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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +54 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,966 2,797 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.99% 16.86% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.75% 18.14% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,861 650 605
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £102,000
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 18,835 15,419 21,621
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.48% 92.96% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,574 8,935 15,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 16 August 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 86 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.82%) Confluence
3 43 (1.45%) CMS
4 23 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.71%) Apache
6 20 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.30%) SAS
8 9 (0.30%) WordPress
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.17%) Camunda
11 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.067%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.067%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.034%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.034%) Moodle
13 1 (0.034%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.034%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
Applications
1 47 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.48%) Chatbot
3 43 (1.45%) UserZoom
4 29 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 14 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.47%) InDesign
7 14 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.13%) CapCut
10 4 (0.13%) Moqups
10 4 (0.13%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) Productboard
11 3 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.94%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.81%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
6 4 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.067%) Shopify
9 1 (0.034%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.034%) HFM
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.034%) Primavera
9 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 861 (29.03%) Azure
2 557 (18.78%) AWS
3 274 (9.24%) SaaS
4 254 (8.56%) Azure AI
5 251 (8.46%) GCP
6 225 (7.59%) Power Platform
7 213 (7.18%) GitHub
8 174 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
9 160 (5.39%) Adobe Analytics
10 134 (4.52%) GitHub Copilot
11 132 (4.45%) Snowflake
12 130 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
13 115 (3.88%) Figma
14 113 (3.81%) Serverless
15 106 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
15 106 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
16 101 (3.41%) Entra ID
17 87 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 82 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
19 69 (2.33%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 294 (9.91%) Broadband
2 33 (1.11%) Internet
3 28 (0.94%) VPN
4 27 (0.91%) Firewall
5 21 (0.71%) Network Security
6 18 (0.61%) DNS
7 15 (0.51%) HTTP
8 12 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.37%) CTI
10 10 (0.34%) DHCP
11 8 (0.27%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.27%) WPA
12 7 (0.24%) Wireless
13 6 (0.20%) 5G
13 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.17%) OSPF
14 5 (0.17%) VLAN
14 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.38%) MongoDB
2 176 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 133 (4.48%) Power BI
4 124 (4.18%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 89 (3.00%) Metadata
7 67 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 53 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.69%) Tableau
10 43 (1.45%) Big Data
11 41 (1.38%) Data Lake
12 35 (1.18%) Redis
13 33 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
14 31 (1.05%) BigQuery
14 31 (1.05%) Delta Lake
14 31 (1.05%) Relational Database
15 23 (0.78%) MySQL
16 18 (0.61%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.61%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.57%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 122 (4.11%) Git
2 69 (2.33%) JIRA
3 62 (2.09%) Claude Code
4 43 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.91%) Snyk
6 26 (0.88%) GitLab
7 17 (0.57%) Selenium
8 15 (0.51%) MLflow
9 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 12 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
11 11 (0.37%) Postman
12 10 (0.34%) JUnit
12 10 (0.34%) Maven
12 10 (0.34%) Mockito
13 5 (0.17%) Appium
13 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.17%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.13%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.13%) Metasploit
General
1 829 (27.95%) Social Skills
2 644 (21.71%) Finance
3 372 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (11.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 331 (11.16%) Marketing
6 249 (8.40%) Games
7 235 (7.92%) Legal
8 181 (6.10%) Public Sector
9 168 (5.66%) Law
10 107 (3.61%) Banking
11 102 (3.44%) Retail
12 94 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
13 80 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 58 (1.96%) Advertising
15 41 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 39 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
17 35 (1.18%) Legal Technology
18 32 (1.08%) Automotive
19 26 (0.88%) Telecoms
20 23 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 567 (19.12%) Senior
2 409 (13.79%) Developer
3 366 (12.34%) Lead
4 289 (9.74%) Architect
5 217 (7.32%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.73%) .NET Developer
7 135 (4.55%) Analyst
8 123 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 120 (4.05%) Consultant
10 114 (3.84%) Engineering Manager
11 84 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 83 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
13 82 (2.76%) Data Engineer
14 80 (2.70%) Data Scientist
15 79 (2.66%) Python Engineer
16 75 (2.53%) Senior Developer
17 73 (2.46%) Senior Manager
18 69 (2.33%) Product Manager
19 67 (2.26%) Designer
20 65 (2.19%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (9.47%) React
2 258 (8.70%) .NET
3 168 (5.66%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 163 (5.50%) RESTful
6 159 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.26%) ML.NET
8 144 (4.86%) CSS
9 138 (4.65%) Node.js
10 135 (4.55%) HTML
11 116 (3.91%) Blazor
12 114 (3.84%) REST
13 95 (3.20%) LangChain
14 74 (2.49%) Next.js
15 61 (2.06%) PyTorch
16 53 (1.79%) Vue
17 51 (1.72%) LangGraph
18 49 (1.65%) FastAPI
19 48 (1.62%) TensorFlow
20 43 (1.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 261 (8.80%) Cloud Native
2 231 (7.79%) AI Agents
3 207 (6.98%) Social Media
4 142 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 115 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 94 (3.17%) Blog
6 94 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 72 (2.43%) Algorithms
9 68 (2.29%) Low-Code
10 59 (1.99%) Mobile App
11 56 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
11 56 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 50 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
13 50 (1.69%) Management Information System
14 47 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
14 47 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
15 40 (1.35%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 66 (2.23%) Windows
2 58 (1.96%) Linux
3 49 (1.65%) Android
4 25 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.24%) Unix
9 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.034%) Debian
11 1 (0.034%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (27.31%) Agile
2 784 (26.43%) Machine Learning
3 730 (24.61%) Analytics
4 672 (22.66%) Roadmaps
5 611 (20.60%) CI/CD
6 520 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 473 (15.95%) Mentoring
8 472 (15.91%) Software Engineering
9 434 (14.63%) Decision-Making
10 429 (14.46%) LLM
11 398 (13.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 379 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
13 372 (12.54%) DevOps
14 326 (10.99%) Customer Experience
15 288 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
16 279 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 270 (9.10%) Stakeholder Management
18 268 (9.04%) Data Science
19 262 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
20 245 (8.26%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 686 (23.13%) Python
2 546 (18.41%) SQL
3 296 (9.98%) C#
4 267 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 210 (7.08%) TypeScript
6 140 (4.72%) Java
7 60 (2.02%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.82%) C++
9 53 (1.79%) Go
10 48 (1.62%) Bicep
11 46 (1.55%) Bash
12 32 (1.08%) Scala
13 21 (0.71%) R
14 18 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.54%) C
15 16 (0.54%) PHP
16 12 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 244 (8.23%) Degree
2 195 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 139 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 74 (2.49%) CISSP
5 68 (2.29%) CISM
6 63 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 61 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.82%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (1.72%) ACCA
10 48 (1.62%) Azure Certification
11 42 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 36 (1.21%) CIMA
13 34 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 32 (1.08%) PhD
15 31 (1.05%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 16 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (9.51%) Accessibility
2 194 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 114 (3.84%) QA
4 110 (3.71%) GDPR
5 68 (2.29%) WCAG
6 60 (2.02%) GRC
7 52 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 39 (1.31%) NIST
9 28 (0.94%) SLA
10 18 (0.61%) IFRS
11 14 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.34%) PMO
15 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 5 (0.17%) NCSC
17 5 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 228 (7.69%) Docker
2 92 (3.10%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.44%) vSphere
5 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.30%) Firmware
7 6 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 209 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.79%) Terraform
3 75 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (0.84%) Grafana
5 17 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.54%) Ansible
7 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.20%) Argo
8 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.17%) Istio
9 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.13%) Nmap
11 3 (0.10%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.10%) linkerd
12 2 (0.067%) Cilium
12 2 (0.067%) Podman
12 2 (0.067%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.067%) Salt
13 1 (0.034%) CASB
Vendors
1 733 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 225 (7.59%) Adobe
3 173 (5.83%) Databricks
4 147 (4.96%) Google
5 100 (3.37%) OpenAI
6 78 (2.63%) Cisco
7 68 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.85%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.79%) Apple
10 49 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.55%) Dell
12 40 (1.35%) Foundry
13 38 (1.28%) Facebook
14 37 (1.25%) HubSpot
15 30 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
15 30 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.98%) Oracle
17 28 (0.94%) SAP
18 27 (0.91%) Tenable
19 23 (0.78%) VMware