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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,969 2,137 4,007
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.92% 12.93% 18.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.95% 13.87% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,574 1,405 2,389
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,411 15,403 20,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.20% 96.61%
Number of salaries quoted 16,055 8,700 12,841
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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.

1 761 (19.17%) Agile
2 741 (18.67%) Mentoring
3 707 (17.81%) Azure
3 707 (17.81%) Software Engineering
4 654 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 641 (16.15%) AWS
6 610 (15.37%) CI/CD
7 606 (15.27%) AI
8 551 (13.88%) Python
9 523 (13.18%) DevOps
10 501 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
11 463 (11.67%) Microsoft
12 455 (11.46%) SQL
13 398 (10.03%) Coaching
14 377 (9.50%) Degree
14 377 (9.50%) Security Cleared
15 359 (9.05%) Analytics
16 350 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
17 347 (8.74%) Decision-Making
18 343 (8.64%) Project Delivery
19 314 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 312 (7.86%) SC Cleared
21 292 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
22 288 (7.26%) C#
23 274 (6.90%) Java
24 258 (6.50%) Test Automation
25 246 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
26 245 (6.17%) SaaS
27 243 (6.12%) Roadmaps
28 240 (6.05%) 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 81 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 23 (0.58%) Confluence
5 19 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.40%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 12 (0.30%) WordPress
10 11 (0.28%) SAS
11 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.18%) IIS
14 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.076%) Artix
14 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.076%) Moodle
14 3 (0.076%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 78 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.33%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.23%) InDesign
7 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.23%) Revit
8 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.18%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.076%) Blender
11 3 (0.076%) Maya
12 2 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.050%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.050%) SPSS
12 2 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.48%) Cloudability
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 11 (0.28%) Shopify
7 10 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.15%) Primavera
11 5 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
11 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
12 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
12 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
13 2 (0.050%) SAP ERP
13 2 (0.050%) SAP FI
13 2 (0.050%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 707 (17.81%) Azure
2 641 (16.15%) AWS
3 245 (6.17%) SaaS
4 237 (5.97%) GCP
5 160 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
6 159 (4.01%) Power Platform
7 152 (3.83%) Entra ID
8 116 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (2.87%) GitHub
10 102 (2.57%) Serverless
11 55 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.03%) IaaS
17 39 (0.98%) PowerApps
18 37 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
18 37 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (0.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 151 (3.80%) Firewall
2 99 (2.49%) Network Security
3 78 (1.97%) VLAN
4 74 (1.86%) DNS
5 66 (1.66%) VPN
6 61 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 60 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
8 59 (1.49%) Wireless
9 54 (1.36%) Broadband
10 48 (1.21%) WAN
11 46 (1.16%) LAN
12 38 (0.96%) DHCP
13 32 (0.81%) BGP
14 24 (0.60%) SMS
15 22 (0.55%) OSPF
16 18 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.40%) WLAN
18 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
19 12 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (3.05%) Power BI
3 99 (2.49%) SQL Server
4 73 (1.84%) Metadata
5 59 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 50 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 47 (1.18%) MySQL
9 42 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 38 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 28 (0.71%) Tableau
12 23 (0.58%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (0.50%) OLTP
13 20 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.45%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 134 (3.38%) Git
2 63 (1.59%) JIRA
3 39 (0.98%) GitLab
4 32 (0.81%) TeamCity
5 28 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 19 (0.48%) Snyk
7 17 (0.43%) JUnit
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 12 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.25%) Maven
11 10 (0.25%) Mockito
12 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.23%) Postman
13 8 (0.20%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.13%) Gatling
15 5 (0.13%) Poetry
16 4 (0.10%) MLflow
16 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 987 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 652 (16.43%) Finance
3 463 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 364 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 298 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 261 (6.58%) Legal
7 250 (6.30%) Law
8 161 (4.06%) Banking
9 129 (3.25%) Marketing
10 128 (3.22%) Retail
11 74 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 73 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 65 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.49%) Electronics
16 57 (1.44%) Aerospace
17 56 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
18 54 (1.36%) Local Government
19 52 (1.31%) Games
20 45 (1.13%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (6.05%) Terraform
2 210 (5.29%) .NET
3 151 (3.80%) React
4 107 (2.70%) REST
5 104 (2.62%) Node.js
6 91 (2.29%) RESTful
7 88 (2.22%) HTML
8 83 (2.09%) CSS
9 72 (1.81%) Spring
10 51 (1.28%) Spring Boot
11 45 (1.13%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.01%) PySpark
13 36 (0.91%) Kafka
14 35 (0.88%) Vue
15 34 (0.86%) Laravel
16 31 (0.78%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.78%) Next.js
17 29 (0.73%) OAuth
18 27 (0.68%) Playwright
18 27 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 247 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 115 (2.90%) Driving Licence
3 113 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 84 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 68 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 66 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 53 (1.34%) Blog
10 50 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 49 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 40 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
12 40 (1.01%) Security Posture
13 38 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
14 35 (0.88%) Mobile App
15 33 (0.83%) Algorithms
16 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
17 31 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
18 30 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 165 (4.16%) Linux
2 136 (3.43%) Windows
3 61 (1.54%) Unix
4 60 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
7 19 (0.48%) Android
8 11 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.25%) VMS
10 9 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
11 7 (0.18%) macOS
12 6 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.076%) Debian
14 2 (0.050%) Rocky
14 2 (0.050%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.050%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.025%) AIX
15 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (19.17%) Agile
2 741 (18.67%) Mentoring
3 707 (17.81%) Software Engineering
4 654 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 610 (15.37%) CI/CD
6 606 (15.27%) AI
7 523 (13.18%) DevOps
8 501 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
9 398 (10.03%) Coaching
10 359 (9.05%) Analytics
11 350 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
12 347 (8.74%) Decision-Making
13 343 (8.64%) Project Delivery
14 314 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 292 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 258 (6.50%) Test Automation
17 246 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 243 (6.12%) Roadmaps
19 215 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
20 211 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 551 (13.88%) Python
2 455 (11.46%) SQL
3 288 (7.26%) C#
4 274 (6.90%) Java
5 224 (5.64%) JavaScript
6 197 (4.96%) TypeScript
7 133 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.47%) C++
9 63 (1.59%) Go
10 58 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.28%) PHP
13 48 (1.21%) C
14 42 (1.06%) Bash
15 31 (0.78%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.50%) Ruby
17 20 (0.50%) Rust
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 377 (9.50%) Degree
1 377 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 312 (7.86%) SC Cleared
3 99 (2.49%) CISSP
4 94 (2.37%) CISM
5 70 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 57 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 54 (1.36%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.31%) HNC
9 46 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 40 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 39 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
14 37 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.93%) DBS Check
15 35 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 27 (0.68%) PhD
17 24 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (5.77%) QA
2 124 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 116 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 86 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.84%) GDPR
6 60 (1.51%) NIST
7 41 (1.03%) GRC
8 30 (0.76%) PMO
9 22 (0.55%) WCAG
10 21 (0.53%) NCSC
11 17 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.40%) SLA
13 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.25%) COBIT
17 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 8 (0.20%) GxP
18 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 200 (5.04%) Docker
2 141 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.78%) vSphere
6 24 (0.60%) Firmware
7 11 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.25%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.18%) vCloud
11 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.076%) iptables
13 2 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.025%) GPFS
14 1 (0.025%) Lustre
14 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 229 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 113 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 48 (1.21%) Grafana
4 44 (1.11%) Ansible
5 19 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.38%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (0.23%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.15%) Avamar
11 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.15%) VxRail
12 5 (0.13%) Puppet
13 4 (0.10%) Cilium
13 4 (0.10%) FTK
13 4 (0.10%) Packer
13 4 (0.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 463 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 123 (3.10%) Oracle
3 102 (2.57%) Google
4 67 (1.69%) Cisco
4 67 (1.69%) VMware
5 66 (1.66%) Adobe
6 58 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 58 (1.46%) ServiceNow
7 57 (1.44%) CyberArk
8 49 (1.23%) Databricks
8 49 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 40 (1.01%) SAP
10 32 (0.81%) Informatica
11 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 28 (0.71%) Pega
12 28 (0.71%) YouTube
13 27 (0.68%) Apple
13 27 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
14 22 (0.55%) Aruba
15 21 (0.53%) Tenable