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

 6 months to
12 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 +50 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,997 1,608 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.82% 11.05% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.07% 11.63% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,141 699 857
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £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 £88,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.64%

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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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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 12 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 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.25%) CMS
3 38 (1.90%) Confluence
4 24 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.50%) Apache
6 10 (0.50%) SAS
6 10 (0.50%) WordPress
7 8 (0.40%) JBoss
7 8 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.050%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.050%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.90%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.50%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.20%) CapCut
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.10%) Productboard
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.20%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.10%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.10%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 540 (27.04%) Azure
2 372 (18.63%) AWS
3 210 (10.52%) SaaS
4 183 (9.16%) Adobe Analytics
5 172 (8.61%) GCP
6 138 (6.91%) GitHub
7 133 (6.66%) Power Platform
8 128 (6.41%) Azure AI
9 105 (5.26%) Figma
10 96 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (4.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 92 (4.61%) Snowflake
12 91 (4.56%) Azure Machine Learning
13 74 (3.71%) Serverless
14 67 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 66 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
16 55 (2.75%) Contentsquare
17 47 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
18 31 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (1.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 286 (14.32%) Broadband
2 25 (1.25%) Firewall
3 19 (0.95%) HTTP
4 10 (0.50%) Network Security
4 10 (0.50%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.45%) VPN
6 7 (0.35%) DMZ
6 7 (0.35%) DNS
6 7 (0.35%) Internet
7 6 (0.30%) 5G
8 4 (0.20%) DHCP
8 4 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.15%) RTP
9 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.15%) Wireless
9 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.10%) MPLS
10 2 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.91%) MongoDB
2 86 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 78 (3.91%) Power BI
4 62 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 58 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.55%) Metadata
7 45 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (2.10%) Tableau
9 32 (1.60%) Big Data
10 25 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.15%) Redis
12 22 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.10%) Data Lake
13 20 (1.00%) Looker
14 19 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (0.70%) Delta Lake
16 13 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.55%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 55 (2.75%) Git
2 36 (1.80%) JIRA
3 25 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.20%) Snyk
5 22 (1.10%) Claude Code
5 22 (1.10%) MLflow
6 14 (0.70%) GitLab
7 10 (0.50%) Selenium
8 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.35%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.35%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.30%) Storybook
12 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.25%) Subversion
13 4 (0.20%) Maven
13 4 (0.20%) Postman
14 3 (0.15%) JUnit
14 3 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 474 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 409 (20.48%) Finance
3 278 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 271 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (12.37%) Games
6 204 (10.22%) Marketing
7 143 (7.16%) Public Sector
8 138 (6.91%) Legal
9 116 (5.81%) Law
10 68 (3.41%) Retail
11 52 (2.60%) Banking
12 47 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.90%) Automotive
15 31 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.30%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (0.80%) Advertising
19 13 (0.65%) Back Office
20 8 (0.40%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 405 (20.28%) Senior
2 294 (14.72%) Lead
3 216 (10.82%) Developer
4 173 (8.66%) Architect
5 106 (5.31%) Software Engineer
6 94 (4.71%) Analyst
7 79 (3.96%) Consultant
8 78 (3.91%) Engineering Manager
9 72 (3.61%) Designer
10 71 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 57 (2.85%) Data Engineer
13 55 (2.75%) .NET Developer
13 55 (2.75%) Product Manager
14 51 (2.55%) Data Manager
15 50 (2.50%) Senior Architect
16 49 (2.45%) Lead Designer
17 48 (2.40%) Data Scientist
17 48 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
18 47 (2.35%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.16%) React
2 115 (5.76%) .NET
3 100 (5.01%) RESTful
4 89 (4.46%) REST
5 75 (3.76%) Node.js
6 68 (3.41%) CSS
7 62 (3.10%) HTML
8 56 (2.80%) .NET Core
9 51 (2.55%) ASP.NET
9 51 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
10 49 (2.45%) ML.NET
11 48 (2.40%) PyTorch
12 41 (2.05%) Blazor
13 40 (2.00%) TensorFlow
14 35 (1.75%) LangChain
15 33 (1.65%) Vue
16 32 (1.60%) Spring
17 30 (1.50%) FastAPI
17 30 (1.50%) Kafka
18 28 (1.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 192 (9.61%) Social Media
2 150 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 113 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 85 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 76 (3.81%) AI Agents
6 65 (3.25%) Blog
7 54 (2.70%) Low-Code
8 51 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.50%) Mobile App
10 45 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
11 44 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 39 (1.95%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.95%) Data Centre
13 36 (1.80%) Video\Live Streaming
14 30 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (1.45%) Social Network
16 21 (1.05%) Podcast
17 20 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.35%) Android
2 27 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 24 (1.20%) Linux
4 18 (0.90%) Windows
5 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.20%) Unix
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (28.44%) Agile
2 512 (25.64%) Analytics
3 498 (24.94%) Roadmaps
4 455 (22.78%) Machine Learning
5 370 (18.53%) CI/CD
6 308 (15.42%) Customer Experience
7 273 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 260 (13.02%) Software Engineering
9 254 (12.72%) Mentoring
10 251 (12.57%) DevOps
11 231 (11.57%) Decision-Making
12 229 (11.47%) Product Roadmap
13 226 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (10.47%) Storytelling
15 206 (10.32%) Full-Stack Development
16 204 (10.22%) LLM
17 197 (9.86%) Generative AI
18 187 (9.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 177 (8.86%) Digital Customer Experience
20 168 (8.41%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 399 (19.98%) Python
2 292 (14.62%) SQL
3 120 (6.01%) C#
4 116 (5.81%) Java
5 111 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 106 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 64 (3.20%) Go
8 30 (1.50%) C++
9 26 (1.30%) Bash
10 20 (1.00%) R
11 17 (0.85%) Bicep
11 17 (0.85%) Scala
12 16 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 14 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.60%) PHP
15 11 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 231 (11.57%) Degree
2 80 (4.01%) Security Cleared
3 52 (2.60%) Master's Degree
4 51 (2.55%) AWS Certification
5 50 (2.50%) ACCA
6 49 (2.45%) SC Cleared
7 41 (2.05%) PhD
8 39 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.75%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.40%) CIMA
11 27 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 24 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.60%) CISSP
15 9 (0.45%) PMP
16 8 (0.40%) CISA
16 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.30%) CISM
18 5 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (13.67%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 70 (3.51%) WCAG
4 54 (2.70%) GDPR
4 54 (2.70%) QA
5 52 (2.60%) GRC
6 27 (1.35%) IFRS
7 25 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.70%) NIST
8 14 (0.70%) PMO
9 13 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.40%) GAAP
11 8 (0.40%) NCSC
12 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.30%) SLA
14 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 127 (6.36%) Docker
2 86 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 103 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.15%) Terraform
3 19 (0.95%) Ansible
4 18 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.55%) Grafana
6 10 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.35%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.30%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.25%) Argo
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.10%) Podman
11 2 (0.10%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 430 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 254 (12.72%) Adobe
3 122 (6.11%) Databricks
4 83 (4.16%) Google
5 56 (2.80%) Apple
6 51 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.50%) Cisco
8 48 (2.40%) Dell
9 45 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.05%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (1.30%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.25%) Tenable
14 24 (1.20%) Oracle
15 21 (1.05%) Foundry
15 21 (1.05%) PayPal
16 20 (1.00%) HubSpot
17 16 (0.80%) SAP
18 14 (0.70%) Palantir
19 11 (0.55%) Hootsuite
1,680 hybrid/remote AI jobs