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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,467 2,325 5,009
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.82% 14.13% 18.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.81% 15.34% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 1,522 3,590
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,250 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,625 £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 20,624 15,160 26,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 92.12% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,921 9,401 19,543
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 28 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 28 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.

1 703 (20.28%) Agile
2 676 (19.50%) Mentoring
3 652 (18.81%) Azure
4 613 (17.68%) AWS
5 591 (17.05%) Software Engineering
6 545 (15.72%) AI
7 528 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 513 (14.80%) CI/CD
9 494 (14.25%) Python
10 462 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 451 (13.01%) DevOps
12 433 (12.49%) Microsoft
13 367 (10.59%) SQL
14 347 (10.01%) Coaching
15 324 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
16 323 (9.32%) Degree
17 310 (8.94%) Analytics
17 310 (8.94%) Project Delivery
18 306 (8.83%) Security Cleared
19 289 (8.34%) Decision-Making
20 279 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 269 (7.76%) C#
22 268 (7.73%) Roadmaps
23 262 (7.56%) Test Automation
24 250 (7.21%) SC Cleared
25 245 (7.07%) JavaScript
26 226 (6.52%) GCP
27 222 (6.40%) QA
28 221 (6.37%) .NET
29 215 (6.20%) SaaS

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 94 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (0.66%) CMS
5 19 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.52%) Confluence
7 15 (0.43%) SAS
8 12 (0.35%) IIS
8 12 (0.35%) WordPress
9 8 (0.23%) Apache
9 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.20%) 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%) Moodle
Applications
1 81 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.37%) AutoCAD
5 9 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.20%) Civil 3D
7 7 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.17%) InDesign
9 5 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
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 (0.69%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 15 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 13 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.20%) Visualfiles
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.14%) Shopify
9 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.087%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.087%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.087%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 652 (18.81%) Azure
2 613 (17.68%) AWS
3 226 (6.52%) GCP
4 215 (6.20%) SaaS
5 145 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
5 145 (4.18%) Power Platform
6 134 (3.87%) Entra ID
7 125 (3.61%) Serverless
8 91 (2.62%) GitHub
9 89 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (1.33%) PowerApps
12 45 (1.30%) Power Automate
13 43 (1.24%) Amazon S3
14 39 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 37 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
16 34 (0.98%) Azure AKS
16 34 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 141 (4.07%) Firewall
2 103 (2.97%) Broadband
3 73 (2.11%) Network Security
4 70 (2.02%) DNS
5 59 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
6 58 (1.67%) VLAN
6 58 (1.67%) VPN
7 51 (1.47%) WAN
8 49 (1.41%) Wireless
9 45 (1.30%) LAN
10 44 (1.27%) DHCP
11 42 (1.21%) TCP/IP
12 26 (0.75%) BGP
13 22 (0.63%) RS-232
14 20 (0.58%) SD-WAN
15 19 (0.55%) OSPF
16 17 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.46%) WLAN
18 15 (0.43%) Bluetooth
18 15 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (3.20%) Power BI
2 110 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 49 (1.41%) Metadata
6 41 (1.18%) MySQL
6 41 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 34 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 30 (0.87%) Tableau
10 28 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.78%) NoSQL
11 27 (0.78%) OLTP
12 25 (0.72%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.52%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (0.43%) Big Data
15 15 (0.43%) Redis
15 15 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 108 (3.12%) Git
2 54 (1.56%) JIRA
3 40 (1.15%) GitLab
4 33 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.72%) Snyk
6 22 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 21 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.40%) Selenium
9 13 (0.37%) JUnit
10 10 (0.29%) Postman
11 9 (0.26%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) XCUITest
13 7 (0.20%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.20%) Gatling
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.14%) Maven
15 5 (0.14%) MLflow
15 5 (0.14%) Mockito
15 5 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 829 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 567 (16.35%) Finance
3 366 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 278 (8.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 265 (7.64%) Legal
6 232 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
7 219 (6.32%) Law
8 122 (3.52%) Banking
8 122 (3.52%) Marketing
9 81 (2.34%) Retail
10 69 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 65 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 60 (1.73%) Games
13 55 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.27%) Local Government
16 42 (1.21%) Electronics
16 42 (1.21%) Legal Technology
17 32 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
18 23 (0.66%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (6.37%) .NET
2 158 (4.56%) React
3 114 (3.29%) Node.js
4 85 (2.45%) HTML
5 83 (2.39%) REST
6 77 (2.22%) RESTful
7 71 (2.05%) CSS
8 51 (1.47%) Spring
9 38 (1.10%) Vue
10 36 (1.04%) Spring Boot
11 35 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
11 35 (1.01%) Kafka
12 32 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 30 (0.87%) Laravel
14 28 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
15 27 (0.78%) SOAP
15 27 (0.78%) SPFx
16 26 (0.75%) Next.js
17 25 (0.72%) .NET Core
17 25 (0.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.26%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 89 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (1.96%) Driving Licence
5 65 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 63 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 51 (1.47%) Social Media
8 50 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 43 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 37 (1.07%) Security Posture
14 36 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 34 (0.98%) Onboarding
16 33 (0.95%) Low-Code
17 30 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 171 (4.93%) Linux
2 123 (3.55%) Windows
3 50 (1.44%) Unix
4 47 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 42 (1.21%) Android
7 27 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
8 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 9 (0.26%) VMS
10 4 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.087%) Debian
11 3 (0.087%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) CentOS
12 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (20.28%) Agile
2 676 (19.50%) Mentoring
3 591 (17.05%) Software Engineering
4 545 (15.72%) AI
5 528 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 513 (14.80%) CI/CD
7 462 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 451 (13.01%) DevOps
9 347 (10.01%) Coaching
10 324 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
11 310 (8.94%) Analytics
11 310 (8.94%) Project Delivery
12 289 (8.34%) Decision-Making
13 279 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 268 (7.73%) Roadmaps
15 262 (7.56%) Test Automation
16 203 (5.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 202 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
18 189 (5.45%) Microservices
19 184 (5.31%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 494 (14.25%) Python
2 367 (10.59%) SQL
3 269 (7.76%) C#
4 245 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 213 (6.14%) Java
6 207 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 133 (3.84%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.80%) C++
9 62 (1.79%) Go
10 61 (1.76%) PHP
11 52 (1.50%) C
12 48 (1.38%) PL/SQL
13 46 (1.33%) Bash
14 26 (0.75%) Embedded C
15 25 (0.72%) Bicep
16 22 (0.63%) Scala
17 21 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.61%) R
18 19 (0.55%) Rust
19 18 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 323 (9.32%) Degree
2 306 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 250 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.88%) CISSP
5 91 (2.62%) CISM
6 66 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 55 (1.59%) A+ Certification
7 55 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
8 54 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 37 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 37 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 26 (0.75%) PhD
15 25 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.66%) ACCA
18 20 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (6.40%) QA
2 90 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 65 (1.87%) NIST
6 57 (1.64%) GDPR
7 48 (1.38%) GRC
8 31 (0.89%) PMO
9 22 (0.63%) SLA
10 17 (0.49%) NCSC
11 15 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (0.37%) WCAG
13 12 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.20%) COBIT
17 6 (0.17%) GAAP
17 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
System Software
1 162 (4.67%) Docker
2 133 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.89%) vSphere
6 24 (0.69%) Firmware
7 14 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
7 14 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.26%) vCloud
10 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.087%) iptables
12 2 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.029%) GPFS
13 1 (0.029%) Lustre
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 199 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 184 (5.31%) Terraform
3 94 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (0.98%) Ansible
5 27 (0.78%) Grafana
6 21 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.52%) Argo
8 10 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.20%) SCCM
11 6 (0.17%) Avamar
11 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.17%) Puppet
11 6 (0.17%) VxRail
12 5 (0.14%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.14%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 433 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 132 (3.81%) Oracle
3 103 (2.97%) Adobe
4 71 (2.05%) Google
5 69 (1.99%) Palo Alto
6 67 (1.93%) Cisco
7 65 (1.87%) SAP
8 63 (1.82%) VMware
9 60 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 54 (1.56%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.44%) Databricks
12 39 (1.12%) Apple
13 32 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.81%) Dell
14 28 (0.81%) Pega
15 27 (0.78%) Tenable
16 22 (0.63%) Informatica
17 21 (0.61%) Aruba
18 20 (0.58%) Computacenter