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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,545 2,284 4,643
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.48% 13.81% 18.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.46% 14.97% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,326 1,509 3,178
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
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 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -5.97%

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 21,538 15,261 23,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.27% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,386 9,299 17,197
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,950 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.55% - -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 18 August 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 18 August 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.

1 728 (20.54%) Agile
2 674 (19.01%) Mentoring
3 669 (18.87%) Azure
4 620 (17.49%) AWS
5 615 (17.35%) Software Engineering
6 574 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 562 (15.85%) AI
8 544 (15.35%) CI/CD
9 505 (14.25%) Python
10 476 (13.43%) DevOps
11 450 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
12 445 (12.55%) Microsoft
13 377 (10.63%) SQL
14 359 (10.13%) Degree
15 352 (9.93%) Project Delivery
16 338 (9.53%) Coaching
17 332 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
18 325 (9.17%) Decision-Making
19 317 (8.94%) Security Cleared
20 309 (8.72%) Analytics
21 292 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 279 (7.87%) C#
23 264 (7.45%) SC Cleared
24 261 (7.36%) Roadmaps
25 256 (7.22%) Test Automation
26 252 (7.11%) JavaScript
27 235 (6.63%) QA
28 228 (6.43%) GCP
28 228 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
29 219 (6.18%) .NET

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 98 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (0.73%) CMS
4 23 (0.65%) Confluence
5 15 (0.42%) WordPress
6 13 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.34%) IIS
8 11 (0.31%) SAS
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.23%) Apache
10 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.085%) Artix
11 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.085%) Moodle
12 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 78 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.23%) InDesign
9 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.11%) Trello
12 3 (0.085%) Blender
12 3 (0.085%) Maya
13 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.056%) SPSS
14 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.25%) Shopify
7 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.085%) Primavera
10 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.085%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.085%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.085%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 669 (18.87%) Azure
2 620 (17.49%) AWS
3 228 (6.43%) GCP
4 218 (6.15%) SaaS
5 156 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 145 (4.09%) Power Platform
7 131 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 122 (3.44%) Serverless
9 100 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (2.82%) GitHub
10 53 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (1.35%) PowerApps
12 43 (1.21%) Amazon S3
12 43 (1.21%) Power Automate
13 42 (1.18%) Azure AKS
13 42 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 39 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
16 37 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.51%) Firewall
2 92 (2.60%) Network Security
3 89 (2.51%) Broadband
4 76 (2.14%) DNS
5 73 (2.06%) VLAN
6 60 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
7 59 (1.66%) VPN
8 51 (1.44%) WAN
9 50 (1.41%) Wireless
10 47 (1.33%) TCP/IP
11 46 (1.30%) LAN
12 44 (1.24%) DHCP
13 28 (0.79%) BGP
14 20 (0.56%) OSPF
14 20 (0.56%) RS-232
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) HTTP
17 16 (0.45%) WLAN
18 14 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (3.13%) Power BI
3 100 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.41%) Metadata
6 50 (1.41%) MySQL
7 39 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 34 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 33 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 29 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.73%) Tableau
13 22 (0.62%) OLTP
14 17 (0.48%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.42%) Big Data
15 15 (0.42%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.37%) Delta Lake
16 13 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (3.44%) Git
2 59 (1.66%) JIRA
3 42 (1.18%) GitLab
4 35 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 19 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 10 (0.28%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.14%) XCUITest
16 4 (0.11%) Appium
16 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 895 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 596 (16.81%) Finance
3 374 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 317 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 268 (7.56%) Legal
6 267 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
7 230 (6.49%) Law
8 134 (3.78%) Marketing
9 123 (3.47%) Banking
10 84 (2.37%) Retail
11 70 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 66 (1.86%) Games
13 66 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (1.55%) Telecoms
15 51 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
16 50 (1.41%) Electronics
17 49 (1.38%) Local Government
18 44 (1.24%) Legal Technology
19 35 (0.99%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (6.18%) .NET
2 170 (4.80%) React
3 120 (3.39%) Node.js
4 95 (2.68%) HTML
5 88 (2.48%) REST
6 86 (2.43%) CSS
7 76 (2.14%) RESTful
8 58 (1.64%) Spring
9 40 (1.13%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.07%) Spring Boot
11 37 (1.04%) Vue
12 34 (0.96%) Laravel
13 33 (0.93%) .NET Core
13 33 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
14 31 (0.87%) Kafka
15 30 (0.85%) Next.js
16 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
16 29 (0.82%) Playwright
17 28 (0.79%) SPFx
18 27 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.88%) Product Ownership
3 100 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 82 (2.31%) Driving Licence
5 66 (1.86%) Virtual Team
6 55 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 54 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 46 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 40 (1.13%) Blog
10 40 (1.13%) Social Media
11 39 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 36 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 35 (0.99%) Onboarding
14 35 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 34 (0.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 172 (4.85%) Linux
2 134 (3.78%) Windows
3 59 (1.66%) Unix
4 58 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 33 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 32 (0.90%) Android
7 24 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.085%) Debian
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (20.54%) Agile
2 674 (19.01%) Mentoring
3 615 (17.35%) Software Engineering
4 574 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 562 (15.85%) AI
6 544 (15.35%) CI/CD
7 476 (13.43%) DevOps
8 450 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
9 352 (9.93%) Project Delivery
10 338 (9.53%) Coaching
11 332 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
12 325 (9.17%) Decision-Making
13 309 (8.72%) Analytics
14 292 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 261 (7.36%) Roadmaps
16 256 (7.22%) Test Automation
17 228 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 218 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 188 (5.30%) Information Security
20 187 (5.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 505 (14.25%) Python
2 377 (10.63%) SQL
3 279 (7.87%) C#
4 252 (7.11%) JavaScript
5 209 (5.90%) TypeScript
6 200 (5.64%) Java
7 132 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.65%) C++
9 59 (1.66%) Go
9 59 (1.66%) PHP
10 47 (1.33%) C
11 43 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 38 (1.07%) Bash
13 32 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.71%) Bicep
14 25 (0.71%) Embedded C
15 22 (0.62%) Swift
16 21 (0.59%) Ruby
17 19 (0.54%) R
18 18 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 359 (10.13%) Degree
2 317 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 264 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.79%) CISSP
5 90 (2.54%) CISM
6 66 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.52%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 49 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 46 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.07%) AWS Certification
12 38 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (0.79%) PhD
14 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (0.73%) HNC
16 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (6.63%) QA
2 112 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 62 (1.75%) NIST
6 58 (1.64%) GDPR
7 47 (1.33%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 24 (0.68%) SLA
10 20 (0.56%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) NCSC
12 14 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 5 (0.14%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 167 (4.71%) Docker
2 139 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.93%) vSphere
6 28 (0.79%) Firmware
7 19 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) iptables
14 2 (0.056%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.028%) GPFS
15 1 (0.028%) Lustre
15 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 199 (5.61%) Terraform
2 197 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.93%) Ansible
5 24 (0.68%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.48%) Argo
8 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.17%) Avamar
10 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.17%) VxRail
11 5 (0.14%) Istio
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) SCCM
11 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 445 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 120 (3.39%) Oracle
3 107 (3.02%) Adobe
4 80 (2.26%) Google
5 69 (1.95%) Cisco
6 68 (1.92%) Palo Alto
7 67 (1.89%) VMware
8 62 (1.75%) SAP
9 59 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 56 (1.58%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 46 (1.30%) Databricks
13 35 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
14 31 (0.87%) Apple
15 28 (0.79%) Tenable
16 27 (0.76%) Pega
17 26 (0.73%) Dell
17 26 (0.73%) Informatica
18 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
19 21 (0.59%) Veeam