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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 65 61
Rank change year-on-year +61 -4 +47
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,763 778 964
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.27% 4.57% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.67% 4.91% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 865 446 527
10th Percentile £21,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.27% +0.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.67% +7.14%

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 13,369 15,861 19,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.41% 93.11% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,464 9,489 15,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,957 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 1 January 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 42 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.09%) Confluence
3 25 (0.90%) CMS
4 23 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 10 (0.36%) JBoss
8 10 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.25%) Apache
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.14%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Luigi
13 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.072%) Mendix
13 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.036%) Camunda
14 1 (0.036%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,254 (45.39%) Chatbot
2 87 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.18%) Sketch
6 4 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.11%) InDesign
7 3 (0.11%) Notion
7 3 (0.11%) Simulink
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.072%) Weka
9 1 (0.036%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.036%) Blender
9 1 (0.036%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.072%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.072%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.072%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.036%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 475 (17.19%) Azure
2 290 (10.50%) AWS
3 196 (7.09%) SaaS
4 187 (6.77%) Power Platform
5 146 (5.28%) GCP
6 139 (5.03%) GitHub
7 126 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (3.44%) GitHub Copilot
9 77 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (2.32%) Snowflake
11 47 (1.70%) Entra ID
12 44 (1.59%) Serverless
13 37 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (1.27%) dbt
14 35 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
15 27 (0.98%) Azure AI
15 27 (0.98%) Power Automate
16 26 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (0.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.76%) Broadband
2 10 (0.36%) Network Security
3 9 (0.33%) HTTP
3 9 (0.33%) Internet
4 7 (0.25%) Firewall
4 7 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.22%) DNS
5 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
5 6 (0.22%) WAN
6 5 (0.18%) DHCP
6 5 (0.18%) DMZ
6 5 (0.18%) VPN
7 4 (0.14%) Intranet
7 4 (0.14%) VoIP
8 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.11%) DSL
8 3 (0.11%) IPv4
8 3 (0.11%) IPv6
8 3 (0.11%) LAN
8 3 (0.11%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.05%) Power BI
2 76 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (1.92%) Tableau
4 42 (1.52%) NoSQL
5 40 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 35 (1.27%) Big Data
7 31 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 25 (0.90%) Metadata
10 24 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 22 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.62%) MySQL
12 17 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (0.54%) Looker
13 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.36%) Redis
16 9 (0.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 73 (2.64%) JIRA
2 59 (2.14%) Git
3 24 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (0.47%) GitLab
6 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.33%) MLflow
7 8 (0.29%) Subversion
8 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.22%) ERwin
10 5 (0.18%) GitBook
10 5 (0.18%) Selenium
10 5 (0.18%) Storybook
10 5 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) ESLint
12 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.072%) WebDriver
General
1 668 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
2 505 (18.28%) Social Skills
3 450 (16.29%) Finance
4 353 (12.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 184 (6.66%) Marketing
6 150 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 121 (4.38%) Retail
8 103 (3.73%) Legal
9 88 (3.18%) Law
10 54 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.77%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.01%) Banking
14 26 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 25 (0.90%) Games
15 25 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.54%) Agriculture
18 14 (0.51%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,233 (44.63%) Trainer
2 232 (8.40%) Senior
3 188 (6.80%) Developer
4 155 (5.61%) Content Editor
5 129 (4.67%) Architect
6 104 (3.76%) Lead
7 98 (3.55%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.55%) Support Specialist
8 94 (3.40%) Analyst
9 86 (3.11%) Research Scientist
10 68 (2.46%) Consultant
11 65 (2.35%) Software Engineer
12 57 (2.06%) Microsoft Specialist
13 54 (1.95%) Sales Executive
14 51 (1.85%) Data Engineer
15 47 (1.70%) Solutions Architect
16 45 (1.63%) Corporate Sales Executive
17 41 (1.48%) Customer Service Representative
18 39 (1.41%) Software Developer
19 38 (1.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (3.11%) React
2 84 (3.04%) .NET
3 75 (2.71%) REST
4 64 (2.32%) Node.js
5 57 (2.06%) RESTful
6 46 (1.66%) Kafka
7 36 (1.30%) SOAP
8 32 (1.16%) OAuth
8 32 (1.16%) OAuth2
9 30 (1.09%) Spring
10 28 (1.01%) gRPC
11 25 (0.90%) GraphQL
11 25 (0.90%) PyTorch
11 25 (0.90%) TensorFlow
12 23 (0.83%) CSS
12 23 (0.83%) FastAPI
13 22 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
13 22 (0.80%) Next.js
14 21 (0.76%) HTML
14 21 (0.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 136 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 108 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 105 (3.80%) Blog
4 98 (3.55%) Molecular Biology
5 66 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 50 (1.81%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 48 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 36 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 36 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 36 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 33 (1.19%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 25 (0.90%) Mobile App
15 22 (0.80%) Management Information System
15 22 (0.80%) Reinsurance
16 20 (0.72%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.19%) Android
2 30 (1.09%) Windows
3 27 (0.98%) Linux
4 20 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.036%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.036%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,271 (46.00%) Conversational UI
2 435 (15.74%) Chemistry
3 375 (13.57%) Agile
4 291 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 285 (10.31%) Analytics
5 285 (10.31%) Machine Learning
6 276 (9.99%) DevOps
7 264 (9.55%) CI/CD
8 240 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 226 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
10 209 (7.56%) Content Writing
11 206 (7.46%) Customer Service
12 196 (7.09%) Software Engineering
13 165 (5.97%) Coaching
14 161 (5.83%) Mentoring
15 154 (5.57%) Customer Experience
16 142 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
17 140 (5.07%) Business Intelligence
17 140 (5.07%) Decision-Making
18 138 (4.99%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 322 (11.65%) Python
2 266 (9.63%) SQL
3 102 (3.69%) Java
4 101 (3.66%) TypeScript
5 95 (3.44%) JavaScript
6 44 (1.59%) C#
7 38 (1.38%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.16%) Bash
8 32 (1.16%) C++
9 28 (1.01%) Go
10 26 (0.94%) Kotlin
11 23 (0.83%) R
12 22 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 18 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 15 (0.54%) C
16 15 (0.54%) Swift
17 14 (0.51%) PHP
17 14 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,535 (55.56%) Degree
2 661 (23.92%) Master's Degree
3 643 (23.27%) PhD
4 73 (2.64%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 25 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 24 (0.87%) PMP
10 22 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.76%) ACCA
11 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.43%) CISA
12 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (0.36%) CISM
13 10 (0.36%) CISSP
14 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.25%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 36 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 35 (1.27%) GDPR
4 28 (1.01%) QA
5 24 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.83%) IFRS
7 21 (0.76%) GAAP
8 19 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.58%) WCAG
10 11 (0.40%) NIST
11 10 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.33%) GRC
13 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
13 8 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.22%) NCSC
15 5 (0.18%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 93 (3.37%) Docker
2 27 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.072%) Ceph
8 2 (0.072%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (3.15%) Terraform
2 84 (3.04%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.69%) Ansible
6 9 (0.33%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 6 (0.22%) Grafana
9 3 (0.11%) Argo
9 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.072%) Control-M
10 2 (0.072%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.072%) Puppet
11 1 (0.036%) Cilium
11 1 (0.036%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.036%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,234 (44.66%) PayPal
2 445 (16.11%) Microsoft
3 77 (2.79%) Adobe
4 64 (2.32%) Cisco
5 58 (2.10%) Google
5 58 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 52 (1.88%) Dell
7 51 (1.85%) Oracle
8 49 (1.77%) Apple
8 49 (1.77%) Databricks
9 45 (1.63%) Blue Prism
10 25 (0.90%) HubSpot
11 22 (0.80%) Palo Alto
11 22 (0.80%) SAP
12 20 (0.72%) OpenAI
13 16 (0.58%) Foundry
14 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.47%) ServiceNow
15 11 (0.40%) IBM
16 10 (0.36%) Workday