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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 4,015 2,146 3,757
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.95% 13.07% 18.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 13.93% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,599 1,413 2,376
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,654 15,406 19,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 93.81% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 16,190 8,732 12,587
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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.

1 790 (19.68%) Agile
2 750 (18.68%) Mentoring
3 726 (18.08%) Azure
4 715 (17.81%) Software Engineering
5 665 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 642 (15.99%) AWS
7 626 (15.59%) CI/CD
8 611 (15.22%) AI
9 553 (13.77%) Python
10 536 (13.35%) DevOps
11 514 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
12 484 (12.05%) Microsoft
13 467 (11.63%) SQL
14 402 (10.01%) Coaching
15 397 (9.89%) Security Cleared
16 390 (9.71%) Degree
17 362 (9.02%) Analytics
18 350 (8.72%) Decision-Making
19 349 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
20 340 (8.47%) Project Delivery
21 329 (8.19%) SC Cleared
22 324 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 305 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
24 299 (7.45%) C#
25 286 (7.12%) Java
26 268 (6.67%) Test Automation
27 256 (6.38%) SaaS
28 250 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
29 248 (6.18%) Roadmaps
30 245 (6.10%) 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 82 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.60%) Confluence
3 24 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 19 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.40%) CMS
6 15 (0.37%) WordPress
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.27%) SAS
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 7 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.075%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.075%) Artix
13 3 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.075%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.075%) Moodle
13 3 (0.075%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 79 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.32%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.22%) Revit
8 8 (0.20%) InDesign
9 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.17%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.100%) Navisworks
13 3 (0.075%) Blender
13 3 (0.075%) Maya
14 2 (0.050%) Lightworks
14 2 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
14 2 (0.050%) SPSS
14 2 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 17 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.37%) Cloudability
4 15 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 11 (0.27%) Shopify
6 10 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.15%) Primavera
10 3 (0.075%) Adobe Campaign
10 3 (0.075%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.075%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.075%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.075%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.050%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 726 (18.08%) Azure
2 642 (15.99%) AWS
3 256 (6.38%) SaaS
4 235 (5.85%) GCP
5 171 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
6 162 (4.03%) Power Platform
7 160 (3.99%) Entra ID
8 124 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
9 115 (2.86%) GitHub
10 97 (2.42%) Serverless
11 55 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 48 (1.20%) IaaS
14 45 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.02%) PaaS
17 40 (1.00%) PowerApps
18 38 (0.95%) Power Automate
19 36 (0.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 155 (3.86%) Firewall
2 101 (2.52%) Network Security
3 80 (1.99%) VLAN
4 77 (1.92%) DNS
5 72 (1.79%) VPN
6 62 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 61 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 58 (1.44%) Wireless
9 51 (1.27%) Broadband
10 50 (1.25%) WAN
11 47 (1.17%) LAN
12 40 (1.00%) DHCP
13 34 (0.85%) BGP
14 25 (0.62%) SMS
15 22 (0.55%) OSPF
16 18 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.40%) WLAN
18 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
19 13 (0.32%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (3.04%) Power BI
3 102 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 74 (1.84%) Metadata
5 59 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 54 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 50 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 49 (1.22%) MySQL
10 42 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 37 (0.92%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.70%) Tableau
13 23 (0.57%) Data Lake
14 20 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.47%) OLTP
15 19 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.45%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 137 (3.41%) Git
2 65 (1.62%) JIRA
3 38 (0.95%) GitLab
4 34 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 28 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.42%) JUnit
7 15 (0.37%) Snyk
8 13 (0.32%) Selenium
9 12 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.27%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.25%) Maven
11 10 (0.25%) Mockito
12 9 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.22%) Postman
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.12%) Gatling
15 5 (0.12%) Poetry
16 4 (0.100%) MLflow
General
1 1,000 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 659 (16.41%) Finance
3 479 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 367 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
6 261 (6.50%) Legal
7 252 (6.28%) Law
8 160 (3.99%) Banking
9 130 (3.24%) Retail
10 129 (3.21%) Marketing
11 75 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 74 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 65 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.47%) Aerospace
15 59 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 58 (1.44%) Electronics
17 54 (1.34%) Local Government
18 50 (1.25%) Games
19 45 (1.12%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (6.10%) Terraform
2 219 (5.45%) .NET
3 156 (3.89%) React
4 111 (2.76%) REST
5 106 (2.64%) Node.js
6 98 (2.44%) RESTful
7 87 (2.17%) HTML
8 83 (2.07%) CSS
9 74 (1.84%) Spring
10 53 (1.32%) Spring Boot
11 46 (1.15%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.00%) PySpark
13 37 (0.92%) Kafka
14 34 (0.85%) Laravel
14 34 (0.85%) Vue
15 32 (0.80%) Next.js
16 31 (0.77%) OAuth
17 30 (0.75%) .NET Core
17 30 (0.75%) Playwright
18 27 (0.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 249 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 117 (2.91%) Driving Licence
3 113 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 72 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 70 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 67 (1.67%) AI Agents
9 55 (1.37%) Blog
10 53 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 49 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 42 (1.05%) Data Centre
12 42 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
14 37 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
15 34 (0.85%) Mobile App
16 32 (0.80%) Algorithms
16 32 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
17 31 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
18 30 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.16%) Linux
2 139 (3.46%) Windows
3 64 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.57%) Unix
5 23 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 18 (0.45%) Android
8 11 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.25%) VMS
10 9 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
11 7 (0.17%) macOS
12 5 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.075%) Debian
13 3 (0.075%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.050%) Rocky
14 2 (0.050%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (19.68%) Agile
2 750 (18.68%) Mentoring
3 715 (17.81%) Software Engineering
4 665 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 626 (15.59%) CI/CD
6 611 (15.22%) AI
7 536 (13.35%) DevOps
8 514 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
9 402 (10.01%) Coaching
10 362 (9.02%) Analytics
11 350 (8.72%) Decision-Making
12 349 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
13 340 (8.47%) Project Delivery
14 324 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 305 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 268 (6.67%) Test Automation
17 250 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
18 248 (6.18%) Roadmaps
19 219 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 218 (5.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 553 (13.77%) Python
2 467 (11.63%) SQL
3 299 (7.45%) C#
4 286 (7.12%) Java
5 229 (5.70%) JavaScript
6 205 (5.11%) TypeScript
7 136 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.44%) C++
9 66 (1.64%) Go
10 59 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 53 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.27%) PHP
13 47 (1.17%) C
14 42 (1.05%) Bash
15 33 (0.82%) Bicep
16 22 (0.55%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.50%) Ruby
17 20 (0.50%) Rust
17 20 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 397 (9.89%) Security Cleared
2 390 (9.71%) Degree
3 329 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.52%) CISSP
5 96 (2.39%) CISM
6 70 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 56 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.34%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.32%) HNC
10 47 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 41 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 40 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 40 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 40 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 37 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 28 (0.70%) PhD
17 24 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (5.80%) QA
2 127 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 118 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 89 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.82%) GDPR
6 62 (1.54%) NIST
7 37 (0.92%) GRC
8 27 (0.67%) PMO
9 22 (0.55%) NCSC
10 21 (0.52%) WCAG
11 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.40%) SLA
13 15 (0.37%) NIST 800
13 15 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.25%) COBIT
16 9 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.20%) GxP
17 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 208 (5.18%) Docker
2 148 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.70%) vSphere
7 23 (0.57%) Firmware
8 10 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.12%) vCloud
10 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.075%) iptables
12 2 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.025%) GPFS
13 1 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 234 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 120 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (1.25%) Grafana
4 45 (1.12%) Ansible
5 19 (0.47%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.37%) Argo
7 13 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (0.25%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.12%) Avamar
11 5 (0.12%) Cilium
11 5 (0.12%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.12%) EMC VPLEX
11 5 (0.12%) Puppet
11 5 (0.12%) VxRail
12 4 (0.100%) FTK
12 4 (0.100%) Packer
12 4 (0.100%) SCCM
Vendors
1 484 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 121 (3.01%) Oracle
3 104 (2.59%) Google
4 69 (1.72%) Cisco
5 67 (1.67%) VMware
6 61 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 57 (1.42%) CyberArk
8 54 (1.34%) Adobe
9 52 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 50 (1.25%) Databricks
11 45 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 37 (0.92%) SAP
13 32 (0.80%) Informatica
14 31 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.70%) Pega
15 28 (0.70%) YouTube
16 24 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
17 23 (0.57%) Apple
18 22 (0.55%) Aruba
19 20 (0.50%) Zscaler