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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,286 2,229 6,074
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.10% 14.32% 17.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.14% 15.54% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,334 1,386 4,510
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,929 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,626 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% +8.20% -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 19,168 14,341 32,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 92.12% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,017 8,798 25,741
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,818 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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.

1 652 (19.84%) Agile
2 613 (18.65%) Mentoring
3 581 (17.68%) Azure
4 554 (16.86%) AWS
5 490 (14.91%) Software Engineering
6 449 (13.66%) AI
7 412 (12.54%) CI/CD
8 394 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
9 390 (11.87%) Python
10 380 (11.56%) Coaching
11 369 (11.23%) Microsoft
12 367 (11.17%) SQL
13 363 (11.05%) DevOps
14 336 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 308 (9.37%) Degree
16 304 (9.25%) Analytics
17 297 (9.04%) Roadmaps
18 296 (9.01%) Security Cleared
19 241 (7.33%) Decision-Making
20 236 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
21 233 (7.09%) Java
22 232 (7.06%) SC Cleared
23 224 (6.82%) Project Delivery
24 213 (6.48%) Test Automation
25 202 (6.15%) GCP
26 200 (6.09%) Kubernetes
27 197 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
28 182 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
29 179 (5.45%) .NET
29 179 (5.45%) 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 92 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (0.70%) CMS
5 18 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.46%) Confluence
7 11 (0.33%) SAS
8 10 (0.30%) IIS
8 10 (0.30%) WordPress
9 8 (0.24%) Apache
9 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.091%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.091%) Artix
10 3 (0.091%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.091%) JBoss
10 3 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.091%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.061%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.061%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.030%) Appian
Applications
1 83 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.30%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Civil 3D
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.091%) Blender
11 3 (0.091%) InVision
11 3 (0.091%) Maya
11 3 (0.091%) Sketch
12 2 (0.061%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.061%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.73%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
3 14 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
5 11 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.27%) Visualfiles
7 8 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.091%) Elite 3E
11 3 (0.091%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.091%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.091%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.091%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.091%) SAP FSCM
12 2 (0.061%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 581 (17.68%) Azure
2 554 (16.86%) AWS
3 202 (6.15%) GCP
4 179 (5.45%) SaaS
5 142 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 134 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
7 126 (3.83%) Serverless
8 94 (2.86%) Entra ID
9 82 (2.50%) GitHub
10 81 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (1.61%) PowerApps
12 48 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 40 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 39 (1.19%) Figma
16 36 (1.10%) Amazon S3
17 34 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 147 (4.47%) Broadband
2 104 (3.16%) Firewall
3 68 (2.07%) DNS
4 64 (1.95%) VPN
5 46 (1.40%) WAN
6 44 (1.34%) DHCP
7 38 (1.16%) Network Security
8 37 (1.13%) Wireless
9 35 (1.07%) LAN
10 33 (1.00%) TCP/IP
11 29 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.82%) BGP
12 27 (0.82%) SD-WAN
13 24 (0.73%) RS-232
14 21 (0.64%) VLAN
15 19 (0.58%) OSPF
16 15 (0.46%) Ethernet
17 13 (0.40%) Bluetooth
17 13 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
17 13 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.07%) Power BI
2 90 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 65 (1.98%) MongoDB
4 53 (1.61%) Metadata
5 34 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (0.97%) OLTP
7 31 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 31 (0.94%) NoSQL
7 31 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 29 (0.88%) MySQL
9 27 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (0.82%) Tableau
10 26 (0.79%) DynamoDB
11 22 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (0.52%) Delta Lake
13 17 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 16 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 86 (2.62%) Git
2 59 (1.80%) JIRA
3 48 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.19%) GitLab
4 39 (1.19%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.76%) Snyk
6 24 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.52%) Selenium
8 12 (0.37%) Postman
9 8 (0.24%) MLflow
9 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
10 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.21%) JMeter
10 7 (0.21%) JUnit
10 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.18%) NUnit
12 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 667 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 548 (16.68%) Finance
3 412 (12.54%) Public Sector
4 239 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 214 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 135 (4.11%) Law
7 126 (3.83%) Banking
8 122 (3.71%) Marketing
9 100 (3.04%) Legal
10 81 (2.47%) Retail
11 80 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 78 (2.37%) Games
13 60 (1.83%) Manufacturing
14 51 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 31 (0.94%) Local Government
17 28 (0.85%) Electronics
17 28 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
18 27 (0.82%) Financial Institution
19 24 (0.73%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (5.45%) .NET
2 143 (4.35%) React
3 97 (2.95%) Node.js
4 92 (2.80%) REST
5 77 (2.34%) HTML
6 69 (2.10%) RESTful
7 57 (1.73%) SOAP
8 56 (1.70%) CSS
9 53 (1.61%) Spring
10 39 (1.19%) Spring Boot
11 37 (1.13%) GraphQL
11 37 (1.13%) Vue
12 35 (1.07%) OAuth
13 33 (1.00%) OpenID
14 32 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
15 31 (0.94%) SAML
16 29 (0.88%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.85%) JSON
17 28 (0.85%) Kafka
18 27 (0.82%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 206 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 109 (3.32%) Product Ownership
3 73 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 71 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (1.77%) Social Media
6 57 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (1.67%) Driving Licence
8 47 (1.43%) Cyberattack
9 44 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 43 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 41 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 40 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 40 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
13 40 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 38 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 37 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.13%) Security Posture
16 36 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.96%) Linux
2 123 (3.74%) Windows
3 53 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.40%) Android
5 44 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 39 (1.19%) Unix
7 20 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
8 15 (0.46%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.30%) VMS
10 9 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.091%) Debian
12 3 (0.091%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.030%) AIX
13 1 (0.030%) CentOS
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (19.84%) Agile
2 613 (18.65%) Mentoring
3 490 (14.91%) Software Engineering
4 449 (13.66%) AI
5 412 (12.54%) CI/CD
6 394 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
7 380 (11.56%) Coaching
8 363 (11.05%) DevOps
9 336 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (9.25%) Analytics
11 297 (9.04%) Roadmaps
12 241 (7.33%) Decision-Making
13 236 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
14 224 (6.82%) Project Delivery
15 213 (6.48%) Test Automation
16 197 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 182 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
18 178 (5.42%) Full-Stack Development
18 178 (5.42%) Project Management
19 157 (4.78%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 390 (11.87%) Python
2 367 (11.17%) SQL
3 233 (7.09%) Java
4 177 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 165 (5.02%) C#
6 151 (4.60%) TypeScript
7 99 (3.01%) PowerShell
8 85 (2.59%) C++
9 69 (2.10%) Bash
10 67 (2.04%) Go
11 58 (1.77%) PHP
12 52 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 43 (1.31%) Scala
14 42 (1.28%) C
15 35 (1.07%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.79%) Kotlin
17 25 (0.76%) VBA
18 24 (0.73%) Bicep
19 20 (0.61%) R
20 18 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 308 (9.37%) Degree
2 296 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 232 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 66 (2.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 50 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 49 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 43 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (1.19%) CISSP
10 38 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 37 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.88%) Master's Degree
13 27 (0.82%) CISM
13 27 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 25 (0.76%) ACCA
14 25 (0.76%) PhD
15 24 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.64%) CIMA
17 20 (0.61%) PMI Certification
18 19 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (3.62%) QA
2 82 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 66 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 66 (2.01%) NIST
5 45 (1.37%) GDPR
6 41 (1.25%) GRC
7 28 (0.85%) NCSC
7 28 (0.85%) PMO
8 16 (0.49%) SLA
9 12 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 12 (0.37%) P3O
10 8 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
11 7 (0.21%) IEC 61508
11 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.21%) MISRA
11 7 (0.21%) MISRA C
11 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (4.56%) Docker
2 104 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.97%) vSphere
6 20 (0.61%) Firmware
7 18 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.27%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.091%) iptables
13 2 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.030%) GPFS
14 1 (0.030%) Lustre
14 1 (0.030%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 200 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 160 (4.87%) Terraform
3 40 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.13%) Ansible
5 33 (1.00%) Grafana
6 20 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.58%) Argo
8 15 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.43%) SCCM
10 7 (0.21%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.21%) Puppet
10 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.18%) Avamar
11 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.18%) VxRail
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 369 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 133 (4.05%) Oracle
3 116 (3.53%) Adobe
4 72 (2.19%) VMware
5 65 (1.98%) Palo Alto
6 64 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 62 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 60 (1.83%) SAP
9 59 (1.80%) Google
10 55 (1.67%) Cisco
10 55 (1.67%) Databricks
11 41 (1.25%) Apple
12 32 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.85%) Dell
14 26 (0.79%) Tenable
15 20 (0.61%) Computacenter
16 18 (0.55%) Pega
17 17 (0.52%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.52%) Meraki
17 17 (0.52%) OpenAI