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 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,598 2,615 4,951
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.51% 18.89% 16.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.53% 19.93% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,848 1,788 4,130
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -9.29%

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 15,714 13,119 28,666
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 94.78% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,613 8,875 23,922
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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.

1 571 (21.98%) Azure
2 533 (20.52%) Mentoring
3 527 (20.28%) Agile
4 447 (17.21%) AWS
5 381 (14.67%) SQL
6 380 (14.63%) Software Engineering
7 377 (14.51%) CI/CD
8 353 (13.59%) Coaching
9 350 (13.47%) DevOps
10 323 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
11 312 (12.01%) Microsoft
12 310 (11.93%) AI
13 308 (11.86%) Python
14 293 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 258 (9.93%) Degree
16 232 (8.93%) Security Cleared
17 224 (8.62%) Roadmaps
18 221 (8.51%) Analytics
19 217 (8.35%) Java
20 214 (8.24%) SaaS
21 208 (8.01%) .NET
22 205 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
23 197 (7.58%) GCP
24 187 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
25 186 (7.16%) Kubernetes
26 183 (7.04%) Test Automation
27 170 (6.54%) Terraform
28 168 (6.47%) Microservices
28 168 (6.47%) SC Cleared
29 166 (6.39%) C#

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 59 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.89%) Confluence
4 23 (0.89%) WordPress
5 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.69%) CMS
7 12 (0.46%) Apache
8 11 (0.42%) JBoss
8 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.23%) SAS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.077%) nginx
14 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.35%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.12%) InVision
8 3 (0.12%) Maya
8 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.12%) MotionBuilder
8 3 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.12%) Weka
9 2 (0.077%) Revit
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
2 24 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 23 (0.89%) Shopify
4 21 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.42%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
10 6 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
10 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.19%) Magento
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 571 (21.98%) Azure
2 447 (17.21%) AWS
3 214 (8.24%) SaaS
4 197 (7.58%) GCP
5 120 (4.62%) GitHub
6 113 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 108 (4.16%) Entra ID
8 106 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 93 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
10 83 (3.19%) Serverless
11 60 (2.31%) dbt
12 58 (2.23%) Snowflake
13 45 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
15 37 (1.42%) PowerApps
16 35 (1.35%) GitHub Copilot
17 32 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (1.23%) Figma
18 31 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.85%) Broadband
2 66 (2.54%) Firewall
3 45 (1.73%) VPN
4 43 (1.66%) WAN
5 40 (1.54%) DNS
5 40 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.35%) DHCP
7 27 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 26 (1.00%) LAN
8 26 (1.00%) Network Security
9 18 (0.69%) Ethernet
10 17 (0.65%) Wireless
11 16 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.58%) BGP
13 14 (0.54%) RS-232
14 12 (0.46%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.42%) HTTP
16 9 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
17 8 (0.31%) OSPF
18 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 83 (3.19%) Power BI
3 77 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 65 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (1.66%) NoSQL
6 41 (1.58%) Metadata
7 38 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 34 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 31 (1.19%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (1.04%) Tableau
12 26 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.00%) MySQL
12 26 (1.00%) Redis
13 23 (0.89%) OLTP
14 18 (0.69%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
15 17 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (0.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 80 (3.08%) JIRA
2 74 (2.85%) Git
3 60 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 35 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.04%) GitLab
7 22 (0.85%) Selenium
8 13 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) Postman
11 9 (0.35%) MLflow
12 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.31%) JUnit
12 8 (0.31%) Subversion
12 8 (0.31%) webpack
13 7 (0.27%) git-flow
13 7 (0.27%) JMeter
13 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
14 6 (0.23%) Babel
General
1 564 (21.71%) Finance
2 525 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 270 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 178 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 163 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (4.97%) Marketing
7 127 (4.89%) Law
8 119 (4.58%) Retail
9 99 (3.81%) Banking
10 82 (3.16%) Legal
11 79 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
12 78 (3.00%) Telecoms
13 71 (2.73%) Games
14 42 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 42 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 40 (1.54%) Manufacturing
16 31 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 25 (0.96%) Back Office
18 21 (0.81%) Publishing
19 20 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (8.01%) .NET
2 133 (5.12%) React
3 116 (4.46%) REST
4 104 (4.00%) SOAP
5 84 (3.23%) HTML
6 81 (3.12%) RESTful
7 69 (2.66%) GraphQL
8 68 (2.62%) Node.js
9 64 (2.46%) OAuth
10 59 (2.27%) CSS
11 54 (2.08%) Spring
12 50 (1.92%) Kafka
13 44 (1.69%) OpenID
14 42 (1.62%) Spring Boot
15 40 (1.54%) SAML
16 36 (1.39%) .NET Core
16 36 (1.39%) XML
17 35 (1.35%) LDAP
18 28 (1.08%) Django
19 26 (1.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 91 (3.50%) Product Ownership
3 88 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.46%) Social Media
5 59 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.58%) Cyberattack
7 41 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 38 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 37 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
11 31 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 29 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
13 28 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 26 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 24 (0.92%) Low-Code
17 23 (0.89%) Over-the-Top Content
18 22 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 138 (5.31%) Linux
2 89 (3.43%) Windows
3 66 (2.54%) Android
4 54 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 43 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 32 (1.23%) Unix
7 24 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.46%) VMS
9 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.077%) CentOS
11 2 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (20.52%) Mentoring
2 527 (20.28%) Agile
3 380 (14.63%) Software Engineering
4 377 (14.51%) CI/CD
5 353 (13.59%) Coaching
6 350 (13.47%) DevOps
7 323 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
8 310 (11.93%) AI
9 293 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (8.62%) Roadmaps
11 221 (8.51%) Analytics
12 205 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
13 187 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 183 (7.04%) Test Automation
15 168 (6.47%) Microservices
16 158 (6.08%) User Experience
17 145 (5.58%) Decision-Making
18 143 (5.50%) Full-Stack Development
19 138 (5.31%) Business Intelligence
20 135 (5.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 381 (14.67%) SQL
2 308 (11.86%) Python
3 217 (8.35%) Java
4 166 (6.39%) C#
5 149 (5.74%) JavaScript
6 132 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.77%) Bash
9 65 (2.50%) Go
10 64 (2.46%) C++
11 52 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.96%) PHP
13 46 (1.77%) Scala
14 38 (1.46%) T-SQL
15 34 (1.31%) Kotlin
16 31 (1.19%) C
17 21 (0.81%) Bicep
18 20 (0.77%) VBA
19 15 (0.58%) Ruby
20 14 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 258 (9.93%) Degree
2 232 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 168 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 79 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.54%) ACCA
7 39 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.19%) CISSP
10 26 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 22 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.77%) CIMA
13 19 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.65%) CISM
15 15 (0.58%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.54%) CREST Certified
17 13 (0.50%) PhD
18 12 (0.46%) OSCP
19 11 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.54%) QA
2 61 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 57 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.08%) NIST
5 53 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.85%) GDPR
7 34 (1.31%) NCSC
8 21 (0.81%) IFRS
9 15 (0.58%) PMO
10 14 (0.54%) P3O
11 13 (0.50%) GRC
12 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA
12 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
13 10 (0.38%) SLA
14 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.31%) GAAP
16 7 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 166 (6.39%) Docker
2 112 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) Firmware
6 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 2 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) vCloud
9 2 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.038%) Ceph
10 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.038%) Lustre
10 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 186 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 170 (6.54%) Terraform
3 53 (2.04%) Grafana
4 44 (1.69%) Ansible
5 43 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.89%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.50%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 10 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.15%) Argo
14 3 (0.12%) Control-M
14 3 (0.12%) cPanel
14 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.12%) Plesk
15 2 (0.077%) Nagios
15 2 (0.077%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 312 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.12%) Oracle
3 77 (2.96%) Databricks
4 60 (2.31%) Google
5 56 (2.16%) VMware
6 54 (2.08%) Adobe
7 52 (2.00%) Cisco
8 51 (1.96%) SAP
9 49 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 27 (1.04%) Okta
11 26 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.73%) Apple
13 16 (0.62%) Workday
14 14 (0.54%) Dell
14 14 (0.54%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.54%) Screaming Frog
15 12 (0.46%) IBM
15 12 (0.46%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.46%) Samsung
15 12 (0.46%) Talend