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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 68
Rank change year-on-year +9 +49 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,980 1,603 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.70% 11.03% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 11.60% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 692 857
10th Percentile £36,750 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,188 £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 £87,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.64%

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 15,329 13,820 29,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.82% 95.08% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,874 8,648 23,364
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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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 14 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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.22%) CMS
3 38 (1.92%) Confluence
4 22 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.51%) SAS
6 10 (0.51%) WordPress
7 8 (0.40%) Apache
7 8 (0.40%) JBoss
7 8 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Camunda
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.051%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 39 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.52%) UserZoom
3 22 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.20%) CapCut
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.10%) Productboard
9 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.21%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.10%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.10%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.051%) HFM
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 540 (27.27%) Azure
2 375 (18.94%) AWS
3 211 (10.66%) SaaS
4 183 (9.24%) Adobe Analytics
5 170 (8.59%) GCP
6 136 (6.87%) GitHub
6 136 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 128 (6.46%) Azure AI
8 106 (5.35%) Figma
9 99 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 92 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
10 92 (4.65%) Snowflake
11 89 (4.49%) Azure Machine Learning
12 75 (3.79%) Serverless
13 68 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
14 67 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 55 (2.78%) Contentsquare
16 48 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
17 32 (1.62%) Entra ID
18 30 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 287 (14.49%) Broadband
2 25 (1.26%) Firewall
3 19 (0.96%) HTTP
4 10 (0.51%) Network Security
4 10 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 10 (0.51%) VPN
5 9 (0.45%) DNS
6 7 (0.35%) DMZ
6 7 (0.35%) Internet
7 6 (0.30%) 5G
7 6 (0.30%) DHCP
8 4 (0.20%) Modbus
8 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.15%) RTP
9 3 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.15%) Wireless
9 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.10%) MPLS
10 2 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.85%) MongoDB
2 86 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 80 (4.04%) Power BI
4 62 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 58 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.58%) Metadata
7 43 (2.17%) Tableau
8 42 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (1.57%) Big Data
10 24 (1.21%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.16%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.11%) Redis
13 21 (1.06%) Data Lake
14 20 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.01%) Looker
15 14 (0.71%) Delta Lake
15 14 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
16 12 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 54 (2.73%) Git
2 37 (1.87%) JIRA
3 24 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 24 (1.21%) Snyk
4 23 (1.16%) Claude Code
5 22 (1.11%) MLflow
6 13 (0.66%) GitLab
7 10 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.51%) Selenium
7 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.35%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.30%) Storybook
11 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.20%) Maven
11 4 (0.20%) Postman
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) JUnit
12 3 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 471 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 411 (20.76%) Finance
3 280 (14.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 249 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (12.47%) Games
6 205 (10.35%) Marketing
7 147 (7.42%) Public Sector
8 139 (7.02%) Legal
9 117 (5.91%) Law
10 67 (3.38%) Retail
11 53 (2.68%) Banking
12 47 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.92%) Automotive
15 27 (1.36%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.31%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.86%) Advertising
19 14 (0.71%) Back Office
20 8 (0.40%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 408 (20.61%) Senior
2 295 (14.90%) Lead
3 213 (10.76%) Developer
4 176 (8.89%) Architect
5 109 (5.51%) Software Engineer
6 94 (4.75%) Analyst
7 79 (3.99%) Consultant
7 79 (3.99%) Engineering Manager
8 72 (3.64%) Designer
8 72 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
9 58 (2.93%) Data Engineer
10 57 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 55 (2.78%) .NET Developer
11 55 (2.78%) Product Manager
12 51 (2.58%) Data Manager
12 51 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 50 (2.53%) Senior Architect
14 49 (2.47%) Data Scientist
14 49 (2.47%) Lead Designer
15 48 (2.42%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.22%) React
2 116 (5.86%) .NET
3 97 (4.90%) RESTful
4 89 (4.49%) REST
5 76 (3.84%) Node.js
6 66 (3.33%) CSS
7 61 (3.08%) HTML
8 56 (2.83%) .NET Core
9 51 (2.58%) ASP.NET
9 51 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 49 (2.47%) ML.NET
11 48 (2.42%) PyTorch
12 41 (2.07%) Blazor
13 40 (2.02%) TensorFlow
14 34 (1.72%) LangChain
15 32 (1.62%) Vue
16 30 (1.52%) FastAPI
16 30 (1.52%) Spring
17 29 (1.46%) SOAP
18 28 (1.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 194 (9.80%) Social Media
2 150 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 113 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 87 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 74 (3.74%) AI Agents
6 66 (3.33%) Blog
7 54 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 51 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.53%) Mobile App
10 45 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 44 (2.22%) Virtual Team
12 42 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
13 40 (2.02%) Algorithms
14 39 (1.97%) Data Centre
15 37 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
16 30 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
17 27 (1.36%) Social Network
18 21 (1.06%) Podcast
19 20 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
19 20 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.32%) Android
2 28 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 25 (1.26%) Linux
4 20 (1.01%) Windows
5 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.20%) Unix
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (28.89%) Agile
2 516 (26.06%) Analytics
3 498 (25.15%) Roadmaps
4 457 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 371 (18.74%) CI/CD
6 308 (15.56%) Customer Experience
7 274 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 263 (13.28%) Software Engineering
9 256 (12.93%) Mentoring
10 248 (12.53%) DevOps
11 232 (11.72%) Decision-Making
12 230 (11.62%) Product Roadmap
13 228 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (10.56%) Storytelling
15 204 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
15 204 (10.30%) LLM
16 197 (9.95%) Generative AI
17 186 (9.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 177 (8.94%) Digital Customer Experience
19 169 (8.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 403 (20.35%) Python
2 294 (14.85%) SQL
3 121 (6.11%) C#
4 117 (5.91%) Java
5 111 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 108 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 61 (3.08%) Go
8 27 (1.36%) C++
9 26 (1.31%) Bash
10 20 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.01%) R
11 17 (0.86%) Bicep
11 17 (0.86%) Scala
12 14 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.66%) PHP
14 11 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 209 (10.56%) Degree
2 83 (4.19%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.58%) AWS Certification
4 49 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 48 (2.42%) ACCA
6 36 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (1.77%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.41%) CIMA
11 24 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (1.06%) PhD
13 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.61%) CISSP
15 9 (0.45%) PMP
16 8 (0.40%) CISA
16 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.30%) CISM
18 5 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (13.69%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.59%) WCAG
3 70 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 56 (2.83%) QA
5 54 (2.73%) GDPR
6 52 (2.63%) GRC
7 25 (1.26%) IFRS
7 25 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.71%) NIST
8 14 (0.71%) PMO
9 13 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.40%) NCSC
12 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.30%) GAAP
13 6 (0.30%) SLA
14 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 124 (6.26%) Docker
2 86 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.43%) Terraform
3 19 (0.96%) Ansible
4 18 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.61%) Grafana
6 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.35%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.30%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.25%) Argo
9 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.10%) Podman
10 2 (0.10%) Puppet
10 2 (0.10%) Salt
11 1 (0.051%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 433 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 254 (12.83%) Adobe
3 120 (6.06%) Databricks
4 83 (4.19%) Google
5 57 (2.88%) Apple
6 51 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.53%) Cisco
8 48 (2.42%) Dell
9 47 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.07%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.26%) Oracle
13 25 (1.26%) Tenable
14 22 (1.11%) Foundry
15 20 (1.01%) HubSpot
16 17 (0.86%) SAP
17 14 (0.71%) Palantir
18 11 (0.56%) Hootsuite
18 11 (0.56%) Wrike