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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,238 2,229 6,120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.22% 14.52% 17.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.26% 15.76% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 1,374 4,561
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,938 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,626 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% +8.20% -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 18,758 14,142 33,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 92.12% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13,672 8,631 25,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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.

1 644 (19.89%) Agile
2 609 (18.81%) Mentoring
3 571 (17.63%) Azure
4 540 (16.68%) AWS
5 485 (14.98%) Software Engineering
6 438 (13.53%) AI
7 399 (12.32%) CI/CD
8 391 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
9 381 (11.77%) Python
10 380 (11.74%) Coaching
11 376 (11.61%) SQL
12 354 (10.93%) Microsoft
13 336 (10.38%) DevOps
14 330 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 304 (9.39%) Degree
16 299 (9.23%) Analytics
17 291 (8.99%) Roadmaps
17 291 (8.99%) Security Cleared
18 239 (7.38%) Java
19 232 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
20 230 (7.10%) SC Cleared
21 225 (6.95%) Decision-Making
22 213 (6.58%) Test Automation
23 206 (6.36%) Project Delivery
24 201 (6.21%) GCP
25 192 (5.93%) Kubernetes
26 190 (5.87%) Stakeholder Management
27 185 (5.71%) .NET
28 181 (5.59%) Full-Stack Development
29 178 (5.50%) 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 85 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 32 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.71%) CMS
5 19 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.49%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) IIS
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.12%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.093%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.093%) Artix
11 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 84 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 9 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.12%) InDesign
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.093%) Blender
9 3 (0.093%) Civil 3D
9 3 (0.093%) Maya
10 2 (0.062%) SPSS
10 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 12 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.28%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.093%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.093%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.093%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.093%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 571 (17.63%) Azure
2 540 (16.68%) AWS
3 201 (6.21%) GCP
4 178 (5.50%) SaaS
5 138 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 121 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
6 121 (3.74%) Serverless
7 88 (2.72%) Entra ID
8 81 (2.50%) GitHub
9 79 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (1.51%) PowerApps
11 46 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 40 (1.24%) Figma
14 36 (1.11%) Power Automate
15 35 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (1.02%) Amazon S3
16 33 (1.02%) Azure AKS
16 33 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.57%) Broadband
2 89 (2.75%) Firewall
3 61 (1.88%) DNS
4 57 (1.76%) VPN
5 44 (1.36%) WAN
6 39 (1.20%) DHCP
7 36 (1.11%) Wireless
8 32 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 31 (0.96%) LAN
10 30 (0.93%) Network Security
11 29 (0.90%) SD-WAN
12 26 (0.80%) BGP
12 26 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (0.71%) RS-232
14 18 (0.56%) OSPF
15 17 (0.53%) Ethernet
16 14 (0.43%) HTTP
16 14 (0.43%) VLAN
17 12 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
17 12 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.12%) Power BI
2 92 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.58%) Metadata
6 36 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (0.99%) OLTP
8 31 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.96%) BigQuery
8 31 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 30 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.86%) Tableau
11 27 (0.83%) MySQL
12 26 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 23 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 21 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.53%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 81 (2.50%) Git
2 62 (1.91%) JIRA
3 47 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.17%) GitLab
5 37 (1.14%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.77%) Snyk
7 24 (0.74%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.56%) Selenium
9 13 (0.40%) Postman
10 9 (0.28%) MLflow
11 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
12 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.22%) JMeter
12 7 (0.22%) JUnit
12 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.19%) NUnit
13 6 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 659 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 563 (17.39%) Finance
3 405 (12.51%) Public Sector
4 234 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 208 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.05%) Law
7 126 (3.89%) Banking
8 124 (3.83%) Marketing
9 99 (3.06%) Legal
10 80 (2.47%) Retail
11 77 (2.38%) Games
11 77 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 55 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 51 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 31 (0.96%) Local Government
17 27 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.74%) Back Office
19 23 (0.71%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (5.71%) .NET
2 144 (4.45%) React
3 94 (2.90%) Node.js
4 93 (2.87%) REST
5 79 (2.44%) HTML
6 68 (2.10%) RESTful
7 62 (1.91%) SOAP
8 55 (1.70%) CSS
9 52 (1.61%) Spring
10 39 (1.20%) GraphQL
11 37 (1.14%) OAuth
11 37 (1.14%) Spring Boot
12 36 (1.11%) Vue
13 34 (1.05%) OpenID
14 31 (0.96%) SAML
15 30 (0.93%) JSON
16 29 (0.90%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
17 28 (0.86%) Kafka
18 27 (0.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 110 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 70 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (1.88%) Social Media
6 57 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.45%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 43 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 40 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
13 39 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 38 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 38 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.14%) Onboarding
16 36 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
17 34 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.63%) Linux
2 108 (3.34%) Windows
3 55 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 47 (1.45%) Android
5 39 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 33 (1.02%) Unix
7 19 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
8 16 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
10 7 (0.22%) VMS
11 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.093%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.031%) AIX
13 1 (0.031%) CentOS
13 1 (0.031%) Debian
13 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (19.89%) Agile
2 609 (18.81%) Mentoring
3 485 (14.98%) Software Engineering
4 438 (13.53%) AI
5 399 (12.32%) CI/CD
6 391 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
7 380 (11.74%) Coaching
8 336 (10.38%) DevOps
9 330 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 299 (9.23%) Analytics
11 291 (8.99%) Roadmaps
12 232 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
13 225 (6.95%) Decision-Making
14 213 (6.58%) Test Automation
15 206 (6.36%) Project Delivery
16 190 (5.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 181 (5.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 176 (5.44%) Infrastructure as Code
19 175 (5.40%) Project Management
20 157 (4.85%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 381 (11.77%) Python
2 376 (11.61%) SQL
3 239 (7.38%) Java
4 172 (5.31%) JavaScript
5 164 (5.06%) C#
6 152 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 94 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 85 (2.63%) C++
9 69 (2.13%) Go
10 66 (2.04%) Bash
11 56 (1.73%) PHP
12 54 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 43 (1.33%) Scala
14 41 (1.27%) C
15 35 (1.08%) T-SQL
16 25 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 24 (0.74%) VBA
18 21 (0.65%) Bicep
19 19 (0.59%) R
19 19 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 304 (9.39%) Degree
2 291 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 230 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 47 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 46 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 37 (1.14%) CISSP
11 25 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 24 (0.74%) ACCA
12 24 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.74%) CISM
13 23 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.68%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.65%) CIMA
15 21 (0.65%) PhD
16 20 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (3.71%) QA
2 80 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 79 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 62 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (1.91%) NIST
5 43 (1.33%) GDPR
6 39 (1.20%) GRC
7 28 (0.86%) PMO
8 26 (0.80%) NCSC
9 16 (0.49%) SLA
10 12 (0.37%) P3O
11 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.25%) IEC 61508
12 8 (0.25%) MISRA
12 8 (0.25%) MISRA C
12 8 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (4.45%) Docker
2 95 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.86%) vSphere
6 19 (0.59%) Firmware
7 18 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.28%) vCloud
10 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.031%) iptables
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 192 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 158 (4.88%) Terraform
3 35 (1.08%) Ansible
4 34 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (1.02%) Grafana
6 20 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.59%) Argo
8 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 9 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.25%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.19%) Avamar
13 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
13 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
13 6 (0.19%) VxRail
14 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.15%) Istio
14 5 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 354 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 136 (4.20%) Oracle
3 116 (3.58%) Adobe
4 68 (2.10%) VMware
5 63 (1.95%) SAP
5 63 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 62 (1.91%) Palo Alto
7 61 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 59 (1.82%) Databricks
9 57 (1.76%) Google
10 54 (1.67%) Cisco
11 41 (1.27%) Apple
12 32 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.86%) Dell
14 26 (0.80%) Tenable
15 19 (0.59%) Computacenter
16 16 (0.49%) OpenAI
17 15 (0.46%) Meraki
17 15 (0.46%) NetApp
17 15 (0.46%) Nimble Storage