Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 January 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,312 3,071 4,083
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.79% 18.91% 15.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.78% 19.69% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 1,911 3,395
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,908 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% +2.69% -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 14,652 15,594 24,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 96.03% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,565 9,354 20,536
10th Percentile £30,350 £35,825 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -4.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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.

1 558 (24.13%) Azure
2 523 (22.62%) Agile
3 460 (19.90%) Mentoring
4 393 (17.00%) AWS
5 376 (16.26%) CI/CD
6 373 (16.13%) SQL
7 362 (15.66%) DevOps
8 331 (14.32%) Software Engineering
9 313 (13.54%) Coaching
10 299 (12.93%) Python
11 285 (12.33%) Microsoft
12 274 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
13 270 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 269 (11.63%) AI
15 243 (10.51%) Degree
16 208 (9.00%) Roadmaps
17 202 (8.74%) .NET
18 194 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
19 188 (8.13%) Java
20 187 (8.09%) SaaS
21 182 (7.87%) Security Cleared
22 179 (7.74%) Terraform
23 178 (7.70%) Analytics
24 177 (7.66%) C#
25 170 (7.35%) Kubernetes
25 170 (7.35%) Test Automation
26 160 (6.92%) Asset Management
27 156 (6.75%) Stakeholder Management
28 155 (6.70%) Microservices
29 151 (6.53%) GCP

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 55 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.21%) Confluence
4 24 (1.04%) Apache
5 23 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.91%) WordPress
7 19 (0.82%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.65%) IIS
9 11 (0.48%) JBoss
9 11 (0.48%) WebSphere
10 10 (0.43%) CMS
11 5 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.13%) nginx
14 2 (0.087%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.087%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.087%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.043%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.043%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.043%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.61%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.43%) InDesign
6 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.26%) Sketch
8 5 (0.22%) Maya
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.22%) MotionBuilder
9 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.13%) Weka
11 2 (0.087%) InVision
11 2 (0.087%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.087%) Revit
11 2 (0.087%) Simulink
12 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.73%) Oracle ERP
2 30 (1.30%) Oracle Assets
2 30 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 30 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 29 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 28 (1.21%) Oracle Financials
5 22 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
6 20 (0.87%) Shopify
7 14 (0.61%) Hyperion Planning
8 11 (0.48%) NEC Housing
9 9 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 7 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
11 6 (0.26%) Visualfiles
12 5 (0.22%) Magento
12 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
13 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
13 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 4 (0.17%) SAP PP
14 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 558 (24.13%) Azure
2 393 (17.00%) AWS
3 187 (8.09%) SaaS
4 151 (6.53%) GCP
5 146 (6.31%) GitHub
6 136 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 109 (4.71%) Power Platform
8 103 (4.46%) Entra ID
9 91 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
10 87 (3.76%) Serverless
11 69 (2.98%) Snowflake
12 65 (2.81%) dbt
13 50 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (1.95%) PowerApps
15 42 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
17 36 (1.56%) OCI
18 35 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.43%) Amazon S3
19 33 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.03%) Broadband
2 56 (2.42%) Firewall
3 47 (2.03%) VPN
4 40 (1.73%) WAN
5 36 (1.56%) DNS
6 35 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 26 (1.12%) Network Security
8 25 (1.08%) DHCP
8 25 (1.08%) LAN
8 25 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.78%) BGP
10 14 (0.61%) Ethernet
10 14 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.61%) Wireless
11 11 (0.48%) HTTP
12 10 (0.43%) Unified Communications
13 9 (0.39%) OSPF
13 9 (0.39%) RS-232
14 6 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.20%) Power BI
4 63 (2.72%) Data Lake
5 59 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 29 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 29 (1.25%) DynamoDB
8 28 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (1.21%) Metadata
8 28 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 25 (1.08%) MySQL
10 24 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
11 22 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (0.82%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.78%) Redis
13 18 (0.78%) Tableau
14 17 (0.74%) Apache Ignite
14 17 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (3.81%) JIRA
2 71 (3.07%) Git
3 68 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.12%) Oracle Forms
5 29 (1.25%) Selenium
5 29 (1.25%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.95%) GitLab
7 18 (0.78%) Postman
8 12 (0.52%) WebDriver
9 11 (0.48%) SoapUI
10 9 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.35%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.35%) Subversion
12 7 (0.30%) git-flow
12 7 (0.30%) MLflow
13 6 (0.26%) JMeter
13 6 (0.26%) JUnit
14 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 551 (23.83%) Finance
2 510 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 204 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 163 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 144 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 112 (4.84%) Retail
7 104 (4.50%) Banking
8 95 (4.11%) Marketing
9 87 (3.76%) Law
10 72 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 66 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 64 (2.77%) Legal
13 59 (2.55%) Games
14 41 (1.77%) Financial Institution
15 35 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 33 (1.43%) Front Office
17 27 (1.17%) Manufacturing
18 26 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.91%) Investment Banking
19 21 (0.91%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (8.74%) .NET
2 136 (5.88%) React
3 116 (5.02%) REST
4 109 (4.71%) SOAP
5 94 (4.07%) RESTful
6 82 (3.55%) HTML
7 68 (2.94%) GraphQL
8 59 (2.55%) Node.js
9 56 (2.42%) CSS
9 56 (2.42%) OAuth
10 46 (1.99%) Spring
11 40 (1.73%) Kafka
11 40 (1.73%) XML
12 38 (1.64%) gRPC
13 36 (1.56%) .NET Core
13 36 (1.56%) SAML
14 34 (1.47%) OpenID
14 34 (1.47%) Spring Boot
15 29 (1.25%) JSON
15 29 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 149 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 99 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 86 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (1.56%) Social Media
8 35 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 34 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 28 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
11 28 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 27 (1.17%) Cyberattack
12 27 (1.17%) Driving Licence
13 24 (1.04%) Hedge funds
13 24 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
13 24 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (0.95%) Derivative
15 19 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 106 (4.58%) Linux
2 85 (3.68%) Windows
3 46 (1.99%) Android
4 38 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 35 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.21%) Unix
7 21 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.56%) VMS
9 4 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.087%) CentOS
10 2 (0.087%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (22.62%) Agile
2 460 (19.90%) Mentoring
3 376 (16.26%) CI/CD
4 362 (15.66%) DevOps
5 331 (14.32%) Software Engineering
6 313 (13.54%) Coaching
7 274 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 269 (11.63%) AI
10 208 (9.00%) Roadmaps
11 194 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
12 178 (7.70%) Analytics
13 170 (7.35%) Test Automation
14 160 (6.92%) Asset Management
15 156 (6.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 155 (6.70%) Microservices
17 138 (5.97%) User Experience
18 137 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
19 131 (5.67%) Clean Code
20 128 (5.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 373 (16.13%) SQL
2 299 (12.93%) Python
3 188 (8.13%) Java
4 177 (7.66%) C#
5 144 (6.23%) JavaScript
6 139 (6.01%) TypeScript
7 88 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 64 (2.77%) Bash
9 55 (2.38%) Go
10 49 (2.12%) C++
11 47 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 37 (1.60%) PHP
13 33 (1.43%) T-SQL
14 32 (1.38%) Kotlin
14 32 (1.38%) Scala
15 26 (1.12%) Bicep
16 24 (1.04%) Shell Script
17 23 (0.99%) C
18 21 (0.91%) Ruby
19 17 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 243 (10.51%) Degree
2 182 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 133 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 78 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.86%) ACCA
6 41 (1.77%) CISSP
7 38 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.43%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.21%) CISM
12 27 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.04%) PMI Certification
14 21 (0.91%) CIMA
15 19 (0.82%) CCNP
16 16 (0.69%) Master's Degree
17 15 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.61%) AAT
19 13 (0.56%) CISA
20 12 (0.52%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.50%) QA
2 60 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.51%) NIST
4 54 (2.34%) GDPR
4 54 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 38 (1.64%) NCSC
7 21 (0.91%) IFRS
8 16 (0.69%) PMO
9 14 (0.61%) GRC
9 14 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 14 (0.61%) P3O
10 12 (0.52%) JSP 440
10 12 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.48%) RMADS
12 10 (0.43%) IEC 61508
12 10 (0.43%) MISRA
12 10 (0.43%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 150 (6.49%) Docker
2 104 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.30%) vSphere
8 6 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.22%) Firmware
10 2 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.087%) vCloud
10 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.043%) Ceph
11 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 179 (7.74%) Terraform
2 170 (7.35%) Kubernetes
3 55 (2.38%) Grafana
4 50 (2.16%) Ansible
5 47 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 39 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.99%) Prometheus
8 10 (0.43%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.30%) SCCM
10 5 (0.22%) Argo
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
12 3 (0.13%) Control-M
12 3 (0.13%) cPanel
12 3 (0.13%) FlexNet
12 3 (0.13%) Plesk
12 3 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.087%) Nagios
13 2 (0.087%) Nessus
13 2 (0.087%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 285 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 125 (5.41%) Oracle
3 76 (3.29%) Databricks
4 48 (2.08%) Cisco
5 42 (1.82%) Google
5 42 (1.82%) VMware
6 41 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 40 (1.73%) SAP
8 34 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.38%) Adobe
10 29 (1.25%) Okta
11 22 (0.95%) Workday
12 14 (0.61%) Hyperion
12 14 (0.61%) Screaming Frog
13 13 (0.56%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.56%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.48%) Talend
15 9 (0.39%) Atlassian
15 9 (0.39%) Meraki
15 9 (0.39%) Zoho