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 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,639 2,438 5,133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.65% 18.87% 16.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.68% 20.00% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,890 1,775 4,237
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,750
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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £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 15,820 12,189 29,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 94.33% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,976 8,902 24,313
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,996
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 26 March 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 26 March 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.

1 563 (21.33%) Azure
2 538 (20.39%) Agile
3 533 (20.20%) Mentoring
4 454 (17.20%) AWS
5 389 (14.74%) Software Engineering
6 380 (14.40%) SQL
7 373 (14.13%) CI/CD
8 347 (13.15%) Coaching
9 345 (13.07%) DevOps
10 333 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
11 325 (12.32%) Microsoft
12 315 (11.94%) AI
13 312 (11.82%) Python
14 295 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 259 (9.81%) Degree
16 240 (9.09%) Security Cleared
17 231 (8.75%) Roadmaps
18 223 (8.45%) Analytics
19 219 (8.30%) Java
20 209 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
21 207 (7.84%) .NET
22 204 (7.73%) GCP
22 204 (7.73%) SaaS
23 192 (7.28%) Kubernetes
24 188 (7.12%) Test Automation
25 185 (7.01%) Stakeholder Management
26 173 (6.56%) Docker
26 173 (6.56%) Microservices
26 173 (6.56%) SC Cleared
27 169 (6.40%) Terraform

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 62 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.87%) Confluence
4 23 (0.87%) WordPress
5 19 (0.72%) CMS
5 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.45%) Apache
7 11 (0.42%) JBoss
7 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.23%) IIS
8 6 (0.23%) SAS
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.076%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.076%) nginx
12 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 8 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.23%) Sketch
9 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) InVision
10 3 (0.11%) Trello
10 3 (0.11%) Weka
11 2 (0.076%) Maya
11 2 (0.076%) MotionBuilder
11 2 (0.076%) Revit
12 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
2 25 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 23 (0.87%) Shopify
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.42%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
11 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
11 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.19%) Magento
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 563 (21.33%) Azure
2 454 (17.20%) AWS
3 204 (7.73%) GCP
3 204 (7.73%) SaaS
4 113 (4.28%) Power Platform
5 110 (4.17%) GitHub
6 102 (3.87%) Entra ID
7 96 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 85 (3.22%) Serverless
10 56 (2.12%) dbt
10 56 (2.12%) Snowflake
11 44 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
12 41 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (1.48%) PowerApps
14 36 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
16 34 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.25%) Amazon S3
18 32 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.17%) Broadband
2 66 (2.50%) Firewall
3 47 (1.78%) VPN
4 43 (1.63%) WAN
5 42 (1.59%) DNS
6 39 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.36%) DHCP
8 29 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.95%) LAN
9 25 (0.95%) Network Security
10 18 (0.68%) Ethernet
11 17 (0.64%) Wireless
12 16 (0.61%) RS-232
13 15 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.53%) BGP
15 13 (0.49%) HTTP
16 12 (0.45%) Unified Communications
17 8 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
17 8 (0.30%) OSPF
18 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.22%) Power BI
3 72 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (1.63%) Metadata
5 43 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 34 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.17%) BigQuery
8 28 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.99%) Tableau
11 25 (0.95%) MySQL
11 25 (0.95%) Redis
12 23 (0.87%) OLTP
13 21 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.72%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.61%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (2.88%) Git
2 74 (2.80%) JIRA
3 61 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.44%) TeamCity
5 31 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.02%) GitLab
7 21 (0.80%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.30%) JUnit
11 8 (0.30%) Postman
11 8 (0.30%) Subversion
11 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.30%) webpack
12 7 (0.27%) git-flow
12 7 (0.27%) JMeter
12 7 (0.27%) XCUITest
General
1 559 (21.18%) Finance
2 535 (20.27%) Social Skills
3 290 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 170 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (4.89%) Marketing
7 127 (4.81%) Law
8 113 (4.28%) Retail
9 107 (4.05%) Banking
10 86 (3.26%) Legal
11 82 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.84%) Telecoms
13 74 (2.80%) Games
14 41 (1.55%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 33 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
18 26 (0.99%) Back Office
19 20 (0.76%) Publishing
20 19 (0.72%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (7.84%) .NET
2 132 (5.00%) React
3 115 (4.36%) REST
4 94 (3.56%) SOAP
5 82 (3.11%) HTML
6 75 (2.84%) RESTful
7 67 (2.54%) Node.js
8 66 (2.50%) GraphQL
9 63 (2.39%) OAuth
10 58 (2.20%) CSS
11 54 (2.05%) Spring
12 51 (1.93%) Kafka
13 43 (1.63%) OpenID
14 42 (1.59%) Spring Boot
15 38 (1.44%) SAML
16 36 (1.36%) .NET Core
17 34 (1.29%) LDAP
18 31 (1.17%) Django
18 31 (1.17%) XML
19 27 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 93 (3.52%) Product Ownership
3 81 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (2.35%) Social Media
6 54 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.55%) Cyberattack
7 41 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 40 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 38 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
11 34 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
13 31 (1.17%) Security Posture
14 29 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 28 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.02%) Data Structures
17 26 (0.99%) Management Information System
18 24 (0.91%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.42%) Linux
2 96 (3.64%) Windows
3 68 (2.58%) Android
4 56 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 45 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.17%) Unix
7 24 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.42%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.076%) CentOS
12 2 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (20.39%) Agile
2 533 (20.20%) Mentoring
3 389 (14.74%) Software Engineering
4 373 (14.13%) CI/CD
5 347 (13.15%) Coaching
6 345 (13.07%) DevOps
7 333 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
8 315 (11.94%) AI
9 295 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 231 (8.75%) Roadmaps
11 223 (8.45%) Analytics
12 209 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
13 188 (7.12%) Test Automation
14 185 (7.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 173 (6.56%) Microservices
16 158 (5.99%) User Experience
17 149 (5.65%) Decision-Making
17 149 (5.65%) Full-Stack Development
18 141 (5.34%) Business Intelligence
19 140 (5.31%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 380 (14.40%) SQL
2 312 (11.82%) Python
3 219 (8.30%) Java
4 164 (6.21%) C#
5 147 (5.57%) JavaScript
6 131 (4.96%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.69%) Go
9 68 (2.58%) Bash
10 65 (2.46%) C++
11 52 (1.97%) PHP
12 48 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.78%) Scala
14 37 (1.40%) T-SQL
15 35 (1.33%) Kotlin
16 31 (1.17%) C
17 22 (0.83%) Bicep
18 20 (0.76%) VBA
19 14 (0.53%) Ruby
19 14 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 259 (9.81%) Degree
2 240 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 173 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 81 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.48%) ACCA
8 33 (1.25%) CISSP
9 32 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.99%) PMI Certification
11 24 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.80%) CIMA
14 19 (0.72%) CISM
15 17 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (0.57%) PhD
17 14 (0.53%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.53%) CREST Certified
18 12 (0.45%) OSCP
19 11 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (3.60%) QA
2 62 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 59 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 58 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (2.20%) NIST
5 46 (1.74%) GDPR
6 32 (1.21%) NCSC
7 20 (0.76%) IFRS
8 17 (0.64%) PMO
9 14 (0.53%) P3O
10 13 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.45%) GRC
12 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.34%) GAAP
13 9 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 173 (6.56%) Docker
2 111 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.38%) Firmware
7 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.27%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) vCloud
9 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.038%) Ceph
11 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.038%) Lustre
11 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 192 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 169 (6.40%) Terraform
3 53 (2.01%) Grafana
4 43 (1.63%) Ansible
5 40 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.49%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 9 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.15%) Argo
13 4 (0.15%) Istio
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.11%) Plesk
15 2 (0.076%) Nagios
Vendors
1 325 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.93%) Oracle
3 76 (2.88%) Databricks
4 65 (2.46%) Google
5 62 (2.35%) Adobe
5 62 (2.35%) VMware
6 52 (1.97%) SAP
7 51 (1.93%) Cisco
8 47 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 24 (0.91%) Okta
9 24 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.72%) Apple
11 17 (0.64%) Dell
12 15 (0.57%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
14 12 (0.45%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.45%) Meraki
14 12 (0.45%) Samsung
15 11 (0.42%) IBM
15 11 (0.42%) Talend