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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 +60 +25
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,421 2,540 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.68% 15.98% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.22% 17.03% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 716 847
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,468 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -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 17,029 14,914 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.18% 93.86% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,466 8,777 22,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,809 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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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 1 July 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 59 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.61%) CMS
2 39 (1.61%) Confluence
3 20 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.54%) Apache
6 12 (0.50%) WordPress
7 11 (0.45%) SAS
8 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.12%) Camunda
8 3 (0.12%) JBoss
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.083%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.083%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 46 (1.90%) UserZoom
2 24 (0.99%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 11 (0.45%) InDesign
7 11 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.17%) CapCut
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) Productboard
11 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.083%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.041%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.99%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.083%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.041%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.041%) HFM
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Shopify
6 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 710 (29.33%) Azure
2 439 (18.13%) AWS
3 243 (10.04%) SaaS
4 232 (9.58%) Azure AI
5 206 (8.51%) GCP
6 194 (8.01%) Adobe Analytics
7 171 (7.06%) Power Platform
8 170 (7.02%) GitHub
9 152 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (4.46%) Figma
11 107 (4.42%) GitHub Copilot
12 100 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
13 97 (4.01%) Serverless
14 95 (3.92%) Snowflake
15 92 (3.80%) Azure Machine Learning
16 75 (3.10%) Anthropic Claude
16 75 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 71 (2.93%) Contentsquare
18 70 (2.89%) Microsoft Copilot
19 39 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 339 (14.00%) Broadband
2 31 (1.28%) VPN
3 27 (1.12%) Firewall
3 27 (1.12%) Internet
4 15 (0.62%) DNS
5 14 (0.58%) HTTP
6 11 (0.45%) VoIP
7 10 (0.41%) DHCP
8 9 (0.37%) Network Security
9 8 (0.33%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.29%) CTI
11 6 (0.25%) 5G
11 6 (0.25%) WPA
12 5 (0.21%) DMZ
12 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.21%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.21%) VLAN
12 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.17%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (8.30%) MongoDB
2 161 (6.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 108 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 96 (3.97%) Power BI
5 83 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (3.06%) Metadata
7 55 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.86%) Tableau
9 42 (1.73%) Big Data
10 32 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 32 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 30 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
12 28 (1.16%) Redis
13 26 (1.07%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.95%) Delta Lake
15 22 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.91%) MySQL
15 22 (0.91%) Relational Database
16 18 (0.74%) Pinecone
17 14 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (3.18%) Git
2 46 (1.90%) Claude Code
3 37 (1.53%) JIRA
4 35 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.03%) Snyk
6 19 (0.78%) GitLab
7 17 (0.70%) MLflow
8 13 (0.54%) Selenium
9 11 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.33%) Postman
11 6 (0.25%) Maven
11 6 (0.25%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.21%) JUnit
12 5 (0.21%) Mockito
12 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.21%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.12%) Appium
14 2 (0.083%) Metasploit
14 2 (0.083%) Mocha
General
1 605 (24.99%) Social Skills
2 456 (18.84%) Finance
3 279 (11.52%) Games
4 261 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 260 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
6 252 (10.41%) Marketing
7 142 (5.87%) Public Sector
8 136 (5.62%) Legal
9 130 (5.37%) Law
10 82 (3.39%) Retail
11 70 (2.89%) Banking
12 63 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 53 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (2.07%) Advertising
15 39 (1.61%) Automotive
16 38 (1.57%) Legal Technology
17 28 (1.16%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 18 (0.74%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 458 (18.92%) Senior
2 377 (15.57%) Lead
3 355 (14.66%) Developer
4 218 (9.00%) Architect
5 157 (6.48%) Software Engineer
6 151 (6.24%) .NET Developer
7 108 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 103 (4.25%) Analyst
8 103 (4.25%) Engineering Manager
9 95 (3.92%) Consultant
10 84 (3.47%) Designer
11 78 (3.22%) Data Engineer
12 75 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (2.68%) Data Scientist
13 65 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
13 65 (2.68%) Python Engineer
14 61 (2.52%) Product Manager
15 60 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
16 59 (2.44%) Data Manager
17 56 (2.31%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (9.13%) .NET
2 219 (9.05%) React
3 151 (6.24%) RESTful
4 150 (6.20%) ASP.NET
5 148 (6.11%) .NET Core
6 144 (5.95%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (5.82%) ML.NET
8 131 (5.41%) CSS
9 124 (5.12%) HTML
10 104 (4.30%) Blazor
11 97 (4.01%) Node.js
12 81 (3.35%) REST
13 68 (2.81%) LangChain
14 66 (2.73%) PyTorch
15 57 (2.35%) TensorFlow
16 46 (1.90%) Vue
17 44 (1.82%) FastAPI
18 43 (1.78%) Next.js
19 34 (1.40%) Spring
20 30 (1.24%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 234 (9.67%) Social Media
2 222 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 147 (6.07%) AI Agents
4 135 (5.58%) Product Ownership
5 92 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.64%) Low-Code
8 59 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 57 (2.35%) Algorithms
9 57 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
10 53 (2.19%) Mobile App
10 53 (2.19%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 41 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 33 (1.36%) Social Network
14 32 (1.32%) Podcast
15 31 (1.28%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.28%) Public Cloud
16 25 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.15%) Windows
2 51 (2.11%) Android
3 39 (1.61%) Linux
4 27 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.50%) VMS
7 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.083%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (29.82%) Agile
2 634 (26.19%) Machine Learning
3 616 (25.44%) Roadmaps
4 609 (25.15%) Analytics
5 515 (21.27%) CI/CD
6 378 (15.61%) Software Engineering
7 353 (14.58%) Mentoring
8 347 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 345 (14.25%) Decision-Making
10 334 (13.80%) Customer Experience
11 322 (13.30%) DevOps
12 320 (13.22%) LLM
13 317 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 292 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
15 246 (10.16%) Generative AI
16 243 (10.04%) Product Roadmap
17 232 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
18 219 (9.05%) Storytelling
19 205 (8.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 204 (8.43%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 568 (23.46%) Python
2 430 (17.76%) SQL
3 244 (10.08%) C#
4 212 (8.76%) JavaScript
5 156 (6.44%) TypeScript
6 111 (4.58%) Java
7 67 (2.77%) Go
8 51 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 48 (1.98%) Bash
10 41 (1.69%) Bicep
11 32 (1.32%) C++
12 24 (0.99%) Scala
13 21 (0.87%) R
14 18 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.66%) PHP
16 11 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.37%) C
18 8 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.29%) Ruby
20 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 195 (8.05%) Degree
2 106 (4.38%) Security Cleared
3 66 (2.73%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.19%) ACCA
5 44 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.28%) CIMA
10 30 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.20%) PhD
12 27 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (1.03%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.50%) CISSP
15 10 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.37%) CIPD
16 9 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (12.02%) Accessibility
2 132 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 78 (3.22%) GDPR
4 76 (3.14%) QA
5 70 (2.89%) WCAG
6 54 (2.23%) GRC
7 30 (1.24%) NIST
8 29 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.99%) IFRS
10 22 (0.91%) SLA
11 14 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.58%) PMO
12 12 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.25%) NCSC
16 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 187 (7.72%) Docker
2 91 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
3 38 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.50%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 171 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.67%) Terraform
3 19 (0.78%) Ansible
4 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.70%) Grafana
6 16 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.33%) Argo
7 8 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.29%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.083%) linkerd
12 2 (0.083%) Nmap
12 2 (0.083%) Podman
12 2 (0.083%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.083%) Salt
13 1 (0.041%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.041%) Nessus
13 1 (0.041%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 578 (23.87%) Microsoft
2 253 (10.45%) Adobe
3 137 (5.66%) Databricks
4 112 (4.63%) Google
5 78 (3.22%) OpenAI
6 75 (3.10%) Cisco
7 60 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.11%) Dell
9 45 (1.86%) Apple
9 45 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 39 (1.61%) Foundry
11 33 (1.36%) Facebook
12 31 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (1.12%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.12%) Tenable
14 23 (0.95%) VMware
15 22 (0.91%) Oracle
16 17 (0.70%) SAP
17 16 (0.66%) Sony
2,436 hybrid/remote AI jobs