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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +49 +25
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,202 3,077 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.02% 19.04% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.01% 20.40% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,038 681 542
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,203 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £104,875
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 19,997 15,081 19,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.33% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,323 8,517 12,096
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 23 September 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
1 103 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.69%) Confluence
3 39 (1.22%) CMS
4 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.78%) Apache
6 21 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.31%) SAS
8 10 (0.31%) WordPress
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.094%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.094%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.031%) IIS
13 1 (0.031%) Moodle
13 1 (0.031%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.031%) Umbraco
Applications
1 77 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.78%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.44%) InDesign
8 13 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.19%) Moqups
12 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (0.16%) Trello
13 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.094%) Productboard
13 3 (0.094%) Sketch
14 2 (0.062%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) Primavera
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.094%) SAP PSCD
8 3 (0.094%) Shopify
9 2 (0.062%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.031%) HFM
10 1 (0.031%) Magento
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 902 (28.17%) Azure
2 624 (19.49%) AWS
3 315 (9.84%) SaaS
4 280 (8.74%) Power Platform
5 275 (8.59%) GCP
6 239 (7.46%) Azure AI
6 239 (7.46%) GitHub
7 186 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
8 165 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 149 (4.65%) Snowflake
10 144 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 133 (4.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 132 (4.12%) Anthropic Claude
13 113 (3.53%) Entra ID
13 113 (3.53%) Serverless
14 76 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 76 (2.37%) Power Automate
15 75 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
16 73 (2.28%) Figma
17 61 (1.91%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 145 (4.53%) Broadband
2 37 (1.16%) Internet
3 34 (1.06%) Firewall
3 34 (1.06%) VPN
4 31 (0.97%) Network Security
5 23 (0.72%) 5G
5 23 (0.72%) DNS
6 17 (0.53%) HTTP
7 14 (0.44%) DHCP
8 13 (0.41%) VoIP
9 11 (0.34%) CTI
10 9 (0.28%) Wireless
11 8 (0.25%) WPA
12 6 (0.19%) DMZ
12 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.19%) WAN
12 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (6.31%) MongoDB
2 180 (5.62%) Power BI
3 170 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 117 (3.65%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
6 100 (3.12%) Metadata
7 75 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.66%) Tableau
10 48 (1.50%) Big Data
11 42 (1.31%) Data Lake
12 39 (1.22%) Relational Database
13 36 (1.12%) BigQuery
13 36 (1.12%) Redis
14 35 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
15 34 (1.06%) Delta Lake
16 26 (0.81%) MySQL
17 21 (0.66%) DynamoDB
18 20 (0.62%) Data Vault
19 19 (0.59%) Looker
Development Applications
1 123 (3.84%) Git
2 88 (2.75%) JIRA
3 86 (2.69%) Claude Code
4 40 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.87%) GitLab
6 27 (0.84%) Snyk
7 18 (0.56%) MLflow
8 16 (0.50%) Selenium
9 14 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.44%) Postman
9 14 (0.44%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.31%) JUnit
11 10 (0.31%) Maven
11 10 (0.31%) Mockito
12 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.16%) Poetry
12 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 983 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 799 (24.95%) Finance
3 430 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 378 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 375 (11.71%) Marketing
6 233 (7.28%) Legal
7 232 (7.25%) Public Sector
8 164 (5.12%) Law
9 150 (4.68%) Banking
10 128 (4.00%) Games
11 117 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
12 116 (3.62%) Retail
13 113 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
14 61 (1.91%) Advertising
15 53 (1.66%) Manufacturing
16 44 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (1.06%) Legal Technology
19 29 (0.91%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 602 (18.80%) Senior
2 419 (13.09%) Developer
3 346 (10.81%) Architect
4 336 (10.49%) Lead
5 260 (8.12%) Software Engineer
6 162 (5.06%) .NET Developer
6 162 (5.06%) Analyst
7 140 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 135 (4.22%) Consultant
9 97 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
10 92 (2.87%) Python Engineer
11 88 (2.75%) Data Engineer
12 85 (2.65%) Senior Manager
13 84 (2.62%) Engineering Manager
14 81 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
15 73 (2.28%) Data Scientist
16 70 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
17 69 (2.15%) Senior Developer
18 66 (2.06%) Data Architect
18 66 (2.06%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (8.87%) React
2 260 (8.12%) .NET
3 168 (5.25%) Terraform
4 161 (5.03%) RESTful
5 160 (5.00%) ASP.NET
6 155 (4.84%) .NET Core
6 155 (4.84%) Node.js
7 151 (4.72%) ASP.NET Core
8 148 (4.62%) ML.NET
9 136 (4.25%) CSS
10 127 (3.97%) HTML
11 122 (3.81%) REST
12 110 (3.44%) Blazor
13 104 (3.25%) LangChain
14 74 (2.31%) Next.js
15 63 (1.97%) LangGraph
16 55 (1.72%) PyTorch
17 54 (1.69%) PySpark
18 53 (1.66%) Vue
19 47 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 284 (8.87%) AI Agents
2 277 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 138 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 124 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 112 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 110 (3.44%) Social Media
7 97 (3.03%) Blog
8 91 (2.84%) Management Information System
9 77 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 76 (2.37%) Low-Code
11 69 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
12 65 (2.03%) Algorithms
13 63 (1.97%) Data Centre
14 62 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
15 58 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
16 51 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
16 51 (1.59%) Mobile App
16 51 (1.59%) Virtual Team
17 44 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
18 43 (1.34%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.50%) Windows
2 70 (2.19%) Linux
3 38 (1.19%) Android
4 21 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.37%) VMS
7 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.25%) Unix
9 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.094%) Debian
10 3 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.094%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.062%) AIX
11 2 (0.062%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (23.61%) Machine Learning
2 721 (22.52%) Agile
3 678 (21.17%) Analytics
4 627 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 605 (18.89%) CI/CD
6 592 (18.49%) Roadmaps
7 533 (16.65%) Software Engineering
8 509 (15.90%) Mentoring
9 479 (14.96%) Decision-Making
10 446 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
11 425 (13.27%) LLM
12 390 (12.18%) DevOps
13 388 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
14 376 (11.74%) Full-Stack Development
15 339 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 334 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
17 299 (9.34%) Coaching
18 274 (8.56%) Data Science
19 267 (8.34%) Technical Leadership
20 253 (7.90%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 732 (22.86%) Python
2 564 (17.61%) SQL
3 308 (9.62%) C#
4 285 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 233 (7.28%) TypeScript
6 143 (4.47%) Java
7 75 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 69 (2.15%) C++
9 50 (1.56%) Go
10 49 (1.53%) Bash
11 46 (1.44%) Bicep
12 32 (1.00%) R
13 31 (0.97%) Scala
14 19 (0.59%) C
14 19 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.59%) PHP
15 17 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.47%) Rust
18 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 261 (8.15%) Degree
2 250 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 183 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.59%) CISSP
5 75 (2.34%) CISM
6 65 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 60 (1.87%) ACCA
8 55 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.69%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
10 52 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 50 (1.56%) CIMA
12 38 (1.19%) DBS Check
13 32 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 23 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.59%) PhD
17 18 (0.56%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 183 (5.72%) Accessibility
3 140 (4.37%) GDPR
4 125 (3.90%) QA
5 71 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (2.03%) GRC
7 52 (1.62%) NIST
8 35 (1.09%) SLA
9 30 (0.94%) WCAG
10 19 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 17 (0.53%) PMO
12 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.44%) IFRS
14 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 7 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 241 (7.53%) Docker
2 102 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.41%) vSphere
6 11 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) NFS
9 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 216 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (1.09%) Grafana
4 19 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.56%) Ansible
6 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.19%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.16%) Argo
8 5 (0.16%) Istio
8 5 (0.16%) Nmap
9 4 (0.12%) Puppet
10 3 (0.094%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.094%) linkerd
10 3 (0.094%) Podman
11 2 (0.062%) Cilium
11 2 (0.062%) Kibana
12 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.031%) Salt
12 1 (0.031%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 812 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 179 (5.59%) Databricks
3 165 (5.15%) Google
4 123 (3.84%) Adobe
5 111 (3.47%) OpenAI
6 108 (3.37%) YouTube
7 83 (2.59%) Cisco
8 64 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.87%) Apple
10 59 (1.84%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.72%) CyberArk
12 49 (1.53%) Dell
13 45 (1.41%) SAP
14 43 (1.34%) HubSpot
15 42 (1.31%) Foundry
16 36 (1.12%) Oracle
17 35 (1.09%) Facebook
18 30 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
18 30 (0.94%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.94%) VMware