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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,620 2,227 4,521
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.52% 13.54% 18.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.50% 14.62% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,380 1,500 2,900
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 £84,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -5.11%

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 21,941 15,228 23,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.62% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,614 9,294 16,117
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 1 September 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 1 September 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.

1 739 (20.41%) Agile
2 692 (19.12%) Mentoring
3 685 (18.92%) Azure
4 632 (17.46%) AWS
5 623 (17.21%) Software Engineering
6 596 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 571 (15.77%) AI
8 558 (15.41%) CI/CD
9 513 (14.17%) Python
10 483 (13.34%) DevOps
11 458 (12.65%) Microsoft
12 445 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
13 396 (10.94%) SQL
14 358 (9.89%) Degree
15 355 (9.81%) Project Delivery
16 353 (9.75%) Coaching
17 339 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
18 334 (9.23%) Decision-Making
19 310 (8.56%) Analytics
20 304 (8.40%) Security Cleared
21 298 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 276 (7.62%) C#
23 254 (7.02%) SC Cleared
24 252 (6.96%) Roadmaps
25 250 (6.91%) Test Automation
26 239 (6.60%) JavaScript
27 238 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
28 235 (6.49%) GCP
29 233 (6.44%) QA
30 226 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code

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
1 101 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.66%) CMS
4 22 (0.61%) Confluence
5 15 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.36%) WordPress
7 12 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.33%) IIS
8 10 (0.28%) Apache
8 10 (0.28%) SAS
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.083%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.083%) Artix
11 3 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.083%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.083%) Moodle
11 3 (0.083%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.055%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 75 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
7 10 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.25%) InDesign
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.083%) Blender
11 3 (0.083%) Maya
11 3 (0.083%) Trello
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.66%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 11 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.28%) Shopify
6 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) Primavera
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.083%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.083%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 685 (18.92%) Azure
2 632 (17.46%) AWS
3 235 (6.49%) GCP
4 223 (6.16%) SaaS
5 163 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 154 (4.25%) Power Platform
7 135 (3.73%) Entra ID
8 110 (3.04%) Serverless
9 106 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
10 103 (2.85%) GitHub
11 48 (1.33%) PowerApps
12 47 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 41 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (1.13%) Azure AKS
17 40 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 157 (4.34%) Firewall
2 88 (2.43%) Network Security
3 79 (2.18%) Broadband
4 78 (2.15%) DNS
5 75 (2.07%) VLAN
6 61 (1.69%) VPN
7 57 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
8 50 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 50 (1.38%) Wireless
9 49 (1.35%) WAN
10 46 (1.27%) DHCP
11 44 (1.22%) LAN
12 27 (0.75%) BGP
13 20 (0.55%) OSPF
14 19 (0.52%) RS-232
14 19 (0.52%) SMS
15 17 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.44%) HTTP
17 15 (0.41%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (3.34%) Power BI
3 100 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 65 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 61 (1.69%) Metadata
6 49 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.33%) MySQL
8 45 (1.24%) NoSQL
9 44 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 43 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 38 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 26 (0.72%) Tableau
14 20 (0.55%) OLTP
15 19 (0.52%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.47%) Big Data
17 15 (0.41%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.36%) Delta Lake
19 12 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
19 12 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 122 (3.37%) Git
2 60 (1.66%) JIRA
3 42 (1.16%) GitLab
4 34 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.69%) Snyk
6 20 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.47%) Selenium
8 15 (0.41%) JUnit
9 14 (0.39%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.30%) LabVIEW
10 11 (0.30%) Postman
11 9 (0.25%) Maven
12 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.22%) Gatling
13 7 (0.19%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) JMeter
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 920 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 583 (16.10%) Finance
3 393 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 322 (8.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 269 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 259 (7.15%) Legal
7 234 (6.46%) Law
8 131 (3.62%) Banking
9 129 (3.56%) Marketing
10 89 (2.46%) Retail
11 71 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 63 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 61 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.63%) Games
16 57 (1.57%) Telecoms
17 54 (1.49%) Local Government
18 51 (1.41%) Electronics
19 43 (1.19%) Legal Technology
20 35 (0.97%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (5.83%) .NET
2 209 (5.77%) Terraform
3 159 (4.39%) React
4 124 (3.43%) Node.js
5 96 (2.65%) HTML
6 91 (2.51%) REST
7 88 (2.43%) CSS
8 77 (2.13%) RESTful
9 59 (1.63%) Spring
10 39 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 39 (1.08%) Spring Boot
11 36 (0.99%) Kafka
12 34 (0.94%) Laravel
13 33 (0.91%) .NET Core
13 33 (0.91%) PySpark
13 33 (0.91%) Vue
14 32 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
15 31 (0.86%) Next.js
16 30 (0.83%) Playwright
17 28 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 211 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 94 (2.60%) Driving Licence
5 68 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 64 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 53 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 47 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 42 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.08%) Blog
15 36 (0.99%) Algorithms
15 36 (0.99%) Low-Code
16 35 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 30 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
18 29 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.61%) Linux
2 142 (3.92%) Windows
3 61 (1.69%) Unix
4 60 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 32 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 28 (0.77%) Android
7 22 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
11 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.083%) Debian
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (20.41%) Agile
2 692 (19.12%) Mentoring
3 623 (17.21%) Software Engineering
4 596 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 571 (15.77%) AI
6 558 (15.41%) CI/CD
7 483 (13.34%) DevOps
8 445 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
9 355 (9.81%) Project Delivery
10 353 (9.75%) Coaching
11 339 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
12 334 (9.23%) Decision-Making
13 310 (8.56%) Analytics
14 298 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 252 (6.96%) Roadmaps
16 250 (6.91%) Test Automation
17 238 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 226 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code
19 190 (5.25%) Technical Leadership
20 189 (5.22%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 513 (14.17%) Python
2 396 (10.94%) SQL
3 276 (7.62%) C#
4 239 (6.60%) JavaScript
5 208 (5.75%) TypeScript
6 198 (5.47%) Java
7 138 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 96 (2.65%) C++
9 58 (1.60%) Go
10 52 (1.44%) PHP
11 46 (1.27%) C
12 45 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 37 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 34 (0.94%) Bash
15 26 (0.72%) Bicep
16 24 (0.66%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.61%) Swift
18 21 (0.58%) R
18 21 (0.58%) Ruby
19 18 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 358 (9.89%) Degree
2 304 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 254 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.60%) CISSP
5 88 (2.43%) CISM
6 67 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.49%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 51 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 43 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 41 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.05%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.94%) HNC
15 27 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.75%) PhD
16 24 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (6.44%) QA
2 121 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 90 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (1.69%) GDPR
6 59 (1.63%) NIST
7 47 (1.30%) GRC
8 29 (0.80%) PMO
9 24 (0.66%) WCAG
10 23 (0.64%) SLA
11 17 (0.47%) NCSC
12 12 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.22%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.19%) GxP
16 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 172 (4.75%) Docker
2 139 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.94%) vSphere
6 27 (0.75%) Firmware
7 21 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.083%) iptables
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 200 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 100 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (0.99%) Ansible
4 25 (0.69%) Grafana
5 19 (0.52%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.47%) Argo
7 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.19%) 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%) VxRail
11 5 (0.14%) Istio
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.11%) SCCM
12 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 458 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 110 (3.04%) Oracle
3 99 (2.73%) Adobe
4 79 (2.18%) Google
5 69 (1.91%) VMware
6 67 (1.85%) Cisco
7 65 (1.80%) Palo Alto
8 61 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 59 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 54 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 54 (1.49%) SAP
11 47 (1.30%) Databricks
12 35 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
13 30 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.80%) Apple
15 28 (0.77%) Informatica
15 28 (0.77%) Tenable
16 27 (0.75%) Pega
17 25 (0.69%) Dell
18 21 (0.58%) Veeam