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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 +29
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,202 3,510 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.94% 21.19% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.99% 22.64% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,025 685 548
10th Percentile £39,550 £25,203 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,150 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £107,733
UK median annual salary £74,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% -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 20,031 15,502 19,983
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.59% 87.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14,302 8,471 11,957
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,245 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,300 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -2.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,300
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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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 28 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
1 102 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.59%) Confluence
3 35 (1.09%) CMS
4 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.78%) Apache
6 21 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.34%) WordPress
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.094%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.094%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.031%) IIS
14 1 (0.031%) JBoss
14 1 (0.031%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.031%) WebLogic
Applications
1 78 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.66%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.75%) UserZoom
5 22 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.44%) InDesign
8 13 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.22%) Moqups
12 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (0.16%) Trello
13 3 (0.094%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.094%) Productboard
13 3 (0.094%) Revit
13 3 (0.094%) Sketch
14 2 (0.062%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.12%) Primavera
6 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.094%) SAP PSCD
7 3 (0.094%) Shopify
8 2 (0.062%) Maximo
9 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.031%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.031%) FastStats
9 1 (0.031%) HFM
9 1 (0.031%) Magento
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 887 (27.70%) Azure
2 629 (19.64%) AWS
3 313 (9.78%) SaaS
4 283 (8.84%) Power Platform
5 282 (8.81%) GCP
6 242 (7.56%) GitHub
7 220 (6.87%) Azure AI
8 188 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
9 164 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
10 145 (4.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 138 (4.31%) Microsoft Copilot
12 134 (4.18%) Anthropic Claude
13 130 (4.06%) Snowflake
14 114 (3.56%) Serverless
15 112 (3.50%) Entra ID
16 76 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
16 76 (2.37%) Power Automate
17 69 (2.15%) Figma
18 64 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
19 58 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 137 (4.28%) Broadband
2 37 (1.16%) Internet
3 34 (1.06%) Firewall
3 34 (1.06%) VPN
4 31 (0.97%) Network Security
5 23 (0.72%) 5G
5 23 (0.72%) DNS
6 16 (0.50%) HTTP
7 14 (0.44%) DHCP
8 13 (0.41%) VoIP
9 11 (0.34%) CTI
10 9 (0.28%) Wireless
11 8 (0.25%) WPA
12 6 (0.19%) DMZ
12 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.19%) WAN
12 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) Ethernet
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (6.28%) MongoDB
2 182 (5.68%) Power BI
3 166 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 105 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 102 (3.19%) Metadata
6 100 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 76 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.66%) Tableau
10 48 (1.50%) Big Data
11 44 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 40 (1.25%) Relational Database
13 37 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.12%) Redis
15 35 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
16 34 (1.06%) Delta Lake
17 26 (0.81%) MySQL
18 21 (0.66%) Data Vault
18 21 (0.66%) DynamoDB
19 20 (0.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 126 (3.94%) Git
2 90 (2.81%) JIRA
3 89 (2.78%) Claude Code
4 40 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.97%) GitLab
6 27 (0.84%) Snyk
7 20 (0.62%) MLflow
8 17 (0.53%) Selenium
9 15 (0.47%) Postman
10 14 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 10 (0.31%) Maven
12 10 (0.31%) Mockito
13 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.16%) Poetry
13 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 991 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 786 (24.55%) Finance
3 431 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 384 (11.99%) Marketing
5 382 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (7.21%) Public Sector
7 229 (7.15%) Legal
8 161 (5.03%) Law
9 150 (4.68%) Banking
10 121 (3.78%) Games
11 120 (3.75%) Retail
12 118 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
13 117 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
14 65 (2.03%) Advertising
15 54 (1.69%) Manufacturing
16 45 (1.41%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (1.09%) Legal Technology
19 29 (0.91%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 604 (18.86%) Senior
2 423 (13.21%) Developer
3 343 (10.71%) Architect
4 341 (10.65%) Lead
5 271 (8.46%) Software Engineer
6 162 (5.06%) .NET Developer
6 162 (5.06%) Analyst
7 145 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 134 (4.18%) Consultant
9 98 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
10 95 (2.97%) Python Engineer
11 88 (2.75%) Data Engineer
12 85 (2.65%) Senior Manager
13 81 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
14 74 (2.31%) Data Scientist
15 71 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
16 70 (2.19%) Senior Developer
17 69 (2.15%) Engineering Manager
18 65 (2.03%) Sales Executive
19 64 (2.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (8.81%) React
2 261 (8.15%) .NET
3 168 (5.25%) Terraform
4 161 (5.03%) RESTful
5 160 (5.00%) ASP.NET
6 156 (4.87%) Node.js
7 155 (4.84%) .NET Core
8 151 (4.72%) ASP.NET Core
9 148 (4.62%) ML.NET
10 135 (4.22%) CSS
11 127 (3.97%) HTML
12 125 (3.90%) REST
13 110 (3.44%) Blazor
14 108 (3.37%) LangChain
15 73 (2.28%) Next.js
16 66 (2.06%) LangGraph
17 54 (1.69%) PySpark
17 54 (1.69%) PyTorch
17 54 (1.69%) Vue
18 46 (1.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 285 (8.90%) AI Agents
2 276 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 135 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 129 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
5 112 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 110 (3.44%) Social Media
7 99 (3.09%) Blog
8 94 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 74 (2.31%) Low-Code
9 74 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 72 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
11 66 (2.06%) Algorithms
12 63 (1.97%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
14 59 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (1.56%) Mobile App
15 50 (1.56%) Virtual Team
16 48 (1.50%) Hedge funds
17 47 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
18 43 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 81 (2.53%) Windows
2 72 (2.25%) Linux
3 38 (1.19%) Android
4 21 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.37%) VMS
8 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.25%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.094%) Debian
11 3 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.094%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.062%) AIX
12 2 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (22.92%) Machine Learning
2 694 (21.67%) Agile
3 675 (21.08%) Analytics
4 623 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 614 (19.18%) CI/CD
6 558 (17.43%) Roadmaps
7 545 (17.02%) Software Engineering
8 509 (15.90%) Mentoring
9 466 (14.55%) Decision-Making
10 451 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
11 427 (13.34%) LLM
12 397 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 389 (12.15%) DevOps
14 373 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 340 (10.62%) Cybersecurity
16 338 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 308 (9.62%) Coaching
18 275 (8.59%) Data Science
19 268 (8.37%) Technical Leadership
20 247 (7.71%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 741 (23.14%) Python
2 551 (17.21%) SQL
3 310 (9.68%) C#
4 284 (8.87%) JavaScript
5 233 (7.28%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.59%) Java
7 75 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.31%) C++
9 51 (1.59%) Go
10 49 (1.53%) Bash
11 45 (1.41%) Bicep
12 35 (1.09%) R
13 32 (1.00%) Scala
14 22 (0.69%) C
15 19 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.59%) PHP
16 17 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.47%) Rust
19 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 262 (8.18%) Degree
2 256 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 189 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 82 (2.56%) CISSP
5 75 (2.34%) CISM
6 65 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 56 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.69%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.69%) ACCA
9 54 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 54 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
10 44 (1.37%) CIMA
11 38 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 32 (1.00%) AWS Certification
13 25 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.59%) PhD
16 18 (0.56%) SnowPro
17 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 147 (4.59%) GDPR
4 127 (3.97%) QA
5 74 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (2.00%) GRC
7 54 (1.69%) NIST
8 35 (1.09%) SLA
9 25 (0.78%) WCAG
10 20 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 16 (0.50%) PMO
13 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 12 (0.37%) IFRS
15 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
18 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 246 (7.68%) Docker
2 102 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 56 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.41%) vSphere
6 11 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.094%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) NFS
9 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 218 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (1.16%) Grafana
4 19 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.53%) Ansible
6 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.16%) Istio
8 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.16%) Nmap
9 4 (0.12%) Argo
10 3 (0.094%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.094%) linkerd
10 3 (0.094%) Podman
10 3 (0.094%) Puppet
11 2 (0.062%) Cilium
11 2 (0.062%) Kibana
12 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.031%) OpenVAS
12 1 (0.031%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 795 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 174 (5.43%) Google
3 159 (4.97%) Databricks
4 116 (3.62%) Adobe
5 111 (3.47%) OpenAI
6 108 (3.37%) YouTube
7 82 (2.56%) Cisco
8 62 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.87%) Apple
10 57 (1.78%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.72%) CyberArk
12 48 (1.50%) Dell
13 46 (1.44%) SAP
14 44 (1.37%) HubSpot
15 42 (1.31%) Foundry
16 37 (1.16%) Oracle
17 35 (1.09%) Facebook
18 31 (0.97%) VMware
19 30 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
19 30 (0.94%) Palo Alto