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

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 +55 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,030 2,171 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.76% 14.86% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.99% 15.66% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 659 878
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £66,206 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% +5.45% -10.31%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -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 15,628 13,867 29,674
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 94.93% 90.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,147 8,130 23,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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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 25 May 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 50 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.92%) CMS
3 37 (1.82%) Confluence
4 22 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.49%) SAS
6 10 (0.49%) WordPress
7 9 (0.44%) Apache
8 7 (0.34%) JBoss
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.099%) Camunda
10 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.049%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.049%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.049%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.049%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.48%) UserZoom
3 25 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.79%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.25%) InDesign
8 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.25%) Sketch
9 4 (0.20%) CapCut
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) Productboard
10 3 (0.15%) Trello
11 2 (0.099%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.18%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.20%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.049%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.049%) HFM
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 551 (27.14%) Azure
2 392 (19.31%) AWS
3 208 (10.25%) SaaS
4 183 (9.01%) Adobe Analytics
5 181 (8.92%) GCP
6 147 (7.24%) Power Platform
7 129 (6.35%) Azure AI
8 125 (6.16%) GitHub
9 114 (5.62%) Figma
10 89 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (4.38%) Azure Machine Learning
10 89 (4.38%) Snowflake
11 81 (3.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 79 (3.89%) Serverless
13 70 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
14 69 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 55 (2.71%) Contentsquare
16 48 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
17 40 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
18 34 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 296 (14.58%) Broadband
2 24 (1.18%) Firewall
3 16 (0.79%) HTTP
4 12 (0.59%) VPN
5 11 (0.54%) DNS
6 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
7 9 (0.44%) Network Security
8 8 (0.39%) DHCP
9 7 (0.34%) Internet
10 6 (0.30%) 5G
10 6 (0.30%) DMZ
10 6 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.20%) Modbus
11 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (0.15%) RTP
12 3 (0.15%) VoIP
12 3 (0.15%) Wireless
12 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.15%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.73%) MongoDB
2 88 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 87 (4.29%) Power BI
4 62 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 55 (2.71%) Metadata
7 46 (2.27%) Tableau
8 41 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (1.67%) Big Data
10 26 (1.28%) BigQuery
11 25 (1.23%) NoSQL
12 22 (1.08%) Data Lake
13 21 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
14 19 (0.94%) Looker
14 19 (0.94%) Redis
15 14 (0.69%) Delta Lake
15 14 (0.69%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (2.81%) Git
2 34 (1.67%) JIRA
3 31 (1.53%) Claude Code
4 27 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.23%) Snyk
6 23 (1.13%) MLflow
7 14 (0.69%) GitLab
8 10 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.49%) Selenium
8 10 (0.49%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.34%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.34%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.30%) Maven
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.30%) Storybook
11 5 (0.25%) JUnit
11 5 (0.25%) Mockito
12 4 (0.20%) Postman
12 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.15%) ESLint
General
1 483 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 415 (20.44%) Finance
3 271 (13.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 261 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (12.17%) Games
6 206 (10.15%) Marketing
7 142 (7.00%) Public Sector
8 138 (6.80%) Legal
9 121 (5.96%) Law
10 71 (3.50%) Retail
11 52 (2.56%) Banking
12 48 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (1.87%) Automotive
14 26 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.08%) Advertising
17 21 (1.03%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.54%) Back Office
19 8 (0.39%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 413 (20.34%) Senior
2 306 (15.07%) Lead
3 216 (10.64%) Developer
4 182 (8.97%) Architect
5 119 (5.86%) Software Engineer
6 96 (4.73%) Analyst
7 86 (4.24%) Consultant
8 82 (4.04%) Engineering Manager
9 79 (3.89%) Designer
10 73 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 71 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 62 (3.05%) Data Engineer
13 61 (3.00%) Product Manager
14 55 (2.71%) Data Manager
15 53 (2.61%) .NET Developer
16 52 (2.56%) Data Scientist
16 52 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
17 51 (2.51%) Python Engineer
17 51 (2.51%) Senior Architect
18 49 (2.41%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (7.49%) React
2 111 (5.47%) .NET
3 95 (4.68%) RESTful
4 90 (4.43%) REST
5 82 (4.04%) Node.js
6 73 (3.60%) CSS
7 65 (3.20%) HTML
8 56 (2.76%) .NET Core
9 53 (2.61%) PyTorch
10 49 (2.41%) ASP.NET
10 49 (2.41%) ASP.NET Core
10 49 (2.41%) ML.NET
11 46 (2.27%) TensorFlow
12 42 (2.07%) LangChain
13 41 (2.02%) Blazor
14 33 (1.63%) Next.js
14 33 (1.63%) Spring
15 32 (1.58%) FastAPI
16 30 (1.48%) Vue
17 27 (1.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 200 (9.85%) Social Media
2 156 (7.68%) Cloud Native
3 122 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.24%) AI Agents
4 86 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 54 (2.66%) Low-Code
6 49 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 48 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 45 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 45 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
8 45 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (2.12%) Virtual Team
10 42 (2.07%) Video\Live Streaming
11 40 (1.97%) Data Centre
12 36 (1.77%) Blog
13 29 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.23%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.23%) Social Network
15 23 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (0.99%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.12%) Android
2 28 (1.38%) Apple iOS
2 28 (1.38%) Linux
3 23 (1.13%) Windows
4 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.20%) Unix
6 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (28.52%) Agile
2 530 (26.11%) Analytics
3 519 (25.57%) Roadmaps
4 469 (23.10%) Machine Learning
5 380 (18.72%) CI/CD
6 305 (15.02%) Customer Experience
7 282 (13.89%) Software Engineering
8 275 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 268 (13.20%) Mentoring
10 253 (12.46%) Decision-Making
11 247 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
12 235 (11.58%) DevOps
13 233 (11.48%) Product Roadmap
14 226 (11.13%) LLM
15 209 (10.30%) Storytelling
16 208 (10.25%) Full-Stack Development
17 206 (10.15%) Generative AI
18 188 (9.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 177 (8.72%) Digital Customer Experience
20 173 (8.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 431 (21.23%) Python
2 296 (14.58%) SQL
3 122 (6.01%) C#
4 116 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 114 (5.62%) Java
5 114 (5.62%) TypeScript
6 59 (2.91%) Go
7 30 (1.48%) Bash
8 27 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 26 (1.28%) C++
10 21 (1.03%) R
11 17 (0.84%) Bicep
11 17 (0.84%) Scala
12 13 (0.64%) PHP
13 11 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.44%) C
16 8 (0.39%) Rust
16 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (8.77%) Degree
2 88 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 53 (2.61%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 48 (2.36%) ACCA
6 31 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 30 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.43%) CIMA
9 24 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.13%) PhD
11 17 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.59%) CISSP
13 8 (0.39%) CISA
13 8 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.30%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (13.50%) Accessibility
2 82 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 71 (3.50%) WCAG
4 58 (2.86%) QA
5 56 (2.76%) GDPR
6 52 (2.56%) GRC
7 23 (1.13%) IFRS
7 23 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.84%) NIST
9 14 (0.69%) PMO
10 12 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.54%) SLA
12 9 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.34%) NCSC
15 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
18 3 (0.15%) GAAP
System Software
1 131 (6.45%) Docker
2 88 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.20%) Firmware
5 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 69 (3.40%) Terraform
3 19 (0.94%) Ansible
4 15 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.64%) Grafana
6 12 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 7 (0.34%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.30%) Argo
8 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.099%) Podman
10 2 (0.099%) Salt
11 1 (0.049%) Istio
11 1 (0.049%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.049%) linkerd
11 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 452 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 260 (12.81%) Adobe
3 122 (6.01%) Databricks
4 86 (4.24%) Google
5 59 (2.91%) Apple
6 52 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.51%) Cisco
7 51 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.36%) Dell
9 47 (2.32%) OpenAI
10 30 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (1.33%) Oracle
11 27 (1.33%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.28%) Tenable
13 23 (1.13%) HubSpot
14 22 (1.08%) Foundry
15 18 (0.89%) SAP
16 13 (0.64%) Palantir
17 11 (0.54%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.54%) Instagram
1,677 hybrid/remote AI jobs