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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +61 +21
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,236 2,406 1,353
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.30% 15.73% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.79% 16.62% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 680 896
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,203 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +4.26% -15.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -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 16,218 14,474 30,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.95% 94.61% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,673 8,396 23,766
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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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 14 June 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 50 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.70%) CMS
3 37 (1.65%) Confluence
4 22 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.54%) Apache
6 12 (0.54%) WordPress
7 10 (0.45%) SAS
8 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.18%) JBoss
9 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.089%) Camunda
11 2 (0.089%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.089%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.045%) Moodle
12 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 37 (1.65%) UserZoom
2 30 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.54%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.36%) InDesign
7 8 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.18%) CapCut
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Productboard
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.089%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.045%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.07%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.18%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.089%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.089%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.045%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.045%) HFM
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 614 (27.46%) Azure
2 423 (18.92%) AWS
3 232 (10.38%) SaaS
4 193 (8.63%) GCP
5 185 (8.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 170 (7.60%) Azure AI
7 157 (7.02%) Power Platform
8 133 (5.95%) GitHub
9 114 (5.10%) Figma
10 113 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (4.11%) Serverless
12 91 (4.07%) Azure Machine Learning
13 90 (4.03%) Snowflake
14 85 (3.80%) GitHub Copilot
15 83 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
16 72 (3.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 64 (2.86%) Anthropic Claude
18 62 (2.77%) Contentsquare
19 58 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
20 33 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 326 (14.58%) Broadband
2 25 (1.12%) Firewall
3 19 (0.85%) VPN
4 15 (0.67%) HTTP
4 15 (0.67%) Internet
5 12 (0.54%) DNS
6 10 (0.45%) Unified Communications
7 8 (0.36%) DHCP
7 8 (0.36%) Network Security
8 6 (0.27%) 5G
8 6 (0.27%) DMZ
9 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.18%) RTP
10 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.18%) VoIP
10 4 (0.18%) WPA
11 3 (0.13%) Wireless
11 3 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.71%) MongoDB
2 103 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 99 (4.43%) SQL Server
4 90 (4.03%) Power BI
5 77 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (2.77%) Metadata
7 47 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (2.10%) Tableau
8 42 (1.88%) Big Data
9 31 (1.39%) BigQuery
9 31 (1.39%) NoSQL
10 28 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
11 24 (1.07%) Redis
12 23 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 23 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (0.98%) Relational Database
14 18 (0.81%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.76%) Looker
15 17 (0.76%) MySQL
16 16 (0.72%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 64 (2.86%) Git
2 41 (1.83%) Claude Code
3 33 (1.48%) JIRA
4 30 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.12%) Snyk
6 20 (0.89%) MLflow
7 14 (0.63%) GitLab
8 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.40%) Selenium
9 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.27%) Maven
10 6 (0.27%) Postman
10 6 (0.27%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.22%) JUnit
11 5 (0.22%) Mockito
11 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.22%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.18%) Storybook
13 3 (0.13%) Appium
13 3 (0.13%) ESLint
General
1 541 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 430 (19.23%) Finance
3 269 (12.03%) Games
4 268 (11.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 260 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 231 (10.33%) Marketing
7 137 (6.13%) Legal
8 133 (5.95%) Public Sector
9 118 (5.28%) Law
10 81 (3.62%) Retail
11 68 (3.04%) Banking
12 60 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.79%) Legal Technology
15 39 (1.74%) Automotive
16 37 (1.65%) Advertising
17 28 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (1.12%) Manufacturing
19 14 (0.63%) Telecoms
20 10 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 437 (19.54%) Senior
2 352 (15.74%) Lead
3 292 (13.06%) Developer
4 203 (9.08%) Architect
5 134 (5.99%) Software Engineer
6 98 (4.38%) .NET Developer
6 98 (4.38%) Analyst
6 98 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 94 (4.20%) Engineering Manager
8 87 (3.89%) Consultant
9 83 (3.71%) Designer
10 78 (3.49%) Data Engineer
11 75 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (2.86%) Python Engineer
13 63 (2.82%) Data Scientist
14 61 (2.73%) Product Manager
15 60 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
16 58 (2.59%) Data Manager
17 53 (2.37%) Senior Architect
17 53 (2.37%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (8.54%) React
2 156 (6.98%) .NET
3 125 (5.59%) RESTful
4 99 (4.43%) .NET Core
5 98 (4.38%) CSS
6 94 (4.20%) Node.js
7 92 (4.11%) ASP.NET
8 91 (4.07%) ASP.NET Core
9 90 (4.03%) HTML
10 89 (3.98%) ML.NET
11 81 (3.62%) REST
12 72 (3.22%) Blazor
13 66 (2.95%) PyTorch
14 60 (2.68%) LangChain
15 57 (2.55%) TensorFlow
16 46 (2.06%) FastAPI
17 41 (1.83%) Vue
18 39 (1.74%) Next.js
19 32 (1.43%) Spring
20 26 (1.16%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 219 (9.79%) Social Media
2 200 (8.94%) Cloud Native
3 132 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 119 (5.32%) AI Agents
5 78 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 74 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
7 61 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 57 (2.55%) Video\Live Streaming
9 52 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 51 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (2.15%) Mobile App
12 47 (2.10%) Virtual Team
13 41 (1.83%) Public Cloud
14 40 (1.79%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (1.34%) Social Network
17 28 (1.25%) Management Information System
18 25 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (1.12%) Security Posture
19 24 (1.07%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.83%) Android
2 33 (1.48%) Linux
3 32 (1.43%) Windows
4 27 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.18%) VMS
8 2 (0.089%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.089%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (28.40%) Agile
2 578 (25.85%) Roadmaps
3 566 (25.31%) Analytics
4 561 (25.09%) Machine Learning
5 450 (20.13%) CI/CD
6 337 (15.07%) Software Engineering
7 322 (14.40%) Customer Experience
8 306 (13.69%) Mentoring
9 294 (13.15%) Decision-Making
10 283 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 282 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 278 (12.43%) LLM
13 273 (12.21%) DevOps
14 268 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
15 241 (10.78%) Generative AI
16 236 (10.55%) Product Roadmap
17 214 (9.57%) Storytelling
18 203 (9.08%) Technical Leadership
19 197 (8.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 195 (8.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 535 (23.93%) Python
2 360 (16.10%) SQL
3 177 (7.92%) C#
4 169 (7.56%) JavaScript
5 141 (6.31%) TypeScript
6 113 (5.05%) Java
7 68 (3.04%) Go
8 41 (1.83%) Bash
9 38 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 29 (1.30%) Bicep
11 26 (1.16%) C++
12 21 (0.94%) R
13 20 (0.89%) Scala
14 15 (0.67%) PHP
15 10 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.40%) C
17 8 (0.36%) Rust
18 7 (0.31%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (7.92%) Degree
2 93 (4.16%) Security Cleared
3 56 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.33%) ACCA
5 45 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 38 (1.70%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.39%) CIMA
10 27 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.16%) PhD
12 24 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.49%) CISSP
14 10 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (12.43%) Accessibility
2 110 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 74 (3.31%) GDPR
4 71 (3.18%) WCAG
5 65 (2.91%) QA
6 54 (2.42%) GRC
7 30 (1.34%) NIST
8 27 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.07%) IFRS
10 19 (0.85%) SLA
11 15 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.63%) PMO
13 13 (0.58%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.31%) NCSC
16 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.27%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 156 (6.98%) Docker
2 89 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.18%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 132 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 93 (4.16%) Terraform
3 19 (0.85%) Ansible
4 15 (0.67%) Grafana
5 14 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.36%) Kubeflow
7 8 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.31%) Argo
8 7 (0.31%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.13%) Puppet
10 2 (0.089%) Istio
10 2 (0.089%) Podman
10 2 (0.089%) Salt
11 1 (0.045%) CASB
11 1 (0.045%) Cilium
11 1 (0.045%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.045%) linkerd
11 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.045%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 501 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 253 (11.31%) Adobe
3 129 (5.77%) Databricks
4 97 (4.34%) Google
5 68 (3.04%) OpenAI
6 62 (2.77%) Cisco
7 55 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.33%) Apple
9 51 (2.28%) Dell
10 46 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
12 28 (1.25%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.21%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.21%) Tenable
14 26 (1.16%) Foundry
15 22 (0.98%) Oracle
16 21 (0.94%) Facebook
17 18 (0.81%) SAP
18 15 (0.67%) VMware
19 11 (0.49%) Sony