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 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,179 2,223 5,934
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 16.52% 14.97% 17.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.54% 16.28% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,240 1,372 4,472
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £64,080
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +8.28% -8.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,700
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 18,122 13,651 32,214
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 91.95% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13,260 8,425 25,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,242
Median % change year-on-year - +8.61% -11.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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.

1 627 (19.72%) Agile
2 603 (18.97%) Mentoring
3 569 (17.90%) Azure
4 526 (16.55%) AWS
5 467 (14.69%) Software Engineering
6 422 (13.27%) AI
7 392 (12.33%) Coaching
8 385 (12.11%) SQL
9 383 (12.05%) CI/CD
10 377 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 376 (11.83%) Python
12 353 (11.10%) Microsoft
13 340 (10.70%) DevOps
14 315 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 303 (9.53%) Analytics
16 301 (9.47%) Degree
17 291 (9.15%) Roadmaps
18 283 (8.90%) Security Cleared
19 243 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
20 241 (7.58%) Java
21 223 (7.01%) SC Cleared
22 214 (6.73%) Decision-Making
23 208 (6.54%) Test Automation
24 197 (6.20%) GCP
24 197 (6.20%) Project Delivery
25 185 (5.82%) Kubernetes
26 182 (5.73%) .NET
26 182 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
27 181 (5.69%) Project Management
28 176 (5.54%) 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 85 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (0.75%) CMS
5 20 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 19 (0.60%) Confluence
7 10 (0.31%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) SAS
9 8 (0.25%) Apache
9 8 (0.25%) IIS
9 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.13%) JBoss
10 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.094%) Artix
12 2 (0.063%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.063%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.063%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.031%) Appian
Applications
1 88 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.16%) DaVinci Resolve
8 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.16%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.13%) InVision
9 4 (0.13%) Trello
10 3 (0.094%) Blender
10 3 (0.094%) Maya
10 3 (0.094%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.063%) InDesign
11 2 (0.063%) Revit
11 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
2 17 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 17 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
3 16 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
4 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.31%) Visualfiles
6 9 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.22%) Shopify
8 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.16%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 569 (17.90%) Azure
2 526 (16.55%) AWS
3 197 (6.20%) GCP
4 176 (5.54%) SaaS
5 131 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 120 (3.77%) Serverless
7 117 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 91 (2.86%) Entra ID
9 87 (2.74%) GitHub
10 80 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (1.48%) PowerApps
12 43 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
14 36 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (1.13%) Figma
14 36 (1.13%) Power Automate
15 35 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (1.10%) Snowflake
16 34 (1.07%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 135 (4.25%) Broadband
2 82 (2.58%) Firewall
3 57 (1.79%) DNS
4 54 (1.70%) VPN
5 44 (1.38%) WAN
6 38 (1.20%) DHCP
7 34 (1.07%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.04%) Wireless
9 32 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 30 (0.94%) Network Security
11 29 (0.91%) LAN
12 28 (0.88%) BGP
13 22 (0.69%) RS-232
14 20 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.60%) OSPF
16 18 (0.57%) Ethernet
17 15 (0.47%) HTTP
18 13 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
19 11 (0.35%) Bluetooth
19 11 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (3.08%) Power BI
2 95 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 79 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
4 61 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.60%) Metadata
6 39 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (1.04%) OLTP
8 32 (1.01%) BigQuery
9 31 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 28 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 28 (0.88%) Tableau
11 27 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 25 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 25 (0.79%) MySQL
14 23 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 18 (0.57%) Delta Lake
15 18 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 77 (2.42%) Git
2 63 (1.98%) JIRA
3 47 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.13%) GitLab
4 36 (1.13%) TeamCity
5 25 (0.79%) Snyk
6 24 (0.75%) Claude Code
7 17 (0.53%) Selenium
8 13 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (0.35%) Postman
10 10 (0.31%) MLflow
11 8 (0.25%) XCUITest
12 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.22%) JMeter
12 7 (0.22%) JUnit
12 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.19%) SoapUI
14 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 639 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 568 (17.87%) Finance
3 402 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 223 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (4.06%) Marketing
7 128 (4.03%) Law
8 127 (3.99%) Banking
9 98 (3.08%) Legal
10 87 (2.74%) Retail
11 82 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
12 69 (2.17%) Games
13 54 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 47 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 37 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
17 28 (0.88%) Local Government
18 27 (0.85%) Financial Institution
19 26 (0.82%) Back Office
20 25 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (5.73%) .NET
2 141 (4.44%) React
3 102 (3.21%) REST
4 97 (3.05%) Node.js
5 76 (2.39%) HTML
6 71 (2.23%) SOAP
7 63 (1.98%) RESTful
8 51 (1.60%) CSS
9 49 (1.54%) Spring
10 44 (1.38%) GraphQL
11 43 (1.35%) OAuth
12 37 (1.16%) OpenID
13 36 (1.13%) Spring Boot
14 34 (1.07%) SAML
15 33 (1.04%) JSON
16 30 (0.94%) Kafka
16 30 (0.94%) Vue
17 28 (0.88%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
18 27 (0.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 188 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 112 (3.52%) Product Ownership
3 75 (2.36%) Data Centre
4 60 (1.89%) Social Media
5 58 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 44 (1.38%) Cyberattack
7 44 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (1.35%) Driving Licence
9 41 (1.29%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 39 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 38 (1.20%) Low-Code
12 37 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
14 33 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
15 32 (1.01%) Management Information System
15 32 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.53%) Linux
2 102 (3.21%) Windows
3 57 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 53 (1.67%) Android
5 37 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.07%) Unix
7 18 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
8 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.16%) VMS
11 3 (0.094%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.094%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Debian
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (19.72%) Agile
2 603 (18.97%) Mentoring
3 467 (14.69%) Software Engineering
4 422 (13.27%) AI
5 392 (12.33%) Coaching
6 383 (12.05%) CI/CD
7 377 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 340 (10.70%) DevOps
9 315 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 303 (9.53%) Analytics
11 291 (9.15%) Roadmaps
12 243 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
13 214 (6.73%) Decision-Making
14 208 (6.54%) Test Automation
15 197 (6.20%) Project Delivery
16 182 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
17 181 (5.69%) Project Management
18 170 (5.35%) Full-Stack Development
19 166 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
20 154 (4.84%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 385 (12.11%) SQL
2 376 (11.83%) Python
3 241 (7.58%) Java
4 171 (5.38%) JavaScript
5 158 (4.97%) C#
6 152 (4.78%) TypeScript
7 96 (3.02%) PowerShell
8 87 (2.74%) C++
9 68 (2.14%) Bash
9 68 (2.14%) Go
10 58 (1.82%) PHP
11 55 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 48 (1.51%) Scala
13 42 (1.32%) C
14 39 (1.23%) T-SQL
15 27 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.72%) VBA
17 20 (0.63%) R
18 19 (0.60%) Bicep
18 19 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 301 (9.47%) Degree
2 283 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 223 (7.01%) SC Cleared
4 67 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 53 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 49 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 45 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 33 (1.04%) CISSP
12 24 (0.75%) ACCA
12 24 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.75%) PMI Certification
13 23 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 23 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.66%) CIMA
15 19 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (0.60%) CISM
15 19 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (3.68%) QA
2 80 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 76 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 56 (1.76%) NIST
5 52 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.29%) GDPR
7 38 (1.20%) GRC
8 28 (0.88%) PMO
9 26 (0.82%) NCSC
10 16 (0.50%) SLA
11 12 (0.38%) P3O
12 11 (0.35%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.35%) MISRA
12 11 (0.35%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.25%) WCAG
15 7 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 139 (4.37%) Docker
2 98 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.79%) vSphere
6 19 (0.60%) Firmware
6 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.28%) vCloud
9 8 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.031%) iptables
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 185 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 165 (5.19%) Terraform
3 35 (1.10%) Ansible
3 35 (1.10%) Grafana
4 32 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.63%) Argo
5 20 (0.63%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.44%) SCCM
8 13 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.35%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.22%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.19%) Avamar
11 6 (0.19%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.19%) VxRail
12 5 (0.16%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.16%) Istio
12 5 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 353 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 143 (4.50%) Oracle
3 113 (3.55%) Adobe
4 68 (2.14%) VMware
5 65 (2.04%) SAP
6 64 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 59 (1.86%) Databricks
7 59 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.79%) Google
9 56 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 50 (1.57%) Cisco
11 41 (1.29%) Apple
12 32 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.88%) Dell
14 26 (0.82%) Tenable
15 19 (0.60%) Computacenter
16 17 (0.53%) Fortinet
17 16 (0.50%) Okta
18 15 (0.47%) NetApp
18 15 (0.47%) Nimble Storage