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 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 2,600 2,749 4,670
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.52% 18.93% 16.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.55% 19.94% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 1,793 3,913
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,691 £56,250 £52,581
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 £83,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 15,708 13,786 27,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 94.93% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,561 8,845 22,896
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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.

1 586 (22.54%) Azure
2 536 (20.62%) Mentoring
3 526 (20.23%) Agile
4 445 (17.12%) AWS
5 386 (14.85%) CI/CD
6 378 (14.54%) SQL
7 370 (14.23%) Software Engineering
8 365 (14.04%) Coaching
9 358 (13.77%) DevOps
10 319 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
11 315 (12.12%) Microsoft
12 311 (11.96%) Python
13 307 (11.81%) AI
14 291 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 259 (9.96%) Degree
16 240 (9.23%) Security Cleared
17 219 (8.42%) Roadmaps
18 218 (8.38%) Java
19 217 (8.35%) Analytics
20 210 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
21 207 (7.96%) .NET
22 205 (7.88%) SaaS
23 192 (7.38%) GCP
24 190 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
25 188 (7.23%) Kubernetes
26 182 (7.00%) Test Automation
27 178 (6.85%) Terraform
28 175 (6.73%) SC Cleared
29 170 (6.54%) Docker
30 167 (6.42%) C#

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 63 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.88%) WordPress
5 22 (0.85%) Confluence
5 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.54%) Apache
6 14 (0.54%) CMS
7 11 (0.42%) JBoss
7 11 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.23%) SAS
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.12%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
10 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.38%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.23%) Sketch
8 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.15%) Maya
9 4 (0.15%) MotionBuilder
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.12%) InVision
10 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.12%) Trello
10 3 (0.12%) Weka
11 2 (0.077%) Revit
11 2 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.038%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.038%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 34 (1.31%) Oracle ERP
2 25 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
3 23 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
3 23 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 22 (0.85%) Shopify
5 15 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
6 13 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.42%) Hyperion Planning
8 10 (0.38%) Visualfiles
9 6 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.19%) Magento
10 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 586 (22.54%) Azure
2 445 (17.12%) AWS
3 205 (7.88%) SaaS
4 192 (7.38%) GCP
5 127 (4.88%) GitHub
6 116 (4.46%) Entra ID
7 114 (4.38%) Power Platform
8 113 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 96 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
10 83 (3.19%) Serverless
11 62 (2.38%) dbt
12 60 (2.31%) Snowflake
13 47 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (1.62%) PowerApps
15 40 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
16 37 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
17 36 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
19 32 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
19 32 (1.23%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.77%) Broadband
2 65 (2.50%) Firewall
3 47 (1.81%) VPN
4 43 (1.65%) WAN
5 39 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.42%) DNS
7 32 (1.23%) DHCP
8 28 (1.08%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.04%) LAN
9 27 (1.04%) Network Security
10 18 (0.69%) BGP
10 18 (0.69%) Ethernet
11 17 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.62%) Wireless
13 13 (0.50%) RS-232
14 11 (0.42%) HTTP
15 10 (0.38%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.35%) OSPF
17 7 (0.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 84 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (3.12%) Power BI
4 62 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (1.58%) Data Lake
5 41 (1.58%) Metadata
5 41 (1.58%) NoSQL
6 32 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 30 (1.15%) BigQuery
8 28 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 26 (1.00%) MySQL
11 25 (0.96%) Redis
11 25 (0.96%) Tableau
12 21 (0.81%) OLTP
13 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
14 17 (0.65%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.58%) Delta Lake
15 15 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (3.04%) JIRA
2 70 (2.69%) Git
3 60 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
5 33 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 23 (0.88%) GitLab
7 22 (0.85%) Selenium
8 11 (0.42%) Claude Code
8 11 (0.42%) Postman
9 10 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.35%) MLflow
11 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.31%) Subversion
11 8 (0.31%) webpack
12 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.27%) git-flow
12 7 (0.27%) JUnit
12 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.27%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.23%) Babel
General
1 580 (22.31%) Finance
2 537 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 268 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 182 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (4.88%) Retail
7 126 (4.85%) Law
8 122 (4.69%) Marketing
9 100 (3.85%) Banking
10 81 (3.12%) Legal
10 81 (3.12%) Telecoms
11 79 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
12 67 (2.58%) Games
13 51 (1.96%) Financial Institution
14 43 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (0.88%) Back Office
18 20 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (0.73%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (7.96%) .NET
2 133 (5.12%) React
3 123 (4.73%) REST
4 112 (4.31%) SOAP
5 85 (3.27%) HTML
6 83 (3.19%) RESTful
7 70 (2.69%) GraphQL
8 66 (2.54%) Node.js
8 66 (2.54%) OAuth
9 59 (2.27%) CSS
10 55 (2.12%) Spring
11 51 (1.96%) Kafka
12 44 (1.69%) OpenID
13 43 (1.65%) SAML
13 43 (1.65%) Spring Boot
14 39 (1.50%) XML
15 36 (1.38%) .NET Core
15 36 (1.38%) LDAP
16 29 (1.12%) JSON
17 28 (1.08%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 176 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 97 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 94 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 63 (2.42%) Social Media
5 59 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 40 (1.54%) Cyberattack
9 38 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 37 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 36 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
12 35 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 31 (1.19%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
15 26 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 24 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 23 (0.88%) Management Information System
19 22 (0.85%) Low-Code
20 21 (0.81%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 134 (5.15%) Linux
2 83 (3.19%) Windows
3 62 (2.38%) Android
4 51 (1.96%) Apple iOS
5 38 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 32 (1.23%) Unix
7 24 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.46%) VMS
9 11 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.077%) CentOS
11 2 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (20.62%) Mentoring
2 526 (20.23%) Agile
3 386 (14.85%) CI/CD
4 370 (14.23%) Software Engineering
5 365 (14.04%) Coaching
6 358 (13.77%) DevOps
7 319 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
8 307 (11.81%) AI
9 291 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 219 (8.42%) Roadmaps
11 217 (8.35%) Analytics
12 210 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
13 190 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 182 (7.00%) Test Automation
15 167 (6.42%) Microservices
16 151 (5.81%) User Experience
17 141 (5.42%) Decision-Making
17 141 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
18 140 (5.38%) Full-Stack Development
19 134 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 378 (14.54%) SQL
2 311 (11.96%) Python
3 218 (8.38%) Java
4 167 (6.42%) C#
5 153 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 131 (5.04%) TypeScript
7 87 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 75 (2.88%) Bash
9 65 (2.50%) Go
10 60 (2.31%) C++
11 53 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.96%) PHP
13 46 (1.77%) Scala
14 38 (1.46%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.27%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.15%) C
17 21 (0.81%) Bicep
18 20 (0.77%) VBA
19 17 (0.65%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (9.96%) Degree
2 240 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 175 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 83 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 40 (1.54%) ACCA
6 40 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (1.31%) CISSP
8 32 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 21 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.77%) CIMA
13 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.65%) CISM
14 15 (0.58%) CCNP
15 14 (0.54%) CREST Certified
16 12 (0.46%) OSCP
17 11 (0.42%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (3.62%) QA
2 57 (2.19%) Accessibility
2 57 (2.19%) NIST
3 56 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.04%) GDPR
6 35 (1.35%) NCSC
7 21 (0.81%) IFRS
8 15 (0.58%) PMO
9 14 (0.54%) GRC
9 14 (0.54%) P3O
10 11 (0.42%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.42%) MISRA
10 11 (0.42%) MISRA C
11 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.35%) SLA
12 8 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 170 (6.54%) Docker
2 115 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) Firmware
6 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.15%) vSphere
9 2 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) vCloud
9 2 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.038%) Ceph
10 1 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.038%) Lustre
10 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 188 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 178 (6.85%) Terraform
3 58 (2.23%) Grafana
4 47 (1.81%) Ansible
5 45 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.46%) SCCM
9 11 (0.42%) Functional Safety
10 9 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.19%) Argo
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) Puppet
13 3 (0.12%) Control-M
13 3 (0.12%) cPanel
13 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
13 3 (0.12%) Plesk
14 2 (0.077%) Nagios
14 2 (0.077%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 315 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 139 (5.35%) Oracle
3 77 (2.96%) Databricks
4 58 (2.23%) Google
5 53 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 52 (2.00%) VMware
7 51 (1.96%) Cisco
8 50 (1.92%) Adobe
8 50 (1.92%) SAP
9 29 (1.12%) Okta
10 28 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.73%) Apple
11 19 (0.73%) Workday
12 14 (0.54%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.54%) Screaming Frog
13 12 (0.46%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.46%) Samsung
13 12 (0.46%) Talend
14 11 (0.42%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.42%) MuleSoft