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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 70
Rank change year-on-year +8 +52 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,903 1,345 1,316
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.48% 9.96% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.65% 10.51% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 693 838
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% +5.93% -10.71%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £71,014 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.45% - -

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 15,038 12,797 29,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.83% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,506 8,904 23,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%

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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 28 April 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 52 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.47%) CMS
3 41 (2.15%) Confluence
4 26 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.63%) WordPress
7 11 (0.58%) Apache
7 11 (0.58%) JBoss
7 11 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) SAS
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 1 (0.053%) Kinematics
Applications
1 54 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.63%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.58%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.21%) CapCut
7 3 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.74%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 500 (26.27%) Azure
2 350 (18.39%) AWS
3 207 (10.88%) SaaS
4 184 (9.67%) Adobe Analytics
5 170 (8.93%) GCP
6 138 (7.25%) GitHub
7 124 (6.52%) Power Platform
8 105 (5.52%) Figma
9 93 (4.89%) Snowflake
10 92 (4.83%) Azure Machine Learning
11 90 (4.73%) GitHub Copilot
12 87 (4.57%) Azure AI
13 84 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
14 83 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 68 (3.57%) Serverless
16 65 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
17 55 (2.89%) Contentsquare
18 47 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
19 35 (1.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 261 (13.72%) Broadband
2 24 (1.26%) Firewall
3 21 (1.10%) HTTP
4 11 (0.58%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.47%) Network Security
5 9 (0.47%) VPN
6 7 (0.37%) DNS
7 6 (0.32%) DHCP
7 6 (0.32%) DMZ
8 5 (0.26%) RTP
8 5 (0.26%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.26%) VoIP
8 5 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.21%) Modbus
9 4 (0.21%) WAN
10 3 (0.16%) Wireless
10 3 (0.16%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.11%) NGN
11 2 (0.11%) PPP
11 2 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.73%) SQL Server
2 77 (4.05%) Power BI
3 55 (2.89%) Metadata
4 53 (2.79%) MongoDB
5 51 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (1.89%) Tableau
9 34 (1.79%) Big Data
10 32 (1.68%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.26%) Data Lake
12 21 (1.10%) Looker
13 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 19 (1.00%) Redis
14 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.74%) Delta Lake
17 12 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (0.58%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 50 (2.63%) Git
2 45 (2.36%) JIRA
3 22 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.10%) MLflow
5 18 (0.95%) Claude Code
6 16 (0.84%) GitLab
6 16 (0.84%) Snyk
7 10 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.53%) Selenium
8 9 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.37%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.37%) Subversion
9 7 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.32%) Storybook
11 3 (0.16%) Appium
11 3 (0.16%) ESLint
11 3 (0.16%) Postman
11 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 491 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 441 (23.17%) Finance
3 274 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (13.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 215 (11.30%) Games
6 185 (9.72%) Marketing
7 160 (8.41%) Legal
8 156 (8.20%) Public Sector
9 131 (6.88%) Law
10 74 (3.89%) Retail
11 60 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (3.00%) Banking
13 49 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
15 42 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.47%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.21%) Automotive
18 13 (0.68%) Back Office
19 12 (0.63%) Advertising
20 9 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 367 (19.29%) Senior
2 283 (14.87%) Lead
3 164 (8.62%) Developer
4 160 (8.41%) Architect
5 102 (5.36%) Software Engineer
6 77 (4.05%) Consultant
7 75 (3.94%) Engineering Manager
8 74 (3.89%) Analyst
9 71 (3.73%) Designer
10 65 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (2.79%) Product Manager
12 52 (2.73%) Data Engineer
13 50 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 49 (2.57%) Lead Designer
15 47 (2.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 44 (2.31%) Sales Executive
17 43 (2.26%) Corporate Sales Executive
18 42 (2.21%) Data Scientist
18 42 (2.21%) Digital Designer
18 42 (2.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (6.41%) React
2 87 (4.57%) REST
3 75 (3.94%) .NET
4 71 (3.73%) Node.js
5 70 (3.68%) RESTful
6 49 (2.57%) PyTorch
7 46 (2.42%) CSS
8 43 (2.26%) HTML
9 41 (2.15%) TensorFlow
10 38 (2.00%) Kafka
11 33 (1.73%) OAuth
12 32 (1.68%) Vue
13 31 (1.63%) LangChain
13 31 (1.63%) Spring
14 29 (1.52%) SOAP
15 28 (1.47%) FastAPI
15 28 (1.47%) Next.js
16 25 (1.31%) OAuth2
17 24 (1.26%) AngularJS
17 24 (1.26%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 188 (9.88%) Social Media
2 140 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 103 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 92 (4.83%) Blog
5 84 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 67 (3.52%) AI Agents
7 53 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (2.36%) Mobile App
10 43 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 40 (2.10%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.73%) Data Centre
14 30 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.42%) Social Network
16 21 (1.10%) Podcast
17 20 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
17 20 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
17 20 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.47%) Android
2 29 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 24 (1.26%) Linux
4 18 (0.95%) Windows
5 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.26%) Unix
6 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.11%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (28.22%) Agile
2 513 (26.96%) Analytics
3 501 (26.33%) Roadmaps
4 390 (20.49%) Machine Learning
5 338 (17.76%) Customer Experience
6 330 (17.34%) CI/CD
7 296 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 251 (13.19%) Decision-Making
9 245 (12.87%) DevOps
10 238 (12.51%) Software Engineering
11 235 (12.35%) Mentoring
12 233 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
13 225 (11.82%) Product Roadmap
14 222 (11.67%) Storytelling
15 189 (9.93%) Generative AI
16 184 (9.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 182 (9.56%) LLM
18 178 (9.35%) Digital Customer Experience
19 177 (9.30%) User Experience
20 157 (8.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 363 (19.08%) Python
2 261 (13.72%) SQL
3 120 (6.31%) Java
4 100 (5.25%) TypeScript
5 77 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.94%) C#
7 55 (2.89%) Go
8 31 (1.63%) C++
9 20 (1.05%) Bash
10 19 (1.00%) R
11 18 (0.95%) Scala
12 17 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.74%) Bicep
13 14 (0.74%) PHP
14 13 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.53%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.53%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 255 (13.40%) Degree
2 68 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.84%) Master's Degree
4 49 (2.57%) ACCA
5 46 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.26%) PhD
6 43 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 42 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 38 (2.00%) DBS Check
9 26 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.37%) CIMA
10 22 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 18 (0.95%) PMP
12 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.63%) CISSP
14 12 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 8 (0.42%) CISA
15 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.32%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (13.93%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.73%) WCAG
3 52 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.47%) QA
5 43 (2.26%) GDPR
6 40 (2.10%) GRC
7 30 (1.58%) IFRS
8 23 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.74%) PMO
11 13 (0.68%) NIST
12 12 (0.63%) GAAP
12 12 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.37%) NCSC
15 6 (0.32%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.21%) SLA
17 4 (0.21%) Solvency II
18 3 (0.16%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 106 (5.57%) Docker
2 78 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.16%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Firmware
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 86 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.26%) Terraform
3 21 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (1.05%) Ansible
5 13 (0.68%) Grafana
6 12 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.26%) Argo
8 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.11%) Podman
9 2 (0.11%) Puppet
9 2 (0.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 375 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 241 (12.66%) Adobe
3 123 (6.46%) Databricks
4 79 (4.15%) Google
5 51 (2.68%) Cisco
6 50 (2.63%) Dell
7 49 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.21%) Apple
9 33 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.73%) PayPal
10 30 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.26%) Oracle
12 20 (1.05%) Foundry
13 18 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (0.95%) Palo Alto
14 17 (0.89%) Tenable
15 16 (0.84%) SAP
16 14 (0.74%) Palantir
17 12 (0.63%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.63%) HubSpot