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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +59 +24
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,529 2,609 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.93% 15.90% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.39% 17.00% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 738 811
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
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 17,569 15,347 29,009
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.87% 93.54% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,813 9,109 22,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
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 9 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 61 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.62%) Confluence
3 39 (1.54%) CMS
4 18 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.63%) Apache
6 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.43%) SAS
7 11 (0.43%) WordPress
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Camunda
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
9 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.079%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.82%) UserZoom
2 30 (1.19%) 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 (0.040%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.040%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.040%) HFM
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 758 (29.97%) Azure
2 449 (17.75%) AWS
3 247 (9.77%) Azure AI
4 244 (9.65%) SaaS
5 212 (8.38%) GCP
6 193 (7.63%) Adobe Analytics
7 179 (7.08%) GitHub
8 178 (7.04%) Power Platform
9 160 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
10 116 (4.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 108 (4.27%) Figma
12 102 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
13 100 (3.95%) Snowflake
14 99 (3.91%) Serverless
15 90 (3.56%) Azure Machine Learning
16 79 (3.12%) Anthropic Claude
16 79 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 72 (2.85%) Microsoft Copilot
18 71 (2.81%) Contentsquare
19 65 (2.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 339 (13.40%) Broadband
2 32 (1.27%) Internet
3 31 (1.23%) VPN
4 28 (1.11%) Firewall
5 15 (0.59%) DNS
6 14 (0.55%) VoIP
7 13 (0.51%) HTTP
8 10 (0.40%) CTI
8 10 (0.40%) DHCP
9 9 (0.36%) Network Security
10 8 (0.32%) WPA
11 7 (0.28%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.28%) Wireless
12 6 (0.24%) 5G
13 5 (0.20%) DMZ
13 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.20%) VLAN
13 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (8.66%) MongoDB
2 174 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 111 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 102 (4.03%) Power BI
5 85 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (3.04%) Metadata
7 60 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (1.70%) Tableau
9 40 (1.58%) Big Data
10 35 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 32 (1.27%) Data Lake
12 31 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
13 30 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 29 (1.15%) Redis
15 23 (0.91%) Delta Lake
15 23 (0.91%) Relational Database
16 22 (0.87%) MySQL
17 20 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
18 16 (0.63%) Pinecone
19 13 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 86 (3.40%) Git
2 50 (1.98%) Claude Code
3 44 (1.74%) JIRA
4 34 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.99%) Snyk
6 18 (0.71%) GitLab
7 14 (0.55%) MLflow
8 13 (0.51%) Selenium
9 11 (0.43%) 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
1 660 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 466 (18.43%) Finance
3 279 (11.03%) Games
4 271 (10.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 264 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
5 264 (10.44%) Marketing
6 164 (6.48%) Law
7 162 (6.41%) Legal
8 147 (5.81%) Public Sector
9 87 (3.44%) Retail
10 78 (3.08%) Banking
11 68 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 55 (2.17%) Advertising
13 54 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.58%) Automotive
15 38 (1.50%) Legal Technology
16 29 (1.15%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (0.79%) Telecoms
19 13 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 489 (19.34%) Senior
2 383 (15.14%) Lead
3 377 (14.91%) Developer
4 242 (9.57%) Architect
5 167 (6.60%) .NET Developer
5 167 (6.60%) Software Engineer
6 110 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 105 (4.15%) Engineering Manager
8 104 (4.11%) Analyst
9 95 (3.76%) Consultant
10 86 (3.40%) Designer
11 82 (3.24%) Data Engineer
12 78 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (2.65%) Data Scientist
14 66 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (2.57%) Python Engineer
16 62 (2.45%) Product Manager
17 61 (2.41%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (2.33%) Data Manager
18 59 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (9.45%) .NET
2 231 (9.13%) React
3 166 (6.56%) ASP.NET
4 161 (6.37%) RESTful
5 160 (6.33%) .NET Core
6 159 (6.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (6.17%) ML.NET
8 140 (5.54%) CSS
9 133 (5.26%) HTML
10 114 (4.51%) Blazor
11 102 (4.03%) Node.js
12 82 (3.24%) REST
13 71 (2.81%) LangChain
14 64 (2.53%) PyTorch
15 55 (2.17%) TensorFlow
16 49 (1.94%) Vue
17 47 (1.86%) FastAPI
18 44 (1.74%) Next.js
19 33 (1.30%) LangGraph
19 33 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 238 (9.41%) Social Media
2 228 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 160 (6.33%) AI Agents
4 136 (5.38%) Product Ownership
5 98 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 74 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (2.53%) Low-Code
9 58 (2.29%) Algorithms
10 57 (2.25%) Video\Live Streaming
11 55 (2.17%) Virtual Team
12 54 (2.14%) Mobile App
13 49 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 37 (1.46%) Security Posture
16 36 (1.42%) Management Information System
17 32 (1.27%) Podcast
18 30 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.19%) Social Network
19 28 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.21%) Windows
2 52 (2.06%) Android
3 46 (1.82%) Linux
4 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.47%) VMS
7 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.079%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (29.66%) Agile
2 659 (26.06%) Machine Learning
3 632 (24.99%) Analytics
4 627 (24.79%) Roadmaps
5 536 (21.19%) CI/CD
6 393 (15.54%) Mentoring
6 393 (15.54%) Software Engineering
7 363 (14.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 358 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 356 (14.08%) Decision-Making
10 336 (13.29%) Customer Experience
10 336 (13.29%) DevOps
11 334 (13.21%) LLM
12 303 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
13 245 (9.69%) Generative AI
14 243 (9.61%) Product Roadmap
15 237 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
16 220 (8.70%) Storytelling
17 217 (8.58%) Data Science
18 208 (8.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 591 (23.37%) Python
2 459 (18.15%) SQL
3 262 (10.36%) C#
4 227 (8.98%) JavaScript
5 161 (6.37%) TypeScript
6 117 (4.63%) Java
7 65 (2.57%) Go
8 53 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.86%) Bash
10 42 (1.66%) Bicep
11 37 (1.46%) C++
12 24 (0.95%) Scala
13 20 (0.79%) 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
18 9 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.32%) Rust
20 7 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 197 (7.79%) Degree
2 123 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 80 (3.16%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.06%) ACCA
5 44 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (1.58%) CISSP
8 37 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 37 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.27%) CISM
10 31 (1.23%) CIMA
10 31 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (1.19%) PhD
12 28 (1.11%) A+ Certification
12 28 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
13 27 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 25 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.36%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (11.70%) Accessibility
2 143 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 82 (3.24%) GDPR
3 82 (3.24%) QA
4 71 (2.81%) WCAG
5 55 (2.17%) GRC
6 34 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.23%) NIST
8 22 (0.87%) IFRS
8 22 (0.87%) SLA
9 15 (0.59%) PMO
10 14 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 13 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 12 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) NCSC
15 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 193 (7.63%) Docker
2 91 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
3 65 (2.57%) 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
1 183 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.59%) Terraform
3 45 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.75%) Ansible
4 19 (0.75%) Grafana
5 17 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.32%) Argo
6 8 (0.32%) Kubeflow
7 7 (0.28%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Nmap
11 2 (0.079%) linkerd
11 2 (0.079%) Podman
11 2 (0.079%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.079%) Salt
12 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.040%) Nessus
12 1 (0.040%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 640 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 254 (10.04%) Adobe
3 142 (5.61%) Databricks
4 121 (4.78%) Google
5 84 (3.32%) OpenAI
6 78 (3.08%) Cisco
7 64 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.02%) Dell
9 47 (1.86%) Apple
10 45 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 38 (1.50%) Facebook
11 38 (1.50%) Foundry
12 31 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 28 (1.11%) HubSpot
14 27 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 27 (1.07%) Tenable
15 23 (0.91%) Oracle
15 23 (0.91%) VMware
16 22 (0.87%) Yahoo!