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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 +58 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,201 2,276 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.21% 15.06% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.66% 15.92% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 681 906
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,206 £64,475
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +2.68% -11.07%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -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 16,117 14,300 30,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.10% 94.60% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,559 8,372 23,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
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% -9.54%

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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 11 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 48 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.68%) CMS
2 37 (1.68%) Confluence
3 23 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.55%) Apache
6 11 (0.50%) WordPress
7 10 (0.45%) SAS
8 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.18%) JBoss
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.091%) Camunda
11 2 (0.091%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.045%) Moodle
12 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.045%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (1.68%) UserZoom
2 28 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.77%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.55%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.36%) InDesign
8 8 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.18%) CapCut
10 4 (0.18%) Sketch
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.14%) Productboard
11 3 (0.14%) Trello
12 2 (0.091%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.045%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.09%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.18%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.091%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.045%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.045%) HFM
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 600 (27.26%) Azure
2 414 (18.81%) AWS
3 230 (10.45%) SaaS
4 195 (8.86%) GCP
5 186 (8.45%) Adobe Analytics
6 157 (7.13%) Azure AI
7 155 (7.04%) Power Platform
8 133 (6.04%) GitHub
9 117 (5.32%) Figma
10 106 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (4.13%) Azure Machine Learning
11 91 (4.13%) Serverless
11 91 (4.13%) Snowflake
12 84 (3.82%) GitHub Copilot
13 80 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (3.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 62 (2.82%) Contentsquare
16 59 (2.68%) Anthropic Claude
17 56 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
18 34 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 325 (14.77%) Broadband
2 24 (1.09%) Firewall
3 17 (0.77%) VPN
4 15 (0.68%) HTTP
5 13 (0.59%) Internet
6 11 (0.50%) DNS
7 10 (0.45%) Unified Communications
8 8 (0.36%) Network Security
9 7 (0.32%) DHCP
10 6 (0.27%) 5G
10 6 (0.27%) DMZ
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.18%) RTP
12 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.18%) VoIP
12 4 (0.18%) WPA
13 3 (0.14%) Wireless
13 3 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.32%) MongoDB
2 100 (4.54%) SQL Server
3 90 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 90 (4.09%) Power BI
4 75 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (2.77%) Metadata
6 48 (2.18%) Tableau
7 45 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (1.91%) Big Data
9 33 (1.50%) BigQuery
10 28 (1.27%) NoSQL
11 27 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
12 24 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (1.09%) Redis
13 23 (1.04%) Data Lake
14 20 (0.91%) Relational Database
15 19 (0.86%) Looker
16 17 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.73%) MySQL
18 15 (0.68%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 62 (2.82%) Git
2 38 (1.73%) Claude Code
3 32 (1.45%) JIRA
4 31 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.14%) Snyk
6 21 (0.95%) MLflow
7 14 (0.64%) GitLab
8 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.41%) Selenium
8 9 (0.41%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.27%) Maven
9 6 (0.27%) Postman
9 6 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.23%) JUnit
10 5 (0.23%) Mockito
10 5 (0.23%) Storybook
10 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.14%) Appium
11 3 (0.14%) ESLint
General
1 528 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 428 (19.45%) Finance
3 268 (12.18%) Games
4 265 (12.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 259 (11.77%) Analytical Skills
6 231 (10.50%) Marketing
7 137 (6.22%) Legal
8 134 (6.09%) Public Sector
9 118 (5.36%) Law
10 79 (3.59%) Retail
11 68 (3.09%) Banking
12 58 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
13 44 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (1.86%) Legal Technology
15 39 (1.77%) Automotive
16 36 (1.64%) Advertising
17 27 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (1.14%) Manufacturing
19 19 (0.86%) Telecoms
20 10 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 437 (19.85%) Senior
2 345 (15.67%) Lead
3 274 (12.45%) Developer
4 198 (9.00%) Architect
5 131 (5.95%) Software Engineer
6 98 (4.45%) Analyst
7 94 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
8 91 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 87 (3.95%) Consultant
10 86 (3.91%) .NET Developer
11 83 (3.77%) Designer
12 77 (3.50%) Data Engineer
13 73 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.95%) Data Scientist
15 61 (2.77%) Product Manager
16 60 (2.73%) Python Engineer
17 58 (2.64%) Data Manager
18 56 (2.54%) Full-Stack Developer
19 54 (2.45%) Senior Architect
20 51 (2.32%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.04%) React
2 143 (6.50%) .NET
3 120 (5.45%) RESTful
4 93 (4.23%) Node.js
5 92 (4.18%) CSS
6 87 (3.95%) .NET Core
7 85 (3.86%) HTML
8 83 (3.77%) REST
9 79 (3.59%) ASP.NET
9 79 (3.59%) ASP.NET Core
10 77 (3.50%) ML.NET
11 65 (2.95%) PyTorch
12 64 (2.91%) Blazor
13 57 (2.59%) TensorFlow
14 55 (2.50%) LangChain
15 43 (1.95%) FastAPI
16 39 (1.77%) Vue
17 38 (1.73%) Next.js
18 32 (1.45%) Spring
19 29 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 215 (9.77%) Social Media
2 192 (8.72%) Cloud Native
3 135 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 115 (5.22%) AI Agents
5 76 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 70 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 57 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
9 51 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 50 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 49 (2.23%) Mobile App
12 45 (2.04%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.91%) Public Cloud
14 40 (1.82%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.27%) Management Information System
17 27 (1.23%) Social Network
18 25 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (1.14%) Security Posture
19 24 (1.09%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.00%) Android
2 32 (1.45%) Linux
3 30 (1.36%) Windows
4 27 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Unix
8 2 (0.091%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (28.26%) Agile
2 576 (26.17%) Roadmaps
3 565 (25.67%) Analytics
4 544 (24.72%) Machine Learning
5 442 (20.08%) CI/CD
6 325 (14.77%) Software Engineering
7 322 (14.63%) Customer Experience
8 302 (13.72%) Mentoring
9 287 (13.04%) Decision-Making
10 280 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 271 (12.31%) LLM
12 266 (12.09%) DevOps
13 263 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 262 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
15 237 (10.77%) Generative AI
15 237 (10.77%) Product Roadmap
16 216 (9.81%) Storytelling
17 196 (8.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 195 (8.86%) Data Science
19 194 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 521 (23.67%) Python
2 346 (15.72%) SQL
3 164 (7.45%) C#
4 156 (7.09%) JavaScript
5 134 (6.09%) TypeScript
6 115 (5.22%) Java
7 72 (3.27%) Go
8 40 (1.82%) Bash
9 37 (1.68%) PowerShell
10 29 (1.32%) C++
11 27 (1.23%) Bicep
12 22 (1.00%) R
13 20 (0.91%) Scala
14 15 (0.68%) PHP
15 10 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.41%) C
17 8 (0.36%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.36%) Rust
17 8 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (8.04%) Degree
2 89 (4.04%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.45%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.36%) ACCA
5 45 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 38 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 35 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.41%) CIMA
8 31 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.18%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.18%) PhD
11 24 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.50%) CISSP
13 10 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.18%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (12.68%) Accessibility
2 109 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.27%) WCAG
4 70 (3.18%) GDPR
5 64 (2.91%) QA
6 54 (2.45%) GRC
7 29 (1.32%) NIST
8 25 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.09%) IFRS
10 19 (0.86%) SLA
11 16 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.64%) PMO
13 13 (0.59%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.32%) NCSC
16 6 (0.27%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 152 (6.91%) Docker
2 89 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.18%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.14%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 127 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.04%) Terraform
3 19 (0.86%) Ansible
4 15 (0.68%) Grafana
5 14 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.36%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.32%) Argo
9 7 (0.32%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.091%) Istio
11 2 (0.091%) Podman
11 2 (0.091%) Salt
12 1 (0.045%) CASB
12 1 (0.045%) Cilium
12 1 (0.045%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.045%) linkerd
12 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.045%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 486 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 254 (11.54%) Adobe
3 126 (5.72%) Databricks
4 92 (4.18%) Google
5 66 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 63 (2.86%) Cisco
7 53 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.36%) Dell
9 49 (2.23%) Apple
10 48 (2.18%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (1.27%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.23%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.23%) Tenable
14 24 (1.09%) Oracle
15 23 (1.04%) Foundry
16 19 (0.86%) SAP
17 17 (0.77%) Facebook
18 15 (0.68%) VMware
19 12 (0.55%) Palantir