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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,955 2,148 4,184
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.90% 12.77% 18.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.94% 13.73% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,587 1,402 2,431
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +1.52% -3.65%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,375
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 23,349 15,648 21,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 92.99% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16,180 8,788 13,430
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £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 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £100,000
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 3 October 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 October 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.

1 754 (19.06%) Mentoring
2 752 (19.01%) Agile
3 719 (18.18%) Azure
4 685 (17.32%) Software Engineering
5 644 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 640 (16.18%) AWS
7 611 (15.45%) AI
8 604 (15.27%) CI/CD
9 543 (13.73%) Python
10 518 (13.10%) DevOps
11 502 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
12 472 (11.93%) Microsoft
13 450 (11.38%) SQL
14 396 (10.01%) Coaching
15 379 (9.58%) Degree
16 367 (9.28%) Security Cleared
17 365 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (9.00%) Analytics
19 348 (8.80%) Decision-Making
20 347 (8.77%) Project Delivery
21 312 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 305 (7.71%) SC Cleared
23 287 (7.26%) C#
23 287 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
24 250 (6.32%) Java
25 247 (6.25%) Test Automation
26 245 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
27 242 (6.12%) Roadmaps
28 239 (6.04%) GCP
29 233 (5.89%) SaaS

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 88 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 22 (0.56%) Confluence
5 21 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.46%) CMS
7 14 (0.35%) Apache
7 14 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.33%) WordPress
9 10 (0.25%) SAS
10 9 (0.23%) IIS
10 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.076%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.076%) Artix
12 3 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.076%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.076%) Moodle
13 1 (0.025%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.025%) Appian
Applications
1 78 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.40%) AutoCAD
6 12 (0.30%) Civil 3D
7 10 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.23%) InDesign
8 9 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.15%) Revit
12 3 (0.076%) Blender
12 3 (0.076%) DaVinci Resolve
12 3 (0.076%) Maya
12 3 (0.076%) Trello
13 2 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (0.61%) Cloudability
2 21 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 13 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 12 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
8 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.23%) Shopify
10 7 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
11 6 (0.15%) Primavera
12 5 (0.13%) SAP Business One
13 3 (0.076%) IBM Planning Analytics
13 3 (0.076%) Misys Midas
13 3 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
13 3 (0.076%) SAP BPC
14 2 (0.051%) SAP FI
14 2 (0.051%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 719 (18.18%) Azure
2 640 (16.18%) AWS
3 239 (6.04%) GCP
4 233 (5.89%) SaaS
5 161 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 160 (4.05%) Power Platform
7 147 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 117 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (2.88%) GitHub
10 111 (2.81%) Serverless
11 54 (1.37%) Amazon S3
11 54 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
12 46 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (1.11%) Azure AKS
14 40 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 40 (1.01%) PowerApps
15 38 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 37 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 157 (3.97%) Firewall
2 94 (2.38%) Network Security
3 79 (2.00%) DNS
4 78 (1.97%) VLAN
5 67 (1.69%) VPN
6 59 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
7 58 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 58 (1.47%) Wireless
8 55 (1.39%) Broadband
9 50 (1.26%) WAN
10 47 (1.19%) LAN
11 43 (1.09%) DHCP
12 30 (0.76%) BGP
13 23 (0.58%) SMS
14 22 (0.56%) OSPF
15 18 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.40%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.38%) WLAN
18 14 (0.35%) Ethernet
18 14 (0.35%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (3.08%) Power BI
3 103 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 72 (1.82%) Metadata
5 61 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 59 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 48 (1.21%) MySQL
9 45 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 45 (1.14%) NoSQL
10 42 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 27 (0.68%) Tableau
12 25 (0.63%) Data Lake
13 22 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (0.51%) OLTP
15 19 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 18 (0.46%) Big Data
16 18 (0.46%) BigQuery
17 15 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 136 (3.44%) Git
2 63 (1.59%) JIRA
3 43 (1.09%) GitLab
4 26 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.63%) Snyk
6 23 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 15 (0.38%) JUnit
8 13 (0.33%) Selenium
9 11 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 10 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.25%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.25%) Maven
10 10 (0.25%) Postman
11 9 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.20%) 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
1 979 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 645 (16.31%) Finance
3 464 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 358 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (6.65%) Legal
7 241 (6.09%) Law
8 149 (3.77%) Banking
9 130 (3.29%) Marketing
10 114 (2.88%) Retail
11 75 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 72 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 71 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 64 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
16 58 (1.47%) Electronics
17 56 (1.42%) Local Government
18 53 (1.34%) Aerospace
19 50 (1.26%) Games
20 46 (1.16%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (5.87%) Terraform
2 210 (5.31%) .NET
3 162 (4.10%) React
4 112 (2.83%) Node.js
5 103 (2.60%) REST
6 89 (2.25%) HTML
7 85 (2.15%) RESTful
8 84 (2.12%) CSS
9 68 (1.72%) Spring
10 47 (1.19%) Spring Boot
11 43 (1.09%) AngularJS
12 40 (1.01%) PySpark
13 36 (0.91%) Kafka
14 34 (0.86%) Laravel
14 34 (0.86%) Vue
15 33 (0.83%) .NET Core
16 31 (0.78%) Next.js
17 30 (0.76%) OAuth
18 26 (0.66%) Web Services
18 26 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 241 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 108 (2.73%) Driving Licence
3 105 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 86 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 65 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 63 (1.59%) AI Agents
9 57 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 49 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.19%) Blog
13 41 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
14 37 (0.94%) Mobile App
15 36 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 33 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 32 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
18 29 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
19 28 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.25%) Linux
2 148 (3.74%) Windows
3 65 (1.64%) Unix
4 62 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 26 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.56%) Android
7 21 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 10 (0.25%) VMS
10 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.076%) Debian
13 2 (0.051%) Rocky
13 2 (0.051%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.051%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.025%) AIX
14 1 (0.025%) CentOS
14 1 (0.025%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (19.06%) Mentoring
2 752 (19.01%) Agile
3 685 (17.32%) Software Engineering
4 644 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 611 (15.45%) AI
6 604 (15.27%) CI/CD
7 518 (13.10%) DevOps
8 502 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
9 396 (10.01%) Coaching
10 365 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
11 356 (9.00%) Analytics
12 348 (8.80%) Decision-Making
13 347 (8.77%) Project Delivery
14 312 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 287 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 247 (6.25%) Test Automation
17 245 (6.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 242 (6.12%) Roadmaps
19 208 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
20 206 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 543 (13.73%) Python
2 450 (11.38%) SQL
3 287 (7.26%) C#
4 250 (6.32%) Java
5 224 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 200 (5.06%) TypeScript
7 137 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 99 (2.50%) C++
9 58 (1.47%) Go
10 56 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 54 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 51 (1.29%) PHP
13 48 (1.21%) C
14 42 (1.06%) Bash
15 30 (0.76%) Bicep
16 23 (0.58%) Embedded C
17 20 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.51%) Ruby
18 19 (0.48%) T-SQL
19 18 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 379 (9.58%) Degree
2 367 (9.28%) Security Cleared
3 305 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 96 (2.43%) CISSP
5 91 (2.30%) CISM
6 70 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.37%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
9 49 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 47 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.11%) HNC
12 41 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 37 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 36 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 36 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.86%) DBS Check
16 24 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (5.82%) QA
2 125 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 115 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 82 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 74 (1.87%) GDPR
6 59 (1.49%) NIST
7 48 (1.21%) GRC
8 30 (0.76%) PMO
9 22 (0.56%) WCAG
10 20 (0.51%) NCSC
11 19 (0.48%) SLA
12 14 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.25%) COBIT
15 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.20%) GxP
16 8 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 192 (4.85%) Docker
2 143 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.86%) vSphere
6 28 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.61%) Firmware
8 12 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.18%) vCloud
10 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.076%) iptables
12 2 (0.051%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.025%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.025%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.025%) GPFS
13 1 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.025%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 221 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 110 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (1.11%) Ansible
4 38 (0.96%) Grafana
5 19 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.46%) Argo
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.15%) Avamar
9 6 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (0.15%) VxRail
10 5 (0.13%) Puppet
10 5 (0.13%) SCCM
11 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.10%) FTK
12 3 (0.076%) CASB
Vendors
1 472 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 125 (3.16%) Oracle
3 93 (2.35%) Google
4 77 (1.95%) Adobe
5 69 (1.74%) VMware
6 68 (1.72%) Cisco
7 66 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 66 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 56 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 55 (1.39%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.26%) Databricks
11 47 (1.19%) SAP
12 34 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
13 32 (0.81%) Apple
14 31 (0.78%) Informatica
14 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
15 28 (0.71%) Pega
15 28 (0.71%) Tenable
16 26 (0.66%) YouTube
17 22 (0.56%) Aruba