Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £69,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 February 2026.

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

6 months to
17 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 2,497 2,925 4,390
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.33% 18.82% 15.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.36% 19.68% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 1,818 3,682
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £79,000
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 15,262 14,864 26,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.65% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,157 8,972 22,220
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £33,516
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,375 £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 17 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 17 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.

1 591 (23.67%) Azure
2 537 (21.51%) Agile
3 528 (21.15%) Mentoring
4 428 (17.14%) AWS
5 392 (15.70%) CI/CD
6 391 (15.66%) SQL
7 364 (14.58%) Coaching
8 361 (14.46%) DevOps
9 353 (14.14%) Software Engineering
10 312 (12.49%) Microsoft
11 307 (12.29%) Python
12 303 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
13 302 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 285 (11.41%) AI
15 254 (10.17%) Degree
16 219 (8.77%) Security Cleared
17 216 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
18 209 (8.37%) Roadmaps
19 206 (8.25%) Java
20 205 (8.21%) .NET
21 203 (8.13%) SaaS
22 201 (8.05%) Analytics
23 187 (7.49%) Kubernetes
24 185 (7.41%) Terraform
25 183 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
26 181 (7.25%) Test Automation
27 178 (7.13%) GCP
28 166 (6.65%) C#
28 166 (6.65%) Microservices
29 164 (6.57%) 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 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.88%) Confluence
6 21 (0.84%) WordPress
7 16 (0.64%) Apache
8 11 (0.44%) CMS
8 11 (0.44%) JBoss
8 11 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.20%) SAS
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.12%) IIS
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.080%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.080%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.040%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 49 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.96%) 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 (0.080%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.080%) Revit
10 2 (0.080%) Simulink
10 2 (0.080%) Trello
11 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
2 27 (1.08%) Oracle Assets
2 27 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
2 27 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
2 27 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 26 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
4 20 (0.80%) Shopify
5 18 (0.72%) 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
1 591 (23.67%) Azure
2 428 (17.14%) AWS
3 203 (8.13%) SaaS
4 178 (7.13%) GCP
5 139 (5.57%) GitHub
6 128 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (4.85%) Entra ID
8 115 (4.61%) Power Platform
9 101 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
10 77 (3.08%) Serverless
11 67 (2.68%) dbt
12 65 (2.60%) Snowflake
13 48 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (1.68%) PowerApps
15 38 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
16 37 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
18 34 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
18 34 (1.36%) OCI
19 33 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.36%) Broadband
2 59 (2.36%) Firewall
3 47 (1.88%) VPN
4 41 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 39 (1.56%) WAN
6 36 (1.44%) DNS
7 30 (1.20%) DHCP
8 25 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 24 (0.96%) Network Security
10 23 (0.92%) LAN
11 16 (0.64%) Ethernet
12 15 (0.60%) BGP
13 14 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.48%) Wireless
15 11 (0.44%) HTTP
15 11 (0.44%) RS-232
16 10 (0.40%) Unified Communications
17 7 (0.28%) OSPF
18 6 (0.24%) MPLS
18 6 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 95 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (3.24%) Power BI
4 63 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (2.16%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 37 (1.48%) Metadata
8 30 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 29 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (1.16%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.04%) MySQL
12 23 (0.92%) Redis
12 23 (0.92%) Tableau
13 20 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.72%) OLTP
15 17 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
16 16 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (3.36%) JIRA
2 69 (2.76%) Git
3 62 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.84%) Oracle Forms
5 34 (1.36%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.96%) Selenium
7 23 (0.92%) 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
1 563 (22.55%) Finance
2 534 (21.39%) Social Skills
3 255 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 175 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 152 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (4.97%) Retail
7 109 (4.37%) Law
8 101 (4.04%) Banking
9 97 (3.88%) Marketing
10 81 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 74 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.80%) Legal
13 61 (2.44%) Games
14 50 (2.00%) Financial Institution
15 43 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.36%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
18 22 (0.88%) Back Office
19 21 (0.84%) Front Office
20 20 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (8.21%) .NET
2 135 (5.41%) React
3 123 (4.93%) REST
4 114 (4.57%) SOAP
5 89 (3.56%) RESTful
6 82 (3.28%) HTML
7 73 (2.92%) GraphQL
8 66 (2.64%) Node.js
9 65 (2.60%) OAuth
10 57 (2.28%) CSS
11 50 (2.00%) Spring
12 48 (1.92%) Kafka
13 44 (1.76%) SAML
14 43 (1.72%) OpenID
15 40 (1.60%) XML
16 38 (1.52%) Spring Boot
17 36 (1.44%) LDAP
18 35 (1.40%) .NET Core
19 29 (1.16%) JSON
20 28 (1.12%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 166 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 98 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 90 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (1.84%) Social Media
6 45 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (1.48%) Cyberattack
8 37 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 36 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
11 33 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.20%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
14 24 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
15 23 (0.92%) Driving Licence
16 22 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (0.76%) Data Structures
17 19 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
17 19 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.93%) Linux
2 89 (3.56%) Windows
3 60 (2.40%) Android
4 51 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.36%) Unix
7 25 (1.00%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.52%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.080%) CentOS
11 2 (0.080%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (21.51%) Agile
2 528 (21.15%) Mentoring
3 392 (15.70%) CI/CD
4 364 (14.58%) Coaching
5 361 (14.46%) DevOps
6 353 (14.14%) Software Engineering
7 303 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
8 302 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 285 (11.41%) AI
10 216 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
11 209 (8.37%) Roadmaps
12 201 (8.05%) Analytics
13 183 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 181 (7.25%) Test Automation
15 166 (6.65%) Microservices
16 142 (5.69%) Asset Management
17 141 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
18 140 (5.61%) User Experience
19 139 (5.57%) Migration
20 136 (5.45%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 391 (15.66%) SQL
2 307 (12.29%) Python
3 206 (8.25%) Java
4 166 (6.65%) C#
5 142 (5.69%) JavaScript
6 133 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 92 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.88%) Bash
9 61 (2.44%) Go
10 57 (2.28%) C++
11 50 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.88%) PHP
13 42 (1.68%) Scala
14 40 (1.60%) T-SQL
15 32 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 29 (1.16%) C
17 25 (1.00%) Bicep
18 23 (0.92%) Shell Script
19 18 (0.72%) VBA
20 15 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 254 (10.17%) Degree
2 219 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 158 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 83 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 39 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.48%) ACCA
8 34 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.32%) CISSP
10 31 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.04%) PMI Certification
12 23 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.72%) CIMA
13 18 (0.72%) 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 (3.72%) QA
2 60 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.28%) GDPR
4 55 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 55 (2.20%) NIST
5 54 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 35 (1.40%) NCSC
7 21 (0.84%) IFRS
8 16 (0.64%) GRC
9 14 (0.56%) P3O
9 14 (0.56%) PMO
10 11 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.44%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.44%) MISRA
10 11 (0.44%) MISRA C
11 10 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.32%) GAAP
13 8 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (6.57%) Docker
2 117 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.28%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
8 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.080%) vCloud
9 2 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.040%) Ceph
10 1 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.040%) Lustre
10 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 187 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 185 (7.41%) Terraform
3 59 (2.36%) Grafana
4 49 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 48 (1.92%) Ansible
6 45 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.96%) 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 (0.080%) Nagios
13 2 (0.080%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 312 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.29%) Oracle
3 82 (3.28%) Databricks
4 49 (1.96%) VMware
5 48 (1.92%) Google
5 48 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 46 (1.84%) SAP
7 45 (1.80%) Cisco
8 38 (1.52%) Adobe
9 29 (1.16%) Okta
10 28 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 21 (0.84%) 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