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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 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 2,438 2,966 4,329
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.97% 18.85% 15.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.97% 19.67% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,716 1,870 3,623
10th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,203 £83,000 £78,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,708
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 15,263 15,082 26,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 95.84% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,014 9,177 21,954
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,500 £33,500
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 £79,000 £81,250 £75,772
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 12 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 12 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.

1 579 (23.75%) Azure
2 522 (21.41%) Agile
3 500 (20.51%) Mentoring
4 408 (16.74%) AWS
5 387 (15.87%) SQL
6 386 (15.83%) CI/CD
7 360 (14.77%) DevOps
8 349 (14.32%) Software Engineering
9 340 (13.95%) Coaching
10 303 (12.43%) Microsoft
11 299 (12.26%) Python
12 296 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
13 291 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 287 (11.77%) AI
15 255 (10.46%) Degree
16 209 (8.57%) Roadmaps
17 206 (8.45%) .NET
17 206 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
18 202 (8.29%) Security Cleared
19 197 (8.08%) Java
19 197 (8.08%) SaaS
20 191 (7.83%) Analytics
21 183 (7.51%) Kubernetes
22 180 (7.38%) Test Automation
23 177 (7.26%) Terraform
24 174 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
25 170 (6.97%) C#
26 162 (6.64%) GCP
26 162 (6.64%) Microservices
27 155 (6.36%) 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 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.94%) Confluence
5 22 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.86%) WordPress
7 20 (0.82%) Apache
8 11 (0.45%) CMS
8 11 (0.45%) JBoss
8 11 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.12%) IIS
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.12%) SAS
12 2 (0.082%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.082%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 48 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.57%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.41%) InDesign
6 7 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.29%) Sketch
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.16%) Maya
7 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.12%) Weka
9 2 (0.082%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.082%) Revit
9 2 (0.082%) Simulink
9 2 (0.082%) Trello
10 1 (0.041%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 41 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.15%) Oracle Financials
5 20 (0.82%) Shopify
6 19 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
7 14 (0.57%) Hyperion Planning
8 11 (0.45%) NEC Housing
9 10 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
10 9 (0.37%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.33%) Visualfiles
12 6 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
13 5 (0.21%) Magento
13 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
13 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
13 5 (0.21%) SAP PP
14 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 579 (23.75%) Azure
2 408 (16.74%) AWS
3 197 (8.08%) SaaS
4 162 (6.64%) GCP
5 142 (5.82%) GitHub
6 134 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (4.92%) Entra ID
8 115 (4.72%) Power Platform
9 100 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
10 80 (3.28%) Serverless
11 68 (2.79%) Snowflake
12 63 (2.58%) dbt
13 48 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (1.80%) PowerApps
15 39 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
16 38 (1.56%) OCI
17 36 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
18 35 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
19 33 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.32%) Broadband
2 57 (2.34%) Firewall
3 46 (1.89%) VPN
4 38 (1.56%) WAN
5 36 (1.48%) DNS
5 36 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.19%) DHCP
7 25 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 23 (0.94%) Network Security
9 22 (0.90%) LAN
10 15 (0.62%) BGP
10 15 (0.62%) Ethernet
11 14 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.49%) Wireless
13 11 (0.45%) HTTP
14 10 (0.41%) RS-232
14 10 (0.41%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.29%) OSPF
16 6 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
3 80 (3.28%) Power BI
4 59 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (2.26%) Data Lake
6 40 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.27%) Metadata
8 28 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 28 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (1.07%) MySQL
10 25 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 23 (0.94%) Tableau
12 22 (0.90%) DynamoDB
13 21 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
14 20 (0.82%) OLTP
15 18 (0.74%) Redis
16 17 (0.70%) Relational Database
17 16 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 84 (3.45%) JIRA
2 70 (2.87%) Git
3 63 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.01%) Oracle Forms
5 32 (1.31%) TeamCity
6 24 (0.98%) Selenium
7 23 (0.94%) GitLab
8 14 (0.57%) Postman
9 10 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.37%) MLflow
11 8 (0.33%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.33%) Subversion
11 8 (0.33%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.29%) git-flow
12 7 (0.29%) JUnit
13 6 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.25%) webpack
14 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 560 (22.97%) Finance
2 529 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 227 (9.31%) Public Sector
4 169 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 147 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (4.84%) Retail
7 102 (4.18%) Banking
8 96 (3.94%) Marketing
9 95 (3.90%) Law
10 76 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
10 76 (3.12%) Telecoms
11 62 (2.54%) Games
12 60 (2.46%) Legal
13 47 (1.93%) Financial Institution
14 41 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (1.27%) Manufacturing
16 27 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (1.07%) Front Office
18 20 (0.82%) Back Office
18 20 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (8.45%) .NET
2 140 (5.74%) React
3 126 (5.17%) REST
4 116 (4.76%) SOAP
5 93 (3.81%) RESTful
6 85 (3.49%) HTML
7 75 (3.08%) GraphQL
8 65 (2.67%) Node.js
9 64 (2.63%) OAuth
10 59 (2.42%) CSS
11 50 (2.05%) Spring
12 44 (1.80%) Kafka
12 44 (1.80%) SAML
13 42 (1.72%) OpenID
13 42 (1.72%) XML
14 38 (1.56%) Spring Boot
15 36 (1.48%) LDAP
16 35 (1.44%) .NET Core
17 33 (1.35%) gRPC
18 31 (1.27%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 162 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 100 (4.10%) Onboarding
3 88 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 43 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (1.64%) Social Media
7 39 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 36 (1.48%) Cyberattack
10 35 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
10 35 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 26 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
14 24 (0.98%) Driving Licence
14 24 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.78%) Hedge funds
16 19 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
17 18 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 115 (4.72%) Linux
2 89 (3.65%) Windows
3 53 (2.17%) Android
4 45 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 40 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.15%) Unix
7 25 (1.03%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.57%) VMS
9 7 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.082%) CentOS
11 2 (0.082%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (21.41%) Agile
2 500 (20.51%) Mentoring
3 386 (15.83%) CI/CD
4 360 (14.77%) DevOps
5 349 (14.32%) Software Engineering
6 340 (13.95%) Coaching
7 296 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
8 291 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 287 (11.77%) AI
10 209 (8.57%) Roadmaps
11 206 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
12 191 (7.83%) Analytics
13 180 (7.38%) Test Automation
14 174 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 162 (6.64%) Microservices
16 154 (6.32%) Asset Management
17 147 (6.03%) User Experience
18 140 (5.74%) Full-Stack Development
19 135 (5.54%) Migration
20 133 (5.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 387 (15.87%) SQL
2 299 (12.26%) Python
3 197 (8.08%) Java
4 170 (6.97%) C#
5 148 (6.07%) JavaScript
6 141 (5.78%) TypeScript
7 94 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 74 (3.04%) Bash
9 59 (2.42%) Go
10 53 (2.17%) PL/SQL
11 52 (2.13%) C++
12 44 (1.80%) PHP
13 40 (1.64%) T-SQL
14 36 (1.48%) Scala
15 31 (1.27%) Kotlin
16 27 (1.11%) Bicep
16 27 (1.11%) C
17 24 (0.98%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.70%) VBA
19 16 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 255 (10.46%) Degree
2 202 (8.29%) Security Cleared
3 144 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 82 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 38 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.52%) ACCA
8 33 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (1.23%) CISSP
11 23 (0.94%) AWS Certification
11 23 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 18 (0.74%) CIMA
12 18 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.70%) CCNP
14 16 (0.66%) CISM
15 14 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 13 (0.53%) CISA
17 12 (0.49%) AAT
17 12 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (3.86%) QA
2 59 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 55 (2.26%) GDPR
5 54 (2.21%) NIST
6 52 (2.13%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.44%) NCSC
8 21 (0.86%) IFRS
9 16 (0.66%) GRC
10 15 (0.62%) PMO
11 14 (0.57%) P3O
12 11 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.45%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.45%) MISRA
12 11 (0.45%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.33%) GAAP
16 7 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (6.36%) Docker
2 118 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.29%) vSphere
8 5 (0.21%) Firmware
8 5 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.082%) vCloud
9 2 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.041%) Ceph
10 1 (0.041%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.041%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 183 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 177 (7.26%) Terraform
3 57 (2.34%) Grafana
4 48 (1.97%) Ansible
5 47 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.45%) Functional Safety
8 9 (0.37%) SCCM
9 6 (0.25%) Argo
9 6 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.21%) Puppet
11 4 (0.16%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) cPanel
12 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
12 3 (0.12%) Plesk
13 2 (0.082%) Nagios
13 2 (0.082%) Nessus
13 2 (0.082%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 303 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 135 (5.54%) Oracle
3 83 (3.40%) Databricks
4 47 (1.93%) Salesforce
5 46 (1.89%) VMware
6 45 (1.85%) Cisco
7 43 (1.76%) SAP
8 41 (1.68%) Google
9 37 (1.52%) Adobe
10 29 (1.19%) Okta
11 28 (1.15%) ServiceNow
12 22 (0.90%) Workday
13 14 (0.57%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.57%) Hyperion
13 14 (0.57%) Screaming Frog
14 13 (0.53%) Apple
14 13 (0.53%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.49%) Talend
16 9 (0.37%) Palantir
16 9 (0.37%) Zoho