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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,657 2,404 5,169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.92% 18.74% 16.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.98% 19.90% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,897 1,757 4,264
10th Percentile £47,000 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,750
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 15,645 12,083 29,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 94.18% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,170 8,922 24,460
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £44,447 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 March 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 March 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.

1 562 (21.15%) Azure
2 537 (20.21%) Agile
3 534 (20.10%) Mentoring
4 454 (17.09%) AWS
5 396 (14.90%) Software Engineering
6 377 (14.19%) SQL
7 368 (13.85%) CI/CD
8 346 (13.02%) Coaching
9 343 (12.91%) DevOps
10 330 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
11 328 (12.34%) Microsoft
12 314 (11.82%) AI
13 308 (11.59%) Python
14 287 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 255 (9.60%) Degree
16 242 (9.11%) Security Cleared
17 239 (9.00%) Roadmaps
18 223 (8.39%) Analytics
19 221 (8.32%) Java
20 209 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
21 205 (7.72%) .NET
22 203 (7.64%) GCP
23 202 (7.60%) SaaS
24 190 (7.15%) Test Automation
25 189 (7.11%) Kubernetes
26 181 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
27 177 (6.66%) SC Cleared
28 172 (6.47%) Docker
28 172 (6.47%) Microservices
29 168 (6.32%) Terraform

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 65 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.83%) WordPress
5 21 (0.79%) Confluence
5 21 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.72%) CMS
7 12 (0.45%) Apache
8 11 (0.41%) JBoss
8 11 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.23%) IIS
9 6 (0.23%) SAS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.075%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.075%) nginx
13 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.26%) Sketch
7 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.15%) InVision
7 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) Trello
8 3 (0.11%) Weka
9 2 (0.075%) Maya
9 2 (0.075%) MotionBuilder
9 2 (0.075%) Revit
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
2 25 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
3 23 (0.87%) Shopify
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
7 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.41%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
9 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
10 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.19%) Magento
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 562 (21.15%) Azure
2 454 (17.09%) AWS
3 203 (7.64%) GCP
4 202 (7.60%) SaaS
5 112 (4.22%) Power Platform
6 109 (4.10%) GitHub
7 103 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 98 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
9 95 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
10 83 (3.12%) Serverless
11 56 (2.11%) dbt
12 55 (2.07%) Snowflake
13 43 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.51%) PowerApps
15 39 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
16 35 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
18 32 (1.20%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (4.25%) Broadband
2 68 (2.56%) Firewall
3 48 (1.81%) VPN
4 45 (1.69%) WAN
5 43 (1.62%) DNS
6 39 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 37 (1.39%) DHCP
8 30 (1.13%) SD-WAN
9 26 (0.98%) LAN
9 26 (0.98%) Network Security
10 19 (0.72%) Ethernet
11 18 (0.68%) Wireless
12 17 (0.64%) RS-232
13 16 (0.60%) BGP
13 16 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (0.56%) HTTP
15 13 (0.49%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.34%) OSPF
17 7 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 84 (3.16%) Power BI
3 68 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (1.62%) Metadata
6 42 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.24%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 31 (1.17%) BigQuery
10 27 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (0.98%) Redis
12 25 (0.94%) Tableau
13 24 (0.90%) MySQL
14 23 (0.87%) OLTP
15 22 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (0.64%) DynamoDB
16 17 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 76 (2.86%) Git
2 72 (2.71%) JIRA
3 60 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.43%) TeamCity
5 31 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.02%) GitLab
7 21 (0.79%) Selenium
8 15 (0.56%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.30%) JUnit
11 8 (0.30%) Postman
11 8 (0.30%) Subversion
11 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.30%) webpack
12 7 (0.26%) JMeter
12 7 (0.26%) XCUITest
13 6 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 563 (21.19%) Finance
2 531 (19.98%) Social Skills
3 292 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 169 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 165 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (4.89%) Marketing
7 126 (4.74%) Law
8 113 (4.25%) Banking
8 113 (4.25%) Retail
9 88 (3.31%) Legal
10 83 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.79%) Games
11 74 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 42 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 40 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 35 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 26 (0.98%) Back Office
17 20 (0.75%) Publishing
18 18 (0.68%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (7.72%) .NET
2 131 (4.93%) React
3 117 (4.40%) REST
4 94 (3.54%) SOAP
5 83 (3.12%) HTML
6 76 (2.86%) RESTful
7 67 (2.52%) Node.js
8 66 (2.48%) GraphQL
9 62 (2.33%) OAuth
10 58 (2.18%) CSS
11 53 (1.99%) Spring
12 50 (1.88%) Kafka
13 43 (1.62%) OpenID
14 41 (1.54%) Spring Boot
15 38 (1.43%) SAML
16 36 (1.35%) .NET Core
17 33 (1.24%) LDAP
18 31 (1.17%) Django
18 31 (1.17%) XML
19 27 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 93 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 80 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 65 (2.45%) Social Media
5 63 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 42 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.54%) Cyberattack
10 38 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
12 34 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
14 31 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 29 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.05%) Low-Code
16 28 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.02%) Data Structures
17 27 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
18 26 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.38%) Linux
2 97 (3.65%) Windows
3 70 (2.63%) Android
4 58 (2.18%) Apple iOS
5 46 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.17%) Unix
7 24 (0.90%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.41%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.075%) CentOS
12 2 (0.075%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (20.21%) Agile
2 534 (20.10%) Mentoring
3 396 (14.90%) Software Engineering
4 368 (13.85%) CI/CD
5 346 (13.02%) Coaching
6 343 (12.91%) DevOps
7 330 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
8 314 (11.82%) AI
9 287 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 239 (9.00%) Roadmaps
11 223 (8.39%) Analytics
12 209 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
13 190 (7.15%) Test Automation
14 181 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 172 (6.47%) Microservices
16 158 (5.95%) User Experience
17 148 (5.57%) Decision-Making
17 148 (5.57%) Full-Stack Development
18 138 (5.19%) Business Intelligence
19 137 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 377 (14.19%) SQL
2 308 (11.59%) Python
3 221 (8.32%) Java
4 162 (6.10%) C#
5 152 (5.72%) JavaScript
6 131 (4.93%) TypeScript
7 83 (3.12%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.67%) Go
9 67 (2.52%) Bash
10 66 (2.48%) C++
11 51 (1.92%) PHP
12 48 (1.81%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.77%) Scala
14 37 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 37 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 32 (1.20%) C
16 21 (0.79%) Bicep
16 21 (0.79%) VBA
17 14 (0.53%) R
17 14 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 255 (9.60%) Degree
2 242 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 177 (6.66%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.47%) ACCA
8 32 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.20%) CISSP
9 26 (0.98%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.83%) CIMA
12 18 (0.68%) CISM
13 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.56%) PhD
15 14 (0.53%) CREST Certified
16 13 (0.49%) AWS Certification
17 12 (0.45%) OSCP
18 11 (0.41%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.46%) QA
2 62 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 59 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (2.18%) NIST
5 46 (1.73%) GDPR
6 32 (1.20%) NCSC
7 19 (0.72%) IFRS
8 16 (0.60%) PMO
9 14 (0.53%) P3O
10 13 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.45%) GRC
12 11 (0.41%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.41%) MISRA
12 11 (0.41%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 172 (6.47%) Docker
2 112 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.49%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.38%) Firmware
7 8 (0.30%) vSphere
8 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.15%) vCloud
9 4 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.038%) Ceph
12 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.038%) Lustre
12 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 189 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 168 (6.32%) Terraform
3 52 (1.96%) Grafana
4 42 (1.58%) Ansible
5 41 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.49%) SCCM
9 11 (0.41%) Functional Safety
10 10 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.15%) Argo
13 4 (0.15%) Istio
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.11%) Plesk
15 2 (0.075%) Nagios
Vendors
1 328 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.89%) Oracle
3 74 (2.79%) Databricks
4 67 (2.52%) Adobe
5 66 (2.48%) Google
6 64 (2.41%) VMware
7 53 (1.99%) Cisco
7 53 (1.99%) SAP
8 46 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 24 (0.90%) Okta
10 23 (0.87%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.72%) Apple
12 17 (0.64%) Dell
12 17 (0.64%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
14 12 (0.45%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.45%) Meraki
14 12 (0.45%) Samsung
15 11 (0.41%) IBM
15 11 (0.41%) Talend