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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 +60 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,418 2,530 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.69% 16.02% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.23% 17.05% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 708 847
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,274 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -5.32% -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 16,995 14,837 29,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 93.93% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,422 8,708 22,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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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 30 June 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 59 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.61%) CMS
2 39 (1.61%) Confluence
3 20 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Apache
6 12 (0.50%) WordPress
7 10 (0.41%) SAS
8 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.12%) Camunda
8 3 (0.12%) JBoss
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.083%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.083%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.041%) Moodle
10 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 45 (1.86%) UserZoom
2 24 (0.99%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 11 (0.45%) InDesign
7 11 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.17%) CapCut
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) Productboard
11 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.083%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.041%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.99%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.083%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.041%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.041%) HFM
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Shopify
6 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 709 (29.32%) Azure
2 441 (18.24%) AWS
3 245 (10.13%) SaaS
4 230 (9.51%) Azure AI
5 206 (8.52%) GCP
6 193 (7.98%) Adobe Analytics
7 171 (7.07%) GitHub
8 170 (7.03%) Power Platform
9 152 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
10 109 (4.51%) Figma
11 108 (4.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 100 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
13 99 (4.09%) Serverless
14 94 (3.89%) Snowflake
15 91 (3.76%) Azure Machine Learning
16 75 (3.10%) Anthropic Claude
16 75 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 70 (2.89%) Contentsquare
17 70 (2.89%) Microsoft Copilot
18 39 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 339 (14.02%) Broadband
2 31 (1.28%) VPN
3 28 (1.16%) Firewall
4 27 (1.12%) Internet
5 15 (0.62%) DNS
6 14 (0.58%) HTTP
7 11 (0.45%) VoIP
8 10 (0.41%) DHCP
9 9 (0.37%) Network Security
10 8 (0.33%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.29%) CTI
12 6 (0.25%) 5G
12 6 (0.25%) WPA
13 5 (0.21%) DMZ
13 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.21%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.21%) VLAN
13 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.17%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (8.31%) MongoDB
2 161 (6.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 107 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 95 (3.93%) Power BI
5 83 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (3.06%) Metadata
7 55 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (1.82%) Tableau
9 42 (1.74%) Big Data
10 32 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 32 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 30 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
12 28 (1.16%) Redis
13 26 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.95%) Delta Lake
15 22 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.91%) MySQL
15 22 (0.91%) Relational Database
16 18 (0.74%) Pinecone
17 14 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (3.27%) Git
2 46 (1.90%) Claude Code
3 37 (1.53%) JIRA
4 35 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.03%) Snyk
6 19 (0.79%) GitLab
7 17 (0.70%) MLflow
8 13 (0.54%) Selenium
9 11 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.33%) Postman
11 6 (0.25%) Maven
11 6 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.21%) JUnit
12 5 (0.21%) Mockito
12 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.21%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.12%) Appium
14 2 (0.083%) Metasploit
14 2 (0.083%) Mocha
General
1 602 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 454 (18.78%) Finance
3 278 (11.50%) Games
4 261 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 260 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 252 (10.42%) Marketing
7 141 (5.83%) Public Sector
8 136 (5.62%) Legal
9 129 (5.33%) Law
10 82 (3.39%) Retail
11 70 (2.89%) Banking
12 63 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
13 52 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (2.07%) Advertising
15 39 (1.61%) Automotive
16 38 (1.57%) Legal Technology
17 28 (1.16%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.74%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 455 (18.82%) Senior
2 379 (15.67%) Lead
3 357 (14.76%) Developer
4 219 (9.06%) Architect
5 156 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 151 (6.24%) .NET Developer
7 105 (4.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 103 (4.26%) Analyst
9 101 (4.18%) Engineering Manager
10 95 (3.93%) Consultant
11 84 (3.47%) Designer
12 78 (3.23%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
14 66 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (2.69%) Data Scientist
15 65 (2.69%) Python Engineer
16 61 (2.52%) Product Manager
17 59 (2.44%) Data Manager
17 59 (2.44%) Senior Software Engineer
18 56 (2.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (9.18%) .NET
2 221 (9.14%) React
3 153 (6.33%) RESTful
4 150 (6.20%) ASP.NET
5 148 (6.12%) .NET Core
6 144 (5.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (5.83%) ML.NET
8 132 (5.46%) CSS
9 124 (5.13%) HTML
10 105 (4.34%) Blazor
11 99 (4.09%) Node.js
12 81 (3.35%) REST
13 68 (2.81%) LangChain
14 67 (2.77%) PyTorch
15 58 (2.40%) TensorFlow
16 46 (1.90%) Vue
17 44 (1.82%) FastAPI
18 43 (1.78%) Next.js
19 34 (1.41%) Spring
20 30 (1.24%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 233 (9.64%) Social Media
2 222 (9.18%) Cloud Native
3 144 (5.96%) AI Agents
4 136 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 91 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.65%) Low-Code
8 59 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 58 (2.40%) Algorithms
9 58 (2.40%) Video\Live Streaming
10 53 (2.19%) Mobile App
10 53 (2.19%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 41 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 33 (1.36%) Social Network
14 32 (1.32%) Podcast
15 31 (1.28%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.28%) Public Cloud
16 25 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.15%) Windows
2 51 (2.11%) Android
3 39 (1.61%) Linux
4 27 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.50%) VMS
7 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.083%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (29.86%) Agile
2 631 (26.10%) Machine Learning
3 613 (25.35%) Roadmaps
4 606 (25.06%) Analytics
5 517 (21.38%) CI/CD
6 376 (15.55%) Software Engineering
7 355 (14.68%) Mentoring
8 348 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 344 (14.23%) Decision-Making
10 332 (13.73%) Customer Experience
11 323 (13.36%) DevOps
12 317 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 317 (13.11%) LLM
13 293 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
14 248 (10.26%) Generative AI
15 242 (10.01%) Product Roadmap
16 232 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
17 218 (9.02%) Storytelling
18 205 (8.48%) Data Science
19 204 (8.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 565 (23.37%) Python
2 431 (17.82%) SQL
3 244 (10.09%) C#
4 213 (8.81%) JavaScript
5 157 (6.49%) TypeScript
6 110 (4.55%) Java
7 67 (2.77%) Go
8 51 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 48 (1.99%) Bash
10 41 (1.70%) Bicep
11 32 (1.32%) C++
12 24 (0.99%) Scala
13 20 (0.83%) R
14 18 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.66%) PHP
16 11 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.37%) C
18 8 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.29%) Ruby
20 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 195 (8.06%) Degree
2 106 (4.38%) Security Cleared
3 66 (2.73%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.19%) ACCA
5 44 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.28%) CIMA
10 30 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.20%) PhD
12 27 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (1.03%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.50%) CISSP
15 10 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.37%) CIPD
16 9 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (12.03%) Accessibility
2 132 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 78 (3.23%) GDPR
4 76 (3.14%) QA
5 71 (2.94%) WCAG
6 55 (2.27%) GRC
7 31 (1.28%) NIST
8 30 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.99%) IFRS
10 22 (0.91%) SLA
11 14 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.58%) PMO
12 13 (0.54%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.25%) NCSC
16 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 188 (7.78%) Docker
2 91 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.50%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.21%) Firmware
9 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 171 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.67%) Terraform
3 19 (0.79%) Ansible
4 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.70%) Grafana
6 16 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.37%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.33%) Argo
9 7 (0.29%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
12 3 (0.12%) Istio
13 2 (0.083%) linkerd
13 2 (0.083%) Nmap
13 2 (0.083%) Podman
13 2 (0.083%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.083%) Salt
14 1 (0.041%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.041%) Nessus
14 1 (0.041%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 577 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 252 (10.42%) Adobe
3 137 (5.67%) Databricks
4 112 (4.63%) Google
5 76 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 75 (3.10%) Cisco
7 60 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.11%) Dell
9 45 (1.86%) Apple
9 45 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 38 (1.57%) Foundry
11 33 (1.36%) Facebook
12 31 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (1.12%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.12%) Tenable
14 23 (0.95%) VMware
15 21 (0.87%) Oracle
16 17 (0.70%) SAP
17 16 (0.66%) Sony
1,344 hybrid/remote AI jobs