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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,536 2,282 4,666
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.44% 13.84% 18.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.42% 14.98% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,319 1,509 3,178
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,275
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.68% -6.45%

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 21,531 15,230 23,844
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 92.36% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,372 9,276 17,207
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 19 August 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 19 August 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.

1 724 (20.48%) Agile
2 669 (18.92%) Mentoring
3 667 (18.86%) Azure
4 621 (17.56%) AWS
5 616 (17.42%) Software Engineering
6 576 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 561 (15.87%) AI
8 547 (15.47%) CI/CD
9 504 (14.25%) Python
10 475 (13.43%) DevOps
11 449 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
12 444 (12.56%) Microsoft
13 378 (10.69%) SQL
14 354 (10.01%) Project Delivery
15 353 (9.98%) Degree
16 332 (9.39%) Coaching
17 331 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
18 324 (9.16%) Decision-Making
19 312 (8.82%) Security Cleared
20 308 (8.71%) Analytics
21 295 (8.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 277 (7.83%) C#
23 259 (7.32%) SC Cleared
24 257 (7.27%) Roadmaps
24 257 (7.27%) Test Automation
25 249 (7.04%) JavaScript
26 235 (6.65%) QA
27 229 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
28 227 (6.42%) GCP
29 220 (6.22%) Stakeholder 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 98 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (0.74%) CMS
4 23 (0.65%) Confluence
5 13 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.37%) WordPress
6 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.34%) IIS
7 11 (0.31%) SAS
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.23%) Apache
9 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.085%) Artix
10 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.085%) Moodle
11 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 77 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
6 10 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.23%) InDesign
9 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.11%) Trello
12 3 (0.085%) Blender
12 3 (0.085%) Maya
13 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.057%) SPSS
14 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.25%) Shopify
7 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.085%) Primavera
10 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.085%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.085%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.085%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 667 (18.86%) Azure
2 621 (17.56%) AWS
3 227 (6.42%) GCP
4 219 (6.19%) SaaS
5 157 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 131 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 121 (3.42%) Serverless
9 101 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (2.83%) GitHub
11 52 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.36%) PowerApps
13 43 (1.22%) Amazon S3
13 43 (1.22%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.19%) Azure AKS
14 42 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 37 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
16 37 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 159 (4.50%) Firewall
2 91 (2.57%) Network Security
3 87 (2.46%) Broadband
4 76 (2.15%) DNS
5 73 (2.06%) VLAN
6 60 (1.70%) VPN
7 59 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
8 51 (1.44%) WAN
9 49 (1.39%) Wireless
10 47 (1.33%) TCP/IP
11 46 (1.30%) LAN
12 43 (1.22%) DHCP
13 28 (0.79%) BGP
14 20 (0.57%) OSPF
14 20 (0.57%) RS-232
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) HTTP
17 16 (0.45%) WLAN
18 14 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (3.17%) Power BI
3 99 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 50 (1.41%) Metadata
5 50 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 49 (1.39%) MySQL
7 39 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 34 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 27 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (0.76%) Tableau
11 22 (0.62%) OLTP
12 17 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 15 (0.42%) Big Data
13 15 (0.42%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.37%) Delta Lake
15 12 (0.34%) Redis
15 12 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 121 (3.42%) Git
2 60 (1.70%) JIRA
3 43 (1.22%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 19 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 10 (0.28%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
13 7 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) XCUITest
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) JMeter
General
1 898 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 596 (16.86%) Finance
3 373 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 318 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 268 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 267 (7.55%) Legal
7 230 (6.50%) Law
8 132 (3.73%) Marketing
9 126 (3.56%) Banking
10 84 (2.38%) Retail
11 68 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 66 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 65 (1.84%) Games
14 56 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 51 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
16 50 (1.41%) Local Government
17 49 (1.39%) Electronics
18 44 (1.24%) Legal Technology
19 35 (0.99%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (6.14%) .NET
2 168 (4.75%) React
3 120 (3.39%) Node.js
4 94 (2.66%) HTML
5 88 (2.49%) REST
6 85 (2.40%) CSS
7 75 (2.12%) RESTful
8 56 (1.58%) Spring
9 40 (1.13%) AngularJS
10 37 (1.05%) Vue
11 36 (1.02%) Spring Boot
12 34 (0.96%) Laravel
13 33 (0.93%) .NET Core
13 33 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
14 31 (0.88%) Kafka
15 30 (0.85%) Next.js
16 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
16 29 (0.82%) Playwright
17 28 (0.79%) SPFx
18 27 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 212 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 100 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 82 (2.32%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 55 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 55 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 53 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 42 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 40 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 39 (1.10%) Blog
13 38 (1.07%) Algorithms
14 37 (1.05%) Social Media
15 35 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 35 (0.99%) Onboarding
16 34 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 34 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.81%) Linux
2 133 (3.76%) Windows
3 59 (1.67%) Unix
4 58 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 33 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 32 (0.90%) Android
7 23 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.25%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.085%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (20.48%) Agile
2 669 (18.92%) Mentoring
3 616 (17.42%) Software Engineering
4 576 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 561 (15.87%) AI
6 547 (15.47%) CI/CD
7 475 (13.43%) DevOps
8 449 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
9 354 (10.01%) Project Delivery
10 332 (9.39%) Coaching
11 331 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
12 324 (9.16%) Decision-Making
13 308 (8.71%) Analytics
14 295 (8.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 257 (7.27%) Roadmaps
15 257 (7.27%) Test Automation
16 229 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
17 220 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 187 (5.29%) Information Security
19 186 (5.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 504 (14.25%) Python
2 378 (10.69%) SQL
3 277 (7.83%) C#
4 249 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 209 (5.91%) TypeScript
6 198 (5.60%) Java
7 134 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 95 (2.69%) C++
9 59 (1.67%) Go
10 57 (1.61%) PHP
11 47 (1.33%) C
12 43 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 37 (1.05%) Bash
14 32 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.74%) Bicep
16 25 (0.71%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.62%) Swift
18 21 (0.59%) Ruby
19 19 (0.54%) R
20 18 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 353 (9.98%) Degree
2 312 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 259 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.74%) CISSP
5 89 (2.52%) CISM
6 66 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.53%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
9 52 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 48 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 46 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.07%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.79%) PhD
15 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 26 (0.74%) HNC
17 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 22 (0.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (6.65%) QA
2 112 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 79 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 60 (1.70%) NIST
6 58 (1.64%) GDPR
7 47 (1.33%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 24 (0.68%) SLA
10 20 (0.57%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) NCSC
12 13 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 166 (4.69%) Docker
2 138 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.93%) vSphere
6 27 (0.76%) Firmware
7 19 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) iptables
14 2 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.028%) GPFS
15 1 (0.028%) Lustre
15 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 201 (5.68%) Terraform
2 197 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (0.90%) Ansible
5 25 (0.71%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.48%) Argo
8 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.17%) Avamar
10 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.17%) VxRail
11 5 (0.14%) Istio
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) SCCM
11 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 444 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 116 (3.28%) Oracle
3 105 (2.97%) Adobe
4 77 (2.18%) Google
5 69 (1.95%) Cisco
6 68 (1.92%) Palo Alto
6 68 (1.92%) VMware
7 62 (1.75%) SAP
8 59 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 46 (1.30%) Databricks
12 35 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 29 (0.82%) Apple
14 28 (0.79%) Tenable
15 27 (0.76%) Pega
16 26 (0.74%) Dell
16 26 (0.74%) Informatica
17 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 21 (0.59%) Veeam