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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +46 +29
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,111 3,027 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.02% 18.60% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.00% 19.98% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,950 670 562
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,451 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £104,875
UK median annual salary £74,830 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 19,442 15,153 20,421
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.35% 93.11% 87.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,983 8,632 12,822
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,854 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £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 14 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
1 102 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.61%) Confluence
3 36 (1.16%) CMS
4 28 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.74%) Apache
6 19 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 10 (0.32%) WordPress
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.096%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.064%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.032%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.032%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.032%) Moodle
14 1 (0.032%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 68 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.70%) Chatbot
3 31 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (0.90%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.45%) InDesign
8 13 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (0.16%) Moqups
10 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.13%) Trello
12 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.096%) Productboard
12 3 (0.096%) Sketch
13 2 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.064%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.90%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.77%) Cloudability
4 9 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Primavera
7 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.096%) Shopify
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.032%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.032%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.032%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 883 (28.38%) Azure
2 592 (19.03%) AWS
3 294 (9.45%) SaaS
4 261 (8.39%) GCP
5 259 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 252 (8.10%) Azure AI
7 225 (7.23%) GitHub
8 177 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
9 165 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
10 149 (4.79%) Snowflake
11 136 (4.37%) GitHub Copilot
12 122 (3.92%) Anthropic Claude
13 117 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 111 (3.57%) Entra ID
14 111 (3.57%) Serverless
15 91 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 88 (2.83%) Adobe Analytics
17 79 (2.54%) Figma
18 76 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
19 72 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 191 (6.14%) Broadband
2 37 (1.19%) Internet
3 33 (1.06%) Firewall
3 33 (1.06%) VPN
4 30 (0.96%) Network Security
5 23 (0.74%) 5G
5 23 (0.74%) DNS
6 16 (0.51%) HTTP
7 14 (0.45%) DHCP
8 13 (0.42%) VoIP
9 11 (0.35%) CTI
10 8 (0.26%) Wireless
10 8 (0.26%) WPA
11 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.19%) WAN
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.16%) BGP
12 5 (0.16%) DMZ
12 5 (0.16%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (6.56%) MongoDB
2 171 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 166 (5.34%) Power BI
4 123 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 98 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
6 93 (2.99%) Metadata
7 73 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (1.77%) NoSQL
9 51 (1.64%) Tableau
10 44 (1.41%) Big Data
11 39 (1.25%) Data Lake
12 36 (1.16%) Relational Database
13 34 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 33 (1.06%) Redis
15 31 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.71%) MySQL
17 20 (0.64%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.64%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.55%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 118 (3.79%) Git
2 79 (2.54%) JIRA
3 74 (2.38%) Claude Code
4 40 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.87%) Snyk
6 26 (0.84%) GitLab
7 15 (0.48%) MLflow
7 15 (0.48%) Selenium
8 13 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.39%) Postman
9 12 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (0.32%) JUnit
10 10 (0.32%) Maven
10 10 (0.32%) Mockito
10 10 (0.32%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
11 5 (0.16%) Poetry
11 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 929 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 757 (24.33%) Finance
3 419 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 365 (11.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 353 (11.35%) Marketing
6 233 (7.49%) Legal
7 212 (6.81%) Public Sector
8 165 (5.30%) Law
9 163 (5.24%) Games
10 134 (4.31%) Banking
11 109 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
12 108 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
13 107 (3.44%) Retail
14 57 (1.83%) Advertising
15 48 (1.54%) Manufacturing
16 40 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
16 40 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 34 (1.09%) Legal Technology
18 28 (0.90%) Automotive
19 26 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 577 (18.55%) Senior
2 402 (12.92%) Developer
3 340 (10.93%) Lead
4 333 (10.70%) Architect
5 241 (7.75%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.24%) .NET Developer
7 152 (4.89%) Analyst
8 130 (4.18%) Consultant
9 125 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 104 (3.34%) Engineering Manager
11 93 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 86 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 79 (2.54%) Python Engineer
13 79 (2.54%) Senior Manager
14 77 (2.48%) Full-Stack Developer
15 71 (2.28%) Data Scientist
16 69 (2.22%) Data Architect
17 68 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
18 67 (2.15%) Senior Developer
19 65 (2.09%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (8.90%) React
2 248 (7.97%) .NET
3 161 (5.18%) ASP.NET
4 157 (5.05%) RESTful
5 155 (4.98%) Terraform
6 153 (4.92%) .NET Core
7 152 (4.89%) ASP.NET Core
8 151 (4.85%) Node.js
9 149 (4.79%) ML.NET
10 136 (4.37%) CSS
11 126 (4.05%) HTML
12 116 (3.73%) REST
13 111 (3.57%) Blazor
14 103 (3.31%) LangChain
15 73 (2.35%) Next.js
16 60 (1.93%) LangGraph
17 56 (1.80%) PyTorch
18 52 (1.67%) PySpark
19 49 (1.58%) Vue
20 47 (1.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 270 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 265 (8.52%) AI Agents
3 142 (4.56%) Social Media
4 138 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 122 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 111 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 98 (3.15%) Blog
8 76 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 73 (2.35%) Low-Code
9 73 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 68 (2.19%) Algorithms
11 62 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
11 62 (1.99%) Data Centre
12 56 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
13 52 (1.67%) Virtual Team
14 50 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
15 49 (1.58%) Mobile App
16 48 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
17 41 (1.32%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.54%) Windows
2 65 (2.09%) Linux
3 37 (1.19%) Android
4 21 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.39%) VMS
7 11 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.23%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Debian
11 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (24.65%) Machine Learning
2 758 (24.37%) Agile
3 679 (21.83%) Analytics
4 625 (20.09%) Roadmaps
5 606 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 590 (18.96%) CI/CD
7 501 (16.10%) Software Engineering
8 491 (15.78%) Mentoring
9 468 (15.04%) Decision-Making
10 425 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
11 416 (13.37%) LLM
12 377 (12.12%) DevOps
13 374 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 350 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 325 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
16 320 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 278 (8.94%) Customer Experience
18 270 (8.68%) Coaching
19 267 (8.58%) Data Science
20 265 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 704 (22.63%) Python
2 560 (18.00%) SQL
3 290 (9.32%) C#
4 277 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 224 (7.20%) TypeScript
6 142 (4.56%) Java
7 70 (2.25%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.12%) C++
9 52 (1.67%) Go
10 48 (1.54%) Bash
11 47 (1.51%) Bicep
12 30 (0.96%) Scala
13 26 (0.84%) R
14 19 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.55%) C
15 17 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.48%) PHP
18 11 (0.35%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 254 (8.16%) Degree
2 229 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 167 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 82 (2.64%) CISSP
5 74 (2.38%) CISM
6 64 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 62 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.83%) ACCA
9 54 (1.74%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
10 52 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.48%) CIMA
13 37 (1.19%) DBS Check
14 31 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 25 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.71%) PhD
18 18 (0.58%) SnowPro
19 16 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 217 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 130 (4.18%) GDPR
4 120 (3.86%) QA
5 66 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (2.09%) GRC
7 49 (1.58%) NIST
8 42 (1.35%) WCAG
9 32 (1.03%) SLA
10 19 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 16 (0.51%) PMO
12 15 (0.48%) IFRS
13 14 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.32%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 229 (7.36%) Docker
2 101 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 91 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.42%) vSphere
6 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.32%) Firmware
7 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.096%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 206 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (0.96%) Grafana
4 18 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.51%) Ansible
6 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.19%) Argo
7 6 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.16%) Istio
8 5 (0.16%) Nmap
8 5 (0.16%) Puppet
9 3 (0.096%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.096%) linkerd
9 3 (0.096%) Podman
10 2 (0.064%) Cilium
10 2 (0.064%) Salt
11 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 793 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 184 (5.91%) Databricks
3 160 (5.14%) Google
4 152 (4.89%) Adobe
5 107 (3.44%) OpenAI
6 93 (2.99%) YouTube
7 80 (2.57%) Cisco
8 60 (1.93%) Apple
8 60 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 53 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.48%) Dell
12 40 (1.29%) Foundry
12 40 (1.29%) HubSpot
13 37 (1.19%) SAP
14 36 (1.16%) Facebook
15 33 (1.06%) Oracle
16 30 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
16 30 (0.96%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.90%) VMware