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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 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 3,873 2,185 4,245
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.67% 13.25% 18.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.71% 14.28% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,537 1,431 2,486
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 23,177 15,297 22,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 92.79% 96.38%
Number of salaries quoted 16,143 8,924 14,002
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 25 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 25 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.

1 746 (19.26%) Agile
1 746 (19.26%) Mentoring
2 717 (18.51%) Azure
3 661 (17.07%) Software Engineering
4 630 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 629 (16.24%) AWS
6 605 (15.62%) AI
7 587 (15.16%) CI/CD
8 535 (13.81%) Python
9 506 (13.06%) DevOps
10 490 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
11 478 (12.34%) Microsoft
12 439 (11.33%) SQL
13 392 (10.12%) Coaching
14 375 (9.68%) Degree
15 365 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
16 356 (9.19%) Security Cleared
17 353 (9.11%) Analytics
17 353 (9.11%) Decision-Making
17 353 (9.11%) Project Delivery
18 312 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 301 (7.77%) SC Cleared
20 286 (7.38%) C#
21 281 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
22 250 (6.45%) Roadmaps
23 238 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
24 237 (6.12%) GCP
25 236 (6.09%) Test Automation
26 230 (5.94%) Java
26 230 (5.94%) JavaScript

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 95 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
4 21 (0.54%) Confluence
5 19 (0.49%) CMS
6 18 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.36%) Apache
8 13 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.34%) WordPress
9 10 (0.26%) IIS
9 10 (0.26%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.077%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.077%) Artix
12 3 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.077%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.077%) Moodle
13 2 (0.052%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.026%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 77 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.31%) Civil 3D
6 12 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.23%) InDesign
7 9 (0.23%) 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 4 (0.10%) Revit
12 3 (0.077%) Blender
12 3 (0.077%) Maya
12 3 (0.077%) Trello
13 2 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.052%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.62%) Cloudability
2 20 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
7 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
8 9 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.23%) Shopify
9 6 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.15%) Primavera
10 5 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 3 (0.077%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 3 (0.077%) Misys Midas
11 3 (0.077%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.052%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.052%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 717 (18.51%) Azure
2 629 (16.24%) AWS
3 237 (6.12%) GCP
4 228 (5.89%) SaaS
5 163 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
6 161 (4.16%) Power Platform
7 145 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 117 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
9 113 (2.92%) GitHub
9 113 (2.92%) Serverless
10 54 (1.39%) Amazon S3
11 51 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
14 42 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 42 (1.08%) Azure AKS
14 42 (1.08%) PowerApps
15 41 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 39 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.08%) Firewall
2 93 (2.40%) Network Security
3 78 (2.01%) DNS
4 77 (1.99%) VLAN
5 65 (1.68%) VPN
6 59 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.50%) Broadband
8 57 (1.47%) Wireless
9 56 (1.45%) TCP/IP
10 52 (1.34%) WAN
11 47 (1.21%) LAN
12 45 (1.16%) DHCP
13 31 (0.80%) BGP
14 23 (0.59%) OSPF
15 22 (0.57%) SMS
16 19 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (0.44%) VXLAN
18 16 (0.41%) WLAN
19 15 (0.39%) HTTP
19 15 (0.39%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (3.18%) Power BI
3 100 (2.58%) SQL Server
4 71 (1.83%) Metadata
5 63 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 56 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.24%) MySQL
9 47 (1.21%) NoSQL
10 46 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (1.08%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.70%) Tableau
13 24 (0.62%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
15 19 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.46%) OLTP
17 16 (0.41%) Big Data
18 15 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 135 (3.49%) Git
2 61 (1.58%) JIRA
3 40 (1.03%) GitLab
4 26 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.65%) Snyk
6 19 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 14 (0.36%) JUnit
8 12 (0.31%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.26%) Maven
10 10 (0.26%) Postman
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
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
1 977 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 636 (16.42%) Finance
3 454 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 351 (9.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 294 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 266 (6.87%) Legal
7 237 (6.12%) Law
8 149 (3.85%) Banking
9 133 (3.43%) Marketing
10 103 (2.66%) Retail
11 74 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 68 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 66 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 60 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
16 56 (1.45%) Electronics
16 56 (1.45%) Local Government
17 48 (1.24%) Games
18 47 (1.21%) Aerospace
19 45 (1.16%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (5.76%) Terraform
2 211 (5.45%) .NET
3 165 (4.26%) React
4 117 (3.02%) Node.js
5 104 (2.69%) REST
6 91 (2.35%) HTML
7 85 (2.19%) CSS
8 81 (2.09%) RESTful
9 65 (1.68%) Spring
10 44 (1.14%) AngularJS
10 44 (1.14%) Spring Boot
11 43 (1.11%) PySpark
12 34 (0.88%) Kafka
12 34 (0.88%) Laravel
12 34 (0.88%) Vue
13 33 (0.85%) .NET Core
14 31 (0.80%) Next.js
15 27 (0.70%) OAuth
15 27 (0.70%) Web Services
15 27 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 228 (5.89%) Cloud Native
2 107 (2.76%) Driving Licence
3 101 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 63 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 61 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 57 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 48 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 41 (1.06%) Blog
13 40 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 39 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 35 (0.90%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.85%) Algorithms
17 31 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
18 29 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
18 29 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 161 (4.16%) Linux
2 150 (3.87%) Windows
3 62 (1.60%) Unix
4 60 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 28 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.62%) Android
7 21 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
9 10 (0.26%) VMS
10 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.077%) Debian
13 2 (0.052%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.052%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.026%) AIX
14 1 (0.026%) CentOS
14 1 (0.026%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (19.26%) Agile
1 746 (19.26%) Mentoring
2 661 (17.07%) Software Engineering
3 630 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 605 (15.62%) AI
5 587 (15.16%) CI/CD
6 506 (13.06%) DevOps
7 490 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
8 392 (10.12%) Coaching
9 365 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
10 353 (9.11%) Analytics
10 353 (9.11%) Decision-Making
10 353 (9.11%) Project Delivery
11 312 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 281 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 250 (6.45%) Roadmaps
14 238 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
15 236 (6.09%) Test Automation
16 206 (5.32%) Technical Leadership
17 203 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 535 (13.81%) Python
2 439 (11.33%) SQL
3 286 (7.38%) C#
4 230 (5.94%) Java
4 230 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 206 (5.32%) TypeScript
6 137 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 98 (2.53%) C++
8 54 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 52 (1.34%) Go
9 52 (1.34%) Kotlin
10 51 (1.32%) PHP
11 47 (1.21%) C
12 36 (0.93%) Bash
13 29 (0.75%) Bicep
14 23 (0.59%) Embedded C
15 21 (0.54%) R
16 20 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (0.52%) Ruby
17 19 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 375 (9.68%) Degree
2 356 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 301 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.48%) CISSP
5 91 (2.35%) CISM
6 70 (1.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 60 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.39%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
9 49 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 44 (1.14%) HNC
12 39 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 38 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 38 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 33 (0.85%) DBS Check
16 25 (0.65%) ACCA
17 24 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (5.89%) QA
2 127 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 118 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (1.91%) GDPR
6 57 (1.47%) NIST
7 47 (1.21%) GRC
8 31 (0.80%) PMO
9 22 (0.57%) WCAG
10 20 (0.52%) NCSC
10 20 (0.52%) SLA
11 13 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.26%) COBIT
14 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.21%) GxP
15 8 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 181 (4.67%) Docker
2 142 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 49 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.85%) vSphere
6 25 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.62%) Firmware
8 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.18%) vCloud
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.077%) 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%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.026%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.026%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 208 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 109 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (1.08%) Ansible
4 33 (0.85%) Grafana
5 19 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.46%) Argo
7 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.21%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.15%) Avamar
10 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.15%) VxRail
11 5 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.13%) Puppet
11 5 (0.13%) SCCM
12 4 (0.10%) FTK
12 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 478 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.23%) Oracle
3 88 (2.27%) Google
4 85 (2.19%) Adobe
5 69 (1.78%) Cisco
6 66 (1.70%) VMware
7 65 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 62 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.42%) CyberArk
11 51 (1.32%) SAP
12 49 (1.27%) Databricks
13 35 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
14 32 (0.83%) Informatica
15 31 (0.80%) Apple
15 31 (0.80%) OpenAI
16 28 (0.72%) Pega
16 28 (0.72%) Tenable
17 23 (0.59%) YouTube
18 22 (0.57%) Aruba