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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 +51 +24
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,013 2,887 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.91% 17.56% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.75% 18.88% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 676 598
10th Percentile £40,500 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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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 1 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 95 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.69%) Confluence
3 38 (1.26%) CMS
4 24 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.76%) Apache
6 20 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.33%) WordPress
9 8 (0.27%) SAS
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Camunda
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.100%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.066%) Headless CMS
15 1 (0.033%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.033%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.033%) Moodle
15 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.033%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 56 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.73%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.10%) UserZoom
4 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.46%) InDesign
7 14 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.27%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.17%) Moqups
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.100%) Productboard
11 3 (0.100%) Sketch
12 2 (0.066%) CapCut
Business Applications
1 36 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.80%) Cloudability
4 7 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.100%) Shopify
9 2 (0.066%) Primavera
10 1 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.033%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.033%) HFM
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 881 (29.24%) Azure
2 586 (19.45%) AWS
3 284 (9.43%) SaaS
4 261 (8.66%) GCP
5 258 (8.56%) Azure AI
6 242 (8.03%) Power Platform
7 223 (7.40%) GitHub
8 171 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
9 153 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
10 142 (4.71%) Snowflake
11 138 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
12 117 (3.88%) Anthropic Claude
13 114 (3.78%) Adobe Analytics
14 112 (3.72%) Microsoft Copilot
15 107 (3.55%) Entra ID
15 107 (3.55%) Serverless
16 96 (3.19%) Figma
17 91 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 77 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
19 69 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 226 (7.50%) Broadband
2 33 (1.10%) Internet
3 32 (1.06%) VPN
4 30 (1.00%) Firewall
5 26 (0.86%) Network Security
6 21 (0.70%) DNS
7 15 (0.50%) HTTP
8 12 (0.40%) DHCP
8 12 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.37%) CTI
10 8 (0.27%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.27%) WPA
11 7 (0.23%) Wireless
12 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.17%) DMZ
13 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.17%) VLAN
13 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 177 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 148 (4.91%) Power BI
4 122 (4.05%) SQL Server
5 102 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (2.89%) Metadata
7 72 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.66%) Tableau
10 41 (1.36%) Big Data
10 41 (1.36%) Data Lake
11 34 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
12 32 (1.06%) Delta Lake
12 32 (1.06%) Redis
13 30 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.73%) MySQL
15 20 (0.66%) Data Vault
16 19 (0.63%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 117 (3.88%) Git
2 74 (2.46%) JIRA
3 68 (2.26%) Claude Code
4 42 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.90%) Snyk
6 26 (0.86%) GitLab
7 16 (0.53%) MLflow
8 15 (0.50%) Selenium
9 13 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.37%) Postman
10 11 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.33%) JUnit
11 10 (0.33%) Maven
11 10 (0.33%) Mockito
12 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
14 4 (0.13%) Appium
14 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.13%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.13%) Metasploit
General
1 881 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 675 (22.40%) Finance
3 387 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 348 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (10.75%) Marketing
6 234 (7.77%) Legal
7 198 (6.57%) Public Sector
8 189 (6.27%) Games
9 172 (5.71%) Law
10 123 (4.08%) Banking
11 102 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
12 100 (3.32%) Retail
13 95 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.86%) Advertising
15 45 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
17 38 (1.26%) Legal Technology
18 28 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.90%) Automotive
20 24 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 571 (18.95%) Senior
2 405 (13.44%) Developer
3 343 (11.38%) Lead
4 316 (10.49%) Architect
5 226 (7.50%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.64%) .NET Developer
7 145 (4.81%) Analyst
8 128 (4.25%) Consultant
9 120 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 110 (3.65%) Engineering Manager
11 90 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 82 (2.72%) Data Engineer
13 79 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
14 76 (2.52%) Python Engineer
14 76 (2.52%) Senior Manager
15 73 (2.42%) Data Scientist
16 72 (2.39%) Senior Developer
17 67 (2.22%) Data Architect
18 66 (2.19%) Product Manager
18 66 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (9.26%) React
2 260 (8.63%) .NET
3 168 (5.58%) ASP.NET
4 164 (5.44%) .NET Core
5 160 (5.31%) RESTful
6 159 (5.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.18%) ML.NET
8 151 (5.01%) Terraform
9 147 (4.88%) Node.js
10 141 (4.68%) CSS
11 131 (4.35%) HTML
12 116 (3.85%) Blazor
13 114 (3.78%) REST
14 97 (3.22%) LangChain
15 75 (2.49%) Next.js
16 59 (1.96%) PyTorch
17 54 (1.79%) LangGraph
18 50 (1.66%) Vue
19 49 (1.63%) PySpark
20 46 (1.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 269 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 247 (8.20%) AI Agents
3 163 (5.41%) Social Media
4 140 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 121 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
6 101 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (3.19%) Blog
8 74 (2.46%) Low-Code
9 72 (2.39%) Algorithms
10 67 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 59 (1.96%) Data Centre
12 57 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
13 56 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
14 55 (1.83%) Management Information System
14 55 (1.83%) Virtual Team
15 52 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
16 50 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
17 48 (1.59%) Mobile App
18 47 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
19 42 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.36%) Windows
2 60 (1.99%) Linux
3 36 (1.19%) Android
4 19 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.23%) Unix
10 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.066%) Debian
12 2 (0.066%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (25.99%) Machine Learning
2 781 (25.92%) Agile
3 684 (22.70%) Analytics
4 622 (20.64%) Roadmaps
5 596 (19.78%) CI/CD
6 561 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 487 (16.16%) Software Engineering
8 472 (15.67%) Mentoring
9 444 (14.74%) Decision-Making
10 425 (14.11%) LLM
11 393 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
12 391 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
13 380 (12.61%) DevOps
14 308 (10.22%) Cybersecurity
14 308 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 306 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 285 (9.46%) Customer Experience
17 268 (8.89%) Data Science
18 259 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
19 239 (7.93%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 695 (23.07%) Python
2 560 (18.59%) SQL
3 296 (9.82%) C#
4 268 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 211 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 134 (4.45%) Java
7 63 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.92%) C++
9 55 (1.83%) Go
10 49 (1.63%) Bicep
11 47 (1.56%) Bash
12 32 (1.06%) Scala
13 22 (0.73%) R
14 19 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.53%) C
17 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 14 (0.46%) PHP
18 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 249 (8.26%) Degree
2 204 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 143 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 74 (2.46%) CISSP
5 69 (2.29%) CISM
6 65 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 57 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.79%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 49 (1.63%) ACCA
11 46 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (1.23%) CIMA
13 32 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 31 (1.03%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.96%) PhD
16 25 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.60%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 14 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 211 (7.00%) Data Quality
3 118 (3.92%) QA
4 116 (3.85%) GDPR
5 63 (2.09%) GRC
6 57 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.53%) WCAG
8 42 (1.39%) NIST
9 30 (1.00%) SLA
10 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.50%) IFRS
11 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 14 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.46%) PMO
13 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.20%) EU AI Act
17 6 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 232 (7.70%) Docker
2 97 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 92 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.43%) vSphere
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) Firmware
8 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.100%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.100%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 214 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (0.93%) Grafana
4 18 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.50%) Ansible
6 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
7 6 (0.20%) Argo
7 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.17%) Istio
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
9 4 (0.13%) Nmap
10 3 (0.100%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.100%) linkerd
11 2 (0.066%) Cilium
11 2 (0.066%) Podman
11 2 (0.066%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.066%) Salt
12 1 (0.033%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.033%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 767 (25.46%) Microsoft
2 182 (6.04%) Databricks
3 178 (5.91%) Adobe
4 147 (4.88%) Google
5 106 (3.52%) OpenAI
6 77 (2.56%) Cisco
7 65 (2.16%) YouTube
8 61 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.86%) Apple
10 55 (1.83%) CyberArk
11 50 (1.66%) Salesforce
12 43 (1.43%) Dell
13 38 (1.26%) Facebook
13 38 (1.26%) Foundry
14 36 (1.19%) HubSpot
15 31 (1.03%) SAP
16 30 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
16 30 (1.00%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.93%) Oracle
18 27 (0.90%) Tenable
6,412 hybrid/remote AI jobs