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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 66
Rank change year-on-year 0 +59 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,691 2,663 1,088
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.42% 16.15% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.99% 17.33% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,688 719 665
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,100 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% -5.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,625 £86,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £103,250
UK median annual salary £70,075 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% -5.29% -6.67%

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 17,957 15,368 25,424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.85% 93.21% 88.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,086 18,978
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,711
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%

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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 23 July 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 68 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.67%) Confluence
3 39 (1.45%) CMS
4 21 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.67%) Apache
6 16 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.37%) WordPress
8 9 (0.33%) SAS
9 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.11%) Camunda
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.074%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.074%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.074%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.037%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.037%) Moodle
12 1 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.037%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (1.64%) UserZoom
2 31 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 26 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.48%) InDesign
7 13 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.15%) CapCut
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Productboard
11 3 (0.11%) Sketch
11 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.11%) Trello
12 2 (0.074%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 37 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.04%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.89%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.15%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.037%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.037%) HFM
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.037%) Shopify
7 1 (0.037%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 803 (29.84%) Azure
2 479 (17.80%) AWS
3 259 (9.62%) SaaS
4 246 (9.14%) Azure AI
5 218 (8.10%) GCP
6 195 (7.25%) Power Platform
7 190 (7.06%) GitHub
8 188 (6.99%) Adobe Analytics
9 165 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
10 119 (4.42%) GitHub Copilot
11 112 (4.16%) Figma
11 112 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
12 111 (4.12%) Snowflake
13 104 (3.86%) Serverless
14 94 (3.49%) Entra ID
15 92 (3.42%) Anthropic Claude
16 86 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
17 85 (3.16%) Azure Machine Learning
18 80 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 69 (2.56%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 334 (12.41%) Broadband
2 32 (1.19%) Internet
3 30 (1.11%) VPN
4 29 (1.08%) Firewall
5 15 (0.56%) DNS
6 14 (0.52%) VoIP
7 12 (0.45%) HTTP
8 11 (0.41%) CTI
8 11 (0.41%) Network Security
9 10 (0.37%) DHCP
10 8 (0.30%) WPA
11 7 (0.26%) Wireless
12 6 (0.22%) 5G
12 6 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.19%) VLAN
13 5 (0.19%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.15%) DMZ
15 3 (0.11%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (8.06%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 115 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 109 (4.05%) Power BI
5 89 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (3.05%) Metadata
7 63 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.67%) Tableau
9 44 (1.64%) Big Data
10 39 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 37 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
13 31 (1.15%) Redis
14 30 (1.11%) BigQuery
15 26 (0.97%) Delta Lake
16 25 (0.93%) Relational Database
17 23 (0.85%) MySQL
18 18 (0.67%) Pinecone
19 17 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
20 14 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 105 (3.90%) Git
2 55 (2.04%) Claude Code
3 50 (1.86%) JIRA
4 40 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.97%) Snyk
6 23 (0.85%) GitLab
7 16 (0.59%) Selenium
8 13 (0.48%) MLflow
9 10 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.30%) Postman
12 6 (0.22%) JUnit
12 6 (0.22%) Maven
12 6 (0.22%) Mockito
12 6 (0.22%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.19%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.15%) Appium
14 4 (0.15%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.15%) Metasploit
General
1 743 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 514 (19.10%) Finance
3 306 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 304 (11.30%) Marketing
5 292 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 281 (10.44%) Games
7 218 (8.10%) Legal
8 167 (6.21%) Law
9 152 (5.65%) Public Sector
10 96 (3.57%) Retail
11 89 (3.31%) Banking
12 69 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (2.04%) Advertising
15 40 (1.49%) Automotive
15 40 (1.49%) Legal Technology
16 32 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (1.08%) Manufacturing
18 23 (0.85%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 531 (19.73%) Senior
2 390 (14.49%) Developer
3 379 (14.08%) Lead
4 257 (9.55%) Architect
5 187 (6.95%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.21%) .NET Developer
7 112 (4.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 110 (4.09%) Engineering Manager
9 109 (4.05%) Analyst
10 107 (3.98%) Consultant
11 84 (3.12%) Data Engineer
12 83 (3.08%) Designer
13 79 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 72 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
14 72 (2.68%) Senior Manager
15 70 (2.60%) Data Scientist
16 69 (2.56%) Python Engineer
17 65 (2.42%) Senior Developer
17 65 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
18 63 (2.34%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (9.10%) React
2 244 (9.07%) .NET
3 165 (6.13%) ASP.NET
4 161 (5.98%) .NET Core
5 160 (5.95%) RESTful
6 157 (5.83%) ASP.NET Core
7 154 (5.72%) ML.NET
8 143 (5.31%) CSS
9 136 (5.05%) HTML
10 116 (4.31%) Node.js
11 113 (4.20%) Blazor
12 87 (3.23%) REST
13 77 (2.86%) LangChain
14 60 (2.23%) PyTorch
15 56 (2.08%) Next.js
16 51 (1.90%) TensorFlow
17 48 (1.78%) Vue
18 47 (1.75%) FastAPI
19 41 (1.52%) LangGraph
20 35 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 237 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 233 (8.66%) Social Media
3 182 (6.76%) AI Agents
4 136 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 104 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 71 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 66 (2.45%) Algorithms
9 64 (2.38%) Low-Code
10 57 (2.12%) Virtual Team
11 56 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
12 55 (2.04%) Mobile App
13 54 (2.01%) Blog
14 53 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.64%) Data Centre
16 40 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
16 40 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
17 39 (1.45%) Security Posture
18 38 (1.41%) Management Information System
19 32 (1.19%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 60 (2.23%) Windows
2 53 (1.97%) Android
3 48 (1.78%) Linux
4 26 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.45%) VMS
7 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.037%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (28.80%) Agile
2 683 (25.38%) Machine Learning
3 682 (25.34%) Analytics
4 656 (24.38%) Roadmaps
5 565 (21.00%) CI/CD
6 450 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 434 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 418 (15.53%) Software Engineering
9 408 (15.16%) Decision-Making
10 366 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 361 (13.42%) LLM
12 345 (12.82%) DevOps
13 333 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
14 331 (12.30%) Customer Experience
15 246 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
16 240 (8.92%) Product Roadmap
17 238 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 237 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
19 234 (8.70%) Generative AI
20 228 (8.47%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 618 (22.97%) Python
2 475 (17.65%) SQL
3 272 (10.11%) C#
4 239 (8.88%) JavaScript
5 177 (6.58%) TypeScript
6 118 (4.38%) Java
7 60 (2.23%) Go
8 55 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.71%) Bash
10 45 (1.67%) Bicep
11 44 (1.64%) C++
12 25 (0.93%) Scala
13 18 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 18 (0.67%) R
14 15 (0.56%) PHP
15 14 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.48%) C
17 11 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.26%) Groovy
18 7 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 208 (7.73%) Degree
2 136 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 94 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.56%) CISSP
5 63 (2.34%) CISM
6 55 (2.04%) A+ Certification
6 55 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
7 54 (2.01%) ACCA
8 45 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 35 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 35 (1.30%) CIMA
12 33 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 29 (1.08%) PhD
14 26 (0.97%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.74%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.41%) SnowPro
18 9 (0.33%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (11.26%) Accessibility
2 152 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 92 (3.42%) QA
4 91 (3.38%) GDPR
5 69 (2.56%) WCAG
6 59 (2.19%) GRC
7 40 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (1.26%) NIST
9 24 (0.89%) SLA
10 21 (0.78%) IFRS
11 14 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.52%) PMO
12 12 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 12 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.19%) NCSC
14 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 203 (7.54%) Docker
2 92 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.45%) vSphere
6 6 (0.22%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.074%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 187 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 126 (4.68%) Terraform
3 74 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (0.78%) Grafana
5 20 (0.74%) Ansible
6 18 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.26%) Argo
7 7 (0.26%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.22%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.19%) Puppet
9 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.15%) Istio
10 4 (0.15%) Nmap
10 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.11%) linkerd
12 2 (0.074%) Podman
12 2 (0.074%) Salt
13 1 (0.037%) CASB
13 1 (0.037%) Cilium
13 1 (0.037%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 688 (25.57%) Microsoft
2 249 (9.25%) Adobe
3 154 (5.72%) Databricks
4 126 (4.68%) Google
5 87 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 76 (2.82%) Cisco
7 64 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.04%) CyberArk
9 48 (1.78%) Dell
10 46 (1.71%) Apple
11 44 (1.64%) Salesforce
12 37 (1.37%) Facebook
12 37 (1.37%) Foundry
13 32 (1.19%) HubSpot
14 31 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
15 27 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 27 (1.00%) Tenable
16 24 (0.89%) Oracle
17 23 (0.85%) VMware
18 21 (0.78%) Yahoo!
2,095 hybrid/remote AI jobs