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

 6 months to
20 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +61 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,314 2,458 1,343
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.49% 15.88% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.03% 16.81% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,415 685 886
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,125 £29,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,274 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -5.32% -6.67%

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 16,496 14,625 30,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.89% 94.51% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,943 8,513 23,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 June 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 54 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.64%) CMS
2 38 (1.64%) Confluence
3 21 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.56%) Apache
5 12 (0.52%) WordPress
6 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.43%) SAS
8 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.13%) JBoss
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.086%) Camunda
9 2 (0.086%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.086%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.043%) Moodle
10 1 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 45 (1.94%) UserZoom
2 28 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.73%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
6 12 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 12 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.43%) InDesign
7 10 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.17%) CapCut
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Productboard
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.086%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.043%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.086%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.043%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.043%) HFM
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Shopify
6 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 646 (27.92%) Azure
2 432 (18.67%) AWS
3 238 (10.29%) SaaS
4 200 (8.64%) GCP
5 194 (8.38%) Adobe Analytics
6 192 (8.30%) Azure AI
7 164 (7.09%) Power Platform
8 142 (6.14%) GitHub
9 123 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (4.84%) Figma
11 94 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
12 93 (4.02%) Serverless
13 90 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
13 90 (3.89%) Snowflake
14 89 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
15 73 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 70 (3.03%) Contentsquare
17 69 (2.98%) Anthropic Claude
18 66 (2.85%) Microsoft Copilot
19 36 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 339 (14.65%) Broadband
2 27 (1.17%) Firewall
3 24 (1.04%) VPN
4 21 (0.91%) Internet
5 15 (0.65%) HTTP
6 13 (0.56%) DNS
7 10 (0.43%) Network Security
7 10 (0.43%) Unified Communications
8 8 (0.35%) DHCP
9 6 (0.26%) 5G
9 6 (0.26%) DMZ
10 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.22%) VoIP
10 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.22%) WPA
11 4 (0.17%) RTP
11 4 (0.17%) Wireless
12 3 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (7.30%) MongoDB
2 124 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 102 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 93 (4.02%) Power BI
5 79 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 67 (2.90%) Metadata
7 55 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.94%) Tableau
9 42 (1.82%) Big Data
10 34 (1.47%) BigQuery
11 32 (1.38%) NoSQL
12 30 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
13 25 (1.08%) Redis
14 24 (1.04%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.95%) Relational Database
16 21 (0.91%) Delta Lake
16 21 (0.91%) MySQL
17 16 (0.69%) Looker
17 16 (0.69%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 73 (3.15%) Git
2 44 (1.90%) Claude Code
3 37 (1.60%) JIRA
4 32 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.08%) Snyk
6 19 (0.82%) GitLab
6 19 (0.82%) MLflow
7 11 (0.48%) Selenium
8 10 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.30%) Postman
11 6 (0.26%) Maven
11 6 (0.26%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.22%) JUnit
12 5 (0.22%) Mockito
12 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.22%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.13%) Appium
14 2 (0.086%) Metasploit
14 2 (0.086%) Mocha
General
1 565 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 437 (18.89%) Finance
3 277 (11.97%) Games
4 268 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 261 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
6 243 (10.50%) Marketing
7 136 (5.88%) Legal
8 135 (5.83%) Public Sector
9 122 (5.27%) Law
10 80 (3.46%) Retail
11 69 (2.98%) Banking
12 63 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.82%) Advertising
15 39 (1.69%) Automotive
15 39 (1.69%) Legal Technology
16 28 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (1.08%) Manufacturing
18 17 (0.73%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 439 (18.97%) Senior
2 368 (15.90%) Lead
3 315 (13.61%) Developer
4 211 (9.12%) Architect
5 143 (6.18%) Software Engineer
6 116 (5.01%) .NET Developer
7 102 (4.41%) Analyst
8 101 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 97 (4.19%) Engineering Manager
10 91 (3.93%) Consultant
11 85 (3.67%) Designer
12 80 (3.46%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.81%) Python Engineer
15 64 (2.77%) Data Scientist
16 62 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
17 61 (2.64%) Product Manager
18 59 (2.55%) Data Manager
19 55 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
20 53 (2.29%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (8.47%) React
2 182 (7.87%) .NET
3 136 (5.88%) RESTful
4 117 (5.06%) .NET Core
5 114 (4.93%) ASP.NET
6 110 (4.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 110 (4.75%) CSS
7 107 (4.62%) ML.NET
8 103 (4.45%) HTML
9 94 (4.06%) Node.js
10 85 (3.67%) Blazor
11 77 (3.33%) REST
12 67 (2.90%) PyTorch
13 65 (2.81%) LangChain
14 57 (2.46%) TensorFlow
15 44 (1.90%) FastAPI
16 43 (1.86%) Vue
17 38 (1.64%) Next.js
18 31 (1.34%) Spring
19 28 (1.21%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 229 (9.90%) Social Media
2 211 (9.12%) Cloud Native
3 133 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 126 (5.45%) AI Agents
5 80 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 78 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.59%) Low-Code
8 58 (2.51%) Video\Live Streaming
9 56 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
10 54 (2.33%) Algorithms
11 51 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 48 (2.07%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.77%) Data Centre
14 37 (1.60%) Public Cloud
15 36 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (1.34%) Security Posture
16 31 (1.34%) Social Network
17 30 (1.30%) Management Information System
18 28 (1.21%) Podcast
19 24 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.90%) Android
2 43 (1.86%) Windows
3 39 (1.69%) Linux
4 27 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.35%) VMS
7 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.086%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.086%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (28.87%) Agile
2 597 (25.80%) Roadmaps
3 589 (25.45%) Machine Learning
4 584 (25.24%) Analytics
5 472 (20.40%) CI/CD
6 352 (15.21%) Software Engineering
7 332 (14.35%) Customer Experience
8 325 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 315 (13.61%) Decision-Making
10 301 (13.01%) Full-Stack Development
11 296 (12.79%) LLM
12 288 (12.45%) DevOps
13 287 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 275 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
15 247 (10.67%) Generative AI
16 242 (10.46%) Product Roadmap
17 220 (9.51%) Storytelling
18 213 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
19 204 (8.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 200 (8.64%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 549 (23.73%) Python
2 389 (16.81%) SQL
3 203 (8.77%) C#
4 184 (7.95%) JavaScript
5 144 (6.22%) TypeScript
6 110 (4.75%) Java
7 66 (2.85%) Go
8 46 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 44 (1.90%) Bash
10 34 (1.47%) Bicep
11 28 (1.21%) C++
12 22 (0.95%) Scala
13 20 (0.86%) R
14 15 (0.65%) PHP
15 14 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.39%) C
18 7 (0.30%) Ruby
19 6 (0.26%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 184 (7.95%) Degree
2 103 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 65 (2.81%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.29%) ACCA
5 43 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 42 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.34%) CIMA
8 31 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (1.17%) PhD
10 25 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.52%) CISSP
12 10 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.26%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (12.32%) Accessibility
2 123 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.33%) GDPR
4 72 (3.11%) WCAG
5 67 (2.90%) QA
6 54 (2.33%) GRC
7 32 (1.38%) NIST
8 31 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.04%) IFRS
10 22 (0.95%) SLA
11 14 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.61%) PMO
12 13 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.30%) NCSC
15 6 (0.26%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 168 (7.26%) Docker
2 91 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.35%) vSphere
7 4 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 147 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 98 (4.24%) Terraform
3 19 (0.82%) Ansible
4 16 (0.69%) Grafana
5 15 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.39%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.30%) Argo
8 7 (0.30%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.086%) linkerd
12 2 (0.086%) Nmap
12 2 (0.086%) Podman
12 2 (0.086%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.086%) Salt
13 1 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.043%) Nessus
13 1 (0.043%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 529 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 258 (11.15%) Adobe
3 133 (5.75%) Databricks
4 103 (4.45%) Google
5 71 (3.07%) OpenAI
6 69 (2.98%) Cisco
7 56 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.29%) Dell
9 47 (2.03%) Apple
10 44 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
11 31 (1.34%) Foundry
12 27 (1.17%) HubSpot
12 27 (1.17%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.17%) Tenable
13 25 (1.08%) Facebook
14 20 (0.86%) Oracle
15 19 (0.82%) VMware
16 17 (0.73%) SAP
17 12 (0.52%) Sony
1,389 hybrid/remote AI jobs