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

 6 months to
11 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +47 +29
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,136 2,917 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.08% 17.96% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.97% 19.30% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 670 569
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,907 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £104,000
UK median annual salary £74,731 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.76% -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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £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 11 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 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.56%) Confluence
3 35 (1.12%) CMS
4 27 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.80%) Apache
6 20 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 10 (0.32%) WordPress
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Camunda
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.096%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.064%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.032%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.032%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.032%) Moodle
13 1 (0.032%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 67 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (1.02%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
7 14 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.45%) InDesign
8 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.16%) Moqups
9 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 3 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.096%) Productboard
11 3 (0.096%) Sketch
12 2 (0.064%) Weka
Business Applications
1 38 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.89%) 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%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
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
1 892 (28.44%) Azure
2 598 (19.07%) AWS
3 296 (9.44%) SaaS
4 261 (8.32%) GCP
5 260 (8.29%) Power Platform
6 259 (8.26%) Azure AI
7 231 (7.37%) GitHub
8 173 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
9 169 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
10 149 (4.75%) Snowflake
11 142 (4.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 124 (3.95%) Anthropic Claude
13 119 (3.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 111 (3.54%) Entra ID
14 111 (3.54%) Serverless
15 92 (2.93%) Adobe Analytics
15 92 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 80 (2.55%) Figma
17 76 (2.42%) Azure Machine Learning
18 73 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 202 (6.44%) Broadband
2 36 (1.15%) Internet
3 32 (1.02%) Firewall
3 32 (1.02%) VPN
4 29 (0.92%) Network Security
5 22 (0.70%) DNS
6 21 (0.67%) 5G
7 15 (0.48%) HTTP
8 13 (0.41%) DHCP
8 13 (0.41%) VoIP
9 11 (0.35%) CTI
10 8 (0.26%) Wireless
10 8 (0.26%) WPA
11 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.19%) WAN
12 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) DMZ
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 178 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 164 (5.23%) Power BI
4 123 (3.92%) SQL Server
5 101 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
6 92 (2.93%) Metadata
7 75 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 51 (1.63%) Tableau
10 44 (1.40%) Big Data
11 42 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 36 (1.15%) Relational Database
13 34 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.05%) Delta Lake
14 33 (1.05%) Redis
15 32 (1.02%) BigQuery
16 23 (0.73%) MySQL
17 20 (0.64%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.64%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.54%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 120 (3.83%) Git
2 77 (2.46%) JIRA
3 75 (2.39%) Claude Code
4 42 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.86%) GitLab
5 27 (0.86%) Snyk
6 16 (0.51%) MLflow
7 15 (0.48%) Selenium
8 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.38%) Postman
9 12 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (0.32%) JUnit
10 10 (0.32%) Maven
10 10 (0.32%) Mockito
11 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.16%) Poetry
12 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 926 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 747 (23.82%) Finance
3 419 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 363 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 352 (11.22%) Marketing
6 235 (7.49%) Legal
7 214 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 171 (5.45%) Law
9 169 (5.39%) Games
10 132 (4.21%) Banking
11 109 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
11 109 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
12 106 (3.38%) Retail
13 60 (1.91%) Advertising
14 49 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 45 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
16 40 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 35 (1.12%) Legal Technology
18 29 (0.92%) Automotive
19 26 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 584 (18.62%) Senior
2 410 (13.07%) Developer
3 346 (11.03%) Lead
4 332 (10.59%) Architect
5 235 (7.49%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.42%) .NET Developer
7 151 (4.82%) Analyst
8 132 (4.21%) Consultant
9 123 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 106 (3.38%) Engineering Manager
11 93 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
12 89 (2.84%) Data Engineer
13 79 (2.52%) Senior Manager
14 78 (2.49%) Python Engineer
15 77 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
16 72 (2.30%) Data Scientist
17 71 (2.26%) Senior Developer
18 69 (2.20%) Data Architect
19 68 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
20 66 (2.10%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (9.02%) React
2 256 (8.16%) .NET
3 168 (5.36%) ASP.NET
4 161 (5.13%) .NET Core
5 160 (5.10%) RESTful
6 159 (5.07%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (4.97%) ML.NET
7 156 (4.97%) Terraform
8 152 (4.85%) Node.js
9 141 (4.50%) CSS
10 130 (4.15%) HTML
11 117 (3.73%) REST
12 116 (3.70%) Blazor
13 99 (3.16%) LangChain
14 73 (2.33%) Next.js
15 60 (1.91%) PyTorch
16 56 (1.79%) LangGraph
17 53 (1.69%) PySpark
18 49 (1.56%) Vue
19 47 (1.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 271 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 262 (8.35%) AI Agents
3 146 (4.66%) Social Media
4 138 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 124 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 110 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
7 98 (3.13%) Blog
8 77 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 75 (2.39%) Low-Code
10 72 (2.30%) Management Information System
11 70 (2.23%) Algorithms
12 62 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
12 62 (1.98%) Data Centre
13 57 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
14 54 (1.72%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
16 49 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
16 49 (1.56%) Mobile App
17 42 (1.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (2.49%) Windows
2 67 (2.14%) Linux
3 39 (1.24%) Android
4 20 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.38%) VMS
7 11 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.22%) 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
1 787 (25.10%) Machine Learning
2 774 (24.68%) Agile
3 686 (21.88%) Analytics
4 629 (20.06%) Roadmaps
5 603 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 600 (19.13%) CI/CD
7 500 (15.94%) Software Engineering
8 493 (15.72%) Mentoring
9 474 (15.11%) Decision-Making
10 427 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
11 425 (13.55%) LLM
12 387 (12.34%) Full-Stack Development
13 382 (12.18%) DevOps
14 346 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 322 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
16 320 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 277 (8.83%) Customer Experience
18 274 (8.74%) Data Science
19 266 (8.48%) Coaching
20 265 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 709 (22.61%) Python
2 572 (18.24%) SQL
3 295 (9.41%) C#
4 277 (8.83%) JavaScript
5 223 (7.11%) TypeScript
6 142 (4.53%) Java
7 69 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 64 (2.04%) C++
9 54 (1.72%) Go
10 48 (1.53%) Bash
11 47 (1.50%) Bicep
12 31 (0.99%) Scala
13 23 (0.73%) R
14 19 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.51%) C
16 16 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.48%) PHP
18 11 (0.35%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (8.26%) Degree
2 230 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 166 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 81 (2.58%) CISSP
5 73 (2.33%) CISM
6 66 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 61 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (1.79%) ACCA
9 54 (1.72%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
10 52 (1.66%) Azure Certification
11 47 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (1.43%) CIMA
13 32 (1.02%) DBS Check
14 31 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 31 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 27 (0.86%) PhD
16 25 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.57%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 217 (6.92%) Accessibility
3 128 (4.08%) GDPR
4 121 (3.86%) QA
5 67 (2.14%) GRC
6 64 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 47 (1.50%) NIST
8 42 (1.34%) WCAG
9 31 (0.99%) 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 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.32%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 236 (7.53%) Docker
2 100 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 93 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.41%) vSphere
6 12 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.32%) Firmware
8 9 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.096%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 211 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 78 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (0.92%) Grafana
4 18 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.51%) Ansible
6 7 (0.22%) 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
1 799 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 188 (5.99%) Databricks
3 157 (5.01%) Google
4 156 (4.97%) Adobe
5 107 (3.41%) OpenAI
6 92 (2.93%) YouTube
7 78 (2.49%) Cisco
8 60 (1.91%) Apple
8 60 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 54 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 44 (1.40%) Dell
12 40 (1.28%) Foundry
13 39 (1.24%) HubSpot
14 38 (1.21%) Facebook
15 37 (1.18%) SAP
16 33 (1.05%) Oracle
17 30 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
17 30 (0.96%) Palo Alto
18 27 (0.86%) VMware
3,550 hybrid/remote AI jobs