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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +45 +30
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,165 3,076 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.96% 18.98% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.95% 20.36% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,011 683 556
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,203 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,000 £51,250
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 19,841 15,111 20,359
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.27% 93.24% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14,226 8,561 12,491
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £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 21 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 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.67%) Confluence
3 38 (1.20%) CMS
4 28 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.76%) Apache
6 21 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 10 (0.32%) 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 (0.095%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.095%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.032%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.032%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.032%) IIS
13 1 (0.032%) Moodle
13 1 (0.032%) nginx
Applications
1 76 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.79%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.73%) 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 (0.32%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.19%) Moqups
10 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
11 5 (0.16%) Trello
12 3 (0.095%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.095%) Productboard
12 3 (0.095%) Sketch
13 2 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.88%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.76%) Cloudability
4 11 (0.35%) 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 (0.095%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.095%) Shopify
9 2 (0.063%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.032%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.032%) HFM
10 1 (0.032%) Magento
10 1 (0.032%) Maximo
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 891 (28.15%) Azure
2 607 (19.18%) AWS
3 307 (9.70%) SaaS
4 275 (8.69%) Power Platform
5 268 (8.47%) GCP
6 238 (7.52%) Azure AI
7 232 (7.33%) GitHub
8 184 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
9 162 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
10 146 (4.61%) Snowflake
11 141 (4.45%) GitHub Copilot
12 130 (4.11%) Microsoft Copilot
13 128 (4.04%) Anthropic Claude
14 112 (3.54%) Serverless
15 111 (3.51%) Entra ID
16 76 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 75 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
18 74 (2.34%) Figma
19 73 (2.31%) Power Automate
20 65 (2.05%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 153 (4.83%) Broadband
2 37 (1.17%) Internet
3 34 (1.07%) VPN
4 33 (1.04%) Firewall
5 30 (0.95%) Network Security
6 23 (0.73%) 5G
6 23 (0.73%) DNS
7 17 (0.54%) HTTP
8 14 (0.44%) DHCP
9 13 (0.41%) VoIP
10 11 (0.35%) CTI
11 9 (0.28%) Wireless
12 8 (0.25%) WPA
13 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.19%) WAN
13 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.16%) BGP
14 5 (0.16%) DMZ
14 5 (0.16%) OSPF
14 5 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (6.32%) MongoDB
2 178 (5.62%) Power BI
3 170 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 117 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 101 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 98 (3.10%) Metadata
7 75 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.80%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.67%) Tableau
10 47 (1.48%) Big Data
11 42 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 39 (1.23%) Relational Database
13 36 (1.14%) Redis
14 35 (1.11%) 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
1 121 (3.82%) Git
2 86 (2.72%) JIRA
3 82 (2.59%) Claude Code
4 39 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.85%) GitLab
5 27 (0.85%) Snyk
6 18 (0.57%) MLflow
7 16 (0.51%) Selenium
8 14 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.44%) Postman
9 13 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.32%) JUnit
11 10 (0.32%) Maven
11 10 (0.32%) Mockito
12 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.16%) Poetry
12 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 966 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 781 (24.68%) Finance
3 427 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (11.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 369 (11.66%) Marketing
6 231 (7.30%) Legal
7 224 (7.08%) Public Sector
8 164 (5.18%) Law
9 144 (4.55%) Banking
10 136 (4.30%) Games
11 116 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
12 115 (3.63%) Retail
13 110 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
14 60 (1.90%) Advertising
15 53 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.36%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.04%) Legal Technology
19 28 (0.88%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.82%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 591 (18.67%) Senior
2 415 (13.11%) Developer
3 341 (10.77%) Lead
4 339 (10.71%) Architect
5 254 (8.03%) Software Engineer
6 162 (5.12%) .NET Developer
7 161 (5.09%) Analyst
8 137 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 134 (4.23%) Consultant
10 95 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
11 88 (2.78%) Data Engineer
12 87 (2.75%) Python Engineer
13 84 (2.65%) Engineering Manager
14 82 (2.59%) Senior Manager
15 80 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
16 72 (2.27%) Data Scientist
17 70 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
18 69 (2.18%) Senior Developer
19 66 (2.09%) Data Architect
20 65 (2.05%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (8.91%) React
2 259 (8.18%) .NET
3 161 (5.09%) Terraform
4 160 (5.06%) ASP.NET
4 160 (5.06%) RESTful
5 154 (4.87%) .NET Core
5 154 (4.87%) Node.js
6 151 (4.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (4.68%) ML.NET
8 136 (4.30%) CSS
9 127 (4.01%) HTML
10 119 (3.76%) REST
11 110 (3.48%) Blazor
12 104 (3.29%) LangChain
13 74 (2.34%) Next.js
14 63 (1.99%) LangGraph
15 55 (1.74%) PyTorch
16 54 (1.71%) PySpark
17 53 (1.67%) Vue
18 47 (1.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 279 (8.82%) AI Agents
2 273 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 137 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 123 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 118 (3.73%) Social Media
6 112 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (3.03%) Blog
8 85 (2.69%) Management Information System
9 75 (2.37%) Low-Code
10 74 (2.34%) Onboarding
11 67 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
12 65 (2.05%) Algorithms
13 63 (1.99%) Data Centre
14 61 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
15 56 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
16 51 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
16 51 (1.61%) Mobile App
16 51 (1.61%) Virtual Team
17 44 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
18 42 (1.33%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 80 (2.53%) Windows
2 68 (2.15%) 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 7 (0.22%) Unix
9 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.095%) Debian
10 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.095%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.063%) AIX
11 2 (0.063%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (23.73%) Machine Learning
2 719 (22.72%) Agile
3 679 (21.45%) Analytics
4 614 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 600 (18.96%) CI/CD
6 590 (18.64%) Roadmaps
7 517 (16.33%) Software Engineering
8 505 (15.96%) Mentoring
9 471 (14.88%) Decision-Making
10 436 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
11 420 (13.27%) LLM
12 384 (12.13%) DevOps
13 378 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 374 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
15 336 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 329 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
17 290 (9.16%) Coaching
18 269 (8.50%) Data Science
19 266 (8.40%) Technical Leadership
20 254 (8.03%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 722 (22.81%) Python
2 558 (17.63%) SQL
3 305 (9.64%) C#
4 283 (8.94%) JavaScript
5 230 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 141 (4.45%) Java
7 74 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 67 (2.12%) C++
9 50 (1.58%) Go
10 48 (1.52%) Bash
11 45 (1.42%) Bicep
12 32 (1.01%) R
13 30 (0.95%) Scala
14 19 (0.60%) C
14 19 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 18 (0.57%) PHP
16 17 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.41%) Rust
19 12 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 256 (8.09%) Degree
2 241 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 176 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.62%) CISSP
5 75 (2.37%) CISM
6 64 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 60 (1.90%) ACCA
8 54 (1.71%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.58%) CIMA
11 38 (1.20%) DBS Check
12 31 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 25 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.60%) PhD
16 18 (0.57%) SnowPro
17 16 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 189 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 136 (4.30%) GDPR
4 123 (3.89%) QA
5 70 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (2.02%) GRC
7 51 (1.61%) NIST
8 35 (1.11%) SLA
9 31 (0.98%) WCAG
10 19 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.54%) PMO
12 16 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 14 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.44%) IFRS
13 14 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.32%) EU AI Act
16 7 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 237 (7.49%) Docker
2 102 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.37%) 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 (0.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.095%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.032%) HDFS
9 1 (0.032%) NFS
9 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 211 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (1.01%) Grafana
4 18 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.54%) 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 (0.095%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.095%) linkerd
10 3 (0.095%) Podman
11 2 (0.063%) Cilium
11 2 (0.063%) Kibana
12 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.032%) Salt
12 1 (0.032%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 801 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 176 (5.56%) Databricks
3 162 (5.12%) Google
4 130 (4.11%) Adobe
5 111 (3.51%) OpenAI
6 101 (3.19%) YouTube
7 81 (2.56%) Cisco
8 63 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.90%) Apple
10 57 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 48 (1.52%) Dell
13 43 (1.36%) HubSpot
13 43 (1.36%) SAP
14 41 (1.30%) Foundry
15 36 (1.14%) Oracle
16 35 (1.11%) Facebook
17 30 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
17 30 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 30 (0.95%) VMware