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

 6 months to
8 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +48 +27
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,048 2,897 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.92% 18.00% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% 19.37% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 673 567
10th Percentile £40,695 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £103,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% -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 19,307 14,959 20,242
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 92.97% 87.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,920 8,587 13,044
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 8 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
1 101 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.67%) Confluence
3 38 (1.25%) CMS
4 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.82%) Apache
6 19 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.33%) WordPress
9 8 (0.26%) SAS
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Camunda
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.098%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.066%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.066%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.033%) Apache Solr
15 1 (0.033%) Apache Superset
15 1 (0.033%) Moodle
15 1 (0.033%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.71%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.08%) UserZoom
4 32 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 14 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.46%) InDesign
7 14 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.16%) Moqups
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 3 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.098%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.098%) Productboard
11 3 (0.098%) Sketch
12 2 (0.066%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 36 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.92%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.79%) Cloudability
4 8 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Primavera
7 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.098%) Shopify
9 1 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.033%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.033%) HFM
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 884 (29.00%) Azure
2 589 (19.32%) AWS
3 283 (9.28%) SaaS
4 258 (8.46%) Azure AI
4 258 (8.46%) GCP
5 254 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 227 (7.45%) GitHub
7 170 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
8 162 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
9 143 (4.69%) Snowflake
10 139 (4.56%) GitHub Copilot
11 116 (3.81%) Anthropic Claude
12 115 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
13 110 (3.61%) Entra ID
14 108 (3.54%) Serverless
15 107 (3.51%) Adobe Analytics
16 92 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 86 (2.82%) Figma
18 76 (2.49%) Azure Machine Learning
19 72 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 218 (7.15%) Broadband
2 33 (1.08%) Internet
3 32 (1.05%) VPN
4 31 (1.02%) Firewall
5 27 (0.89%) Network Security
6 22 (0.72%) DNS
7 15 (0.49%) HTTP
8 13 (0.43%) DHCP
9 12 (0.39%) VoIP
10 11 (0.36%) CTI
11 8 (0.26%) Wireless
11 8 (0.26%) WPA
12 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 6 (0.20%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.16%) DMZ
13 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 178 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 157 (5.15%) Power BI
4 121 (3.97%) SQL Server
5 100 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 88 (2.89%) Metadata
7 74 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.64%) Tableau
10 42 (1.38%) Big Data
11 41 (1.35%) Data Lake
12 34 (1.12%) Relational Database
12 34 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
13 32 (1.05%) Delta Lake
13 32 (1.05%) Redis
14 30 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 22 (0.72%) MySQL
16 20 (0.66%) Data Vault
16 20 (0.66%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 118 (3.87%) Git
2 74 (2.43%) JIRA
3 67 (2.20%) Claude Code
4 42 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.89%) GitLab
5 27 (0.89%) Snyk
6 16 (0.52%) MLflow
7 15 (0.49%) Selenium
8 13 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.39%) Postman
10 11 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.33%) JUnit
11 10 (0.33%) Maven
11 10 (0.33%) Mockito
12 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.16%) Poetry
13 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
14 4 (0.13%) Storybook
General
1 902 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 687 (22.54%) Finance
3 392 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 347 (11.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 328 (10.76%) Marketing
6 235 (7.71%) Legal
7 200 (6.56%) Public Sector
8 182 (5.97%) Games
9 172 (5.64%) Law
10 126 (4.13%) Banking
11 104 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
12 100 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
13 99 (3.25%) Retail
14 56 (1.84%) Advertising
15 47 (1.54%) Manufacturing
16 44 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
17 36 (1.18%) Legal Technology
18 28 (0.92%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.89%) Automotive
20 24 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 577 (18.93%) Senior
2 405 (13.29%) Developer
3 346 (11.35%) Lead
4 319 (10.47%) Architect
5 231 (7.58%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.58%) .NET Developer
7 147 (4.82%) Analyst
8 130 (4.27%) Consultant
9 120 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 110 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
11 90 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
12 84 (2.76%) Data Engineer
13 78 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
14 76 (2.49%) Python Engineer
14 76 (2.49%) Senior Manager
15 72 (2.36%) Data Scientist
16 71 (2.33%) Senior Developer
17 67 (2.20%) Data Architect
17 67 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
18 66 (2.17%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (9.19%) React
2 256 (8.40%) .NET
3 168 (5.51%) ASP.NET
4 161 (5.28%) .NET Core
4 161 (5.28%) RESTful
5 159 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 156 (5.12%) ML.NET
7 154 (5.05%) Terraform
8 149 (4.89%) Node.js
9 142 (4.66%) CSS
10 131 (4.30%) HTML
11 116 (3.81%) Blazor
12 114 (3.74%) REST
13 98 (3.22%) LangChain
14 74 (2.43%) Next.js
15 60 (1.97%) PyTorch
16 55 (1.80%) LangGraph
17 51 (1.67%) PySpark
18 50 (1.64%) Vue
19 47 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 264 (8.66%) Cloud Native
2 247 (8.10%) AI Agents
3 156 (5.12%) Social Media
4 136 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 122 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 105 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (3.15%) Blog
8 76 (2.49%) Low-Code
9 71 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 69 (2.26%) Onboarding
11 61 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
12 59 (1.94%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.90%) Management Information System
14 56 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
15 54 (1.77%) Virtual Team
16 51 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
17 50 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
18 48 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
18 48 (1.57%) Mobile App
19 41 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (2.49%) Windows
2 64 (2.10%) Linux
3 37 (1.21%) Android
4 20 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.39%) VMS
7 10 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.23%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.098%) Debian
11 3 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.098%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (25.59%) Agile
2 778 (25.52%) Machine Learning
3 682 (22.38%) Analytics
4 629 (20.64%) Roadmaps
5 595 (19.52%) CI/CD
6 578 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 491 (16.11%) Software Engineering
8 480 (15.75%) Mentoring
9 451 (14.80%) Decision-Making
10 426 (13.98%) LLM
11 403 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
12 386 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
13 378 (12.40%) DevOps
14 329 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 318 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
16 311 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 279 (9.15%) Customer Experience
18 268 (8.79%) Data Science
19 258 (8.46%) Technical Leadership
20 239 (7.84%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 701 (23.00%) Python
2 563 (18.47%) SQL
3 292 (9.58%) C#
4 271 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 217 (7.12%) TypeScript
6 136 (4.46%) Java
7 65 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.00%) C++
9 53 (1.74%) Go
10 48 (1.57%) Bicep
11 47 (1.54%) Bash
12 31 (1.02%) Scala
13 22 (0.72%) R
14 18 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.52%) C
17 15 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.49%) PHP
18 11 (0.36%) Rust
19 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 253 (8.30%) Degree
2 207 (6.79%) Security Cleared
3 146 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 78 (2.56%) CISSP
5 72 (2.36%) CISM
6 65 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 59 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.77%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 50 (1.64%) ACCA
11 46 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (1.25%) CIMA
13 31 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 30 (0.98%) AWS Certification
15 28 (0.92%) PhD
16 25 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.59%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
19 13 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 217 (7.12%) Accessibility
3 120 (3.94%) GDPR
3 120 (3.94%) QA
4 63 (2.07%) GRC
5 61 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.51%) WCAG
7 45 (1.48%) NIST
8 30 (0.98%) SLA
9 19 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 15 (0.49%) IFRS
11 15 (0.49%) PMO
12 14 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.20%) EU AI Act
16 6 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 235 (7.71%) Docker
2 99 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 92 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.43%) vSphere
6 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) Firmware
8 9 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.098%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.098%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 211 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 78 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (0.89%) Grafana
4 17 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.52%) Ansible
6 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.20%) Argo
7 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.16%) Istio
8 5 (0.16%) Nmap
8 5 (0.16%) Puppet
9 3 (0.098%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.098%) linkerd
9 3 (0.098%) Podman
10 2 (0.066%) Cilium
10 2 (0.066%) Salt
11 1 (0.033%) CASB
11 1 (0.033%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.033%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 777 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 183 (6.00%) Databricks
3 170 (5.58%) Adobe
4 150 (4.92%) Google
5 106 (3.48%) OpenAI
6 80 (2.62%) YouTube
7 77 (2.53%) Cisco
8 59 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 57 (1.87%) Apple
10 55 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 51 (1.67%) Salesforce
12 42 (1.38%) Dell
13 39 (1.28%) Foundry
14 38 (1.25%) Facebook
15 36 (1.18%) HubSpot
16 32 (1.05%) SAP
17 30 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
17 30 (0.98%) Palo Alto
18 28 (0.92%) Oracle
19 27 (0.89%) Tenable
11,978 hybrid/remote AI jobs