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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 69
Rank change year-on-year +8 +51 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,886 1,353 1,320
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.40% 10.06% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.57% 10.61% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 695 850
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.93% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -0.36%

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 15,007 12,750 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 8,864 23,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,881
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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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 May 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 52 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.49%) CMS
3 39 (2.07%) Confluence
4 25 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.64%) WordPress
7 10 (0.53%) Apache
7 10 (0.53%) JBoss
7 10 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.21%) SAS
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 1 (0.053%) Kinematics
Applications
1 44 (2.33%) Chatbot
2 42 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.59%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.21%) CapCut
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.11%) Sketch
8 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.85%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.11%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.053%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 479 (25.40%) Azure
2 347 (18.40%) AWS
3 203 (10.76%) SaaS
4 184 (9.76%) Adobe Analytics
5 169 (8.96%) GCP
6 131 (6.95%) GitHub
7 118 (6.26%) Power Platform
8 104 (5.51%) Figma
9 92 (4.88%) Snowflake
10 91 (4.83%) Azure Machine Learning
11 86 (4.56%) Azure AI
12 83 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 80 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
14 70 (3.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 66 (3.50%) Serverless
16 64 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
17 55 (2.92%) Contentsquare
18 46 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
19 34 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
20 33 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 273 (14.48%) Broadband
2 24 (1.27%) Firewall
3 20 (1.06%) HTTP
4 11 (0.58%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.48%) Network Security
5 9 (0.48%) VPN
6 7 (0.37%) DNS
7 6 (0.32%) DMZ
8 5 (0.27%) DHCP
9 4 (0.21%) Modbus
9 4 (0.21%) RTP
9 4 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.21%) VoIP
9 4 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.16%) WAN
10 3 (0.16%) Wireless
10 3 (0.16%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.11%) BGP
11 2 (0.11%) NGN
11 2 (0.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 69 (3.66%) Power BI
3 57 (3.02%) MongoDB
4 54 (2.86%) Metadata
5 50 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.96%) Tableau
8 33 (1.75%) Big Data
9 30 (1.59%) NoSQL
10 29 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (1.22%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.17%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.11%) Looker
14 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.95%) Redis
15 14 (0.74%) Delta Lake
16 12 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (0.58%) Pinecone
17 11 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 50 (2.65%) Git
2 41 (2.17%) JIRA
3 26 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.11%) MLflow
5 19 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 17 (0.90%) Snyk
7 15 (0.80%) GitLab
8 10 (0.53%) Selenium
9 9 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.37%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.32%) Storybook
11 6 (0.32%) Subversion
12 3 (0.16%) Appium
12 3 (0.16%) ESLint
12 3 (0.16%) Postman
13 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 469 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 400 (21.21%) Finance
3 274 (14.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 254 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
5 230 (12.20%) Games
6 191 (10.13%) Marketing
7 147 (7.79%) Legal
8 139 (7.37%) Public Sector
9 120 (6.36%) Law
10 68 (3.61%) Retail
11 56 (2.97%) Banking
12 48 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 35 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.48%) Automotive
17 26 (1.38%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.69%) Back Office
19 11 (0.58%) Advertising
20 9 (0.48%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 375 (19.88%) Senior
2 286 (15.16%) Lead
3 163 (8.64%) Developer
4 148 (7.85%) Architect
5 100 (5.30%) Software Engineer
6 82 (4.35%) Analyst
7 77 (4.08%) Consultant
8 75 (3.98%) Engineering Manager
9 71 (3.76%) Designer
10 55 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
11 54 (2.86%) Product Manager
12 52 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 49 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 49 (2.60%) Lead Designer
13 49 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
14 43 (2.28%) Data Scientist
14 43 (2.28%) Python Engineer
14 43 (2.28%) Sales Executive
14 43 (2.28%) Senior Architect
15 42 (2.23%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (6.15%) React
2 82 (4.35%) REST
3 74 (3.92%) .NET
4 73 (3.87%) Node.js
5 71 (3.76%) RESTful
6 50 (2.65%) PyTorch
7 47 (2.49%) CSS
8 44 (2.33%) HTML
9 42 (2.23%) TensorFlow
10 35 (1.86%) Kafka
11 31 (1.64%) LangChain
12 30 (1.59%) OAuth
12 30 (1.59%) Vue
13 29 (1.54%) Spring
14 28 (1.48%) Next.js
15 27 (1.43%) FastAPI
15 27 (1.43%) SOAP
16 24 (1.27%) React Native
17 22 (1.17%) AngularJS
17 22 (1.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 188 (9.97%) Social Media
2 144 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 103 (5.46%) Product Ownership
4 91 (4.83%) Blog
5 84 (4.45%) Onboarding
6 71 (3.76%) AI Agents
7 52 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 45 (2.39%) Low-Code
9 44 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (2.28%) Mobile App
11 35 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (1.75%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
15 27 (1.43%) Social Network
16 26 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
17 21 (1.11%) Podcast
18 18 (0.95%) Management Information System
19 17 (0.90%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.28%) Android
2 28 (1.48%) Apple iOS
3 22 (1.17%) Linux
4 18 (0.95%) Windows
5 5 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.21%) Unix
7 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (28.37%) Agile
2 502 (26.62%) Roadmaps
3 488 (25.87%) Analytics
4 395 (20.94%) Machine Learning
5 331 (17.55%) CI/CD
6 322 (17.07%) Customer Experience
7 271 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 243 (12.88%) Mentoring
9 239 (12.67%) DevOps
10 238 (12.62%) Software Engineering
11 231 (12.25%) Decision-Making
12 228 (12.09%) Product Roadmap
13 209 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
13 209 (11.08%) Storytelling
14 193 (10.23%) Generative AI
15 190 (10.07%) LLM
16 186 (9.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 178 (9.44%) Digital Customer Experience
18 171 (9.07%) User Experience
19 161 (8.54%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 364 (19.30%) Python
2 249 (13.20%) SQL
3 116 (6.15%) Java
4 97 (5.14%) TypeScript
5 76 (4.03%) C#
6 75 (3.98%) JavaScript
7 57 (3.02%) Go
8 29 (1.54%) C++
9 21 (1.11%) Bash
10 19 (1.01%) R
11 18 (0.95%) Scala
12 16 (0.85%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.80%) Bicep
14 13 (0.69%) PHP
15 12 (0.64%) PowerShell
16 10 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.48%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.42%) Rust
18 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 249 (13.20%) Degree
2 67 (3.55%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 49 (2.60%) ACCA
5 43 (2.28%) PhD
6 42 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 42 (2.23%) SC Cleared
7 38 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.01%) DBS Check
8 26 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.38%) CIMA
9 22 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.95%) PMP
11 17 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.64%) CISSP
14 8 (0.42%) CISA
14 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.32%) CISM
16 5 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (14.16%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.76%) WCAG
3 61 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.65%) GDPR
5 47 (2.49%) QA
6 42 (2.23%) GRC
7 30 (1.59%) IFRS
8 22 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.74%) PMO
10 12 (0.64%) GAAP
10 12 (0.64%) NIST
10 12 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 7 (0.37%) NCSC
12 6 (0.32%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.21%) SLA
14 4 (0.21%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 103 (5.46%) Docker
2 78 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.16%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Firmware
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 82 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.39%) Terraform
3 20 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.01%) Ansible
5 12 (0.64%) Grafana
6 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.32%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.27%) Argo
10 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.11%) Podman
11 2 (0.11%) Puppet
11 2 (0.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 377 (19.99%) Microsoft
2 244 (12.94%) Adobe
3 123 (6.52%) Databricks
4 78 (4.14%) Google
5 50 (2.65%) Cisco
6 48 (2.55%) Dell
6 48 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 44 (2.33%) Apple
8 33 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 32 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 27 (1.43%) PayPal
11 22 (1.17%) Oracle
12 20 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
13 19 (1.01%) Foundry
13 19 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 18 (0.95%) Tenable
15 16 (0.85%) SAP
16 14 (0.74%) Palantir
17 13 (0.69%) HubSpot
18 11 (0.58%) Atlassian