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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,653 2,410 5,137
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.72% 18.74% 16.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.76% 19.89% 17.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,897 1,760 4,243
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,896
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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,850 £95,000
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 15,834 12,119 29,611
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 94.22% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 11,102 8,897 24,383
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £44,259 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
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 28 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 28 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.

1 565 (21.30%) Azure
2 538 (20.28%) Agile
3 534 (20.13%) Mentoring
4 453 (17.08%) AWS
5 390 (14.70%) Software Engineering
6 380 (14.32%) SQL
7 371 (13.98%) CI/CD
8 348 (13.12%) Coaching
9 345 (13.00%) DevOps
10 332 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
11 325 (12.25%) Microsoft
12 313 (11.80%) AI
13 312 (11.76%) Python
14 289 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 256 (9.65%) Degree
16 240 (9.05%) Security Cleared
17 236 (8.90%) Roadmaps
18 225 (8.48%) Analytics
19 218 (8.22%) Java
20 209 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
21 208 (7.84%) .NET
22 205 (7.73%) SaaS
23 204 (7.69%) GCP
24 190 (7.16%) Kubernetes
25 188 (7.09%) Test Automation
26 184 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
27 175 (6.60%) SC Cleared
28 173 (6.52%) Microservices
29 172 (6.48%) Docker
30 168 (6.33%) 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 64 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.83%) Confluence
4 22 (0.83%) WordPress
5 19 (0.72%) CMS
5 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.45%) Apache
7 11 (0.41%) JBoss
7 11 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.23%) IIS
8 6 (0.23%) SAS
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.075%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.075%) nginx
12 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
5 9 (0.34%) InDesign
6 8 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.26%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.15%) InVision
8 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
9 3 (0.11%) Weka
10 2 (0.075%) Maya
10 2 (0.075%) MotionBuilder
10 2 (0.075%) Revit
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
2 25 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
3 23 (0.87%) Shopify
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
6 16 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
7 13 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.41%) Visualfiles
9 10 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
9 10 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
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 CO
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 565 (21.30%) Azure
2 453 (17.08%) AWS
3 205 (7.73%) SaaS
4 204 (7.69%) GCP
5 113 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 108 (4.07%) GitHub
7 102 (3.84%) Entra ID
8 96 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
9 95 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (3.20%) Serverless
11 56 (2.11%) dbt
11 56 (2.11%) Snowflake
12 43 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.51%) PowerApps
15 35 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 34 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
17 33 (1.24%) Amazon S3
18 32 (1.21%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 113 (4.26%) Broadband
2 67 (2.53%) Firewall
3 47 (1.77%) VPN
4 44 (1.66%) WAN
5 42 (1.58%) DNS
6 39 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.36%) DHCP
8 30 (1.13%) SD-WAN
9 26 (0.98%) LAN
9 26 (0.98%) Network Security
10 18 (0.68%) Ethernet
10 18 (0.68%) Wireless
11 16 (0.60%) RS-232
11 16 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.57%) BGP
13 13 (0.49%) HTTP
14 12 (0.45%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.34%) OSPF
16 7 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.20%) Power BI
3 72 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 66 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (1.62%) Metadata
5 43 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 34 (1.28%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.17%) BigQuery
8 28 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (0.98%) Redis
10 26 (0.98%) Tableau
11 25 (0.94%) MySQL
12 23 (0.87%) OLTP
13 21 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.72%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.60%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (2.86%) Git
2 73 (2.75%) JIRA
3 60 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.43%) TeamCity
5 31 (1.17%) Oracle Forms
6 27 (1.02%) GitLab
7 21 (0.79%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.30%) JUnit
11 8 (0.30%) Postman
11 8 (0.30%) Subversion
11 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.30%) webpack
12 7 (0.26%) git-flow
12 7 (0.26%) JMeter
12 7 (0.26%) XCUITest
General
1 560 (21.11%) Finance
2 536 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 290 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 168 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (4.94%) Marketing
7 127 (4.79%) Law
8 113 (4.26%) Retail
9 108 (4.07%) Banking
10 87 (3.28%) Legal
11 82 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 74 (2.79%) Games
12 74 (2.79%) Telecoms
13 42 (1.58%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 33 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (0.98%) Back Office
18 20 (0.75%) Publishing
19 19 (0.72%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (7.84%) .NET
2 131 (4.94%) React
3 115 (4.33%) REST
4 94 (3.54%) SOAP
5 83 (3.13%) HTML
6 76 (2.86%) RESTful
7 66 (2.49%) GraphQL
7 66 (2.49%) Node.js
8 63 (2.37%) OAuth
9 59 (2.22%) CSS
10 53 (2.00%) Spring
11 51 (1.92%) Kafka
12 43 (1.62%) OpenID
13 41 (1.55%) Spring Boot
14 38 (1.43%) SAML
15 37 (1.39%) .NET Core
16 34 (1.28%) LDAP
17 31 (1.17%) Django
17 31 (1.17%) XML
18 27 (1.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 96 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 80 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 65 (2.45%) Social Media
5 64 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (1.58%) Public Cloud
8 41 (1.55%) Cyberattack
8 41 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 38 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
11 34 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
13 31 (1.17%) Security Posture
14 29 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 28 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
16 27 (1.02%) Data Structures
16 27 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
17 26 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.35%) Linux
2 95 (3.58%) Windows
3 70 (2.64%) Android
4 57 (2.15%) Apple iOS
5 45 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.17%) Unix
7 24 (0.90%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.41%) VMS
10 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.075%) CentOS
12 2 (0.075%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (20.28%) Agile
2 534 (20.13%) Mentoring
3 390 (14.70%) Software Engineering
4 371 (13.98%) CI/CD
5 348 (13.12%) Coaching
6 345 (13.00%) DevOps
7 332 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
8 313 (11.80%) AI
9 289 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 236 (8.90%) Roadmaps
11 225 (8.48%) Analytics
12 209 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
13 188 (7.09%) Test Automation
14 184 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 173 (6.52%) Microservices
16 157 (5.92%) User Experience
17 151 (5.69%) Decision-Making
18 148 (5.58%) Full-Stack Development
19 139 (5.24%) Business Intelligence
20 138 (5.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 380 (14.32%) SQL
2 312 (11.76%) Python
3 218 (8.22%) Java
4 165 (6.22%) C#
5 149 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 131 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 82 (3.09%) PowerShell
8 71 (2.68%) Go
9 67 (2.53%) Bash
10 65 (2.45%) C++
11 51 (1.92%) PHP
12 48 (1.81%) PL/SQL
13 47 (1.77%) Scala
14 37 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 37 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 31 (1.17%) C
16 21 (0.79%) Bicep
16 21 (0.79%) VBA
17 14 (0.53%) Ruby
17 14 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 256 (9.65%) Degree
2 240 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 175 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.51%) ACCA
7 39 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.21%) CISSP
9 26 (0.98%) PMI Certification
10 24 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.83%) CIMA
13 18 (0.68%) CISM
14 16 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.57%) PhD
16 14 (0.53%) CREST Certified
17 13 (0.49%) AWS Certification
18 12 (0.45%) OSCP
19 11 (0.41%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.51%) QA
2 62 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 59 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 58 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (2.19%) NIST
5 45 (1.70%) GDPR
6 32 (1.21%) NCSC
7 20 (0.75%) IFRS
8 16 (0.60%) PMO
9 14 (0.53%) P3O
10 13 (0.49%) SLA
11 12 (0.45%) GRC
12 11 (0.41%) IEC 61508
12 11 (0.41%) MISRA
12 11 (0.41%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.34%) GAAP
13 9 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 172 (6.48%) Docker
2 111 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.38%) Firmware
7 7 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.26%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) vCloud
9 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.038%) Ceph
11 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.038%) Lustre
11 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 190 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 168 (6.33%) Terraform
3 52 (1.96%) Grafana
4 42 (1.58%) Ansible
5 40 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.49%) SCCM
9 11 (0.41%) 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
13 4 (0.15%) Istio
14 3 (0.11%) Control-M
14 3 (0.11%) cPanel
14 3 (0.11%) FlexNet
14 3 (0.11%) Plesk
15 2 (0.075%) Nagios
Vendors
1 325 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 131 (4.94%) Oracle
3 76 (2.86%) Databricks
4 67 (2.53%) Adobe
5 66 (2.49%) Google
6 62 (2.34%) VMware
7 53 (2.00%) SAP
8 52 (1.96%) Cisco
9 47 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 24 (0.90%) Okta
10 24 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.72%) Apple
12 17 (0.64%) Dell
13 16 (0.60%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
15 12 (0.45%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.45%) Meraki
15 12 (0.45%) Samsung
16 11 (0.41%) IBM
16 11 (0.41%) Talend