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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,479 2,319 4,941
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.79% 14.09% 18.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.78% 15.30% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 1,523 3,520
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,196 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £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 20,727 15,159 25,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.10% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,003 9,397 19,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,584 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 30 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 30 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.

1 703 (20.21%) Agile
2 679 (19.52%) Mentoring
3 657 (18.88%) Azure
4 619 (17.79%) AWS
5 598 (17.19%) Software Engineering
6 545 (15.67%) AI
7 530 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 518 (14.89%) CI/CD
9 499 (14.34%) Python
10 460 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
11 456 (13.11%) DevOps
12 435 (12.50%) Microsoft
13 367 (10.55%) SQL
14 349 (10.03%) Coaching
15 326 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
16 323 (9.28%) Degree
17 312 (8.97%) Analytics
18 311 (8.94%) Project Delivery
19 305 (8.77%) Security Cleared
20 290 (8.34%) Decision-Making
21 279 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 270 (7.76%) C#
23 266 (7.65%) Roadmaps
24 262 (7.53%) Test Automation
25 251 (7.21%) SC Cleared
26 245 (7.04%) JavaScript
27 227 (6.52%) GCP
28 224 (6.44%) QA
29 220 (6.32%) .NET
30 218 (6.27%) SaaS

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 94 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.66%) CMS
4 19 (0.55%) Confluence
5 18 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.43%) SAS
7 12 (0.34%) IIS
7 12 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.23%) Apache
8 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.086%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.086%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.086%) Artix
10 3 (0.086%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.086%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.029%) Appian
12 1 (0.029%) Moodle
Applications
1 81 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.23%) Civil 3D
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.17%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.086%) Blender
11 3 (0.086%) Maya
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.057%) InVision
12 2 (0.057%) Sketch
12 2 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.69%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.20%) Visualfiles
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.14%) Shopify
9 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.086%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.086%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 657 (18.88%) Azure
2 619 (17.79%) AWS
3 227 (6.52%) GCP
4 218 (6.27%) SaaS
5 146 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 145 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 134 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 124 (3.56%) Serverless
9 92 (2.64%) GitHub
10 89 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (1.32%) PowerApps
13 44 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 44 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 39 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 39 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (0.98%) Azure AKS
16 34 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 142 (4.08%) Firewall
2 103 (2.96%) Broadband
3 75 (2.16%) Network Security
4 70 (2.01%) DNS
5 59 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
6 58 (1.67%) VLAN
6 58 (1.67%) VPN
7 50 (1.44%) WAN
8 49 (1.41%) Wireless
9 45 (1.29%) LAN
9 45 (1.29%) TCP/IP
10 43 (1.24%) DHCP
11 26 (0.75%) BGP
12 22 (0.63%) RS-232
13 19 (0.55%) OSPF
13 19 (0.55%) SD-WAN
14 17 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
15 16 (0.46%) WLAN
16 15 (0.43%) Bluetooth
16 15 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (3.22%) Power BI
3 87 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 49 (1.41%) Metadata
6 41 (1.18%) MySQL
6 41 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 34 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (0.83%) Tableau
10 28 (0.80%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.78%) OLTP
12 25 (0.72%) NoSQL
13 24 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.52%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (0.43%) Big Data
16 15 (0.43%) Redis
16 15 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 107 (3.08%) Git
2 55 (1.58%) JIRA
3 41 (1.18%) GitLab
4 34 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.72%) Snyk
6 21 (0.60%) Claude Code
6 21 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.40%) Selenium
8 12 (0.34%) JUnit
9 10 (0.29%) Postman
10 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
12 7 (0.20%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.20%) Gatling
13 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.14%) Maven
14 5 (0.14%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.11%) NUnit
General
1 835 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 571 (16.41%) Finance
3 366 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 281 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 266 (7.65%) Legal
6 235 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
7 221 (6.35%) Law
8 124 (3.56%) Marketing
9 123 (3.54%) Banking
10 83 (2.39%) Retail
11 73 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.78%) Games
14 55 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 53 (1.52%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.29%) Local Government
17 44 (1.26%) Electronics
18 43 (1.24%) Legal Technology
19 32 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
20 24 (0.69%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (6.32%) .NET
2 158 (4.54%) React
3 114 (3.28%) Node.js
4 85 (2.44%) HTML
5 82 (2.36%) REST
6 75 (2.16%) RESTful
7 71 (2.04%) CSS
8 50 (1.44%) Spring
9 37 (1.06%) Vue
10 35 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
10 35 (1.01%) Spring Boot
11 34 (0.98%) Kafka
12 32 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 30 (0.86%) Laravel
14 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
15 27 (0.78%) SOAP
15 27 (0.78%) SPFx
16 26 (0.75%) Next.js
17 25 (0.72%) JSON
17 25 (0.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 97 (2.79%) Product Ownership
3 93 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (1.98%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 62 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 51 (1.47%) Social Media
8 49 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 49 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.06%) Management Information System
13 37 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 34 (0.98%) Onboarding
15 33 (0.95%) Low-Code
16 31 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 174 (5.00%) Linux
2 127 (3.65%) Windows
3 53 (1.52%) Unix
4 50 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 42 (1.21%) Android
7 27 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.11%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.086%) Debian
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) CentOS
12 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (20.21%) Agile
2 679 (19.52%) Mentoring
3 598 (17.19%) Software Engineering
4 545 (15.67%) AI
5 530 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 518 (14.89%) CI/CD
7 460 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
8 456 (13.11%) DevOps
9 349 (10.03%) Coaching
10 326 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
11 312 (8.97%) Analytics
12 311 (8.94%) Project Delivery
13 290 (8.34%) Decision-Making
14 279 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 266 (7.65%) Roadmaps
16 262 (7.53%) Test Automation
17 209 (6.01%) Infrastructure as Code
18 205 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
19 190 (5.46%) Microservices
20 185 (5.32%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 499 (14.34%) Python
2 367 (10.55%) SQL
3 270 (7.76%) C#
4 245 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 211 (6.06%) Java
6 205 (5.89%) TypeScript
7 135 (3.88%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.82%) C++
9 62 (1.78%) Go
9 62 (1.78%) PHP
10 50 (1.44%) C
11 48 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 45 (1.29%) Bash
13 26 (0.75%) Embedded C
14 25 (0.72%) Bicep
15 22 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.63%) R
16 20 (0.57%) Rust
16 20 (0.57%) Scala
17 19 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 323 (9.28%) Degree
2 305 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 251 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.85%) CISSP
5 91 (2.62%) CISM
6 66 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.58%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
8 53 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 43 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 37 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 36 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
15 28 (0.80%) PhD
16 25 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.66%) ACCA
19 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (6.44%) QA
2 92 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 65 (1.87%) NIST
6 58 (1.67%) GDPR
7 48 (1.38%) GRC
8 29 (0.83%) PMO
9 22 (0.63%) SLA
10 17 (0.49%) NCSC
11 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.37%) WCAG
13 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.23%) COBIT
15 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 161 (4.63%) Docker
2 133 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.92%) vSphere
6 25 (0.72%) Firmware
7 14 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
7 14 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.26%) vCloud
9 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.086%) iptables
12 2 (0.057%) 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 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 191 (5.49%) Terraform
3 94 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.03%) Ansible
5 28 (0.80%) Grafana
6 21 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.52%) Argo
8 10 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.20%) SCCM
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%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.17%) Puppet
11 6 (0.17%) VxRail
12 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 435 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 131 (3.77%) Oracle
3 103 (2.96%) Adobe
4 75 (2.16%) Google
5 69 (1.98%) Palo Alto
6 68 (1.95%) Cisco
7 64 (1.84%) SAP
7 64 (1.84%) VMware
8 60 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.55%) CyberArk
11 49 (1.41%) Databricks
12 39 (1.12%) Apple
13 32 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.80%) Dell
14 28 (0.80%) Pega
15 27 (0.78%) Tenable
16 22 (0.63%) Informatica
17 20 (0.57%) Aruba
18 19 (0.55%) Veeam