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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,431 2,302 5,349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.88% 13.97% 18.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.88% 15.15% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,335 1,495 3,895
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £56,250 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84,750 £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 20,324 15,191 28,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 92.21% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,743 9,431 21,281
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £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 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 21 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 21 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.

1 686 (19.99%) Agile
1 686 (19.99%) Mentoring
2 644 (18.77%) Azure
3 607 (17.69%) AWS
4 574 (16.73%) Software Engineering
5 520 (15.16%) AI
6 509 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 489 (14.25%) CI/CD
8 471 (13.73%) Python
9 460 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
10 431 (12.56%) DevOps
10 431 (12.56%) Microsoft
11 364 (10.61%) Coaching
12 360 (10.49%) SQL
13 322 (9.39%) Degree
14 312 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
15 303 (8.83%) Analytics
16 302 (8.80%) Project Delivery
17 289 (8.42%) Security Cleared
18 286 (8.34%) Roadmaps
19 278 (8.10%) Decision-Making
20 259 (7.55%) C#
21 256 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 255 (7.43%) Test Automation
23 232 (6.76%) JavaScript
24 231 (6.73%) SC Cleared
25 221 (6.44%) GCP
26 220 (6.41%) Java
27 217 (6.32%) .NET
28 215 (6.27%) QA

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 89 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.64%) CMS
5 19 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.44%) Confluence
6 15 (0.44%) SAS
7 12 (0.35%) IIS
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 8 (0.23%) Apache
9 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.15%) 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%) OpenStack
Applications
1 83 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.17%) Civil 3D
8 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
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
2 16 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.23%) Visualfiles
6 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.15%) Shopify
8 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.087%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 3 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.087%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 644 (18.77%) Azure
2 607 (17.69%) AWS
3 221 (6.44%) GCP
4 213 (6.21%) SaaS
5 150 (4.37%) Power Platform
6 138 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
7 134 (3.91%) Entra ID
8 126 (3.67%) Serverless
9 87 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (2.54%) GitHub
10 51 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 45 (1.31%) Power Automate
12 43 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (1.22%) Amazon S3
13 42 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
14 38 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
16 33 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (0.96%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.85%) Firewall
2 111 (3.24%) Broadband
3 70 (2.04%) DNS
4 65 (1.89%) Network Security
5 61 (1.78%) VPN
6 57 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (1.52%) WAN
8 51 (1.49%) VLAN
9 49 (1.43%) Wireless
10 45 (1.31%) DHCP
10 45 (1.31%) LAN
11 36 (1.05%) TCP/IP
12 26 (0.76%) BGP
13 23 (0.67%) RS-232
14 22 (0.64%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.55%) OSPF
16 16 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.47%) WLAN
17 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
17 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.15%) Power BI
2 102 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 46 (1.34%) Metadata
6 40 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 38 (1.11%) MySQL
8 33 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (0.85%) Tableau
12 28 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 27 (0.79%) NoSQL
13 27 (0.79%) OLTP
14 25 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.47%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.44%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 98 (2.86%) Git
2 51 (1.49%) JIRA
3 39 (1.14%) GitLab
4 34 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.73%) Snyk
6 23 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.38%) Selenium
9 9 (0.26%) JUnit
9 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
10 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.23%) Postman
10 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
11 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.17%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.15%) Gatling
12 5 (0.15%) MLflow
12 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.12%) NUnit
General
1 810 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 557 (16.23%) Finance
3 388 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 264 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 247 (7.20%) Legal
6 221 (6.44%) Law
7 219 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 124 (3.61%) Banking
9 116 (3.38%) Marketing
10 82 (2.39%) Retail
11 72 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 65 (1.89%) Games
13 62 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
15 51 (1.49%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.17%) Electronics
16 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
17 39 (1.14%) Local Government
18 28 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
19 27 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (6.32%) .NET
2 147 (4.28%) React
3 111 (3.24%) Node.js
4 81 (2.36%) REST
5 79 (2.30%) HTML
6 76 (2.22%) RESTful
7 63 (1.84%) CSS
8 48 (1.40%) Spring
9 39 (1.14%) Vue
10 36 (1.05%) HTML5 Canvas
11 35 (1.02%) Kafka
12 34 (0.99%) Spring Boot
13 33 (0.96%) SOAP
14 30 (0.87%) Laravel
15 28 (0.82%) AngularJS
16 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
17 26 (0.76%) JSON
17 26 (0.76%) OAuth
17 26 (0.76%) SPFx
18 24 (0.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.97%) Product Ownership
3 82 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
4 66 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 62 (1.81%) Driving Licence
6 59 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 56 (1.63%) Social Media
8 51 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 49 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 47 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 43 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 42 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 40 (1.17%) Security Posture
13 40 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 36 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 36 (1.05%) Management Information System
15 35 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 34 (0.99%) Cyberattack
16 34 (0.99%) Mobile App
16 34 (0.99%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 171 (4.98%) Linux
2 125 (3.64%) Windows
3 46 (1.34%) Unix
3 46 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 45 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 40 (1.17%) Android
6 27 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.29%) VMS
8 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.087%) Debian
10 3 (0.087%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.029%) AIX
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (19.99%) Agile
1 686 (19.99%) Mentoring
2 574 (16.73%) Software Engineering
3 520 (15.16%) AI
4 509 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 489 (14.25%) CI/CD
6 460 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
7 431 (12.56%) DevOps
8 364 (10.61%) Coaching
9 312 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 303 (8.83%) Analytics
11 302 (8.80%) Project Delivery
12 286 (8.34%) Roadmaps
13 278 (8.10%) Decision-Making
14 256 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 255 (7.43%) Test Automation
16 206 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 193 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
18 186 (5.42%) Collaborative Working
19 184 (5.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 471 (13.73%) Python
2 360 (10.49%) SQL
3 259 (7.55%) C#
4 232 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 220 (6.41%) Java
6 200 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 134 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.74%) C++
9 63 (1.84%) Go
10 59 (1.72%) PHP
11 50 (1.46%) Bash
11 50 (1.46%) C
12 48 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.73%) Bicep
14 24 (0.70%) Embedded C
15 23 (0.67%) Scala
16 21 (0.61%) Rust
16 21 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 322 (9.39%) Degree
2 289 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 231 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.83%) CISSP
5 87 (2.54%) CISM
6 66 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 53 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
10 51 (1.49%) A+ Certification
11 40 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 37 (1.08%) AWS Certification
14 37 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 29 (0.85%) PhD
16 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (0.73%) ACCA
18 24 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 23 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (6.27%) QA
2 80 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 80 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 73 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 70 (2.04%) NIST
5 55 (1.60%) GDPR
6 48 (1.40%) GRC
7 31 (0.90%) PMO
8 21 (0.61%) SLA
9 19 (0.55%) NCSC
10 16 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.29%) P3O
12 10 (0.29%) WCAG
13 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.20%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.17%) COBIT
16 5 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 154 (4.49%) Docker
2 136 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.90%) vSphere
6 23 (0.67%) Firmware
7 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 14 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.26%) vCloud
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.087%) iptables
13 2 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 197 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 177 (5.16%) Terraform
3 88 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (1.08%) Ansible
5 30 (0.87%) Grafana
6 21 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.52%) Argo
8 12 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.26%) SCCM
10 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.20%) Puppet
12 6 (0.17%) Avamar
12 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.17%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.17%) VxRail
13 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 431 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 133 (3.88%) Oracle
3 109 (3.18%) Adobe
4 68 (1.98%) Google
4 68 (1.98%) Palo Alto
5 65 (1.89%) Cisco
5 65 (1.89%) VMware
6 64 (1.87%) SAP
7 61 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 60 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.46%) CyberArk
10 46 (1.34%) Databricks
11 40 (1.17%) Apple
12 32 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.82%) Dell
13 28 (0.82%) Pega
14 27 (0.79%) Tenable
15 21 (0.61%) Informatica
16 20 (0.58%) Aruba
16 20 (0.58%) Computacenter