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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,452 2,304 5,330
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.93% 13.98% 18.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.93% 15.16% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,339 1,499 3,876
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £56,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £100,000
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 20,389 15,199 27,973
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.21% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,786 9,441 21,248
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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.

1 699 (20.25%) Agile
2 696 (20.16%) Mentoring
3 646 (18.71%) Azure
4 610 (17.67%) AWS
5 580 (16.80%) Software Engineering
6 531 (15.38%) AI
7 527 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 500 (14.48%) CI/CD
9 483 (13.99%) Python
10 465 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
11 437 (12.66%) DevOps
11 437 (12.66%) Microsoft
12 367 (10.63%) Coaching
13 364 (10.54%) SQL
14 323 (9.36%) Degree
15 314 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
16 308 (8.92%) Analytics
16 308 (8.92%) Project Delivery
17 290 (8.40%) Security Cleared
18 283 (8.20%) Decision-Making
18 283 (8.20%) Roadmaps
19 268 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 267 (7.73%) C#
21 261 (7.56%) Test Automation
22 237 (6.87%) JavaScript
23 232 (6.72%) SC Cleared
24 228 (6.60%) QA
25 225 (6.52%) GCP
26 221 (6.40%) .NET
26 221 (6.40%) 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 90 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.64%) CMS
5 21 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.49%) Confluence
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) IIS
9 11 (0.32%) WordPress
10 8 (0.23%) Apache
10 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.087%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.087%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.087%) Artix
12 3 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.087%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.058%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.029%) Moodle
14 1 (0.029%) WebSphere
Applications
1 82 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.38%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.20%) Civil 3D
7 7 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.14%) InDesign
9 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.12%) Trello
10 3 (0.087%) Blender
10 3 (0.087%) Maya
11 2 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.058%) InVision
11 2 (0.058%) Sketch
11 2 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.70%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.23%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.14%) Shopify
9 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.087%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.087%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 646 (18.71%) Azure
2 610 (17.67%) AWS
3 225 (6.52%) GCP
4 221 (6.40%) SaaS
5 151 (4.37%) Power Platform
6 139 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
7 136 (3.94%) Entra ID
8 127 (3.68%) Serverless
9 91 (2.64%) GitHub
10 88 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (1.48%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 43 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
16 39 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
18 33 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
19 32 (0.93%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 129 (3.74%) Firewall
2 110 (3.19%) Broadband
3 70 (2.03%) DNS
4 64 (1.85%) Network Security
5 59 (1.71%) VPN
6 56 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
7 51 (1.48%) VLAN
8 50 (1.45%) WAN
9 48 (1.39%) Wireless
10 45 (1.30%) DHCP
11 43 (1.25%) LAN
12 36 (1.04%) TCP/IP
13 26 (0.75%) BGP
14 23 (0.67%) RS-232
15 21 (0.61%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.55%) OSPF
17 16 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.46%) WLAN
18 15 (0.43%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.43%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (3.16%) Power BI
2 106 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 47 (1.36%) Metadata
6 38 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.07%) MySQL
8 33 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.87%) Tableau
11 28 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.78%) NoSQL
12 27 (0.78%) OLTP
13 26 (0.75%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 17 (0.49%) Data Lake
16 15 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (0.43%) Big Data
16 15 (0.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 102 (2.95%) Git
2 53 (1.54%) JIRA
3 40 (1.16%) GitLab
4 35 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.72%) Snyk
6 23 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.38%) Selenium
9 10 (0.29%) JUnit
10 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.26%) Postman
11 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
12 7 (0.20%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.17%) Gatling
14 5 (0.14%) MLflow
14 5 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 825 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 562 (16.28%) Finance
3 389 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 264 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 262 (7.59%) Legal
6 221 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
7 220 (6.37%) Law
8 124 (3.59%) Banking
9 119 (3.45%) Marketing
10 85 (2.46%) Retail
11 72 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
12 63 (1.83%) Games
12 63 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 56 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 41 (1.19%) Electronics
15 41 (1.19%) Legal Technology
16 40 (1.16%) Local Government
17 27 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (6.40%) .NET
2 147 (4.26%) React
3 111 (3.22%) Node.js
4 81 (2.35%) REST
5 79 (2.29%) HTML
6 77 (2.23%) RESTful
7 63 (1.83%) CSS
8 50 (1.45%) Spring
9 38 (1.10%) Vue
10 36 (1.04%) HTML5 Canvas
10 36 (1.04%) Kafka
10 36 (1.04%) Spring Boot
11 32 (0.93%) SOAP
12 29 (0.84%) AngularJS
13 28 (0.81%) Laravel
14 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
15 26 (0.75%) JSON
15 26 (0.75%) OAuth
15 26 (0.75%) SPFx
16 25 (0.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.95%) Product Ownership
3 81 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 65 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 64 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 62 (1.80%) Driving Licence
7 56 (1.62%) Social Media
8 52 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 49 (1.42%) AI Agents
10 47 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 43 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 40 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 39 (1.13%) Security Posture
15 36 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 36 (1.04%) Mobile App
16 35 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 34 (0.98%) Management Information System
17 34 (0.98%) Onboarding
18 33 (0.96%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.87%) Linux
2 124 (3.59%) Windows
3 46 (1.33%) Apple iOS
3 46 (1.33%) Unix
3 46 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 42 (1.22%) Android
5 27 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
6 10 (0.29%) VMS
7 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.087%) Debian
9 3 (0.087%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) AIX
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (20.25%) Agile
2 696 (20.16%) Mentoring
3 580 (16.80%) Software Engineering
4 531 (15.38%) AI
5 527 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 500 (14.48%) CI/CD
7 465 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
8 437 (12.66%) DevOps
9 367 (10.63%) Coaching
10 314 (9.10%) Cybersecurity
11 308 (8.92%) Analytics
11 308 (8.92%) Project Delivery
12 283 (8.20%) Decision-Making
12 283 (8.20%) Roadmaps
13 268 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 261 (7.56%) Test Automation
15 210 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 195 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 191 (5.53%) Microservices
18 190 (5.50%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 483 (13.99%) Python
2 364 (10.54%) SQL
3 267 (7.73%) C#
4 237 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 221 (6.40%) Java
6 206 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 138 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 93 (2.69%) C++
9 62 (1.80%) Go
10 58 (1.68%) PHP
11 51 (1.48%) C
12 49 (1.42%) Bash
13 47 (1.36%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.72%) Bicep
14 25 (0.72%) Embedded C
15 23 (0.67%) Scala
16 22 (0.64%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.58%) R
17 20 (0.58%) Rust
17 20 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 323 (9.36%) Degree
2 290 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 232 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.87%) CISSP
5 90 (2.61%) CISM
6 66 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 56 (1.62%) Network+ Certification
8 55 (1.59%) A+ Certification
8 55 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 39 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 37 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 28 (0.81%) PhD
13 25 (0.72%) ACCA
13 25 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.72%) PMI Certification
14 24 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (6.60%) QA
2 82 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 79 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 68 (1.97%) NIST
6 55 (1.59%) GDPR
7 48 (1.39%) GRC
8 31 (0.90%) PMO
9 21 (0.61%) SLA
10 18 (0.52%) NCSC
11 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.35%) WCAG
13 10 (0.29%) P3O
14 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.20%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.17%) COBIT
16 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.14%) GAAP
System Software
1 157 (4.55%) Docker
2 138 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.90%) vSphere
6 22 (0.64%) Firmware
7 14 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
7 14 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.26%) vCloud
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.087%) iptables
12 2 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.029%) GPFS
13 1 (0.029%) Lustre
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 199 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 180 (5.21%) Terraform
3 92 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.07%) Ansible
5 30 (0.87%) Grafana
6 21 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.52%) Argo
8 11 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.26%) SCCM
10 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.17%) Avamar
11 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.17%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.17%) Puppet
11 6 (0.17%) VxRail
12 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.14%) Istio
12 5 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 437 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 134 (3.88%) Oracle
3 110 (3.19%) Adobe
4 68 (1.97%) Google
4 68 (1.97%) Palo Alto
5 65 (1.88%) SAP
6 64 (1.85%) VMware
7 63 (1.83%) Cisco
8 61 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.56%) CyberArk
11 48 (1.39%) Databricks
12 40 (1.16%) Apple
13 32 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.81%) Dell
14 28 (0.81%) Pega
15 27 (0.78%) Tenable
16 21 (0.61%) Informatica
17 20 (0.58%) Aruba
17 20 (0.58%) Computacenter