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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 69
Rank change year-on-year +3 +56 +19
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,975 2,101 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.58% 13.88% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 14.59% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 697 869
10th Percentile £38,945 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.93% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 15,436 14,396 29,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.67% 95.08% 90.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,985 8,732 23,377
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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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 18 May 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 53 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.18%) CMS
3 39 (1.97%) Confluence
4 21 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.51%) SAS
6 10 (0.51%) WordPress
7 8 (0.41%) Apache
8 7 (0.35%) JBoss
8 7 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.051%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.051%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 40 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.52%) UserZoom
3 22 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.81%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (0.25%) Sketch
6 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.20%) CapCut
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.15%) Productboard
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.10%) Trello
9 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.22%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.15%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.051%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.051%) HFM
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.051%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 537 (27.19%) Azure
2 374 (18.94%) AWS
3 207 (10.48%) SaaS
4 183 (9.27%) Adobe Analytics
5 167 (8.46%) GCP
6 140 (7.09%) Power Platform
7 131 (6.63%) GitHub
8 128 (6.48%) Azure AI
9 108 (5.47%) Figma
10 93 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (4.56%) Snowflake
12 89 (4.51%) Azure Machine Learning
13 87 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
14 75 (3.80%) Serverless
15 69 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
16 68 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 55 (2.78%) Contentsquare
18 48 (2.43%) Microsoft Copilot
19 33 (1.67%) Entra ID
20 30 (1.52%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 287 (14.53%) Broadband
2 25 (1.27%) Firewall
3 18 (0.91%) HTTP
4 10 (0.51%) Network Security
4 10 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 10 (0.51%) VPN
5 9 (0.46%) DNS
6 7 (0.35%) DMZ
6 7 (0.35%) Internet
7 6 (0.30%) 5G
7 6 (0.30%) DHCP
8 4 (0.20%) Modbus
8 4 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.15%) RTP
9 3 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.15%) Wireless
9 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.15%) WPA
10 2 (0.10%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.86%) MongoDB
2 86 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 83 (4.20%) Power BI
4 61 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 59 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.58%) Metadata
7 44 (2.23%) Tableau
8 41 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (1.72%) Big Data
10 25 (1.27%) NoSQL
11 23 (1.16%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.11%) Data Lake
13 20 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.01%) Looker
13 20 (1.01%) Redis
14 16 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
15 14 (0.71%) Delta Lake
16 12 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (2.73%) Git
2 36 (1.82%) JIRA
3 25 (1.27%) Claude Code
4 24 (1.22%) Snyk
5 23 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 22 (1.11%) MLflow
7 13 (0.66%) GitLab
8 10 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.51%) Selenium
8 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.35%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.30%) Storybook
11 4 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.20%) Maven
11 4 (0.20%) Postman
11 4 (0.20%) Subversion
12 3 (0.15%) JUnit
12 3 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 469 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 411 (20.81%) Finance
3 272 (13.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 249 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 247 (12.51%) Games
6 203 (10.28%) Marketing
7 143 (7.24%) Public Sector
8 137 (6.94%) Legal
9 117 (5.92%) Law
10 70 (3.54%) Retail
11 52 (2.63%) Banking
12 47 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (1.92%) Automotive
15 26 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 24 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.86%) Advertising
18 13 (0.66%) Back Office
19 8 (0.41%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 402 (20.35%) Senior
2 298 (15.09%) Lead
3 213 (10.78%) Developer
4 173 (8.76%) Architect
5 109 (5.52%) Software Engineer
6 97 (4.91%) Analyst
7 81 (4.10%) Consultant
8 79 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
9 74 (3.75%) Designer
10 71 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
11 59 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 59 (2.99%) Data Engineer
12 56 (2.84%) Product Manager
13 54 (2.73%) .NET Developer
14 53 (2.68%) Data Manager
15 50 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
16 49 (2.48%) Data Scientist
16 49 (2.48%) Lead Designer
16 49 (2.48%) Senior Architect
17 48 (2.43%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (7.39%) React
2 114 (5.77%) .NET
3 95 (4.81%) RESTful
4 86 (4.35%) REST
5 75 (3.80%) Node.js
6 68 (3.44%) CSS
7 62 (3.14%) HTML
8 56 (2.84%) .NET Core
9 51 (2.58%) ASP.NET
9 51 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 49 (2.48%) ML.NET
11 47 (2.38%) PyTorch
12 41 (2.08%) Blazor
13 39 (1.97%) TensorFlow
14 36 (1.82%) LangChain
15 32 (1.62%) Vue
16 30 (1.52%) FastAPI
16 30 (1.52%) Spring
17 28 (1.42%) Next.js
18 26 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 194 (9.82%) Social Media
2 146 (7.39%) Cloud Native
3 114 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 86 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 75 (3.80%) AI Agents
6 53 (2.68%) Blog
6 53 (2.68%) Low-Code
7 50 (2.53%) Mobile App
7 50 (2.53%) Public Cloud
8 44 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (2.18%) Virtual Team
10 41 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 41 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
11 39 (1.97%) Data Centre
12 37 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
13 28 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.37%) Social Network
15 21 (1.06%) Podcast
16 20 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.28%) Android
2 28 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 25 (1.27%) Linux
4 20 (1.01%) Windows
5 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.20%) Unix
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (28.81%) Agile
2 516 (26.13%) Analytics
3 495 (25.06%) Roadmaps
4 454 (22.99%) Machine Learning
5 365 (18.48%) CI/CD
6 306 (15.49%) Customer Experience
7 272 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 262 (13.27%) Software Engineering
9 254 (12.86%) Mentoring
10 241 (12.20%) Decision-Making
11 239 (12.10%) DevOps
12 231 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
13 230 (11.65%) Product Roadmap
14 209 (10.58%) Storytelling
15 205 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
15 205 (10.38%) LLM
16 195 (9.87%) Generative AI
17 187 (9.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 177 (8.96%) Digital Customer Experience
19 170 (8.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 403 (20.41%) Python
2 291 (14.73%) SQL
3 120 (6.08%) C#
4 114 (5.77%) Java
5 113 (5.72%) JavaScript
6 111 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.94%) Go
8 27 (1.37%) Bash
8 27 (1.37%) C++
9 21 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 21 (1.06%) R
10 18 (0.91%) Bicep
11 17 (0.86%) Scala
12 13 (0.66%) PHP
13 12 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.46%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 192 (9.72%) Degree
2 82 (4.15%) Security Cleared
3 51 (2.58%) AWS Certification
4 48 (2.43%) ACCA
4 48 (2.43%) SC Cleared
5 33 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.67%) DBS Check
6 31 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.42%) CIMA
9 24 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.06%) PhD
11 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.56%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) CISA
13 8 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.30%) PMP
15 5 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (13.82%) Accessibility
2 74 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.65%) WCAG
4 57 (2.89%) QA
5 54 (2.73%) GDPR
6 52 (2.63%) GRC
7 25 (1.27%) IFRS
8 23 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.76%) PMO
10 13 (0.66%) NIST
10 13 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 9 (0.46%) SLA
13 8 (0.41%) NCSC
14 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.30%) GAAP
16 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 124 (6.28%) Docker
2 86 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 100 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.44%) Terraform
3 19 (0.96%) Ansible
4 17 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.56%) Grafana
6 10 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.35%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.30%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.25%) Argo
9 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.10%) Podman
10 2 (0.10%) Puppet
10 2 (0.10%) Salt
11 1 (0.051%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 440 (22.28%) Microsoft
2 255 (12.91%) Adobe
3 121 (6.13%) Databricks
4 84 (4.25%) Google
5 57 (2.89%) Apple
6 51 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.53%) Cisco
8 48 (2.43%) Dell
8 48 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 40 (2.03%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
11 26 (1.32%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.27%) Tenable
13 24 (1.22%) Oracle
14 22 (1.11%) Foundry
14 22 (1.11%) HubSpot
15 16 (0.81%) SAP
16 14 (0.71%) Palantir
17 11 (0.56%) Instagram
17 11 (0.56%) Wrike