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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 3,532 2,304 4,625
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.48% 13.87% 18.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.46% 15.04% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 1,526 3,179
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,888 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +6.30% -6.62%

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 21,464 15,318 23,715
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 92.23% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,349 9,339 17,219
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.80% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £56,350 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% - -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 17 August 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 17 August 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.

1 725 (20.53%) Agile
2 674 (19.08%) Azure
3 667 (18.88%) Mentoring
4 623 (17.64%) AWS
5 616 (17.44%) Software Engineering
6 565 (16.00%) AI
7 557 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 544 (15.40%) CI/CD
9 509 (14.41%) Python
10 474 (13.42%) DevOps
11 454 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 448 (12.68%) Microsoft
13 376 (10.65%) SQL
14 350 (9.91%) Degree
15 339 (9.60%) Project Delivery
16 334 (9.46%) Coaching
17 331 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
18 320 (9.06%) Security Cleared
19 317 (8.98%) Decision-Making
20 311 (8.81%) Analytics
21 280 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 279 (7.90%) C#
23 267 (7.56%) SC Cleared
24 261 (7.39%) Roadmaps
25 255 (7.22%) Test Automation
26 252 (7.13%) JavaScript
27 235 (6.65%) QA
28 230 (6.51%) GCP
29 225 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
30 219 (6.20%) 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
1 100 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.71%) CMS
4 23 (0.65%) Confluence
5 15 (0.42%) WordPress
6 14 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.34%) IIS
9 11 (0.31%) SAS
10 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.23%) Apache
11 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.085%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.085%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.085%) Artix
12 3 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.085%) Moodle
13 2 (0.057%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.028%) Appian
Applications
1 78 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
3 32 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 14 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.28%) Civil 3D
7 9 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.23%) InDesign
8 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
11 4 (0.11%) Trello
12 3 (0.085%) Blender
12 3 (0.085%) Maya
13 2 (0.057%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
13 2 (0.057%) SPSS
14 1 (0.028%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (0.68%) Cloudability
2 16 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.25%) Shopify
7 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.085%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 3 (0.085%) Infor SunSystems
10 3 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.085%) Primavera
10 3 (0.085%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.085%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.085%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 674 (19.08%) Azure
2 623 (17.64%) AWS
3 230 (6.51%) GCP
4 219 (6.20%) SaaS
5 156 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 146 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 132 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 123 (3.48%) Serverless
9 99 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 99 (2.80%) GitHub
10 54 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (1.39%) PowerApps
12 45 (1.27%) Power Automate
13 43 (1.22%) Amazon S3
14 41 (1.16%) Azure AKS
14 41 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.53%) Firewall
2 93 (2.63%) Broadband
3 91 (2.58%) Network Security
4 76 (2.15%) DNS
5 73 (2.07%) VLAN
6 60 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
7 59 (1.67%) VPN
8 51 (1.44%) WAN
9 49 (1.39%) Wireless
10 47 (1.33%) TCP/IP
11 46 (1.30%) LAN
12 44 (1.25%) DHCP
13 28 (0.79%) BGP
14 20 (0.57%) OSPF
14 20 (0.57%) RS-232
15 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (0.45%) HTTP
17 16 (0.45%) WLAN
18 14 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (3.17%) Power BI
3 100 (2.83%) SQL Server
4 64 (1.81%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.44%) Metadata
5 51 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 49 (1.39%) MySQL
7 38 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 32 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 29 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (0.74%) Tableau
12 23 (0.65%) OLTP
13 17 (0.48%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.45%) BigQuery
15 15 (0.42%) Big Data
16 13 (0.37%) Delta Lake
16 13 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (3.45%) Git
2 58 (1.64%) JIRA
3 42 (1.19%) GitLab
4 34 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.71%) Snyk
6 19 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 18 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.45%) Selenium
9 15 (0.42%) JUnit
10 11 (0.31%) Postman
11 9 (0.25%) LabVIEW
12 8 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.23%) Gatling
13 7 (0.20%) Maven
13 7 (0.20%) Mockito
14 6 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.14%) XCUITest
16 4 (0.11%) Appium
16 4 (0.11%) MLflow
General
1 880 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 585 (16.56%) Finance
3 371 (10.50%) Public Sector
4 316 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 268 (7.59%) Legal
6 258 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
7 224 (6.34%) Law
8 137 (3.88%) Marketing
9 122 (3.45%) Banking
10 82 (2.32%) Retail
11 73 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 65 (1.84%) Games
12 65 (1.84%) Manufacturing
13 56 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 49 (1.39%) Electronics
15 49 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 49 (1.39%) Local Government
16 44 (1.25%) Legal Technology
17 35 (0.99%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.17%) .NET
2 170 (4.81%) React
3 117 (3.31%) Node.js
4 93 (2.63%) HTML
5 89 (2.52%) REST
6 83 (2.35%) CSS
7 74 (2.10%) RESTful
8 58 (1.64%) Spring
9 40 (1.13%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.08%) Spring Boot
11 37 (1.05%) Vue
12 35 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
13 34 (0.96%) Laravel
14 32 (0.91%) .NET Core
15 31 (0.88%) Kafka
16 30 (0.85%) Next.js
17 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
17 29 (0.82%) Playwright
18 28 (0.79%) SPFx
19 27 (0.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 102 (2.89%) Product Ownership
3 101 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 82 (2.32%) Driving Licence
5 66 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 56 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 55 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 42 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 42 (1.19%) Social Media
12 41 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.13%) Blog
14 39 (1.10%) Algorithms
15 38 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (1.05%) Low-Code
17 36 (1.02%) Data Structures
18 35 (0.99%) Onboarding
18 35 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 172 (4.87%) Linux
2 134 (3.79%) Windows
3 58 (1.64%) Unix
4 57 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 32 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 31 (0.88%) Android
7 24 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
8 12 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.085%) Debian
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) CentOS
14 1 (0.028%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (20.53%) Agile
2 667 (18.88%) Mentoring
3 616 (17.44%) Software Engineering
4 565 (16.00%) AI
5 557 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 544 (15.40%) CI/CD
7 474 (13.42%) DevOps
8 454 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
9 339 (9.60%) Project Delivery
10 334 (9.46%) Coaching
11 331 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
12 317 (8.98%) Decision-Making
13 311 (8.81%) Analytics
14 280 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 261 (7.39%) Roadmaps
16 255 (7.22%) Test Automation
17 225 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 216 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
19 186 (5.27%) Information Security
19 186 (5.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 509 (14.41%) Python
2 376 (10.65%) SQL
3 279 (7.90%) C#
4 252 (7.13%) JavaScript
5 206 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 202 (5.72%) Java
7 133 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 95 (2.69%) C++
9 59 (1.67%) PHP
10 58 (1.64%) Go
11 47 (1.33%) C
12 44 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 38 (1.08%) Bash
14 31 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.71%) Bicep
15 25 (0.71%) Embedded C
16 22 (0.62%) Swift
17 21 (0.59%) Ruby
18 19 (0.54%) R
18 19 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 350 (9.91%) Degree
2 320 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 267 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 99 (2.80%) CISSP
5 90 (2.55%) CISM
6 66 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 57 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.53%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
9 53 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 53 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 49 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 47 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 39 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (1.08%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.82%) PhD
15 27 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.65%) HNC
18 21 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (6.65%) QA
2 110 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 80 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 74 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 62 (1.76%) NIST
6 58 (1.64%) GDPR
7 47 (1.33%) GRC
8 29 (0.82%) PMO
9 23 (0.65%) SLA
10 18 (0.51%) WCAG
11 17 (0.48%) NCSC
12 14 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.28%) COBIT
13 10 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 5 (0.14%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 166 (4.70%) Docker
2 139 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.93%) vSphere
6 28 (0.79%) Firmware
7 19 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) vCloud
11 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.085%) iptables
14 2 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.028%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.028%) GPFS
15 1 (0.028%) Lustre
15 1 (0.028%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.028%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 199 (5.63%) Terraform
2 196 (5.55%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.93%) Ansible
5 24 (0.68%) Grafana
6 21 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.48%) Argo
8 8 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
9 7 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.17%) Avamar
10 6 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
10 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (0.17%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.17%) VxRail
11 5 (0.14%) Istio
11 5 (0.14%) Puppet
11 5 (0.14%) SCCM
11 5 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 448 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 121 (3.43%) Oracle
3 107 (3.03%) Adobe
4 82 (2.32%) Google
5 71 (2.01%) Cisco
6 68 (1.93%) Palo Alto
6 68 (1.93%) VMware
7 63 (1.78%) SAP
8 60 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 57 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 46 (1.30%) Databricks
12 35 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 30 (0.85%) Apple
14 28 (0.79%) Dell
14 28 (0.79%) Pega
14 28 (0.79%) Tenable
15 26 (0.74%) Informatica
16 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
17 21 (0.59%) Veeam