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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,816 2,366 5,586
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.04% 17.93% 17.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.14% 19.30% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,014 1,701 4,329
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,626 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +5.53% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
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 16,430 12,262 31,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 92.94% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,808 9,000 24,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,125 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +6.40% -9.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,525 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

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 April 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 April 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.

1 578 (20.53%) Mentoring
2 576 (20.45%) Azure
3 547 (19.42%) Agile
4 479 (17.01%) AWS
5 418 (14.84%) Software Engineering
6 384 (13.64%) SQL
7 376 (13.35%) CI/CD
8 362 (12.86%) DevOps
9 356 (12.64%) Coaching
10 351 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
11 349 (12.39%) Microsoft
12 345 (12.25%) AI
13 318 (11.29%) Python
14 286 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 258 (9.16%) Security Cleared
16 255 (9.06%) Roadmaps
17 249 (8.84%) Degree
18 246 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
19 220 (7.81%) Analytics
20 219 (7.78%) Java
21 215 (7.63%) GCP
22 198 (7.03%) .NET
23 197 (7.00%) SC Cleared
24 193 (6.85%) Kubernetes
25 187 (6.64%) Test Automation
26 186 (6.61%) SaaS
27 176 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
27 176 (6.25%) Terraform
28 171 (6.07%) Microservices
29 170 (6.04%) Docker

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 73 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 23 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (0.78%) CMS
4 22 (0.78%) Confluence
5 10 (0.36%) JBoss
5 10 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 9 (0.32%) Apache
7 7 (0.25%) IIS
7 7 (0.25%) WordPress
8 6 (0.21%) SAS
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.071%) nginx
12 2 (0.071%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.036%) Appian
13 1 (0.036%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 36 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.25%) Sketch
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.18%) DaVinci Resolve
9 4 (0.14%) InDesign
9 4 (0.14%) InVision
9 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.11%) Weka
11 2 (0.071%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.071%) Maya
11 2 (0.071%) Revit
Business Applications
1 31 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
2 23 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
3 21 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
3 21 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 15 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
6 13 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
6 13 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.39%) Visualfiles
8 10 (0.36%) Hyperion Planning
9 9 (0.32%) Cloudability
9 9 (0.32%) Shopify
10 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.18%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 576 (20.45%) Azure
2 479 (17.01%) AWS
3 215 (7.63%) GCP
4 186 (6.61%) SaaS
5 113 (4.01%) GitHub
6 112 (3.98%) Power Platform
7 100 (3.55%) Entra ID
7 100 (3.55%) Serverless
8 97 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
9 95 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (1.78%) Snowflake
11 49 (1.74%) dbt
12 43 (1.53%) PowerApps
13 42 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
14 41 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
17 36 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
18 34 (1.21%) Figma
19 33 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 117 (4.15%) Broadband
2 81 (2.88%) Firewall
3 55 (1.95%) VPN
4 52 (1.85%) DNS
5 50 (1.78%) WAN
6 44 (1.56%) DHCP
7 42 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 32 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 30 (1.07%) LAN
10 27 (0.96%) Network Security
11 21 (0.75%) Ethernet
11 21 (0.75%) RS-232
11 21 (0.75%) Wireless
12 20 (0.71%) BGP
13 19 (0.67%) HTTP
14 17 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.36%) OSPF
16 9 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.32%) MPLS
16 9 (0.32%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 84 (2.98%) Power BI
3 73 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 44 (1.56%) Metadata
7 39 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 33 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 30 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (0.96%) Data Lake
12 26 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (0.89%) Redis
13 25 (0.89%) Tableau
14 24 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (0.78%) DynamoDB
15 22 (0.78%) MySQL
15 22 (0.78%) OLTP
16 18 (0.64%) Looker
16 18 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 80 (2.84%) Git
2 72 (2.56%) JIRA
3 56 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.35%) TeamCity
5 35 (1.24%) GitLab
6 29 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
7 21 (0.75%) Selenium
8 15 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.39%) Snyk
10 10 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.36%) MLflow
11 9 (0.32%) Postman
12 8 (0.28%) JUnit
12 8 (0.28%) Subversion
12 8 (0.28%) webpack
13 7 (0.25%) JMeter
13 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.25%) XCUITest
General
1 579 (20.56%) Finance
2 542 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 331 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 177 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (4.62%) Law
7 129 (4.58%) Marketing
8 121 (4.30%) Banking
9 99 (3.52%) Retail
10 95 (3.37%) Legal
11 86 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 72 (2.56%) Games
12 72 (2.56%) Telecoms
13 48 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 45 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 27 (0.96%) Back Office
18 21 (0.75%) Electronics
19 20 (0.71%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (7.03%) .NET
2 139 (4.94%) React
3 123 (4.37%) REST
4 87 (3.09%) SOAP
5 80 (2.84%) HTML
6 76 (2.70%) Node.js
7 72 (2.56%) RESTful
8 65 (2.31%) GraphQL
9 64 (2.27%) OAuth
10 57 (2.02%) CSS
11 50 (1.78%) Kafka
11 50 (1.78%) Spring
12 44 (1.56%) OpenID
13 39 (1.38%) Spring Boot
14 38 (1.35%) SAML
15 36 (1.28%) .NET Core
16 32 (1.14%) Django
16 32 (1.14%) LDAP
17 30 (1.07%) JSON
17 30 (1.07%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 182 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 96 (3.41%) Product Ownership
3 64 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 62 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 61 (2.17%) Social Media
6 56 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 49 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 46 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.46%) Cyberattack
11 36 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
13 32 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
14 30 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.07%) Management Information System
14 30 (1.07%) Over-the-Top Content
15 29 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 29 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 150 (5.33%) Linux
2 111 (3.94%) Windows
3 72 (2.56%) Android
4 59 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 53 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.21%) Unix
7 21 (0.75%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (0.32%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.11%) CentOS
11 3 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.071%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.071%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.036%) AIX
13 1 (0.036%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (20.53%) Mentoring
2 547 (19.42%) Agile
3 418 (14.84%) Software Engineering
4 376 (13.35%) CI/CD
5 362 (12.86%) DevOps
6 356 (12.64%) Coaching
7 351 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
8 345 (12.25%) AI
9 286 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 255 (9.06%) Roadmaps
11 246 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
12 220 (7.81%) Analytics
13 187 (6.64%) Test Automation
14 176 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 171 (6.07%) Microservices
16 170 (6.04%) User Experience
17 163 (5.79%) Decision-Making
18 153 (5.43%) Full-Stack Development
19 150 (5.33%) Infrastructure as Code
20 136 (4.83%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 384 (13.64%) SQL
2 318 (11.29%) Python
3 219 (7.78%) Java
4 160 (5.68%) C#
5 150 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 139 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 93 (3.30%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.56%) Go
9 69 (2.45%) C++
10 68 (2.41%) Bash
11 54 (1.92%) PHP
12 46 (1.63%) Scala
13 45 (1.60%) PL/SQL
14 37 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 36 (1.28%) C
15 36 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.82%) Bicep
16 23 (0.82%) VBA
17 16 (0.57%) R
18 14 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 258 (9.16%) Security Cleared
2 249 (8.84%) Degree
3 197 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 39 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.31%) ACCA
8 36 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.07%) CISSP
10 27 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 25 (0.89%) CIMA
12 25 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.71%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.57%) CISM
16 15 (0.53%) CIPFA
16 15 (0.53%) CREST Certified
16 15 (0.53%) PhD
17 13 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (3.16%) QA
2 71 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 63 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 57 (2.02%) NIST
5 51 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.49%) GDPR
7 31 (1.10%) NCSC
8 23 (0.82%) GRC
9 19 (0.67%) PMO
10 16 (0.57%) SLA
11 14 (0.50%) IFRS
11 14 (0.50%) P3O
12 11 (0.39%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.39%) MISRA
12 11 (0.39%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 170 (6.04%) Docker
2 115 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.46%) Firmware
6 13 (0.46%) vSphere
7 8 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.21%) vCloud
8 6 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.071%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.036%) Ceph
11 1 (0.036%) Lustre
11 1 (0.036%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 193 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 176 (6.25%) Terraform
3 52 (1.85%) Grafana
4 44 (1.56%) Ansible
5 37 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.50%) SCCM
9 11 (0.39%) FortiGate
9 11 (0.39%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.25%) Argo
10 7 (0.25%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.18%) Puppet
11 5 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.14%) Istio
12 4 (0.14%) Plesk
13 3 (0.11%) cPanel
13 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 349 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 135 (4.79%) Oracle
3 85 (3.02%) Adobe
4 71 (2.52%) VMware
5 68 (2.41%) Databricks
6 66 (2.34%) Google
7 61 (2.17%) SAP
8 48 (1.70%) Cisco
9 46 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 36 (1.28%) ServiceNow
11 28 (0.99%) Apple
11 28 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 25 (0.89%) Okta
13 20 (0.71%) Dell
14 14 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (0.46%) Citrix
15 13 (0.46%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.43%) Samsung
16 12 (0.43%) Splunk
17 11 (0.39%) Hootsuite