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

 6 months to
13 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 69
Rank change year-on-year -2 +62 +15
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,539 2,657 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.89% 16.07% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.38% 17.21% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,623 735 758
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,925
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,100 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% +1.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £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 17,655 15,436 28,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 93.33% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,911 9,153 21,561
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 13 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 62 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.65%) Confluence
3 39 (1.54%) CMS
4 18 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.63%) Apache
7 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.43%) WordPress
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.079%) JBoss
11 2 (0.079%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.079%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.81%) UserZoom
2 30 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.51%) InDesign
7 13 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.16%) 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 (0.079%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.039%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.039%) HFM
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.039%) Shopify
6 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 761 (29.97%) Azure
2 448 (17.64%) AWS
3 245 (9.65%) SaaS
4 243 (9.57%) Azure AI
5 212 (8.35%) GCP
6 192 (7.56%) Adobe Analytics
7 182 (7.17%) GitHub
8 179 (7.05%) Power Platform
9 158 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
10 117 (4.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 108 (4.25%) Figma
12 105 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
13 101 (3.98%) Snowflake
14 97 (3.82%) Serverless
15 88 (3.47%) Azure Machine Learning
16 81 (3.19%) Anthropic Claude
17 80 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 72 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
19 71 (2.80%) Contentsquare
20 66 (2.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 339 (13.35%) Broadband
2 32 (1.26%) Internet
3 31 (1.22%) VPN
4 28 (1.10%) Firewall
5 15 (0.59%) DNS
5 15 (0.59%) VoIP
6 13 (0.51%) HTTP
7 11 (0.43%) CTI
8 10 (0.39%) DHCP
9 8 (0.32%) Network Security
9 8 (0.32%) WPA
10 6 (0.24%) 5G
10 6 (0.24%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.24%) Wireless
11 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.20%) VLAN
11 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (8.55%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 110 (4.33%) SQL Server
4 102 (4.02%) Power BI
5 86 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 79 (3.11%) Metadata
7 61 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (1.65%) Tableau
9 40 (1.58%) Big Data
10 36 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 34 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
13 29 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.14%) Redis
14 25 (0.98%) Delta Lake
15 24 (0.95%) Relational Database
16 23 (0.91%) MySQL
17 19 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
18 18 (0.71%) Pinecone
19 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 87 (3.43%) Git
2 50 (1.97%) Claude Code
3 45 (1.77%) JIRA
4 34 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.98%) Snyk
6 19 (0.75%) GitLab
7 13 (0.51%) Selenium
8 12 (0.47%) MLflow
9 10 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.32%) Postman
11 6 (0.24%) Maven
11 6 (0.24%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.20%) JUnit
12 5 (0.20%) Mockito
12 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.20%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.12%) Appium
13 3 (0.12%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Metasploit
General
1 668 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 466 (18.35%) Finance
3 279 (10.99%) Games
4 274 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 267 (10.52%) Marketing
6 262 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
7 164 (6.46%) Law
8 161 (6.34%) Legal
9 149 (5.87%) Public Sector
10 88 (3.47%) Retail
11 78 (3.07%) Banking
12 68 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
13 55 (2.17%) Advertising
13 55 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.58%) Automotive
15 38 (1.50%) Legal Technology
16 29 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (0.79%) Telecoms
19 13 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 490 (19.30%) Senior
2 382 (15.05%) Lead
3 378 (14.89%) Developer
4 249 (9.81%) Architect
5 175 (6.89%) Software Engineer
6 165 (6.50%) .NET Developer
7 113 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 105 (4.14%) Engineering Manager
9 104 (4.10%) Analyst
10 98 (3.86%) Consultant
11 86 (3.39%) Designer
12 79 (3.11%) Data Engineer
12 79 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 64 (2.52%) Data Scientist
15 63 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
16 62 (2.44%) Product Manager
16 62 (2.44%) Python Engineer
17 61 (2.40%) Senior Developer
18 59 (2.32%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (9.33%) .NET
2 232 (9.14%) React
3 164 (6.46%) ASP.NET
4 158 (6.22%) .NET Core
4 158 (6.22%) RESTful
5 157 (6.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 154 (6.07%) ML.NET
7 142 (5.59%) CSS
8 135 (5.32%) HTML
9 112 (4.41%) Blazor
10 103 (4.06%) Node.js
11 80 (3.15%) REST
12 69 (2.72%) LangChain
13 63 (2.48%) PyTorch
14 55 (2.17%) TensorFlow
15 48 (1.89%) Vue
16 47 (1.85%) FastAPI
17 46 (1.81%) Next.js
18 34 (1.34%) LangGraph
19 33 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 238 (9.37%) Social Media
2 226 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 161 (6.34%) AI Agents
4 136 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 100 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 67 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (2.52%) Low-Code
9 59 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 57 (2.24%) Video\Live Streaming
11 55 (2.17%) Mobile App
11 55 (2.17%) Virtual Team
12 51 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.61%) Data Centre
14 37 (1.46%) Security Posture
15 35 (1.38%) Management Information System
16 33 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
17 32 (1.26%) Podcast
18 30 (1.18%) Public Cloud
19 29 (1.14%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 58 (2.28%) Windows
2 53 (2.09%) Android
3 46 (1.81%) Linux
4 27 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.47%) VMS
7 9 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.079%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (29.78%) Agile
2 655 (25.80%) Machine Learning
3 635 (25.01%) Analytics
4 629 (24.77%) Roadmaps
5 540 (21.27%) CI/CD
6 402 (15.83%) Software Engineering
7 400 (15.75%) Mentoring
8 365 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 359 (14.14%) Decision-Making
9 359 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 341 (13.43%) LLM
11 337 (13.27%) Customer Experience
12 333 (13.12%) DevOps
13 305 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
14 243 (9.57%) Product Roadmap
15 241 (9.49%) Generative AI
15 241 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
16 220 (8.66%) Storytelling
17 215 (8.47%) Data Science
18 207 (8.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 589 (23.20%) Python
2 457 (18.00%) SQL
3 261 (10.28%) C#
4 226 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 164 (6.46%) TypeScript
6 116 (4.57%) Java
7 63 (2.48%) Go
8 53 (2.09%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.85%) Bash
10 43 (1.69%) Bicep
11 39 (1.54%) C++
12 25 (0.98%) Scala
13 19 (0.75%) R
14 18 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.63%) PHP
16 14 (0.55%) C
17 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.43%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.32%) Rust
19 7 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 198 (7.80%) Degree
2 127 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 85 (3.35%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.05%) ACCA
5 43 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.65%) CISSP
6 42 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 35 (1.38%) CISM
8 35 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.22%) CIMA
11 30 (1.18%) PhD
12 28 (1.10%) A+ Certification
12 28 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
13 26 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 25 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.95%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (11.70%) Accessibility
2 149 (5.87%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.35%) GDPR
4 83 (3.27%) QA
5 71 (2.80%) WCAG
6 57 (2.24%) GRC
7 36 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (1.26%) NIST
9 23 (0.91%) SLA
10 22 (0.87%) IFRS
11 15 (0.59%) PMO
12 14 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.51%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 12 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.20%) NCSC
17 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.16%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 190 (7.48%) Docker
2 91 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
3 66 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.47%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 181 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 115 (4.53%) Terraform
3 46 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.75%) Ansible
5 18 (0.71%) Grafana
6 16 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.32%) Argo
7 8 (0.32%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.28%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Nmap
12 2 (0.079%) linkerd
12 2 (0.079%) Podman
12 2 (0.079%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.079%) Salt
13 1 (0.039%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.039%) OpenVAS
13 1 (0.039%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 646 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 253 (9.96%) Adobe
3 143 (5.63%) Databricks
4 122 (4.81%) Google
5 88 (3.47%) OpenAI
6 79 (3.11%) Cisco
7 64 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.01%) Dell
9 46 (1.81%) Apple
10 44 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 37 (1.46%) Facebook
11 37 (1.46%) Foundry
12 31 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
13 29 (1.14%) HubSpot
14 28 (1.10%) CyberArk
15 27 (1.06%) Palo Alto
15 27 (1.06%) Tenable
16 23 (0.91%) Oracle
16 23 (0.91%) VMware
17 21 (0.83%) Yahoo!
2,042 hybrid/remote AI jobs