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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 +53 +15
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,973 1,704 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.65% 11.65% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 12.25% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,138 691 858
10th Percentile £36,600 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.93% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £101,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.72%

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 15,340 13,907 29,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 95.05% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,890 8,636 23,352
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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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 15 May 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 53 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.18%) CMS
3 38 (1.93%) Confluence
4 21 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.51%) SAS
6 10 (0.51%) WordPress
7 8 (0.41%) Apache
8 7 (0.35%) JBoss
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.051%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 40 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.52%) UserZoom
3 22 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.20%) CapCut
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.10%) Productboard
9 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.22%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.10%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.051%) HFM
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.051%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 532 (26.96%) Azure
2 373 (18.91%) AWS
3 208 (10.54%) SaaS
4 183 (9.28%) Adobe Analytics
5 168 (8.51%) GCP
6 134 (6.79%) Power Platform
7 130 (6.59%) GitHub
8 128 (6.49%) Azure AI
9 106 (5.37%) Figma
10 93 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (4.56%) Snowflake
12 89 (4.51%) Azure Machine Learning
13 86 (4.36%) GitHub Copilot
14 75 (3.80%) Serverless
15 68 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
16 67 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 55 (2.79%) Contentsquare
18 48 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
19 32 (1.62%) Entra ID
20 30 (1.52%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 287 (14.55%) Broadband
2 25 (1.27%) Firewall
3 19 (0.96%) HTTP
4 10 (0.51%) Network Security
4 10 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 10 (0.51%) VPN
5 9 (0.46%) DNS
6 7 (0.35%) DMZ
6 7 (0.35%) Internet
7 6 (0.30%) 5G
7 6 (0.30%) DHCP
8 4 (0.20%) Modbus
8 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.15%) RTP
9 3 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.15%) Wireless
9 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.10%) NGN
10 2 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.87%) MongoDB
2 86 (4.36%) SQL Server
3 78 (3.95%) Power BI
4 62 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 58 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.58%) Metadata
7 42 (2.13%) Tableau
8 40 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (1.57%) Big Data
10 24 (1.22%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.17%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.12%) Redis
13 21 (1.06%) Data Lake
14 20 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.01%) Looker
15 14 (0.71%) Delta Lake
15 14 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 53 (2.69%) Git
2 35 (1.77%) JIRA
3 24 (1.22%) Snyk
4 23 (1.17%) Claude Code
4 23 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.12%) MLflow
6 13 (0.66%) GitLab
7 10 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.51%) Selenium
7 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (0.35%) SpecFlow
8 7 (0.35%) WebDriver
9 6 (0.30%) Storybook
10 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.20%) Maven
10 4 (0.20%) Postman
10 4 (0.20%) Subversion
11 3 (0.15%) JUnit
11 3 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 467 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 408 (20.68%) Finance
3 282 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 247 (12.52%) Games
5 246 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
6 205 (10.39%) Marketing
7 147 (7.45%) Public Sector
8 139 (7.05%) Legal
9 116 (5.88%) Law
10 67 (3.40%) Retail
11 53 (2.69%) Banking
12 47 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.93%) Automotive
15 27 (1.37%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.27%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.86%) Advertising
19 13 (0.66%) Back Office
20 8 (0.41%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 404 (20.48%) Senior
2 295 (14.95%) Lead
3 213 (10.80%) Developer
4 173 (8.77%) Architect
5 109 (5.52%) Software Engineer
6 95 (4.82%) Analyst
7 79 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
8 78 (3.95%) Consultant
9 72 (3.65%) Designer
10 71 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 57 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 55 (2.79%) .NET Developer
13 55 (2.79%) Product Manager
14 51 (2.58%) Data Manager
14 51 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
15 49 (2.48%) Data Scientist
15 49 (2.48%) Lead Designer
15 49 (2.48%) Senior Architect
16 48 (2.43%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.25%) React
2 115 (5.83%) .NET
3 96 (4.87%) RESTful
4 86 (4.36%) REST
5 76 (3.85%) Node.js
6 66 (3.35%) CSS
7 61 (3.09%) HTML
8 56 (2.84%) .NET Core
9 51 (2.58%) ASP.NET
9 51 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 49 (2.48%) ML.NET
11 47 (2.38%) PyTorch
12 41 (2.08%) Blazor
13 39 (1.98%) TensorFlow
14 34 (1.72%) LangChain
15 32 (1.62%) Vue
16 30 (1.52%) FastAPI
17 29 (1.47%) Spring
18 28 (1.42%) Kafka
18 28 (1.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 194 (9.83%) Social Media
2 146 (7.40%) Cloud Native
3 111 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 87 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 74 (3.75%) AI Agents
6 66 (3.35%) Blog
7 53 (2.69%) Low-Code
8 51 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.53%) Mobile App
10 44 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (2.18%) Virtual Team
12 42 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
13 40 (2.03%) Algorithms
14 39 (1.98%) Data Centre
15 37 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
16 29 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (1.37%) Social Network
18 21 (1.06%) Podcast
19 20 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
19 20 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.33%) Android
2 28 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 25 (1.27%) Linux
4 20 (1.01%) Windows
5 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.20%) Unix
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (28.59%) Agile
2 511 (25.90%) Analytics
3 495 (25.09%) Roadmaps
4 454 (23.01%) Machine Learning
5 365 (18.50%) CI/CD
6 309 (15.66%) Customer Experience
7 269 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 260 (13.18%) Software Engineering
9 251 (12.72%) Mentoring
10 241 (12.21%) DevOps
11 234 (11.86%) Decision-Making
12 230 (11.66%) Product Roadmap
13 227 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
14 208 (10.54%) Storytelling
15 204 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
16 203 (10.29%) LLM
17 197 (9.98%) Generative AI
18 186 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 177 (8.97%) Digital Customer Experience
20 169 (8.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 400 (20.27%) Python
2 290 (14.70%) SQL
3 121 (6.13%) C#
4 115 (5.83%) Java
5 112 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 108 (5.47%) TypeScript
7 61 (3.09%) Go
8 27 (1.37%) C++
9 26 (1.32%) Bash
10 21 (1.06%) R
11 20 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 17 (0.86%) Bicep
12 17 (0.86%) Scala
13 13 (0.66%) PHP
14 12 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.46%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 208 (10.54%) Degree
2 81 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.58%) AWS Certification
4 48 (2.43%) ACCA
5 47 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 36 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.72%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.42%) CIMA
11 24 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (1.06%) PhD
13 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.61%) CISSP
15 9 (0.46%) PMP
16 8 (0.41%) CISA
16 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.30%) CISM
18 5 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (13.74%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.60%) WCAG
3 70 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 56 (2.84%) QA
5 53 (2.69%) GDPR
6 52 (2.64%) GRC
7 25 (1.27%) IFRS
7 25 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.76%) PMO
9 14 (0.71%) NIST
10 13 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.41%) NCSC
12 8 (0.41%) SLA
13 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.30%) GAAP
15 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 124 (6.28%) Docker
2 86 (4.36%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.40%) Terraform
3 19 (0.96%) Ansible
4 17 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.61%) Grafana
6 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.35%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.30%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.25%) Argo
9 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.10%) Podman
10 2 (0.10%) Puppet
10 2 (0.10%) Salt
11 1 (0.051%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 434 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 254 (12.87%) Adobe
3 120 (6.08%) Databricks
4 83 (4.21%) Google
5 57 (2.89%) Apple
6 51 (2.58%) Cisco
7 49 (2.48%) Dell
7 49 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 41 (2.08%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
11 26 (1.32%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.27%) Tenable
13 24 (1.22%) Oracle
14 22 (1.12%) Foundry
15 21 (1.06%) HubSpot
16 16 (0.81%) SAP
17 14 (0.71%) Palantir
18 11 (0.56%) Instagram
18 11 (0.56%) Wrike
3,433 hybrid/remote AI jobs