Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,156 3,677 3,775
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.21% 18.20% 16.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.12% 18.84% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,417 2,329 3,198
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,312 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 15,274 19,515 22,042
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 96.61% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,673 12,302 17,980
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,252 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025, 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.

1 791 (36.69%) Agile
2 598 (27.74%) Azure
3 573 (26.58%) AWS
4 550 (25.51%) Python
5 465 (21.57%) Mentoring
6 429 (19.90%) Software Engineering
7 407 (18.88%) JavaScript
8 364 (16.88%) Java
9 346 (16.05%) User Experience
10 341 (15.82%) .NET
11 316 (14.66%) Security Cleared
12 306 (14.19%) SQL
13 281 (13.03%) Microservices
14 279 (12.94%) CI/CD
15 270 (12.52%) GCP
15 270 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
16 267 (12.38%) DevOps
17 258 (11.97%) Linux
18 250 (11.60%) Microsoft
18 250 (11.60%) Scrum
19 233 (10.81%) Node.js
20 229 (10.62%) Data Engineering
21 222 (10.30%) AWS Certification
22 220 (10.20%) TypeScript
23 217 (10.06%) Machine Learning
24 214 (9.93%) Degree
25 210 (9.74%) DV Cleared
26 208 (9.65%) Cloud Security
27 205 (9.51%) C++
28 202 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement

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 82 (3.80%) Apache
2 79 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 31 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (1.39%) IIS
6 24 (1.11%) Confluence
7 17 (0.79%) WordPress
8 16 (0.74%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.37%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.32%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) SAS
11 5 (0.23%) CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.093%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.093%) HCL Notes
13 2 (0.093%) JBoss
13 2 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.093%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.046%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.046%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 60 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.37%) InDesign
6 6 (0.28%) Maya
6 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.23%) MotionBuilder
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.093%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.093%) OrCAD
8 2 (0.093%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.093%) Simulink
8 2 (0.093%) Sketch
9 1 (0.046%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.046%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 23 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
1 23 (1.07%) Shopify
2 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
3 11 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 11 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 10 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
4 10 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
5 8 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 8 (0.37%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 8 (0.37%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
7 5 (0.23%) Hyperion Planning
8 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.19%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 598 (27.74%) Azure
2 573 (26.58%) AWS
3 270 (12.52%) GCP
4 135 (6.26%) SaaS
5 121 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 106 (4.92%) Snowflake
7 102 (4.73%) Serverless
8 97 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (4.50%) dbt
9 92 (4.27%) GitHub
10 81 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
11 77 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (2.23%) Amazon S3
13 47 (2.18%) Entra ID
14 39 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (1.62%) PowerApps
16 31 (1.44%) Power Automate
17 30 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.74%) Firewall
2 40 (1.86%) Network Security
3 39 (1.81%) VPN
4 31 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.30%) DNS
6 26 (1.21%) Broadband
7 21 (0.97%) LAN
7 21 (0.97%) WAN
8 20 (0.93%) Unified Communications
9 17 (0.79%) BGP
10 14 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.56%) DHCP
11 12 (0.56%) Ethernet
11 12 (0.56%) Wireless
12 10 (0.46%) OSPF
13 9 (0.42%) RS-232
14 7 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
14 7 (0.32%) MPLS
14 7 (0.32%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.24%) Data Lake
2 87 (4.04%) Power BI
3 84 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 78 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 76 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
6 71 (3.29%) Apache Arrow
6 71 (3.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 71 (3.29%) Apache Ignite
6 71 (3.29%) Dremio
7 49 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 43 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
8 43 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 37 (1.72%) MySQL
10 35 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.30%) MongoDB
13 23 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 19 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (3.34%) Git
1 72 (3.34%) JIRA
2 42 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.35%) Selenium
4 22 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
5 19 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 16 (0.74%) Postman
7 14 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.56%) GitLab
9 11 (0.51%) WebDriver
10 10 (0.46%) SoapUI
11 9 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.37%) NUnit
13 7 (0.32%) Jasmine
14 5 (0.23%) Babel
14 5 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.23%) git-flow
14 5 (0.23%) webpack
15 4 (0.19%) KGDB
15 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 576 (26.72%) Finance
2 432 (20.04%) Social Skills
3 317 (14.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 222 (10.30%) Banking
5 153 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (4.45%) Retail
7 95 (4.41%) Front Office
8 85 (3.94%) Public Sector
9 75 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 75 (3.48%) Marketing
10 70 (3.25%) Law
10 70 (3.25%) Legal
11 59 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
12 50 (2.32%) Games
13 41 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 37 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.35%) Electronics
17 28 (1.30%) Advertising
17 28 (1.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (15.82%) .NET
2 233 (10.81%) Node.js
3 163 (7.56%) React
4 87 (4.04%) HTML
5 77 (3.57%) gRPC
6 75 (3.48%) RESTful
7 73 (3.39%) Pandas
8 72 (3.34%) NumPy
9 71 (3.29%) CSS
9 71 (3.29%) Protocol Buffers
9 71 (3.29%) SciPy
10 61 (2.83%) REST
11 49 (2.27%) SOAP
12 39 (1.81%) AngularJS
12 39 (1.81%) GraphQL
13 37 (1.72%) .NET Framework
14 32 (1.48%) ASP.NET
15 31 (1.44%) .NET Core
15 31 (1.44%) Next.js
16 26 (1.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 209 (9.69%) Self-Motivation
2 184 (8.53%) Cyberattack
3 180 (8.35%) Linux Command Line
4 94 (4.36%) Cloud Native
5 85 (3.94%) Derivative
6 77 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 76 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 74 (3.43%) Hedge funds
9 73 (3.39%) Fixed Income
9 73 (3.39%) Product Ownership
10 71 (3.29%) Equities
10 71 (3.29%) Pricing Data
11 47 (2.18%) Data Centre
12 46 (2.13%) Management Information System
13 34 (1.58%) Social Media
14 33 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
15 26 (1.21%) FPGA
16 25 (1.16%) Driving Licence
17 24 (1.11%) Security Posture
18 23 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 258 (11.97%) Linux
2 74 (3.43%) Windows
3 34 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.53%) Unix
5 23 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.88%) Android
7 8 (0.37%) VMS
8 7 (0.32%) CentOS
8 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.28%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.23%) Solaris
11 4 (0.19%) HPUX
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (36.69%) Agile
2 465 (21.57%) Mentoring
3 429 (19.90%) Software Engineering
4 346 (16.05%) User Experience
5 281 (13.03%) Microservices
6 279 (12.94%) CI/CD
7 270 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (12.38%) DevOps
9 250 (11.60%) Scrum
10 229 (10.62%) Data Engineering
11 217 (10.06%) Machine Learning
12 208 (9.65%) Cloud Security
13 202 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 196 (9.09%) Project Management
15 195 (9.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 182 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 174 (8.07%) Analytics
18 162 (7.51%) AI
19 151 (7.00%) Asset Management
20 142 (6.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 550 (25.51%) Python
2 407 (18.88%) JavaScript
3 364 (16.88%) Java
4 306 (14.19%) SQL
5 220 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 205 (9.51%) C++
7 200 (9.28%) Go
8 182 (8.44%) C#
9 181 (8.40%) Rust
10 63 (2.92%) PowerShell
11 37 (1.72%) Bash
12 25 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 23 (1.07%) PHP
13 23 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 18 (0.83%) Bicep
15 17 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.74%) R
16 16 (0.74%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.65%) Ruby
17 14 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 316 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 222 (10.30%) AWS Certification
3 214 (9.93%) Degree
4 210 (9.74%) DV Cleared
5 193 (8.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 179 (8.30%) AWS Certified Developer
7 108 (5.01%) SC Cleared
8 49 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (1.99%) ACCA
10 41 (1.90%) CISSP
11 36 (1.67%) Azure Certification
12 33 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (1.30%) CISM
14 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (1.16%) CIMA
16 24 (1.11%) CCNP
17 22 (1.02%) ISTQB
18 19 (0.88%) DBS Check
19 18 (0.83%) Master's Degree
20 17 (0.79%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (6.86%) Accessibility
2 104 (4.82%) QA
3 65 (3.01%) GDPR
4 47 (2.18%) NIST
5 39 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.25%) PMO
7 20 (0.93%) Data Quality
7 20 (0.93%) NCSC
8 17 (0.79%) NIST 800
9 16 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 16 (0.74%) JSP 440
9 16 (0.74%) RMADS
10 13 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.60%) IFRS
11 12 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.37%) GRC
12 8 (0.37%) ITGC
13 7 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.32%) WCAG
14 5 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (4.22%) Docker
2 54 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.60%) Firmware
5 11 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.37%) vSphere
8 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.093%) pfSense
10 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.046%) Ceph
11 1 (0.046%) Lustre
11 1 (0.046%) vCloud
11 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.046%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 155 (7.19%) Terraform
2 116 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 59 (2.74%) Ansible
4 31 (1.44%) Grafana
5 30 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.28%) Argo
10 4 (0.19%) Nessus
10 4 (0.19%) SCOM
11 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.14%) SCCM
11 3 (0.14%) SmoothWall
12 2 (0.093%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.046%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.046%) Nmap
13 1 (0.046%) Plesk
13 1 (0.046%) Puppet
13 1 (0.046%) WSUS
Vendors
1 250 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 83 (3.85%) Oracle
3 59 (2.74%) ServiceNow
4 54 (2.50%) Cisco
4 54 (2.50%) SAP
5 52 (2.41%) Databricks
6 48 (2.23%) Google
7 39 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 37 (1.72%) VMware
9 25 (1.16%) Adobe
10 20 (0.93%) Workday
11 18 (0.83%) Meraki
12 17 (0.79%) EMC
13 16 (0.74%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.70%) Apple
15 14 (0.65%) Xero
16 13 (0.60%) Screaming Frog
17 12 (0.56%) Okta
17 12 (0.56%) Sage
18 10 (0.46%) Infor