivery
20 311 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 310 (7.84%) SC Cleared
22 291 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
23 287 (7.26%) C#
24 270 (6.83%) Java
25 255 (6.45%) Test Automation
26 247 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
27 242 (6.12%) Roadmaps
27 242 (6.12%) SaaS
28 240 (6.07%) Terraform

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 81 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 23 (0.58%) Confluence
5 20 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.40%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.30%) WordPress
10 10 (0.25%) SAS
11 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.20%) IIS
12 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.076%) Artix
13 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.076%) Moodle
13 3 (0.076%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 78 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.33%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.23%) InDesign
7 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.18%) Revit
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.076%) Blender
11 3 (0.076%) Maya
12 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.051%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.051%) SPSS
12 2 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.48%) Cloudability
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 10 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.25%) Shopify
7 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.15%) Primavera
10 5 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
10 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.051%) SAP CO
12 2 (0.051%) SAP FI
12 2 (0.051%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 707 (17.89%) Azure
2 636 (16.09%) AWS
3 242 (6.12%) SaaS
4 239 (6.05%) GCP
5 158 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 157 (3.97%) Power Platform
7 151 (3.82%) Entra ID
8 116 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (2.94%) GitHub
9 102 (2.58%) Serverless
10 56 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 44 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (1.01%) IaaS
15 38 (0.96%) PowerApps
16 37 (0.94%) Azure AKS
16 37 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 37 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 152 (3.85%) Firewall
2 99 (2.51%) Network Security
3 78 (1.97%) VLAN
4 74 (1.87%) DNS
5 67 (1.70%) VPN
6 61 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 60 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 59 (1.49%) Wireless
9 54 (1.37%) Broadband
10 48 (1.21%) WAN
11 46 (1.16%) LAN
12 38 (0.96%) DHCP
13 32 (0.81%) BGP
14 24 (0.61%) SMS
15 22 (0.56%) OSPF
16 18 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.40%) WLAN
18 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
19 12 (0.30%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (3.01%) Power BI
3 101 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 72 (1.82%) Metadata
5 59 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.42%) MongoDB
7 51 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.19%) MySQL
9 46 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (1.09%) NoSQL
11 39 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.71%) Tableau
13 24 (0.61%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.51%) OLTP
16 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
17 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
18 17 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
18 17 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 135 (3.42%) Git
2 63 (1.59%) JIRA
3 39 (0.99%) GitLab
4 31 (0.78%) TeamCity
5 27 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 19 (0.48%) Snyk
7 17 (0.43%) JUnit
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.25%) Maven
10 10 (0.25%) Mockito
11 9 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.23%) Postman
12 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.10%) MLflow
14 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 984 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 649 (16.42%) Finance
3 460 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 360 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 295 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
6 260 (6.58%) Legal
7 249 (6.30%) Law
8 160 (4.05%) Banking
9 129 (3.26%) Marketing
10 128 (3.24%) Retail
11 74 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 73 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 65 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.49%) Electronics
16 57 (1.44%) Aerospace
17 56 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
18 54 (1.37%) Local Government
19 51 (1.29%) Games
20 45 (1.14%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (6.07%) Terraform
2 210 (5.31%) .NET
3 152 (3.85%) React
4 105 (2.66%) Node.js
4 105 (2.66%) REST
5 90 (2.28%) RESTful
6 87 (2.20%) HTML
7 82 (2.07%) CSS
8 71 (1.80%) Spring
9 50 (1.27%) Spring Boot
10 44 (1.11%) AngularJS
11 40 (1.01%) PySpark
12 37 (0.94%) Kafka
13 35 (0.89%) Vue
14 34 (0.86%) Laravel
15 31 (0.78%) .NET Core
15 31 (0.78%) Next.js
16 29 (0.73%) OAuth
17 27 (0.68%) Playwright
17 27 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 115 (2.91%) Driving Licence
3 112 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 84 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 68 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 64 (1.62%) AI Agents
9 53 (1.34%) Blog
10 50 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 49 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 48 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 38 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (0.89%) Mobile App
16 33 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
18 31 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
19 30 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.15%) Linux
2 137 (3.47%) Windows
3 61 (1.54%) Unix
4 60 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
7 20 (0.51%) Android
8 11 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.25%) VMS
10 9 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
11 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.076%) Debian
14 2 (0.051%) Rocky
14 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.025%) AIX
15 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (19.00%) Agile
2 740 (18.72%) Mentoring
3 699 (17.69%) Software Engineering
4 650 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 609 (15.41%) CI/CD
6 603 (15.26%) AI
7 518 (13.11%) DevOps
8 500 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
9 395 (9.99%) Coaching
10 357 (9.03%) Analytics
11 352 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
12 344 (8.70%) Decision-Making
13 343 (8.68%) Project Delivery
14 311 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 291 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 255 (6.45%) Test Automation
17 247 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 242 (6.12%) Roadmaps
19 213 (5.39%) Technical Leadership
20 210 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 550 (13.92%) Python
2 458 (11.59%) SQL
3 287 (7.26%) C#
4 270 (6.83%) Java
5 222 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 195 (4.93%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.48%) C++
9 63 (1.59%) Go
10 58 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.29%) PHP
13 48 (1.21%) C
14 43 (1.09%) Bash
15 31 (0.78%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.48%) Ruby
18 19 (0.48%) Rust
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 375 (9.49%) Degree
1 375 (9.49%) Security Cleared
2 310 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 99 (2.51%) CISSP
4 94 (2.38%) CISM
5 70 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 57 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 54 (1.37%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.32%) HNC
9 46 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 39 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 38 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 37 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.94%) DBS Check
14 35 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 26 (0.66%) PhD
16 24 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (5.77%) QA
2 121 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 117 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 86 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (1.82%) GDPR
6 60 (1.52%) NIST
7 41 (1.04%) GRC
8 31 (0.78%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 21 (0.53%) NCSC
11 17 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.43%) SLA
12 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.25%) COBIT
16 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.20%) GxP
17 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 197 (4.98%) Docker
2 141 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.78%) vSphere
6 24 (0.61%) Firmware
7 11 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.18%) vCloud
11 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.076%) iptables
13 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.025%) GPFS
14 1 (0.025%) Lustre
14 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 227 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 113 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 48 (1.21%) Grafana
4 43 (1.09%) Ansible
5 19 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.38%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.15%) Avamar
9 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.15%) VxRail
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 4 (0.10%) Cilium
11 4 (0.10%) FTK
11 4 (0.10%) Packer
11 4 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 461 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 123 (3.11%) Oracle
3 102 (2.58%) Google
4 68 (1.72%) Cisco
5 67 (1.70%) VMware
6 66 (1.67%) Adobe
7 59 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 58 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.42%) CyberArk
10 49 (1.24%) Databricks
10 49 (1.24%) Palo Alto
11 40 (1.01%) SAP
12 31 (0.78%) Informatica
12 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 28 (0.71%) Pega
14 27 (0.68%) Apple
14 27 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
14 27 (0.68%) YouTube
15 22 (0.56%) Aruba
16 21 (0.53%) Tenable