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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,402 2,315 5,768
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.94% 14.00% 18.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.96% 15.16% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 1,491 4,279
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -10.71%

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 20,064 15,268 30,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.32% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,616 9,503 23,643
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £57,150
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.49% -8.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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.

1 684 (20.11%) Agile
2 675 (19.84%) Mentoring
3 622 (18.28%) Azure
4 601 (17.67%) AWS
5 553 (16.26%) Software Engineering
6 490 (14.40%) AI
7 468 (13.76%) CI/CD
8 457 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 445 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
9 445 (13.08%) Python
10 421 (12.38%) Microsoft
11 411 (12.08%) DevOps
12 390 (11.46%) Coaching
13 366 (10.76%) SQL
14 329 (9.67%) Degree
15 310 (9.11%) Analytics
16 295 (8.67%) Roadmaps
17 291 (8.55%) Security Cleared
18 282 (8.29%) Project Delivery
19 278 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
20 274 (8.05%) Decision-Making
21 240 (7.05%) Test Automation
22 231 (6.79%) SC Cleared
23 229 (6.73%) Java
24 222 (6.53%) C#
25 221 (6.50%) GCP
26 213 (6.26%) JavaScript
26 213 (6.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 204 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
28 198 (5.82%) 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 95 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.65%) CMS
5 20 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.47%) Confluence
6 16 (0.47%) SAS
7 12 (0.35%) IIS
8 10 (0.29%) WordPress
9 8 (0.24%) Apache
9 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.088%) Artix
11 3 (0.088%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.059%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.059%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.059%) JBoss
12 2 (0.059%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 86 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Civil 3D
8 6 (0.18%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.15%) DaVinci Resolve
9 5 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.12%) Trello
11 3 (0.088%) Blender
11 3 (0.088%) Maya
12 2 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.059%) InVision
12 2 (0.059%) SPSS
12 2 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (0.71%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
2 16 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.26%) Visualfiles
7 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.15%) Shopify
10 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 3 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
11 3 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.088%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.088%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 622 (18.28%) Azure
2 601 (17.67%) AWS
3 221 (6.50%) GCP
4 198 (5.82%) SaaS
5 156 (4.59%) Power Platform
6 144 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 129 (3.79%) Serverless
8 116 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 89 (2.62%) GitHub
10 88 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (1.70%) PowerApps
12 52 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
14 44 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.23%) Amazon S3
16 39 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
18 34 (1.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 125 (3.67%) Firewall
2 119 (3.50%) Broadband
3 70 (2.06%) DNS
4 66 (1.94%) VPN
5 53 (1.56%) Network Security
6 50 (1.47%) WAN
7 49 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (1.32%) DHCP
8 45 (1.32%) Wireless
9 42 (1.23%) LAN
10 40 (1.18%) VLAN
11 33 (0.97%) TCP/IP
12 27 (0.79%) BGP
13 24 (0.71%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.68%) RS-232
15 19 (0.56%) OSPF
16 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
16 15 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (0.44%) Ethernet
17 13 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.17%) Power BI
2 97 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 67 (1.97%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.56%) Metadata
6 39 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 36 (1.06%) MySQL
8 34 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 29 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 28 (0.82%) OLTP
13 27 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 27 (0.79%) Tableau
14 19 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 99 (2.91%) Git
2 55 (1.62%) JIRA
3 38 (1.12%) GitLab
4 36 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.73%) Snyk
6 24 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 24 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 16 (0.47%) Selenium
8 11 (0.32%) Postman
9 8 (0.24%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
10 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.21%) JMeter
10 7 (0.21%) JUnit
10 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.18%) NUnit
12 5 (0.15%) MLflow
12 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 773 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 547 (16.08%) Finance
3 432 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 259 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 225 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 224 (6.58%) Law
7 181 (5.32%) Legal
8 125 (3.67%) Banking
9 116 (3.41%) Marketing
10 84 (2.47%) Retail
11 75 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.06%) Games
13 60 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 57 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 50 (1.47%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.12%) Legal Technology
16 38 (1.12%) Local Government
17 35 (1.03%) Electronics
18 27 (0.79%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (5.73%) .NET
2 138 (4.06%) React
3 105 (3.09%) Node.js
4 83 (2.44%) REST
5 80 (2.35%) HTML
6 74 (2.18%) RESTful
7 63 (1.85%) CSS
8 50 (1.47%) Spring
9 42 (1.23%) SOAP
10 40 (1.18%) Vue
11 36 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
12 35 (1.03%) Kafka
12 35 (1.03%) Spring Boot
13 29 (0.85%) Laravel
14 27 (0.79%) OAuth
15 26 (0.76%) AngularJS
15 26 (0.76%) JSON
15 26 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
15 26 (0.76%) PySpark
16 25 (0.73%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 74 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 61 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 59 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (1.68%) Social Media
8 48 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 46 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 43 (1.26%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 43 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 41 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.21%) Virtual Team
13 39 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 38 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 37 (1.09%) Cyberattack
15 37 (1.09%) Management Information System
16 36 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 166 (4.88%) Linux
2 132 (3.88%) Windows
3 49 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 46 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.29%) Android
5 44 (1.29%) Unix
6 25 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.29%) VMS
9 9 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.088%) Debian
11 3 (0.088%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) CentOS
12 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (20.11%) Agile
2 675 (19.84%) Mentoring
3 553 (16.26%) Software Engineering
4 490 (14.40%) AI
5 468 (13.76%) CI/CD
6 457 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 445 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
8 411 (12.08%) DevOps
9 390 (11.46%) Coaching
10 310 (9.11%) Analytics
11 295 (8.67%) Roadmaps
12 282 (8.29%) Project Delivery
13 278 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
14 274 (8.05%) Decision-Making
15 240 (7.05%) Test Automation
16 213 (6.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 204 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 191 (5.61%) Infrastructure as Code
19 185 (5.44%) Project Management
20 164 (4.82%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 445 (13.08%) Python
2 366 (10.76%) SQL
3 229 (6.73%) Java
4 222 (6.53%) C#
5 213 (6.26%) JavaScript
6 176 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 118 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 90 (2.65%) C++
9 65 (1.91%) Go
10 59 (1.73%) PHP
11 55 (1.62%) Bash
12 49 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 45 (1.32%) C
14 26 (0.76%) Scala
14 26 (0.76%) VBA
15 25 (0.73%) Bicep
16 24 (0.71%) Rust
16 24 (0.71%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 21 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 329 (9.67%) Degree
2 291 (8.55%) Security Cleared
3 231 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 72 (2.12%) CISSP
5 66 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 62 (1.82%) CISM
7 57 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 39 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 38 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 37 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (0.88%) PhD
14 29 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
15 28 (0.82%) A+ Certification
15 28 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 26 (0.76%) ACCA
17 24 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (5.14%) QA
2 84 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 77 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 69 (2.03%) NIST
6 54 (1.59%) GDPR
7 48 (1.41%) GRC
8 31 (0.91%) PMO
9 20 (0.59%) SLA
10 19 (0.56%) NCSC
11 14 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.35%) P3O
13 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.24%) WCAG
16 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
17 6 (0.18%) COBIT
17 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 146 (4.29%) Docker
2 123 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.94%) vSphere
6 20 (0.59%) Firmware
7 18 (0.53%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.26%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.088%) iptables
13 2 (0.059%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.029%) GPFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 193 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 173 (5.09%) Terraform
3 67 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.06%) Ansible
5 32 (0.94%) Grafana
6 21 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.53%) Argo
8 14 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.41%) SCCM
9 8 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.24%) Puppet
10 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.18%) Avamar
11 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
11 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.18%) VxRail
12 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 421 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 133 (3.91%) Oracle
3 112 (3.29%) Adobe
4 70 (2.06%) Google
4 70 (2.06%) VMware
5 67 (1.97%) Palo Alto
6 65 (1.91%) ServiceNow
7 64 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 62 (1.82%) SAP
9 61 (1.79%) Cisco
10 48 (1.41%) Databricks
11 41 (1.21%) Apple
12 32 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (0.82%) Dell
13 28 (0.82%) Pega
14 27 (0.79%) CyberArk
14 27 (0.79%) Tenable
15 20 (0.59%) Computacenter
15 20 (0.59%) Informatica
16 18 (0.53%) OpenAI