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 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 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 2,643 2,493 5,039
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.51% 18.64% 16.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.52% 19.71% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,881 1,766 4,187
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,403 £45,590
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,896
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 £100,000 £95,000
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 16,000 12,651 28,960
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 94.57% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,871 8,886 24,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £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 £93,750
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 21 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 21 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.

1 570 (21.57%) Azure
2 537 (20.32%) Mentoring
3 534 (20.20%) Agile
4 453 (17.14%) AWS
5 387 (14.64%) Software Engineering
6 382 (14.45%) SQL
7 380 (14.38%) CI/CD
8 350 (13.24%) Coaching
9 346 (13.09%) DevOps
10 329 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
11 318 (12.03%) Microsoft
12 317 (11.99%) Python
13 315 (11.92%) AI
14 297 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 260 (9.84%) Degree
16 237 (8.97%) Security Cleared
17 230 (8.70%) Roadmaps
18 221 (8.36%) Analytics
19 220 (8.32%) Java
20 209 (7.91%) .NET
21 208 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
21 208 (7.87%) SaaS
22 202 (7.64%) GCP
23 196 (7.42%) Test Automation
24 190 (7.19%) Kubernetes
25 185 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
26 173 (6.55%) Terraform
27 172 (6.51%) Docker
27 172 (6.51%) Microservices
28 171 (6.47%) SC Cleared

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 34 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.87%) WordPress
5 22 (0.83%) Confluence
6 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.68%) CMS
8 12 (0.45%) Apache
9 11 (0.42%) JBoss
9 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.076%) nginx
14 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.11%) InVision
9 3 (0.11%) Maya
9 3 (0.11%) MotionBuilder
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Weka
10 2 (0.076%) Revit
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 25 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
3 23 (0.87%) Shopify
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) 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 FI
12 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 570 (21.57%) Azure
2 453 (17.14%) AWS
3 208 (7.87%) SaaS
4 202 (7.64%) GCP
5 115 (4.35%) GitHub
6 113 (4.28%) Power Platform
7 106 (4.01%) Entra ID
8 100 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
10 86 (3.25%) Serverless
11 58 (2.19%) dbt
12 56 (2.12%) Snowflake
13 44 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.51%) PowerApps
15 37 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
16 36 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
18 32 (1.21%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 111 (4.20%) Broadband
2 66 (2.50%) Firewall
3 47 (1.78%) VPN
4 44 (1.66%) WAN
5 41 (1.55%) DNS
6 40 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.36%) DHCP
8 29 (1.10%) SD-WAN
9 26 (0.98%) LAN
9 26 (0.98%) Network Security
10 19 (0.72%) Ethernet
11 17 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.64%) Wireless
12 16 (0.61%) BGP
13 15 (0.57%) RS-232
14 12 (0.45%) HTTP
14 12 (0.45%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.34%) OSPF
16 7 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.16%) SQL Server
2 84 (3.18%) Power BI
3 74 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.55%) Metadata
7 36 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 35 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.17%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (0.98%) MySQL
12 26 (0.98%) Redis
12 26 (0.98%) Tableau
13 24 (0.91%) OLTP
14 20 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.68%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.61%) Looker
16 16 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 77 (2.91%) JIRA
2 75 (2.84%) Git
3 62 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.40%) TeamCity
5 33 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.02%) GitLab
7 22 (0.83%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
10 10 (0.38%) Postman
11 8 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.30%) JUnit
11 8 (0.30%) Subversion
11 8 (0.30%) webpack
12 7 (0.26%) git-flow
12 7 (0.26%) JMeter
12 7 (0.26%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 568 (21.49%) Finance
2 532 (20.13%) Social Skills
3 285 (10.78%) Public Sector
4 173 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 163 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.96%) Marketing
7 126 (4.77%) Law
8 118 (4.46%) Retail
9 103 (3.90%) Banking
10 82 (3.10%) Legal
11 81 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
12 76 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.84%) Games
14 43 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 40 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (0.98%) Back Office
18 20 (0.76%) Publishing
19 18 (0.68%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (7.91%) .NET
2 134 (5.07%) React
3 116 (4.39%) REST
4 101 (3.82%) SOAP
5 86 (3.25%) HTML
6 77 (2.91%) RESTful
7 67 (2.53%) GraphQL
7 67 (2.53%) Node.js
8 65 (2.46%) OAuth
9 60 (2.27%) CSS
10 54 (2.04%) Spring
11 51 (1.93%) Kafka
12 44 (1.66%) OpenID
13 42 (1.59%) Spring Boot
14 39 (1.48%) SAML
15 36 (1.36%) .NET Core
16 35 (1.32%) LDAP
17 34 (1.29%) XML
18 31 (1.17%) Django
19 27 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 94 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 84 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (2.38%) Social Media
5 53 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (1.55%) Cyberattack
7 40 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 38 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 38 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 36 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
10 35 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
12 31 (1.17%) Security Posture
13 30 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 28 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 24 (0.91%) Management Information System
15 24 (0.91%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.37%) Linux
2 93 (3.52%) Windows
3 66 (2.50%) Android
4 54 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 45 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.17%) Unix
7 24 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 12 (0.45%) 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%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (20.32%) Mentoring
2 534 (20.20%) Agile
3 387 (14.64%) Software Engineering
4 380 (14.38%) CI/CD
5 350 (13.24%) Coaching
6 346 (13.09%) DevOps
7 329 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
8 315 (11.92%) AI
9 297 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 230 (8.70%) Roadmaps
11 221 (8.36%) Analytics
12 208 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
13 196 (7.42%) Test Automation
14 185 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 172 (6.51%) Microservices
16 158 (5.98%) User Experience
17 149 (5.64%) Full-Stack Development
18 146 (5.52%) Decision-Making
19 140 (5.30%) Infrastructure as Code
20 137 (5.18%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 382 (14.45%) SQL
2 317 (11.99%) Python
3 220 (8.32%) Java
4 166 (6.28%) C#
5 152 (5.75%) JavaScript
6 132 (4.99%) TypeScript
7 83 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.72%) Go
9 69 (2.61%) Bash
10 64 (2.42%) C++
11 52 (1.97%) PHP
12 51 (1.93%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.74%) Scala
14 38 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.14%) C
17 21 (0.79%) Bicep
18 20 (0.76%) VBA
19 15 (0.57%) Ruby
20 14 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 260 (9.84%) Degree
2 237 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 171 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 81 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.48%) ACCA
8 31 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.14%) CISSP
10 26 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 23 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 22 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.76%) CIMA
14 18 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.64%) CISM
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%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (3.59%) QA
2 60 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.16%) NIST
4 55 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.74%) GDPR
6 34 (1.29%) NCSC
7 20 (0.76%) IFRS
8 17 (0.64%) PMO
9 14 (0.53%) P3O
10 13 (0.49%) GRC
11 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
11 11 (0.42%) MISRA
11 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
11 11 (0.42%) SLA
12 9 (0.34%) GAAP
12 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 172 (6.51%) Docker
2 112 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.34%) Firmware
7 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.26%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) vCloud
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
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
1 190 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 173 (6.55%) Terraform
3 53 (2.01%) Grafana
4 43 (1.63%) Ansible
5 42 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.49%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 10 (0.38%) 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
1 318 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.96%) Oracle
3 75 (2.84%) Databricks
4 63 (2.38%) Google
5 60 (2.27%) VMware
6 59 (2.23%) Adobe
7 52 (1.97%) Cisco
8 51 (1.93%) SAP
9 48 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 25 (0.95%) Okta
11 24 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.72%) Apple
13 16 (0.61%) Dell
14 14 (0.53%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
15 13 (0.49%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.49%) Workday
16 12 (0.45%) Samsung
17 11 (0.42%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.42%) Wrike