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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 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 3,957 2,150 4,153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.93% 12.79% 18.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.97% 13.75% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,589 1,411 2,415
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -0.75% -1.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 23,311 15,641 21,430
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 93.06% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16,123 8,776 13,320
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,824 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% -0.32% -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 5 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 5 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.

1 753 (19.03%) Agile
2 751 (18.98%) Mentoring
3 714 (18.04%) Azure
4 690 (17.44%) Software Engineering
5 643 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 635 (16.05%) AWS
7 605 (15.29%) AI
8 601 (15.19%) CI/CD
9 545 (13.77%) Python
10 521 (13.17%) DevOps
11 503 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 466 (11.78%) Microsoft
13 449 (11.35%) SQL
14 397 (10.03%) Coaching
15 382 (9.65%) Degree
16 371 (9.38%) Security Cleared
17 356 (9.00%) Analytics
17 356 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
18 349 (8.82%) Decision-Making
18 349 (8.82%) Project Delivery
19 311 (7.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 309 (7.81%) SC Cleared
21 287 (7.25%) C#
22 286 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
23 257 (6.49%) Java
24 248 (6.27%) Test Automation
25 245 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
26 243 (6.14%) Roadmaps
27 234 (5.91%) GCP
28 231 (5.84%) QA

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 86 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.56%) Confluence
5 20 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.45%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
7 14 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.33%) WordPress
9 10 (0.25%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) IIS
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.076%) Artix
12 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.076%) Moodle
13 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.025%) Appian
Applications
1 78 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.30%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.23%) InDesign
7 9 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.15%) Revit
11 3 (0.076%) Blender
11 3 (0.076%) Maya
11 3 (0.076%) Trello
12 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.051%) Navisworks
12 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (0.53%) Cloudability
1 21 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 13 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 12 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
7 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.23%) Shopify
8 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
9 6 (0.15%) Primavera
10 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.051%) SAP FI
12 2 (0.051%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 714 (18.04%) Azure
2 635 (16.05%) AWS
3 234 (5.91%) GCP
4 231 (5.84%) SaaS
5 161 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 159 (4.02%) Power Platform
7 146 (3.69%) Entra ID
8 117 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (2.88%) GitHub
10 107 (2.70%) Serverless
11 54 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
15 44 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (1.11%) Azure AKS
16 40 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 40 (1.01%) PowerApps
17 38 (0.96%) IaaS
18 37 (0.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 154 (3.89%) Firewall
2 95 (2.40%) Network Security
3 77 (1.95%) DNS
3 77 (1.95%) VLAN
4 65 (1.64%) VPN
5 58 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
5 58 (1.47%) Wireless
6 57 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 55 (1.39%) Broadband
8 51 (1.29%) WAN
9 46 (1.16%) LAN
10 42 (1.06%) DHCP
11 30 (0.76%) BGP
12 23 (0.58%) SMS
13 22 (0.56%) OSPF
14 18 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
15 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
15 16 (0.40%) WLAN
16 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
16 14 (0.35%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (3.06%) Power BI
3 103 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 72 (1.82%) Metadata
5 60 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 59 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 52 (1.31%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.24%) MySQL
9 45 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 40 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.68%) Tableau
13 24 (0.61%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (0.51%) OLTP
16 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
17 18 (0.45%) Big Data
17 18 (0.45%) BigQuery
18 15 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 136 (3.44%) Git
2 63 (1.59%) JIRA
3 43 (1.09%) GitLab
4 27 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 23 (0.58%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.56%) Snyk
7 15 (0.38%) JUnit
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.25%) Maven
10 10 (0.25%) Postman
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.20%) Mockito
13 5 (0.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.13%) Gatling
13 5 (0.13%) Poetry
14 4 (0.10%) MLflow
14 4 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 976 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 645 (16.30%) Finance
3 467 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 357 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (6.65%) Legal
7 241 (6.09%) Law
8 153 (3.87%) Banking
9 129 (3.26%) Marketing
10 115 (2.91%) Retail
11 75 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 70 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 65 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
16 58 (1.47%) Electronics
17 56 (1.42%) Local Government
18 53 (1.34%) Aerospace
19 50 (1.26%) Games
20 46 (1.16%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (5.84%) Terraform
2 211 (5.33%) .NET
3 160 (4.04%) React
4 112 (2.83%) Node.js
5 104 (2.63%) REST
6 90 (2.27%) HTML
7 85 (2.15%) CSS
7 85 (2.15%) RESTful
8 68 (1.72%) Spring
9 47 (1.19%) Spring Boot
10 43 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 40 (1.01%) PySpark
12 35 (0.88%) Kafka
13 34 (0.86%) Vue
14 33 (0.83%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.83%) Laravel
15 31 (0.78%) Next.js
16 29 (0.73%) OAuth
17 26 (0.66%) Web Services
17 26 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 111 (2.81%) Driving Licence
3 105 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 64 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 53 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 49 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.19%) Blog
13 41 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (0.94%) Mobile App
16 36 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 33 (0.83%) Algorithms
18 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
19 29 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
20 28 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.30%) Linux
2 145 (3.66%) Windows
3 65 (1.64%) Unix
4 62 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.56%) Android
7 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 10 (0.25%) VMS
10 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.076%) Debian
12 2 (0.051%) Rocky
12 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.025%) AIX
13 1 (0.025%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (19.03%) Agile
2 751 (18.98%) Mentoring
3 690 (17.44%) Software Engineering
4 643 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 605 (15.29%) AI
6 601 (15.19%) CI/CD
7 521 (13.17%) DevOps
8 503 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (10.03%) Coaching
10 356 (9.00%) Analytics
10 356 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
11 349 (8.82%) Decision-Making
11 349 (8.82%) Project Delivery
12 311 (7.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 286 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 248 (6.27%) Test Automation
15 245 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 243 (6.14%) Roadmaps
17 210 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
18 205 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 545 (13.77%) Python
2 449 (11.35%) SQL
3 287 (7.25%) C#
4 257 (6.49%) Java
5 225 (5.69%) JavaScript
6 199 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 138 (3.49%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.50%) C++
9 58 (1.47%) Go
10 56 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 50 (1.26%) PHP
13 48 (1.21%) C
14 42 (1.06%) Bash
15 29 (0.73%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.51%) Ruby
18 19 (0.48%) Rust
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 382 (9.65%) Degree
2 371 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 309 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.43%) CISSP
5 91 (2.30%) CISM
6 70 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.36%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 48 (1.21%) HNC
10 47 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 43 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 38 (0.96%) AWS Certification
12 38 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 37 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 36 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 36 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.63%) PhD
16 24 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (5.84%) QA
2 124 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 114 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (1.87%) GDPR
6 59 (1.49%) NIST
7 44 (1.11%) GRC
8 30 (0.76%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 20 (0.51%) NCSC
11 18 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.25%) COBIT
15 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.20%) GxP
16 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 193 (4.88%) Docker
2 143 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.86%) vSphere
6 29 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.61%) Firmware
8 12 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.18%) vCloud
10 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.076%) iptables
12 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.025%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.025%) GPFS
13 1 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 222 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 111 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 45 (1.14%) Ansible
4 37 (0.94%) Grafana
5 20 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.45%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.15%) Avamar
10 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.15%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) SCCM
12 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.10%) FTK
13 3 (0.076%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 466 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 124 (3.13%) Oracle
3 94 (2.38%) Google
4 73 (1.84%) Adobe
5 69 (1.74%) Cisco
6 68 (1.72%) VMware
7 63 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 63 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.39%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.34%) Palo Alto
10 50 (1.26%) Databricks
11 47 (1.19%) SAP
12 31 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
12 31 (0.78%) Informatica
12 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 29 (0.73%) Apple
14 28 (0.71%) Pega
15 26 (0.66%) YouTube
16 25 (0.63%) Tenable
17 22 (0.56%) Aruba