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

 6 months to
25 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 63
Rank change year-on-year 0 +56 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,746 2,668 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.63% 16.22% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.23% 17.41% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,712 724 650
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,405 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.56% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £103,875
UK median annual salary £70,150 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.81% -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 18,035 15,327 24,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 93.18% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 9,060 18,139
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,981
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 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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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 25 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 72 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.75%) Confluence
3 39 (1.42%) CMS
4 21 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.66%) Apache
6 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.33%) SAS
10 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.073%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.073%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.036%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.036%) Moodle
13 1 (0.036%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.036%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.60%) UserZoom
2 33 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 29 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.47%) InDesign
7 13 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.15%) CapCut
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Productboard
11 3 (0.11%) Sketch
11 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.11%) Trello
12 2 (0.073%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.073%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 37 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.02%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.87%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.15%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.036%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.036%) HFM
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.036%) Shopify
7 1 (0.036%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 814 (29.64%) Azure
2 484 (17.63%) AWS
3 262 (9.54%) SaaS
4 247 (8.99%) Azure AI
5 222 (8.08%) GCP
6 198 (7.21%) Power Platform
7 193 (7.03%) GitHub
8 188 (6.85%) Adobe Analytics
9 167 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
10 121 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
11 115 (4.19%) Figma
12 114 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
12 114 (4.15%) Snowflake
13 103 (3.75%) Serverless
14 95 (3.46%) Entra ID
15 93 (3.39%) Anthropic Claude
16 88 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
17 85 (3.10%) Azure Machine Learning
18 81 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 70 (2.55%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 334 (12.16%) Broadband
2 32 (1.17%) Internet
3 29 (1.06%) Firewall
3 29 (1.06%) VPN
4 16 (0.58%) DNS
5 14 (0.51%) VoIP
6 13 (0.47%) HTTP
7 11 (0.40%) CTI
7 11 (0.40%) Network Security
8 10 (0.36%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) WPA
10 7 (0.25%) Wireless
11 6 (0.22%) 5G
11 6 (0.22%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.18%) VLAN
12 5 (0.18%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.15%) DMZ
14 3 (0.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.90%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 116 (4.22%) SQL Server
4 111 (4.04%) Power BI
5 93 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (2.99%) Metadata
7 63 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.64%) Tableau
9 44 (1.60%) Big Data
10 39 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 38 (1.38%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
13 31 (1.13%) BigQuery
13 31 (1.13%) Redis
14 27 (0.98%) Delta Lake
15 24 (0.87%) Relational Database
16 22 (0.80%) MySQL
17 18 (0.66%) Pinecone
18 16 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 107 (3.90%) Git
2 56 (2.04%) Claude Code
3 55 (2.00%) JIRA
4 41 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.95%) Snyk
6 23 (0.84%) GitLab
7 17 (0.62%) Selenium
8 15 (0.55%) MLflow
9 11 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.33%) Postman
10 9 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.25%) JUnit
11 7 (0.25%) Maven
11 7 (0.25%) Mockito
12 6 (0.22%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.18%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.15%) Appium
14 4 (0.15%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.15%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 758 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 538 (19.59%) Finance
3 316 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (11.43%) Marketing
5 299 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 281 (10.23%) Games
7 223 (8.12%) Legal
8 168 (6.12%) Law
9 157 (5.72%) Public Sector
10 99 (3.61%) Retail
11 92 (3.35%) Banking
12 72 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (2.00%) Advertising
15 41 (1.49%) Automotive
16 39 (1.42%) Legal Technology
17 33 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
18 31 (1.13%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.87%) Telecoms
20 16 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 539 (19.63%) Senior
2 394 (14.35%) Developer
3 379 (13.80%) Lead
4 258 (9.40%) Architect
5 191 (6.96%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.08%) .NET Developer
7 115 (4.19%) Analyst
8 112 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 111 (4.04%) Engineering Manager
10 109 (3.97%) Consultant
11 83 (3.02%) Designer
12 82 (2.99%) Data Engineer
13 80 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
14 75 (2.73%) Senior Manager
15 73 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
16 72 (2.62%) Data Scientist
16 72 (2.62%) Python Engineer
17 69 (2.51%) Senior Developer
18 65 (2.37%) Product Manager
18 65 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (9.18%) React
2 244 (8.89%) .NET
3 165 (6.01%) ASP.NET
4 161 (5.86%) .NET Core
4 161 (5.86%) RESTful
5 157 (5.72%) ASP.NET Core
6 154 (5.61%) ML.NET
7 144 (5.24%) CSS
8 137 (4.99%) HTML
9 119 (4.33%) Node.js
10 112 (4.08%) Blazor
11 96 (3.50%) REST
12 78 (2.84%) LangChain
13 63 (2.29%) PyTorch
14 59 (2.15%) Next.js
15 53 (1.93%) TensorFlow
16 48 (1.75%) Vue
17 47 (1.71%) FastAPI
18 41 (1.49%) LangGraph
19 36 (1.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 240 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 231 (8.41%) Social Media
3 187 (6.81%) AI Agents
4 136 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 106 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 79 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 67 (2.44%) Algorithms
9 66 (2.40%) Low-Code
10 60 (2.18%) Blog
11 58 (2.11%) Virtual Team
12 57 (2.08%) Mobile App
12 57 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
13 53 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (1.60%) Data Centre
15 40 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
15 40 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
16 39 (1.42%) Management Information System
16 39 (1.42%) Security Posture
17 36 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.22%) Windows
2 54 (1.97%) Android
3 50 (1.82%) Linux
4 27 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.44%) VMS
7 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.036%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (28.77%) Agile
2 701 (25.53%) Machine Learning
3 695 (25.31%) Analytics
4 662 (24.11%) Roadmaps
5 578 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 464 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 442 (16.10%) Mentoring
8 429 (15.62%) Software Engineering
9 415 (15.11%) Decision-Making
10 373 (13.58%) LLM
11 372 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 349 (12.71%) DevOps
13 339 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
14 338 (12.31%) Customer Experience
15 252 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 244 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
18 241 (8.78%) Product Roadmap
19 237 (8.63%) Generative AI
20 236 (8.59%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 628 (22.87%) Python
2 482 (17.55%) SQL
3 274 (9.98%) C#
4 246 (8.96%) JavaScript
5 182 (6.63%) TypeScript
6 121 (4.41%) Java
7 60 (2.18%) Go
8 55 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.68%) Bash
9 46 (1.68%) Bicep
9 46 (1.68%) C++
10 26 (0.95%) Scala
11 19 (0.69%) R
12 18 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.51%) C
13 14 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.51%) PHP
14 11 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.29%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (7.87%) Degree
2 148 (5.39%) Security Cleared
3 104 (3.79%) SC Cleared
4 70 (2.55%) CISSP
5 64 (2.33%) CISM
6 55 (2.00%) A+ Certification
6 55 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
7 54 (1.97%) ACCA
8 46 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 35 (1.27%) CIMA
10 35 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (1.24%) AWS Certification
12 30 (1.09%) PhD
13 28 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 25 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.44%) SnowPro
17 10 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (11.14%) Accessibility
2 156 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 99 (3.61%) QA
4 94 (3.42%) GDPR
5 69 (2.51%) WCAG
6 60 (2.18%) GRC
7 41 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.27%) NIST
9 25 (0.91%) SLA
10 21 (0.76%) IFRS
11 15 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.47%) PMO
14 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 12 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 5 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 207 (7.54%) Docker
2 92 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.44%) vSphere
6 7 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.073%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.036%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 191 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 127 (4.62%) Terraform
3 74 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.73%) Ansible
4 20 (0.73%) Grafana
5 17 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.25%) Argo
6 7 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.18%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.18%) Puppet
7 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.15%) Istio
8 4 (0.15%) Nmap
8 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.11%) linkerd
10 2 (0.073%) Podman
10 2 (0.073%) Salt
11 1 (0.036%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.036%) Nessus
11 1 (0.036%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 693 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 247 (8.99%) Adobe
3 158 (5.75%) Databricks
4 128 (4.66%) Google
5 88 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 79 (2.88%) Cisco
7 65 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.00%) CyberArk
9 50 (1.82%) Dell
10 48 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.68%) Apple
12 37 (1.35%) Facebook
12 37 (1.35%) Foundry
13 34 (1.24%) HubSpot
14 31 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (1.02%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.98%) Tenable
17 26 (0.95%) Oracle
18 23 (0.84%) VMware
19 21 (0.76%) Yahoo!
1,815 hybrid/remote AI jobs