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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,434 2,324 5,120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.79% 14.13% 18.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.79% 15.33% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,313 1,520 3,682
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £56,250 £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 20,451 15,158 26,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.16% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,782 9,415 20,081
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,872 £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 £75,000
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 25 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 25 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.

1 701 (20.41%) Agile
2 678 (19.74%) Mentoring
3 645 (18.78%) Azure
4 608 (17.71%) AWS
5 586 (17.06%) Software Engineering
6 539 (15.70%) AI
7 524 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 503 (14.65%) CI/CD
9 486 (14.15%) Python
10 466 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
11 438 (12.75%) DevOps
12 428 (12.46%) Microsoft
13 361 (10.51%) SQL
14 345 (10.05%) Coaching
15 323 (9.41%) Degree
16 318 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
17 309 (9.00%) Analytics
18 307 (8.94%) Security Cleared
19 302 (8.79%) Project Delivery
20 277 (8.07%) Decision-Making
21 272 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 271 (7.89%) Roadmaps
23 268 (7.80%) C#
24 261 (7.60%) Test Automation
25 248 (7.22%) SC Cleared
26 245 (7.13%) JavaScript
27 222 (6.46%) QA
28 221 (6.44%) .NET
28 221 (6.44%) GCP
29 217 (6.32%) 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 91 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (0.67%) CMS
5 19 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.50%) Confluence
7 15 (0.44%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) IIS
8 12 (0.35%) WordPress
9 8 (0.23%) Apache
9 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.087%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.087%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.087%) Artix
11 3 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.087%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.058%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.029%) Appian
13 1 (0.029%) Moodle
Applications
1 81 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.38%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.20%) Civil 3D
7 7 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.17%) InDesign
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.087%) Blender
11 3 (0.087%) Maya
12 2 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.058%) InVision
12 2 (0.058%) Sketch
12 2 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.70%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.20%) Visualfiles
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.087%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.087%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.087%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 645 (18.78%) Azure
2 608 (17.71%) AWS
3 221 (6.44%) GCP
4 217 (6.32%) SaaS
5 145 (4.22%) Power Platform
6 141 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
7 135 (3.93%) Entra ID
8 124 (3.61%) Serverless
9 90 (2.62%) GitHub
10 89 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 52 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (1.31%) Power Automate
12 45 (1.31%) PowerApps
13 43 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 39 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 37 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
16 34 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
16 34 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
17 33 (0.96%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.81%) Firewall
2 109 (3.17%) Broadband
3 69 (2.01%) DNS
4 64 (1.86%) Network Security
5 58 (1.69%) VPN
6 57 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
7 51 (1.49%) VLAN
8 50 (1.46%) WAN
9 48 (1.40%) Wireless
10 44 (1.28%) LAN
11 43 (1.25%) DHCP
12 38 (1.11%) TCP/IP
13 26 (0.76%) BGP
14 23 (0.67%) RS-232
15 20 (0.58%) SD-WAN
16 19 (0.55%) OSPF
17 17 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
18 16 (0.47%) WLAN
19 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
19 15 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (3.20%) Power BI
2 109 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.86%) MongoDB
5 47 (1.37%) Metadata
6 40 (1.16%) MySQL
6 40 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 33 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 30 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (0.87%) Tableau
10 28 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.79%) OLTP
12 26 (0.76%) NoSQL
13 25 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 18 (0.52%) Data Lake
15 17 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (0.44%) Big Data
16 15 (0.44%) Redis
16 15 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 106 (3.09%) Git
2 53 (1.54%) JIRA
3 40 (1.16%) GitLab
4 33 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.73%) Snyk
6 22 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 21 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.41%) Selenium
9 12 (0.35%) JUnit
10 10 (0.29%) Postman
11 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.20%) Gatling
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.15%) MLflow
15 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.12%) Maven
16 4 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 817 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 558 (16.25%) Finance
3 367 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 277 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (7.66%) Legal
6 231 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
7 221 (6.44%) Law
8 122 (3.55%) Banking
9 121 (3.52%) Marketing
10 81 (2.36%) Retail
11 71 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 64 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 62 (1.81%) Games
14 57 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 55 (1.60%) Telecoms
16 42 (1.22%) Electronics
16 42 (1.22%) Legal Technology
17 41 (1.19%) Local Government
18 31 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (0.70%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (6.44%) .NET
2 155 (4.51%) React
3 113 (3.29%) Node.js
4 85 (2.48%) HTML
5 84 (2.45%) REST
6 76 (2.21%) RESTful
7 69 (2.01%) CSS
8 50 (1.46%) Spring
9 38 (1.11%) Vue
10 36 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 35 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
11 35 (1.02%) Kafka
12 32 (0.93%) AngularJS
13 30 (0.87%) SOAP
14 29 (0.84%) Laravel
15 28 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
16 27 (0.79%) SPFx
17 26 (0.76%) JSON
18 25 (0.73%) OAuth
18 25 (0.73%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.26%) Cloud Native
2 101 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 84 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 67 (1.95%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 63 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 54 (1.57%) Social Media
8 49 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 43 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 39 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 37 (1.08%) Security Posture
15 36 (1.05%) Management Information System
16 35 (1.02%) Algorithms
17 34 (0.99%) Onboarding
18 32 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
19 31 (0.90%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.86%) Linux
2 122 (3.55%) Windows
3 48 (1.40%) Unix
4 46 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 42 (1.22%) Android
7 27 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.087%) Debian
11 3 (0.087%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) CentOS
12 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (20.41%) Agile
2 678 (19.74%) Mentoring
3 586 (17.06%) Software Engineering
4 539 (15.70%) AI
5 524 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 503 (14.65%) CI/CD
7 466 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
8 438 (12.75%) DevOps
9 345 (10.05%) Coaching
10 318 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
11 309 (9.00%) Analytics
12 302 (8.79%) Project Delivery
13 277 (8.07%) Decision-Making
14 272 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 271 (7.89%) Roadmaps
16 261 (7.60%) Test Automation
17 204 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 196 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
19 187 (5.45%) Microservices
20 184 (5.36%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 486 (14.15%) Python
2 361 (10.51%) SQL
3 268 (7.80%) C#
4 245 (7.13%) JavaScript
5 212 (6.17%) Java
6 206 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 135 (3.93%) PowerShell
8 96 (2.80%) C++
9 60 (1.75%) Go
9 60 (1.75%) PHP
10 52 (1.51%) C
11 48 (1.40%) Bash
11 48 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.76%) Embedded C
13 25 (0.73%) Bicep
14 22 (0.64%) Scala
15 21 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.58%) R
17 19 (0.55%) Rust
17 19 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 323 (9.41%) Degree
2 307 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 248 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 98 (2.85%) CISSP
5 89 (2.59%) CISM
6 66 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.60%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
8 54 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.51%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 38 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 37 (1.08%) AWS Certification
13 37 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 26 (0.76%) PhD
15 25 (0.73%) ACCA
15 25 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (6.46%) QA
2 89 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 78 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 67 (1.95%) NIST
6 55 (1.60%) GDPR
7 48 (1.40%) GRC
8 31 (0.90%) PMO
9 21 (0.61%) SLA
10 20 (0.58%) NCSC
11 15 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.41%) WCAG
13 11 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.17%) COBIT
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 157 (4.57%) Docker
2 134 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.90%) vSphere
6 24 (0.70%) Firmware
7 14 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
7 14 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.26%) vCloud
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.087%) iptables
12 2 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.029%) GPFS
13 1 (0.029%) Lustre
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 194 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 179 (5.21%) Terraform
3 92 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.99%) Ansible
5 27 (0.79%) Grafana
6 21 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.52%) Argo
8 10 (0.29%) 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%) Puppet
11 6 (0.17%) VxRail
12 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.15%) Istio
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 428 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 132 (3.84%) Oracle
3 108 (3.15%) Adobe
4 69 (2.01%) Palo Alto
5 67 (1.95%) Google
6 65 (1.89%) Cisco
7 64 (1.86%) SAP
8 62 (1.81%) VMware
9 61 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 60 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 54 (1.57%) CyberArk
12 49 (1.43%) Databricks
13 39 (1.14%) Apple
14 31 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (0.82%) Dell
15 28 (0.82%) Pega
16 27 (0.79%) Tenable
17 21 (0.61%) Aruba
17 21 (0.61%) Informatica
18 20 (0.58%) Computacenter