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 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,705 2,407 5,244
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.90% 18.67% 16.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.95% 19.86% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 1,751 4,290
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,626 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +5.53% -8.46%
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 15,956 12,118 30,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 94.00% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 8,991 24,574
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £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 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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.

1 567 (20.96%) Azure
2 544 (20.11%) Mentoring
3 535 (19.78%) Agile
4 467 (17.26%) AWS
5 404 (14.94%) Software Engineering
6 380 (14.05%) SQL
7 373 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 353 (13.05%) DevOps
9 344 (12.72%) Coaching
10 336 (12.42%) Microsoft
11 330 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
12 327 (12.09%) AI
13 310 (11.46%) Python
14 283 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 253 (9.35%) Degree
15 253 (9.35%) Security Cleared
16 241 (8.91%) Roadmaps
17 226 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
18 219 (8.10%) Analytics
19 217 (8.02%) Java
20 210 (7.76%) GCP
21 203 (7.50%) .NET
22 199 (7.36%) SaaS
23 192 (7.10%) Kubernetes
24 190 (7.02%) SC Cleared
25 187 (6.91%) Test Automation
26 179 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
27 173 (6.40%) Microservices
28 172 (6.36%) Docker
29 169 (6.25%) 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 69 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 21 (0.78%) Confluence
4 21 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (0.74%) CMS
6 12 (0.44%) Apache
7 11 (0.41%) JBoss
7 11 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.30%) WordPress
9 7 (0.26%) IIS
10 6 (0.22%) SAS
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.074%) nginx
13 2 (0.074%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.037%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.037%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 43 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.30%) InDesign
7 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.26%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
8 4 (0.15%) InVision
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Weka
10 2 (0.074%) Maya
10 2 (0.074%) MotionBuilder
10 2 (0.074%) Revit
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 28 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
2 23 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 21 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
3 21 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
5 14 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 13 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.41%) Visualfiles
8 10 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
8 10 (0.37%) Hyperion Planning
8 10 (0.37%) Shopify
9 6 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.22%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.18%) Magento
10 5 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.18%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 567 (20.96%) Azure
2 467 (17.26%) AWS
3 210 (7.76%) GCP
4 199 (7.36%) SaaS
5 113 (4.18%) Power Platform
6 109 (4.03%) GitHub
7 99 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 97 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
9 92 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (3.40%) Serverless
10 53 (1.96%) dbt
11 52 (1.92%) Snowflake
12 44 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (1.52%) PowerApps
14 40 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 36 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
17 33 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
18 32 (1.18%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (4.18%) Broadband
2 74 (2.74%) Firewall
3 53 (1.96%) VPN
4 47 (1.74%) WAN
5 46 (1.70%) DNS
6 40 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 39 (1.44%) DHCP
8 32 (1.18%) SD-WAN
9 29 (1.07%) LAN
10 27 (1.00%) Network Security
11 19 (0.70%) BGP
11 19 (0.70%) Ethernet
11 19 (0.70%) Wireless
12 17 (0.63%) HTTP
12 17 (0.63%) RS-232
12 17 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.48%) Unified Communications
14 10 (0.37%) OSPF
15 9 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
16 8 (0.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.14%) Power BI
3 68 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
4 64 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 43 (1.59%) Metadata
7 35 (1.29%) MongoDB
8 33 (1.22%) BigQuery
9 32 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 28 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (0.92%) Redis
12 25 (0.92%) Tableau
13 23 (0.85%) MySQL
13 23 (0.85%) OLTP
13 23 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.70%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.63%) Looker
15 17 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 77 (2.85%) Git
2 70 (2.59%) JIRA
3 57 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.40%) TeamCity
5 29 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
6 28 (1.04%) GitLab
7 21 (0.78%) Selenium
8 15 (0.55%) Claude Code
9 12 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.37%) 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 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 562 (20.78%) Finance
2 530 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 306 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 174 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 165 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (4.73%) Law
6 128 (4.73%) Marketing
7 114 (4.21%) Banking
8 111 (4.10%) Retail
9 88 (3.25%) Legal
10 83 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.74%) Games
12 72 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 43 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 27 (1.00%) Back Office
18 20 (0.74%) Publishing
19 18 (0.67%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (7.50%) .NET
2 136 (5.03%) React
3 117 (4.33%) REST
4 89 (3.29%) SOAP
5 82 (3.03%) HTML
6 76 (2.81%) RESTful
7 70 (2.59%) Node.js
8 66 (2.44%) GraphQL
9 62 (2.29%) OAuth
10 57 (2.11%) CSS
11 53 (1.96%) Spring
12 50 (1.85%) Kafka
13 44 (1.63%) OpenID
14 41 (1.52%) Spring Boot
15 37 (1.37%) SAML
16 36 (1.33%) .NET Core
17 32 (1.18%) Django
17 32 (1.18%) LDAP
18 30 (1.11%) XML
19 26 (0.96%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 90 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 75 (2.77%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.37%) Social Media
5 62 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 45 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 43 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.52%) Cyberattack
11 35 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
12 32 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
13 31 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
15 29 (1.07%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.04%) Data Structures
16 28 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 28 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 27 (1.00%) Management Information System
17 27 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.29%) Linux
2 102 (3.77%) Windows
3 70 (2.59%) Android
4 57 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 49 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.15%) Unix
7 23 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.37%) VMS
10 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.074%) CentOS
12 2 (0.074%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.037%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (20.11%) Mentoring
2 535 (19.78%) Agile
3 404 (14.94%) Software Engineering
4 373 (13.79%) CI/CD
5 353 (13.05%) DevOps
6 344 (12.72%) Coaching
7 330 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
8 327 (12.09%) AI
9 283 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 241 (8.91%) Roadmaps
11 226 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
12 219 (8.10%) Analytics
13 187 (6.91%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
15 173 (6.40%) Microservices
16 160 (5.91%) User Experience
17 151 (5.58%) Decision-Making
17 151 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
18 141 (5.21%) Infrastructure as Code
19 138 (5.10%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 380 (14.05%) SQL
2 310 (11.46%) Python
3 217 (8.02%) Java
4 161 (5.95%) C#
5 152 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 137 (5.06%) TypeScript
7 84 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.66%) Go
9 67 (2.48%) Bash
10 65 (2.40%) C++
11 53 (1.96%) PHP
12 47 (1.74%) Scala
13 46 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 37 (1.37%) T-SQL
15 36 (1.33%) Kotlin
16 32 (1.18%) C
17 22 (0.81%) VBA
18 21 (0.78%) Bicep
19 17 (0.63%) R
20 14 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 253 (9.35%) Degree
1 253 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 190 (7.02%) SC Cleared
3 81 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (1.74%) DV Cleared
5 40 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (1.40%) ACCA
7 33 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.18%) CISSP
9 25 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.85%) CIMA
12 18 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.67%) CISM
13 17 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.55%) PhD
15 14 (0.52%) CREST Certified
16 12 (0.44%) CIPFA
16 12 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.36%) QA
2 66 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 62 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 59 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (2.11%) NIST
6 45 (1.66%) GDPR
7 32 (1.18%) NCSC
8 19 (0.70%) GRC
9 17 (0.63%) IFRS
10 16 (0.59%) PMO
11 14 (0.52%) P3O
11 14 (0.52%) SLA
12 11 (0.41%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.41%) MISRA
12 11 (0.41%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 172 (6.36%) Docker
2 110 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.41%) Firmware
7 8 (0.30%) vSphere
8 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.15%) vCloud
11 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.037%) Ceph
12 1 (0.037%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.037%) Lustre
12 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 192 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 169 (6.25%) Terraform
3 53 (1.96%) Grafana
4 43 (1.59%) Ansible
5 39 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.48%) SCCM
8 11 (0.41%) Functional Safety
9 10 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.18%) Puppet
12 4 (0.15%) Argo
12 4 (0.15%) Istio
12 4 (0.15%) Plesk
13 3 (0.11%) cPanel
13 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 336 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 130 (4.81%) Oracle
3 75 (2.77%) Adobe
4 72 (2.66%) Databricks
5 67 (2.48%) Google
6 66 (2.44%) VMware
7 54 (2.00%) SAP
8 53 (1.96%) Cisco
9 43 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 24 (0.89%) Apple
12 23 (0.85%) Okta
12 23 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 16 (0.59%) Dell
14 13 (0.48%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.44%) Samsung
16 11 (0.41%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.41%) Instagram
16 11 (0.41%) Meraki
16 11 (0.41%) Wrike