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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 68
Rank change year-on-year +8 +50 +21
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,926 1,364 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.60% 9.81% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.81% 10.34% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 699 855
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.93% -11.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £102,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.55%

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 15,037 13,187 29,633
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.84% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10,573 8,892 23,493
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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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 4 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 52 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.44%) CMS
3 39 (2.02%) Confluence
4 25 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.62%) WordPress
7 10 (0.52%) Apache
7 10 (0.52%) JBoss
7 10 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) SAS
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
13 1 (0.052%) Kinematics
Applications
1 42 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.97%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.56%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.21%) CapCut
7 3 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.052%) Productboard
9 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (0.99%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
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 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.052%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 487 (25.29%) Azure
2 352 (18.28%) AWS
3 210 (10.90%) SaaS
4 184 (9.55%) Adobe Analytics
5 171 (8.88%) GCP
6 131 (6.80%) GitHub
7 124 (6.44%) Power Platform
8 105 (5.45%) Figma
9 92 (4.78%) Snowflake
10 91 (4.72%) Azure Machine Learning
11 89 (4.62%) Azure AI
12 84 (4.36%) GitHub Copilot
13 82 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
14 70 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 68 (3.53%) Serverless
16 65 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
17 55 (2.86%) Contentsquare
18 45 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
19 34 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
20 33 (1.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 274 (14.23%) Broadband
2 24 (1.25%) Firewall
3 20 (1.04%) HTTP
4 11 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.47%) Network Security
5 9 (0.47%) VPN
6 7 (0.36%) DNS
7 6 (0.31%) DMZ
8 5 (0.26%) DHCP
9 4 (0.21%) Modbus
9 4 (0.21%) RTP
9 4 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.21%) VoIP
9 4 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.16%) WAN
10 3 (0.16%) Wireless
10 3 (0.16%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.10%) Intranet
11 2 (0.10%) NGN
11 2 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 74 (3.84%) Power BI
3 60 (3.12%) MongoDB
4 53 (2.75%) Metadata
5 50 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (2.02%) Tableau
8 33 (1.71%) Big Data
9 32 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (1.56%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.25%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.09%) Looker
14 20 (1.04%) Redis
15 18 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (0.73%) Delta Lake
17 12 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.57%) Pinecone
18 11 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 50 (2.60%) Git
2 42 (2.18%) JIRA
3 26 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.09%) MLflow
5 20 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 18 (0.93%) Snyk
7 15 (0.78%) GitLab
8 10 (0.52%) Selenium
9 9 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.36%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.36%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.31%) Storybook
11 6 (0.31%) Subversion
12 3 (0.16%) Appium
12 3 (0.16%) ESLint
12 3 (0.16%) Postman
13 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
General
1 475 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 415 (21.55%) Finance
3 284 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 271 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
5 233 (12.10%) Games
6 201 (10.44%) Marketing
7 150 (7.79%) Public Sector
8 143 (7.42%) Legal
9 115 (5.97%) Law
10 70 (3.63%) Retail
11 56 (2.91%) Banking
12 48 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
16 32 (1.66%) Automotive
17 26 (1.35%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.67%) Back Office
19 12 (0.62%) Advertising
20 9 (0.47%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 379 (19.68%) Senior
2 286 (14.85%) Lead
3 168 (8.72%) Developer
4 165 (8.57%) Architect
5 102 (5.30%) Software Engineer
6 85 (4.41%) Analyst
7 77 (4.00%) Consultant
8 76 (3.95%) Engineering Manager
9 72 (3.74%) Designer
10 69 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 54 (2.80%) Product Manager
12 51 (2.65%) Data Engineer
13 49 (2.54%) Lead Designer
13 49 (2.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 48 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 47 (2.44%) Data Manager
15 47 (2.44%) Sales Executive
16 45 (2.34%) Python Engineer
17 44 (2.28%) Senior Architect
18 43 (2.23%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (6.13%) React
2 83 (4.31%) REST
3 80 (4.15%) .NET
4 76 (3.95%) RESTful
5 73 (3.79%) Node.js
6 50 (2.60%) PyTorch
7 48 (2.49%) CSS
8 45 (2.34%) HTML
9 42 (2.18%) TensorFlow
10 35 (1.82%) Kafka
11 31 (1.61%) Vue
12 30 (1.56%) LangChain
12 30 (1.56%) OAuth
13 29 (1.51%) Spring
14 28 (1.45%) FastAPI
14 28 (1.45%) Next.js
15 27 (1.40%) SOAP
16 25 (1.30%) .NET Core
17 24 (1.25%) React Native
18 22 (1.14%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 189 (9.81%) Social Media
2 145 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 107 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 90 (4.67%) Blog
5 84 (4.36%) Onboarding
6 72 (3.74%) AI Agents
7 53 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 49 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 46 (2.39%) Low-Code
10 43 (2.23%) Mobile App
10 43 (2.23%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
12 35 (1.82%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.77%) Data Centre
14 33 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.40%) Social Network
15 27 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
16 21 (1.09%) Podcast
17 18 (0.93%) Management Information System
18 17 (0.88%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.23%) Android
2 28 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.14%) Linux
4 18 (0.93%) Windows
5 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.21%) Unix
7 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (28.19%) Agile
2 507 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 502 (26.06%) Analytics
4 400 (20.77%) Machine Learning
5 335 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 322 (16.72%) Customer Experience
7 272 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 245 (12.72%) Mentoring
9 242 (12.56%) DevOps
9 242 (12.56%) Software Engineering
10 234 (12.15%) Decision-Making
11 231 (11.99%) Product Roadmap
12 223 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
13 209 (10.85%) Storytelling
14 194 (10.07%) Generative AI
15 191 (9.92%) LLM
16 189 (9.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 178 (9.24%) Digital Customer Experience
18 171 (8.88%) User Experience
19 163 (8.46%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 370 (19.21%) Python
2 252 (13.08%) SQL
3 116 (6.02%) Java
4 98 (5.09%) TypeScript
5 82 (4.26%) C#
5 82 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 58 (3.01%) Go
7 30 (1.56%) C++
8 21 (1.09%) Bash
9 20 (1.04%) R
10 18 (0.93%) Scala
11 16 (0.83%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.78%) Bicep
13 13 (0.67%) PHP
14 12 (0.62%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.42%) Rust
17 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 253 (13.14%) Degree
2 67 (3.48%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.65%) Master's Degree
4 49 (2.54%) ACCA
5 45 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 43 (2.23%) PhD
7 42 (2.18%) SC Cleared
8 39 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (1.97%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.35%) CIMA
11 22 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 19 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (0.93%) PMP
14 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.62%) CISSP
16 8 (0.42%) CISA
16 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.31%) CISM
18 5 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (14.02%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.69%) WCAG
3 66 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.70%) GDPR
5 47 (2.44%) QA
6 43 (2.23%) GRC
7 30 (1.56%) IFRS
8 23 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.73%) PMO
10 12 (0.62%) GAAP
10 12 (0.62%) NIST
10 12 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 7 (0.36%) NCSC
12 6 (0.31%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.21%) SLA
14 4 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 105 (5.45%) Docker
2 79 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.16%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.052%) Firmware
6 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 84 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.32%) Terraform
3 20 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (0.99%) Ansible
5 12 (0.62%) Grafana
6 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.36%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.31%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.26%) Argo
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.10%) Podman
11 2 (0.10%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 383 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 248 (12.88%) Adobe
3 122 (6.33%) Databricks
4 79 (4.10%) Google
5 52 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 51 (2.65%) Cisco
7 49 (2.54%) Dell
8 48 (2.49%) Apple
9 35 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 34 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 22 (1.14%) Oracle
11 22 (1.14%) PayPal
12 21 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
13 20 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 19 (0.99%) Foundry
14 19 (0.99%) SAP
14 19 (0.99%) Tenable
15 17 (0.88%) HubSpot
16 14 (0.73%) Palantir
17 11 (0.57%) Atlassian