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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +59 +21
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,517 2,579 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.91% 15.86% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.40% 16.94% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,602 731 825
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,986 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.72% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £94,688 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £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 17,480 15,224 29,144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 93.65% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,756 9,023 22,315
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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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 8 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 61 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.63%) Confluence
3 39 (1.55%) CMS
4 19 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.60%) Apache
5 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.48%) WordPress
7 11 (0.44%) SAS
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Camunda
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
9 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.079%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.83%) UserZoom
2 26 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.52%) InDesign
7 13 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.16%) CapCut
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) Productboard
11 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.079%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.040%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.040%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.040%) HFM
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 762 (30.27%) Azure
2 447 (17.76%) AWS
3 250 (9.93%) Azure AI
4 245 (9.73%) SaaS
5 210 (8.34%) GCP
6 193 (7.67%) Adobe Analytics
7 180 (7.15%) GitHub
8 177 (7.03%) Power Platform
9 162 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
10 117 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
11 108 (4.29%) Figma
12 102 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
13 101 (4.01%) Snowflake
14 99 (3.93%) Serverless
15 91 (3.62%) Azure Machine Learning
16 79 (3.14%) Anthropic Claude
16 79 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 72 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
18 71 (2.82%) Contentsquare
19 65 (2.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 339 (13.47%) Broadband
2 32 (1.27%) Internet
3 31 (1.23%) VPN
4 28 (1.11%) Firewall
5 15 (0.60%) DNS
6 13 (0.52%) HTTP
7 11 (0.44%) VoIP
8 10 (0.40%) DHCP
9 9 (0.36%) Network Security
10 8 (0.32%) Unified Communications
10 8 (0.32%) WPA
11 7 (0.28%) CTI
11 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.28%) Wireless
12 6 (0.24%) 5G
13 5 (0.20%) DMZ
13 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.20%) VLAN
13 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (8.78%) MongoDB
2 177 (7.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 111 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 102 (4.05%) Power BI
5 84 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (3.06%) Metadata
7 60 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (1.75%) Tableau
9 41 (1.63%) Big Data
10 34 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 32 (1.27%) Data Lake
12 31 (1.23%) BigQuery
12 31 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
13 29 (1.15%) Redis
14 24 (0.95%) Delta Lake
15 23 (0.91%) Relational Database
16 22 (0.87%) MySQL
17 21 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (0.68%) Pinecone
19 13 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 85 (3.38%) Git
2 50 (1.99%) Claude Code
3 44 (1.75%) JIRA
4 34 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.99%) Snyk
6 18 (0.72%) GitLab
7 15 (0.60%) MLflow
8 13 (0.52%) Selenium
9 11 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.32%) Postman
11 6 (0.24%) Maven
11 6 (0.24%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.20%) JUnit
12 5 (0.20%) Mockito
12 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.20%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.12%) Appium
13 3 (0.12%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Metasploit
General
1 654 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 462 (18.36%) Finance
3 279 (11.08%) Games
4 268 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 265 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (10.45%) Marketing
7 162 (6.44%) Legal
8 161 (6.40%) Law
9 143 (5.68%) Public Sector
10 84 (3.34%) Retail
11 74 (2.94%) Banking
12 67 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 55 (2.19%) Advertising
14 51 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.59%) Automotive
16 38 (1.51%) Legal Technology
17 29 (1.15%) Manufacturing
18 28 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
19 20 (0.79%) Telecoms
20 12 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 488 (19.39%) Senior
2 380 (15.10%) Developer
3 379 (15.06%) Lead
4 237 (9.42%) Architect
5 170 (6.75%) .NET Developer
6 164 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 109 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 104 (4.13%) Engineering Manager
9 102 (4.05%) Analyst
10 95 (3.77%) Consultant
11 86 (3.42%) Designer
12 81 (3.22%) Data Engineer
13 78 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
14 66 (2.62%) Data Scientist
14 66 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (2.58%) Python Engineer
16 62 (2.46%) Product Manager
17 61 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (2.34%) Data Manager
18 59 (2.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (9.61%) .NET
2 232 (9.22%) React
3 169 (6.71%) ASP.NET
4 163 (6.48%) .NET Core
4 163 (6.48%) RESTful
5 162 (6.44%) ASP.NET Core
6 159 (6.32%) ML.NET
7 141 (5.60%) CSS
8 134 (5.32%) HTML
9 116 (4.61%) Blazor
10 102 (4.05%) Node.js
11 82 (3.26%) REST
12 71 (2.82%) LangChain
13 65 (2.58%) PyTorch
14 56 (2.22%) TensorFlow
15 49 (1.95%) Vue
16 47 (1.87%) FastAPI
17 44 (1.75%) Next.js
18 33 (1.31%) LangGraph
18 33 (1.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 238 (9.46%) Social Media
2 226 (8.98%) Cloud Native
3 156 (6.20%) AI Agents
4 136 (5.40%) Product Ownership
5 98 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
6 74 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 65 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 63 (2.50%) Low-Code
9 58 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 57 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
11 55 (2.19%) Mobile App
12 54 (2.15%) Virtual Team
13 49 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.63%) Data Centre
15 36 (1.43%) Security Posture
16 35 (1.39%) Management Information System
17 32 (1.27%) Podcast
17 32 (1.27%) Social Network
18 30 (1.19%) Public Cloud
19 27 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 56 (2.22%) Windows
2 53 (2.11%) Android
3 46 (1.83%) Linux
4 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.48%) VMS
7 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.079%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (29.76%) Agile
2 661 (26.26%) Machine Learning
3 626 (24.87%) Analytics
4 623 (24.75%) Roadmaps
5 535 (21.26%) CI/CD
6 389 (15.45%) Mentoring
6 389 (15.45%) Software Engineering
7 365 (14.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 353 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 353 (14.02%) Decision-Making
9 336 (13.35%) Customer Experience
9 336 (13.35%) DevOps
10 332 (13.19%) LLM
11 300 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
12 245 (9.73%) Generative AI
13 243 (9.65%) Product Roadmap
14 237 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
15 220 (8.74%) Storytelling
16 214 (8.50%) Data Science
17 208 (8.26%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 587 (23.32%) Python
2 460 (18.28%) SQL
3 265 (10.53%) C#
4 228 (9.06%) JavaScript
5 160 (6.36%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.57%) Java
7 66 (2.62%) Go
8 53 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 48 (1.91%) Bash
10 42 (1.67%) Bicep
11 36 (1.43%) C++
12 25 (0.99%) Scala
13 20 (0.79%) R
14 18 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.64%) PHP
16 14 (0.56%) C
17 11 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.32%) Rust
20 7 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 198 (7.87%) Degree
2 121 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 79 (3.14%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.11%) ACCA
5 44 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (1.59%) CISSP
8 37 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 36 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 32 (1.27%) CISM
11 31 (1.23%) CIMA
11 31 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (1.19%) PhD
13 28 (1.11%) A+ Certification
13 28 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
14 27 (1.07%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 25 (0.99%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.36%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (11.60%) Accessibility
2 142 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 81 (3.22%) QA
4 80 (3.18%) GDPR
5 71 (2.82%) WCAG
6 55 (2.19%) GRC
7 33 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.23%) NIST
9 23 (0.91%) IFRS
10 22 (0.87%) SLA
11 15 (0.60%) PMO
12 14 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.24%) NCSC
18 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
19 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
19 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 195 (7.75%) Docker
2 91 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
3 65 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.48%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 183 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 114 (4.53%) Terraform
3 45 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.75%) Ansible
5 17 (0.68%) Grafana
6 16 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.32%) Argo
7 8 (0.32%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.28%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Nmap
12 2 (0.079%) linkerd
12 2 (0.079%) Podman
12 2 (0.079%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.079%) Salt
13 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.040%) Nessus
13 1 (0.040%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 641 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 254 (10.09%) Adobe
3 143 (5.68%) Databricks
4 121 (4.81%) Google
5 84 (3.34%) OpenAI
6 75 (2.98%) Cisco
7 64 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.03%) Dell
9 47 (1.87%) Apple
10 46 (1.83%) Salesforce
11 38 (1.51%) Facebook
11 38 (1.51%) Foundry
12 31 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 28 (1.11%) HubSpot
14 27 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 27 (1.07%) Tenable
15 23 (0.91%) Oracle
15 23 (0.91%) VMware
16 22 (0.87%) Yahoo!