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 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,627 2,211 4,480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.52% 13.53% 18.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.51% 14.60% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 1,489 2,868
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 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% -5.11%

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 21,970 15,149 23,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.68% 96.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,616 9,239 15,981
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
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 3 September 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 3 September 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.

1 741 (20.43%) Agile
2 697 (19.22%) Mentoring
3 690 (19.02%) Azure
4 629 (17.34%) AWS
5 622 (17.15%) Software Engineering
6 598 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 570 (15.72%) AI
8 564 (15.55%) CI/CD
9 510 (14.06%) Python
10 487 (13.43%) DevOps
11 463 (12.77%) Microsoft
12 450 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
13 399 (11.00%) SQL
14 361 (9.95%) Coaching
15 359 (9.90%) Degree
16 355 (9.79%) Project Delivery
17 342 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
18 334 (9.21%) Decision-Making
19 314 (8.66%) Analytics
20 305 (8.41%) Security Cleared
21 297 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 273 (7.53%) C#
23 255 (7.03%) SC Cleared
24 251 (6.92%) Roadmaps
25 248 (6.84%) Test Automation
26 238 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
27 237 (6.53%) JavaScript
28 234 (6.45%) GCP
29 232 (6.40%) QA
30 224 (6.18%) 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 99 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.66%) CMS
4 22 (0.61%) Confluence
5 14 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.36%) WordPress
7 12 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.33%) IIS
8 10 (0.28%) SAS
9 9 (0.25%) Apache
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.083%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.083%) Artix
12 3 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.083%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.083%) Moodle
13 2 (0.055%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.028%) Umbraco
Applications
1 75 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 11 (0.30%) 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 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.083%) Blender
11 3 (0.083%) Maya
11 3 (0.083%) Trello
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.66%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
4 11 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.28%) Shopify
6 9 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 4 (0.11%) Primavera
10 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.083%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.083%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.083%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.055%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 690 (19.02%) Azure
2 629 (17.34%) AWS
3 234 (6.45%) GCP
4 220 (6.07%) SaaS
5 162 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 156 (4.30%) Power Platform
7 136 (3.75%) Entra ID
8 111 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (3.01%) Serverless
10 102 (2.81%) GitHub
11 46 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 46 (1.27%) PowerApps
12 45 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 42 (1.16%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.13%) Azure AKS
16 39 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 155 (4.27%) Firewall
2 88 (2.43%) Network Security
3 78 (2.15%) DNS
4 77 (2.12%) Broadband
5 75 (2.07%) VLAN
6 60 (1.65%) VPN
7 57 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
8 51 (1.41%) TCP/IP
9 50 (1.38%) WAN
10 49 (1.35%) Wireless
11 46 (1.27%) DHCP
12 44 (1.21%) LAN
13 27 (0.74%) BGP
14 20 (0.55%) OSPF
15 19 (0.52%) SMS
16 18 (0.50%) RS-232
17 17 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 16 (0.44%) HTTP
19 15 (0.41%) SD-WAN
19 15 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
1 123 (3.39%) Power BI
2 102 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 66 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 63 (1.74%) Metadata
5 49 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (1.32%) MySQL
6 48 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 47 (1.30%) NoSQL
8 45 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 39 (1.08%) DynamoDB
10 26 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (0.72%) Tableau
11 20 (0.55%) Data Lake
11 20 (0.55%) OLTP
12 17 (0.47%) Big Data
13 15 (0.41%) BigQuery
14 14 (0.39%) Delta Lake
15 12 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 124 (3.42%) Git
2 59 (1.63%) JIRA
3 42 (1.16%) GitLab
4 34 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.69%) Snyk
6 19 (0.52%) TeamCity
7 17 (0.47%) Selenium
8 15 (0.41%) JUnit
9 13 (0.36%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.30%) LabVIEW
10 11 (0.30%) Postman
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 (0.19%) Mockito
14 5 (0.14%) JMeter
15 4 (0.11%) Appium
15 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 921 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 580 (15.99%) Finance
3 397 (10.95%) Public Sector
4 321 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 268 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 260 (7.17%) Legal
7 230 (6.34%) Law
8 132 (3.64%) Banking
9 128 (3.53%) Marketing
10 88 (2.43%) Retail
11 71 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 64 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 63 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 60 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.63%) Games
16 57 (1.57%) Telecoms
17 54 (1.49%) Local Government
18 51 (1.41%) Electronics
19 43 (1.19%) Legal Technology
20 35 (0.96%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (5.71%) .NET
2 205 (5.65%) Terraform
3 160 (4.41%) React
4 124 (3.42%) Node.js
5 95 (2.62%) HTML
6 91 (2.51%) REST
7 87 (2.40%) CSS
8 77 (2.12%) RESTful
9 60 (1.65%) Spring
10 39 (1.08%) AngularJS
10 39 (1.08%) Spring Boot
11 35 (0.96%) Kafka
11 35 (0.96%) PySpark
12 34 (0.94%) Laravel
13 33 (0.91%) Vue
14 32 (0.88%) .NET Core
15 31 (0.85%) Next.js
16 30 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
16 30 (0.83%) Playwright
17 27 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 208 (5.73%) Cloud Native
2 100 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 95 (2.62%) Driving Licence
5 68 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 54 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 53 (1.46%) AI Agents
8 49 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 48 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 42 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 41 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 40 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 39 (1.08%) Blog
14 35 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 35 (0.96%) Security Posture
15 34 (0.94%) Low-Code
16 30 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
17 29 (0.80%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 165 (4.55%) Linux
2 146 (4.03%) Windows
3 63 (1.74%) Unix
4 60 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 32 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 28 (0.77%) Android
7 21 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.28%) VMS
10 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
11 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.083%) Debian
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) CentOS
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (20.43%) Agile
2 697 (19.22%) Mentoring
3 622 (17.15%) Software Engineering
4 598 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 570 (15.72%) AI
6 564 (15.55%) CI/CD
7 487 (13.43%) DevOps
8 450 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
9 361 (9.95%) Coaching
10 355 (9.79%) Project Delivery
11 342 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
12 334 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 314 (8.66%) Analytics
14 297 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 251 (6.92%) Roadmaps
16 248 (6.84%) Test Automation
17 238 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 224 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
19 191 (5.27%) Technical Leadership
20 187 (5.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 510 (14.06%) Python
2 399 (11.00%) SQL
3 273 (7.53%) C#
4 237 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 208 (5.73%) TypeScript
6 199 (5.49%) Java
7 137 (3.78%) PowerShell
8 96 (2.65%) C++
9 55 (1.52%) Go
10 52 (1.43%) PHP
11 47 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 45 (1.24%) C
13 37 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 33 (0.91%) Bash
15 26 (0.72%) Bicep
16 23 (0.63%) Embedded C
17 22 (0.61%) Swift
18 21 (0.58%) R
18 21 (0.58%) Ruby
19 18 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 359 (9.90%) Degree
2 305 (8.41%) Security Cleared
3 255 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 95 (2.62%) CISSP
5 89 (2.45%) CISM
6 67 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 54 (1.49%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 54 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
8 50 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (1.02%) AWS Certification
13 34 (0.94%) HNC
14 27 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (0.74%) PhD
15 24 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (6.40%) QA
2 120 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 93 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 64 (1.76%) GDPR
6 59 (1.63%) NIST
7 47 (1.30%) GRC
8 29 (0.80%) PMO
9 24 (0.66%) WCAG
10 23 (0.63%) SLA
11 18 (0.50%) NCSC
12 12 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.25%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.19%) GxP
15 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 171 (4.71%) Docker
2 139 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.94%) vSphere
6 27 (0.74%) Firmware
7 21 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.083%) 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
1 198 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 101 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (0.96%) Ansible
4 24 (0.66%) Grafana
5 18 (0.50%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.47%) Argo
7 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
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%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.17%) VxRail
10 5 (0.14%) Puppet
10 5 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.11%) Istio
11 4 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 463 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 114 (3.14%) Oracle
3 97 (2.67%) Adobe
4 82 (2.26%) Google
5 68 (1.87%) VMware
6 66 (1.82%) Cisco
7 64 (1.76%) Palo Alto
8 60 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 59 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 54 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 54 (1.49%) SAP
11 48 (1.32%) Databricks
12 35 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
13 30 (0.83%) Informatica
13 30 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.80%) Apple
15 28 (0.77%) Tenable
16 27 (0.74%) Pega
17 25 (0.69%) Dell
18 21 (0.58%) Veeam