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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 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 3,391 2,325 5,872
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.99% 14.17% 18.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.02% 15.35% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,349 1,488 4,368
10th Percentile £47,700 £48,306 £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 £78,750
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 19,926 15,150 31,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,489 9,444 24,245
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,804 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +5.80% -9.56%
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 9 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 9 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.

1 694 (20.47%) Agile
2 673 (19.85%) Mentoring
3 618 (18.22%) Azure
4 593 (17.49%) AWS
5 560 (16.51%) Software Engineering
6 489 (14.42%) AI
7 468 (13.80%) CI/CD
8 442 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 438 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
10 435 (12.83%) Python
11 418 (12.33%) Microsoft
12 409 (12.06%) DevOps
13 383 (11.29%) Coaching
14 366 (10.79%) SQL
15 324 (9.55%) Degree
16 310 (9.14%) Analytics
17 298 (8.79%) Roadmaps
18 289 (8.52%) Security Cleared
19 271 (7.99%) Project Delivery
20 269 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
21 262 (7.73%) Decision-Making
22 242 (7.14%) Test Automation
23 230 (6.78%) Java
24 227 (6.69%) SC Cleared
25 223 (6.58%) GCP
26 222 (6.55%) C#
27 211 (6.22%) JavaScript
28 209 (6.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
29 206 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
30 203 (5.99%) Kubernetes

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 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.65%) CMS
5 15 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.44%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) SAS
6 12 (0.35%) IIS
7 9 (0.27%) WordPress
8 8 (0.24%) Apache
8 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.088%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.088%) Artix
10 3 (0.088%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.088%) JBoss
10 3 (0.088%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.059%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.029%) Appian
12 1 (0.029%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 86 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (2.06%) 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
3 15 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.27%) Visualfiles
8 7 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.12%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
11 4 (0.12%) Shopify
12 3 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
12 3 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
12 3 (0.088%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.088%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 618 (18.22%) Azure
2 593 (17.49%) AWS
3 223 (6.58%) GCP
4 202 (5.96%) SaaS
5 153 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 143 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
7 129 (3.80%) Serverless
8 121 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 88 (2.60%) GitHub
10 87 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (1.65%) PowerApps
12 52 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 42 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 41 (1.21%) Amazon S3
16 39 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 130 (3.83%) Broadband
2 118 (3.48%) Firewall
3 71 (2.09%) DNS
4 67 (1.98%) VPN
5 47 (1.39%) WAN
6 46 (1.36%) DHCP
7 43 (1.27%) Network Security
8 41 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (1.21%) Wireless
9 38 (1.12%) LAN
10 34 (1.00%) TCP/IP
11 29 (0.86%) VLAN
12 27 (0.80%) BGP
13 25 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 24 (0.71%) RS-232
15 19 (0.56%) OSPF
16 16 (0.47%) Ethernet
17 15 (0.44%) Bluetooth
17 15 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
18 13 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.18%) Power BI
2 98 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (2.57%) SQL Server
4 68 (2.01%) MongoDB
5 52 (1.53%) Metadata
6 38 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 35 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (1.03%) MySQL
8 34 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 29 (0.86%) OLTP
10 29 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 28 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 28 (0.83%) DynamoDB
12 27 (0.80%) Tableau
13 19 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (0.53%) Data Lake
15 17 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.41%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (2.86%) Git
2 53 (1.56%) JIRA
3 43 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.12%) GitLab
5 31 (0.91%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.74%) Snyk
7 24 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.47%) Selenium
9 11 (0.32%) Postman
10 8 (0.24%) LabVIEW
10 8 (0.24%) XCUITest
11 7 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.21%) JMeter
11 7 (0.21%) JUnit
11 7 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.18%) NUnit
13 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 759 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 543 (16.01%) Finance
3 423 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 256 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 224 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 223 (6.58%) Law
7 179 (5.28%) Legal
8 126 (3.72%) Banking
9 115 (3.39%) Marketing
10 83 (2.45%) Retail
11 79 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.15%) Games
13 60 (1.77%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 51 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.12%) Legal Technology
17 37 (1.09%) Local Government
18 34 (1.00%) Electronics
19 27 (0.80%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (5.90%) .NET
2 145 (4.28%) React
3 107 (3.16%) Node.js
4 89 (2.62%) REST
5 80 (2.36%) HTML
6 74 (2.18%) RESTful
7 62 (1.83%) CSS
8 51 (1.50%) Spring
9 48 (1.42%) SOAP
10 39 (1.15%) Vue
11 35 (1.03%) Spring Boot
12 34 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
13 32 (0.94%) GraphQL
14 30 (0.88%) Kafka
14 30 (0.88%) OAuth
15 28 (0.83%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.83%) Laravel
16 27 (0.80%) OpenID
17 26 (0.77%) JSON
18 25 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 109 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 75 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (2.03%) Data Centre
5 61 (1.80%) Driving Licence
6 59 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (1.68%) Social Media
8 49 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 45 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 44 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 43 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 42 (1.24%) Onboarding
13 41 (1.21%) Cyberattack
13 41 (1.21%) Security Posture
13 41 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 40 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 39 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (1.15%) Mobile App
16 36 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
16 36 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 166 (4.90%) Linux
2 133 (3.92%) Windows
3 51 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 47 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.33%) Android
6 44 (1.30%) Unix
7 24 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
8 13 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.29%) VMS
10 9 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
11 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.088%) Debian
12 3 (0.088%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) CentOS
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (20.47%) Agile
2 673 (19.85%) Mentoring
3 560 (16.51%) Software Engineering
4 489 (14.42%) AI
5 468 (13.80%) CI/CD
6 442 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 438 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
8 409 (12.06%) DevOps
9 383 (11.29%) Coaching
10 310 (9.14%) Analytics
11 298 (8.79%) Roadmaps
12 271 (7.99%) Project Delivery
13 269 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
14 262 (7.73%) Decision-Making
15 242 (7.14%) Test Automation
16 209 (6.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 206 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 193 (5.69%) Infrastructure as Code
19 184 (5.43%) Project Management
20 170 (5.01%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 435 (12.83%) Python
2 366 (10.79%) SQL
3 230 (6.78%) Java
4 222 (6.55%) C#
5 211 (6.22%) JavaScript
6 177 (5.22%) TypeScript
7 122 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 88 (2.60%) C++
9 66 (1.95%) Go
10 59 (1.74%) Bash
11 58 (1.71%) PHP
12 50 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 45 (1.33%) C
14 33 (0.97%) Scala
15 28 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 26 (0.77%) VBA
17 25 (0.74%) Bicep
18 24 (0.71%) Rust
19 23 (0.68%) Kotlin
20 21 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 324 (9.55%) Degree
2 289 (8.52%) Security Cleared
3 227 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 70 (2.06%) CISSP
5 66 (1.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 58 (1.71%) CISM
7 55 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 51 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 38 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 37 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (0.88%) PhD
14 29 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
15 28 (0.83%) A+ Certification
15 28 (0.83%) DBS Check
16 26 (0.77%) ACCA
17 24 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 22 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.13%) QA
2 82 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 78 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 73 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 70 (2.06%) NIST
6 49 (1.45%) GDPR
7 46 (1.36%) GRC
8 31 (0.91%) PMO
9 23 (0.68%) NCSC
10 20 (0.59%) SLA
11 13 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.35%) P3O
13 10 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.21%) WCAG
15 5 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.15%) GAAP
15 5 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 154 (4.54%) Docker
2 128 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.24%) 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 (0.27%) 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
1 203 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 175 (5.16%) Terraform
3 68 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.06%) Ansible
5 33 (0.97%) Grafana
6 21 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 19 (0.56%) Argo
8 15 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.41%) SCCM
10 8 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.24%) Puppet
11 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.18%) Avamar
12 6 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.18%) EMC VPLEX
12 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.18%) VxRail
13 5 (0.15%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 418 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 134 (3.95%) Oracle
3 112 (3.30%) Adobe
4 71 (2.09%) VMware
5 69 (2.03%) Google
6 67 (1.98%) Palo Alto
7 65 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 64 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 62 (1.83%) SAP
10 57 (1.68%) Cisco
11 49 (1.45%) Databricks
12 41 (1.21%) Apple
13 32 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (0.83%) Dell
14 28 (0.83%) Pega
15 27 (0.80%) CyberArk
15 27 (0.80%) Tenable
16 20 (0.59%) Computacenter
17 18 (0.53%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.50%) Fortinet