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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,645 2,395 5,169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.80% 18.69% 16.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.86% 19.85% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,888 1,749 4,264
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -10.71%

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 15,691 12,064 29,765
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 94.17% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,214 8,908 24,470
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £46,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
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 1 April 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 1 April 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.

1 560 (21.17%) Azure
2 530 (20.04%) Agile
3 527 (19.92%) Mentoring
4 454 (17.16%) AWS
5 399 (15.09%) Software Engineering
6 376 (14.22%) SQL
7 365 (13.80%) CI/CD
8 341 (12.89%) DevOps
9 338 (12.78%) Coaching
10 333 (12.59%) Microsoft
11 331 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
12 313 (11.83%) AI
13 307 (11.61%) Python
14 285 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 254 (9.60%) Degree
16 243 (9.19%) Security Cleared
17 240 (9.07%) Roadmaps
18 223 (8.43%) Analytics
19 217 (8.20%) Java
20 209 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
21 207 (7.83%) .NET
22 204 (7.71%) GCP
23 201 (7.60%) SaaS
24 190 (7.18%) Kubernetes
25 186 (7.03%) Test Automation
26 179 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
27 178 (6.73%) SC Cleared
28 172 (6.50%) Docker
28 172 (6.50%) Microservices
29 166 (6.28%) 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 66 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.83%) WordPress
5 21 (0.79%) Confluence
6 20 (0.76%) CMS
6 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.45%) Apache
8 11 (0.42%) JBoss
8 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.23%) IIS
9 6 (0.23%) SAS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.076%) nginx
12 2 (0.076%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 44 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.26%) Sketch
7 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.15%) InVision
7 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Weka
9 2 (0.076%) Maya
9 2 (0.076%) MotionBuilder
9 2 (0.076%) Revit
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
2 23 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 23 (0.87%) Shopify
3 21 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
3 21 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 16 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.42%) Visualfiles
8 10 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
8 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
9 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.19%) Magento
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 560 (21.17%) Azure
2 454 (17.16%) AWS
3 204 (7.71%) GCP
4 201 (7.60%) SaaS
5 113 (4.27%) Power Platform
6 106 (4.01%) GitHub
7 100 (3.78%) Entra ID
8 98 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
9 90 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (3.21%) Serverless
11 55 (2.08%) dbt
12 54 (2.04%) Snowflake
13 43 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (1.55%) PowerApps
15 39 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
18 34 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
19 32 (1.21%) Figma
19 32 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 113 (4.27%) Broadband
2 69 (2.61%) Firewall
3 48 (1.81%) VPN
4 45 (1.70%) WAN
5 44 (1.66%) DNS
6 39 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 38 (1.44%) DHCP
8 30 (1.13%) SD-WAN
9 26 (0.98%) LAN
9 26 (0.98%) Network Security
10 19 (0.72%) Ethernet
11 18 (0.68%) Wireless
12 17 (0.64%) RS-232
13 16 (0.60%) BGP
13 16 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (0.57%) HTTP
15 13 (0.49%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.34%) OSPF
17 7 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.21%) Power BI
3 67 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (1.63%) Metadata
4 43 (1.63%) NoSQL
5 34 (1.29%) MongoDB
6 32 (1.21%) Data Lake
7 31 (1.17%) BigQuery
8 28 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 26 (0.98%) Redis
11 25 (0.95%) Tableau
12 23 (0.87%) MySQL
12 23 (0.87%) OLTP
13 22 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.64%) DynamoDB
14 17 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 77 (2.91%) Git
2 70 (2.65%) JIRA
3 58 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.44%) TeamCity
5 29 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.02%) GitLab
7 21 (0.79%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.30%) JUnit
11 8 (0.30%) Postman
11 8 (0.30%) Subversion
11 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.30%) webpack
12 7 (0.26%) JMeter
12 7 (0.26%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 559 (21.13%) Finance
2 530 (20.04%) Social Skills
3 293 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 166 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.95%) Marketing
7 127 (4.80%) Law
8 115 (4.35%) Banking
9 110 (4.16%) Retail
10 88 (3.33%) Legal
11 83 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.80%) Games
13 73 (2.76%) Telecoms
14 42 (1.59%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (1.29%) Financial Institution
18 26 (0.98%) Back Office
19 20 (0.76%) Publishing
20 18 (0.68%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (7.83%) .NET
2 134 (5.07%) React
3 116 (4.39%) REST
4 89 (3.36%) SOAP
5 85 (3.21%) HTML
6 74 (2.80%) RESTful
7 69 (2.61%) Node.js
8 66 (2.50%) GraphQL
9 61 (2.31%) OAuth
10 60 (2.27%) CSS
11 53 (2.00%) Spring
12 50 (1.89%) Kafka
13 43 (1.63%) OpenID
14 41 (1.55%) Spring Boot
15 37 (1.40%) .NET Core
15 37 (1.40%) SAML
16 32 (1.21%) Django
16 32 (1.21%) LDAP
17 29 (1.10%) XML
18 27 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 168 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 89 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 77 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 65 (2.46%) Social Media
5 63 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 42 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.55%) Cyberattack
10 38 (1.44%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
12 32 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
13 31 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.13%) Security Posture
15 29 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
16 28 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
18 26 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 141 (5.33%) Linux
2 97 (3.67%) Windows
3 70 (2.65%) Android
4 57 (2.16%) Apple iOS
5 47 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.13%) Unix
7 24 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.38%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.076%) CentOS
12 2 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (20.04%) Agile
2 527 (19.92%) Mentoring
3 399 (15.09%) Software Engineering
4 365 (13.80%) CI/CD
5 341 (12.89%) DevOps
6 338 (12.78%) Coaching
7 331 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
8 313 (11.83%) AI
9 285 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 240 (9.07%) Roadmaps
11 223 (8.43%) Analytics
12 209 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
13 186 (7.03%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 172 (6.50%) Microservices
16 160 (6.05%) User Experience
17 149 (5.63%) Full-Stack Development
18 147 (5.56%) Decision-Making
19 139 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
20 138 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 376 (14.22%) SQL
2 307 (11.61%) Python
3 217 (8.20%) Java
4 165 (6.24%) C#
5 154 (5.82%) JavaScript
6 135 (5.10%) TypeScript
7 84 (3.18%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.68%) Go
9 67 (2.53%) Bash
10 66 (2.50%) C++
11 51 (1.93%) PHP
12 47 (1.78%) Scala
13 46 (1.74%) PL/SQL
14 37 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 37 (1.40%) T-SQL
15 32 (1.21%) C
16 21 (0.79%) Bicep
16 21 (0.79%) VBA
17 14 (0.53%) R
17 14 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 254 (9.60%) Degree
2 243 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 178 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 79 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 41 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.51%) ACCA
8 34 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.21%) CISSP
10 25 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.87%) CIMA
13 18 (0.68%) CISM
14 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.57%) PhD
16 14 (0.53%) CREST Certified
17 13 (0.49%) AWS Certification
18 12 (0.45%) CIPFA
18 12 (0.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.48%) QA
2 62 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 59 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (2.16%) NIST
5 45 (1.70%) GDPR
6 32 (1.21%) NCSC
7 19 (0.72%) IFRS
8 16 (0.60%) PMO
9 14 (0.53%) P3O
10 13 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.45%) GRC
12 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 172 (6.50%) Docker
2 110 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.38%) Firmware
7 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.26%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) vCloud
8 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.038%) Ceph
10 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.038%) Lustre
10 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 190 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 166 (6.28%) Terraform
3 52 (1.97%) Grafana
4 41 (1.55%) Ansible
5 40 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.49%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 10 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.15%) Argo
13 4 (0.15%) Istio
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.11%) Plesk
15 2 (0.076%) MIIS
Vendors
1 333 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 129 (4.88%) Oracle
3 74 (2.80%) Databricks
4 68 (2.57%) Adobe
5 66 (2.50%) Google
6 63 (2.38%) VMware
7 54 (2.04%) SAP
8 52 (1.97%) Cisco
9 44 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 23 (0.87%) Okta
11 22 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.72%) Apple
13 17 (0.64%) Palo Alto
14 16 (0.60%) Dell
15 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
16 12 (0.45%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.45%) Meraki
16 12 (0.45%) Samsung
17 11 (0.42%) IBM
17 11 (0.42%) Talend