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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 +57 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,761 2,653 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.65% 16.10% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 17.29% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,721 707 638
10th Percentile £41,000 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £29,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £104,125
UK median annual salary £70,752 £66,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% -5.21% -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 18,117 15,347 24,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.98% 93.11% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,143 9,074 17,866
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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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 26 July 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 72 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.74%) Confluence
3 39 (1.41%) CMS
4 22 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.72%) Apache
6 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.33%) SAS
10 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.14%) Camunda
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.072%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.072%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.072%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.036%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.036%) Moodle
12 1 (0.036%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.036%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.59%) UserZoom
2 33 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 29 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.47%) InDesign
7 13 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.14%) CapCut
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Productboard
11 3 (0.11%) Sketch
11 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.11%) Trello
12 2 (0.072%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.072%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 37 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.87%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.14%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.036%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.036%) HFM
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.036%) Shopify
7 1 (0.036%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 820 (29.70%) Azure
2 488 (17.67%) AWS
3 260 (9.42%) SaaS
4 247 (8.95%) Azure AI
5 225 (8.15%) GCP
6 200 (7.24%) Power Platform
7 195 (7.06%) GitHub
8 188 (6.81%) Adobe Analytics
9 168 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
10 123 (4.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 115 (4.17%) Figma
11 115 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
12 114 (4.13%) Snowflake
13 104 (3.77%) Serverless
14 95 (3.44%) Entra ID
15 93 (3.37%) Anthropic Claude
16 88 (3.19%) Microsoft Copilot
17 85 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
18 81 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 70 (2.54%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 334 (12.10%) Broadband
2 32 (1.16%) Internet
3 29 (1.05%) Firewall
3 29 (1.05%) VPN
4 16 (0.58%) DNS
5 14 (0.51%) VoIP
6 13 (0.47%) HTTP
7 11 (0.40%) CTI
7 11 (0.40%) Network Security
8 10 (0.36%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) WPA
10 7 (0.25%) Wireless
11 6 (0.22%) 5G
11 6 (0.22%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.18%) VLAN
12 5 (0.18%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.14%) DMZ
14 3 (0.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.86%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 117 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 113 (4.09%) Power BI
5 93 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (2.97%) Metadata
7 64 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (1.67%) Tableau
9 44 (1.59%) Big Data
10 40 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 38 (1.38%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
13 31 (1.12%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.09%) Redis
15 28 (1.01%) Delta Lake
16 26 (0.94%) Relational Database
17 22 (0.80%) MySQL
18 18 (0.65%) Pinecone
19 16 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
20 14 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 108 (3.91%) Git
2 56 (2.03%) Claude Code
3 55 (1.99%) JIRA
4 41 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.94%) Snyk
6 23 (0.83%) GitLab
7 17 (0.62%) Selenium
8 15 (0.54%) MLflow
9 11 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.33%) Postman
10 9 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.25%) JUnit
11 7 (0.25%) Maven
11 7 (0.25%) Mockito
12 6 (0.22%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.18%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.14%) Appium
14 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.14%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 760 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 544 (19.70%) Finance
3 319 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (11.41%) Marketing
5 299 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 282 (10.21%) Games
7 223 (8.08%) Legal
8 168 (6.08%) Law
9 158 (5.72%) Public Sector
10 100 (3.62%) Retail
11 94 (3.40%) Banking
12 72 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (1.99%) Advertising
15 41 (1.48%) Automotive
16 39 (1.41%) Legal Technology
17 33 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
18 30 (1.09%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.87%) Telecoms
20 16 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 541 (19.59%) Senior
2 392 (14.20%) Developer
3 379 (13.73%) Lead
4 259 (9.38%) Architect
5 193 (6.99%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.05%) .NET Developer
7 115 (4.17%) Analyst
8 112 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 111 (4.02%) Engineering Manager
10 109 (3.95%) Consultant
11 83 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 83 (3.01%) Designer
12 80 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
13 75 (2.72%) Data Scientist
13 75 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 73 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 73 (2.64%) Python Engineer
15 68 (2.46%) Senior Developer
16 65 (2.35%) Product Manager
16 65 (2.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (9.16%) React
2 245 (8.87%) .NET
3 166 (6.01%) ASP.NET
4 161 (5.83%) .NET Core
4 161 (5.83%) RESTful
5 157 (5.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 154 (5.58%) ML.NET
7 144 (5.22%) CSS
8 137 (4.96%) HTML
9 118 (4.27%) Node.js
10 113 (4.09%) Blazor
11 97 (3.51%) REST
12 78 (2.83%) LangChain
13 62 (2.25%) PyTorch
14 59 (2.14%) Next.js
15 52 (1.88%) TensorFlow
16 48 (1.74%) Vue
17 47 (1.70%) FastAPI
18 41 (1.48%) LangGraph
19 37 (1.34%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 240 (8.69%) Cloud Native
2 231 (8.37%) Social Media
3 189 (6.85%) AI Agents
4 136 (4.93%) Product Ownership
5 106 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 68 (2.46%) Algorithms
9 66 (2.39%) Low-Code
10 61 (2.21%) Blog
11 58 (2.10%) Virtual Team
12 57 (2.06%) Mobile App
12 57 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
13 53 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.59%) Data Centre
15 42 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
16 40 (1.45%) Management Information System
16 40 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
17 39 (1.41%) Security Posture
18 36 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.21%) Windows
2 54 (1.96%) Android
3 50 (1.81%) Linux
4 27 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.43%) VMS
7 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.036%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (28.72%) Agile
2 703 (25.46%) Machine Learning
3 701 (25.39%) Analytics
4 662 (23.98%) Roadmaps
5 580 (21.01%) CI/CD
6 463 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 447 (16.19%) Mentoring
8 429 (15.54%) Software Engineering
9 416 (15.07%) Decision-Making
10 373 (13.51%) LLM
11 372 (13.47%) Full-Stack Development
12 353 (12.79%) DevOps
13 340 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
14 339 (12.28%) Customer Experience
15 252 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
16 246 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
17 245 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 241 (8.73%) Data Science
18 241 (8.73%) Product Roadmap
19 238 (8.62%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 632 (22.89%) Python
2 489 (17.71%) SQL
3 275 (9.96%) C#
4 246 (8.91%) JavaScript
5 182 (6.59%) TypeScript
6 123 (4.45%) Java
7 60 (2.17%) Go
8 55 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.67%) Bash
9 46 (1.67%) Bicep
10 45 (1.63%) C++
11 27 (0.98%) Scala
12 19 (0.69%) R
13 18 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.51%) C
14 14 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.51%) PHP
15 11 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.29%) Groovy
16 8 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (7.82%) Degree
2 151 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 106 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 70 (2.54%) CISSP
5 64 (2.32%) CISM
6 55 (1.99%) A+ Certification
6 55 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
7 54 (1.96%) ACCA
8 47 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 43 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 35 (1.27%) CIMA
11 35 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (1.23%) AWS Certification
13 29 (1.05%) PhD
14 27 (0.98%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.43%) SnowPro
18 10 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (11.08%) Accessibility
2 157 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 99 (3.59%) QA
4 95 (3.44%) GDPR
5 69 (2.50%) WCAG
6 60 (2.17%) GRC
7 41 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.27%) NIST
9 25 (0.91%) SLA
10 21 (0.76%) IFRS
11 15 (0.54%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.47%) PMO
14 12 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 12 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
17 5 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 208 (7.53%) Docker
2 93 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
3 92 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.43%) vSphere
7 7 (0.25%) Firmware
8 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.072%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.036%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 193 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 128 (4.64%) Terraform
3 74 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.72%) Ansible
4 20 (0.72%) Grafana
5 17 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.25%) Argo
6 7 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.18%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.18%) Puppet
7 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.14%) Istio
8 4 (0.14%) Nmap
8 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.11%) linkerd
10 2 (0.072%) Podman
10 2 (0.072%) Salt
11 1 (0.036%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.036%) Nessus
11 1 (0.036%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 695 (25.17%) Microsoft
2 247 (8.95%) Adobe
3 159 (5.76%) Databricks
4 128 (4.64%) Google
5 88 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 79 (2.86%) Cisco
7 65 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.99%) CyberArk
9 50 (1.81%) Dell
10 48 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.67%) Apple
12 37 (1.34%) Facebook
12 37 (1.34%) Foundry
13 34 (1.23%) HubSpot
14 31 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.98%) Tenable
17 26 (0.94%) Oracle
18 23 (0.83%) VMware
19 21 (0.76%) Yahoo!
1,802 hybrid/remote AI jobs