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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,813 2,188 4,298
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.58% 13.45% 18.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.62% 14.52% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,504 1,449 2,544
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,304 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.11% -6.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -5.00%

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 22,944 15,074 22,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 92.65% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,086 8,984 14,380
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,541
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 £78,302
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 20 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 20 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.

1 742 (19.46%) Agile
2 739 (19.38%) Mentoring
3 706 (18.52%) Azure
4 639 (16.76%) Software Engineering
5 619 (16.23%) AWS
5 619 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 590 (15.47%) AI
7 577 (15.13%) CI/CD
8 519 (13.61%) Python
9 490 (12.85%) DevOps
10 483 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
11 474 (12.43%) Microsoft
12 430 (11.28%) SQL
13 388 (10.18%) Coaching
14 373 (9.78%) Degree
15 355 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
16 354 (9.28%) Project Delivery
17 348 (9.13%) Decision-Making
17 348 (9.13%) Security Cleared
18 344 (9.02%) Analytics
19 309 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 293 (7.68%) SC Cleared
21 284 (7.45%) C#
22 269 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
23 246 (6.45%) Roadmaps
24 233 (6.11%) JavaScript
25 231 (6.06%) Test Automation
26 230 (6.03%) GCP
26 230 (6.03%) QA
27 226 (5.93%) 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 98 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.58%) Confluence
5 20 (0.52%) CMS
6 15 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.34%) WordPress
8 12 (0.31%) Apache
9 10 (0.26%) IIS
9 10 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.079%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.079%) Artix
12 3 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.079%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.079%) Moodle
13 2 (0.052%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.026%) nginx
Applications
1 76 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
1 76 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
2 33 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 17 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.29%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.24%) InDesign
7 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 5 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
11 3 (0.079%) Blender
11 3 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.079%) Revit
11 3 (0.079%) Trello
12 2 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.63%) Cloudability
2 19 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
8 9 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.24%) Shopify
9 6 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.16%) Primavera
10 5 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.079%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.079%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.079%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.079%) SAP Payroll
12 2 (0.052%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 706 (18.52%) Azure
2 619 (16.23%) AWS
3 230 (6.03%) GCP
4 219 (5.74%) SaaS
5 164 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
6 157 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 139 (3.65%) Entra ID
8 111 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (2.83%) Serverless
10 104 (2.73%) GitHub
11 53 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 48 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 43 (1.13%) PowerApps
15 42 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.08%) Azure AKS
16 41 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
17 40 (1.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 157 (4.12%) Firewall
2 90 (2.36%) Network Security
3 77 (2.02%) DNS
4 76 (1.99%) VLAN
5 61 (1.60%) VPN
6 59 (1.55%) Broadband
7 58 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 55 (1.44%) Wireless
9 52 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 52 (1.36%) WAN
10 46 (1.21%) LAN
11 45 (1.18%) DHCP
12 28 (0.73%) BGP
13 22 (0.58%) OSPF
13 22 (0.58%) SMS
14 19 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
15 17 (0.45%) VXLAN
16 16 (0.42%) RS-232
17 15 (0.39%) HTTP
17 15 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (3.15%) Power BI
3 100 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 70 (1.84%) Metadata
5 62 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 55 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 47 (1.23%) MySQL
8 47 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 45 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 26 (0.68%) Tableau
12 24 (0.63%) Data Lake
13 21 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (0.45%) OLTP
16 16 (0.42%) Big Data
16 16 (0.42%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 133 (3.49%) Git
2 59 (1.55%) JIRA
3 39 (1.02%) GitLab
4 26 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.66%) Snyk
6 19 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.37%) JUnit
8 13 (0.34%) Selenium
9 11 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.26%) Postman
11 9 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.24%) Maven
12 7 (0.18%) 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
1 964 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 619 (16.23%) Finance
3 445 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 344 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 288 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 265 (6.95%) Legal
7 236 (6.19%) Law
8 148 (3.88%) Banking
9 130 (3.41%) Marketing
10 100 (2.62%) Retail
11 73 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 73 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 66 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 64 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 56 (1.47%) Local Government
16 55 (1.44%) Electronics
17 48 (1.26%) Games
18 44 (1.15%) Legal Technology
19 43 (1.13%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (5.61%) Terraform
2 209 (5.48%) .NET
3 161 (4.22%) React
4 117 (3.07%) Node.js
5 98 (2.57%) REST
6 92 (2.41%) HTML
7 86 (2.26%) CSS
8 80 (2.10%) RESTful
9 64 (1.68%) Spring
10 44 (1.15%) AngularJS
11 43 (1.13%) Spring Boot
12 42 (1.10%) PySpark
13 35 (0.92%) Laravel
14 34 (0.89%) Kafka
14 34 (0.89%) Vue
15 33 (0.87%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.81%) Next.js
17 28 (0.73%) Web Services
18 27 (0.71%) JSON
19 26 (0.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 221 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 108 (2.83%) Driving Licence
3 95 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (2.49%) Product Ownership
4 84 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 73 (1.91%) Virtual Team
6 59 (1.55%) AI Agents
7 56 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 54 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 47 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 45 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 44 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 40 (1.05%) Blog
12 40 (1.05%) Mobile App
13 39 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 33 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 33 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 31 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
16 28 (0.73%) Data Structures
16 28 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 162 (4.25%) Linux
2 150 (3.93%) Windows
3 62 (1.63%) Unix
4 60 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.63%) Android
7 21 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 10 (0.26%) VMS
11 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.079%) Debian
14 2 (0.052%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.026%) AIX
15 1 (0.026%) CentOS
15 1 (0.026%) Solaris
15 1 (0.026%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (19.46%) Agile
2 739 (19.38%) Mentoring
3 639 (16.76%) Software Engineering
4 619 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 590 (15.47%) AI
6 577 (15.13%) CI/CD
7 490 (12.85%) DevOps
8 483 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
9 388 (10.18%) Coaching
10 355 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
11 354 (9.28%) Project Delivery
12 348 (9.13%) Decision-Making
13 344 (9.02%) Analytics
14 309 (8.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 269 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 246 (6.45%) Roadmaps
17 231 (6.06%) Test Automation
18 226 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
19 202 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
20 193 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 519 (13.61%) Python
2 430 (11.28%) SQL
3 284 (7.45%) C#
4 233 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 220 (5.77%) Java
6 203 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 139 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 96 (2.52%) C++
9 55 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 51 (1.34%) PHP
11 49 (1.29%) Kotlin
12 48 (1.26%) C
12 48 (1.26%) Go
13 35 (0.92%) Bash
14 26 (0.68%) Bicep
15 23 (0.60%) Embedded C
16 21 (0.55%) R
16 21 (0.55%) Swift
17 20 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 373 (9.78%) Degree
2 348 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 293 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 97 (2.54%) CISSP
5 91 (2.39%) CISM
6 70 (1.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.42%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
9 49 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.15%) HNC
12 43 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
14 38 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 38 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 33 (0.87%) DBS Check
16 31 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.68%) ACCA
18 24 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (6.03%) QA
2 125 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 110 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 81 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (1.94%) GDPR
6 58 (1.52%) NIST
7 47 (1.23%) GRC
8 32 (0.84%) PMO
9 23 (0.60%) WCAG
10 21 (0.55%) SLA
11 20 (0.52%) NCSC
12 13 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.26%) COBIT
13 10 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.24%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.21%) GxP
15 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 176 (4.62%) Docker
2 142 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.92%) vSphere
6 25 (0.66%) Firmware
7 24 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.24%) vCloud
11 7 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.079%) iptables
14 2 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.026%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.026%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.026%) GPFS
15 1 (0.026%) Lustre
15 1 (0.026%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 198 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 107 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.10%) Ansible
4 26 (0.68%) Grafana
5 18 (0.47%) Argo
5 18 (0.47%) FortiGate
6 10 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
8 7 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.16%) Avamar
9 6 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.16%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.16%) VxRail
10 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
10 5 (0.13%) SCCM
11 4 (0.10%) FTK
11 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 474 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.28%) Oracle
3 88 (2.31%) Adobe
4 83 (2.18%) Google
5 69 (1.81%) VMware
6 66 (1.73%) Cisco
7 64 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 62 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 60 (1.57%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 53 (1.39%) SAP
12 49 (1.29%) Databricks
13 35 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
14 32 (0.84%) Informatica
15 31 (0.81%) Apple
15 31 (0.81%) OpenAI
16 28 (0.73%) Pega
16 28 (0.73%) Tenable
17 21 (0.55%) Aruba
17 21 (0.55%) Dell