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

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 +60 +24
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,365 2,528 1,306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.61% 16.16% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.12% 17.12% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,478 708 858
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,468 £32,500 £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 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
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 16,752 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,688 £75,750
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 26 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 57 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.61%) CMS
2 38 (1.61%) Confluence
3 20 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.55%) Apache
6 12 (0.51%) WordPress
7 10 (0.42%) 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 (0.085%) Camunda
9 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.085%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.042%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.042%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.90%) UserZoom
2 22 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
6 12 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 10 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.42%) InDesign
7 10 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.17%) CapCut
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.13%) Productboard
11 3 (0.13%) Sketch
11 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.13%) Trello
12 2 (0.085%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.042%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.01%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.55%) 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 (0.085%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.042%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.042%) HFM
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.042%) Shopify
6 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 672 (28.41%) Azure
2 435 (18.39%) AWS
3 246 (10.40%) SaaS
4 205 (8.67%) Azure AI
5 203 (8.58%) GCP
6 194 (8.20%) Adobe Analytics
7 167 (7.06%) Power Platform
8 156 (6.60%) GitHub
9 133 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
10 109 (4.61%) Figma
11 98 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
11 98 (4.14%) Serverless
12 95 (4.02%) GitHub Copilot
13 93 (3.93%) Snowflake
14 90 (3.81%) Azure Machine Learning
15 75 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 72 (3.04%) Anthropic Claude
17 70 (2.96%) Contentsquare
18 68 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
19 39 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 339 (14.33%) Broadband
2 29 (1.23%) VPN
3 27 (1.14%) Firewall
4 22 (0.93%) Internet
5 14 (0.59%) DNS
5 14 (0.59%) HTTP
6 9 (0.38%) DHCP
6 9 (0.38%) Network Security
6 9 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.25%) 5G
8 5 (0.21%) DMZ
8 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (0.21%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.21%) VoIP
8 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.21%) WPA
9 4 (0.17%) RTP
9 4 (0.17%) VLAN
9 4 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (7.57%) MongoDB
2 139 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 106 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 95 (4.02%) Power BI
5 81 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
6 75 (3.17%) Metadata
7 54 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.90%) Tableau
9 43 (1.82%) Big Data
10 33 (1.40%) BigQuery
11 32 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 30 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
13 28 (1.18%) Redis
14 25 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 23 (0.97%) Delta Lake
16 22 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
16 22 (0.93%) MySQL
16 22 (0.93%) Relational Database
17 17 (0.72%) Pinecone
18 15 (0.63%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (3.26%) Git
2 45 (1.90%) Claude Code
3 36 (1.52%) JIRA
4 33 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.06%) Snyk
6 19 (0.80%) GitLab
7 18 (0.76%) MLflow
8 13 (0.55%) Selenium
9 11 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.34%) Postman
11 6 (0.25%) Maven
11 6 (0.25%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.21%) JUnit
12 5 (0.21%) Mockito
12 5 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.21%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.13%) Appium
14 2 (0.085%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.085%) TestRail
General
1 591 (24.99%) Social Skills
2 447 (18.90%) Finance
3 277 (11.71%) Games
4 259 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 245 (10.36%) Marketing
6 136 (5.75%) Legal
7 133 (5.62%) Public Sector
8 128 (5.41%) Law
9 81 (3.42%) Retail
10 69 (2.92%) Banking
11 63 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.90%) Advertising
14 39 (1.65%) Automotive
15 38 (1.61%) Legal Technology
16 28 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.76%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 448 (18.94%) Senior
2 372 (15.73%) Lead
3 332 (14.04%) Developer
4 212 (8.96%) Architect
5 150 (6.34%) Software Engineer
6 126 (5.33%) .NET Developer
7 105 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 103 (4.36%) Analyst
9 101 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
10 93 (3.93%) Consultant
11 83 (3.51%) Designer
12 79 (3.34%) Data Engineer
13 75 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.75%) Data Scientist
14 65 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
15 64 (2.71%) Python Engineer
16 61 (2.58%) Product Manager
17 59 (2.49%) Data Manager
18 57 (2.41%) Senior Software Engineer
19 55 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (8.58%) React
2 194 (8.20%) .NET
3 140 (5.92%) RESTful
4 126 (5.33%) .NET Core
5 125 (5.29%) ASP.NET
6 120 (5.07%) ASP.NET Core
7 119 (5.03%) CSS
8 117 (4.95%) ML.NET
9 112 (4.74%) HTML
10 97 (4.10%) Node.js
11 88 (3.72%) Blazor
12 78 (3.30%) REST
13 68 (2.88%) LangChain
13 68 (2.88%) PyTorch
14 58 (2.45%) TensorFlow
15 46 (1.95%) Vue
16 44 (1.86%) FastAPI
17 41 (1.73%) Next.js
18 33 (1.40%) Spring
19 30 (1.27%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 230 (9.73%) Social Media
2 215 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 135 (5.71%) AI Agents
4 134 (5.67%) Product Ownership
5 86 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 73 (3.09%) Onboarding
7 62 (2.62%) Low-Code
8 58 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (2.45%) Video\Live Streaming
9 56 (2.37%) Algorithms
10 52 (2.20%) Virtual Team
11 48 (2.03%) Mobile App
12 41 (1.73%) Data Centre
13 37 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (1.44%) Security Posture
15 33 (1.40%) Social Network
16 32 (1.35%) Podcast
17 31 (1.31%) Public Cloud
18 30 (1.27%) Management Information System
19 24 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.11%) Windows
2 47 (1.99%) Android
3 39 (1.65%) Linux
4 27 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.51%) VMS
5 12 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.085%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.085%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (29.34%) Agile
2 606 (25.62%) Machine Learning
2 606 (25.62%) Roadmaps
3 600 (25.37%) Analytics
4 497 (21.01%) CI/CD
5 370 (15.64%) Software Engineering
6 339 (14.33%) Decision-Making
6 339 (14.33%) Mentoring
7 331 (14.00%) Customer Experience
8 320 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 309 (13.07%) LLM
10 303 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 302 (12.77%) DevOps
12 288 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
13 249 (10.53%) Generative AI
14 242 (10.23%) Product Roadmap
15 225 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
16 219 (9.26%) Storytelling
17 204 (8.63%) Data Science
17 204 (8.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 560 (23.68%) Python
2 406 (17.17%) SQL
3 216 (9.13%) C#
4 196 (8.29%) JavaScript
5 150 (6.34%) TypeScript
6 109 (4.61%) Java
7 67 (2.83%) Go
8 51 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 48 (2.03%) Bash
10 41 (1.73%) Bicep
11 30 (1.27%) C++
12 24 (1.01%) Scala
13 21 (0.89%) R
14 18 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.68%) PHP
16 11 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.38%) C
18 7 (0.30%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.30%) Ruby
19 6 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 191 (8.08%) Degree
2 104 (4.40%) Security Cleared
3 66 (2.79%) SC Cleared
4 54 (2.28%) ACCA
5 45 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.31%) CIMA
8 31 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 30 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.18%) PhD
11 27 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (1.06%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.51%) CISSP
14 10 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.38%) CIPD
15 9 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (11.97%) Accessibility
2 131 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.26%) GDPR
4 74 (3.13%) QA
5 70 (2.96%) WCAG
6 55 (2.33%) GRC
7 31 (1.31%) NIST
8 30 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 25 (1.06%) IFRS
10 22 (0.93%) SLA
11 14 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.59%) PMO
12 13 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.25%) NCSC
16 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 174 (7.36%) Docker
2 91 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.51%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.21%) Firmware
9 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 156 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 109 (4.61%) Terraform
3 19 (0.80%) Ansible
4 17 (0.72%) Grafana
4 17 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 8 (0.34%) Argo
8 7 (0.30%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) Puppet
11 3 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.085%) linkerd
12 2 (0.085%) Nmap
12 2 (0.085%) Podman
12 2 (0.085%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.085%) Salt
13 1 (0.042%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.042%) Nessus
13 1 (0.042%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 546 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 252 (10.66%) Adobe
3 136 (5.75%) Databricks
4 105 (4.44%) Google
5 74 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 69 (2.92%) Cisco
7 58 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.16%) Dell
9 45 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 42 (1.78%) Apple
11 34 (1.44%) Foundry
12 31 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (1.14%) Facebook
13 27 (1.14%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.14%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.14%) Tenable
14 23 (0.97%) VMware
15 21 (0.89%) Oracle
16 17 (0.72%) SAP
17 13 (0.55%) Sony
1,484 hybrid/remote AI jobs