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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +54 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,997 2,870 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.07% 17.33% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.87% 18.63% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,880 658 612
10th Percentile £41,225 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £102,375
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

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 18,880 15,403 21,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.36% 93.01% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,612 8,900 15,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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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 20 August 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 93 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.84%) Confluence
3 41 (1.37%) CMS
4 22 (0.73%) Apache
4 22 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.30%) SAS
6 9 (0.30%) WordPress
7 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.17%) Camunda
9 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.067%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.033%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.033%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.033%) Moodle
12 1 (0.033%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 52 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.43%) Chatbot
3 42 (1.40%) UserZoom
4 30 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
5 17 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.47%) InDesign
7 14 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
8 6 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.17%) Moqups
10 4 (0.13%) CapCut
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) Productboard
11 3 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.80%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.067%) Shopify
9 1 (0.033%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.033%) HFM
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.033%) Primavera
9 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 863 (28.80%) Azure
2 565 (18.85%) AWS
3 282 (9.41%) SaaS
4 255 (8.51%) Azure AI
5 251 (8.38%) GCP
6 231 (7.71%) Power Platform
7 217 (7.24%) GitHub
8 174 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 151 (5.04%) Adobe Analytics
10 142 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
11 135 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 135 (4.50%) Snowflake
12 111 (3.70%) Serverless
13 110 (3.67%) Figma
14 109 (3.64%) Anthropic Claude
15 108 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
16 105 (3.50%) Entra ID
17 87 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 79 (2.64%) Azure Machine Learning
19 68 (2.27%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 273 (9.11%) Broadband
2 33 (1.10%) Internet
3 30 (1.00%) VPN
4 28 (0.93%) Firewall
5 25 (0.83%) Network Security
6 20 (0.67%) DNS
7 15 (0.50%) HTTP
8 12 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.37%) CTI
9 11 (0.37%) DHCP
10 8 (0.27%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.27%) WPA
11 7 (0.23%) Wireless
12 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.17%) BGP
13 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.17%) OSPF
13 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.24%) MongoDB
2 177 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 137 (4.57%) Power BI
4 124 (4.14%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (2.74%) Metadata
7 70 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
8 51 (1.70%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.67%) Tableau
10 42 (1.40%) Big Data
10 42 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 35 (1.17%) Redis
12 34 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
13 31 (1.03%) Delta Lake
13 31 (1.03%) Relational Database
14 30 (1.00%) BigQuery
15 22 (0.73%) MySQL
16 18 (0.60%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.60%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.57%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 122 (4.07%) Git
2 74 (2.47%) JIRA
3 65 (2.17%) Claude Code
4 43 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.90%) Snyk
6 26 (0.87%) GitLab
7 18 (0.60%) Selenium
8 15 (0.50%) MLflow
9 14 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 12 (0.40%) Postman
11 11 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.33%) JUnit
12 10 (0.33%) Maven
12 10 (0.33%) Mockito
13 6 (0.20%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.17%) Appium
14 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
15 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.13%) Burp Suite
15 4 (0.13%) Metasploit
General
1 858 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 654 (21.82%) Finance
3 375 (12.51%) Analytical Skills
4 345 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 326 (10.88%) Marketing
6 236 (7.87%) Games
6 236 (7.87%) Legal
7 194 (6.47%) Public Sector
8 170 (5.67%) Law
9 112 (3.74%) Banking
10 99 (3.30%) Retail
11 97 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 88 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.87%) Advertising
14 42 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 41 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (1.17%) Legal Technology
17 29 (0.97%) Automotive
18 27 (0.90%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 564 (18.82%) Senior
2 409 (13.65%) Developer
3 363 (12.11%) Lead
4 300 (10.01%) Architect
5 222 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.67%) .NET Developer
7 137 (4.57%) Analyst
8 124 (4.14%) Consultant
9 121 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 112 (3.74%) Engineering Manager
11 87 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
12 83 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
13 82 (2.74%) Data Engineer
14 78 (2.60%) Python Engineer
15 77 (2.57%) Data Scientist
16 75 (2.50%) Senior Developer
17 73 (2.44%) Senior Manager
18 69 (2.30%) Product Manager
19 66 (2.20%) Designer
20 64 (2.14%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (9.44%) React
2 259 (8.64%) .NET
3 168 (5.61%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.51%) .NET Core
5 163 (5.44%) RESTful
6 159 (5.31%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.21%) ML.NET
8 145 (4.84%) Terraform
9 144 (4.80%) CSS
10 142 (4.74%) Node.js
11 134 (4.47%) HTML
12 116 (3.87%) Blazor
12 116 (3.87%) REST
13 94 (3.14%) LangChain
14 76 (2.54%) Next.js
15 56 (1.87%) PyTorch
16 52 (1.74%) Vue
17 51 (1.70%) LangGraph
18 48 (1.60%) FastAPI
19 44 (1.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 264 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 240 (8.01%) AI Agents
3 197 (6.57%) Social Media
4 140 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 118 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 94 (3.14%) Blog
8 73 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 71 (2.37%) Algorithms
9 71 (2.37%) Low-Code
10 57 (1.90%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
11 55 (1.84%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
12 54 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 53 (1.77%) Management Information System
14 52 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
15 47 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
16 46 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
17 41 (1.37%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.27%) Windows
2 59 (1.97%) Linux
3 44 (1.47%) Android
4 20 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.23%) Unix
9 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Debian
11 1 (0.033%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (26.93%) Agile
2 777 (25.93%) Machine Learning
3 717 (23.92%) Analytics
4 660 (22.02%) Roadmaps
5 604 (20.15%) CI/CD
6 545 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 481 (16.05%) Software Engineering
8 471 (15.72%) Mentoring
9 441 (14.71%) Decision-Making
10 429 (14.31%) LLM
11 401 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 383 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
13 377 (12.58%) DevOps
14 323 (10.78%) Customer Experience
15 298 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
16 295 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 283 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
18 266 (8.88%) Data Science
19 257 (8.58%) Technical Leadership
20 241 (8.04%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 688 (22.96%) Python
2 549 (18.32%) SQL
3 296 (9.88%) C#
4 270 (9.01%) JavaScript
5 215 (7.17%) TypeScript
6 143 (4.77%) Java
7 62 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 56 (1.87%) C++
9 53 (1.77%) Go
10 49 (1.63%) Bicep
11 46 (1.53%) Bash
12 32 (1.07%) Scala
13 23 (0.77%) R
14 18 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.53%) C
15 16 (0.53%) PHP
16 12 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 245 (8.17%) Degree
2 197 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 141 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 75 (2.50%) CISSP
5 69 (2.30%) CISM
6 62 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.80%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
9 50 (1.67%) ACCA
10 49 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 43 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 36 (1.20%) CIMA
13 34 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 31 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 31 (1.03%) PhD
15 25 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (0.53%) SnowPro
17 15 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (9.04%) Accessibility
2 201 (6.71%) Data Quality
3 119 (3.97%) QA
4 109 (3.64%) GDPR
5 67 (2.24%) WCAG
6 61 (2.04%) GRC
7 54 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 40 (1.33%) NIST
9 29 (0.97%) SLA
10 17 (0.57%) IFRS
11 15 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 12 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.37%) PMO
15 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.20%) EU AI Act
18 5 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 229 (7.64%) Docker
2 93 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 92 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.43%) vSphere
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.30%) Firmware
8 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 210 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 76 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (0.87%) Grafana
4 17 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.53%) Ansible
6 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.20%) Argo
7 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.17%) Istio
8 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
9 4 (0.13%) Nmap
10 3 (0.10%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.10%) linkerd
11 2 (0.067%) Cilium
11 2 (0.067%) Podman
11 2 (0.067%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.067%) Salt
12 1 (0.033%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.033%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 749 (24.99%) Microsoft
2 216 (7.21%) Adobe
3 175 (5.84%) Databricks
4 142 (4.74%) Google
5 101 (3.37%) OpenAI
6 76 (2.54%) Cisco
7 65 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.84%) CyberArk
9 54 (1.80%) Apple
10 48 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 44 (1.47%) Dell
12 41 (1.37%) YouTube
13 38 (1.27%) Facebook
14 36 (1.20%) Foundry
14 36 (1.20%) HubSpot
15 30 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
15 30 (1.00%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.97%) Oracle
16 29 (0.97%) SAP
17 27 (0.90%) Tenable
2,073 hybrid/remote AI jobs