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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,486 2,312 4,933
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.74% 14.03% 18.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.73% 15.23% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,341 1,518 3,515
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £100,000
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 20,839 15,176 25,594
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.08% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 15,081 9,415 19,140
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 31 July 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 31 July 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.

1 706 (20.25%) Agile
2 681 (19.54%) Mentoring
3 655 (18.79%) Azure
4 617 (17.70%) AWS
5 594 (17.04%) Software Engineering
6 544 (15.61%) AI
7 534 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 517 (14.83%) CI/CD
9 497 (14.26%) Python
10 460 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
11 456 (13.08%) DevOps
12 438 (12.56%) Microsoft
13 367 (10.53%) SQL
14 353 (10.13%) Coaching
15 329 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
16 327 (9.38%) Degree
17 313 (8.98%) Analytics
18 311 (8.92%) Project Delivery
19 305 (8.75%) Security Cleared
20 290 (8.32%) Decision-Making
21 280 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 268 (7.69%) C#
23 267 (7.66%) Roadmaps
24 260 (7.46%) Test Automation
25 251 (7.20%) SC Cleared
26 244 (7.00%) JavaScript
27 225 (6.45%) GCP
27 225 (6.45%) QA
28 219 (6.28%) .NET
28 219 (6.28%) SaaS

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 95 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (0.63%) CMS
4 20 (0.57%) Confluence
5 19 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.43%) SAS
7 13 (0.37%) WordPress
8 12 (0.34%) IIS
9 9 (0.26%) Apache
10 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.086%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.086%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.086%) Artix
12 3 (0.086%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.086%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.057%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.029%) Appian
Applications
1 82 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Civil 3D
6 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.17%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.11%) Trello
11 3 (0.086%) Blender
11 3 (0.086%) Maya
12 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.057%) SPSS
13 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.029%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.69%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.20%) Visualfiles
7 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.14%) Shopify
8 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.086%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.086%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.086%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 655 (18.79%) Azure
2 617 (17.70%) AWS
3 225 (6.45%) GCP
4 219 (6.28%) SaaS
5 150 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 144 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 136 (3.90%) Entra ID
8 121 (3.47%) Serverless
9 91 (2.61%) GitHub
10 90 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (1.32%) PowerApps
13 44 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 44 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 38 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 38 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (0.98%) Azure AKS
16 34 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 141 (4.04%) Firewall
2 104 (2.98%) Broadband
3 75 (2.15%) Network Security
4 70 (2.01%) DNS
5 59 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
6 58 (1.66%) VLAN
7 57 (1.64%) VPN
8 49 (1.41%) WAN
8 49 (1.41%) Wireless
9 45 (1.29%) LAN
10 43 (1.23%) TCP/IP
11 42 (1.20%) DHCP
12 26 (0.75%) BGP
13 22 (0.63%) RS-232
14 19 (0.55%) OSPF
15 18 (0.52%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.46%) WLAN
18 15 (0.43%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (3.21%) Power BI
3 87 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 49 (1.41%) Metadata
6 41 (1.18%) MySQL
7 40 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 34 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 29 (0.83%) Tableau
12 28 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 27 (0.77%) OLTP
14 24 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 24 (0.69%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.52%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (0.43%) Big Data
17 15 (0.43%) Redis
17 15 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 108 (3.10%) Git
2 58 (1.66%) JIRA
3 42 (1.20%) GitLab
4 34 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.72%) Snyk
6 21 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.43%) Selenium
9 13 (0.37%) JUnit
10 11 (0.32%) Postman
11 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
12 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.14%) Maven
15 5 (0.14%) Mockito
15 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.11%) NUnit
General
1 839 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 575 (16.49%) Finance
3 367 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 283 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 267 (7.66%) Legal
6 238 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
7 221 (6.34%) Law
8 126 (3.61%) Marketing
9 122 (3.50%) Banking
10 82 (2.35%) Retail
11 75 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 66 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 63 (1.81%) Games
14 55 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 54 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
16 45 (1.29%) Local Government
17 44 (1.26%) Electronics
18 43 (1.23%) Legal Technology
19 35 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
20 25 (0.72%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (6.28%) .NET
2 157 (4.50%) React
3 113 (3.24%) Node.js
4 86 (2.47%) HTML
5 82 (2.35%) REST
6 74 (2.12%) RESTful
7 72 (2.07%) CSS
8 49 (1.41%) Spring
9 37 (1.06%) Vue
10 35 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 34 (0.98%) Kafka
11 34 (0.98%) Spring Boot
12 32 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 31 (0.89%) Laravel
14 28 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
15 27 (0.77%) SOAP
15 27 (0.77%) SPFx
16 26 (0.75%) PySpark
17 25 (0.72%) JSON
17 25 (0.72%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 97 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 93 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (2.01%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.86%) Virtual Team
6 62 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 51 (1.46%) Social Media
8 49 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 49 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 44 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 39 (1.12%) Management Information System
12 38 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 37 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 33 (0.95%) Low-Code
14 33 (0.95%) Onboarding
15 32 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 173 (4.96%) Linux
2 127 (3.64%) Windows
3 53 (1.52%) Unix
4 50 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 43 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 42 (1.20%) Android
7 27 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.086%) Debian
12 3 (0.086%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) CentOS
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (20.25%) Agile
2 681 (19.54%) Mentoring
3 594 (17.04%) Software Engineering
4 544 (15.61%) AI
5 534 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 517 (14.83%) CI/CD
7 460 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
8 456 (13.08%) DevOps
9 353 (10.13%) Coaching
10 329 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
11 313 (8.98%) Analytics
12 311 (8.92%) Project Delivery
13 290 (8.32%) Decision-Making
14 280 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 267 (7.66%) Roadmaps
16 260 (7.46%) Test Automation
17 211 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 208 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
19 186 (5.34%) Microservices
20 184 (5.28%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 497 (14.26%) Python
2 367 (10.53%) SQL
3 268 (7.69%) C#
4 244 (7.00%) JavaScript
5 209 (6.00%) Java
6 204 (5.85%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.84%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.78%) C++
9 63 (1.81%) PHP
10 60 (1.72%) Go
11 49 (1.41%) C
12 48 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 44 (1.26%) Bash
14 26 (0.75%) Embedded C
15 25 (0.72%) Bicep
16 23 (0.66%) R
17 22 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.57%) Rust
18 20 (0.57%) Scala
19 19 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 327 (9.38%) Degree
2 305 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 251 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.87%) CISSP
5 91 (2.61%) CISM
6 66 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.58%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
8 53 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.80%) PhD
15 26 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.66%) ACCA
18 20 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (6.45%) QA
2 94 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 81 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 73 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 67 (1.92%) NIST
6 59 (1.69%) GDPR
7 48 (1.38%) GRC
8 29 (0.83%) PMO
9 21 (0.60%) SLA
10 19 (0.55%) NCSC
11 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 15 (0.43%) WCAG
12 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.26%) COBIT
13 9 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.17%) GAAP
15 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 162 (4.65%) Docker
2 134 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.92%) vSphere
6 26 (0.75%) Firmware
7 15 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.26%) vCloud
10 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.086%) iptables
13 2 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 197 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 191 (5.48%) Terraform
3 95 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (1.00%) Ansible
5 27 (0.77%) Grafana
6 21 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.52%) Argo
8 9 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.20%) SCCM
11 6 (0.17%) Avamar
11 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.17%) Puppet
11 6 (0.17%) VxRail
12 5 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 438 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 130 (3.73%) Oracle
3 103 (2.95%) Adobe
4 75 (2.15%) Google
5 69 (1.98%) Palo Alto
6 68 (1.95%) Cisco
7 65 (1.86%) SAP
8 63 (1.81%) VMware
9 61 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 60 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.55%) CyberArk
12 50 (1.43%) Databricks
13 39 (1.12%) Apple
14 33 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (0.80%) Dell
15 28 (0.80%) Pega
16 27 (0.77%) Tenable
17 22 (0.63%) Informatica
18 20 (0.57%) Aruba
19 19 (0.55%) Veeam