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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,770 2,387 5,350
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.92% 18.28% 16.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.00% 19.50% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,983 1,719 4,312
10th Percentile £47,613 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.34% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -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 16,297 12,239 30,366
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.66% 93.71% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,714 9,002 24,806
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,251 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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.

1 572 (20.65%) Azure
2 565 (20.40%) Mentoring
3 543 (19.60%) Agile
4 477 (17.22%) AWS
5 410 (14.80%) Software Engineering
6 383 (13.83%) SQL
7 378 (13.65%) CI/CD
8 361 (13.03%) DevOps
9 353 (12.74%) Coaching
10 348 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
11 345 (12.45%) Microsoft
12 335 (12.09%) AI
13 318 (11.48%) Python
14 286 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 260 (9.39%) Security Cleared
16 252 (9.10%) Degree
17 250 (9.03%) Roadmaps
18 235 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
19 220 (7.94%) Analytics
20 218 (7.87%) Java
21 213 (7.69%) GCP
22 199 (7.18%) SC Cleared
23 198 (7.15%) .NET
24 196 (7.08%) Kubernetes
25 192 (6.93%) SaaS
26 189 (6.82%) Test Automation
27 180 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
28 179 (6.46%) Terraform
29 175 (6.32%) Docker
30 171 (6.17%) Microservices

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 71 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.76%) CMS
5 21 (0.76%) Confluence
6 10 (0.36%) Apache
6 10 (0.36%) JBoss
6 10 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.25%) IIS
7 7 (0.25%) WordPress
8 6 (0.22%) SAS
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.072%) nginx
12 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.036%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.036%) Appian
13 1 (0.036%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 38 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.25%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.18%) InDesign
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.14%) InVision
9 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.11%) Weka
11 2 (0.072%) Maya
11 2 (0.072%) MotionBuilder
11 2 (0.072%) Revit
12 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 30 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
2 23 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 21 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
3 21 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
7 11 (0.40%) Visualfiles
8 10 (0.36%) Hyperion Planning
8 10 (0.36%) Shopify
9 6 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.18%) Cloudability
10 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 572 (20.65%) Azure
2 477 (17.22%) AWS
3 213 (7.69%) GCP
4 192 (6.93%) SaaS
5 112 (4.04%) Power Platform
6 111 (4.01%) GitHub
7 99 (3.57%) Entra ID
8 98 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
9 96 (3.47%) Serverless
10 95 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
11 51 (1.84%) dbt
11 51 (1.84%) Snowflake
12 43 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (1.48%) PowerApps
14 40 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 38 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
17 32 (1.16%) Amazon S3
17 32 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 114 (4.12%) Broadband
2 80 (2.89%) Firewall
3 55 (1.99%) VPN
4 51 (1.84%) DNS
5 50 (1.81%) WAN
6 43 (1.55%) DHCP
7 42 (1.52%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.16%) SD-WAN
9 30 (1.08%) LAN
10 27 (0.97%) Network Security
11 20 (0.72%) BGP
11 20 (0.72%) Ethernet
11 20 (0.72%) Wireless
12 19 (0.69%) RS-232
13 18 (0.65%) HTTP
14 17 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.36%) OSPF
15 10 (0.36%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.32%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 84 (3.03%) Power BI
3 73 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 44 (1.59%) Metadata
7 39 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 33 (1.19%) BigQuery
9 29 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 29 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (0.94%) Redis
12 25 (0.90%) Tableau
13 24 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (0.79%) MySQL
15 21 (0.76%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.76%) OLTP
16 18 (0.65%) Looker
16 18 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 81 (2.92%) Git
2 71 (2.56%) JIRA
3 56 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 34 (1.23%) GitLab
6 29 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
7 21 (0.76%) Selenium
8 15 (0.54%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.36%) MLflow
11 9 (0.32%) Postman
12 8 (0.29%) JUnit
12 8 (0.29%) Subversion
12 8 (0.29%) webpack
13 7 (0.25%) JMeter
13 7 (0.25%) Snyk
13 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 572 (20.65%) Finance
2 539 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 327 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 168 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (4.69%) Law
6 126 (4.55%) Marketing
7 118 (4.26%) Banking
8 102 (3.68%) Retail
9 93 (3.36%) Legal
10 85 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
11 72 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 70 (2.53%) Games
13 44 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 43 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 38 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.97%) Back Office
18 20 (0.72%) Publishing
19 19 (0.69%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (7.15%) .NET
2 139 (5.02%) React
3 121 (4.37%) REST
4 86 (3.10%) SOAP
5 79 (2.85%) HTML
6 76 (2.74%) Node.js
7 72 (2.60%) RESTful
8 65 (2.35%) GraphQL
9 64 (2.31%) OAuth
10 57 (2.06%) CSS
11 51 (1.84%) Spring
12 50 (1.81%) Kafka
13 44 (1.59%) OpenID
14 40 (1.44%) Spring Boot
15 38 (1.37%) SAML
16 34 (1.23%) .NET Core
17 33 (1.19%) Django
18 32 (1.16%) LDAP
19 29 (1.05%) React Native
20 28 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 179 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 94 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 64 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (2.20%) Social Media
6 56 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 47 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 45 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.48%) Cyberattack
11 36 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
13 32 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
14 31 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
15 29 (1.05%) Data Structures
15 29 (1.05%) Low-Code
15 29 (1.05%) Management Information System
15 29 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
16 28 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 150 (5.42%) Linux
2 109 (3.94%) Windows
3 71 (2.56%) Android
4 59 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 52 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 36 (1.30%) Unix
7 21 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (0.32%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.11%) CentOS
13 2 (0.072%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.072%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.072%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (20.40%) Mentoring
2 543 (19.60%) Agile
3 410 (14.80%) Software Engineering
4 378 (13.65%) CI/CD
5 361 (13.03%) DevOps
6 353 (12.74%) Coaching
7 348 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
8 335 (12.09%) AI
9 286 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 250 (9.03%) Roadmaps
11 235 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
12 220 (7.94%) Analytics
13 189 (6.82%) Test Automation
14 180 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 171 (6.17%) Microservices
16 160 (5.78%) Decision-Making
16 160 (5.78%) User Experience
17 151 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 150 (5.42%) Full-Stack Development
19 137 (4.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 383 (13.83%) SQL
2 318 (11.48%) Python
3 218 (7.87%) Java
4 159 (5.74%) C#
5 151 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 139 (5.02%) TypeScript
7 90 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.64%) Go
9 68 (2.45%) Bash
10 67 (2.42%) C++
11 52 (1.88%) PHP
12 46 (1.66%) Scala
13 44 (1.59%) PL/SQL
14 37 (1.34%) T-SQL
15 35 (1.26%) Kotlin
16 34 (1.23%) C
17 23 (0.83%) VBA
18 22 (0.79%) Bicep
19 17 (0.61%) R
20 14 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 260 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 252 (9.10%) Degree
3 199 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 83 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 39 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (1.37%) ACCA
8 34 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.16%) CISSP
10 26 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.90%) CIMA
11 25 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 24 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.65%) CISM
14 17 (0.61%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.54%) CREST Certified
15 15 (0.54%) PhD
16 14 (0.51%) CIPFA
17 13 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.29%) QA
2 69 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 63 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 59 (2.13%) NIST
5 58 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.66%) GDPR
7 32 (1.16%) NCSC
8 20 (0.72%) GRC
9 16 (0.58%) PMO
9 16 (0.58%) SLA
10 15 (0.54%) IFRS
11 14 (0.51%) P3O
12 11 (0.40%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.40%) MISRA
12 11 (0.40%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.25%) GAAP
System Software
1 175 (6.32%) Docker
2 114 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.51%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.43%) Firmware
7 10 (0.36%) vSphere
8 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.14%) vCloud
11 2 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.036%) Ceph
12 1 (0.036%) Lustre
12 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 196 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 179 (6.46%) Terraform
3 53 (1.91%) Grafana
4 45 (1.62%) Ansible
5 37 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.51%) SCCM
9 11 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.40%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.25%) Argo
10 7 (0.25%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.18%) Puppet
11 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 4 (0.14%) Plesk
13 3 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.11%) cPanel
13 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 345 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 135 (4.87%) Oracle
3 75 (2.71%) Adobe
4 71 (2.56%) Databricks
5 68 (2.45%) VMware
6 67 (2.42%) Google
7 59 (2.13%) SAP
8 50 (1.81%) Cisco
9 47 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 30 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.87%) Apple
11 24 (0.87%) Okta
11 24 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 18 (0.65%) Dell
13 13 (0.47%) Citrix
13 13 (0.47%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.43%) Samsung
14 12 (0.43%) Splunk
15 11 (0.40%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.40%) Wrike