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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,734 2,181 4,294
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.60% 13.44% 18.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.61% 14.51% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,455 1,451 2,627
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,888 £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 £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -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 22,484 15,034 22,493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 92.67% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,944 9,087 14,798
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,850
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.93% -4.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 10 September 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 10 September 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.

1 751 (20.11%) Agile
2 711 (19.04%) Mentoring
3 704 (18.85%) Azure
4 635 (17.01%) AWS
5 627 (16.79%) Software Engineering
6 618 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 583 (15.61%) AI
8 575 (15.40%) CI/CD
9 515 (13.79%) Python
10 490 (13.12%) DevOps
11 470 (12.59%) Microsoft
12 463 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
13 411 (11.01%) SQL
14 371 (9.94%) Coaching
15 366 (9.80%) Degree
16 362 (9.69%) Project Delivery
17 354 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
18 345 (9.24%) Decision-Making
19 330 (8.84%) Security Cleared
20 329 (8.81%) Analytics
21 308 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 277 (7.42%) SC Cleared
23 274 (7.34%) C#
24 259 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
25 258 (6.91%) Roadmaps
26 249 (6.67%) Test Automation
27 236 (6.32%) JavaScript
28 235 (6.29%) QA
29 234 (6.27%) GCP
30 232 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code

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
1 100 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (0.62%) CMS
3 23 (0.62%) Confluence
4 16 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.35%) WordPress
6 12 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.32%) IIS
7 11 (0.29%) Apache
8 10 (0.27%) SAS
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.080%) Artix
11 3 (0.080%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.080%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.080%) Moodle
12 2 (0.054%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.027%) Umbraco
Applications
1 75 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
1 75 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
2 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.27%) Civil 3D
6 10 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 9 (0.24%) InDesign
8 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
10 3 (0.080%) Blender
10 3 (0.080%) Maya
10 3 (0.080%) Trello
11 2 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.054%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.64%) Cloudability
2 19 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
3 12 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.27%) Shopify
6 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
6 8 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 7 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.16%) Primavera
9 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.080%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.080%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.054%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 704 (18.85%) Azure
2 635 (17.01%) AWS
3 234 (6.27%) GCP
4 221 (5.92%) SaaS
5 167 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 157 (4.20%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 112 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (2.97%) Serverless
10 104 (2.79%) GitHub
11 52 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 47 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 46 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (1.23%) PowerApps
14 43 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (1.10%) Azure AKS
15 41 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.28%) Firewall
2 90 (2.41%) Network Security
3 81 (2.17%) DNS
4 77 (2.06%) VLAN
5 74 (1.98%) Broadband
6 62 (1.66%) VPN
7 58 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
8 54 (1.45%) TCP/IP
9 53 (1.42%) WAN
10 51 (1.37%) Wireless
11 49 (1.31%) DHCP
12 47 (1.26%) LAN
13 29 (0.78%) BGP
14 22 (0.59%) OSPF
15 21 (0.56%) SMS
16 19 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (0.48%) RS-232
18 17 (0.46%) VXLAN
19 16 (0.43%) HTTP
20 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (3.29%) Power BI
3 101 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.74%) Metadata
4 65 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.29%) MySQL
8 46 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 45 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (1.07%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.72%) Tableau
12 26 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (0.62%) Data Lake
14 18 (0.48%) OLTP
15 17 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (0.46%) Big Data
16 15 (0.40%) BigQuery
17 14 (0.37%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 132 (3.54%) Git
2 61 (1.63%) JIRA
3 42 (1.12%) GitLab
4 35 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.67%) Snyk
6 19 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.48%) Selenium
8 15 (0.40%) JUnit
9 13 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 11 (0.29%) Postman
11 9 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.24%) Maven
12 8 (0.21%) Gatling
13 7 (0.19%) Mockito
14 5 (0.13%) JMeter
14 5 (0.13%) Poetry
15 4 (0.11%) XCUITest
General
1 945 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 605 (16.20%) Finance
3 419 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 332 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 279 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (7.04%) Legal
7 230 (6.16%) Law
8 139 (3.72%) Banking
9 131 (3.51%) Marketing
10 93 (2.49%) Retail
11 74 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 65 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 62 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (1.63%) Telecoms
15 56 (1.50%) Games
15 56 (1.50%) Local Government
16 52 (1.39%) Electronics
17 42 (1.12%) Legal Technology
18 38 (1.02%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (5.73%) Terraform
2 205 (5.49%) .NET
3 160 (4.28%) React
4 123 (3.29%) Node.js
5 94 (2.52%) HTML
5 94 (2.52%) REST
6 87 (2.33%) CSS
7 78 (2.09%) RESTful
8 65 (1.74%) Spring
9 44 (1.18%) Spring Boot
10 40 (1.07%) AngularJS
11 39 (1.04%) PySpark
12 38 (1.02%) Kafka
13 36 (0.96%) Laravel
14 33 (0.88%) Vue
15 32 (0.86%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.83%) Next.js
17 30 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
17 30 (0.80%) Playwright
18 27 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 216 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 101 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 99 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 72 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 56 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 54 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 54 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 42 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 41 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 41 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.04%) Blog
13 36 (0.96%) Algorithms
13 36 (0.96%) Security Posture
14 32 (0.86%) Low-Code
15 31 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
16 29 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.47%) Linux
2 153 (4.10%) Windows
3 63 (1.69%) Unix
3 63 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 33 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 29 (0.78%) Android
6 22 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.24%) VMS
10 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.080%) Debian
13 1 (0.027%) AIX
13 1 (0.027%) CentOS
13 1 (0.027%) Solaris
13 1 (0.027%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (20.11%) Agile
2 711 (19.04%) Mentoring
3 627 (16.79%) Software Engineering
4 618 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 583 (15.61%) AI
6 575 (15.40%) CI/CD
7 490 (13.12%) DevOps
8 463 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
9 371 (9.94%) Coaching
10 362 (9.69%) Project Delivery
11 354 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
12 345 (9.24%) Decision-Making
13 329 (8.81%) Analytics
14 308 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 259 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
16 258 (6.91%) Roadmaps
17 249 (6.67%) Test Automation
18 232 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
19 194 (5.20%) Technical Leadership
20 189 (5.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 515 (13.79%) Python
2 411 (11.01%) SQL
3 274 (7.34%) C#
4 236 (6.32%) JavaScript
5 210 (5.62%) Java
6 209 (5.60%) TypeScript
7 140 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.60%) C++
9 54 (1.45%) Go
10 52 (1.39%) PHP
11 49 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.26%) C
13 43 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 34 (0.91%) Bash
15 27 (0.72%) Bicep
16 24 (0.64%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.59%) Swift
18 21 (0.56%) R
19 20 (0.54%) Ruby
20 18 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 366 (9.80%) Degree
2 330 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 277 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.65%) CISSP
5 93 (2.49%) CISM
6 68 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.45%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 54 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 46 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 40 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.02%) HNC
14 37 (0.99%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.78%) DBS Check
16 27 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.67%) PhD
18 24 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (6.29%) QA
2 128 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 101 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 68 (1.82%) GDPR
6 62 (1.66%) NIST
7 47 (1.26%) GRC
8 31 (0.83%) PMO
9 24 (0.64%) WCAG
10 23 (0.62%) SLA
11 20 (0.54%) NCSC
12 12 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.27%) COBIT
14 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.21%) GxP
16 7 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 177 (4.74%) Docker
2 142 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.94%) vSphere
6 27 (0.72%) Firmware
7 22 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.24%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.080%) iptables
13 2 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.027%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.027%) GPFS
14 1 (0.027%) Lustre
14 1 (0.027%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.027%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 199 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.10%) Ansible
4 24 (0.64%) Grafana
5 17 (0.46%) Argo
5 17 (0.46%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.16%) Avamar
8 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
8 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.16%) VxRail
9 5 (0.13%) Puppet
9 5 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.11%) Istio
10 4 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 470 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.05%) Oracle
3 97 (2.60%) Adobe
4 83 (2.22%) Google
5 70 (1.87%) VMware
6 67 (1.79%) Cisco
7 62 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 60 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 60 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.47%) SAP
10 54 (1.45%) CyberArk
11 48 (1.29%) Databricks
12 35 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
13 30 (0.80%) Apple
13 30 (0.80%) Informatica
13 30 (0.80%) OpenAI
14 28 (0.75%) Tenable
15 27 (0.72%) Pega
16 23 (0.62%) Dell
17 20 (0.54%) Aruba