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

 6 months to
11 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 +50 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,991 1,613 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.80% 11.04% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.05% 11.61% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,141 709 857
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £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 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%

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 15,256 13,894 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,822 8,909 23,455
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +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% -10.10%

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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 11 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 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.26%) CMS
3 38 (1.91%) Confluence
4 24 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.50%) Apache
6 10 (0.50%) SAS
6 10 (0.50%) WordPress
7 9 (0.45%) JBoss
7 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.050%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.050%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.91%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.51%) 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 (1.21%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.10%) Sage 50
6 2 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 537 (26.97%) Azure
2 367 (18.43%) AWS
3 210 (10.55%) SaaS
4 183 (9.19%) Adobe Analytics
5 172 (8.64%) GCP
6 138 (6.93%) GitHub
7 133 (6.68%) Power Platform
8 127 (6.38%) Azure AI
9 105 (5.27%) Figma
10 96 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (4.67%) GitHub Copilot
12 91 (4.57%) Azure Machine Learning
12 91 (4.57%) Snowflake
13 72 (3.62%) Serverless
14 69 (3.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 66 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
16 55 (2.76%) Contentsquare
17 47 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
18 33 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
19 31 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 286 (14.36%) Broadband
2 25 (1.26%) 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%) NGN
10 2 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.92%) MongoDB
2 85 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 78 (3.92%) Power BI
4 64 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.56%) Metadata
7 47 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 40 (2.01%) Tableau
9 32 (1.61%) Big Data
10 26 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.21%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.10%) Redis
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 54 (2.71%) Git
2 36 (1.81%) JIRA
3 25 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.16%) 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%) Postman
14 3 (0.15%) Appium
14 3 (0.15%) ESLint
14 3 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 469 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 409 (20.54%) Finance
3 274 (13.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 272 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (12.41%) Games
6 204 (10.25%) Marketing
7 141 (7.08%) Public Sector
8 138 (6.93%) Legal
9 116 (5.83%) Law
10 68 (3.42%) Retail
11 54 (2.71%) Banking
12 47 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.91%) Automotive
15 31 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.26%) 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
1 401 (20.14%) Senior
2 294 (14.77%) Lead
3 214 (10.75%) Developer
4 173 (8.69%) Architect
5 104 (5.22%) Software Engineer
6 94 (4.72%) Analyst
7 79 (3.97%) Consultant
8 78 (3.92%) Engineering Manager
9 72 (3.62%) Designer
10 71 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 57 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 57 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 55 (2.76%) .NET Developer
12 55 (2.76%) Product Manager
13 50 (2.51%) Senior Architect
14 49 (2.46%) Data Manager
14 49 (2.46%) Lead Designer
15 47 (2.36%) Data Scientist
15 47 (2.36%) Python Engineer
15 47 (2.36%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (7.08%) React
2 116 (5.83%) .NET
3 99 (4.97%) RESTful
4 87 (4.37%) REST
5 74 (3.72%) Node.js
6 67 (3.37%) CSS
7 62 (3.11%) HTML
8 56 (2.81%) .NET Core
9 51 (2.56%) ASP.NET
9 51 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 49 (2.46%) ML.NET
11 48 (2.41%) PyTorch
12 41 (2.06%) Blazor
13 40 (2.01%) TensorFlow
14 35 (1.76%) LangChain
15 33 (1.66%) Vue
16 31 (1.56%) Spring
17 30 (1.51%) FastAPI
17 30 (1.51%) Kafka
18 28 (1.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 192 (9.64%) Social Media
2 150 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 111 (5.58%) Product Ownership
4 85 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 75 (3.77%) AI Agents
6 65 (3.26%) Blog
7 54 (2.71%) Low-Code
8 53 (2.66%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.51%) Mobile App
10 45 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
11 44 (2.21%) Virtual Team
12 43 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.96%) Algorithms
14 38 (1.91%) Data Centre
15 36 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
16 32 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
17 29 (1.46%) Social Network
18 21 (1.05%) Podcast
19 20 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
19 20 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.36%) Android
2 27 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 23 (1.16%) 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
1 567 (28.48%) Agile
2 515 (25.87%) Analytics
3 497 (24.96%) Roadmaps
4 454 (22.80%) Machine Learning
5 365 (18.33%) CI/CD
6 308 (15.47%) Customer Experience
7 269 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 257 (12.91%) Software Engineering
9 251 (12.61%) Mentoring
10 250 (12.56%) DevOps
11 233 (11.70%) Decision-Making
12 229 (11.50%) Product Roadmap
13 226 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (10.50%) Storytelling
15 204 (10.25%) Full-Stack Development
16 202 (10.15%) LLM
17 196 (9.84%) Generative AI
18 187 (9.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 177 (8.89%) Digital Customer Experience
20 169 (8.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 399 (20.04%) Python
2 295 (14.82%) SQL
3 119 (5.98%) C#
4 116 (5.83%) Java
5 107 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 103 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 64 (3.21%) Go
8 30 (1.51%) C++
9 25 (1.26%) Bash
10 20 (1.00%) R
11 17 (0.85%) Bicep
11 17 (0.85%) Scala
12 15 (0.75%) PowerShell
13 14 (0.70%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.60%) PHP
15 10 (0.50%) 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
1 230 (11.55%) Degree
2 76 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 52 (2.61%) Master's Degree
4 50 (2.51%) ACCA
4 50 (2.51%) AWS Certification
5 46 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 41 (2.06%) PhD
7 38 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 28 (1.41%) CIMA
10 27 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 26 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 24 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (0.90%) 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
1 272 (13.66%) Accessibility
2 70 (3.52%) WCAG
3 69 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.66%) QA
5 52 (2.61%) GDPR
6 51 (2.56%) GRC
7 29 (1.46%) IFRS
8 25 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.70%) NIST
9 14 (0.70%) PMO
10 13 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.50%) GAAP
12 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.40%) NCSC
14 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.30%) SLA
16 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 125 (6.28%) Docker
2 85 (4.27%) 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
1 101 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.16%) 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
1 431 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 254 (12.76%) Adobe
3 124 (6.23%) Databricks
4 83 (4.17%) Google
5 56 (2.81%) Apple
6 51 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.51%) Cisco
8 48 (2.41%) Dell
9 44 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.01%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
12 25 (1.26%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.21%) Tenable
14 23 (1.16%) Oracle
15 21 (1.05%) PayPal
16 20 (1.00%) Foundry
16 20 (1.00%) HubSpot
17 18 (0.90%) SAP
18 14 (0.70%) Palantir
19 11 (0.55%) Instagram
1,792 hybrid/remote AI jobs