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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 +59 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,110 2,226 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.03% 14.95% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.36% 15.77% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,234 670 896
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,263 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,056 £66,206 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +4.26% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,340 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.52% -5.23% -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 15,796 14,113 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.60% 94.78% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,308 8,284 23,565
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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% -8.00%
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% -9.54%

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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 2 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 48 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.85%) Confluence
3 37 (1.75%) CMS
4 22 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.57%) Apache
7 10 (0.47%) SAS
7 10 (0.47%) WordPress
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.19%) JBoss
9 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.095%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.047%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.047%) Moodle
12 1 (0.047%) Umbraco
Applications
1 38 (1.80%) UserZoom
2 36 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.33%) InDesign
8 7 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.19%) CapCut
10 4 (0.19%) Sketch
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.14%) Productboard
11 3 (0.14%) Trello
12 2 (0.095%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.047%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.14%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.095%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.047%) HFM
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 568 (26.92%) Azure
2 398 (18.86%) AWS
3 219 (10.38%) SaaS
4 191 (9.05%) Adobe Analytics
5 185 (8.77%) GCP
6 147 (6.97%) Power Platform
7 138 (6.54%) Azure AI
8 123 (5.83%) GitHub
9 116 (5.50%) Figma
10 92 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (4.27%) Azure Machine Learning
12 85 (4.03%) Serverless
12 85 (4.03%) Snowflake
13 78 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 75 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
15 69 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 63 (2.99%) Contentsquare
17 54 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
18 47 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
19 36 (1.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 311 (14.74%) Broadband
2 25 (1.18%) Firewall
3 15 (0.71%) HTTP
4 13 (0.62%) VPN
5 12 (0.57%) DNS
6 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
7 8 (0.38%) DHCP
7 8 (0.38%) Internet
7 8 (0.38%) Network Security
8 6 (0.28%) 5G
8 6 (0.28%) DMZ
8 6 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (0.19%) Modbus
9 4 (0.19%) RTP
9 4 (0.19%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.19%) VoIP
9 4 (0.19%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.14%) Wireless
10 3 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.21%) MongoDB
2 91 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 87 (4.12%) Power BI
4 71 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 66 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (2.70%) Metadata
7 46 (2.18%) Tableau
8 45 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (1.99%) Big Data
10 30 (1.42%) BigQuery
11 26 (1.23%) NoSQL
12 24 (1.14%) Data Lake
12 24 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
13 22 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (0.95%) Redis
15 18 (0.85%) Looker
15 18 (0.85%) Relational Database
16 16 (0.76%) MySQL
17 14 (0.66%) Delta Lake
18 13 (0.62%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 58 (2.75%) Git
2 36 (1.71%) Claude Code
3 33 (1.56%) JIRA
4 30 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.18%) Snyk
6 21 (1.00%) MLflow
7 15 (0.71%) GitLab
8 9 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.43%) Selenium
8 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.28%) Maven
9 6 (0.28%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.28%) Storybook
10 5 (0.24%) JUnit
10 5 (0.24%) Mockito
10 5 (0.24%) Postman
10 5 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.24%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.14%) Appium
General
1 498 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 426 (20.19%) Finance
3 269 (12.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 261 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (12.13%) Games
6 219 (10.38%) Marketing
7 143 (6.78%) Legal
8 138 (6.54%) Public Sector
9 123 (5.83%) Law
10 77 (3.65%) Retail
11 58 (2.75%) Banking
12 52 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.85%) Automotive
15 29 (1.37%) Advertising
16 27 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (1.18%) Manufacturing
18 19 (0.90%) Telecoms
19 10 (0.47%) Back Office
20 9 (0.43%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 421 (19.95%) Senior
2 330 (15.64%) Lead
3 233 (11.04%) Developer
4 190 (9.00%) Architect
5 125 (5.92%) Software Engineer
6 97 (4.60%) Analyst
7 88 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
8 87 (4.12%) Consultant
9 83 (3.93%) Designer
10 80 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 74 (3.51%) Data Engineer
12 73 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (3.08%) .NET Developer
14 62 (2.94%) Data Scientist
14 62 (2.94%) Product Manager
15 58 (2.75%) Data Manager
16 57 (2.70%) Python Engineer
17 51 (2.42%) Senior Architect
17 51 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
18 49 (2.32%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (7.68%) React
2 120 (5.69%) .NET
3 103 (4.88%) RESTful
4 89 (4.22%) Node.js
5 82 (3.89%) REST
6 80 (3.79%) CSS
7 73 (3.46%) HTML
8 68 (3.22%) .NET Core
9 60 (2.84%) ASP.NET
9 60 (2.84%) ASP.NET Core
9 60 (2.84%) PyTorch
10 59 (2.80%) ML.NET
11 53 (2.51%) TensorFlow
12 49 (2.32%) Blazor
13 47 (2.23%) LangChain
14 38 (1.80%) FastAPI
15 35 (1.66%) Next.js
16 34 (1.61%) Vue
17 33 (1.56%) Spring
18 29 (1.37%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 212 (10.05%) Social Media
2 168 (7.96%) Cloud Native
3 131 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 92 (4.36%) AI Agents
5 87 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 51 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (2.42%) Low-Code
7 49 (2.32%) Algorithms
8 47 (2.23%) Mobile App
8 47 (2.23%) Video\Live Streaming
9 46 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 44 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (2.09%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.94%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 27 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (1.28%) Social Network
14 26 (1.23%) Blog
15 25 (1.18%) Management Information System
16 20 (0.95%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.94%) Android
2 30 (1.42%) Linux
3 27 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.18%) Windows
5 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.19%) Unix
7 3 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (28.48%) Agile
2 560 (26.54%) Roadmaps
3 556 (26.35%) Analytics
4 501 (23.74%) Machine Learning
5 400 (18.96%) CI/CD
6 320 (15.17%) Customer Experience
7 295 (13.98%) Software Engineering
8 287 (13.60%) Mentoring
9 272 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 268 (12.70%) Decision-Making
11 257 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
12 246 (11.66%) DevOps
12 246 (11.66%) LLM
13 240 (11.37%) Product Roadmap
14 223 (10.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 220 (10.43%) Generative AI
15 220 (10.43%) Storytelling
16 199 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 185 (8.77%) Digital Customer Experience
18 184 (8.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 478 (22.65%) Python
2 318 (15.07%) SQL
3 138 (6.54%) C#
4 129 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 123 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 112 (5.31%) Java
7 61 (2.89%) Go
8 34 (1.61%) Bash
9 32 (1.52%) PowerShell
10 26 (1.23%) C++
11 23 (1.09%) R
12 20 (0.95%) Bicep
13 18 (0.85%) Scala
14 15 (0.71%) PHP
15 10 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.43%) C
16 9 (0.43%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.38%) Rust
17 8 (0.38%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 170 (8.06%) Degree
2 90 (4.27%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 51 (2.42%) ACCA
6 32 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 30 (1.42%) CIMA
8 29 (1.37%) DBS Check
9 28 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.14%) PhD
12 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.57%) CISSP
14 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.33%) CISA
15 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (13.46%) Accessibility
2 96 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.46%) WCAG
4 62 (2.94%) QA
5 59 (2.80%) GDPR
6 54 (2.56%) GRC
7 26 (1.23%) NIST
8 24 (1.14%) IFRS
8 24 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.71%) SLA
11 14 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.66%) PMO
12 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.33%) NCSC
15 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
18 3 (0.14%) GxP
System Software
1 139 (6.59%) Docker
2 89 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.14%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 114 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.65%) Terraform
3 19 (0.90%) Ansible
4 14 (0.66%) Grafana
5 13 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.33%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.28%) Argo
10 3 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.095%) Podman
11 2 (0.095%) Salt
12 1 (0.047%) CASB
12 1 (0.047%) Istio
12 1 (0.047%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.047%) linkerd
12 1 (0.047%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.047%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 466 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 269 (12.75%) Adobe
3 123 (5.83%) Databricks
4 89 (4.22%) Google
5 61 (2.89%) OpenAI
6 59 (2.80%) Apple
7 55 (2.61%) Cisco
8 54 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 50 (2.37%) Dell
10 47 (2.23%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.47%) CrowdStrike
12 27 (1.28%) HubSpot
12 27 (1.28%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.23%) Oracle
13 26 (1.23%) Tenable
14 21 (1.00%) Foundry
15 19 (0.90%) SAP
16 12 (0.57%) Facebook
16 12 (0.57%) Palantir
17 11 (0.52%) VMware