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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,580 2,242 4,657
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.43% 13.56% 18.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.40% 14.66% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,356 1,501 3,087
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,879
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.35% -8.20%

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 21,825 15,296 23,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 92.52% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,556 9,335 16,901
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 26 August 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 26 August 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.

1 734 (20.50%) Agile
2 677 (18.91%) Mentoring
3 672 (18.77%) Azure
4 622 (17.37%) AWS
5 616 (17.21%) Software Engineering
6 590 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 569 (15.89%) AI
8 550 (15.36%) CI/CD
9 499 (13.94%) Python
10 477 (13.32%) DevOps
11 445 (12.43%) Microsoft
12 438 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
13 385 (10.75%) SQL
14 355 (9.92%) Project Delivery
15 354 (9.89%) Degree
16 351 (9.80%) Coaching
17 335 (9.36%) Decision-Making
18 332 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
19 312 (8.72%) Analytics
20 303 (8.46%) Security Cleared
21 297 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 273 (7.63%) C#
23 256 (7.15%) Roadmaps
24 254 (7.09%) SC Cleared
25 249 (6.96%) Test Automation
26 242 (6.76%) JavaScript
27 232 (6.48%) QA
28 231 (6.45%) GCP
29 230 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
30 223 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code

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
1 100 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.70%) CMS
4 22 (0.61%) Confluence
5 13 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.36%) WordPress
6 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.34%) IIS
7 11 (0.31%) SAS
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.22%) Apache
9 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.084%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.084%) Artix
10 3 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.084%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.084%) Moodle
11 2 (0.056%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.056%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 75 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
7 10 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 9 (0.25%) InDesign
9 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.084%) Blender
11 3 (0.084%) Maya
11 3 (0.084%) Trello
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.67%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 11 (0.31%) Shopify
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) Primavera
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
10 3 (0.084%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.084%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.084%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.056%) HFM
11 2 (0.056%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.056%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.056%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 672 (18.77%) Azure
2 622 (17.37%) AWS
3 231 (6.45%) GCP
4 219 (6.12%) SaaS
5 157 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 148 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 132 (3.69%) Entra ID
8 113 (3.16%) Serverless
9 102 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (2.85%) GitHub
10 49 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (1.31%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 43 (1.20%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (1.15%) Azure AKS
16 40 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
17 39 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
18 38 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.41%) Firewall
2 89 (2.49%) Network Security
3 82 (2.29%) Broadband
4 77 (2.15%) DNS
5 74 (2.07%) VLAN
6 61 (1.70%) VPN
7 58 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
8 50 (1.40%) WAN
8 50 (1.40%) Wireless
9 48 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 45 (1.26%) LAN
11 44 (1.23%) DHCP
12 28 (0.78%) BGP
13 20 (0.56%) OSPF
14 19 (0.53%) RS-232
15 18 (0.50%) SMS
16 17 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) HTTP
17 16 (0.45%) SD-WAN
18 15 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (3.21%) Power BI
3 99 (2.77%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 57 (1.59%) Metadata
6 50 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.34%) MySQL
8 40 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 39 (1.09%) NoSQL
10 38 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 26 (0.73%) Tableau
14 22 (0.61%) OLTP
15 18 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 16 (0.45%) Big Data
17 15 (0.42%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.36%) Delta Lake
19 12 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
19 12 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 120 (3.35%) Git
2 60 (1.68%) JIRA
3 42 (1.17%) GitLab
4 34 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.70%) Snyk
6 19 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 16 (0.45%) Selenium
8 15 (0.42%) JUnit
9 11 (0.31%) Postman
10 10 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 9 (0.25%) Maven
12 8 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.22%) Gatling
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
14 4 (0.11%) Appium
14 4 (0.11%) JMeter
14 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 907 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 583 (16.28%) Finance
3 385 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 326 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 271 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 259 (7.23%) Legal
7 231 (6.45%) Law
8 133 (3.72%) Marketing
9 129 (3.60%) Banking
10 87 (2.43%) Retail
11 68 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 67 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 61 (1.70%) Manufacturing
14 60 (1.68%) Games
15 57 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 57 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 50 (1.40%) Electronics
16 50 (1.40%) Local Government
17 44 (1.23%) Legal Technology
18 35 (0.98%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (5.95%) .NET
2 202 (5.64%) Terraform
3 161 (4.50%) React
4 125 (3.49%) Node.js
5 97 (2.71%) HTML
6 88 (2.46%) CSS
6 88 (2.46%) REST
7 74 (2.07%) RESTful
8 58 (1.62%) Spring
9 39 (1.09%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.06%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.98%) Vue
12 34 (0.95%) Laravel
13 33 (0.92%) Kafka
14 32 (0.89%) .NET Core
14 32 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
15 30 (0.84%) Next.js
15 30 (0.84%) PySpark
16 29 (0.81%) Playwright
17 28 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 208 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 99 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 91 (2.54%) Driving Licence
5 66 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 58 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 54 (1.51%) Data Centre
8 50 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 40 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 38 (1.06%) Blog
14 37 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 37 (1.03%) Onboarding
15 36 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 35 (0.98%) Security Posture
17 32 (0.89%) Data Structures
17 32 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 165 (4.61%) Linux
2 138 (3.85%) Windows
3 60 (1.68%) Unix
4 59 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 31 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 28 (0.78%) Android
7 22 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
11 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.084%) Debian
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (20.50%) Agile
2 677 (18.91%) Mentoring
3 616 (17.21%) Software Engineering
4 590 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 569 (15.89%) AI
6 550 (15.36%) CI/CD
7 477 (13.32%) DevOps
8 438 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
9 355 (9.92%) Project Delivery
10 351 (9.80%) Coaching
11 335 (9.36%) Decision-Making
12 332 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
13 312 (8.72%) Analytics
14 297 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 256 (7.15%) Roadmaps
16 249 (6.96%) Test Automation
17 230 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
18 223 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
19 190 (5.31%) Information Security
20 184 (5.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 499 (13.94%) Python
2 385 (10.75%) SQL
3 273 (7.63%) C#
4 242 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 210 (5.87%) TypeScript
6 194 (5.42%) Java
7 136 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 93 (2.60%) C++
9 57 (1.59%) Go
10 54 (1.51%) PHP
11 45 (1.26%) C
12 44 (1.23%) PL/SQL
13 36 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 34 (0.95%) Bash
15 26 (0.73%) Bicep
16 24 (0.67%) Embedded C
17 21 (0.59%) Ruby
17 21 (0.59%) Swift
18 19 (0.53%) R
19 17 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 354 (9.89%) Degree
2 303 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 254 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 94 (2.63%) CISSP
5 88 (2.46%) CISM
6 66 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.51%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
8 53 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 52 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 52 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 45 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 38 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 33 (0.92%) HNC
14 27 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (0.75%) PhD
15 24 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.48%) QA
2 119 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 82 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (1.65%) NIST
6 58 (1.62%) GDPR
7 47 (1.31%) GRC
8 30 (0.84%) PMO
9 24 (0.67%) SLA
9 24 (0.67%) WCAG
10 17 (0.47%) NCSC
11 12 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.28%) COBIT
12 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.20%) GxP
16 5 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 165 (4.61%) Docker
2 138 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.95%) vSphere
6 26 (0.73%) Firmware
7 20 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 16 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.084%) iptables
14 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.028%) GPFS
14 1 (0.028%) Lustre
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 194 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 97 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (0.92%) Ansible
4 24 (0.67%) Grafana
5 20 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.47%) Argo
7 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.17%) Avamar
9 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) Istio
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.11%) SCCM
11 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 445 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 111 (3.10%) Oracle
3 102 (2.85%) Adobe
4 79 (2.21%) Google
5 69 (1.93%) VMware
6 68 (1.90%) Cisco
7 66 (1.84%) Palo Alto
8 58 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 58 (1.62%) SAP
9 57 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 54 (1.51%) CyberArk
11 46 (1.28%) Databricks
12 35 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
13 29 (0.81%) Apple
14 28 (0.78%) Tenable
15 27 (0.75%) Informatica
15 27 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 27 (0.75%) Pega
16 25 (0.70%) Dell
17 21 (0.59%) Veeam