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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +47 +26
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,176 3,070 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.05% 18.82% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.02% 20.19% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,013 680 559
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,203 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -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 19,826 15,207 20,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.45% 93.22% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,213 8,631 12,628
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,812 £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 18 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
1 104 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.61%) Confluence
3 38 (1.20%) CMS
4 28 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (0.76%) Apache
6 20 (0.63%) 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
12 3 (0.094%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.094%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.031%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.031%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.031%) Moodle
13 1 (0.031%) nginx
Applications
1 71 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.79%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.66%) 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 9 (0.28%) 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 (0.094%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.094%) Productboard
12 3 (0.094%) Sketch
13 2 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.16%) 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 (0.094%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.094%) Shopify
9 2 (0.063%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.031%) HFM
10 1 (0.031%) Magento
10 1 (0.031%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 905 (28.49%) Azure
2 605 (19.05%) AWS
3 307 (9.67%) SaaS
4 271 (8.53%) Power Platform
5 265 (8.34%) GCP
6 254 (8.00%) Azure AI
7 231 (7.27%) GitHub
8 183 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
9 164 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
10 157 (4.94%) Snowflake
11 141 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
12 129 (4.06%) Anthropic Claude
13 128 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
14 112 (3.53%) Entra ID
14 112 (3.53%) Serverless
15 91 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 80 (2.52%) Figma
17 77 (2.42%) Adobe Analytics
18 75 (2.36%) Azure Machine Learning
18 75 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 166 (5.23%) Broadband
2 37 (1.16%) Internet
3 34 (1.07%) VPN
4 33 (1.04%) Firewall
5 30 (0.94%) Network Security
6 23 (0.72%) 5G
6 23 (0.72%) DNS
7 16 (0.50%) 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
1 202 (6.36%) MongoDB
2 174 (5.48%) Power BI
3 171 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 132 (4.16%) SQL Server
5 100 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
6 97 (3.05%) Metadata
7 75 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 51 (1.61%) Tableau
10 44 (1.39%) Big Data
11 41 (1.29%) Data Lake
12 38 (1.20%) Relational Database
13 35 (1.10%) Redis
13 35 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
14 34 (1.07%) BigQuery
15 33 (1.04%) Delta Lake
16 25 (0.79%) MySQL
17 20 (0.63%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.63%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 120 (3.78%) Git
2 83 (2.61%) Claude Code
2 83 (2.61%) JIRA
3 39 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 27 (0.85%) GitLab
4 27 (0.85%) Snyk
5 18 (0.57%) MLflow
6 16 (0.50%) Selenium
7 14 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.44%) Postman
8 13 (0.41%) TeamCity
9 12 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (0.31%) JUnit
10 10 (0.31%) Maven
10 10 (0.31%) Mockito
11 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
11 5 (0.16%) Poetry
11 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 956 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 789 (24.84%) Finance
3 427 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 364 (11.46%) Marketing
6 235 (7.40%) Legal
7 222 (6.99%) Public Sector
8 168 (5.29%) Law
9 149 (4.69%) Games
10 140 (4.41%) Banking
11 115 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
11 115 (3.62%) Retail
12 109 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
13 58 (1.83%) Advertising
14 51 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 35 (1.10%) Legal Technology
18 28 (0.88%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 589 (18.55%) Senior
2 411 (12.94%) Developer
3 345 (10.86%) Lead
4 341 (10.74%) Architect
5 251 (7.90%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.13%) .NET Developer
7 158 (4.97%) Analyst
8 134 (4.22%) Consultant
9 132 (4.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 98 (3.09%) Engineering Manager
11 94 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
12 85 (2.68%) Data Engineer
13 84 (2.64%) Python Engineer
14 81 (2.55%) Senior Manager
15 80 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
16 72 (2.27%) Data Scientist
17 70 (2.20%) Data Architect
17 70 (2.20%) Finance Manager
17 70 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
18 69 (2.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (8.88%) React
2 260 (8.19%) .NET
3 162 (5.10%) Terraform
4 161 (5.07%) ASP.NET
5 160 (5.04%) RESTful
6 155 (4.88%) .NET Core
7 154 (4.85%) Node.js
8 152 (4.79%) ASP.NET Core
9 149 (4.69%) ML.NET
10 137 (4.31%) CSS
11 128 (4.03%) HTML
12 120 (3.78%) REST
13 111 (3.49%) Blazor
14 101 (3.18%) LangChain
15 74 (2.33%) Next.js
16 60 (1.89%) LangGraph
17 55 (1.73%) PyTorch
18 53 (1.67%) PySpark
19 52 (1.64%) Vue
20 47 (1.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 276 (8.69%) AI Agents
1 276 (8.69%) Cloud Native
2 139 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 131 (4.12%) Social Media
4 123 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 111 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 98 (3.09%) Blog
7 84 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 76 (2.39%) Low-Code
8 76 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 66 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 65 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
11 63 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 61 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
13 57 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
14 52 (1.64%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
15 50 (1.57%) Mobile App
16 45 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
17 42 (1.32%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 81 (2.55%) Windows
2 69 (2.17%) 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 (0.094%) 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
1 765 (24.09%) Machine Learning
2 746 (23.49%) Agile
3 685 (21.57%) Analytics
4 620 (19.52%) Roadmaps
5 612 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 603 (18.99%) CI/CD
7 514 (16.18%) Software Engineering
8 504 (15.87%) Mentoring
9 472 (14.86%) Decision-Making
10 434 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
11 417 (13.13%) LLM
12 387 (12.19%) DevOps
13 377 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 375 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 334 (10.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 330 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
17 289 (9.10%) Coaching
18 271 (8.53%) Data Science
19 268 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
20 263 (8.28%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 712 (22.42%) Python
2 570 (17.95%) SQL
3 307 (9.67%) C#
4 282 (8.88%) JavaScript
5 227 (7.15%) TypeScript
6 141 (4.44%) Java
7 72 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.08%) C++
9 51 (1.61%) Go
10 48 (1.51%) Bash
11 46 (1.45%) Bicep
12 31 (0.98%) Scala
13 27 (0.85%) R
14 19 (0.60%) C
14 19 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 17 (0.54%) PHP
16 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.41%) Rust
18 12 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (8.15%) Degree
2 241 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 176 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.61%) CISSP
5 75 (2.36%) CISM
6 64 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 63 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (1.86%) ACCA
9 54 (1.70%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.70%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
10 50 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 49 (1.54%) CIMA
12 38 (1.20%) DBS Check
13 31 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 20 (0.63%) PhD
17 18 (0.57%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 203 (6.39%) Accessibility
3 133 (4.19%) GDPR
4 122 (3.84%) QA
5 69 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (2.02%) GRC
7 51 (1.61%) NIST
8 35 (1.10%) SLA
9 34 (1.07%) WCAG
10 19 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.54%) PMO
12 16 (0.50%) 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 (0.31%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 236 (7.43%) Docker
2 101 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 89 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.41%) vSphere
6 10 (0.31%) Firmware
6 10 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.031%) HDFS
8 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 212 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.49%) 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 (0.094%) 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
1 815 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 188 (5.92%) Databricks
3 159 (5.01%) Google
4 142 (4.47%) Adobe
5 111 (3.49%) OpenAI
6 101 (3.18%) YouTube
7 80 (2.52%) Cisco
8 63 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 61 (1.92%) Apple
10 56 (1.76%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.73%) CyberArk
12 47 (1.48%) Dell
13 44 (1.39%) SAP
14 41 (1.29%) HubSpot
15 40 (1.26%) Foundry
16 36 (1.13%) Facebook
16 36 (1.13%) Oracle
17 30 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
17 30 (0.94%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.91%) VMware