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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,988 2,430 5,664
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.27% 17.06% 17.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.37% 18.51% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,120 1,642 4,359
10th Percentile £47,500 £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 £112,500 £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 17,198 13,127 31,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 92.13% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 9,045 24,954
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £33,004
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,979 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +10.38% -11.67%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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.

1 601 (20.11%) Mentoring
2 586 (19.61%) Azure
3 561 (18.78%) Agile
4 490 (16.40%) AWS
5 429 (14.36%) Software Engineering
6 396 (13.25%) SQL
7 386 (12.92%) AI
8 378 (12.65%) CI/CD
9 365 (12.22%) Coaching
10 357 (11.95%) DevOps
11 352 (11.78%) Microsoft
12 348 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
13 339 (11.35%) Python
14 296 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 270 (9.04%) Roadmaps
16 263 (8.80%) Security Cleared
17 261 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
18 251 (8.40%) Analytics
19 248 (8.30%) Degree
20 226 (7.56%) Java
21 207 (6.93%) GCP
22 205 (6.86%) SC Cleared
23 199 (6.66%) Test Automation
24 197 (6.59%) .NET
25 183 (6.12%) Decision-Making
26 179 (5.99%) Kubernetes
27 177 (5.92%) SaaS
27 177 (5.92%) Stakeholder Management
28 176 (5.89%) Terraform
29 172 (5.76%) User Experience

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 86 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (0.80%) CMS
3 24 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.77%) Confluence
5 9 (0.30%) Apache
6 7 (0.23%) JBoss
6 7 (0.23%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.20%) SAS
7 6 (0.20%) WordPress
8 5 (0.17%) IIS
9 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.067%) Artix
11 2 (0.067%) nginx
11 2 (0.067%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.033%) Appian
12 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.20%) Sketch
8 5 (0.17%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.10%) Trello
11 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.067%) Civil 3D
11 2 (0.067%) Revit
11 2 (0.067%) Weka
12 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
2 24 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 19 (0.64%) Cloudability
4 17 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 17 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 16 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
5 16 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
6 13 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
7 12 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
8 11 (0.37%) Visualfiles
9 9 (0.30%) Shopify
10 8 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
11 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.17%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
12 5 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 586 (19.61%) Azure
2 490 (16.40%) AWS
3 207 (6.93%) GCP
4 177 (5.92%) SaaS
5 120 (4.02%) Power Platform
6 108 (3.61%) Serverless
7 107 (3.58%) GitHub
8 105 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
9 99 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
10 93 (3.11%) Entra ID
11 49 (1.64%) Snowflake
12 48 (1.61%) PowerApps
13 43 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
17 37 (1.24%) dbt
17 37 (1.24%) Figma
17 37 (1.24%) Power Automate
18 36 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 125 (4.18%) Broadband
2 79 (2.64%) Firewall
3 54 (1.81%) VPN
4 53 (1.77%) DNS
5 51 (1.71%) WAN
6 44 (1.47%) DHCP
7 37 (1.24%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 33 (1.10%) LAN
10 30 (1.00%) Network Security
11 26 (0.87%) Wireless
12 21 (0.70%) BGP
13 20 (0.67%) RS-232
14 19 (0.64%) Ethernet
14 19 (0.64%) HTTP
15 18 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (0.37%) OSPF
18 9 (0.30%) MPLS
18 9 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.61%) SQL Server
2 91 (3.05%) Power BI
3 77 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (1.71%) Metadata
7 40 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 34 (1.14%) BigQuery
9 30 (1.00%) OLTP
10 29 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (0.87%) Tableau
13 25 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (0.77%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.77%) DynamoDB
14 23 (0.77%) MySQL
15 21 (0.70%) Relational Database
16 20 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (2.48%) Git
2 69 (2.31%) JIRA
3 50 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.27%) GitLab
5 33 (1.10%) TeamCity
6 28 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
7 19 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.60%) Snyk
9 14 (0.47%) Selenium
10 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.33%) MLflow
12 9 (0.30%) Postman
13 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.23%) JMeter
13 7 (0.23%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.23%) XCUITest
14 6 (0.20%) SoapUI
14 6 (0.20%) Subversion
14 6 (0.20%) webpack
15 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 578 (19.34%) Finance
2 537 (17.97%) Social Skills
3 364 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 196 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.38%) Marketing
7 125 (4.18%) Law
8 121 (4.05%) Banking
9 101 (3.38%) Legal
10 88 (2.95%) Retail
11 86 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.48%) Games
13 60 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 54 (1.81%) Manufacturing
15 44 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
17 25 (0.84%) Back Office
18 24 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.80%) Publishing
19 22 (0.74%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (6.59%) .NET
2 137 (4.59%) React
3 119 (3.98%) REST
4 94 (3.15%) Node.js
5 84 (2.81%) SOAP
6 79 (2.64%) HTML
6 79 (2.64%) RESTful
7 56 (1.87%) GraphQL
8 54 (1.81%) OAuth
9 53 (1.77%) CSS
10 42 (1.41%) Kafka
11 40 (1.34%) OpenID
12 39 (1.31%) .NET Core
12 39 (1.31%) Spring
13 36 (1.20%) SAML
14 35 (1.17%) JSON
15 32 (1.07%) XML
16 31 (1.04%) React Native
16 31 (1.04%) Spring Boot
17 29 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 184 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 65 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 60 (2.01%) Social Media
5 58 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 50 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 45 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 43 (1.44%) Cyberattack
10 43 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
11 36 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 34 (1.14%) Driving Licence
14 32 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 32 (1.07%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.07%) Over-the-Top Content
15 29 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.79%) Linux
2 115 (3.85%) Windows
3 66 (2.21%) Android
4 58 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 47 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 36 (1.20%) Unix
7 21 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.27%) VMS
10 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.10%) CentOS
12 3 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.033%) AIX
14 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (20.11%) Mentoring
2 561 (18.78%) Agile
3 429 (14.36%) Software Engineering
4 386 (12.92%) AI
5 378 (12.65%) CI/CD
6 365 (12.22%) Coaching
7 357 (11.95%) DevOps
8 348 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
9 296 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 270 (9.04%) Roadmaps
11 261 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
12 251 (8.40%) Analytics
13 199 (6.66%) Test Automation
14 183 (6.12%) Decision-Making
15 177 (5.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 172 (5.76%) User Experience
17 160 (5.35%) Full-Stack Development
18 159 (5.32%) Microservices
19 152 (5.09%) Infrastructure as Code
20 140 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 396 (13.25%) SQL
2 339 (11.35%) Python
3 226 (7.56%) Java
4 161 (5.39%) C#
5 152 (5.09%) JavaScript
6 143 (4.79%) TypeScript
7 100 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.51%) Go
9 74 (2.48%) C++
10 67 (2.24%) Bash
11 55 (1.84%) PL/SQL
12 54 (1.81%) PHP
13 46 (1.54%) Scala
14 39 (1.31%) C
14 39 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.77%) VBA
17 22 (0.74%) Bicep
18 17 (0.57%) R
18 17 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 263 (8.80%) Security Cleared
2 248 (8.30%) Degree
3 205 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 71 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 42 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 40 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.00%) ACCA
10 29 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 27 (0.90%) CISSP
12 26 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 25 (0.84%) PMI Certification
14 23 (0.77%) CIMA
15 19 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
17 16 (0.54%) DBS Check
18 15 (0.50%) CIPFA
18 15 (0.50%) PhD
19 14 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (3.55%) QA
2 75 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 66 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 52 (1.74%) NIST
5 45 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.34%) GDPR
7 28 (0.94%) GRC
7 28 (0.94%) NCSC
8 24 (0.80%) PMO
9 20 (0.67%) SLA
10 13 (0.44%) P3O
11 11 (0.37%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.37%) MISRA
11 11 (0.37%) MISRA C
12 10 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.27%) IFRS
13 8 (0.27%) WCAG
14 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 147 (4.92%) Docker
2 109 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.64%) vSphere
6 16 (0.54%) Firmware
7 10 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.30%) vCloud
9 7 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 179 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 176 (5.89%) Terraform
3 40 (1.34%) Ansible
4 38 (1.27%) Grafana
5 31 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.64%) Argo
9 16 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.47%) SCCM
11 11 (0.37%) Functional Safety
12 7 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.17%) Istio
13 5 (0.17%) Puppet
13 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.13%) Plesk
15 3 (0.10%) Avamar
15 3 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 352 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.95%) Oracle
3 104 (3.48%) Adobe
4 72 (2.41%) VMware
5 63 (2.11%) SAP
6 62 (2.07%) Databricks
7 61 (2.04%) Google
8 49 (1.64%) Cisco
8 49 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 38 (1.27%) Palo Alto
11 36 (1.20%) Apple
12 25 (0.84%) Dell
13 23 (0.77%) Okta
14 22 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
15 18 (0.60%) Tenable
16 14 (0.47%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.44%) Citrix
17 13 (0.44%) SolarWinds
18 12 (0.40%) NetApp