Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £69,973 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,400 2,313 5,788
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.95% 14.04% 18.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 15.21% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,362 1,482 4,296
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 20,031 15,209 30,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,594 9,441 23,786
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £57,098
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.58% -8.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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.

1 693 (20.38%) Agile
2 677 (19.91%) Mentoring
3 625 (18.38%) Azure
4 600 (17.65%) AWS
5 562 (16.53%) Software Engineering
6 490 (14.41%) AI
7 470 (13.82%) CI/CD
8 456 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 446 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
10 443 (13.03%) Python
11 421 (12.38%) Microsoft
12 411 (12.09%) DevOps
13 389 (11.44%) Coaching
14 366 (10.76%) SQL
15 327 (9.62%) Degree
16 316 (9.29%) Analytics
17 294 (8.65%) Roadmaps
18 290 (8.53%) Security Cleared
19 273 (8.03%) Project Delivery
20 270 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
21 267 (7.85%) Decision-Making
22 242 (7.12%) Test Automation
23 230 (6.76%) SC Cleared
24 229 (6.74%) Java
25 224 (6.59%) C#
25 224 (6.59%) GCP
26 216 (6.35%) JavaScript
27 213 (6.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
28 205 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
29 202 (5.94%) Kubernetes

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 95 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.65%) CMS
5 20 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.47%) Confluence
7 15 (0.44%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) IIS
9 10 (0.29%) WordPress
10 8 (0.24%) Apache
10 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.088%) Artix
12 3 (0.088%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.059%) JBoss
13 2 (0.059%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 86 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Civil 3D
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%) Trello
11 3 (0.088%) Blender
11 3 (0.088%) Maya
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.059%) InVision
12 2 (0.059%) SPSS
12 2 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.71%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.26%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.21%) 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%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.088%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.088%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 625 (18.38%) Azure
2 600 (17.65%) AWS
3 224 (6.59%) GCP
4 198 (5.82%) SaaS
5 156 (4.59%) Power Platform
6 144 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
7 130 (3.82%) Serverless
8 117 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 88 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (2.59%) GitHub
10 58 (1.71%) PowerApps
11 52 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 44 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.24%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 126 (3.71%) Broadband
2 118 (3.47%) Firewall
3 70 (2.06%) DNS
4 66 (1.94%) VPN
5 50 (1.47%) WAN
6 47 (1.38%) Network Security
7 46 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (1.32%) DHCP
8 45 (1.32%) Wireless
9 42 (1.24%) LAN
10 33 (0.97%) TCP/IP
10 33 (0.97%) VLAN
11 27 (0.79%) BGP
12 24 (0.71%) RS-232
12 24 (0.71%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.56%) OSPF
14 16 (0.47%) Ethernet
15 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
15 15 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.18%) Power BI
2 99 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 68 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.56%) Metadata
6 39 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.06%) MySQL
8 34 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 29 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (0.82%) BigQuery
12 28 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.82%) OLTP
13 27 (0.79%) Tableau
14 19 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 99 (2.91%) Git
2 55 (1.62%) JIRA
3 42 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.12%) GitLab
5 30 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.74%) Snyk
7 24 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.47%) Selenium
9 11 (0.32%) Postman
10 8 (0.24%) LabVIEW
10 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
11 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.21%) JMeter
11 7 (0.21%) JUnit
11 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.18%) NUnit
13 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 765 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 543 (15.97%) Finance
3 430 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 257 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 226 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 223 (6.56%) Law
7 180 (5.29%) Legal
8 125 (3.68%) Banking
9 116 (3.41%) Marketing
10 84 (2.47%) Retail
11 76 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
12 71 (2.09%) Games
13 60 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 51 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.12%) Legal Technology
16 38 (1.12%) Local Government
17 34 (1.00%) Electronics
18 27 (0.79%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (5.79%) .NET
2 141 (4.15%) React
3 106 (3.12%) Node.js
4 84 (2.47%) REST
5 82 (2.41%) HTML
6 74 (2.18%) RESTful
7 65 (1.91%) CSS
8 50 (1.47%) Spring
9 43 (1.26%) SOAP
10 40 (1.18%) Vue
11 36 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
11 36 (1.06%) Kafka
12 35 (1.03%) Spring Boot
13 29 (0.85%) Laravel
14 28 (0.82%) OAuth
15 27 (0.79%) GraphQL
16 26 (0.76%) AngularJS
16 26 (0.76%) JSON
16 26 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
16 26 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 76 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 61 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 59 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (1.68%) Social Media
8 48 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 45 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 43 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 42 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (1.24%) Onboarding
13 41 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 39 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 38 (1.12%) Cyberattack
15 38 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 36 (1.06%) Management Information System
16 36 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 166 (4.88%) Linux
2 132 (3.88%) Windows
3 50 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.29%) Android
5 44 (1.29%) Unix
6 25 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.29%) VMS
9 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.088%) Debian
11 3 (0.088%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) CentOS
12 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (20.38%) Agile
2 677 (19.91%) Mentoring
3 562 (16.53%) Software Engineering
4 490 (14.41%) AI
5 470 (13.82%) CI/CD
6 456 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 446 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
8 411 (12.09%) DevOps
9 389 (11.44%) Coaching
10 316 (9.29%) Analytics
11 294 (8.65%) Roadmaps
12 273 (8.03%) Project Delivery
13 270 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
14 267 (7.85%) Decision-Making
15 242 (7.12%) Test Automation
16 213 (6.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 205 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 193 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
19 185 (5.44%) Project Management
20 167 (4.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 443 (13.03%) Python
2 366 (10.76%) SQL
3 229 (6.74%) Java
4 224 (6.59%) C#
5 216 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 178 (5.24%) TypeScript
7 119 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 91 (2.68%) C++
9 66 (1.94%) Go
10 59 (1.74%) PHP
11 56 (1.65%) Bash
12 49 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.38%) C
14 32 (0.94%) Scala
15 26 (0.76%) VBA
16 25 (0.74%) Bicep
16 25 (0.74%) Rust
16 25 (0.74%) T-SQL
17 21 (0.62%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 327 (9.62%) Degree
2 290 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 230 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 71 (2.09%) CISSP
5 66 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 61 (1.79%) CISM
7 55 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.18%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 38 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 37 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (0.88%) PhD
14 29 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
15 28 (0.82%) A+ Certification
15 28 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 26 (0.76%) ACCA
17 24 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (5.15%) QA
2 84 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 77 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (2.03%) NIST
6 53 (1.56%) GDPR
7 47 (1.38%) GRC
8 31 (0.91%) PMO
9 20 (0.59%) NCSC
9 20 (0.59%) SLA
10 14 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.35%) P3O
12 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.24%) WCAG
15 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.18%) COBIT
17 5 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 154 (4.53%) Docker
2 124 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.94%) vSphere
6 20 (0.59%) Firmware
7 18 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.26%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.088%) iptables
13 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 202 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 175 (5.15%) Terraform
3 67 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.06%) Ansible
5 33 (0.97%) Grafana
6 21 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.56%) Argo
8 15 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.41%) SCCM
10 8 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.24%) Puppet
11 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.18%) Avamar
12 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.18%) VxRail
13 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 421 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 133 (3.91%) Oracle
3 112 (3.29%) Adobe
4 71 (2.09%) Google
5 70 (2.06%) VMware
6 67 (1.97%) Palo Alto
7 65 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 64 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 62 (1.82%) SAP
10 61 (1.79%) Cisco
11 48 (1.41%) Databricks
12 41 (1.21%) Apple
13 32 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.82%) Dell
14 28 (0.82%) Pega
15 27 (0.79%) CyberArk
15 27 (0.79%) Tenable
16 20 (0.59%) Computacenter
17 19 (0.56%) Informatica
18 18 (0.53%) OpenAI