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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +59 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,531 2,649 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.93% 16.09% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.40% 17.21% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,615 737 799
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -5.29% -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 17,578 15,394 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.48% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,832 9,111 21,964
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 July 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 61 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.66%) Confluence
3 39 (1.54%) CMS
4 18 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.63%) Apache
7 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.43%) SAS
8 11 (0.43%) WordPress
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.079%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.079%) JBoss
11 2 (0.079%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.079%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 46 (1.82%) UserZoom
2 31 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.51%) InDesign
7 13 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.16%) CapCut
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) Productboard
11 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.079%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.040%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.040%) HFM
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 760 (30.03%) Azure
2 450 (17.78%) AWS
3 244 (9.64%) Azure AI
3 244 (9.64%) SaaS
4 213 (8.42%) GCP
5 192 (7.59%) Adobe Analytics
6 179 (7.07%) GitHub
7 178 (7.03%) Power Platform
8 158 (6.24%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
10 108 (4.27%) Figma
11 104 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
12 101 (3.99%) Snowflake
13 98 (3.87%) Serverless
14 89 (3.52%) Azure Machine Learning
15 80 (3.16%) Anthropic Claude
15 80 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 71 (2.81%) Contentsquare
16 71 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
17 66 (2.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 339 (13.39%) Broadband
2 32 (1.26%) Internet
3 31 (1.22%) VPN
4 28 (1.11%) Firewall
5 15 (0.59%) DNS
5 15 (0.59%) VoIP
6 13 (0.51%) HTTP
7 11 (0.43%) CTI
8 10 (0.40%) DHCP
9 8 (0.32%) Network Security
9 8 (0.32%) WPA
10 7 (0.28%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.28%) Wireless
11 6 (0.24%) 5G
12 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.20%) VLAN
12 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (8.61%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 110 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 102 (4.03%) Power BI
5 86 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (3.08%) Metadata
7 60 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (1.66%) Tableau
9 40 (1.58%) Big Data
10 36 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 33 (1.30%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
13 29 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.15%) Redis
14 25 (0.99%) Delta Lake
15 23 (0.91%) MySQL
15 23 (0.91%) Relational Database
16 19 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
17 17 (0.67%) Pinecone
18 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 86 (3.40%) Git
2 50 (1.98%) Claude Code
3 45 (1.78%) JIRA
4 34 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.99%) Snyk
6 19 (0.75%) GitLab
7 13 (0.51%) MLflow
7 13 (0.51%) Selenium
8 11 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.32%) Postman
10 6 (0.24%) Maven
10 6 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.20%) JUnit
11 5 (0.20%) Mockito
11 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.20%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.12%) Appium
12 3 (0.12%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.12%) Metasploit
General
1 662 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 466 (18.41%) Finance
3 279 (11.02%) Games
4 269 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 264 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
5 264 (10.43%) Marketing
6 164 (6.48%) Law
7 161 (6.36%) Legal
8 149 (5.89%) Public Sector
9 88 (3.48%) Retail
10 77 (3.04%) Banking
11 68 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 55 (2.17%) Advertising
12 55 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (1.58%) Automotive
14 38 (1.50%) Legal Technology
15 29 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (0.79%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 489 (19.32%) Senior
2 383 (15.13%) Lead
3 374 (14.78%) Developer
4 244 (9.64%) Architect
5 172 (6.80%) Software Engineer
6 165 (6.52%) .NET Developer
7 111 (4.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 105 (4.15%) Engineering Manager
9 104 (4.11%) Analyst
10 97 (3.83%) Consultant
11 86 (3.40%) Designer
12 82 (3.24%) Data Engineer
13 79 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
14 66 (2.61%) Data Scientist
14 66 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (2.57%) Python Engineer
16 62 (2.45%) Product Manager
16 62 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
17 59 (2.33%) Data Manager
17 59 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (9.36%) .NET
2 231 (9.13%) React
3 164 (6.48%) ASP.NET
4 158 (6.24%) .NET Core
4 158 (6.24%) RESTful
5 157 (6.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 154 (6.08%) ML.NET
7 140 (5.53%) CSS
8 133 (5.25%) HTML
9 112 (4.43%) Blazor
10 102 (4.03%) Node.js
11 81 (3.20%) REST
12 69 (2.73%) LangChain
13 64 (2.53%) PyTorch
14 55 (2.17%) TensorFlow
15 49 (1.94%) Vue
16 47 (1.86%) FastAPI
17 45 (1.78%) Next.js
18 33 (1.30%) LangGraph
18 33 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 237 (9.36%) Social Media
2 227 (8.97%) Cloud Native
3 161 (6.36%) AI Agents
4 135 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 99 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (2.53%) Low-Code
9 58 (2.29%) Algorithms
10 57 (2.25%) Video\Live Streaming
11 55 (2.17%) Virtual Team
12 54 (2.13%) Mobile App
13 51 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.62%) Data Centre
15 37 (1.46%) Security Posture
16 35 (1.38%) Management Information System
17 32 (1.26%) Podcast
18 30 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
18 30 (1.19%) Public Cloud
19 29 (1.15%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 58 (2.29%) Windows
2 52 (2.05%) Android
3 46 (1.82%) Linux
4 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.47%) VMS
7 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.079%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (29.55%) Agile
2 657 (25.96%) Machine Learning
3 632 (24.97%) Analytics
4 627 (24.77%) Roadmaps
5 538 (21.26%) CI/CD
6 399 (15.76%) Software Engineering
7 398 (15.73%) Mentoring
8 362 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 361 (14.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 356 (14.07%) Decision-Making
11 336 (13.28%) Customer Experience
11 336 (13.28%) LLM
12 334 (13.20%) DevOps
13 305 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
14 243 (9.60%) Product Roadmap
15 242 (9.56%) Generative AI
16 239 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
17 219 (8.65%) Storytelling
18 217 (8.57%) Data Science
19 209 (8.26%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 591 (23.35%) Python
2 458 (18.10%) SQL
3 260 (10.27%) C#
4 225 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 164 (6.48%) TypeScript
6 117 (4.62%) Java
7 65 (2.57%) Go
8 53 (2.09%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.86%) Bash
10 43 (1.70%) Bicep
11 39 (1.54%) C++
12 25 (0.99%) Scala
13 19 (0.75%) R
14 18 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.63%) PHP
16 14 (0.55%) C
17 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.40%) Rust
19 7 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 200 (7.90%) Degree
2 123 (4.86%) Security Cleared
3 81 (3.20%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.05%) ACCA
5 44 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (1.62%) CISSP
8 37 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 36 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 34 (1.34%) CISM
11 32 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.22%) CIMA
13 30 (1.19%) PhD
14 28 (1.11%) A+ Certification
14 28 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
15 27 (1.07%) Master's Degree
16 25 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.95%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (11.73%) Accessibility
2 147 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.28%) QA
4 82 (3.24%) GDPR
5 71 (2.81%) WCAG
6 55 (2.17%) GRC
7 35 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.22%) NIST
9 23 (0.91%) SLA
10 22 (0.87%) IFRS
11 15 (0.59%) PMO
12 14 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 12 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) NCSC
16 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.16%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 192 (7.59%) Docker
2 91 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
3 66 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.47%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 183 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.58%) Terraform
3 46 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.75%) Ansible
4 19 (0.75%) Grafana
5 17 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.32%) Argo
6 8 (0.32%) Kubeflow
7 7 (0.28%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Nmap
11 2 (0.079%) linkerd
11 2 (0.079%) Podman
11 2 (0.079%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.079%) Salt
12 1 (0.040%) CASB
12 1 (0.040%) Cilium
12 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 641 (25.33%) Microsoft
2 253 (10.00%) Adobe
3 143 (5.65%) Databricks
4 121 (4.78%) Google
5 83 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 79 (3.12%) Cisco
7 64 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.02%) Dell
9 46 (1.82%) Apple
10 44 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 37 (1.46%) Facebook
11 37 (1.46%) Foundry
12 31 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
13 28 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 28 (1.11%) HubSpot
14 27 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 27 (1.07%) Tenable
15 23 (0.91%) Oracle
15 23 (0.91%) VMware
16 21 (0.83%) Yahoo!