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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,746 2,177 4,276
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.63% 13.45% 18.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.65% 14.52% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 1,445 2,583
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,875 £56,250 £54,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.11% -6.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -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 22,503 14,991 22,313
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 92.61% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,883 8,935 14,520
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,319 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.85% - -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 15 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 15 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.

1 738 (19.70%) Agile
2 721 (19.25%) Mentoring
3 697 (18.61%) Azure
4 627 (16.74%) Software Engineering
5 623 (16.63%) AWS
6 609 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 577 (15.40%) AI
8 565 (15.08%) CI/CD
9 508 (13.56%) Python
10 486 (12.97%) DevOps
11 477 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
12 468 (12.49%) Microsoft
13 419 (11.19%) SQL
14 380 (10.14%) Coaching
15 368 (9.82%) Degree
16 357 (9.53%) Cybersecurity
17 355 (9.48%) Project Delivery
18 346 (9.24%) Security Cleared
19 345 (9.21%) Decision-Making
20 336 (8.97%) Analytics
21 306 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 294 (7.85%) SC Cleared
23 275 (7.34%) C#
24 257 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
25 248 (6.62%) Roadmaps
26 235 (6.27%) Test Automation
27 233 (6.22%) JavaScript
28 232 (6.19%) GCP
29 230 (6.14%) QA
30 225 (6.01%) 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 98 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.59%) Confluence
5 20 (0.53%) CMS
6 14 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.35%) WordPress
8 12 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.29%) IIS
10 10 (0.27%) Apache
10 10 (0.27%) SAS
11 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.080%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.080%) Artix
13 3 (0.080%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.080%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.080%) Moodle
14 2 (0.053%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.027%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 75 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 75 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.27%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.24%) InDesign
7 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.080%) Blender
11 3 (0.080%) Maya
11 3 (0.080%) Trello
12 2 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.053%) Revit
12 2 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.64%) Cloudability
2 19 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 9 (0.24%) Shopify
10 8 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
12 6 (0.16%) Primavera
13 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
13 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
14 3 (0.080%) IBM Planning Analytics
14 3 (0.080%) Misys Midas
14 3 (0.080%) SAP BPC
14 3 (0.080%) SAP Payroll
15 2 (0.053%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 697 (18.61%) Azure
2 623 (16.63%) AWS
3 232 (6.19%) GCP
4 216 (5.77%) SaaS
5 164 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
6 152 (4.06%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.71%) Entra ID
8 111 (2.96%) Serverless
9 108 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (2.67%) GitHub
11 53 (1.41%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 44 (1.17%) PowerApps
15 42 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
16 41 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.09%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.22%) Firewall
2 89 (2.38%) Network Security
3 78 (2.08%) DNS
4 76 (2.03%) VLAN
5 62 (1.66%) Broadband
5 62 (1.66%) VPN
6 57 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
7 53 (1.41%) WAN
8 52 (1.39%) TCP/IP
9 51 (1.36%) Wireless
10 47 (1.25%) DHCP
11 46 (1.23%) LAN
12 29 (0.77%) BGP
13 22 (0.59%) OSPF
14 21 (0.56%) SMS
15 19 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.45%) RS-232
16 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.43%) HTTP
18 15 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (3.12%) Power BI
3 97 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 66 (1.76%) Metadata
5 61 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 53 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.31%) Relational Database
8 46 (1.23%) MySQL
9 43 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (1.15%) NoSQL
10 39 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 25 (0.67%) Tableau
12 24 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 23 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.48%) OLTP
16 16 (0.43%) Big Data
17 15 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
18 14 (0.37%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 128 (3.42%) Git
2 59 (1.58%) JIRA
3 38 (1.01%) GitLab
4 27 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.67%) Snyk
6 19 (0.51%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.37%) JUnit
8 13 (0.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.27%) Postman
11 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.24%) Maven
12 7 (0.19%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.080%) MLflow
General
1 942 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 609 (16.26%) Finance
3 436 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 332 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 281 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (7.02%) Legal
7 232 (6.19%) Law
8 147 (3.92%) Banking
9 126 (3.36%) Marketing
10 97 (2.59%) Retail
11 73 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 62 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
16 56 (1.49%) Local Government
17 53 (1.41%) Electronics
18 48 (1.28%) Games
19 42 (1.12%) Aerospace
19 42 (1.12%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (5.69%) Terraform
2 206 (5.50%) .NET
3 157 (4.19%) React
4 120 (3.20%) Node.js
5 94 (2.51%) REST
6 92 (2.46%) HTML
7 85 (2.27%) CSS
8 77 (2.06%) RESTful
9 65 (1.74%) Spring
10 44 (1.17%) Spring Boot
11 42 (1.12%) AngularJS
11 42 (1.12%) PySpark
12 37 (0.99%) Kafka
13 35 (0.93%) Laravel
14 33 (0.88%) Vue
15 31 (0.83%) .NET Core
15 31 (0.83%) Next.js
16 28 (0.75%) Web Services
17 27 (0.72%) HTML5 Canvas
17 27 (0.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 216 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.75%) Driving Licence
3 95 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 94 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
5 81 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 56 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 55 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 54 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (1.15%) Onboarding
12 42 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 41 (1.09%) Blog
13 41 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 34 (0.91%) Algorithms
15 34 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 31 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
17 30 (0.80%) Low-Code
18 29 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 160 (4.27%) Linux
2 146 (3.90%) Windows
3 62 (1.66%) Unix
4 59 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.64%) Android
7 21 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 9 (0.24%) VMS
11 6 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.080%) Debian
14 2 (0.053%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.027%) AIX
15 1 (0.027%) CentOS
15 1 (0.027%) Solaris
15 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (19.70%) Agile
2 721 (19.25%) Mentoring
3 627 (16.74%) Software Engineering
4 609 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 577 (15.40%) AI
6 565 (15.08%) CI/CD
7 486 (12.97%) DevOps
8 477 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 380 (10.14%) Coaching
10 357 (9.53%) Cybersecurity
11 355 (9.48%) Project Delivery
12 345 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 336 (8.97%) Analytics
14 306 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 257 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 248 (6.62%) Roadmaps
17 235 (6.27%) Test Automation
18 225 (6.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 197 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
20 187 (4.99%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 508 (13.56%) Python
2 419 (11.19%) SQL
3 275 (7.34%) C#
4 233 (6.22%) JavaScript
5 215 (5.74%) Java
6 203 (5.42%) TypeScript
7 138 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 96 (2.56%) C++
9 56 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 52 (1.39%) PHP
11 50 (1.33%) Go
12 47 (1.25%) C
13 46 (1.23%) Kotlin
14 33 (0.88%) Bash
15 26 (0.69%) Bicep
16 23 (0.61%) Embedded C
17 21 (0.56%) R
17 21 (0.56%) Swift
18 20 (0.53%) Ruby
19 18 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 368 (9.82%) Degree
2 346 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 294 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.62%) CISSP
5 92 (2.46%) CISM
6 69 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 56 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.44%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
9 50 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 48 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 38 (1.01%) HNC
13 38 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.99%) AWS Certification
15 32 (0.85%) DBS Check
16 28 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (6.14%) QA
2 123 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 103 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (1.79%) GDPR
6 61 (1.63%) NIST
7 48 (1.28%) GRC
8 31 (0.83%) PMO
9 23 (0.61%) WCAG
10 22 (0.59%) SLA
11 20 (0.53%) NCSC
12 13 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.27%) COBIT
15 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.21%) GxP
17 7 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 177 (4.73%) Docker
2 140 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.93%) vSphere
6 26 (0.69%) 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 (0.053%) 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
1 197 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 105 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (1.09%) Ansible
4 25 (0.67%) Grafana
5 18 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.45%) Argo
7 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.16%) Avamar
10 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.16%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.11%) FTK
12 4 (0.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 468 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.42%) Oracle
3 89 (2.38%) Adobe
4 81 (2.16%) Google
5 67 (1.79%) VMware
6 66 (1.76%) Cisco
7 63 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 61 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 61 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.44%) CyberArk
9 54 (1.44%) SAP
10 47 (1.25%) Databricks
11 35 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
12 30 (0.80%) Apple
12 30 (0.80%) Informatica
12 30 (0.80%) OpenAI
13 28 (0.75%) Tenable
14 27 (0.72%) Pega
15 21 (0.56%) Dell
16 20 (0.53%) Aruba