Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,165 3,113 3,465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.29% 18.95% 16.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.26% 19.72% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,528 1,944 2,833
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 14,192 15,786 20,712
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 96.08% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,246 9,506 16,952
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £35,514
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,057 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,244 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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.

1 523 (24.16%) Azure
2 490 (22.63%) Agile
3 384 (17.74%) Mentoring
4 375 (17.32%) AWS
5 363 (16.77%) SQL
6 352 (16.26%) CI/CD
7 341 (15.75%) DevOps
8 309 (14.27%) Software Engineering
9 308 (14.23%) Python
10 250 (11.55%) AI
11 249 (11.50%) Microsoft
12 247 (11.41%) Coaching
13 244 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
14 234 (10.81%) Degree
15 233 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 196 (9.05%) .NET
17 185 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
18 182 (8.41%) Java
18 182 (8.41%) Roadmaps
19 175 (8.08%) C#
20 171 (7.90%) Terraform
21 170 (7.85%) Asset Management
22 166 (7.67%) SaaS
23 164 (7.58%) Security Cleared
24 159 (7.34%) Kubernetes
25 158 (7.30%) JavaScript
26 157 (7.25%) Analytics
27 156 (7.21%) Test Automation
28 151 (6.97%) TypeScript
29 144 (6.65%) 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 48 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (1.57%) Apache
4 30 (1.39%) Confluence
5 21 (0.97%) IIS
5 21 (0.97%) WordPress
6 20 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 17 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.46%) CMS
9 9 (0.42%) JBoss
9 9 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
13 2 (0.092%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.092%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.092%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.092%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 51 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.65%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.46%) InDesign
6 8 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.28%) Sketch
8 5 (0.23%) Maya
8 5 (0.23%) MotionBuilder
8 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.14%) Trello
10 2 (0.092%) InVision
10 2 (0.092%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.092%) Revit
10 2 (0.092%) Simulink
11 1 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.046%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
5 20 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
5 20 (0.92%) Shopify
6 14 (0.65%) Hyperion Planning
7 12 (0.55%) NEC Housing
8 9 (0.42%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (0.23%) Magento
10 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.18%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
12 2 (0.092%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 523 (24.16%) Azure
2 375 (17.32%) AWS
3 166 (7.67%) SaaS
4 141 (6.51%) GitHub
5 133 (6.14%) GCP
6 131 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (4.20%) Serverless
8 89 (4.11%) Entra ID
8 89 (4.11%) Power Platform
9 77 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
9 77 (3.56%) Snowflake
10 74 (3.42%) dbt
11 50 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
14 37 (1.71%) OCI
15 35 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 35 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (1.48%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.82%) Broadband
2 53 (2.45%) Firewall
3 40 (1.85%) VPN
4 38 (1.76%) Network Security
5 37 (1.71%) WAN
6 36 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 32 (1.48%) DNS
8 24 (1.11%) LAN
9 22 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 21 (0.97%) Unified Communications
11 20 (0.92%) BGP
11 20 (0.92%) DHCP
12 14 (0.65%) Ethernet
13 13 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.60%) Wireless
14 11 (0.51%) HTTP
14 11 (0.51%) OSPF
15 9 (0.42%) RS-232
16 7 (0.32%) IPsec
16 7 (0.32%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 91 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.46%) Data Lake
4 69 (3.19%) Power BI
5 57 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 34 (1.57%) DynamoDB
8 32 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
8 32 (1.48%) Apache Iceberg
9 31 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (1.25%) Apache Arrow
11 27 (1.25%) Apache Ignite
11 27 (1.25%) Dremio
12 25 (1.15%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.11%) MySQL
14 23 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (0.92%) Metadata
16 19 (0.88%) Redis
17 17 (0.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 85 (3.93%) JIRA
2 67 (3.09%) Git
3 65 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (1.34%) Selenium
6 25 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 22 (1.02%) GitLab
8 19 (0.88%) Postman
9 13 (0.60%) WebDriver
10 11 (0.51%) SoapUI
10 11 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.37%) Subversion
13 7 (0.32%) git-flow
14 6 (0.28%) JUnit
15 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 546 (25.22%) Finance
2 468 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 159 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 135 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
5 124 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 107 (4.94%) Banking
6 107 (4.94%) Retail
7 95 (4.39%) Marketing
8 80 (3.70%) Law
9 71 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 60 (2.77%) Legal
11 59 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (2.36%) Games
13 43 (1.99%) Front Office
14 37 (1.71%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
16 30 (1.39%) Investment Banking
17 26 (1.20%) Manufacturing
18 24 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
19 23 (1.06%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (9.05%) .NET
2 140 (6.47%) React
3 109 (5.03%) REST
4 99 (4.57%) SOAP
5 96 (4.43%) RESTful
6 81 (3.74%) HTML
7 65 (3.00%) GraphQL
8 59 (2.73%) Node.js
9 55 (2.54%) CSS
10 49 (2.26%) gRPC
11 48 (2.22%) OAuth
12 44 (2.03%) Spring
13 39 (1.80%) Kafka
14 37 (1.71%) XML
15 36 (1.66%) .NET Core
16 35 (1.62%) Spring Boot
17 31 (1.43%) Pandas
18 30 (1.39%) JSON
19 29 (1.34%) NumPy
20 28 (1.29%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 141 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 90 (4.16%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 53 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (1.62%) Derivative
7 34 (1.57%) Hedge funds
7 34 (1.57%) Social Media
8 33 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 31 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.29%) Fixed Income
10 28 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 27 (1.25%) Driving Licence
11 27 (1.25%) Equities
11 27 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.25%) Pricing Data
11 27 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 95 (4.39%) Linux
2 73 (3.37%) Windows
3 44 (2.03%) Android
4 35 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.15%) Unix
7 15 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.55%) VMS
9 4 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.092%) CentOS
10 2 (0.092%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.092%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (22.63%) Agile
2 384 (17.74%) Mentoring
3 352 (16.26%) CI/CD
4 341 (15.75%) DevOps
5 309 (14.27%) Software Engineering
6 250 (11.55%) AI
7 247 (11.41%) Coaching
8 244 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
9 233 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 185 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
11 182 (8.41%) Roadmaps
12 170 (7.85%) Asset Management
13 157 (7.25%) Analytics
14 156 (7.21%) Test Automation
15 143 (6.61%) Microservices
16 128 (5.91%) Clean Code
16 128 (5.91%) Infrastructure as Code
17 127 (5.87%) Stakeholder Management
18 123 (5.68%) User Experience
19 116 (5.36%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 363 (16.77%) SQL
2 308 (14.23%) Python
3 182 (8.41%) Java
4 175 (8.08%) C#
5 158 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 151 (6.97%) TypeScript
7 81 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 53 (2.45%) Bash
9 47 (2.17%) Go
10 44 (2.03%) C++
10 44 (2.03%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.52%) PHP
11 33 (1.52%) Scala
12 28 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 25 (1.15%) Bicep
14 24 (1.11%) Shell Script
15 22 (1.02%) C
16 20 (0.92%) Ruby
17 15 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 234 (10.81%) Degree
2 164 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 120 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 75 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (2.17%) ACCA
6 42 (1.94%) CISSP
7 37 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (1.66%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.43%) CISM
10 30 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 24 (1.11%) CIMA
13 23 (1.06%) CCNP
14 19 (0.88%) AAT
15 17 (0.79%) CESG Certified Professional
16 16 (0.74%) CISMP
16 16 (0.74%) IISP
17 15 (0.69%) Master's Degree
18 13 (0.60%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.53%) QA
2 59 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.59%) NIST
4 54 (2.49%) GDPR
5 47 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.71%) NCSC
7 30 (1.39%) Data Quality
8 20 (0.92%) IFRS
9 17 (0.79%) NIST 800
9 17 (0.79%) PMO
10 16 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 16 (0.74%) JSP 440
10 16 (0.74%) RMADS
11 13 (0.60%) GRC
12 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.42%) IEC 61508
13 9 (0.42%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.42%) MISRA
13 9 (0.42%) MISRA C
14 8 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 144 (6.65%) Docker
2 84 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.32%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.23%) Firmware
9 2 (0.092%) pfSense
9 2 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.092%) vCloud
9 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.046%) Ceph
10 1 (0.046%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 171 (7.90%) Terraform
2 159 (7.34%) Kubernetes
3 49 (2.26%) Grafana
4 46 (2.12%) Ansible
5 43 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.42%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.28%) Argo
11 3 (0.14%) Control-M
11 3 (0.14%) cPanel
11 3 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 3 (0.14%) Nessus
11 3 (0.14%) Plesk
12 2 (0.092%) Nagios
12 2 (0.092%) Puppet
12 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 2 (0.092%) SCCM
Vendors
1 249 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 117 (5.40%) Oracle
3 70 (3.23%) Databricks
4 48 (2.22%) Cisco
5 45 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 40 (1.85%) SAP
7 39 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.57%) VMware
9 33 (1.52%) Google
10 26 (1.20%) Okta
11 25 (1.15%) Adobe
12 21 (0.97%) Workday
13 14 (0.65%) Hyperion
13 14 (0.65%) Screaming Frog
14 13 (0.60%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.55%) Fortinet
16 10 (0.46%) Sage
16 10 (0.46%) Talend
17 9 (0.42%) Atlassian
17 9 (0.42%) Zoho