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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 66 68
Rank change year-on-year +62 +2 +40
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,735 791 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.52% 4.83% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.16% 5.14% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 924 448 705
10th Percentile £22,491 £45,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £57,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £93,750 £91,214 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £71,750 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -

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 13,564 15,399 23,181
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.90% 94.05% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,623 9,062 19,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £44,899
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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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 24 January 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 45 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.02%) Confluence
3 26 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.73%) CMS
6 17 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.48%) JBoss
8 13 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.11%) Luigi
12 2 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.073%) Mendix
12 2 (0.073%) SAS
12 2 (0.073%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.037%) Camunda
13 1 (0.037%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,182 (43.22%) Chatbot
2 77 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.15%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) InDesign
6 3 (0.11%) Notion
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.073%) Weka
8 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.037%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.073%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.073%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.073%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.037%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 496 (18.14%) Azure
2 302 (11.04%) AWS
3 215 (7.86%) SaaS
4 194 (7.09%) Power Platform
5 157 (5.74%) GCP
6 146 (5.34%) GitHub
7 127 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
9 71 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
10 68 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 49 (1.79%) Serverless
12 48 (1.76%) Entra ID
13 40 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
15 35 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 35 (1.28%) dbt
16 31 (1.13%) Azure AI
17 29 (1.06%) Power Automate
18 28 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
19 27 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.88%) Broadband
2 11 (0.40%) Firewall
2 11 (0.40%) HTTP
2 11 (0.40%) Network Security
3 8 (0.29%) Unified Communications
4 7 (0.26%) DMZ
4 7 (0.26%) Internet
4 7 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
5 6 (0.22%) VPN
6 5 (0.18%) DHCP
6 5 (0.18%) DNS
6 5 (0.18%) WAN
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
7 4 (0.15%) RTP
7 4 (0.15%) VoIP
8 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.11%) DSL
8 3 (0.11%) GPON
8 3 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (3.99%) Power BI
2 81 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.12%) Tableau
4 41 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 40 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 35 (1.28%) Big Data
6 35 (1.28%) MongoDB
7 29 (1.06%) Metadata
8 28 (1.02%) BigQuery
9 27 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 27 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (0.73%) Looker
13 17 (0.62%) MySQL
13 17 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.40%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (2.60%) JIRA
2 55 (2.01%) Git
3 21 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (0.51%) GitLab
5 14 (0.51%) MLflow
6 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.29%) Subversion
7 8 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.22%) ERwin
9 5 (0.18%) GitBook
9 5 (0.18%) Selenium
9 5 (0.18%) Storybook
10 4 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) ESLint
11 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.073%) Postman
12 2 (0.073%) SpecFlow
General
1 621 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
2 504 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 467 (17.07%) Finance
4 326 (11.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 182 (6.65%) Marketing
6 160 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 119 (4.35%) Retail
8 112 (4.10%) Legal
9 93 (3.40%) Law
10 51 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.13%) Banking
15 28 (1.02%) Games
16 24 (0.88%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.59%) Advertising
20 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,160 (42.41%) Trainer
2 267 (9.76%) Senior
3 204 (7.46%) Developer
4 155 (5.67%) Content Editor
5 127 (4.64%) Lead
6 114 (4.17%) Architect
7 98 (3.58%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.58%) Support Specialist
8 93 (3.40%) Analyst
9 80 (2.93%) Research Scientist
10 75 (2.74%) Consultant
11 67 (2.45%) Software Engineer
12 64 (2.34%) Data Engineer
13 55 (2.01%) Sales Executive
14 48 (1.76%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (1.68%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 45 (1.65%) Microsoft Specialist
17 43 (1.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 42 (1.54%) .NET Developer
19 41 (1.50%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (3.40%) .NET
2 91 (3.33%) React
3 81 (2.96%) REST
4 64 (2.34%) Node.js
5 60 (2.19%) RESTful
6 42 (1.54%) Kafka
7 39 (1.43%) SOAP
8 36 (1.32%) Spring
9 34 (1.24%) OAuth
9 34 (1.24%) PyTorch
10 33 (1.21%) OAuth2
11 31 (1.13%) TensorFlow
12 25 (0.91%) AngularJS
12 25 (0.91%) CSS
13 24 (0.88%) gRPC
13 24 (0.88%) Middleware
14 23 (0.84%) HTML
15 22 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
15 22 (0.80%) Vue
16 21 (0.77%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 137 (5.01%) Cloud Native
2 114 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 106 (3.88%) Blog
4 97 (3.55%) Molecular Biology
5 62 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 52 (1.90%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
11 37 (1.35%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.24%) Algorithms
13 32 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 23 (0.84%) Management Information System
17 22 (0.80%) Social Network
18 20 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
19 19 (0.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.24%) Android
2 29 (1.06%) Windows
3 26 (0.95%) Linux
4 19 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (43.73%) Conversational UI
2 395 (14.44%) Chemistry
3 383 (14.00%) Agile
4 311 (11.37%) Analytics
5 300 (10.97%) Machine Learning
6 293 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 284 (10.38%) DevOps
8 265 (9.69%) CI/CD
9 246 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 225 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.64%) Content Writing
12 202 (7.39%) Software Engineering
13 194 (7.09%) Customer Service
14 163 (5.96%) Customer Experience
14 163 (5.96%) Mentoring
15 162 (5.92%) Coaching
16 150 (5.48%) Decision-Making
17 140 (5.12%) Business Intelligence
18 129 (4.72%) Data Modelling
19 127 (4.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 341 (12.47%) Python
2 274 (10.02%) SQL
3 111 (4.06%) Java
4 109 (3.99%) TypeScript
5 102 (3.73%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.90%) C#
7 38 (1.39%) Go
8 37 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 36 (1.32%) Bash
10 35 (1.28%) C++
11 25 (0.91%) Kotlin
11 25 (0.91%) R
12 22 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 19 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 18 (0.66%) PHP
15 18 (0.66%) Scala
16 17 (0.62%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.59%) C
18 13 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,444 (52.80%) Degree
2 589 (21.54%) Master's Degree
3 572 (20.91%) PhD
4 79 (2.89%) Security Cleared
5 66 (2.41%) SC Cleared
6 55 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 26 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.88%) PMP
11 21 (0.77%) ACCA
12 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.59%) CISA
14 13 (0.48%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.44%) CISSP
15 12 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 10 (0.37%) CISM
17 7 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (2.45%) Accessibility
2 47 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 41 (1.50%) GDPR
4 30 (1.10%) QA
5 29 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.84%) IFRS
7 19 (0.69%) WCAG
8 18 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.62%) GAAP
10 13 (0.48%) GRC
10 13 (0.48%) NIST
11 11 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 10 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
13 8 (0.29%) NCSC
14 7 (0.26%) JSP 440
15 4 (0.15%) PMO
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (3.36%) Docker
2 30 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.073%) Ceph
8 2 (0.073%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.037%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.037%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (3.33%) Terraform
2 80 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.73%) Ansible
4 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.33%) Grafana
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 4 (0.15%) Argo
9 2 (0.073%) Control-M
9 2 (0.073%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.073%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.073%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.073%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.073%) Puppet
10 1 (0.037%) Cilium
10 1 (0.037%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.037%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,161 (42.45%) PayPal
2 423 (15.47%) Microsoft
3 69 (2.52%) Adobe
4 64 (2.34%) Cisco
5 62 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 61 (2.23%) Google
7 58 (2.12%) Databricks
8 53 (1.94%) Dell
9 51 (1.86%) Oracle
10 45 (1.65%) Blue Prism
11 34 (1.24%) Apple
12 27 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 25 (0.91%) HubSpot
14 20 (0.73%) SAP
15 15 (0.55%) Foundry
16 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.40%) Palantir
18 10 (0.37%) IBM
19 9 (0.33%) Informatica
20 8 (0.29%) ServiceNow