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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 59 68
Rank change year-on-year +55 +9 +42
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,734 834 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.48% 5.14% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.15% 5.44% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 918 489 738
10th Percentile £21,600 £45,000 £39,720
25th Percentile £42,813 £57,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.80%
75th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,650 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 13,571 15,317 24,005
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.79% 94.32% 92.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,623 9,003 19,732
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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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 27 January 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 46 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.02%) Confluence
3 25 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.69%) CMS
6 17 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.48%) JBoss
8 13 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.11%) Luigi
12 2 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.073%) Mendix
12 2 (0.073%) SAS
12 2 (0.073%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.037%) Camunda
13 1 (0.037%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,182 (43.23%) Chatbot
2 78 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.11%) InDesign
6 3 (0.11%) Notion
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.073%) Weka
8 1 (0.037%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.073%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.073%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.073%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.037%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 495 (18.11%) Azure
2 301 (11.01%) AWS
3 216 (7.90%) SaaS
4 194 (7.10%) Power Platform
5 156 (5.71%) GCP
6 148 (5.41%) GitHub
7 127 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
9 72 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
10 68 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 49 (1.79%) Serverless
12 47 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 40 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
15 35 (1.28%) dbt
16 34 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 31 (1.13%) Azure AI
18 29 (1.06%) Power Automate
19 28 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
19 28 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.21%) Broadband
2 12 (0.44%) Firewall
2 12 (0.44%) HTTP
3 11 (0.40%) Network Security
4 9 (0.33%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.26%) DMZ
6 7 (0.26%) Internet
7 6 (0.22%) DHCP
7 6 (0.22%) DNS
7 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 6 (0.22%) VPN
8 5 (0.18%) RTP
8 5 (0.18%) VoIP
8 5 (0.18%) WAN
9 4 (0.15%) Intranet
10 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.11%) DSL
10 3 (0.11%) IPv4
10 3 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.95%) Power BI
2 81 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.12%) Tableau
4 41 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 40 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 37 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.32%) Big Data
8 29 (1.06%) Metadata
9 28 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 27 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 27 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 23 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (0.73%) Looker
14 18 (0.66%) MySQL
15 17 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (0.44%) Redis
18 11 (0.40%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 70 (2.56%) JIRA
2 56 (2.05%) Git
3 21 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (0.51%) GitLab
5 14 (0.51%) MLflow
6 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.29%) Subversion
7 8 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.22%) ERwin
9 5 (0.18%) GitBook
9 5 (0.18%) Selenium
9 5 (0.18%) Storybook
10 4 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) ESLint
11 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.073%) Postman
12 2 (0.073%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 619 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
2 500 (18.29%) Social Skills
3 464 (16.97%) Finance
4 325 (11.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (6.58%) Marketing
6 160 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 118 (4.32%) Retail
8 109 (3.99%) Legal
9 95 (3.47%) Law
10 50 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 36 (1.32%) Games
13 34 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.13%) Banking
14 31 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (0.91%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.84%) Aerospace
17 16 (0.59%) Advertising
17 16 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,160 (42.43%) Trainer
2 269 (9.84%) Senior
3 207 (7.57%) Developer
4 155 (5.67%) Content Editor
5 135 (4.94%) Lead
6 112 (4.10%) Architect
7 98 (3.58%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.58%) Support Specialist
8 92 (3.37%) Analyst
9 79 (2.89%) Research Scientist
10 74 (2.71%) Consultant
11 67 (2.45%) Software Engineer
12 64 (2.34%) Data Engineer
13 54 (1.98%) Sales Executive
14 49 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (1.65%) Corporate Sales Executive
15 45 (1.65%) Microsoft Specialist
16 43 (1.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 42 (1.54%) .NET Developer
18 41 (1.50%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (3.40%) .NET
2 91 (3.33%) React
3 82 (3.00%) REST
4 65 (2.38%) Node.js
5 60 (2.19%) RESTful
6 42 (1.54%) Kafka
7 39 (1.43%) SOAP
8 36 (1.32%) OAuth
8 36 (1.32%) Spring
9 34 (1.24%) OAuth2
9 34 (1.24%) PyTorch
10 31 (1.13%) TensorFlow
11 25 (0.91%) AngularJS
11 25 (0.91%) CSS
12 24 (0.88%) gRPC
13 23 (0.84%) HTML
13 23 (0.84%) Middleware
14 22 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (0.80%) Vue
15 21 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 137 (5.01%) Cloud Native
2 114 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 106 (3.88%) Blog
4 97 (3.55%) Molecular Biology
5 61 (2.23%) Onboarding
6 50 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
11 37 (1.35%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.28%) Algorithms
13 32 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (1.06%) Social Media
16 24 (0.88%) Mobile App
17 23 (0.84%) Management Information System
17 23 (0.84%) Social Network
18 20 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.21%) Android
2 30 (1.10%) Windows
3 27 (0.99%) Linux
4 18 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.073%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (43.67%) Conversational UI
2 394 (14.41%) Chemistry
3 389 (14.23%) Agile
4 319 (11.67%) Analytics
5 297 (10.86%) Roadmaps
6 295 (10.79%) Machine Learning
7 282 (10.31%) DevOps
8 268 (9.80%) CI/CD
9 248 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 226 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.64%) Content Writing
12 206 (7.53%) Software Engineering
13 195 (7.13%) Customer Service
14 169 (6.18%) Customer Experience
15 161 (5.89%) Coaching
15 161 (5.89%) Mentoring
16 150 (5.49%) Decision-Making
17 139 (5.08%) Business Intelligence
18 128 (4.68%) Data Modelling
19 126 (4.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 343 (12.55%) Python
2 272 (9.95%) SQL
3 111 (4.06%) Java
4 109 (3.99%) TypeScript
5 102 (3.73%) JavaScript
6 52 (1.90%) C#
7 38 (1.39%) Go
8 37 (1.35%) C++
8 37 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 36 (1.32%) Bash
10 24 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 24 (0.88%) R
11 22 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 20 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.66%) PHP
15 17 (0.62%) C
15 17 (0.62%) Scala
15 17 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,441 (52.71%) Degree
2 589 (21.54%) Master's Degree
3 573 (20.96%) PhD
4 78 (2.85%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.34%) SC Cleared
6 54 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 26 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.88%) PMP
11 21 (0.77%) ACCA
11 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.59%) CISA
13 13 (0.48%) CISSP
13 13 (0.48%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.37%) CISM
16 8 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 46 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.46%) GDPR
4 30 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.06%) QA
6 24 (0.88%) IFRS
7 20 (0.73%) WCAG
8 18 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 17 (0.62%) GAAP
10 13 (0.48%) NIST
11 12 (0.44%) GRC
11 12 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 9 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
14 8 (0.29%) NCSC
15 7 (0.26%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.15%) PMO
17 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (3.40%) Docker
2 31 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.073%) Ceph
8 2 (0.073%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.073%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.037%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (3.33%) Terraform
2 81 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (0.73%) Ansible
6 11 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.33%) Grafana
8 8 (0.29%) SCCM
9 5 (0.18%) Argo
10 2 (0.073%) Control-M
10 2 (0.073%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.073%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.073%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.073%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.073%) Puppet
11 1 (0.037%) Cilium
11 1 (0.037%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.037%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,161 (42.47%) PayPal
2 420 (15.36%) Microsoft
3 74 (2.71%) Adobe
4 63 (2.30%) Cisco
5 61 (2.23%) Google
5 61 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 57 (2.08%) Databricks
7 51 (1.87%) Dell
7 51 (1.87%) Oracle
8 45 (1.65%) Blue Prism
9 31 (1.13%) Apple
10 27 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 24 (0.88%) HubSpot
12 20 (0.73%) SAP
13 15 (0.55%) Foundry
14 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.40%) Palantir
16 10 (0.37%) IBM
17 9 (0.33%) Informatica
18 8 (0.29%) ServiceNow