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 5 July 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,351 2,324 5,911
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.01% 14.34% 17.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.04% 15.54% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,357 1,481 4,397
10th Percentile £48,476 £48,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £79,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £97,500
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 19,664 14,953 31,767
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 92.29% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14,365 9,311 24,685
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 5 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 5 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.

1 669 (19.96%) Agile
2 641 (19.13%) Mentoring
3 607 (18.11%) Azure
4 583 (17.40%) AWS
5 528 (15.76%) Software Engineering
6 478 (14.26%) AI
7 441 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 417 (12.44%) Python
9 414 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
10 397 (11.85%) Microsoft
11 393 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 391 (11.67%) DevOps
13 385 (11.49%) Coaching
14 363 (10.83%) SQL
15 322 (9.61%) Degree
16 311 (9.28%) Analytics
17 298 (8.89%) Security Cleared
18 297 (8.86%) Roadmaps
19 260 (7.76%) Decision-Making
20 254 (7.58%) Project Delivery
21 253 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
22 231 (6.89%) SC Cleared
23 229 (6.83%) Java
24 226 (6.74%) Test Automation
25 216 (6.45%) GCP
26 204 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
27 198 (5.91%) Kubernetes
28 194 (5.79%) JavaScript
29 189 (5.64%) C#
30 188 (5.61%) 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 95 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.66%) CMS
5 16 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.45%) Confluence
7 14 (0.42%) SAS
8 11 (0.33%) IIS
9 9 (0.27%) WordPress
10 8 (0.24%) Apache
10 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.090%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.090%) Artix
12 3 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.090%) JBoss
12 3 (0.090%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.060%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.060%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.030%) Appian
Applications
1 85 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) Civil 3D
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.090%) Blender
11 3 (0.090%) Maya
12 2 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.060%) InVision
12 2 (0.060%) SPSS
12 2 (0.060%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.72%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.27%) Visualfiles
8 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 4 (0.12%) Shopify
12 3 (0.090%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
12 3 (0.090%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.090%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.090%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 607 (18.11%) Azure
2 583 (17.40%) AWS
3 216 (6.45%) GCP
4 187 (5.58%) SaaS
5 151 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 141 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
7 130 (3.88%) Serverless
8 107 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 86 (2.57%) GitHub
10 85 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (1.67%) PowerApps
12 51 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 42 (1.25%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.22%) Amazon S3
16 37 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
18 34 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
18 34 (1.01%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 130 (3.88%) Broadband
2 117 (3.49%) Firewall
3 71 (2.12%) DNS
4 67 (2.00%) VPN
5 47 (1.40%) WAN
6 46 (1.37%) DHCP
7 43 (1.28%) Network Security
8 41 (1.22%) Wireless
9 38 (1.13%) LAN
10 37 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (1.01%) TCP/IP
12 29 (0.87%) VLAN
13 27 (0.81%) BGP
14 25 (0.75%) SD-WAN
15 24 (0.72%) RS-232
16 19 (0.57%) OSPF
17 16 (0.48%) Ethernet
18 15 (0.45%) Bluetooth
19 14 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
19 14 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (3.16%) Power BI
2 93 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 66 (1.97%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.58%) Metadata
6 34 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 32 (0.95%) MySQL
8 30 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 30 (0.90%) OLTP
9 29 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 28 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.84%) Tableau
11 27 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (0.51%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 16 (0.48%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 93 (2.78%) Git
2 54 (1.61%) JIRA
3 43 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.16%) GitLab
5 31 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.75%) Snyk
7 24 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.48%) Selenium
9 11 (0.33%) Postman
10 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
11 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.21%) JMeter
11 7 (0.21%) JUnit
11 7 (0.21%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.18%) MLflow
12 6 (0.18%) NUnit
13 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 722 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 546 (16.29%) Finance
3 430 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 248 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 221 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 179 (5.34%) Law
7 136 (4.06%) Legal
8 128 (3.82%) Banking
9 114 (3.40%) Marketing
10 84 (2.51%) Retail
11 79 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.18%) Games
13 61 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 53 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 51 (1.52%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.04%) Local Government
17 33 (0.98%) Electronics
18 27 (0.81%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 23 (0.69%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (5.52%) .NET
2 145 (4.33%) React
3 104 (3.10%) Node.js
4 86 (2.57%) REST
5 78 (2.33%) HTML
6 71 (2.12%) RESTful
7 60 (1.79%) CSS
8 50 (1.49%) Spring
9 48 (1.43%) SOAP
10 38 (1.13%) Vue
11 35 (1.04%) Spring Boot
12 34 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
13 30 (0.90%) GraphQL
13 30 (0.90%) OAuth
14 29 (0.87%) Kafka
15 28 (0.84%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.81%) Laravel
16 27 (0.81%) OpenID
17 26 (0.78%) JSON
18 25 (0.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.22%) Product Ownership
3 74 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (2.12%) Data Centre
5 59 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 58 (1.73%) Social Media
7 56 (1.67%) Driving Licence
8 46 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 44 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 43 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.22%) Cyberattack
12 41 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 39 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 39 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.16%) Security Posture
14 37 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
16 34 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 169 (5.04%) Linux
2 130 (3.88%) Windows
3 51 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.34%) Android
6 44 (1.31%) Unix
7 24 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
8 13 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.30%) VMS
10 9 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.090%) Debian
12 3 (0.090%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.030%) AIX
13 1 (0.030%) CentOS
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (19.96%) Agile
2 641 (19.13%) Mentoring
3 528 (15.76%) Software Engineering
4 478 (14.26%) AI
5 441 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 414 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
7 393 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 391 (11.67%) DevOps
9 385 (11.49%) Coaching
10 311 (9.28%) Analytics
11 297 (8.86%) Roadmaps
12 260 (7.76%) Decision-Making
13 254 (7.58%) Project Delivery
14 253 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
15 226 (6.74%) Test Automation
16 204 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
17 188 (5.61%) Infrastructure as Code
18 183 (5.46%) Project Management
18 183 (5.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 172 (5.13%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 417 (12.44%) Python
2 363 (10.83%) SQL
3 229 (6.83%) Java
4 194 (5.79%) JavaScript
5 189 (5.64%) C#
6 160 (4.77%) TypeScript
7 105 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 88 (2.63%) C++
9 67 (2.00%) Go
10 61 (1.82%) Bash
11 57 (1.70%) PHP
12 51 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 45 (1.34%) C
14 34 (1.01%) Scala
15 28 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.78%) VBA
17 25 (0.75%) Bicep
18 24 (0.72%) Rust
19 23 (0.69%) Kotlin
20 21 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 322 (9.61%) Degree
2 298 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 231 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 66 (1.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 57 (1.70%) CISSP
6 54 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 48 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 45 (1.34%) CISM
10 44 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 37 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 36 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 29 (0.87%) PhD
15 28 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 26 (0.78%) ACCA
17 24 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 22 (0.66%) PMI Certification
19 21 (0.63%) CIMA
20 20 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (4.21%) QA
2 86 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 69 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 67 (2.00%) NIST
6 51 (1.52%) GDPR
7 45 (1.34%) GRC
8 30 (0.90%) PMO
9 23 (0.69%) NCSC
10 19 (0.57%) SLA
11 13 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.36%) P3O
13 10 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.21%) WCAG
15 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.15%) GAAP
16 4 (0.12%) COBIT
System Software
1 148 (4.42%) Docker
2 116 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.95%) vSphere
6 20 (0.60%) Firmware
7 18 (0.54%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.27%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.090%) iptables
13 2 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.030%) GPFS
14 1 (0.030%) Lustre
14 1 (0.030%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 198 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 171 (5.10%) Terraform
3 56 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.10%) Ansible
5 33 (0.98%) Grafana
6 21 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.57%) Argo
8 15 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.42%) SCCM
10 7 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.21%) Puppet
10 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.18%) Avamar
11 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.18%) VxRail
12 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 397 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 135 (4.03%) Oracle
3 112 (3.34%) Adobe
4 71 (2.12%) VMware
5 66 (1.97%) Google
5 66 (1.97%) Palo Alto
6 65 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 64 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 61 (1.82%) SAP
9 56 (1.67%) Cisco
10 51 (1.52%) Databricks
11 41 (1.22%) Apple
12 32 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.84%) Dell
13 28 (0.84%) Pega
14 27 (0.81%) Tenable
15 20 (0.60%) Computacenter
16 18 (0.54%) OpenAI
17 17 (0.51%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.51%) Meraki