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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,944 2,155 4,053
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.91% 12.83% 18.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.95% 13.77% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,570 1,417 2,411
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,273 15,647 20,929
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 93.19% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,038 8,787 13,019
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,363 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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.

1 750 (19.02%) Agile
2 746 (18.91%) Mentoring
3 706 (17.90%) Azure
4 693 (17.57%) Software Engineering
5 646 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 635 (16.10%) AWS
7 603 (15.29%) CI/CD
8 599 (15.19%) AI
9 546 (13.84%) Python
10 515 (13.06%) DevOps
11 498 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
12 456 (11.56%) Microsoft
13 452 (11.46%) SQL
14 402 (10.19%) Coaching
15 376 (9.53%) Security Cleared
16 375 (9.51%) Degree
17 356 (9.03%) Analytics
18 354 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
19 346 (8.77%) Project Delivery
20 344 (8.72%) Decision-Making
21 313 (7.94%) SC Cleared
22 311 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 290 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
24 280 (7.10%) C#
25 267 (6.77%) Java
26 249 (6.31%) Test Automation
27 248 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
28 242 (6.14%) Roadmaps
29 240 (6.09%) Terraform
30 239 (6.06%) 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 81 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 23 (0.58%) Confluence
5 20 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.41%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.30%) WordPress
10 10 (0.25%) SAS
11 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.20%) IIS
12 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.076%) Artix
13 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.076%) Moodle
14 2 (0.051%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.025%) nginx
Applications
1 78 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.33%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.23%) InDesign
7 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.18%) Revit
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.076%) Blender
11 3 (0.076%) Maya
12 2 (0.051%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.051%) SPSS
12 2 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.48%) Cloudability
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 10 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.25%) Shopify
6 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
8 6 (0.15%) Primavera
9 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.051%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.051%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 706 (17.90%) Azure
2 635 (16.10%) AWS
3 239 (6.06%) SaaS
4 238 (6.03%) GCP
5 158 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
6 156 (3.96%) Power Platform
7 150 (3.80%) Entra ID
8 116 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 111 (2.81%) GitHub
10 104 (2.64%) Serverless
11 55 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (1.32%) Amazon S3
13 51 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.04%) Azure AKS
17 37 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
17 37 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (0.94%) IaaS
17 37 (0.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 152 (3.85%) Firewall
2 98 (2.48%) Network Security
3 78 (1.98%) VLAN
4 74 (1.88%) DNS
5 68 (1.72%) VPN
6 62 (1.57%) TCP/IP
7 59 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
8 58 (1.47%) Wireless
9 55 (1.39%) Broadband
10 48 (1.22%) WAN
11 46 (1.17%) LAN
12 38 (0.96%) DHCP
13 32 (0.81%) BGP
14 24 (0.61%) SMS
15 22 (0.56%) OSPF
16 18 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.41%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.41%) WLAN
18 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
19 12 (0.30%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (3.02%) Power BI
3 101 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 72 (1.83%) Metadata
5 59 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 51 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 47 (1.19%) MySQL
8 44 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (1.12%) NoSQL
9 39 (0.99%) DynamoDB
10 28 (0.71%) Tableau
11 24 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 21 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (0.51%) OLTP
14 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 135 (3.42%) Git
2 63 (1.60%) JIRA
3 43 (1.09%) GitLab
4 29 (0.74%) TeamCity
5 27 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 19 (0.48%) Snyk
7 16 (0.41%) JUnit
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.25%) Maven
11 9 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.23%) Mockito
11 9 (0.23%) Postman
12 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.13%) Gatling
12 5 (0.13%) Poetry
13 4 (0.10%) MLflow
13 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 976 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 647 (16.40%) Finance
3 467 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 358 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 291 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 259 (6.57%) Legal
7 249 (6.31%) Law
8 159 (4.03%) Banking
9 130 (3.30%) Marketing
10 126 (3.19%) Retail
11 74 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 73 (1.85%) Telecoms
13 71 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 64 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.50%) Electronics
16 56 (1.42%) Aerospace
17 55 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
18 54 (1.37%) Local Government
19 51 (1.29%) Games
20 45 (1.14%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (6.09%) Terraform
2 204 (5.17%) .NET
3 154 (3.90%) React
4 109 (2.76%) Node.js
5 104 (2.64%) REST
6 88 (2.23%) RESTful
7 87 (2.21%) HTML
8 82 (2.08%) CSS
9 70 (1.77%) Spring
10 49 (1.24%) Spring Boot
11 44 (1.12%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.01%) PySpark
13 36 (0.91%) Kafka
14 34 (0.86%) Vue
15 33 (0.84%) Laravel
16 31 (0.79%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.79%) Next.js
17 30 (0.76%) OAuth
18 27 (0.68%) XML
19 26 (0.66%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 243 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 115 (2.92%) Driving Licence
3 110 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 84 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 67 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 62 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 52 (1.32%) Blog
10 50 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 49 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 48 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 39 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (0.86%) Mobile App
16 33 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
18 31 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
19 29 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 164 (4.16%) Linux
2 140 (3.55%) Windows
3 62 (1.57%) Unix
4 61 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 24 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
7 20 (0.51%) Android
8 11 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.25%) VMS
10 9 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
11 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.076%) Debian
14 2 (0.051%) Rocky
14 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.025%) AIX
15 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (19.02%) Agile
2 746 (18.91%) Mentoring
3 693 (17.57%) Software Engineering
4 646 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 603 (15.29%) CI/CD
6 599 (15.19%) AI
7 515 (13.06%) DevOps
8 498 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
9 402 (10.19%) Coaching
10 356 (9.03%) Analytics
11 354 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
12 346 (8.77%) Project Delivery
13 344 (8.72%) Decision-Making
14 311 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 290 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 249 (6.31%) Test Automation
17 248 (6.29%) Infrastructure as Code
18 242 (6.14%) Roadmaps
19 211 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 207 (5.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 546 (13.84%) Python
2 452 (11.46%) SQL
3 280 (7.10%) C#
4 267 (6.77%) Java
5 221 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 195 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.40%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.48%) C++
9 63 (1.60%) Go
10 58 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 50 (1.27%) PHP
13 47 (1.19%) C
14 43 (1.09%) Bash
15 30 (0.76%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.48%) Ruby
18 19 (0.48%) Rust
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 376 (9.53%) Security Cleared
2 375 (9.51%) Degree
3 313 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.51%) CISSP
5 94 (2.38%) CISM
6 70 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.37%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
9 52 (1.32%) HNC
10 46 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 43 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 39 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 39 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
13 38 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 37 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 35 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (0.63%) PhD
17 24 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (5.73%) QA
2 121 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 115 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 87 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.85%) GDPR
6 60 (1.52%) NIST
7 41 (1.04%) GRC
8 30 (0.76%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 21 (0.53%) NCSC
11 18 (0.46%) SLA
12 17 (0.43%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.25%) COBIT
17 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.20%) GxP
18 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 194 (4.92%) Docker
2 141 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.79%) vSphere
6 24 (0.61%) Firmware
7 11 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.18%) vCloud
11 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.076%) iptables
13 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.025%) GPFS
14 1 (0.025%) Lustre
14 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 225 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 113 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 46 (1.17%) Grafana
4 44 (1.12%) Ansible
5 20 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.43%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
8 10 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.15%) Avamar
9 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.15%) VxRail
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 4 (0.10%) Cilium
11 4 (0.10%) FTK
11 4 (0.10%) Packer
11 4 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 456 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.04%) Oracle
3 100 (2.54%) Google
4 68 (1.72%) Cisco
5 67 (1.70%) Adobe
5 67 (1.70%) VMware
6 59 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 58 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.39%) CyberArk
9 49 (1.24%) Databricks
9 49 (1.24%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.01%) SAP
11 31 (0.79%) Informatica
11 31 (0.79%) OpenAI
12 28 (0.71%) Pega
13 27 (0.68%) Apple
13 27 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (0.68%) YouTube
14 22 (0.56%) Aruba
15 21 (0.53%) Tenable