Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,482 2,959 4,395
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.32% 18.84% 15.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.35% 19.67% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,752 1,841 3,682
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £79,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +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 15,179 15,041 26,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.77% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,129 9,110 22,221
10th Percentile £30,921 £35,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £81,250 £75,781
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 15 February 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 15 February 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.

1 590 (23.77%) Azure
2 535 (21.56%) Agile
3 526 (21.19%) Mentoring
4 420 (16.92%) AWS
5 391 (15.75%) CI/CD
6 383 (15.43%) SQL
7 364 (14.67%) Coaching
8 360 (14.50%) DevOps
9 346 (13.94%) Software Engineering
10 309 (12.45%) Microsoft
11 303 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 301 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
13 300 (12.09%) Python
14 285 (11.48%) AI
15 256 (10.31%) Degree
16 220 (8.86%) Security Cleared
17 215 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
18 209 (8.42%) Roadmaps
19 202 (8.14%) .NET
20 201 (8.10%) SaaS
21 200 (8.06%) Java
22 195 (7.86%) Analytics
23 186 (7.49%) Kubernetes
24 185 (7.45%) Terraform
25 181 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
26 180 (7.25%) Test Automation
27 172 (6.93%) GCP
28 167 (6.73%) C#
29 164 (6.61%) Microservices
30 161 (6.49%) Docker

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 62 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.93%) Confluence
3 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.85%) WordPress
6 16 (0.64%) Apache
7 11 (0.44%) CMS
7 11 (0.44%) JBoss
7 11 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.20%) SAS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
10 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.081%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.081%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.040%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 49 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.52%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.40%) InDesign
6 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.24%) Sketch
8 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.16%) Maya
8 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.12%) InVision
9 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.12%) Weka
10 2 (0.081%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.081%) Revit
10 2 (0.081%) Simulink
10 2 (0.081%) Trello
11 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
2 27 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
2 27 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
2 27 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 27 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 26 (1.05%) Oracle General Ledger
4 20 (0.81%) Shopify
5 19 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
6 13 (0.52%) Hyperion Planning
7 11 (0.44%) NEC Housing
7 11 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.36%) Visualfiles
9 8 (0.32%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.20%) Magento
11 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.20%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 590 (23.77%) Azure
2 420 (16.92%) AWS
3 201 (8.10%) SaaS
4 172 (6.93%) GCP
5 138 (5.56%) GitHub
6 129 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 115 (4.63%) Power Platform
9 101 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
10 78 (3.14%) Serverless
11 65 (2.62%) Snowflake
12 63 (2.54%) dbt
13 48 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (1.73%) PowerApps
15 38 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
16 36 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
18 34 (1.37%) OCI
19 33 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.22%) Broadband
2 59 (2.38%) Firewall
3 47 (1.89%) VPN
4 41 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 39 (1.57%) WAN
6 36 (1.45%) DNS
7 30 (1.21%) DHCP
8 25 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 24 (0.97%) Network Security
10 23 (0.93%) LAN
11 15 (0.60%) BGP
11 15 (0.60%) Ethernet
12 14 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.48%) Wireless
14 11 (0.44%) HTTP
15 10 (0.40%) RS-232
15 10 (0.40%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.28%) OSPF
17 6 (0.24%) MPLS
17 6 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.31%) SQL Server
2 94 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (3.26%) Power BI
4 62 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (2.14%) Data Lake
6 39 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.33%) Metadata
8 28 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.05%) MySQL
10 25 (1.01%) BigQuery
11 23 (0.93%) Redis
11 23 (0.93%) Tableau
12 20 (0.81%) DynamoDB
13 19 (0.77%) OLTP
14 17 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
15 16 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (3.38%) JIRA
2 69 (2.78%) Git
3 63 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
5 34 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.97%) Selenium
7 23 (0.93%) GitLab
8 14 (0.56%) Postman
9 10 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.36%) MLflow
11 8 (0.32%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.32%) Subversion
11 8 (0.32%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.28%) git-flow
12 7 (0.28%) JUnit
13 6 (0.24%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 561 (22.60%) Finance
2 532 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 255 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 176 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 152 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 123 (4.96%) Retail
7 103 (4.15%) Law
8 100 (4.03%) Banking
9 95 (3.83%) Marketing
10 81 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 73 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
12 69 (2.78%) Legal
13 61 (2.46%) Games
14 49 (1.97%) Financial Institution
15 42 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
18 22 (0.89%) Back Office
19 21 (0.85%) Front Office
20 20 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (8.14%) .NET
2 131 (5.28%) React
3 123 (4.96%) REST
4 114 (4.59%) SOAP
5 88 (3.55%) RESTful
6 82 (3.30%) HTML
7 73 (2.94%) GraphQL
8 65 (2.62%) OAuth
9 64 (2.58%) Node.js
10 57 (2.30%) CSS
11 50 (2.01%) Spring
12 44 (1.77%) Kafka
12 44 (1.77%) SAML
13 43 (1.73%) OpenID
14 40 (1.61%) XML
15 38 (1.53%) Spring Boot
16 36 (1.45%) LDAP
17 35 (1.41%) .NET Core
18 29 (1.17%) JSON
19 28 (1.13%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 164 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 98 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 89 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (1.61%) Social Media
7 38 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (1.49%) Cyberattack
8 37 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 36 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
11 33 (1.33%) Mobile App
12 31 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
14 24 (0.97%) Driving Licence
14 24 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (0.77%) Management Information System
16 19 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.96%) Linux
2 90 (3.63%) Windows
3 59 (2.38%) Android
4 51 (2.05%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.37%) Unix
7 25 (1.01%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.52%) VMS
9 7 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.081%) CentOS
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (21.56%) Agile
2 526 (21.19%) Mentoring
3 391 (15.75%) CI/CD
4 364 (14.67%) Coaching
5 360 (14.50%) DevOps
6 346 (13.94%) Software Engineering
7 303 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 301 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
9 285 (11.48%) AI
10 215 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
11 209 (8.42%) Roadmaps
12 195 (7.86%) Analytics
13 181 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 180 (7.25%) Test Automation
15 164 (6.61%) Microservices
16 143 (5.76%) Asset Management
17 141 (5.68%) User Experience
18 140 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
19 137 (5.52%) Migration
20 135 (5.44%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 383 (15.43%) SQL
2 300 (12.09%) Python
3 200 (8.06%) Java
4 167 (6.73%) C#
5 139 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 131 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 93 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.98%) Bash
9 61 (2.46%) Go
10 52 (2.10%) C++
11 51 (2.05%) PL/SQL
12 46 (1.85%) PHP
13 40 (1.61%) T-SQL
14 37 (1.49%) Scala
15 31 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.09%) C
17 26 (1.05%) Bicep
18 23 (0.93%) Shell Script
19 18 (0.73%) VBA
20 15 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 256 (10.31%) Degree
2 220 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 159 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 82 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 39 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.49%) ACCA
8 35 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.33%) CISSP
10 31 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.73%) CIMA
13 18 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.68%) CCNP
14 17 (0.68%) CISM
15 13 (0.52%) CREST Certified
15 13 (0.52%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.75%) QA
2 60 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.30%) GDPR
4 55 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 55 (2.22%) NIST
5 54 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 35 (1.41%) NCSC
7 21 (0.85%) IFRS
8 16 (0.64%) GRC
9 15 (0.60%) PMO
10 14 (0.56%) P3O
11 11 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.44%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.44%) MISRA
11 11 (0.44%) MISRA C
12 10 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.32%) GAAP
14 8 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 161 (6.49%) Docker
2 117 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.28%) vSphere
7 5 (0.20%) Firmware
7 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.081%) vCloud
8 2 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.040%) Ceph
9 1 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.040%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 186 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 185 (7.45%) Terraform
3 60 (2.42%) Grafana
4 50 (2.01%) Ansible
5 49 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 45 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.44%) Functional Safety
9 10 (0.40%) SCCM
10 6 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.20%) Argo
11 5 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.20%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.20%) Puppet
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) cPanel
12 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
12 3 (0.12%) Plesk
13 2 (0.081%) Nagios
13 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 309 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.32%) Oracle
3 81 (3.26%) Databricks
4 49 (1.97%) VMware
5 48 (1.93%) Google
5 48 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 46 (1.85%) SAP
7 45 (1.81%) Cisco
8 37 (1.49%) Adobe
9 29 (1.17%) Okta
10 28 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 21 (0.85%) Workday
12 17 (0.68%) Apple
13 14 (0.56%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.56%) Screaming Frog
14 13 (0.52%) Hyperion
15 12 (0.48%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.48%) Samsung
15 12 (0.48%) Talend
16 9 (0.36%) Meraki