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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,743 2,398 5,301
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.93% 18.67% 16.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.99% 19.87% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,959 1,741 4,294
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%
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 16,148 12,068 30,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 93.94% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,600 8,956 24,621
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 8 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 8 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.

1 571 (20.82%) Azure
2 547 (19.94%) Mentoring
3 542 (19.76%) Agile
4 472 (17.21%) AWS
5 412 (15.02%) Software Engineering
6 382 (13.93%) SQL
7 377 (13.74%) CI/CD
8 359 (13.09%) DevOps
9 344 (12.54%) Microsoft
10 343 (12.50%) Coaching
11 338 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
12 330 (12.03%) AI
13 315 (11.48%) Python
14 286 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 255 (9.30%) Degree
15 255 (9.30%) Security Cleared
16 246 (8.97%) Roadmaps
17 228 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
18 224 (8.17%) Analytics
19 220 (8.02%) Java
20 210 (7.66%) GCP
21 204 (7.44%) .NET
22 197 (7.18%) SaaS
23 194 (7.07%) Kubernetes
24 192 (7.00%) SC Cleared
25 188 (6.85%) Test Automation
26 181 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
27 174 (6.34%) Docker
28 172 (6.27%) Microservices
29 171 (6.23%) 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 72 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.77%) CMS
5 21 (0.77%) Confluence
6 12 (0.44%) Apache
7 11 (0.40%) JBoss
7 11 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.29%) WordPress
9 6 (0.22%) IIS
9 6 (0.22%) SAS
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.073%) nginx
12 2 (0.073%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.036%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.036%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 43 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.29%) InDesign
7 7 (0.26%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.15%) InVision
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.15%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Weka
10 2 (0.073%) Maya
10 2 (0.073%) MotionBuilder
10 2 (0.073%) Revit
11 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 29 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
2 23 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 21 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
3 21 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
5 14 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.40%) Visualfiles
7 10 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
7 10 (0.36%) Hyperion Planning
7 10 (0.36%) Shopify
8 6 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 571 (20.82%) Azure
2 472 (17.21%) AWS
3 210 (7.66%) GCP
4 197 (7.18%) SaaS
5 116 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 109 (3.97%) GitHub
7 103 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
8 100 (3.65%) Entra ID
9 93 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (3.35%) Serverless
11 53 (1.93%) dbt
12 52 (1.90%) Snowflake
13 44 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (1.57%) PowerApps
15 40 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 39 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
17 36 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
18 34 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
19 33 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
20 32 (1.17%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (4.12%) Broadband
2 78 (2.84%) Firewall
3 54 (1.97%) VPN
4 49 (1.79%) DNS
5 48 (1.75%) WAN
6 41 (1.49%) DHCP
6 41 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 29 (1.06%) LAN
9 27 (0.98%) Network Security
10 20 (0.73%) Ethernet
10 20 (0.73%) Wireless
11 19 (0.69%) BGP
11 19 (0.69%) RS-232
12 17 (0.62%) HTTP
12 17 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.47%) Unified Communications
14 10 (0.36%) OSPF
15 9 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
16 8 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (4.16%) SQL Server
2 87 (3.17%) Power BI
3 69 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (1.57%) Metadata
5 43 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.24%) MongoDB
7 33 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 31 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (0.91%) Redis
12 25 (0.91%) Tableau
13 23 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (0.80%) MySQL
14 22 (0.80%) OLTP
15 18 (0.66%) DynamoDB
16 17 (0.62%) Relational Database
16 17 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 80 (2.92%) Git
2 71 (2.59%) JIRA
3 57 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 29 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
6 28 (1.02%) GitLab
7 21 (0.77%) Selenium
8 15 (0.55%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.36%) MLflow
11 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.33%) Postman
12 8 (0.29%) JUnit
12 8 (0.29%) Subversion
12 8 (0.29%) webpack
13 7 (0.26%) JMeter
13 7 (0.26%) Snyk
13 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.26%) XCUITest
General
1 571 (20.82%) Finance
2 539 (19.65%) Social Skills
3 306 (11.16%) Public Sector
4 177 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (4.70%) Marketing
7 128 (4.67%) Law
8 117 (4.27%) Banking
9 111 (4.05%) Retail
10 91 (3.32%) Legal
11 86 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.70%) Games
13 73 (2.66%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
17 33 (1.20%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.98%) Back Office
19 20 (0.73%) Publishing
20 19 (0.69%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (7.44%) .NET
2 138 (5.03%) React
3 119 (4.34%) REST
4 88 (3.21%) SOAP
5 82 (2.99%) HTML
6 76 (2.77%) RESTful
7 70 (2.55%) Node.js
8 66 (2.41%) GraphQL
9 63 (2.30%) OAuth
10 58 (2.11%) CSS
11 52 (1.90%) Spring
12 49 (1.79%) Kafka
13 44 (1.60%) OpenID
14 40 (1.46%) Spring Boot
15 38 (1.39%) SAML
16 37 (1.35%) .NET Core
17 32 (1.17%) Django
17 32 (1.17%) LDAP
18 29 (1.06%) XML
19 28 (1.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 175 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 91 (3.32%) Product Ownership
3 76 (2.77%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (2.33%) Social Media
5 55 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 45 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 44 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.49%) Cyberattack
10 35 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
11 33 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
13 29 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 29 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (1.06%) Management Information System
13 29 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 28 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (0.98%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 147 (5.36%) Linux
2 104 (3.79%) Windows
3 70 (2.55%) Android
4 57 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 49 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.13%) Unix
7 23 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.36%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.073%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.073%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (19.94%) Mentoring
2 542 (19.76%) Agile
3 412 (15.02%) Software Engineering
4 377 (13.74%) CI/CD
5 359 (13.09%) DevOps
6 343 (12.50%) Coaching
7 338 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
8 330 (12.03%) AI
9 286 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 246 (8.97%) Roadmaps
11 228 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
12 224 (8.17%) Analytics
13 188 (6.85%) Test Automation
14 181 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 172 (6.27%) Microservices
16 163 (5.94%) User Experience
17 157 (5.72%) Decision-Making
18 151 (5.50%) Full-Stack Development
19 143 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
20 141 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 382 (13.93%) SQL
2 315 (11.48%) Python
3 220 (8.02%) Java
4 161 (5.87%) C#
5 155 (5.65%) JavaScript
6 140 (5.10%) TypeScript
7 88 (3.21%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.62%) Go
9 68 (2.48%) Bash
10 67 (2.44%) C++
11 52 (1.90%) PHP
12 47 (1.71%) Scala
13 45 (1.64%) PL/SQL
14 37 (1.35%) T-SQL
15 36 (1.31%) Kotlin
16 34 (1.24%) C
17 22 (0.80%) Bicep
17 22 (0.80%) VBA
18 17 (0.62%) R
19 15 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 255 (9.30%) Degree
1 255 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 192 (7.00%) SC Cleared
3 82 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (1.71%) DV Cleared
5 41 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (1.46%) ACCA
7 34 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.17%) CISSP
9 27 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (0.91%) CIMA
10 25 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.66%) CISM
13 17 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.55%) PhD
15 14 (0.51%) CREST Certified
16 13 (0.47%) CIPFA
17 12 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.39%) QA
2 68 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 62 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 60 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.15%) NIST
6 46 (1.68%) GDPR
7 32 (1.17%) NCSC
8 20 (0.73%) GRC
9 17 (0.62%) IFRS
10 16 (0.58%) PMO
11 14 (0.51%) P3O
11 14 (0.51%) SLA
12 11 (0.40%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.40%) MISRA
12 11 (0.40%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.29%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 174 (6.34%) Docker
2 113 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.44%) Firmware
7 9 (0.33%) vSphere
8 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.15%) vCloud
11 2 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.036%) Ceph
12 1 (0.036%) Lustre
12 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 194 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 171 (6.23%) Terraform
3 53 (1.93%) Grafana
4 43 (1.57%) Ansible
5 39 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.51%) SCCM
8 11 (0.40%) Functional Safety
9 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.18%) Puppet
12 4 (0.15%) Argo
12 4 (0.15%) Istio
12 4 (0.15%) Plesk
12 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 344 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 132 (4.81%) Oracle
3 77 (2.81%) Adobe
4 72 (2.62%) Databricks
5 68 (2.48%) Google
6 67 (2.44%) VMware
7 57 (2.08%) SAP
8 54 (1.97%) Cisco
9 45 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 30 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.87%) Apple
11 24 (0.87%) Okta
11 24 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 18 (0.66%) Dell
13 13 (0.47%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.44%) Citrix
14 12 (0.44%) Samsung
15 11 (0.40%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.40%) Instagram
15 11 (0.40%) Meraki