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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 22 68
Rank change year-on-year +12 +46 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,947 1,367 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.62% 9.68% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 10.20% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,099 700 855
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.93% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £102,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 15,141 13,407 29,643
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.62% 94.90% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,685 8,886 23,498
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%

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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 6 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 51 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 46 (2.36%) CMS
3 39 (2.00%) Confluence
4 25 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.56%) WordPress
7 10 (0.51%) Apache
8 9 (0.46%) JBoss
8 9 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) SAS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.10%) Camunda
14 1 (0.051%) Kinematics
14 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 43 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.00%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.54%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.21%) CapCut
8 3 (0.15%) Sketch
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.051%) Productboard
10 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.98%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.051%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 493 (25.32%) Azure
2 356 (18.28%) AWS
3 205 (10.53%) SaaS
4 184 (9.45%) Adobe Analytics
5 174 (8.94%) GCP
6 131 (6.73%) GitHub
7 127 (6.52%) Power Platform
8 105 (5.39%) Figma
9 94 (4.83%) Snowflake
10 92 (4.73%) Azure AI
11 90 (4.62%) Azure Machine Learning
12 84 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
13 83 (4.26%) GitHub Copilot
14 69 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 68 (3.49%) Serverless
16 64 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
17 55 (2.82%) Contentsquare
18 44 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
19 34 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
20 33 (1.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 274 (14.07%) Broadband
2 24 (1.23%) Firewall
3 20 (1.03%) HTTP
4 11 (0.56%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.46%) Network Security
5 9 (0.46%) VPN
6 7 (0.36%) DNS
7 6 (0.31%) DMZ
8 5 (0.26%) DHCP
9 4 (0.21%) Modbus
9 4 (0.21%) RTP
9 4 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.21%) VoIP
9 4 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.15%) WAN
10 3 (0.15%) Wireless
10 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.10%) Intranet
11 2 (0.10%) NGN
11 2 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 76 (3.90%) Power BI
3 63 (3.24%) MongoDB
4 52 (2.67%) Metadata
5 50 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (2.05%) Tableau
8 35 (1.80%) Big Data
9 33 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (1.49%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.18%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.13%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.08%) Redis
14 20 (1.03%) Looker
15 19 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (0.72%) Delta Lake
17 12 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.56%) Pinecone
18 11 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 52 (2.67%) Git
2 41 (2.11%) JIRA
3 26 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.08%) Claude Code
4 21 (1.08%) MLflow
5 18 (0.92%) Snyk
6 15 (0.77%) GitLab
7 10 (0.51%) Selenium
8 9 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.36%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.36%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.31%) Storybook
10 6 (0.31%) Subversion
11 3 (0.15%) Appium
11 3 (0.15%) ESLint
11 3 (0.15%) Postman
12 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 479 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 425 (21.83%) Finance
3 284 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (14.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 233 (11.97%) Games
6 199 (10.22%) Marketing
7 158 (8.12%) Public Sector
8 139 (7.14%) Legal
9 113 (5.80%) Law
10 67 (3.44%) Retail
11 56 (2.88%) Banking
12 48 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.64%) Automotive
17 27 (1.39%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.67%) Back Office
19 11 (0.56%) Advertising
20 9 (0.46%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 383 (19.67%) Senior
2 286 (14.69%) Lead
3 178 (9.14%) Architect
4 173 (8.89%) Developer
5 103 (5.29%) Software Engineer
6 86 (4.42%) Analyst
7 81 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
8 80 (4.11%) Consultant
9 77 (3.95%) Engineering Manager
10 72 (3.70%) Designer
11 54 (2.77%) Product Manager
12 52 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 52 (2.67%) Data Engineer
13 49 (2.52%) Lead Designer
13 49 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
14 47 (2.41%) Data Manager
14 47 (2.41%) Sales Executive
15 45 (2.31%) Python Engineer
16 43 (2.21%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 43 (2.21%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (6.21%) React
2 85 (4.37%) REST
3 81 (4.16%) .NET
4 79 (4.06%) RESTful
5 74 (3.80%) Node.js
6 50 (2.57%) PyTorch
7 49 (2.52%) CSS
8 45 (2.31%) HTML
9 42 (2.16%) TensorFlow
10 35 (1.80%) Kafka
11 33 (1.69%) LangChain
12 32 (1.64%) Vue
13 30 (1.54%) OAuth
14 29 (1.49%) FastAPI
14 29 (1.49%) Next.js
14 29 (1.49%) Spring
15 28 (1.44%) SOAP
16 26 (1.34%) .NET Core
17 24 (1.23%) Blazor
17 24 (1.23%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 189 (9.71%) Social Media
2 145 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 107 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.42%) Blog
5 85 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 73 (3.75%) AI Agents
7 56 (2.88%) Virtual Team
8 53 (2.72%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (2.41%) Low-Code
11 44 (2.26%) Mobile App
12 39 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
13 35 (1.80%) Algorithms
14 34 (1.75%) Data Centre
15 33 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
16 28 (1.44%) Social Network
17 27 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
18 21 (1.08%) Podcast
19 17 (0.87%) Management Information System
19 17 (0.87%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.21%) Android
2 27 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.13%) Linux
4 18 (0.92%) Windows
5 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.21%) Unix
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.051%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (28.04%) Agile
2 517 (26.55%) Analytics
3 505 (25.94%) Roadmaps
4 405 (20.80%) Machine Learning
5 338 (17.36%) CI/CD
6 319 (16.38%) Customer Experience
7 277 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 247 (12.69%) Mentoring
9 246 (12.63%) Software Engineering
10 243 (12.48%) DevOps
11 240 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
12 235 (12.07%) Decision-Making
13 231 (11.86%) Product Roadmap
14 210 (10.79%) Storytelling
15 195 (10.02%) Generative AI
15 195 (10.02%) LLM
16 189 (9.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 178 (9.14%) Digital Customer Experience
18 172 (8.83%) User Experience
19 164 (8.42%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 377 (19.36%) Python
2 253 (12.99%) SQL
3 114 (5.86%) Java
4 103 (5.29%) TypeScript
5 86 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 84 (4.31%) C#
7 58 (2.98%) Go
8 30 (1.54%) C++
9 21 (1.08%) Bash
10 20 (1.03%) R
11 18 (0.92%) Scala
12 16 (0.82%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.77%) Bicep
14 13 (0.67%) PowerShell
15 12 (0.62%) PHP
16 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.46%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.41%) Rust
17 8 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 251 (12.89%) Degree
2 71 (3.65%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.62%) ACCA
3 51 (2.62%) Master's Degree
4 45 (2.31%) AWS Certification
5 43 (2.21%) PhD
5 43 (2.21%) SC Cleared
6 40 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 27 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.39%) CIMA
9 24 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 19 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.92%) PMP
12 12 (0.62%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) CISA
13 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.31%) CISM
15 5 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (14.02%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.65%) WCAG
3 66 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.67%) GDPR
5 50 (2.57%) QA
6 43 (2.21%) GRC
7 31 (1.59%) IFRS
8 23 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.72%) PMO
10 12 (0.62%) GAAP
10 12 (0.62%) NIST
10 12 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 7 (0.36%) NCSC
12 6 (0.31%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.21%) SLA
14 4 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 106 (5.44%) Docker
2 79 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) Firmware
6 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 85 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.29%) Terraform
3 20 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (0.98%) Ansible
5 12 (0.62%) Grafana
6 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.36%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.26%) Argo
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.10%) Podman
11 2 (0.10%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 389 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 249 (12.79%) Adobe
3 124 (6.37%) Databricks
4 79 (4.06%) Google
5 52 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 51 (2.62%) Cisco
7 49 (2.52%) Dell
8 48 (2.47%) Apple
9 38 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 35 (1.80%) OpenAI
11 23 (1.18%) Oracle
12 22 (1.13%) PayPal
13 21 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
14 20 (1.03%) Foundry
14 20 (1.03%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.98%) SAP
15 19 (0.98%) Tenable
16 17 (0.87%) HubSpot
17 14 (0.72%) Palantir
18 11 (0.56%) Atlassian