Senior Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 5,204 5,088 15,416
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.63% 15.50% 19.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.35% 16.18% 20.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,597 4,199 7,918
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.19% +5.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior.

Senior salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Senior salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Senior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Senior in the job title.

1 1,526 (29.32%) Agile
2 1,258 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 1,224 (23.52%) Azure
4 1,219 (23.42%) AWS
5 1,163 (22.35%) Finance
6 1,135 (21.81%) Software Engineering
7 1,029 (19.77%) Mentoring
8 1,022 (19.64%) Microsoft
9 1,014 (19.49%) Python
10 886 (17.03%) SQL
11 874 (16.79%) JavaScript
12 741 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
13 674 (12.95%) Degree
14 661 (12.70%) DevOps
15 634 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
16 629 (12.09%) C#
17 614 (11.80%) .NET
18 582 (11.18%) Actionable Insight
19 578 (11.11%) Coaching
20 531 (10.20%) React
21 530 (10.18%) TypeScript
22 500 (9.61%) Java
23 458 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 451 (8.67%) Security Cleared
25 448 (8.61%) Decision-Making
26 424 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
27 419 (8.05%) Linux
28 414 (7.96%) Analytics
29 393 (7.55%) Active Directory
30 385 (7.40%) Broadband

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 182 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 176 (3.38%) Apache
3 105 (2.02%) ArcGIS
4 101 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 98 (1.88%) GeoServer
6 70 (1.35%) CMS
7 60 (1.15%) SharePoint
8 42 (0.81%) Apache Spark
9 41 (0.79%) Tuxedo
10 39 (0.75%) IIS
11 34 (0.65%) Confluence
12 29 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
12 29 (0.56%) Umbraco
13 27 (0.52%) Kentico
14 26 (0.50%) Headless CMS
15 25 (0.48%) WordPress
16 14 (0.27%) nginx
17 11 (0.21%) Appian
17 11 (0.21%) SAS
18 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 339 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.33%) OrCAD
5 16 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.21%) Simulink
8 9 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.12%) Windchill
10 4 (0.077%) Sketch
10 4 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.058%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.058%) Revit
11 3 (0.058%) SPSS
11 3 (0.058%) Trello
12 2 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.038%) PrintSoft PReS
12 2 (0.038%) Stata
Business Applications
1 42 (0.81%) Endur
2 38 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.35%) NEC Housing
5 12 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.19%) Magento
6 10 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.12%) Shopify
8 4 (0.077%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.077%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 3 (0.058%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.058%) SAP Travel Management
10 2 (0.038%) Findur
10 2 (0.038%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.038%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.038%) SAP Payroll
10 2 (0.038%) SAP SD
11 1 (0.019%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.019%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 1,224 (23.52%) Azure
2 1,219 (23.42%) AWS
3 263 (5.05%) Entra ID
4 219 (4.21%) SaaS
5 207 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 202 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 183 (3.52%) Snowflake
8 171 (3.29%) dbt
8 171 (3.29%) Power Platform
9 166 (3.19%) GCP
10 113 (2.17%) Serverless
11 82 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
12 75 (1.44%) GitHub
13 53 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 50 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (0.96%) PowerApps
15 48 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
15 48 (0.92%) IaaS
16 46 (0.88%) Power Automate
17 44 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 385 (7.40%) Broadband
2 161 (3.09%) Firewall
3 149 (2.86%) WAN
4 130 (2.50%) 5G
5 104 (2.00%) Network Security
6 94 (1.81%) SD-WAN
7 85 (1.63%) DNS
8 77 (1.48%) LAN
8 77 (1.48%) VPN
9 71 (1.36%) Wireless
10 62 (1.19%) Internet
11 51 (0.98%) DHCP
12 45 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 43 (0.83%) TCP/IP
14 42 (0.81%) SAN
15 37 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
16 32 (0.61%) BGP
16 32 (0.61%) VLAN
17 29 (0.56%) MPLS
18 28 (0.54%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (4.86%) Data Lake
2 242 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 206 (3.96%) Tableau
4 203 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 154 (2.96%) MySQL
6 149 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
6 149 (2.86%) Dremio
7 147 (2.82%) Apache Arrow
7 147 (2.82%) Apache Ignite
8 126 (2.42%) NoSQL
9 124 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
10 112 (2.15%) Power BI
11 106 (2.04%) GIS
12 100 (1.92%) QGIS
13 96 (1.84%) Relational Database
14 79 (1.52%) MongoDB
15 62 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
16 47 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 44 (0.85%) DynamoDB
18 33 (0.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 341 (6.55%) Git
2 95 (1.83%) JIRA
3 88 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 71 (1.36%) GitLab
5 50 (0.96%) Selenium
6 34 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 29 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 27 (0.52%) Postman
9 26 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 23 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (0.37%) JMeter
12 18 (0.35%) webpack
13 16 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 16 (0.31%) JUnit
13 16 (0.31%) MLflow
14 14 (0.27%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.27%) Subversion
15 13 (0.25%) IntelliJ
15 13 (0.25%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.25%) Storybook
General
1 1,258 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 1,163 (22.35%) Finance
3 741 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 458 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 312 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 292 (5.61%) Banking
7 273 (5.25%) Influencing Skills
7 273 (5.25%) Retail
8 218 (4.19%) Front Office
9 194 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
10 181 (3.48%) Legal
10 181 (3.48%) Marketing
11 161 (3.09%) Investment Banking
12 98 (1.88%) Games
13 82 (1.58%) Law
14 79 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 56 (1.08%) Electronics
16 54 (1.04%) Advertising
17 45 (0.86%) Automotive
18 42 (0.81%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 614 (11.80%) .NET
2 531 (10.20%) React
3 350 (6.73%) CSS
4 296 (5.69%) HTML
5 258 (4.96%) AngularJS
6 243 (4.67%) .NET Core
7 214 (4.11%) Pandas
8 211 (4.05%) Node.js
8 211 (4.05%) RESTful
9 196 (3.77%) gRPC
10 155 (2.98%) Protocol Buffers
10 155 (2.98%) REST
11 152 (2.92%) ASP.NET
11 152 (2.92%) NumPy
12 148 (2.84%) .NET Framework
13 147 (2.82%) SciPy
14 137 (2.63%) Vue
15 116 (2.23%) Kafka
16 100 (1.92%) OpenLayers
17 98 (1.88%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 219 (4.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 208 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 198 (3.80%) Derivative
3 198 (3.80%) Equities
4 187 (3.59%) Hedge funds
5 186 (3.57%) Fixed Income
6 161 (3.09%) Social Media
7 118 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 115 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 108 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 107 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
11 101 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 91 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
13 77 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
14 76 (1.46%) IoT
15 72 (1.38%) Pricing Data
16 63 (1.21%) Onboarding
17 59 (1.13%) Mobile App
18 57 (1.10%) Cloud Native
19 45 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 419 (8.05%) Linux
2 366 (7.03%) Windows
3 146 (2.81%) Ubuntu
4 122 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 66 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
6 55 (1.06%) Windows 10
7 51 (0.98%) Unix
8 35 (0.67%) Android
9 28 (0.54%) Apple iOS
10 22 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 19 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (0.35%) VMS
14 16 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
15 14 (0.27%) Mac OS
16 8 (0.15%) VME
16 8 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
17 7 (0.13%) AIX
18 4 (0.077%) Windows 2000
18 4 (0.077%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,526 (29.32%) Agile
2 1,135 (21.81%) Software Engineering
3 1,029 (19.77%) Mentoring
4 661 (12.70%) DevOps
5 634 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
6 582 (11.18%) Actionable Insight
7 578 (11.11%) Coaching
8 448 (8.61%) Decision-Making
9 424 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
10 414 (7.96%) Analytics
11 368 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence
11 368 (7.07%) CI/CD
12 365 (7.01%) Roadmaps
13 295 (5.67%) Project Management
14 272 (5.23%) Microservices
15 270 (5.19%) Business Case
16 265 (5.09%) Visualisation
17 263 (5.05%) Full Stack Development
18 246 (4.73%) Asset Management
19 241 (4.63%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (19.49%) Python
2 886 (17.03%) SQL
3 874 (16.79%) JavaScript
4 629 (12.09%) C#
5 530 (10.18%) TypeScript
6 500 (9.61%) Java
7 201 (3.86%) Bash
8 158 (3.04%) PHP
9 156 (3.00%) C++
10 145 (2.79%) C
11 127 (2.44%) PowerShell
12 70 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 65 (1.25%) Go
14 63 (1.21%) Embedded C
15 49 (0.94%) COBOL
15 49 (0.94%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 46 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 36 (0.69%) Kotlin
18 33 (0.63%) Rust
19 32 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 674 (12.95%) Degree
2 451 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 312 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 246 (4.73%) ACCA
5 242 (4.65%) CIMA
6 187 (3.59%) DBS Check
7 124 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 106 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 101 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
10 91 (1.75%) CCNP
10 91 (1.75%) DV Cleared
11 83 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 68 (1.31%) CCNA
13 63 (1.21%) AWS Certification
14 51 (0.98%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 34 (0.65%) PhD
17 32 (0.61%) APMP
18 23 (0.44%) CISSP
19 21 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 137 (2.63%) QA
2 120 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 57 (1.10%) WCAG
4 34 (0.65%) NIST
5 33 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (0.61%) SLA
7 25 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (0.40%) GDPR
9 18 (0.35%) IFRS
10 16 (0.31%) PMO
11 11 (0.21%) GRC
11 11 (0.21%) NCSC
11 11 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
13 8 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.13%) Automotive SPICE
14 7 (0.13%) ISO 26262
15 6 (0.12%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 393 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 252 (4.84%) Docker
3 79 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.96%) Firmware
4 50 (0.96%) RACF
5 45 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 29 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
7 28 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (0.54%) vSphere
8 25 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.21%) IAG
11 10 (0.19%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.12%) XenApp
12 6 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.077%) NFS
14 3 (0.058%) Ceph
14 3 (0.058%) vCloud
14 3 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.038%) KVM
Systems Management
1 283 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 235 (4.52%) Terraform
3 178 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 132 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
5 98 (1.88%) Ansible
6 39 (0.75%) SCCM
7 36 (0.69%) Stealthwatch
8 24 (0.46%) Puppet
9 19 (0.37%) Grafana
10 18 (0.35%) CASB
10 18 (0.35%) vCenter Server
11 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 16 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (0.29%) WSUS
14 14 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.21%) FortiGate
16 9 (0.17%) Prometheus
17 8 (0.15%) Nmap
18 7 (0.13%) CA Single Sign-On
19 6 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,022 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 243 (4.67%) Databricks
3 192 (3.69%) CyberArk
4 166 (3.19%) Cisco
5 137 (2.63%) Oracle
6 127 (2.44%) Tanium
7 121 (2.33%) VMware
8 101 (1.94%) ESRI
9 92 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 91 (1.75%) Meraki
11 71 (1.36%) Google
12 69 (1.33%) Apple
13 63 (1.21%) Adobe
14 62 (1.19%) Juniper
15 57 (1.10%) SAP
16 49 (0.94%) Micro Focus
17 48 (0.92%) Palo Alto
18 45 (0.86%) Fortinet
19 44 (0.85%) Salesforce
20 29 (0.56%) Sitecore