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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 +58 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,178 2,276 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.20% 15.06% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.63% 15.92% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,287 681 906
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,206 £64,475
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +2.68% -11.07%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £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 15,975 14,300 30,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.12% 94.60% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,436 8,372 23,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 10 June 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 47 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.70%) CMS
2 37 (1.70%) Confluence
3 23 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.55%) Apache
6 11 (0.51%) WordPress
7 10 (0.46%) SAS
8 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.18%) JBoss
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.092%) Camunda
11 2 (0.092%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.046%) Moodle
12 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.046%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (1.70%) UserZoom
2 28 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
8 7 (0.32%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.18%) CapCut
10 4 (0.18%) Sketch
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.14%) Productboard
11 3 (0.14%) Trello
12 2 (0.092%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.046%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.10%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.18%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.092%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.046%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.046%) HFM
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 592 (27.18%) Azure
2 409 (18.78%) AWS
3 227 (10.42%) SaaS
4 191 (8.77%) GCP
5 186 (8.54%) Adobe Analytics
6 154 (7.07%) Azure AI
7 153 (7.02%) Power Platform
8 130 (5.97%) GitHub
9 117 (5.37%) Figma
10 103 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (4.18%) Azure Machine Learning
12 89 (4.09%) Serverless
12 89 (4.09%) Snowflake
13 82 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
14 80 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
15 70 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 62 (2.85%) Contentsquare
17 58 (2.66%) Anthropic Claude
18 54 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
19 34 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 324 (14.88%) Broadband
2 24 (1.10%) Firewall
3 17 (0.78%) VPN
4 15 (0.69%) HTTP
5 13 (0.60%) Internet
6 11 (0.51%) DNS
7 10 (0.46%) Unified Communications
8 8 (0.37%) Network Security
9 7 (0.32%) DHCP
10 6 (0.28%) 5G
10 6 (0.28%) DMZ
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.18%) RTP
12 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.18%) VoIP
13 3 (0.14%) Wireless
13 3 (0.14%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (6.24%) MongoDB
2 96 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 90 (4.13%) Power BI
4 87 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 75 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
6 60 (2.75%) Metadata
7 48 (2.20%) Tableau
8 45 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (1.93%) Big Data
10 32 (1.47%) BigQuery
11 27 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 26 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
13 24 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 22 (1.01%) Redis
16 20 (0.92%) Relational Database
17 19 (0.87%) Looker
18 17 (0.78%) Delta Lake
19 16 (0.73%) MySQL
20 14 (0.64%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 62 (2.85%) Git
2 38 (1.74%) Claude Code
3 32 (1.47%) JIRA
4 30 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.15%) Snyk
6 21 (0.96%) MLflow
7 14 (0.64%) GitLab
8 9 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.41%) Selenium
8 9 (0.41%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.28%) Maven
9 6 (0.28%) Postman
9 6 (0.28%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.23%) JUnit
10 5 (0.23%) Mockito
10 5 (0.23%) Storybook
10 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.14%) Appium
11 3 (0.14%) ESLint
General
1 520 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 425 (19.51%) Finance
3 268 (12.30%) Games
4 263 (12.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 258 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (10.56%) Marketing
7 137 (6.29%) Legal
8 133 (6.11%) Public Sector
9 118 (5.42%) Law
10 79 (3.63%) Retail
11 67 (3.08%) Banking
12 56 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.79%) Automotive
15 35 (1.61%) Advertising
16 27 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.10%) Manufacturing
18 18 (0.83%) Telecoms
19 10 (0.46%) Back Office
20 9 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 434 (19.93%) Senior
2 343 (15.75%) Lead
3 265 (12.17%) Developer
4 197 (9.04%) Architect
5 127 (5.83%) Software Engineer
6 97 (4.45%) Analyst
7 94 (4.32%) Engineering Manager
8 90 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 86 (3.95%) Consultant
10 82 (3.76%) .NET Developer
10 82 (3.76%) Designer
11 76 (3.49%) Data Engineer
12 73 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (2.98%) Data Scientist
14 61 (2.80%) Product Manager
15 60 (2.75%) Python Engineer
16 58 (2.66%) Data Manager
17 53 (2.43%) Full-Stack Developer
17 53 (2.43%) Senior Architect
18 51 (2.34%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.03%) React
2 138 (6.34%) .NET
3 119 (5.46%) RESTful
4 90 (4.13%) CSS
4 90 (4.13%) Node.js
5 83 (3.81%) HTML
5 83 (3.81%) REST
6 82 (3.76%) .NET Core
7 75 (3.44%) ASP.NET
7 75 (3.44%) ASP.NET Core
8 74 (3.40%) ML.NET
9 64 (2.94%) PyTorch
10 61 (2.80%) Blazor
11 56 (2.57%) TensorFlow
12 53 (2.43%) LangChain
13 43 (1.97%) FastAPI
14 37 (1.70%) Next.js
14 37 (1.70%) Vue
15 32 (1.47%) Spring
16 29 (1.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 215 (9.87%) Social Media
2 189 (8.68%) Cloud Native
3 134 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 112 (5.14%) AI Agents
5 76 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 69 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.75%) Low-Code
8 57 (2.62%) Video\Live Streaming
9 51 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 49 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (2.20%) Mobile App
12 45 (2.07%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.93%) Public Cloud
14 40 (1.84%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.24%) Management Information System
16 27 (1.24%) Social Network
17 25 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
18 24 (1.10%) Blog
18 24 (1.10%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.97%) Android
2 32 (1.47%) Linux
3 30 (1.38%) Windows
4 27 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.18%) VMS
7 3 (0.14%) Unix
8 2 (0.092%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (28.24%) Agile
2 572 (26.26%) Roadmaps
3 563 (25.85%) Analytics
4 540 (24.79%) Machine Learning
5 433 (19.88%) CI/CD
6 321 (14.74%) Customer Experience
6 321 (14.74%) Software Engineering
7 297 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 282 (12.95%) Decision-Making
9 274 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 267 (12.26%) LLM
11 263 (12.08%) DevOps
12 261 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
13 257 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
14 237 (10.88%) Product Roadmap
15 235 (10.79%) Generative AI
16 216 (9.92%) Storytelling
17 196 (9.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 193 (8.86%) Data Science
19 190 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 518 (23.78%) Python
2 340 (15.61%) SQL
3 159 (7.30%) C#
4 151 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 130 (5.97%) TypeScript
6 114 (5.23%) Java
7 72 (3.31%) Go
8 40 (1.84%) Bash
9 37 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.24%) Bicep
10 27 (1.24%) C++
11 22 (1.01%) R
12 20 (0.92%) Scala
13 15 (0.69%) PHP
14 10 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.41%) C
16 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.37%) Rust
17 7 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 174 (7.99%) Degree
2 89 (4.09%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.39%) ACCA
5 45 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 38 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.42%) CIMA
8 31 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.19%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.19%) PhD
11 24 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.46%) CISSP
13 8 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.18%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (12.81%) Accessibility
2 107 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.31%) WCAG
4 68 (3.12%) GDPR
5 63 (2.89%) QA
6 54 (2.48%) GRC
7 28 (1.29%) NIST
8 24 (1.10%) IFRS
8 24 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.87%) SLA
10 16 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.64%) PMO
12 13 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.32%) NCSC
15 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 150 (6.89%) Docker
2 89 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.18%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.14%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 125 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 88 (4.04%) Terraform
3 19 (0.87%) Ansible
4 15 (0.69%) Grafana
5 14 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.37%) Kubeflow
9 7 (0.32%) Argo
9 7 (0.32%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.092%) Istio
11 2 (0.092%) Podman
11 2 (0.092%) Salt
12 1 (0.046%) CASB
12 1 (0.046%) Cilium
12 1 (0.046%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.046%) linkerd
12 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.046%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 481 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 253 (11.62%) Adobe
3 126 (5.79%) Databricks
4 91 (4.18%) Google
5 63 (2.89%) Cisco
5 63 (2.89%) OpenAI
6 53 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 52 (2.39%) Dell
8 49 (2.25%) Apple
9 48 (2.20%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (1.29%) HubSpot
12 27 (1.24%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.24%) Tenable
13 24 (1.10%) Oracle
14 22 (1.01%) Foundry
15 19 (0.87%) SAP
16 16 (0.73%) Facebook
17 15 (0.69%) VMware
18 12 (0.55%) Palantir