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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,529 2,314 4,744
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.73% 14.02% 18.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.72% 15.23% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,351 1,520 3,318
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,462 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -10.31%

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 21,105 15,194 24,337
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 92.07% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 15,205 9,406 17,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 5 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 5 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.

1 726 (20.57%) Agile
2 696 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 675 (19.13%) Azure
4 633 (17.94%) AWS
5 607 (17.20%) Software Engineering
6 559 (15.84%) AI
7 552 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 543 (15.39%) CI/CD
9 513 (14.54%) Python
10 466 (13.20%) DevOps
11 465 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
12 443 (12.55%) Microsoft
13 376 (10.65%) SQL
14 362 (10.26%) Coaching
15 335 (9.49%) Degree
16 334 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
17 321 (9.10%) Analytics
18 320 (9.07%) Project Delivery
19 319 (9.04%) Security Cleared
20 303 (8.59%) Decision-Making
21 284 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 272 (7.71%) C#
23 267 (7.57%) Roadmaps
24 265 (7.51%) SC Cleared
25 260 (7.37%) Test Automation
26 251 (7.11%) JavaScript
27 238 (6.74%) GCP
28 227 (6.43%) QA
29 218 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
29 218 (6.18%) SaaS

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 97 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.68%) CMS
4 22 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.60%) Confluence
6 19 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 14 (0.40%) WordPress
9 12 (0.34%) IIS
10 9 (0.26%) Apache
10 9 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.085%) Artix
12 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.057%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 81 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Civil 3D
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.17%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.085%) Blender
11 3 (0.085%) Maya
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.057%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.17%) Shopify
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
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 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.085%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 675 (19.13%) Azure
2 633 (17.94%) AWS
3 238 (6.74%) GCP
4 218 (6.18%) SaaS
5 152 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (4.25%) Power Platform
7 135 (3.83%) Entra ID
8 122 (3.46%) Serverless
9 94 (2.66%) GitHub
10 93 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (1.39%) PowerApps
13 46 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 45 (1.28%) Amazon S3
15 41 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
18 38 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
19 35 (0.99%) Azure AKS
20 34 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 151 (4.28%) Firewall
2 102 (2.89%) Broadband
3 82 (2.32%) Network Security
4 72 (2.04%) DNS
5 65 (1.84%) VLAN
6 60 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
7 56 (1.59%) VPN
8 50 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 50 (1.42%) WAN
9 49 (1.39%) Wireless
10 46 (1.30%) LAN
11 43 (1.22%) DHCP
12 26 (0.74%) BGP
13 22 (0.62%) RS-232
14 19 (0.54%) OSPF
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) WLAN
18 15 (0.43%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (3.29%) Power BI
3 90 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 63 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.45%) Metadata
6 45 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 43 (1.22%) MySQL
8 35 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.85%) Tableau
11 29 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 26 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 26 (0.74%) OLTP
13 25 (0.71%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.45%) Redis
16 15 (0.43%) Big Data
17 14 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 112 (3.17%) Git
2 57 (1.62%) JIRA
3 41 (1.16%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 21 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.43%) JUnit
8 15 (0.43%) Selenium
9 11 (0.31%) Postman
10 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
11 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.23%) Gatling
11 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
12 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.20%) Maven
12 7 (0.20%) Mockito
13 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.14%) MLflow
14 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 860 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 584 (16.55%) Finance
3 376 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 296 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 271 (7.68%) Legal
6 245 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
7 223 (6.32%) Law
8 128 (3.63%) Marketing
9 124 (3.51%) Banking
10 85 (2.41%) Retail
11 74 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 68 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.76%) Games
14 56 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 48 (1.36%) Electronics
17 46 (1.30%) Local Government
18 44 (1.25%) Legal Technology
19 40 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
20 25 (0.71%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (6.15%) .NET
2 167 (4.73%) React
3 114 (3.23%) Node.js
4 89 (2.52%) HTML
5 88 (2.49%) REST
6 76 (2.15%) CSS
7 73 (2.07%) RESTful
8 53 (1.50%) Spring
9 37 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 37 (1.05%) Vue
10 36 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
10 36 (1.02%) Spring Boot
11 33 (0.94%) Kafka
12 32 (0.91%) Laravel
13 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
14 28 (0.79%) SPFx
15 26 (0.74%) Playwright
15 26 (0.74%) PySpark
16 25 (0.71%) .NET Core
16 25 (0.71%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 222 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.81%) Product Ownership
3 98 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 60 (1.70%) Data Centre
7 53 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 53 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (1.42%) Social Media
9 47 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 45 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 43 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.13%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 38 (1.08%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.05%) Security Posture
16 34 (0.96%) Low-Code
17 33 (0.94%) Onboarding
18 31 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.02%) Linux
2 125 (3.54%) Windows
3 58 (1.64%) Unix
4 51 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.19%) Android
5 42 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.23%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.085%) Debian
13 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (20.57%) Agile
2 696 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 607 (17.20%) Software Engineering
4 559 (15.84%) AI
5 552 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 543 (15.39%) CI/CD
7 466 (13.20%) DevOps
8 465 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
9 362 (10.26%) Coaching
10 334 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
11 321 (9.10%) Analytics
12 320 (9.07%) Project Delivery
13 303 (8.59%) Decision-Making
14 284 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 267 (7.57%) Roadmaps
16 260 (7.37%) Test Automation
17 218 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 210 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 188 (5.33%) Microservices
20 186 (5.27%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 513 (14.54%) Python
2 376 (10.65%) SQL
3 272 (7.71%) C#
4 251 (7.11%) JavaScript
5 213 (6.04%) Java
6 209 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 132 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.81%) C++
9 62 (1.76%) PHP
10 61 (1.73%) Go
11 50 (1.42%) C
12 48 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 44 (1.25%) Bash
14 27 (0.77%) Embedded C
15 23 (0.65%) Bicep
15 23 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.65%) R
16 21 (0.60%) Scala
17 20 (0.57%) Rust
18 19 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 335 (9.49%) Degree
2 319 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 265 (7.51%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.83%) CISSP
5 91 (2.58%) CISM
6 66 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.56%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 41 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 38 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 38 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.79%) PhD
14 26 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.65%) ACCA
17 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (6.43%) QA
2 100 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 64 (1.81%) NIST
6 58 (1.64%) GDPR
7 47 (1.33%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 22 (0.62%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) NCSC
11 16 (0.45%) WCAG
12 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.28%) COBIT
15 9 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
18 5 (0.14%) GxP
System Software
1 166 (4.70%) Docker
2 133 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.91%) vSphere
6 27 (0.77%) Firmware
7 15 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.26%) vCloud
10 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.085%) iptables
13 2 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 197 (5.58%) Kubernetes
1 197 (5.58%) Terraform
2 95 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (0.96%) Ansible
4 27 (0.77%) Grafana
5 21 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.51%) Argo
7 9 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
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%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 443 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.68%) Oracle
3 103 (2.92%) Adobe
4 82 (2.32%) Google
5 70 (1.98%) Cisco
6 69 (1.96%) Palo Alto
7 65 (1.84%) SAP
7 65 (1.84%) VMware
8 61 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.42%) Databricks
12 38 (1.08%) Apple
13 33 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.79%) Dell
14 28 (0.79%) Pega
15 27 (0.77%) Tenable
16 24 (0.68%) Informatica
17 20 (0.57%) Aruba
17 20 (0.57%) Meraki