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 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,593 2,240 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.46% 13.54% 18.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.43% 14.63% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,371 1,501 3,093
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,250 £62,879
% change year-on-year +4.09% +6.95% -8.00%

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 21,863 15,308 23,912
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.50% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,593 9,345 16,881
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 August 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 August 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.

1 739 (20.57%) Agile
2 684 (19.04%) Mentoring
3 677 (18.84%) Azure
4 626 (17.42%) AWS
5 619 (17.23%) Software Engineering
6 592 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 567 (15.78%) AI
8 555 (15.45%) CI/CD
9 503 (14.00%) Python
10 482 (13.41%) DevOps
11 448 (12.47%) Microsoft
12 441 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
13 390 (10.85%) SQL
14 357 (9.94%) Degree
15 356 (9.91%) Project Delivery
16 353 (9.82%) Coaching
17 336 (9.35%) Decision-Making
18 332 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
19 311 (8.66%) Analytics
20 304 (8.46%) Security Cleared
21 298 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 278 (7.74%) C#
23 255 (7.10%) SC Cleared
24 254 (7.07%) Roadmaps
25 250 (6.96%) Test Automation
26 243 (6.76%) JavaScript
27 233 (6.48%) GCP
28 232 (6.46%) QA
28 232 (6.46%) Stakeholder Management
29 223 (6.21%) 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
1 100 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (0.72%) CMS
4 22 (0.61%) Confluence
5 13 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.36%) WordPress
6 12 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.33%) IIS
7 11 (0.31%) SAS
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.22%) Apache
9 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.083%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.083%) Artix
10 3 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.083%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.083%) Moodle
11 2 (0.056%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 75 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
7 10 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.25%) InDesign
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.083%) Blender
11 3 (0.083%) Maya
11 3 (0.083%) Trello
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.67%) Cloudability
2 14 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 12 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.31%) Shopify
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) Primavera
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.083%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.083%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.056%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 677 (18.84%) Azure
2 626 (17.42%) AWS
3 233 (6.48%) GCP
4 220 (6.12%) SaaS
5 157 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 152 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 132 (3.67%) Entra ID
8 113 (3.15%) Serverless
9 105 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 102 (2.84%) GitHub
11 49 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (1.34%) PowerApps
13 45 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.14%) Azure AKS
16 41 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
17 40 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
18 38 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.40%) Firewall
2 89 (2.48%) Network Security
3 79 (2.20%) Broadband
4 77 (2.14%) DNS
5 74 (2.06%) VLAN
6 61 (1.70%) VPN
7 58 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 51 (1.42%) Wireless
9 50 (1.39%) WAN
10 48 (1.34%) TCP/IP
11 45 (1.25%) LAN
12 44 (1.22%) DHCP
13 28 (0.78%) BGP
14 20 (0.56%) OSPF
15 19 (0.53%) RS-232
16 18 (0.50%) SMS
17 17 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 16 (0.45%) HTTP
18 16 (0.45%) SD-WAN
19 15 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (3.31%) Power BI
3 101 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 66 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 60 (1.67%) Metadata
6 50 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.34%) MySQL
8 43 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (1.14%) NoSQL
10 40 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 38 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (0.75%) Tableau
13 22 (0.61%) OLTP
14 18 (0.50%) Data Lake
15 16 (0.45%) Big Data
16 15 (0.42%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.36%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
18 12 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 122 (3.40%) Git
2 60 (1.67%) JIRA
3 42 (1.17%) GitLab
4 34 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 19 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 16 (0.45%) Selenium
8 15 (0.42%) JUnit
9 11 (0.31%) LabVIEW
9 11 (0.31%) Postman
10 9 (0.25%) Maven
11 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.22%) Gatling
12 7 (0.19%) Mockito
13 4 (0.11%) Appium
13 4 (0.11%) JMeter
13 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 911 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 584 (16.25%) Finance
3 387 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 326 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 273 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
6 259 (7.21%) Legal
7 231 (6.43%) Law
8 130 (3.62%) Marketing
9 129 (3.59%) Banking
10 87 (2.42%) Retail
11 69 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 63 (1.75%) Manufacturing
14 59 (1.64%) Games
15 58 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 57 (1.59%) Telecoms
17 52 (1.45%) Electronics
18 50 (1.39%) Local Government
19 44 (1.22%) Legal Technology
20 35 (0.97%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (5.98%) .NET
2 203 (5.65%) Terraform
3 162 (4.51%) React
4 125 (3.48%) Node.js
5 97 (2.70%) HTML
6 90 (2.50%) REST
7 88 (2.45%) CSS
8 75 (2.09%) RESTful
9 60 (1.67%) Spring
10 40 (1.11%) Spring Boot
11 39 (1.09%) AngularJS
12 35 (0.97%) Vue
13 34 (0.95%) Laravel
14 33 (0.92%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.92%) Kafka
15 32 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
16 30 (0.83%) Next.js
16 30 (0.83%) PySpark
17 29 (0.81%) Playwright
18 28 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 209 (5.82%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 91 (2.53%) Driving Licence
5 66 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 60 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 54 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 50 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 42 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.06%) Blog
12 38 (1.06%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 36 (1.00%) Low-Code
15 35 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 31 (0.86%) Data Structures
17 30 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 165 (4.59%) Linux
2 141 (3.92%) Windows
3 60 (1.67%) Unix
3 60 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 31 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 28 (0.78%) Android
6 22 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.28%) VMS
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.083%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (20.57%) Agile
2 684 (19.04%) Mentoring
3 619 (17.23%) Software Engineering
4 592 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 567 (15.78%) AI
6 555 (15.45%) CI/CD
7 482 (13.41%) DevOps
8 441 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
9 356 (9.91%) Project Delivery
10 353 (9.82%) Coaching
11 336 (9.35%) Decision-Making
12 332 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
13 311 (8.66%) Analytics
14 298 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 254 (7.07%) Roadmaps
16 250 (6.96%) Test Automation
17 232 (6.46%) Stakeholder Management
18 223 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
19 190 (5.29%) Information Security
20 187 (5.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 503 (14.00%) Python
2 390 (10.85%) SQL
3 278 (7.74%) C#
4 243 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 211 (5.87%) TypeScript
6 196 (5.46%) Java
7 136 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 95 (2.64%) C++
9 57 (1.59%) Go
10 54 (1.50%) PHP
11 46 (1.28%) C
12 44 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 37 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 34 (0.95%) Bash
15 26 (0.72%) Bicep
16 24 (0.67%) Embedded C
17 21 (0.58%) Ruby
17 21 (0.58%) Swift
18 19 (0.53%) R
19 17 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 357 (9.94%) Degree
2 304 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 255 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.62%) CISSP
5 88 (2.45%) CISM
6 66 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.50%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
8 53 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 52 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 45 (1.25%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 34 (0.95%) HNC
15 27 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (0.75%) PhD
16 24 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.46%) QA
2 120 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 87 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (1.67%) GDPR
6 59 (1.64%) NIST
7 47 (1.31%) GRC
8 29 (0.81%) PMO
9 24 (0.67%) SLA
9 24 (0.67%) WCAG
10 17 (0.47%) NCSC
11 12 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.28%) COBIT
12 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.19%) GxP
16 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 166 (4.62%) Docker
2 138 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.95%) vSphere
6 27 (0.75%) Firmware
7 20 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.083%) iptables
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 195 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 97 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (0.92%) Ansible
4 24 (0.67%) Grafana
5 20 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.47%) Argo
7 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.19%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.11%) SCCM
11 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 448 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 111 (3.09%) Oracle
3 99 (2.76%) Adobe
4 79 (2.20%) Google
5 69 (1.92%) VMware
6 68 (1.89%) Cisco
7 66 (1.84%) Palo Alto
8 59 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.61%) SAP
10 57 (1.59%) ServiceNow
11 54 (1.50%) CyberArk
12 46 (1.28%) Databricks
13 35 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
14 29 (0.81%) Apple
14 29 (0.81%) Informatica
15 28 (0.78%) Tenable
16 27 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 27 (0.75%) Pega
17 25 (0.70%) Dell
18 21 (0.58%) Veeam