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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 77
Rank change year-on-year +31 +40 +17
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,499 982 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.10% 6.99% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.71% 7.32% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 923 607 790
10th Percentile £22,194 £25,313 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% -11.03%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £104,324
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -

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 14,111 13,408 27,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.24% 95.41% 92.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,199 8,890 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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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 9 March 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 39 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.04%) CMS
3 24 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.92%) Confluence
5 22 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.52%) JBoss
6 13 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.52%) WebSphere
7 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.36%) WordPress
9 7 (0.28%) Apache
10 6 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 2 (0.080%) Mendix
13 2 (0.080%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.040%) Camunda
14 1 (0.040%) Kinematics
Applications
1 874 (34.97%) Chatbot
2 62 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.56%) UserZoom
5 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.12%) CapCut
6 3 (0.12%) Simulink
6 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.080%) Weka
8 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.080%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.080%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 442 (17.69%) Azure
2 293 (11.72%) AWS
3 210 (8.40%) SaaS
4 167 (6.68%) Power Platform
5 144 (5.76%) GCP
5 144 (5.76%) GitHub
6 106 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (4.20%) Adobe Analytics
8 93 (3.72%) GitHub Copilot
9 68 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
10 59 (2.36%) Figma
11 56 (2.24%) Serverless
12 52 (2.08%) Snowflake
13 45 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
15 36 (1.44%) Entra ID
16 33 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
17 28 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
18 27 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
18 27 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 150 (6.00%) Broadband
2 16 (0.64%) Firewall
3 13 (0.52%) HTTP
4 11 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.28%) Internet
5 7 (0.28%) Network Security
6 6 (0.24%) DMZ
6 6 (0.24%) RTP
6 6 (0.24%) VoIP
6 6 (0.24%) VPN
6 6 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.20%) DHCP
7 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.12%) DNS
8 3 (0.12%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.12%) DSL
8 3 (0.12%) GPON
8 3 (0.12%) Modbus
8 3 (0.12%) WAN
8 3 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (3.60%) Power BI
2 67 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (1.88%) Metadata
4 44 (1.76%) Tableau
5 38 (1.52%) Big Data
6 35 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 34 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 29 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (1.00%) Data Lake
11 24 (0.96%) BigQuery
12 22 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.72%) Looker
15 17 (0.68%) Redis
16 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.48%) Delta Lake
18 12 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
19 11 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (2.20%) Git
2 53 (2.12%) JIRA
3 22 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.72%) MLflow
5 17 (0.68%) GitLab
6 14 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (0.48%) Claude Code
8 11 (0.44%) Selenium
9 10 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.32%) Subversion
11 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.28%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.24%) ERwin
14 5 (0.20%) GitBook
14 5 (0.20%) Storybook
15 4 (0.16%) ER Studio
15 4 (0.16%) JMeter
15 4 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 557 (22.29%) Analytical Skills
2 506 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 425 (17.01%) Finance
4 271 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (6.72%) Marketing
6 163 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 137 (5.48%) Games
8 130 (5.20%) Legal
9 118 (4.72%) Retail
10 108 (4.32%) Law
11 54 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 51 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 33 (1.32%) Banking
16 30 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.88%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.76%) Automotive
19 16 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
20 13 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 857 (34.29%) Trainer
2 304 (12.16%) Senior
3 232 (9.28%) Lead
4 188 (7.52%) Developer
5 120 (4.80%) Architect
6 102 (4.08%) Content Editor
7 82 (3.28%) Consultant
8 76 (3.04%) Research Scientist
9 75 (3.00%) Customer Support Specialist
9 75 (3.00%) Support Specialist
10 70 (2.80%) Software Engineer
11 68 (2.72%) Analyst
12 58 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
13 51 (2.04%) Data Engineer
14 48 (1.92%) Designer
15 46 (1.84%) Sales Executive
16 45 (1.80%) Corporate Sales Executive
17 43 (1.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 39 (1.56%) Lead Developer
19 34 (1.36%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (4.04%) React
2 85 (3.40%) REST
3 76 (3.04%) .NET
4 67 (2.68%) Node.js
5 65 (2.60%) RESTful
6 45 (1.80%) PyTorch
7 43 (1.72%) TensorFlow
8 39 (1.56%) SOAP
9 38 (1.52%) Kafka
10 36 (1.44%) OAuth
11 35 (1.40%) Spring
12 34 (1.36%) CSS
13 32 (1.28%) HTML
14 31 (1.24%) OAuth2
15 28 (1.12%) Vue
16 25 (1.00%) AngularJS
17 23 (0.92%) GraphQL
17 23 (0.92%) LangChain
17 23 (0.92%) Next.js
18 22 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 130 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 113 (4.52%) Social Media
3 112 (4.48%) Blog
4 100 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 89 (3.56%) Molecular Biology
6 75 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.16%) AI Agents
8 51 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (1.92%) Mobile App
10 44 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 44 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 41 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
12 35 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 33 (1.32%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 28 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
16 26 (1.04%) Social Network
17 24 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (0.76%) Management Information System
19 18 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.08%) Android
2 35 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 31 (1.24%) Linux
4 24 (0.96%) Windows
5 7 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.040%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (35.45%) Conversational UI
2 433 (17.33%) Agile
3 427 (17.09%) Analytics
4 368 (14.73%) Roadmaps
5 326 (13.05%) Chemistry
6 311 (12.44%) CI/CD
7 308 (12.32%) Machine Learning
8 275 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 256 (10.24%) Customer Experience
9 256 (10.24%) DevOps
10 235 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
11 202 (8.08%) Mentoring
12 201 (8.04%) Software Engineering
13 193 (7.72%) Decision-Making
14 150 (6.00%) Project Management
15 147 (5.88%) Coaching
15 147 (5.88%) Generative AI
16 142 (5.68%) Customer Service
17 136 (5.44%) Storytelling
18 135 (5.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 342 (13.69%) Python
2 230 (9.20%) SQL
3 119 (4.76%) Java
4 97 (3.88%) TypeScript
5 77 (3.08%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.44%) C#
7 48 (1.92%) Go
8 34 (1.36%) C++
9 32 (1.28%) Bash
10 24 (0.96%) PowerShell
11 22 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 22 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 20 (0.80%) R
13 18 (0.72%) PHP
14 17 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.64%) C
16 14 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.56%) Scala
17 13 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,116 (44.66%) Degree
2 506 (20.25%) Master's Degree
3 496 (19.85%) PhD
4 76 (3.04%) Security Cleared
5 57 (2.28%) SC Cleared
6 55 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 29 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.00%) PMP
11 24 (0.96%) ACCA
12 22 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.60%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.52%) CISSP
16 12 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 11 (0.44%) CISA
18 8 (0.32%) CISM
19 7 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
20 6 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (7.20%) Accessibility
2 40 (1.60%) Data Quality
2 40 (1.60%) GDPR
2 40 (1.60%) QA
2 40 (1.60%) WCAG
3 27 (1.08%) IFRS
4 26 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 17 (0.68%) GRC
6 14 (0.56%) GAAP
7 12 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.44%) NIST
9 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.28%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.28%) PMO
11 6 (0.24%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.24%) NCSC
12 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (3.84%) Docker
2 28 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.16%) Firmware
6 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.080%) Ceph
7 2 (0.080%) Lustre
7 2 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.080%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (3.20%) Kubernetes
1 80 (3.20%) Terraform
2 26 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (0.92%) Ansible
4 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.52%) Grafana
6 6 (0.24%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.20%) Argo
8 4 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 4 (0.16%) SCCM
9 2 (0.080%) Control-M
9 2 (0.080%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.040%) Cilium
10 1 (0.040%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 854 (34.17%) PayPal
2 359 (14.37%) Microsoft
3 149 (5.96%) Adobe
4 66 (2.64%) Databricks
5 63 (2.52%) Google
6 53 (2.12%) Dell
7 52 (2.08%) Cisco
8 47 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 41 (1.64%) Oracle
10 33 (1.32%) Blue Prism
11 27 (1.08%) Apple
12 25 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.72%) Foundry
14 17 (0.68%) SAP
15 15 (0.60%) Palantir
16 13 (0.52%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.52%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.48%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.48%) Informatica
18 11 (0.44%) Hootsuite
1,924 hybrid/remote AI jobs