Hybrid/Remote AI Job Trends

AI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +49 +26
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,023 2,888 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.94% 17.62% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% 18.95% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,908 678 598
10th Percentile £40,500 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,145 15,240 21,286
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.96% 92.98% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13,809 8,865 14,207
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AI job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AI over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

AI salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 98 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.69%) Confluence
3 38 (1.26%) CMS
4 25 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.76%) Apache
6 20 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.33%) WordPress
9 8 (0.26%) SAS
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Camunda
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.099%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.066%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.066%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.033%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.033%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.033%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 57 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.09%) UserZoom
4 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.46%) InDesign
7 14 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.17%) Moqups
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 3 (0.099%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.099%) Productboard
11 3 (0.099%) Sketch
12 2 (0.066%) CapCut
Business Applications
1 36 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.79%) Cloudability
4 7 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.099%) Primavera
8 3 (0.099%) Shopify
9 1 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.033%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.033%) HFM
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 882 (29.18%) Azure
2 583 (19.29%) AWS
3 284 (9.39%) SaaS
4 258 (8.53%) Azure AI
4 258 (8.53%) GCP
5 247 (8.17%) Power Platform
6 223 (7.38%) GitHub
7 172 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
8 156 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
9 142 (4.70%) Snowflake
10 138 (4.57%) GitHub Copilot
11 116 (3.84%) Anthropic Claude
12 114 (3.77%) Adobe Analytics
13 113 (3.74%) Microsoft Copilot
14 109 (3.61%) Entra ID
15 108 (3.57%) Serverless
16 95 (3.14%) Figma
17 92 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 77 (2.55%) Azure Machine Learning
19 70 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 226 (7.48%) Broadband
2 33 (1.09%) Internet
3 32 (1.06%) VPN
4 30 (0.99%) Firewall
5 26 (0.86%) Network Security
6 21 (0.69%) DNS
7 15 (0.50%) HTTP
8 12 (0.40%) DHCP
8 12 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.36%) CTI
10 8 (0.26%) WPA
11 7 (0.23%) Wireless
12 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 6 (0.20%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.17%) BGP
13 5 (0.17%) DMZ
13 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.17%) OSPF
13 5 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (7.11%) MongoDB
2 177 (5.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 152 (5.03%) Power BI
4 122 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 101 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (2.88%) Metadata
7 73 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.65%) Tableau
10 41 (1.36%) Big Data
11 40 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 34 (1.12%) Relational Database
12 34 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
13 32 (1.06%) Delta Lake
13 32 (1.06%) Redis
14 30 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 22 (0.73%) MySQL
16 20 (0.66%) Data Vault
17 19 (0.63%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 117 (3.87%) Git
2 74 (2.45%) JIRA
3 67 (2.22%) Claude Code
4 42 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.89%) Snyk
6 26 (0.86%) GitLab
7 16 (0.53%) MLflow
8 15 (0.50%) Selenium
9 13 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.36%) Postman
10 11 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.33%) JUnit
11 10 (0.33%) Maven
11 10 (0.33%) Mockito
12 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
14 4 (0.13%) Appium
14 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.13%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.13%) Metasploit
General
1 887 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 680 (22.49%) Finance
3 388 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 349 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (10.78%) Marketing
6 237 (7.84%) Legal
7 198 (6.55%) Public Sector
8 189 (6.25%) Games
9 171 (5.66%) Law
10 124 (4.10%) Banking
11 103 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
12 101 (3.34%) Retail
13 95 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.85%) Advertising
15 45 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 44 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
17 38 (1.26%) Legal Technology
18 28 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.89%) Automotive
20 24 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 573 (18.95%) Senior
2 406 (13.43%) Developer
3 347 (11.48%) Lead
4 317 (10.49%) Architect
5 225 (7.44%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.62%) .NET Developer
7 147 (4.86%) Analyst
8 128 (4.23%) Consultant
9 120 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 111 (3.67%) Engineering Manager
11 89 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
12 82 (2.71%) Data Engineer
13 79 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
14 76 (2.51%) Python Engineer
14 76 (2.51%) Senior Manager
15 72 (2.38%) Data Scientist
15 72 (2.38%) Senior Developer
16 67 (2.22%) Data Architect
16 67 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
17 65 (2.15%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (9.23%) React
2 258 (8.53%) .NET
3 168 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 162 (5.36%) .NET Core
5 161 (5.33%) RESTful
6 159 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.16%) ML.NET
8 151 (5.00%) Terraform
9 147 (4.86%) Node.js
10 142 (4.70%) CSS
11 132 (4.37%) HTML
12 116 (3.84%) Blazor
13 113 (3.74%) REST
14 97 (3.21%) LangChain
15 74 (2.45%) Next.js
16 59 (1.95%) PyTorch
17 54 (1.79%) LangGraph
18 50 (1.65%) PySpark
18 50 (1.65%) Vue
19 46 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 267 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 247 (8.17%) AI Agents
3 163 (5.39%) Social Media
4 140 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 121 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 103 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (3.18%) Blog
8 75 (2.48%) Low-Code
9 72 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 67 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 59 (1.95%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
13 56 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
13 56 (1.85%) Management Information System
14 55 (1.82%) Virtual Team
15 52 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
16 51 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
17 47 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
17 47 (1.55%) Mobile App
18 41 (1.36%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.38%) Windows
2 60 (1.98%) Linux
3 36 (1.19%) Android
4 19 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.23%) Unix
10 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.066%) Debian
12 2 (0.066%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (26.07%) Agile
2 783 (25.90%) Machine Learning
3 683 (22.59%) Analytics
4 627 (20.74%) Roadmaps
5 594 (19.65%) CI/CD
6 568 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 485 (16.04%) Software Engineering
8 475 (15.71%) Mentoring
9 447 (14.79%) Decision-Making
10 426 (14.09%) LLM
11 397 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
12 390 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 381 (12.60%) DevOps
14 317 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 310 (10.25%) Cybersecurity
16 306 (10.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 284 (9.39%) Customer Experience
18 267 (8.83%) Data Science
19 259 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
20 240 (7.94%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 696 (23.02%) Python
2 558 (18.46%) SQL
3 294 (9.73%) C#
4 269 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 212 (7.01%) TypeScript
6 133 (4.40%) Java
7 64 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.92%) C++
9 55 (1.82%) Go
10 49 (1.62%) Bicep
11 47 (1.55%) Bash
12 32 (1.06%) Scala
13 22 (0.73%) R
14 19 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.53%) C
17 15 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.46%) PHP
19 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 252 (8.34%) Degree
2 205 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 144 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 74 (2.45%) CISSP
5 69 (2.28%) CISM
6 65 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 57 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.79%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 50 (1.65%) ACCA
11 46 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (1.26%) CIMA
13 32 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 31 (1.03%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.96%) PhD
16 25 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.60%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 14 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (7.44%) Accessibility
2 213 (7.05%) Data Quality
3 118 (3.90%) QA
4 116 (3.84%) GDPR
5 63 (2.08%) GRC
6 57 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.52%) WCAG
8 42 (1.39%) NIST
9 30 (0.99%) SLA
10 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.50%) IFRS
11 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 14 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.46%) PMO
13 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.20%) EU AI Act
17 6 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 232 (7.67%) Docker
2 98 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 92 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.43%) vSphere
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) Firmware
8 8 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.099%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 214 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (0.93%) Grafana
4 18 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.50%) Ansible
6 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.20%) Argo
7 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.17%) Istio
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
9 4 (0.13%) Nmap
10 3 (0.099%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.099%) linkerd
11 2 (0.066%) Cilium
11 2 (0.066%) Podman
11 2 (0.066%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.066%) Salt
12 1 (0.033%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.033%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 771 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 183 (6.05%) Databricks
3 178 (5.89%) Adobe
4 149 (4.93%) Google
5 106 (3.51%) OpenAI
6 76 (2.51%) Cisco
7 70 (2.32%) YouTube
8 59 (1.95%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.85%) Apple
10 55 (1.82%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.65%) Salesforce
12 42 (1.39%) Dell
13 39 (1.29%) Foundry
14 38 (1.26%) Facebook
15 36 (1.19%) HubSpot
16 31 (1.03%) SAP
17 30 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
17 30 (0.99%) Palo Alto
18 28 (0.93%) Oracle
19 27 (0.89%) Tenable
6,687 hybrid/remote AI jobs