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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,553 2,316 4,682
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.66% 14.10% 18.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.65% 15.31% 19.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,520 3,242
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 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,879
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.35% -10.17%

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 21,342 15,130 24,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.10% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,304 9,326 17,534
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,857
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.62% -7.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 12 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 12 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.

1 740 (20.83%) Agile
2 684 (19.25%) Mentoring
3 683 (19.22%) Azure
4 629 (17.70%) AWS
5 615 (17.31%) Software Engineering
6 561 (15.79%) AI
7 554 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 543 (15.28%) CI/CD
9 517 (14.55%) Python
10 471 (13.26%) DevOps
11 453 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
12 445 (12.52%) Microsoft
13 376 (10.58%) SQL
14 349 (9.82%) Coaching
15 344 (9.68%) Degree
16 338 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
17 333 (9.37%) Project Delivery
18 330 (9.29%) Security Cleared
19 319 (8.98%) Analytics
20 312 (8.78%) Decision-Making
21 281 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 277 (7.80%) C#
23 276 (7.77%) SC Cleared
24 264 (7.43%) Roadmaps
25 259 (7.29%) Test Automation
26 252 (7.09%) JavaScript
27 240 (6.75%) GCP
28 233 (6.56%) QA
29 223 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
30 221 (6.22%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.68%) CMS
4 22 (0.62%) Confluence
5 18 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) WordPress
8 13 (0.37%) SAS
9 12 (0.34%) IIS
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.23%) Apache
11 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.084%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.084%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.084%) Artix
12 3 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.084%) Moodle
13 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 79 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.25%) Civil 3D
6 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.23%) InDesign
7 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.084%) Blender
11 3 (0.084%) Maya
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 14 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.084%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.084%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.084%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.084%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 683 (19.22%) Azure
2 629 (17.70%) AWS
3 240 (6.75%) GCP
4 220 (6.19%) SaaS
5 156 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 134 (3.77%) Entra ID
8 122 (3.43%) Serverless
9 98 (2.76%) GitHub
10 95 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (1.38%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 44 (1.24%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
17 35 (0.99%) Azure AKS
17 35 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
18 34 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 162 (4.56%) Firewall
2 97 (2.73%) Broadband
3 92 (2.59%) Network Security
4 77 (2.17%) DNS
5 73 (2.05%) VLAN
6 60 (1.69%) VPN
6 60 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (1.46%) WAN
8 51 (1.44%) TCP/IP
9 48 (1.35%) Wireless
10 47 (1.32%) LAN
11 45 (1.27%) DHCP
12 28 (0.79%) BGP
13 21 (0.59%) RS-232
14 20 (0.56%) OSPF
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) HTTP
17 16 (0.45%) WLAN
18 14 (0.39%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (3.18%) Power BI
3 95 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 56 (1.58%) Metadata
6 49 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.29%) MySQL
8 36 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (0.87%) NoSQL
11 30 (0.84%) DynamoDB
12 29 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 27 (0.76%) Tableau
14 23 (0.65%) OLTP
15 22 (0.62%) BigQuery
16 19 (0.53%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.48%) Redis
18 15 (0.42%) Big Data
18 15 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 118 (3.32%) Git
2 59 (1.66%) JIRA
3 42 (1.18%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 19 (0.53%) Claude Code
6 19 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.45%) Selenium
8 15 (0.42%) JUnit
9 11 (0.31%) Postman
10 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.23%) Gatling
12 7 (0.20%) Maven
12 7 (0.20%) Mockito
12 7 (0.20%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.11%) Appium
14 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 877 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 592 (16.66%) Finance
3 376 (10.58%) Public Sector
4 311 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 276 (7.77%) Legal
6 254 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
7 227 (6.39%) Law
8 138 (3.88%) Marketing
9 123 (3.46%) Banking
10 85 (2.39%) Retail
11 73 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.77%) Games
14 59 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 52 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (1.38%) Electronics
17 48 (1.35%) Local Government
18 46 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
19 45 (1.27%) Legal Technology
20 31 (0.87%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.14%) .NET
2 168 (4.73%) React
3 115 (3.24%) Node.js
4 90 (2.53%) HTML
5 89 (2.50%) REST
6 79 (2.22%) CSS
7 74 (2.08%) RESTful
8 55 (1.55%) Spring
9 38 (1.07%) AngularJS
9 38 (1.07%) Vue
10 37 (1.04%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
12 33 (0.93%) Laravel
13 32 (0.90%) Kafka
14 29 (0.82%) .NET Core
14 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 28 (0.79%) Next.js
15 28 (0.79%) Playwright
15 28 (0.79%) SPFx
16 27 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.87%) Product Ownership
3 98 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 57 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 54 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (1.35%) Social Media
9 47 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 42 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 41 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (1.07%) Algorithms
14 38 (1.07%) Blog
15 36 (1.01%) Security Posture
16 35 (0.99%) Low-Code
17 33 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 175 (4.93%) Linux
2 128 (3.60%) Windows
3 59 (1.66%) Unix
4 53 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.07%) Android
5 38 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.084%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (20.83%) Agile
2 684 (19.25%) Mentoring
3 615 (17.31%) Software Engineering
4 561 (15.79%) AI
5 554 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 543 (15.28%) CI/CD
7 471 (13.26%) DevOps
8 453 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 349 (9.82%) Coaching
10 338 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
11 333 (9.37%) Project Delivery
12 319 (8.98%) Analytics
13 312 (8.78%) Decision-Making
14 281 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 264 (7.43%) Roadmaps
16 259 (7.29%) Test Automation
17 223 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
18 221 (6.22%) Infrastructure as Code
19 187 (5.26%) Microservices
20 185 (5.21%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 517 (14.55%) Python
2 376 (10.58%) SQL
3 277 (7.80%) C#
4 252 (7.09%) JavaScript
5 207 (5.83%) Java
6 204 (5.74%) TypeScript
7 131 (3.69%) PowerShell
8 100 (2.81%) C++
9 61 (1.72%) PHP
10 59 (1.66%) Go
11 49 (1.38%) C
12 44 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 38 (1.07%) Bash
14 29 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.73%) Embedded C
16 24 (0.68%) R
17 23 (0.65%) Bicep
18 21 (0.59%) Swift
19 19 (0.53%) Ruby
19 19 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 344 (9.68%) Degree
2 330 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 276 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.84%) CISSP
5 91 (2.56%) CISM
6 66 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 56 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.52%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
10 53 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 47 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 44 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 39 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.79%) PhD
15 26 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.62%) ACCA
18 20 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (6.56%) QA
2 109 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 72 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 63 (1.77%) NIST
6 59 (1.66%) GDPR
7 47 (1.32%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 23 (0.65%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 16 (0.45%) NCSC
12 15 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.23%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.17%) GxP
15 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 172 (4.84%) Docker
2 137 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.90%) vSphere
6 29 (0.82%) Firmware
7 18 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.084%) iptables
14 2 (0.056%) 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
1 199 (5.60%) Terraform
2 198 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.96%) Ansible
5 25 (0.70%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.48%) Argo
8 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) SCCM
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 445 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.52%) Oracle
3 106 (2.98%) Adobe
4 87 (2.45%) Google
5 71 (2.00%) Cisco
6 69 (1.94%) VMware
7 68 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 65 (1.83%) SAP
9 61 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 58 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 46 (1.29%) Databricks
13 35 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
14 34 (0.96%) Apple
15 28 (0.79%) Dell
15 28 (0.79%) Pega
16 27 (0.76%) Tenable
17 25 (0.70%) Informatica
18 21 (0.59%) Veeam
19 20 (0.56%) Aruba