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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +48 +27
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,179 3,072 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.98% 19.03% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.97% 20.40% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,023 678 549
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,203 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,752 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 19,905 15,060 19,973
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.30% 87.74%
Number of salaries quoted 14,270 8,510 12,254
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 22 September 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
1 103 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.70%) Confluence
3 38 (1.20%) CMS
4 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.75%) Apache
6 21 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.31%) SAS
8 10 (0.31%) WordPress
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.13%) Camunda
11 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.094%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.094%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.031%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.031%) IIS
13 1 (0.031%) Moodle
13 1 (0.031%) nginx
Applications
1 76 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.79%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.44%) InDesign
8 13 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 6 (0.19%) Moqups
12 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (0.16%) Trello
13 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.094%) Productboard
13 3 (0.094%) Sketch
14 2 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 38 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.88%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Primavera
7 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.094%) SAP PSCD
8 3 (0.094%) Shopify
9 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.031%) HFM
9 1 (0.031%) Magento
9 1 (0.031%) Maximo
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 898 (28.25%) Azure
2 614 (19.31%) AWS
3 310 (9.75%) SaaS
4 278 (8.74%) Power Platform
5 270 (8.49%) GCP
6 239 (7.52%) Azure AI
7 235 (7.39%) GitHub
8 185 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
9 165 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
10 146 (4.59%) Snowflake
11 141 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
12 132 (4.15%) Microsoft Copilot
13 129 (4.06%) Anthropic Claude
14 113 (3.55%) Entra ID
14 113 (3.55%) Serverless
15 76 (2.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 75 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 75 (2.36%) Power Automate
17 73 (2.30%) Figma
18 60 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 147 (4.62%) Broadband
2 37 (1.16%) Internet
3 34 (1.07%) Firewall
3 34 (1.07%) VPN
4 31 (0.98%) Network Security
5 23 (0.72%) 5G
5 23 (0.72%) DNS
6 17 (0.53%) HTTP
7 14 (0.44%) DHCP
8 13 (0.41%) VoIP
9 11 (0.35%) CTI
10 9 (0.28%) Wireless
11 8 (0.25%) WPA
12 6 (0.19%) DMZ
12 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.19%) WAN
12 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (6.29%) MongoDB
2 179 (5.63%) Power BI
3 170 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 117 (3.68%) SQL Server
5 101 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
6 100 (3.15%) Metadata
7 75 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.67%) Tableau
10 48 (1.51%) Big Data
11 42 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 39 (1.23%) Relational Database
13 36 (1.13%) Redis
14 35 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
15 34 (1.07%) BigQuery
15 34 (1.07%) Delta Lake
16 25 (0.79%) MySQL
17 20 (0.63%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.63%) DynamoDB
18 18 (0.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 122 (3.84%) Git
2 88 (2.77%) JIRA
3 82 (2.58%) Claude Code
4 40 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.88%) GitLab
6 27 (0.85%) Snyk
7 18 (0.57%) MLflow
8 16 (0.50%) Selenium
9 14 (0.44%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.44%) Postman
10 13 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 10 (0.31%) Maven
12 10 (0.31%) Mockito
13 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.16%) Poetry
13 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 973 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 787 (24.76%) Finance
3 429 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 373 (11.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 371 (11.67%) Marketing
6 233 (7.33%) Legal
7 230 (7.23%) Public Sector
8 164 (5.16%) Law
9 144 (4.53%) Banking
10 130 (4.09%) Games
11 116 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
12 115 (3.62%) Retail
13 111 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
14 60 (1.89%) Advertising
15 53 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.35%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (1.07%) Legal Technology
19 28 (0.88%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.82%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 595 (18.72%) Senior
2 415 (13.05%) Developer
3 343 (10.79%) Architect
4 337 (10.60%) Lead
5 256 (8.05%) Software Engineer
6 162 (5.10%) .NET Developer
7 161 (5.06%) Analyst
8 139 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 135 (4.25%) Consultant
10 97 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
11 90 (2.83%) Python Engineer
12 88 (2.77%) Data Engineer
13 84 (2.64%) Engineering Manager
14 82 (2.58%) Senior Manager
15 80 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
16 72 (2.26%) Data Scientist
17 70 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
18 69 (2.17%) Senior Developer
19 66 (2.08%) Data Architect
19 66 (2.08%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (8.87%) React
2 259 (8.15%) .NET
3 164 (5.16%) Terraform
4 160 (5.03%) ASP.NET
4 160 (5.03%) RESTful
5 154 (4.84%) .NET Core
5 154 (4.84%) Node.js
6 151 (4.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (4.66%) ML.NET
8 136 (4.28%) CSS
9 127 (3.99%) HTML
10 122 (3.84%) REST
11 110 (3.46%) Blazor
12 104 (3.27%) LangChain
13 74 (2.33%) Next.js
14 63 (1.98%) LangGraph
15 55 (1.73%) PyTorch
16 54 (1.70%) PySpark
17 53 (1.67%) Vue
18 47 (1.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 280 (8.81%) AI Agents
2 274 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 138 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 123 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 112 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
5 112 (3.52%) Social Media
6 97 (3.05%) Blog
7 89 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 76 (2.39%) Low-Code
9 75 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 69 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
11 65 (2.04%) Algorithms
12 63 (1.98%) Data Centre
13 62 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
14 58 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
15 51 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
15 51 (1.60%) Mobile App
15 51 (1.60%) Virtual Team
16 44 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
17 42 (1.32%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.52%) Windows
2 70 (2.20%) Linux
3 38 (1.20%) Android
4 21 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 12 (0.38%) VMS
7 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.25%) Unix
9 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.094%) Debian
10 3 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.094%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.063%) AIX
11 2 (0.063%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (23.66%) Machine Learning
2 718 (22.59%) Agile
3 676 (21.26%) Analytics
4 622 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 603 (18.97%) CI/CD
6 590 (18.56%) Roadmaps
7 522 (16.42%) Software Engineering
8 506 (15.92%) Mentoring
9 474 (14.91%) Decision-Making
10 441 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
11 422 (13.27%) LLM
12 388 (12.21%) DevOps
13 384 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 374 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
15 337 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 334 (10.51%) Cybersecurity
17 295 (9.28%) Coaching
18 269 (8.46%) Data Science
19 267 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
20 253 (7.96%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 726 (22.84%) Python
2 559 (17.58%) SQL
3 305 (9.59%) C#
4 283 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 232 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 141 (4.44%) Java
7 75 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 69 (2.17%) C++
9 50 (1.57%) Go
10 49 (1.54%) Bash
11 46 (1.45%) Bicep
12 32 (1.01%) R
13 30 (0.94%) Scala
14 19 (0.60%) C
14 19 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 18 (0.57%) PHP
16 17 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.47%) Rust
19 12 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (8.15%) Degree
2 248 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 181 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.61%) CISSP
5 75 (2.36%) CISM
6 65 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 64 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (1.89%) ACCA
9 54 (1.70%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.70%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
10 51 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 50 (1.57%) CIMA
12 38 (1.20%) DBS Check
13 32 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 23 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.60%) PhD
17 18 (0.57%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 184 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 138 (4.34%) GDPR
4 123 (3.87%) QA
5 71 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (2.04%) GRC
7 52 (1.64%) NIST
8 35 (1.10%) SLA
9 30 (0.94%) WCAG
10 19 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 17 (0.53%) PMO
12 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.44%) IFRS
14 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
16 7 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 238 (7.49%) Docker
2 102 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.41%) vSphere
6 11 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) NFS
9 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 213 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (1.07%) Grafana
4 19 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.57%) Ansible
6 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.19%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.16%) Argo
8 5 (0.16%) Istio
8 5 (0.16%) Nmap
9 4 (0.13%) Puppet
10 3 (0.094%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.094%) linkerd
10 3 (0.094%) Podman
11 2 (0.063%) Cilium
11 2 (0.063%) Kibana
12 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.031%) Salt
12 1 (0.031%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 807 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 176 (5.54%) Databricks
3 162 (5.10%) Google
4 125 (3.93%) Adobe
5 111 (3.49%) OpenAI
6 106 (3.33%) YouTube
7 83 (2.61%) Cisco
8 63 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.89%) Apple
10 58 (1.82%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.73%) CyberArk
12 49 (1.54%) Dell
13 44 (1.38%) SAP
14 43 (1.35%) HubSpot
15 41 (1.29%) Foundry
16 36 (1.13%) Oracle
17 35 (1.10%) Facebook
18 30 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
18 30 (0.94%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.94%) VMware