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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,224 2,246 6,053
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.42% 14.86% 17.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.44% 16.15% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 1,383 4,536
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 £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,338 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.43% +9.34% -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 18,482 13,906 32,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 91.99% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 13,489 8,568 25,832
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,314
Median % change year-on-year - +8.47% -11.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 11 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 11 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.

1 632 (19.60%) Agile
2 604 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 575 (17.83%) Azure
4 535 (16.59%) AWS
5 471 (14.61%) Software Engineering
6 437 (13.55%) AI
7 395 (12.25%) CI/CD
8 386 (11.97%) Coaching
9 383 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
9 383 (11.88%) Python
9 383 (11.88%) SQL
10 361 (11.20%) Microsoft
11 344 (10.67%) DevOps
12 331 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 304 (9.43%) Analytics
14 302 (9.37%) Degree
15 294 (9.12%) Roadmaps
16 281 (8.72%) Security Cleared
17 241 (7.48%) Java
18 235 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
19 223 (6.92%) SC Cleared
20 221 (6.85%) Decision-Making
21 210 (6.51%) Test Automation
22 203 (6.30%) Project Delivery
23 197 (6.11%) GCP
24 186 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
25 184 (5.71%) Kubernetes
26 183 (5.68%) .NET
27 181 (5.61%) Full-Stack Development
28 178 (5.52%) Project Management

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 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.71%) CMS
5 19 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.59%) Confluence
6 10 (0.31%) WordPress
7 9 (0.28%) IIS
7 9 (0.28%) SAS
8 8 (0.25%) Apache
8 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.12%) JBoss
9 4 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.093%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.093%) Artix
10 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.062%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 88 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
7 5 (0.16%) Sketch
8 4 (0.12%) InVision
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.093%) Blender
9 3 (0.093%) InDesign
9 3 (0.093%) Maya
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.062%) SPSS
10 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 18 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
3 16 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 15 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 12 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (0.28%) Visualfiles
8 8 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.19%) Shopify
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.16%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
12 3 (0.093%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 575 (17.83%) Azure
2 535 (16.59%) AWS
3 197 (6.11%) GCP
4 175 (5.43%) SaaS
5 135 (4.19%) Power Platform
6 120 (3.72%) Serverless
7 119 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
8 91 (2.82%) Entra ID
9 85 (2.64%) GitHub
10 80 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (1.49%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
13 38 (1.18%) Figma
14 37 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (1.12%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.09%) Amazon S3
17 34 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 143 (4.44%) Broadband
2 85 (2.64%) Firewall
3 60 (1.86%) DNS
4 56 (1.74%) VPN
5 44 (1.36%) WAN
6 38 (1.18%) DHCP
7 35 (1.09%) Wireless
8 33 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 31 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.93%) LAN
11 29 (0.90%) Network Security
12 28 (0.87%) BGP
13 22 (0.68%) RS-232
14 21 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.59%) OSPF
16 17 (0.53%) Ethernet
17 15 (0.47%) HTTP
18 13 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
19 12 (0.37%) VXLAN
20 11 (0.34%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (3.10%) Power BI
2 97 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 83 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (2.05%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.64%) Metadata
6 36 (1.12%) 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 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.87%) Tableau
11 26 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 24 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (0.74%) MySQL
13 23 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (0.56%) Delta Lake
14 18 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (0.53%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (2.30%) Git
2 63 (1.95%) JIRA
3 47 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.15%) TeamCity
5 36 (1.12%) GitLab
6 25 (0.78%) Snyk
7 24 (0.74%) Claude Code
8 17 (0.53%) Selenium
9 12 (0.37%) Postman
10 10 (0.31%) MLflow
11 9 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.22%) JMeter
13 7 (0.22%) JUnit
13 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.19%) NUnit
14 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 651 (20.19%) Social Skills
2 567 (17.59%) Finance
3 404 (12.53%) Public Sector
4 233 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 204 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.06%) Law
7 127 (3.94%) Banking
8 126 (3.91%) Marketing
9 98 (3.04%) Legal
10 84 (2.61%) Retail
11 81 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.33%) Games
13 53 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 49 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 46 (1.43%) Telecoms
16 37 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.96%) Local Government
18 27 (0.84%) Financial Institution
19 25 (0.78%) Back Office
19 25 (0.78%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (5.68%) .NET
2 141 (4.37%) React
3 99 (3.07%) REST
4 97 (3.01%) Node.js
5 76 (2.36%) HTML
6 68 (2.11%) RESTful
7 66 (2.05%) SOAP
8 52 (1.61%) CSS
9 51 (1.58%) Spring
10 41 (1.27%) GraphQL
11 40 (1.24%) OAuth
12 36 (1.12%) Spring Boot
13 35 (1.09%) OpenID
14 33 (1.02%) Vue
15 32 (0.99%) SAML
16 31 (0.96%) JSON
17 30 (0.93%) Kafka
18 29 (0.90%) .NET Core
18 29 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
19 27 (0.84%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 199 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 111 (3.44%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.26%) Data Centre
4 67 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (1.89%) Social Media
6 57 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 46 (1.43%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 44 (1.36%) Mobile App
9 44 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 39 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
14 36 (1.12%) AI Agents
14 36 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
15 35 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.53%) Linux
2 105 (3.26%) Windows
3 57 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 52 (1.61%) Android
5 38 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.05%) Unix
7 18 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
8 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.19%) VMS
11 3 (0.093%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Debian
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (19.60%) Agile
2 604 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 471 (14.61%) Software Engineering
4 437 (13.55%) AI
5 395 (12.25%) CI/CD
6 386 (11.97%) Coaching
7 383 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
8 344 (10.67%) DevOps
9 331 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (9.43%) Analytics
11 294 (9.12%) Roadmaps
12 235 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
13 221 (6.85%) Decision-Making
14 210 (6.51%) Test Automation
15 203 (6.30%) Project Delivery
16 186 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 181 (5.61%) Full-Stack Development
18 178 (5.52%) Project Management
19 176 (5.46%) Infrastructure as Code
20 155 (4.81%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 383 (11.88%) Python
1 383 (11.88%) SQL
2 241 (7.48%) Java
3 171 (5.30%) JavaScript
4 159 (4.93%) C#
5 150 (4.65%) TypeScript
6 95 (2.95%) PowerShell
7 87 (2.70%) C++
8 73 (2.26%) Go
9 68 (2.11%) Bash
10 61 (1.89%) PHP
11 55 (1.71%) PL/SQL
12 47 (1.46%) Scala
13 40 (1.24%) C
14 38 (1.18%) T-SQL
15 27 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.71%) VBA
17 21 (0.65%) Bicep
18 20 (0.62%) R
19 19 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 302 (9.37%) Degree
2 281 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 223 (6.92%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 51 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 47 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 35 (1.09%) CISSP
12 26 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 24 (0.74%) ACCA
13 24 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 23 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 22 (0.68%) CISM
16 21 (0.65%) CIMA
17 20 (0.62%) PhD
18 19 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (3.66%) QA
2 80 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 60 (1.86%) NIST
5 58 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.33%) GDPR
7 38 (1.18%) GRC
8 28 (0.87%) PMO
9 25 (0.78%) NCSC
10 16 (0.50%) SLA
11 12 (0.37%) P3O
12 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.28%) IEC 61508
13 9 (0.28%) MISRA
13 9 (0.28%) MISRA C
14 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 136 (4.22%) Docker
2 98 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.81%) vSphere
6 19 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.56%) Firmware
8 11 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) vCloud
10 8 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.031%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.031%) iptables
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 184 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 163 (5.06%) Terraform
3 35 (1.09%) Ansible
4 34 (1.05%) Grafana
5 33 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.59%) Argo
8 17 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 11 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.28%) 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 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.16%) Istio
14 5 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 361 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 141 (4.37%) Oracle
3 114 (3.54%) Adobe
4 68 (2.11%) VMware
5 64 (1.99%) SAP
6 62 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 60 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 59 (1.83%) Databricks
8 59 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 55 (1.71%) Google
10 52 (1.61%) Cisco
11 41 (1.27%) Apple
12 32 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.87%) Dell
14 26 (0.81%) Tenable
15 19 (0.59%) Computacenter
16 17 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.47%) NetApp
17 15 (0.47%) Nimble Storage
17 15 (0.47%) OpenAI