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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 73 67
Rank change year-on-year +69 -6 +47
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,012 767 940
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.69% 3.90% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.52% 4.39% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 820 448 497
10th Percentile £24,570 £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £39,220 £51,250 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £90,313 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 13,995 17,460 20,232
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.51% 88.87% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,795 10,393 16,353
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £99,380 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 20 November 2025.

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 35 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 26 (0.86%) Confluence
3 24 (0.80%) CMS
4 22 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.43%) Apache Solr
8 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.33%) Apache
10 6 (0.20%) JBoss
10 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.100%) Luigi
13 2 (0.066%) Mendix
13 2 (0.066%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.033%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.033%) IIS
Applications
1 1,626 (53.98%) Chatbot
2 79 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
4 11 (0.37%) Photoshop
5 7 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.100%) InDesign
7 3 (0.100%) Notion
7 3 (0.100%) Simulink
7 3 (0.100%) Sketch
8 2 (0.066%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.066%) Civil 3D
8 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.066%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.066%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.066%) Revit
8 2 (0.066%) Weka
Business Applications
1 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
1 14 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.100%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.066%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.066%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.066%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.066%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.066%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.066%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.066%) Shopify
7 1 (0.033%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.033%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 405 (13.45%) Azure
2 244 (8.10%) AWS
3 183 (6.08%) SaaS
4 177 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 125 (4.15%) GCP
6 100 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (3.19%) GitHub
8 83 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 57 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
10 55 (1.83%) Snowflake
11 41 (1.36%) Entra ID
12 35 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 35 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
13 34 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (1.00%) dbt
15 29 (0.96%) Power Automate
16 28 (0.93%) Serverless
17 23 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
17 23 (0.76%) Copilot Studio
18 21 (0.70%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.46%) Broadband
2 13 (0.43%) Internet
3 8 (0.27%) Network Security
4 7 (0.23%) WAN
4 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.20%) InfiniBand
6 5 (0.17%) VoIP
6 5 (0.17%) VPN
7 4 (0.13%) DHCP
7 4 (0.13%) DMZ
7 4 (0.13%) DNS
7 4 (0.13%) Firewall
7 4 (0.13%) Intranet
7 4 (0.13%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.13%) Wireless
8 3 (0.100%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.100%) HTTP
8 3 (0.100%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.100%) LAN
8 3 (0.100%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (3.62%) Power BI
2 72 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (1.46%) NoSQL
3 44 (1.46%) Tableau
4 38 (1.26%) MongoDB
4 38 (1.26%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.13%) Big Data
6 31 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (0.96%) MySQL
8 26 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 25 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 25 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (0.50%) Metadata
11 15 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 14 (0.46%) Redis
13 10 (0.33%) Looker
13 10 (0.33%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 63 (2.09%) JIRA
2 57 (1.89%) Git
3 17 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (0.27%) GitLab
6 7 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.20%) ERwin
8 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.17%) GitBook
9 4 (0.13%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.13%) Selenium
9 4 (0.13%) Subversion
10 3 (0.100%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.100%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.066%) JMeter
11 2 (0.066%) JUnit
11 2 (0.066%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.066%) MLflow
11 2 (0.066%) Vite
General
1 816 (27.09%) Analytical Skills
2 502 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 420 (13.94%) Finance
4 303 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 213 (7.07%) Marketing
6 130 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 122 (4.05%) Retail
8 106 (3.52%) Legal
9 87 (2.89%) Law
10 58 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (1.03%) Banking
14 28 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 24 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (0.76%) Games
17 22 (0.73%) Manufacturing
18 21 (0.70%) Advertising
19 20 (0.66%) Agriculture
20 18 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,607 (53.35%) Trainer
2 186 (6.18%) Senior
3 176 (5.84%) Content Editor
4 175 (5.81%) Developer
5 120 (3.98%) Architect
6 106 (3.52%) Customer Support Specialist
6 106 (3.52%) Support Specialist
7 100 (3.32%) Research Scientist
8 90 (2.99%) Lead
9 88 (2.92%) Analyst
10 65 (2.16%) Sales Executive
11 63 (2.09%) Microsoft Specialist
12 62 (2.06%) Consultant
13 52 (1.73%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 50 (1.66%) Software Engineer
15 47 (1.56%) Biostatistician
15 47 (1.56%) Data Engineer
16 42 (1.39%) Customer Service Representative
17 41 (1.36%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (1.23%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (2.59%) React
2 72 (2.39%) .NET
3 49 (1.63%) Node.js
3 49 (1.63%) REST
4 40 (1.33%) Kafka
4 40 (1.33%) RESTful
5 28 (0.93%) Next.js
6 27 (0.90%) HTML
7 24 (0.80%) OAuth
7 24 (0.80%) Spring
8 23 (0.76%) GraphQL
8 23 (0.76%) OAuth2
9 22 (0.73%) FastAPI
10 21 (0.70%) CSS
10 21 (0.70%) gRPC
10 21 (0.70%) PyTorch
10 21 (0.70%) TensorFlow
11 20 (0.66%) SOAP
12 19 (0.63%) Django
13 17 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 121 (4.02%) Molecular Biology
2 118 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 98 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 78 (2.59%) Blog
5 58 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 54 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 53 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 49 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 36 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 31 (1.03%) Data Centre
13 30 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 27 (0.90%) Low-Code
15 26 (0.86%) Social Media
16 25 (0.83%) Management Information System
17 23 (0.76%) Reinsurance
18 20 (0.66%) Social Network
19 18 (0.60%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.06%) Windows
2 29 (0.96%) Linux
3 23 (0.76%) Android
4 19 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.100%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.100%) Unix
8 1 (0.033%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.033%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,643 (54.55%) Conversational UI
2 615 (20.42%) Chemistry
3 341 (11.32%) Agile
4 291 (9.66%) Analytics
5 279 (9.26%) Roadmaps
6 267 (8.86%) Machine Learning
7 236 (7.84%) Content Writing
8 232 (7.70%) DevOps
9 227 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
10 224 (7.44%) Mathematics
11 209 (6.94%) CI/CD
12 202 (6.71%) Customer Service
13 199 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 182 (6.04%) Physics
15 165 (5.48%) Software Engineering
16 161 (5.35%) Decision-Making
17 158 (5.25%) Computer Science
18 155 (5.15%) Customer Experience
19 140 (4.65%) Business Intelligence
20 137 (4.55%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 302 (10.03%) Python
2 249 (8.27%) SQL
3 98 (3.25%) JavaScript
4 97 (3.22%) TypeScript
5 81 (2.69%) Java
6 42 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 33 (1.10%) C#
8 27 (0.90%) Bash
9 26 (0.86%) C++
10 21 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 20 (0.66%) PHP
12 19 (0.63%) R
13 15 (0.50%) C
13 15 (0.50%) Go
13 15 (0.50%) Swift
14 12 (0.40%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.37%) Scala
16 10 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,881 (62.45%) Degree
2 955 (31.71%) Master's Degree
3 937 (31.11%) PhD
4 67 (2.22%) Security Cleared
5 56 (1.86%) SC Cleared
6 42 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (0.90%) ACCA
8 26 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 20 (0.66%) PMP
10 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 8 (0.27%) CISA
12 8 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.20%) CISM
13 6 (0.20%) CISSP
14 5 (0.17%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 40 (1.33%) GDPR
3 34 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.96%) QA
5 22 (0.73%) GAAP
6 20 (0.66%) IFRS
7 19 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.30%) NIST
9 9 (0.30%) WCAG
10 8 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 6 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.17%) GRC
13 5 (0.17%) NCSC
14 4 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.100%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (2.52%) Docker
2 22 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.17%) Lustre
6 4 (0.13%) Firmware
7 3 (0.100%) GPFS
7 3 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.100%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.066%) Ceph
9 1 (0.033%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (2.46%) Kubernetes
1 74 (2.46%) Terraform
2 19 (0.63%) Ansible
2 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.27%) SCCM
6 5 (0.17%) Grafana
7 3 (0.100%) Argo
8 2 (0.066%) Control-M
8 2 (0.066%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.066%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.066%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.066%) Puppet
9 1 (0.033%) AppManager
9 1 (0.033%) Cilium
9 1 (0.033%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.033%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.033%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,608 (53.39%) PayPal
2 419 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 88 (2.92%) Cisco
4 73 (2.42%) Google
5 64 (2.12%) Dell
6 59 (1.96%) Adobe
7 52 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 45 (1.49%) Blue Prism
9 43 (1.43%) Databricks
10 41 (1.36%) Oracle
11 37 (1.23%) Apple
12 24 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 23 (0.76%) HubSpot
14 21 (0.70%) SAP
15 17 (0.56%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.50%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.46%) Foundry
18 12 (0.40%) IBM
19 11 (0.37%) Alteryx
19 11 (0.37%) Pardot
3,151 hybrid/remote AI jobs