Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,552 2,834 4,448
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.52% 18.90% 16.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.57% 19.84% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,794 1,819 3,731
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,199
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 15,404 14,281 26,567
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 95.23% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,278 8,905 22,247
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,516
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £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 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,750 £95,000
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 27 February 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 27 February 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.

1 591 (23.16%) Azure
2 536 (21.00%) Mentoring
3 529 (20.73%) Agile
4 435 (17.05%) AWS
5 391 (15.32%) CI/CD
6 380 (14.89%) SQL
7 368 (14.42%) Coaching
8 362 (14.18%) DevOps
9 359 (14.07%) Software Engineering
10 319 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 319 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 307 (12.03%) Python
12 297 (11.64%) AI
13 289 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 259 (10.15%) Degree
15 237 (9.29%) Security Cleared
16 215 (8.42%) Roadmaps
17 212 (8.31%) Analytics
17 212 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
18 211 (8.27%) Java
19 203 (7.95%) .NET
19 203 (7.95%) SaaS
20 191 (7.48%) Kubernetes
21 187 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
22 186 (7.29%) GCP
23 183 (7.17%) Test Automation
24 179 (7.01%) Terraform
25 172 (6.74%) SC Cleared
26 171 (6.70%) Docker
27 169 (6.62%) Microservices

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 63 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.90%) WordPress
5 22 (0.86%) Confluence
6 14 (0.55%) Apache
7 12 (0.47%) CMS
8 11 (0.43%) JBoss
8 11 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.20%) SAS
10 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.12%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
10 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.078%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.039%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.039%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 46 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.39%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.24%) Sketch
8 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.16%) Maya
9 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.12%) InVision
10 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.12%) Trello
10 3 (0.12%) Weka
11 2 (0.078%) Revit
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.039%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 26 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
3 25 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
3 25 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
3 25 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 24 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
5 21 (0.82%) Shopify
6 16 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.47%) Hyperion Planning
7 12 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.35%) Visualfiles
9 7 (0.27%) NEC Housing
9 7 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.20%) Magento
11 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.20%) SAP PP
12 4 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 591 (23.16%) Azure
2 435 (17.05%) AWS
3 203 (7.95%) SaaS
4 186 (7.29%) GCP
5 131 (5.13%) GitHub
6 121 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (4.70%) Entra ID
8 111 (4.35%) Power Platform
9 97 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
10 80 (3.13%) Serverless
11 64 (2.51%) dbt
12 61 (2.39%) Snowflake
13 47 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (1.65%) PowerApps
15 40 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
16 37 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
17 34 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
18 33 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
18 33 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
19 32 (1.25%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.76%) Broadband
2 61 (2.39%) Firewall
3 45 (1.76%) VPN
4 41 (1.61%) WAN
5 40 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.45%) DNS
7 32 (1.25%) DHCP
8 27 (1.06%) SD-WAN
9 26 (1.02%) Network Security
10 25 (0.98%) LAN
11 17 (0.67%) Ethernet
12 16 (0.63%) BGP
12 16 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.55%) Wireless
14 12 (0.47%) RS-232
15 11 (0.43%) HTTP
16 10 (0.39%) Unified Communications
17 8 (0.31%) OSPF
18 7 (0.27%) MPLS
18 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 88 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (3.06%) Power BI
4 64 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (1.76%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 39 (1.53%) Metadata
8 31 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.18%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (1.06%) MySQL
12 26 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (0.94%) Redis
13 24 (0.94%) Tableau
14 19 (0.74%) OLTP
15 17 (0.67%) Relational Database
16 16 (0.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.63%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 81 (3.17%) JIRA
2 70 (2.74%) Git
3 61 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.68%) Oracle Forms
5 33 (1.29%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.86%) GitLab
6 22 (0.86%) Selenium
7 11 (0.43%) Postman
8 10 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.35%) MLflow
10 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.31%) Subversion
10 8 (0.31%) webpack
11 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.27%) git-flow
11 7 (0.27%) JUnit
11 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 7 (0.27%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.24%) Babel
General
1 573 (22.45%) Finance
2 533 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 263 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 177 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (4.90%) Retail
7 119 (4.66%) Law
8 112 (4.39%) Marketing
9 96 (3.76%) Banking
10 82 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 79 (3.10%) Legal
12 78 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
13 67 (2.63%) Games
14 51 (2.00%) Financial Institution
15 43 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.49%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
18 22 (0.86%) Back Office
19 21 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
20 17 (0.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (7.95%) .NET
2 132 (5.17%) React
3 125 (4.90%) REST
4 113 (4.43%) SOAP
5 85 (3.33%) RESTful
6 83 (3.25%) HTML
7 71 (2.78%) GraphQL
8 67 (2.63%) OAuth
9 64 (2.51%) Node.js
10 58 (2.27%) CSS
11 53 (2.08%) Spring
12 49 (1.92%) Kafka
13 45 (1.76%) OpenID
13 45 (1.76%) SAML
14 41 (1.61%) Spring Boot
15 39 (1.53%) XML
16 36 (1.41%) LDAP
17 35 (1.37%) .NET Core
18 29 (1.14%) JSON
19 28 (1.10%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 99 (3.88%) Onboarding
3 90 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 60 (2.35%) Social Media
5 58 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 40 (1.57%) Cyberattack
9 37 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
9 37 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 37 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 31 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 27 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
13 25 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 23 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (0.86%) Management Information System
16 20 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
17 19 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 133 (5.21%) Linux
2 84 (3.29%) Windows
3 63 (2.47%) Android
4 52 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 38 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 33 (1.29%) Unix
7 24 (0.94%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.51%) VMS
9 10 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.078%) CentOS
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (21.00%) Mentoring
2 529 (20.73%) Agile
3 391 (15.32%) CI/CD
4 368 (14.42%) Coaching
5 362 (14.18%) DevOps
6 359 (14.07%) Software Engineering
7 319 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 297 (11.64%) AI
9 289 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 215 (8.42%) Roadmaps
11 212 (8.31%) Analytics
11 212 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
12 187 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 183 (7.17%) Test Automation
14 169 (6.62%) Microservices
15 149 (5.84%) User Experience
16 142 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
17 136 (5.33%) Decision-Making
18 135 (5.29%) Full-Stack Development
19 134 (5.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 380 (14.89%) SQL
2 307 (12.03%) Python
3 211 (8.27%) Java
4 165 (6.47%) C#
5 148 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 129 (5.05%) TypeScript
7 89 (3.49%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.94%) Bash
9 62 (2.43%) Go
10 61 (2.39%) C++
11 51 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 49 (1.92%) PHP
13 44 (1.72%) Scala
14 39 (1.53%) T-SQL
15 34 (1.33%) Kotlin
16 31 (1.21%) C
17 23 (0.90%) Bicep
18 20 (0.78%) VBA
19 19 (0.74%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (10.15%) Degree
2 237 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 172 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 84 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 41 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (1.49%) ACCA
8 35 (1.37%) CISSP
9 33 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.02%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.74%) CIMA
14 17 (0.67%) CISM
15 16 (0.63%) CCNP
16 15 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (0.55%) CREST Certified
18 12 (0.47%) DBS Check
18 12 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.64%) QA
2 57 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 57 (2.23%) NIST
3 56 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (2.16%) GDPR
5 54 (2.12%) Data Quality
6 35 (1.37%) NCSC
7 21 (0.82%) IFRS
8 15 (0.59%) PMO
9 14 (0.55%) GRC
9 14 (0.55%) P3O
10 11 (0.43%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.43%) MISRA
10 11 (0.43%) MISRA C
11 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.31%) GAAP
12 8 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 171 (6.70%) Docker
2 118 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.27%) Firmware
8 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.20%) vSphere
9 2 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.078%) vCloud
9 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.039%) Ceph
10 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.039%) Lustre
10 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 191 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 179 (7.01%) Terraform
3 58 (2.27%) Grafana
4 48 (1.88%) Ansible
5 46 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.47%) SCCM
9 11 (0.43%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.20%) Argo
11 5 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.20%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.20%) Puppet
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) cPanel
12 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
12 3 (0.12%) Plesk
13 2 (0.078%) Nagios
13 2 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 319 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 138 (5.41%) Oracle
3 79 (3.10%) Databricks
4 57 (2.23%) Google
5 51 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 50 (1.96%) VMware
7 49 (1.92%) Adobe
8 48 (1.88%) Cisco
9 47 (1.84%) SAP
10 30 (1.18%) Okta
11 29 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 20 (0.78%) Workday
13 19 (0.74%) Apple
14 14 (0.55%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.55%) Screaming Frog
15 12 (0.47%) Hyperion
15 12 (0.47%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.47%) Samsung
15 12 (0.47%) Talend
16 11 (0.43%) IBM