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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 62
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,886 2,647 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.77% 16.06% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.40% 17.28% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,822 693 603
10th Percentile £40,500 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £28,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,876 £68,500 £71,996
% change year-on-year +3.47% -4.86% -4.01%

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 18,735 15,321 22,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.93% 87.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,552 9,025 15,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.02% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
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 7 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 78 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.80%) Confluence
3 42 (1.46%) CMS
4 23 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.73%) Apache
6 20 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.35%) WordPress
9 9 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Camunda
12 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.069%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.069%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.035%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.035%) Moodle
14 1 (0.035%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.035%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.035%) Umbraco
Applications
1 43 (1.49%) UserZoom
2 36 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.18%) Chatbot
4 26 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.49%) InDesign
7 14 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.14%) CapCut
10 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) Moqups
11 3 (0.10%) Productboard
11 3 (0.10%) Sketch
11 3 (0.10%) Trello
12 2 (0.069%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 37 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.97%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.83%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.14%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.069%) Shopify
8 1 (0.035%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.035%) HFM
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.035%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 839 (29.07%) Azure
2 532 (18.43%) AWS
3 266 (9.22%) SaaS
4 252 (8.73%) Azure AI
5 233 (8.07%) GCP
6 220 (7.62%) Power Platform
7 207 (7.17%) GitHub
8 174 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (5.89%) Adobe Analytics
10 131 (4.54%) GitHub Copilot
11 128 (4.44%) Snowflake
12 124 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
13 113 (3.92%) Serverless
14 112 (3.88%) Figma
15 104 (3.60%) Anthropic Claude
16 100 (3.47%) Entra ID
17 97 (3.36%) Microsoft Copilot
18 85 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 83 (2.88%) Azure Machine Learning
20 69 (2.39%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 306 (10.60%) Broadband
2 33 (1.14%) Internet
3 28 (0.97%) VPN
4 26 (0.90%) Firewall
5 18 (0.62%) Network Security
6 17 (0.59%) DNS
7 14 (0.49%) HTTP
8 12 (0.42%) VoIP
9 11 (0.38%) CTI
10 10 (0.35%) DHCP
11 8 (0.28%) WPA
12 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.24%) Wireless
13 6 (0.21%) 5G
13 6 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.17%) VLAN
14 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
15 4 (0.14%) BGP
15 4 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (7.55%) MongoDB
2 175 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 127 (4.40%) Power BI
4 122 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 101 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (2.91%) Metadata
7 65 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (1.66%) Tableau
9 45 (1.56%) Big Data
9 45 (1.56%) NoSQL
10 41 (1.42%) Data Lake
11 33 (1.14%) Redis
12 31 (1.07%) BigQuery
12 31 (1.07%) Delta Lake
13 30 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
14 28 (0.97%) Relational Database
15 23 (0.80%) MySQL
16 17 (0.59%) Data Vault
16 17 (0.59%) Pinecone
17 15 (0.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 118 (4.09%) Git
2 65 (2.25%) JIRA
3 62 (2.15%) Claude Code
4 44 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.94%) Snyk
6 25 (0.87%) GitLab
7 18 (0.62%) Selenium
8 16 (0.55%) MLflow
9 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.35%) JUnit
11 10 (0.35%) Maven
11 10 (0.35%) Mockito
11 10 (0.35%) Postman
12 6 (0.21%) Appium
13 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.14%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 799 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 608 (21.07%) Finance
3 349 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (11.40%) Marketing
5 324 (11.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 258 (8.94%) Games
7 231 (8.00%) Legal
8 168 (5.82%) Law
9 165 (5.72%) Public Sector
10 105 (3.64%) Retail
11 101 (3.50%) Banking
12 85 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
13 69 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
14 59 (2.04%) Advertising
15 38 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (1.28%) Automotive
17 36 (1.25%) Legal Technology
18 34 (1.18%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.83%) Telecoms
20 20 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 558 (19.33%) Senior
2 404 (14.00%) Developer
3 369 (12.79%) Lead
4 275 (9.53%) Architect
5 207 (7.17%) Software Engineer
6 169 (5.86%) .NET Developer
7 126 (4.37%) Analyst
8 118 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 116 (4.02%) Consultant
10 112 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
11 83 (2.88%) Data Engineer
12 82 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 81 (2.81%) Data Scientist
14 80 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 76 (2.63%) Python Engineer
16 75 (2.60%) Senior Manager
17 74 (2.56%) Senior Developer
18 72 (2.49%) Designer
19 67 (2.32%) Product Manager
20 64 (2.22%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (9.53%) React
2 255 (8.84%) .NET
3 168 (5.82%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.72%) .NET Core
5 163 (5.65%) RESTful
6 159 (5.51%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.41%) ML.NET
8 145 (5.02%) CSS
9 137 (4.75%) HTML
10 127 (4.40%) Node.js
11 116 (4.02%) Blazor
12 112 (3.88%) REST
13 88 (3.05%) LangChain
14 70 (2.43%) Next.js
15 58 (2.01%) PyTorch
16 51 (1.77%) Vue
17 49 (1.70%) FastAPI
18 48 (1.66%) LangGraph
19 45 (1.56%) TensorFlow
20 42 (1.46%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 257 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 221 (7.66%) AI Agents
3 216 (7.48%) Social Media
4 136 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 112 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 91 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 80 (2.77%) Blog
8 72 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 70 (2.43%) Algorithms
10 66 (2.29%) Low-Code
11 57 (1.98%) Mobile App
11 57 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 55 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
13 54 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 53 (1.84%) Data Centre
15 50 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
16 49 (1.70%) Management Information System
17 46 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
18 45 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
19 40 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (2.22%) Windows
2 55 (1.91%) Linux
3 50 (1.73%) Android
4 23 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.14%) Unix
10 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (27.89%) Agile
2 756 (26.20%) Machine Learning
3 716 (24.81%) Analytics
4 663 (22.97%) Roadmaps
5 606 (21.00%) CI/CD
6 500 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 461 (15.97%) Mentoring
8 455 (15.77%) Software Engineering
9 424 (14.69%) Decision-Making
10 410 (14.21%) LLM
11 390 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
12 370 (12.82%) DevOps
13 367 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
14 331 (11.47%) Customer Experience
15 272 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
16 266 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 260 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
18 259 (8.97%) Data Science
19 243 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
20 238 (8.25%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 660 (22.87%) Python
2 522 (18.09%) SQL
3 292 (10.12%) C#
4 264 (9.15%) JavaScript
5 202 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 136 (4.71%) Java
7 60 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.87%) Go
9 50 (1.73%) C++
10 48 (1.66%) Bicep
11 45 (1.56%) Bash
12 31 (1.07%) Scala
13 21 (0.73%) R
14 18 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.59%) PHP
16 15 (0.52%) C
17 12 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.35%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 240 (8.32%) Degree
2 178 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 125 (4.33%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.39%) CISSP
5 65 (2.25%) CISM
6 58 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 54 (1.87%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.80%) ACCA
9 48 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.21%) CIMA
12 32 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 32 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 31 (1.07%) PhD
14 25 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (0.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (10.15%) Accessibility
2 180 (6.24%) Data Quality
3 108 (3.74%) QA
4 103 (3.57%) GDPR
5 67 (2.32%) WCAG
6 57 (1.98%) GRC
7 47 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.25%) NIST
9 26 (0.90%) SLA
10 20 (0.69%) IFRS
11 14 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.38%) PMO
15 7 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.21%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 222 (7.69%) Docker
2 93 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
3 92 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.45%) vSphere
6 12 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.28%) Firmware
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.069%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 202 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 139 (4.82%) Terraform
3 75 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (0.80%) Grafana
5 19 (0.66%) Ansible
6 17 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.17%) Argo
8 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
8 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.14%) Istio
9 4 (0.14%) Nmap
10 3 (0.10%) linkerd
10 3 (0.10%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.069%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.069%) Podman
11 2 (0.069%) Salt
12 1 (0.035%) Nessus
12 1 (0.035%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 721 (24.98%) Microsoft
2 230 (7.97%) Adobe
3 170 (5.89%) Databricks
4 137 (4.75%) Google
5 90 (3.12%) OpenAI
6 78 (2.70%) Cisco
7 68 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.91%) CyberArk
9 52 (1.80%) Apple
10 49 (1.70%) Dell
11 48 (1.66%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.32%) Facebook
12 38 (1.32%) Foundry
12 38 (1.32%) HubSpot
13 30 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
14 29 (1.00%) Oracle
14 29 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 27 (0.94%) Tenable
16 26 (0.90%) SAP
17 22 (0.76%) VMware