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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +46 +27
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,112 3,025 1,088
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.98% 18.69% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.96% 20.06% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,968 664 563
10th Percentile £40,000 £24,825 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,451 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £104,750
UK median annual salary £74,830 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 19,495 15,078 20,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.33% 93.14% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,036 8,555 12,692
10th Percentile £34,250 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 15 September 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
1 103 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.61%) Confluence
3 36 (1.16%) CMS
4 28 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.74%) Apache
6 19 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 10 (0.32%) WordPress
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.096%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.064%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.032%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.032%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.032%) Moodle
14 1 (0.032%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 69 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.70%) Chatbot
3 32 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.80%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.45%) InDesign
8 13 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (0.16%) Moqups
10 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.13%) Trello
12 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.096%) Productboard
12 3 (0.096%) Sketch
13 2 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.064%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.90%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.77%) Cloudability
4 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Primavera
7 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.096%) Shopify
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.064%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.032%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.032%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.032%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 887 (28.50%) Azure
2 592 (19.02%) AWS
3 295 (9.48%) SaaS
4 264 (8.48%) Power Platform
5 261 (8.39%) GCP
6 251 (8.07%) Azure AI
7 225 (7.23%) GitHub
8 181 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
9 165 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
10 150 (4.82%) Snowflake
11 136 (4.37%) GitHub Copilot
12 123 (3.95%) Anthropic Claude
12 123 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
13 111 (3.57%) Entra ID
13 111 (3.57%) Serverless
14 91 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 79 (2.54%) Figma
16 77 (2.47%) Adobe Analytics
17 73 (2.35%) Azure Machine Learning
17 73 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 167 (5.37%) Broadband
2 37 (1.19%) Internet
3 33 (1.06%) Firewall
3 33 (1.06%) VPN
4 30 (0.96%) Network Security
5 23 (0.74%) 5G
5 23 (0.74%) DNS
6 16 (0.51%) HTTP
7 14 (0.45%) DHCP
8 13 (0.42%) VoIP
9 11 (0.35%) CTI
10 8 (0.26%) Wireless
10 8 (0.26%) WPA
11 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.19%) WAN
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.16%) BGP
12 5 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.16%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (6.46%) MongoDB
2 171 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 168 (5.40%) Power BI
4 124 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 95 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (3.02%) Metadata
7 74 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (1.77%) NoSQL
9 51 (1.64%) Tableau
10 44 (1.41%) Big Data
11 39 (1.25%) Data Lake
12 36 (1.16%) Relational Database
13 34 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
14 33 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 33 (1.06%) Redis
15 31 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.71%) MySQL
17 20 (0.64%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.64%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.55%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 119 (3.82%) Git
2 80 (2.57%) JIRA
3 76 (2.44%) Claude Code
4 38 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.87%) Snyk
6 26 (0.84%) GitLab
7 15 (0.48%) MLflow
7 15 (0.48%) Selenium
8 13 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.39%) Postman
9 12 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 11 (0.35%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.32%) JUnit
11 10 (0.32%) Maven
11 10 (0.32%) Mockito
12 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.16%) Poetry
12 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 938 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 765 (24.58%) Finance
3 421 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 366 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 355 (11.41%) Marketing
6 233 (7.49%) Legal
7 217 (6.97%) Public Sector
8 167 (5.37%) Law
9 149 (4.79%) Games
10 136 (4.37%) Banking
11 111 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 111 (3.57%) Retail
12 109 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
13 57 (1.83%) Advertising
14 50 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 43 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (1.09%) Legal Technology
18 28 (0.90%) Automotive
19 27 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 577 (18.54%) Senior
2 402 (12.92%) Developer
3 338 (10.86%) Lead
4 336 (10.80%) Architect
5 243 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.24%) .NET Developer
7 155 (4.98%) Analyst
8 131 (4.21%) Consultant
9 126 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 102 (3.28%) Engineering Manager
11 93 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 86 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 80 (2.57%) Python Engineer
14 79 (2.54%) Senior Manager
15 77 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
16 71 (2.28%) Data Scientist
17 70 (2.25%) Data Architect
18 69 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
19 67 (2.15%) Senior Developer
20 65 (2.09%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (8.84%) React
2 247 (7.94%) .NET
3 161 (5.17%) ASP.NET
4 159 (5.11%) Terraform
5 157 (5.04%) RESTful
6 153 (4.92%) .NET Core
7 152 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
8 151 (4.85%) Node.js
9 149 (4.79%) ML.NET
10 136 (4.37%) CSS
11 126 (4.05%) HTML
12 113 (3.63%) REST
13 111 (3.57%) Blazor
14 100 (3.21%) LangChain
15 72 (2.31%) Next.js
16 60 (1.93%) LangGraph
17 55 (1.77%) PyTorch
18 52 (1.67%) PySpark
19 49 (1.57%) Vue
20 47 (1.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 271 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 267 (8.58%) AI Agents
3 137 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 131 (4.21%) Social Media
5 120 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 112 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
7 98 (3.15%) Blog
8 76 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 76 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 74 (2.38%) Management Information System
10 65 (2.09%) Algorithms
11 64 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
12 63 (2.02%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
14 53 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
15 52 (1.67%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
17 49 (1.57%) Mobile App
18 45 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
19 41 (1.32%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.54%) Windows
2 65 (2.09%) Linux
3 37 (1.19%) Android
4 21 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.39%) VMS
7 11 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.22%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Debian
11 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.064%) AIX
12 2 (0.064%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (24.36%) Machine Learning
2 745 (23.94%) Agile
3 672 (21.59%) Analytics
4 615 (19.76%) Roadmaps
5 608 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 593 (19.06%) CI/CD
7 497 (15.97%) Software Engineering
8 495 (15.91%) Mentoring
9 465 (14.94%) Decision-Making
10 427 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
11 408 (13.11%) LLM
12 381 (12.24%) DevOps
13 369 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 359 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 326 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 325 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
17 284 (9.13%) Coaching
18 267 (8.58%) Data Science
19 264 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
20 263 (8.45%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 695 (22.33%) Python
2 565 (18.16%) SQL
3 290 (9.32%) C#
4 276 (8.87%) JavaScript
5 224 (7.20%) TypeScript
6 136 (4.37%) Java
7 70 (2.25%) PowerShell
8 67 (2.15%) C++
9 49 (1.57%) Go
10 48 (1.54%) Bash
11 47 (1.51%) Bicep
12 30 (0.96%) Scala
13 26 (0.84%) R
14 19 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.55%) C
15 17 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.48%) PHP
18 12 (0.39%) Ruby
18 12 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 259 (8.32%) Degree
2 231 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 169 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.67%) CISSP
5 75 (2.41%) CISM
6 64 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 62 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 57 (1.83%) ACCA
9 54 (1.74%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
10 53 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (1.48%) CIMA
13 37 (1.19%) DBS Check
14 31 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 25 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 25 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 21 (0.67%) PhD
17 18 (0.58%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 206 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 131 (4.21%) GDPR
4 118 (3.79%) QA
5 66 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (2.09%) GRC
7 50 (1.61%) NIST
8 34 (1.09%) WCAG
9 32 (1.03%) SLA
10 19 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.55%) PMO
12 16 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 15 (0.48%) IFRS
14 14 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 14 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 12 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.32%) EU AI Act
17 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 230 (7.39%) Docker
2 101 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 89 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.42%) vSphere
6 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.32%) Firmware
7 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.096%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 208 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (1.00%) Grafana
4 18 (0.58%) Ansible
4 18 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.19%) Argo
6 6 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.16%) Istio
7 5 (0.16%) Nmap
7 5 (0.16%) Puppet
8 3 (0.096%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.096%) linkerd
8 3 (0.096%) Podman
9 2 (0.064%) Cilium
9 2 (0.064%) Salt
10 1 (0.032%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) Kibana
Vendors
1 802 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 184 (5.91%) Databricks
3 154 (4.95%) Google
4 141 (4.53%) Adobe
5 108 (3.47%) OpenAI
6 101 (3.25%) YouTube
7 80 (2.57%) Cisco
8 63 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.93%) Apple
10 55 (1.77%) CyberArk
11 54 (1.74%) Salesforce
12 47 (1.51%) Dell
13 41 (1.32%) SAP
14 40 (1.29%) HubSpot
15 38 (1.22%) Foundry
16 36 (1.16%) Facebook
17 34 (1.09%) Oracle
18 30 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
18 30 (0.96%) Palo Alto
19 29 (0.93%) VMware