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

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +61 +19
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,580 2,673 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.08% 16.19% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.61% 17.36% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 734 755
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,100 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% +1.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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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 16 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 63 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.71%) Confluence
3 39 (1.51%) CMS
4 18 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.62%) Apache
5 16 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.39%) WordPress
8 9 (0.35%) SAS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.078%) JBoss
11 2 (0.078%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.078%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.74%) UserZoom
2 31 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.50%) InDesign
7 13 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.19%) 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 (0.078%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.039%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
1 24 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
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 (0.078%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.039%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.039%) HFM
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.039%) Shopify
6 1 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 784 (30.39%) Azure
2 458 (17.75%) AWS
3 248 (9.61%) SaaS
4 245 (9.50%) Azure AI
5 212 (8.22%) GCP
6 190 (7.36%) Adobe Analytics
7 182 (7.05%) GitHub
8 180 (6.98%) Power Platform
9 162 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
10 116 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 110 (4.26%) Figma
12 107 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
13 103 (3.99%) Snowflake
14 99 (3.84%) Serverless
15 87 (3.37%) Azure Machine Learning
16 85 (3.29%) Anthropic Claude
16 85 (3.29%) Entra ID
17 79 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 77 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
19 70 (2.71%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 337 (13.06%) Broadband
2 32 (1.24%) Internet
3 31 (1.20%) VPN
4 30 (1.16%) Firewall
5 15 (0.58%) DNS
5 15 (0.58%) VoIP
6 13 (0.50%) HTTP
7 11 (0.43%) CTI
8 10 (0.39%) DHCP
8 10 (0.39%) Network Security
9 8 (0.31%) WPA
10 7 (0.27%) Wireless
11 6 (0.23%) 5G
11 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.19%) DMZ
12 5 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.19%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.19%) VLAN
12 5 (0.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (8.37%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 112 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 101 (3.91%) Power BI
5 88 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 78 (3.02%) Metadata
7 61 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (1.63%) Tableau
9 39 (1.51%) Big Data
10 35 (1.36%) NoSQL
11 34 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 31 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
13 29 (1.12%) Redis
14 28 (1.09%) BigQuery
15 26 (1.01%) Delta Lake
16 24 (0.93%) Relational Database
17 23 (0.89%) MySQL
18 18 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
19 17 (0.66%) Pinecone
20 13 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 91 (3.53%) Git
2 54 (2.09%) Claude Code
3 47 (1.82%) JIRA
4 34 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.97%) Snyk
6 21 (0.81%) GitLab
7 14 (0.54%) Selenium
8 11 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.43%) MLflow
9 9 (0.35%) Postman
10 6 (0.23%) Maven
10 6 (0.23%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.19%) JUnit
11 5 (0.19%) Mockito
11 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.19%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.16%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.12%) Appium
General
1 700 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 473 (18.33%) Finance
3 280 (10.85%) Marketing
4 278 (10.78%) Games
5 275 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
6 274 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 193 (7.48%) Legal
8 167 (6.47%) Law
9 150 (5.81%) Public Sector
10 90 (3.49%) Retail
11 82 (3.18%) Banking
12 67 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 56 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
14 54 (2.09%) Advertising
15 40 (1.55%) Automotive
15 40 (1.55%) Legal Technology
16 29 (1.12%) Manufacturing
17 28 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (0.78%) Telecoms
19 13 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 512 (19.84%) Senior
2 379 (14.69%) Developer
3 377 (14.61%) Lead
4 254 (9.84%) Architect
5 180 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.47%) .NET Developer
7 113 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 107 (4.15%) Engineering Manager
9 105 (4.07%) Analyst
10 99 (3.84%) Consultant
11 84 (3.26%) Designer
12 79 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
13 78 (3.02%) Data Engineer
14 69 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
15 67 (2.60%) Python Engineer
16 65 (2.52%) Data Scientist
17 64 (2.48%) Senior Manager
17 64 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
18 62 (2.40%) Senior Developer
19 61 (2.36%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (9.30%) .NET
2 238 (9.22%) React
3 164 (6.36%) ASP.NET
4 160 (6.20%) RESTful
5 159 (6.16%) .NET Core
6 157 (6.09%) ASP.NET Core
7 154 (5.97%) ML.NET
8 142 (5.50%) CSS
9 135 (5.23%) HTML
10 112 (4.34%) Blazor
11 108 (4.19%) Node.js
12 82 (3.18%) REST
13 74 (2.87%) LangChain
14 63 (2.44%) PyTorch
15 55 (2.13%) TensorFlow
16 51 (1.98%) Next.js
17 48 (1.86%) Vue
18 47 (1.82%) FastAPI
19 39 (1.51%) LangGraph
20 33 (1.28%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 235 (9.11%) Social Media
2 231 (8.95%) Cloud Native
3 166 (6.43%) AI Agents
4 135 (5.23%) Product Ownership
5 103 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
6 71 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 68 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 63 (2.44%) Low-Code
9 59 (2.29%) Algorithms
10 57 (2.21%) Video\Live Streaming
11 55 (2.13%) Virtual Team
12 54 (2.09%) Mobile App
13 51 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.59%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.51%) Security Posture
16 38 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
17 36 (1.40%) Blog
18 34 (1.32%) Management Information System
19 32 (1.24%) Podcast
20 30 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (2.29%) Windows
2 52 (2.02%) Android
3 47 (1.82%) Linux
4 26 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.47%) VMS
7 9 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.078%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (29.26%) Agile
2 660 (25.58%) Machine Learning
3 644 (24.96%) Analytics
4 633 (24.53%) Roadmaps
5 548 (21.24%) CI/CD
6 420 (16.28%) Mentoring
7 408 (15.81%) Software Engineering
8 400 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 369 (14.30%) Decision-Making
10 362 (14.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 346 (13.41%) LLM
12 335 (12.98%) DevOps
13 333 (12.91%) Customer Experience
14 312 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
15 243 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
16 240 (9.30%) Product Roadmap
17 239 (9.26%) Generative AI
18 220 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
19 218 (8.45%) Storytelling
20 216 (8.37%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 595 (23.06%) Python
2 460 (17.83%) SQL
3 265 (10.27%) C#
4 231 (8.95%) JavaScript
5 169 (6.55%) TypeScript
6 115 (4.46%) Java
7 61 (2.36%) Go
8 54 (2.09%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.78%) Bash
10 44 (1.71%) Bicep
11 42 (1.63%) C++
12 25 (0.97%) Scala
13 18 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.62%) R
15 15 (0.58%) PHP
16 14 (0.54%) C
17 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.43%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.27%) Rust
18 7 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 199 (7.71%) Degree
2 128 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 86 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 61 (2.36%) CISSP
5 54 (2.09%) CISM
6 51 (1.98%) ACCA
7 46 (1.78%) A+ Certification
7 46 (1.78%) Network+ Certification
8 44 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 34 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 32 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.20%) CIMA
13 30 (1.16%) PhD
14 26 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.85%) DBS Check
17 10 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (11.36%) Accessibility
2 145 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 89 (3.45%) GDPR
4 86 (3.33%) QA
5 70 (2.71%) WCAG
6 58 (2.25%) GRC
7 40 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (1.32%) NIST
9 23 (0.89%) SLA
10 21 (0.81%) IFRS
11 16 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.58%) PMO
13 14 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 12 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.23%) NCSC
18 5 (0.19%) JSP 440
18 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
19 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 190 (7.36%) Docker
2 91 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 85 (3.29%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.47%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) Firmware
7 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 180 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.50%) Terraform
3 64 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.74%) Ansible
4 19 (0.74%) Grafana
5 17 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.31%) Argo
6 8 (0.31%) Kubeflow
7 7 (0.27%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.16%) Nmap
9 4 (0.16%) Puppet
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.078%) linkerd
11 2 (0.078%) Podman
11 2 (0.078%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.078%) Salt
12 1 (0.039%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.039%) Nessus
12 1 (0.039%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 668 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 251 (9.73%) Adobe
3 147 (5.70%) Databricks
4 121 (4.69%) Google
5 85 (3.29%) OpenAI
6 77 (2.98%) Cisco
7 63 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 49 (1.90%) Dell
9 46 (1.78%) Apple
9 46 (1.78%) CyberArk
10 42 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 37 (1.43%) Facebook
11 37 (1.43%) Foundry
12 31 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
13 30 (1.16%) HubSpot
14 27 (1.05%) Palo Alto
14 27 (1.05%) Tenable
15 23 (0.89%) VMware
16 22 (0.85%) Oracle
17 21 (0.81%) Yahoo!
1,515 hybrid/remote AI jobs