Hybrid/Remote Senior Job Trends

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote/hybrid work is £69,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 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 2,552 2,733 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.46% 18.94% 16.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.50% 19.92% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,802 1,771 3,901
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 15,469 13,721 27,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 95.10% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10,369 8,707 22,905
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,780 £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 £75,772
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 3 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 3 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.

1 577 (22.61%) Azure
2 532 (20.85%) Mentoring
3 520 (20.38%) Agile
4 432 (16.93%) AWS
5 385 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 373 (14.62%) SQL
7 363 (14.22%) Coaching
7 363 (14.22%) Software Engineering
8 357 (13.99%) DevOps
9 320 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
10 313 (12.26%) Microsoft
11 304 (11.91%) Python
12 296 (11.60%) AI
13 285 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 257 (10.07%) Degree
15 238 (9.33%) Security Cleared
16 214 (8.39%) Roadmaps
17 213 (8.35%) Analytics
18 211 (8.27%) Java
19 210 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
20 204 (7.99%) .NET
21 202 (7.92%) SaaS
22 186 (7.29%) GCP
22 186 (7.29%) Kubernetes
23 185 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
24 179 (7.01%) Test Automation
25 173 (6.78%) Terraform
26 172 (6.74%) SC Cleared
27 169 (6.62%) Docker
27 169 (6.62%) Microservices

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 61 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.90%) WordPress
5 22 (0.86%) Confluence
5 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.51%) Apache
6 13 (0.51%) CMS
7 11 (0.43%) JBoss
7 11 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.24%) SAS
9 5 (0.20%) 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 (0.078%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.039%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 46 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.43%) Oracle Smart View
5 10 (0.39%) InDesign
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.24%) Sketch
8 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.16%) Maya
9 4 (0.16%) 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 (0.078%) Revit
11 2 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.039%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.039%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 34 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
2 24 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
3 23 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
3 23 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 23 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 22 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
4 22 (0.86%) Shopify
5 16 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 13 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
7 11 (0.43%) Hyperion Planning
8 9 (0.35%) Visualfiles
9 6 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.24%) NEC Housing
9 6 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.20%) Magento
10 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.20%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.20%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 577 (22.61%) Azure
2 432 (16.93%) AWS
3 202 (7.92%) SaaS
4 186 (7.29%) GCP
5 125 (4.90%) GitHub
6 116 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 110 (4.31%) Power Platform
8 94 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
9 79 (3.10%) Serverless
10 62 (2.43%) dbt
11 60 (2.35%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (1.57%) PowerApps
14 39 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
15 36 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
16 32 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
16 32 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.25%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.76%) Broadband
2 59 (2.31%) Firewall
3 44 (1.72%) VPN
4 41 (1.61%) WAN
5 39 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 36 (1.41%) DNS
7 32 (1.25%) DHCP
8 27 (1.06%) SD-WAN
9 25 (0.98%) LAN
9 25 (0.98%) Network Security
10 17 (0.67%) Ethernet
11 16 (0.63%) BGP
11 16 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.55%) Wireless
13 12 (0.47%) RS-232
14 11 (0.43%) HTTP
15 10 (0.39%) Unified Communications
16 8 (0.31%) OSPF
17 7 (0.27%) MPLS
17 7 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 85 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (3.06%) Power BI
4 61 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 41 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 40 (1.57%) Metadata
8 31 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.18%) BigQuery
10 27 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.02%) MySQL
12 25 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (0.98%) Redis
12 25 (0.98%) Tableau
13 20 (0.78%) OLTP
14 17 (0.67%) Relational Database
15 16 (0.63%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 78 (3.06%) JIRA
2 68 (2.66%) Git
3 59 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
5 33 (1.29%) TeamCity
6 22 (0.86%) GitLab
6 22 (0.86%) Selenium
7 11 (0.43%) Postman
8 10 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.35%) MLflow
10 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.31%) Subversion
10 8 (0.31%) webpack
11 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.27%) git-flow
11 7 (0.27%) JUnit
11 7 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 7 (0.27%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.24%) Babel
General
1 567 (22.22%) Finance
2 529 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 261 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 178 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (4.94%) Retail
7 119 (4.66%) Law
8 114 (4.47%) Marketing
9 96 (3.76%) Banking
10 81 (3.17%) Legal
11 80 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 77 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
13 66 (2.59%) Games
14 51 (2.00%) Financial Institution
15 42 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.49%) Manufacturing
17 27 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 23 (0.90%) Back Office
19 20 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
20 17 (0.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (7.99%) .NET
2 132 (5.17%) React
3 122 (4.78%) REST
4 112 (4.39%) SOAP
5 84 (3.29%) HTML
5 84 (3.29%) RESTful
6 71 (2.78%) GraphQL
7 66 (2.59%) OAuth
8 64 (2.51%) Node.js
9 58 (2.27%) CSS
10 53 (2.08%) Spring
11 49 (1.92%) Kafka
12 44 (1.72%) OpenID
13 43 (1.68%) SAML
14 41 (1.61%) Spring Boot
15 39 (1.53%) XML
16 36 (1.41%) LDAP
17 35 (1.37%) .NET Core
18 28 (1.10%) Django
18 28 (1.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 172 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 99 (3.88%) Onboarding
3 88 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 60 (2.35%) Social Media
5 58 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 40 (1.57%) Cyberattack
9 37 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 36 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
10 36 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 27 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
14 26 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 24 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (0.86%) Management Information System
17 20 (0.78%) Low-Code
17 20 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 130 (5.09%) Linux
2 81 (3.17%) Windows
3 62 (2.43%) Android
4 51 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 37 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 32 (1.25%) Unix
7 24 (0.94%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 10 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.078%) CentOS
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (20.85%) Mentoring
2 520 (20.38%) Agile
3 385 (15.09%) CI/CD
4 363 (14.22%) Coaching
4 363 (14.22%) Software Engineering
5 357 (13.99%) DevOps
6 320 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
7 296 (11.60%) AI
8 285 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 214 (8.39%) Roadmaps
10 213 (8.35%) Analytics
11 210 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
12 185 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 179 (7.01%) Test Automation
14 169 (6.62%) Microservices
15 149 (5.84%) User Experience
16 139 (5.45%) Decision-Making
17 137 (5.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 135 (5.29%) Full-Stack Development
19 132 (5.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 373 (14.62%) SQL
2 304 (11.91%) Python
3 211 (8.27%) Java
4 163 (6.39%) C#
5 147 (5.76%) JavaScript
6 127 (4.98%) TypeScript
7 85 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.90%) Bash
9 62 (2.43%) Go
10 59 (2.31%) C++
11 51 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 50 (1.96%) PHP
13 45 (1.76%) Scala
14 37 (1.45%) T-SQL
15 33 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 29 (1.14%) C
17 21 (0.82%) Bicep
18 20 (0.78%) VBA
19 17 (0.67%) Shell Script
20 15 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 257 (10.07%) Degree
2 238 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 172 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 83 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 39 (1.53%) ACCA
6 39 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (1.33%) CISSP
8 31 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 21 (0.82%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.74%) CIMA
13 17 (0.67%) CISM
14 16 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.59%) CCNP
16 14 (0.55%) CREST Certified
17 12 (0.47%) OSCP
18 11 (0.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.64%) QA
2 56 (2.19%) Accessibility
2 56 (2.19%) NIST
3 55 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.04%) GDPR
6 35 (1.37%) NCSC
7 21 (0.82%) IFRS
8 15 (0.59%) PMO
9 14 (0.55%) GRC
9 14 (0.55%) P3O
10 11 (0.43%) IEC 61508
10 11 (0.43%) MISRA
10 11 (0.43%) 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
1 169 (6.62%) Docker
2 115 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.27%) Firmware
6 7 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.20%) vSphere
8 2 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.078%) vCloud
8 2 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.039%) Ceph
9 1 (0.039%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.039%) Lustre
9 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 186 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 173 (6.78%) Terraform
3 57 (2.23%) Grafana
4 46 (1.80%) Ansible
5 45 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.47%) SCCM
9 11 (0.43%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.20%) Argo
11 5 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.20%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.20%) Puppet
12 3 (0.12%) Control-M
12 3 (0.12%) cPanel
12 3 (0.12%) FlexNet
12 3 (0.12%) Plesk
13 2 (0.078%) Nagios
13 2 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 313 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.37%) Oracle
3 78 (3.06%) Databricks
4 57 (2.23%) Google
5 52 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 50 (1.96%) VMware
7 49 (1.92%) SAP
8 48 (1.88%) Adobe
8 48 (1.88%) Cisco
9 29 (1.14%) Okta
10 28 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.74%) Apple
11 19 (0.74%) Workday
12 14 (0.55%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.55%) Screaming Frog
13 12 (0.47%) Samsung
13 12 (0.47%) Talend
14 11 (0.43%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.43%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.43%) Wrike