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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 54 73
Rank change year-on-year +50 +19 +31
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,776 846 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.39% 5.30% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.07% 5.60% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 931 509 747
10th Percentile £24,570 £45,000 £39,738
25th Percentile £44,375 £60,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 13,835 15,102 25,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.68% 94.55% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8,819 8,974 20,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,759
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £58,478
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.73% -6.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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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 5 February 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 46 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.01%) Confluence
3 25 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.72%) CMS
6 17 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.47%) JBoss
8 13 (0.47%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.25%) WordPress
10 6 (0.22%) Apache
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.11%) Luigi
13 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.072%) Mendix
13 2 (0.072%) SAS
13 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.036%) Camunda
Applications
1 1,181 (42.54%) Chatbot
2 76 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.14%) UserZoom
6 3 (0.11%) Notion
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.072%) InDesign
7 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.072%) Weka
8 1 (0.036%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.072%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.036%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 503 (18.12%) Azure
2 300 (10.81%) AWS
3 222 (8.00%) SaaS
4 189 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 158 (5.69%) GCP
6 148 (5.33%) GitHub
7 121 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
9 77 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 50 (1.80%) Serverless
12 47 (1.69%) Entra ID
13 42 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
15 33 (1.19%) Adobe Analytics
16 32 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 31 (1.12%) dbt
18 30 (1.08%) Azure AI
19 29 (1.04%) Power Automate
20 27 (0.97%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.95%) Broadband
2 14 (0.50%) Firewall
3 13 (0.47%) HTTP
4 11 (0.40%) Unified Communications
5 10 (0.36%) Network Security
6 7 (0.25%) DMZ
6 7 (0.25%) Internet
6 7 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.22%) DHCP
7 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 6 (0.22%) RTP
7 6 (0.22%) VoIP
7 6 (0.22%) VPN
8 5 (0.18%) DNS
9 4 (0.14%) Intranet
9 4 (0.14%) WAN
10 3 (0.11%) IPv4
10 3 (0.11%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.11%) PPP
10 3 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (3.67%) Power BI
2 78 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (1.98%) Tableau
4 39 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 38 (1.37%) Metadata
6 37 (1.33%) Big Data
6 37 (1.33%) SQL Server
7 36 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 29 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 25 (0.90%) Data Lake
10 24 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (0.65%) MySQL
13 17 (0.61%) Looker
14 16 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.43%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (2.52%) JIRA
2 53 (1.91%) Git
3 21 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.54%) MLflow
6 14 (0.50%) GitLab
7 9 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.29%) Subversion
8 8 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.22%) ERwin
9 6 (0.22%) Selenium
10 5 (0.18%) GitBook
10 5 (0.18%) Storybook
11 4 (0.14%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 626 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
2 500 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 469 (16.89%) Finance
4 314 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 185 (6.66%) Marketing
6 161 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 118 (4.25%) Retail
8 109 (3.93%) Legal
9 96 (3.46%) Law
10 51 (1.84%) Games
11 50 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.73%) Telecoms
13 37 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.15%) Banking
15 28 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (0.94%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.83%) Aerospace
18 16 (0.58%) Advertising
18 16 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,161 (41.82%) Trainer
2 279 (10.05%) Senior
3 212 (7.64%) Developer
4 155 (5.58%) Content Editor
5 154 (5.55%) Lead
6 117 (4.21%) Architect
7 98 (3.53%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.53%) Support Specialist
8 87 (3.13%) Analyst
9 78 (2.81%) Research Scientist
10 75 (2.70%) Consultant
11 68 (2.45%) Software Engineer
12 62 (2.23%) Data Engineer
13 53 (1.91%) Solutions Architect
14 52 (1.87%) Sales Executive
15 46 (1.66%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 45 (1.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 45 (1.62%) Microsoft Specialist
17 43 (1.55%) .NET Developer
18 41 (1.48%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (3.46%) React
2 94 (3.39%) .NET
3 84 (3.03%) REST
4 64 (2.31%) Node.js
5 62 (2.23%) RESTful
6 41 (1.48%) Kafka
6 41 (1.48%) PyTorch
7 39 (1.40%) SOAP
8 38 (1.37%) TensorFlow
9 37 (1.33%) OAuth
10 35 (1.26%) OAuth2
10 35 (1.26%) Spring
11 28 (1.01%) CSS
12 26 (0.94%) AngularJS
12 26 (0.94%) HTML
13 24 (0.86%) gRPC
14 23 (0.83%) Middleware
14 23 (0.83%) Vue
15 22 (0.79%) GraphQL
15 22 (0.79%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 140 (5.04%) Cloud Native
2 112 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 109 (3.93%) Blog
4 97 (3.49%) Molecular Biology
5 66 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 50 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.51%) Social Media
10 40 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 38 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 38 (1.37%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
14 32 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 30 (1.08%) Mobile App
16 29 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (0.83%) Management Information System
17 23 (0.83%) Social Network
18 20 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.37%) Android
2 31 (1.12%) Windows
3 29 (1.04%) Linux
4 23 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.036%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (42.98%) Conversational UI
2 404 (14.55%) Agile
3 393 (14.16%) Chemistry
4 336 (12.10%) Analytics
5 313 (11.28%) Roadmaps
6 299 (10.77%) Machine Learning
7 283 (10.19%) CI/CD
8 275 (9.91%) DevOps
9 256 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 225 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
11 212 (7.64%) Software Engineering
12 210 (7.56%) Content Writing
13 193 (6.95%) Customer Service
14 179 (6.45%) Customer Experience
15 169 (6.09%) Mentoring
16 165 (5.94%) Coaching
17 163 (5.87%) Decision-Making
18 133 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
19 132 (4.76%) Generative AI
20 129 (4.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 352 (12.68%) Python
2 263 (9.47%) SQL
3 114 (4.11%) Java
4 112 (4.03%) TypeScript
5 104 (3.75%) JavaScript
6 56 (2.02%) C#
7 43 (1.55%) Go
8 38 (1.37%) Bash
8 38 (1.37%) C++
9 37 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 23 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 23 (0.83%) R
11 22 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 19 (0.68%) PHP
12 19 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 18 (0.65%) C
14 17 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.58%) Scala
16 11 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,439 (51.84%) Degree
2 587 (21.15%) Master's Degree
3 572 (20.61%) PhD
4 78 (2.81%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 25 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.86%) PMP
11 23 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.76%) ACCA
13 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.58%) CISA
15 14 (0.50%) CISSP
16 13 (0.47%) DV Cleared
17 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 10 (0.36%) CISM
19 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
20 6 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 46 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 42 (1.51%) GDPR
4 32 (1.15%) QA
5 31 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.86%) IFRS
7 21 (0.76%) WCAG
8 18 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.58%) GAAP
9 16 (0.58%) GRC
10 13 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.43%) NIST
12 9 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 9 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.29%) NCSC
14 7 (0.25%) EU AI Act
14 7 (0.25%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.18%) PMO
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (3.46%) Docker
2 32 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.072%) Ceph
9 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (3.31%) Terraform
2 83 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (0.76%) Ansible
4 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.36%) Grafana
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 6 (0.22%) Argo
9 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.072%) Control-M
10 2 (0.072%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.072%) Puppet
11 1 (0.036%) Cilium
11 1 (0.036%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.036%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,161 (41.82%) PayPal
2 426 (15.35%) Microsoft
3 84 (3.03%) Adobe
4 65 (2.34%) Google
5 59 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 57 (2.05%) Cisco
6 57 (2.05%) Databricks
7 52 (1.87%) Dell
8 51 (1.84%) Oracle
9 45 (1.62%) Blue Prism
10 31 (1.12%) Apple
11 29 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.72%) SAP
13 19 (0.68%) HubSpot
14 15 (0.54%) Foundry
15 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.47%) Palantir
16 10 (0.36%) IBM
16 10 (0.36%) Pardot
17 9 (0.32%) Informatica