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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 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 4,014 2,152 3,775
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.97% 13.02% 18.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.00% 13.96% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,603 1,417 2,387
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 £83,750 £82,500 £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 23,615 15,415 20,109
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.24% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 16,192 8,723 12,727
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £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 15 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 15 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.

1 781 (19.46%) Agile
2 752 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 720 (17.94%) Azure
4 712 (17.74%) Software Engineering
5 659 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 643 (16.02%) AWS
7 618 (15.40%) CI/CD
8 607 (15.12%) AI
9 555 (13.83%) Python
10 531 (13.23%) DevOps
11 515 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
12 476 (11.86%) Microsoft
13 466 (11.61%) SQL
14 405 (10.09%) Coaching
15 388 (9.67%) Degree
16 387 (9.64%) Security Cleared
17 361 (8.99%) Analytics
18 350 (8.72%) Decision-Making
19 346 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
20 342 (8.52%) Project Delivery
21 321 (8.00%) SC Cleared
21 321 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 303 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
23 293 (7.30%) C#
24 283 (7.05%) Java
25 264 (6.58%) Test Automation
26 256 (6.38%) SaaS
27 247 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
28 245 (6.10%) Roadmaps
29 243 (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 83 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.60%) Confluence
3 24 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 19 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.40%) CMS
6 15 (0.37%) WordPress
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
8 13 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.27%) SAS
10 9 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 7 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.075%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.075%) Artix
13 3 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.075%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.075%) Moodle
13 3 (0.075%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 79 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.37%) AutoCAD
6 13 (0.32%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.22%) Revit
8 8 (0.20%) InDesign
8 8 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.100%) Navisworks
12 3 (0.075%) Blender
12 3 (0.075%) Maya
13 2 (0.050%) Lightworks
13 2 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.050%) SPSS
13 2 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 17 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 15 (0.37%) Cloudability
4 15 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 11 (0.27%) Shopify
6 10 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.15%) Primavera
10 4 (0.100%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.075%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.075%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.075%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.075%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.050%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 720 (17.94%) Azure
2 643 (16.02%) AWS
3 256 (6.38%) SaaS
4 236 (5.88%) GCP
5 169 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
6 161 (4.01%) Power Platform
7 159 (3.96%) Entra ID
8 122 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (2.79%) GitHub
10 98 (2.44%) Serverless
11 55 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (1.27%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (1.07%) IaaS
16 42 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
17 39 (0.97%) PowerApps
18 37 (0.92%) Azure AKS
18 37 (0.92%) Power Automate
19 36 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 154 (3.84%) Firewall
2 100 (2.49%) Network Security
3 80 (1.99%) VLAN
4 76 (1.89%) DNS
5 71 (1.77%) VPN
6 62 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 61 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 59 (1.47%) Wireless
9 51 (1.27%) Broadband
10 49 (1.22%) WAN
11 46 (1.15%) LAN
12 39 (0.97%) DHCP
13 34 (0.85%) BGP
14 25 (0.62%) SMS
15 22 (0.55%) OSPF
16 18 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
17 16 (0.40%) WLAN
18 13 (0.32%) AMQP
18 13 (0.32%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (3.06%) Power BI
3 102 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 74 (1.84%) Metadata
5 59 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.37%) MongoDB
7 54 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.22%) MySQL
9 47 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 38 (0.95%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.70%) Tableau
13 23 (0.57%) Data Lake
14 20 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.50%) OLTP
14 20 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.45%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 136 (3.39%) Git
2 66 (1.64%) JIRA
3 38 (0.95%) GitLab
4 34 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 28 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 17 (0.42%) JUnit
7 15 (0.37%) Snyk
8 13 (0.32%) Selenium
9 12 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.27%) LabVIEW
11 10 (0.25%) Maven
11 10 (0.25%) Mockito
12 9 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.22%) Postman
13 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
14 6 (0.15%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.12%) Gatling
15 5 (0.12%) Poetry
16 4 (0.100%) MLflow
16 4 (0.100%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,002 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 661 (16.47%) Finance
3 477 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 364 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 307 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (6.55%) Legal
7 253 (6.30%) Law
8 161 (4.01%) Banking
9 132 (3.29%) Marketing
10 130 (3.24%) Retail
11 75 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (1.84%) Telecoms
13 73 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 66 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 61 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 59 (1.47%) Electronics
17 58 (1.44%) Aerospace
18 55 (1.37%) Local Government
19 51 (1.27%) Games
20 45 (1.12%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (6.05%) Terraform
2 214 (5.33%) .NET
3 155 (3.86%) React
4 110 (2.74%) REST
5 107 (2.67%) Node.js
6 94 (2.34%) RESTful
7 88 (2.19%) HTML
8 83 (2.07%) CSS
9 73 (1.82%) Spring
10 52 (1.30%) Spring Boot
11 46 (1.15%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.00%) PySpark
13 36 (0.90%) Kafka
14 35 (0.87%) Laravel
15 34 (0.85%) Vue
16 32 (0.80%) Next.js
17 31 (0.77%) .NET Core
18 30 (0.75%) OAuth
18 30 (0.75%) Playwright
19 27 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 251 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 118 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 113 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.24%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 71 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 66 (1.64%) AI Agents
9 56 (1.40%) Blog
10 53 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 49 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.07%) Data Centre
13 41 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 41 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 38 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (0.87%) Mobile App
16 32 (0.80%) Algorithms
16 32 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
16 32 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
17 30 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.16%) Linux
2 138 (3.44%) Windows
3 63 (1.57%) Unix
3 63 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 19 (0.47%) Android
7 11 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 10 (0.25%) VMS
9 7 (0.17%) macOS
10 5 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.075%) Debian
11 3 (0.075%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.050%) Rocky
12 2 (0.050%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (19.46%) Agile
2 752 (18.73%) Mentoring
3 712 (17.74%) Software Engineering
4 659 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 618 (15.40%) CI/CD
6 607 (15.12%) AI
7 531 (13.23%) DevOps
8 515 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
9 405 (10.09%) Coaching
10 361 (8.99%) Analytics
11 350 (8.72%) Decision-Making
12 346 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
13 342 (8.52%) Project Delivery
14 321 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 303 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
16 264 (6.58%) Test Automation
17 247 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
18 245 (6.10%) Roadmaps
19 218 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 217 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 555 (13.83%) Python
2 466 (11.61%) SQL
3 293 (7.30%) C#
4 283 (7.05%) Java
5 228 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 204 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 135 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.44%) C++
9 66 (1.64%) Go
10 60 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 52 (1.30%) PHP
13 48 (1.20%) C
14 42 (1.05%) Bash
15 32 (0.80%) Bicep
16 22 (0.55%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.50%) Ruby
17 20 (0.50%) Rust
17 20 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 388 (9.67%) Degree
2 387 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 321 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 100 (2.49%) CISSP
5 95 (2.37%) CISM
6 70 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.35%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.32%) HNC
10 47 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 42 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
12 40 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 39 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 37 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 28 (0.70%) PhD
17 25 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (5.80%) QA
2 127 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 118 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 88 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.82%) GDPR
6 61 (1.52%) NIST
7 37 (0.92%) GRC
8 28 (0.70%) PMO
9 21 (0.52%) NCSC
9 21 (0.52%) WCAG
10 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.40%) SLA
12 15 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.25%) COBIT
16 9 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.20%) GxP
17 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 208 (5.18%) Docker
2 147 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 54 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.72%) vSphere
7 24 (0.60%) Firmware
8 11 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.12%) vCloud
10 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.075%) iptables
12 2 (0.050%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.025%) GPFS
13 1 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 234 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 119 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (1.25%) Grafana
4 45 (1.12%) Ansible
5 19 (0.47%) FortiGate
6 15 (0.37%) Argo
7 13 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
10 10 (0.25%) 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 (0.12%) Cilium
12 5 (0.12%) Puppet
13 4 (0.100%) FTK
13 4 (0.100%) Packer
13 4 (0.100%) SCCM
Vendors
1 476 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 121 (3.01%) Oracle
3 104 (2.59%) Google
4 68 (1.69%) Cisco
4 68 (1.69%) VMware
5 62 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 57 (1.42%) Adobe
6 57 (1.42%) CyberArk
7 53 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.25%) Databricks
9 45 (1.12%) Palo Alto
10 38 (0.95%) SAP
11 32 (0.80%) Informatica
12 31 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 28 (0.70%) Pega
13 28 (0.70%) YouTube
14 24 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
15 23 (0.57%) Apple
16 22 (0.55%) Aruba
17 20 (0.50%) Zscaler