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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,556 2,332 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.67% 14.12% 18.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.65% 15.32% 19.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,361 1,534 3,257
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,563 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +3.94% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
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% -9.29%

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 21,352 15,220 23,923
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,315 9,405 17,571
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,000
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 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10 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 10 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.

1 740 (20.81%) Agile
2 702 (19.74%) Mentoring
3 682 (19.18%) Azure
4 633 (17.80%) AWS
5 613 (17.24%) Software Engineering
6 561 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 560 (15.75%) AI
8 546 (15.35%) CI/CD
9 513 (14.43%) Python
10 469 (13.19%) DevOps
11 463 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
12 448 (12.60%) Microsoft
13 372 (10.46%) SQL
14 364 (10.24%) Coaching
15 344 (9.67%) Degree
16 337 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
17 327 (9.20%) Security Cleared
18 326 (9.17%) Project Delivery
19 322 (9.06%) Analytics
20 305 (8.58%) Decision-Making
21 283 (7.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 279 (7.85%) C#
23 272 (7.65%) SC Cleared
24 267 (7.51%) Roadmaps
25 262 (7.37%) Test Automation
26 252 (7.09%) JavaScript
27 239 (6.72%) GCP
28 232 (6.52%) QA
29 221 (6.21%) SaaS
30 219 (6.16%) .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 24 (0.67%) CMS
4 22 (0.62%) Confluence
5 18 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.42%) WordPress
8 14 (0.39%) SAS
9 12 (0.34%) IIS
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.22%) Apache
11 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.084%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.084%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.084%) Artix
12 3 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.084%) Moodle
13 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 80 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.25%) Civil 3D
6 9 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.22%) InDesign
7 8 (0.22%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.084%) Blender
11 3 (0.084%) Maya
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.67%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 14 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 6 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.14%) Visualfiles
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.084%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.084%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.084%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 682 (19.18%) Azure
2 633 (17.80%) AWS
3 239 (6.72%) GCP
4 221 (6.21%) SaaS
5 155 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 140 (3.94%) Entra ID
8 122 (3.43%) Serverless
9 97 (2.73%) GitHub
10 95 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 53 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.35%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 45 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 40 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (0.98%) Azure AKS
17 35 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 154 (4.33%) Firewall
2 99 (2.78%) Broadband
3 83 (2.33%) Network Security
4 76 (2.14%) DNS
5 65 (1.83%) VLAN
6 61 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.63%) VPN
8 51 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 50 (1.41%) WAN
10 49 (1.38%) Wireless
11 46 (1.29%) LAN
12 45 (1.27%) DHCP
13 26 (0.73%) BGP
14 21 (0.59%) RS-232
15 19 (0.53%) OSPF
16 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 16 (0.45%) HTTP
18 16 (0.45%) WLAN
19 15 (0.42%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (3.18%) Power BI
3 95 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 55 (1.55%) Metadata
6 48 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.29%) MySQL
8 36 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (0.87%) NoSQL
11 30 (0.84%) DynamoDB
11 30 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (0.76%) Tableau
13 24 (0.67%) OLTP
14 23 (0.65%) BigQuery
15 20 (0.56%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.48%) Redis
17 15 (0.42%) Big Data
17 15 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 117 (3.29%) Git
2 59 (1.66%) JIRA
3 41 (1.15%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 21 (0.59%) TeamCity
7 19 (0.53%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.22%) Gatling
12 8 (0.22%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.11%) JMeter
General
1 867 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 594 (16.70%) Finance
3 384 (10.80%) Public Sector
4 312 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 277 (7.79%) Legal
6 251 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
7 229 (6.44%) Law
8 136 (3.82%) Marketing
9 123 (3.46%) Banking
10 86 (2.42%) Retail
11 74 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.80%) Games
14 58 (1.63%) Telecoms
15 53 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 51 (1.43%) Electronics
17 48 (1.35%) Local Government
18 45 (1.27%) Legal Technology
19 44 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
20 29 (0.82%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (6.16%) .NET
2 171 (4.81%) React
3 115 (3.23%) Node.js
4 91 (2.56%) HTML
5 88 (2.47%) REST
6 80 (2.25%) CSS
7 74 (2.08%) RESTful
8 54 (1.52%) Spring
9 38 (1.07%) AngularJS
9 38 (1.07%) Vue
10 37 (1.04%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
12 32 (0.90%) Kafka
12 32 (0.90%) Laravel
13 29 (0.82%) .NET Core
13 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
14 28 (0.79%) Next.js
14 28 (0.79%) Playwright
14 28 (0.79%) SPFx
15 26 (0.73%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 103 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (2.17%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 56 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 53 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 53 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 49 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (1.38%) Social Media
9 42 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 42 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 42 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 40 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 39 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 37 (1.04%) Security Posture
13 36 (1.01%) Blog
14 35 (0.98%) Low-Code
15 33 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 176 (4.95%) Linux
2 129 (3.63%) Windows
3 58 (1.63%) Unix
4 54 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.24%) Android
5 44 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.084%) Debian
12 1 (0.028%) AIX
12 1 (0.028%) CentOS
12 1 (0.028%) Solaris
12 1 (0.028%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (20.81%) Agile
2 702 (19.74%) Mentoring
3 613 (17.24%) Software Engineering
4 561 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 560 (15.75%) AI
6 546 (15.35%) CI/CD
7 469 (13.19%) DevOps
8 463 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
9 364 (10.24%) Coaching
10 337 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
11 326 (9.17%) Project Delivery
12 322 (9.06%) Analytics
13 305 (8.58%) Decision-Making
14 283 (7.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 267 (7.51%) Roadmaps
16 262 (7.37%) Test Automation
17 219 (6.16%) Stakeholder Management
18 218 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
19 187 (5.26%) Microservices
20 186 (5.23%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 513 (14.43%) Python
2 372 (10.46%) SQL
3 279 (7.85%) C#
4 252 (7.09%) JavaScript
5 210 (5.91%) Java
6 206 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 133 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 100 (2.81%) C++
9 61 (1.72%) PHP
10 60 (1.69%) Go
11 49 (1.38%) C
12 46 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 40 (1.12%) Bash
14 28 (0.79%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.73%) Embedded C
16 24 (0.67%) R
17 23 (0.65%) Bicep
18 21 (0.59%) Swift
19 20 (0.56%) Rust
20 19 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 344 (9.67%) Degree
2 327 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 272 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 101 (2.84%) CISSP
5 91 (2.56%) CISM
6 66 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.55%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
8 53 (1.49%) Azure Certification
9 51 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 46 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.82%) PhD
14 26 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.62%) ACCA
17 20 (0.56%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.52%) QA
2 106 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 82 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 64 (1.80%) NIST
6 60 (1.69%) GDPR
7 47 (1.32%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 22 (0.62%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) NCSC
12 15 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 170 (4.78%) Docker
2 136 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.90%) vSphere
6 30 (0.84%) Firmware
7 18 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.25%) vCloud
10 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.084%) iptables
13 2 (0.056%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
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 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 198 (5.57%) Terraform
3 100 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.96%) Ansible
5 27 (0.76%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.51%) Argo
8 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) SCCM
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 448 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 127 (3.57%) Oracle
3 107 (3.01%) Adobe
4 85 (2.39%) Google
5 71 (2.00%) Cisco
6 69 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 67 (1.88%) VMware
8 64 (1.80%) SAP
9 61 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 58 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 46 (1.29%) Databricks
13 38 (1.07%) Apple
14 35 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (0.79%) Dell
15 28 (0.79%) Pega
16 27 (0.76%) Tenable
17 24 (0.67%) Informatica
18 21 (0.59%) Meraki
18 21 (0.59%) Veeam