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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +54 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,904 2,639 1,021
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.79% 15.97% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.45% 17.19% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,827 669 599
10th Percentile £40,300 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £29,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,750
UK median annual salary £71,000 £69,248 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.53% -4.49% -3.33%

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 18,798 15,349 21,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.91% 87.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,570 9,030 15,663
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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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 10 August 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 78 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.86%) Confluence
3 43 (1.48%) CMS
4 23 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.72%) Apache
6 20 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.31%) WordPress
9 8 (0.28%) SAS
10 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Camunda
12 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.069%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.069%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.034%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.034%) Moodle
14 1 (0.034%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.034%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
Applications
1 43 (1.48%) UserZoom
2 40 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (1.31%) Chatbot
4 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.48%) InDesign
7 14 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 13 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.14%) CapCut
10 4 (0.14%) Moqups
10 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.14%) Trello
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.10%) Productboard
11 3 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 37 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.83%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.14%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.069%) Shopify
9 1 (0.034%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.034%) HFM
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 847 (29.17%) Azure
2 538 (18.53%) AWS
3 265 (9.13%) SaaS
4 252 (8.68%) Azure AI
5 239 (8.23%) GCP
6 218 (7.51%) Power Platform
7 211 (7.27%) GitHub
8 175 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
9 162 (5.58%) Adobe Analytics
10 134 (4.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 127 (4.37%) Snowflake
12 124 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
13 115 (3.96%) Figma
14 114 (3.93%) Serverless
15 102 (3.51%) Anthropic Claude
16 100 (3.44%) Entra ID
17 97 (3.34%) Microsoft Copilot
18 85 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 83 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
20 69 (2.38%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 298 (10.26%) Broadband
2 33 (1.14%) Internet
3 28 (0.96%) VPN
4 27 (0.93%) Firewall
5 19 (0.65%) Network Security
6 17 (0.59%) DNS
7 15 (0.52%) HTTP
8 12 (0.41%) VoIP
9 11 (0.38%) CTI
10 10 (0.34%) DHCP
11 8 (0.28%) WPA
12 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.24%) Wireless
13 6 (0.21%) 5G
13 6 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.17%) VLAN
14 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
15 4 (0.14%) BGP
15 4 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (7.51%) MongoDB
2 175 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 125 (4.30%) Power BI
4 121 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 85 (2.93%) Metadata
7 65 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 46 (1.58%) Tableau
10 44 (1.52%) Big Data
11 41 (1.41%) Data Lake
12 33 (1.14%) Redis
13 31 (1.07%) BigQuery
13 31 (1.07%) Delta Lake
13 31 (1.07%) Semantic Layer
14 29 (1.00%) Relational Database
15 23 (0.79%) MySQL
16 17 (0.59%) Data Vault
16 17 (0.59%) Pinecone
17 16 (0.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 119 (4.10%) Git
2 67 (2.31%) JIRA
3 60 (2.07%) Claude Code
4 44 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.93%) Snyk
6 25 (0.86%) GitLab
7 19 (0.65%) Selenium
8 16 (0.55%) MLflow
9 13 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.38%) Postman
10 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.34%) JUnit
11 10 (0.34%) Maven
11 10 (0.34%) Mockito
12 6 (0.21%) Appium
13 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.14%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 804 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 617 (21.25%) Finance
3 357 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 331 (11.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 331 (11.40%) Marketing
5 251 (8.64%) Games
6 233 (8.02%) Legal
7 170 (5.85%) Law
7 170 (5.85%) Public Sector
8 106 (3.65%) Retail
9 102 (3.51%) Banking
10 87 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 73 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (2.03%) Advertising
13 39 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (1.24%) Automotive
14 36 (1.24%) Legal Technology
15 35 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 26 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 560 (19.28%) Senior
2 404 (13.91%) Developer
3 365 (12.57%) Lead
4 278 (9.57%) Architect
5 209 (7.20%) Software Engineer
6 169 (5.82%) .NET Developer
7 129 (4.44%) Analyst
8 119 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 119 (4.10%) Consultant
9 112 (3.86%) Engineering Manager
10 83 (2.86%) Data Engineer
11 81 (2.79%) Data Scientist
11 81 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 81 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
12 77 (2.65%) Python Engineer
13 75 (2.58%) Senior Developer
14 73 (2.51%) Senior Manager
15 69 (2.38%) Designer
16 68 (2.34%) Product Manager
17 64 (2.20%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (9.50%) React
2 257 (8.85%) .NET
3 168 (5.79%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.68%) .NET Core
5 164 (5.65%) RESTful
6 159 (5.48%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.37%) ML.NET
8 146 (5.03%) CSS
9 137 (4.72%) HTML
10 132 (4.55%) Node.js
11 116 (3.99%) Blazor
12 113 (3.89%) REST
13 88 (3.03%) LangChain
14 70 (2.41%) Next.js
15 59 (2.03%) PyTorch
16 52 (1.79%) Vue
17 48 (1.65%) FastAPI
17 48 (1.65%) LangGraph
18 46 (1.58%) TensorFlow
19 42 (1.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 258 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 222 (7.64%) AI Agents
3 210 (7.23%) Social Media
4 139 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 113 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
6 94 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 85 (2.93%) Blog
8 72 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 71 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 66 (2.27%) Low-Code
11 59 (2.03%) Mobile App
12 57 (1.96%) Virtual Team
13 56 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
14 55 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
15 53 (1.83%) Data Centre
16 50 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
16 50 (1.72%) Management Information System
17 46 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
17 46 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
18 40 (1.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (2.20%) Windows
2 55 (1.89%) Linux
3 51 (1.76%) Android
4 25 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.41%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.14%) Unix
10 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (27.58%) Agile
2 768 (26.45%) Machine Learning
3 713 (24.55%) Analytics
4 657 (22.62%) Roadmaps
5 607 (20.90%) CI/CD
6 501 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 465 (16.01%) Mentoring
8 459 (15.81%) Software Engineering
9 423 (14.57%) Decision-Making
10 414 (14.26%) LLM
11 392 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 372 (12.81%) DevOps
12 372 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
13 324 (11.16%) Customer Experience
14 278 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
15 270 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 260 (8.95%) Data Science
16 260 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
17 247 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
18 236 (8.13%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 665 (22.90%) Python
2 529 (18.22%) SQL
3 294 (10.12%) C#
4 265 (9.13%) JavaScript
5 205 (7.06%) TypeScript
6 137 (4.72%) Java
7 60 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.86%) Go
9 51 (1.76%) C++
10 48 (1.65%) Bicep
11 45 (1.55%) Bash
12 31 (1.07%) Scala
13 20 (0.69%) R
14 18 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.59%) PHP
16 15 (0.52%) C
17 12 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 244 (8.40%) Degree
2 182 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 128 (4.41%) SC Cleared
4 71 (2.44%) CISSP
5 66 (2.27%) CISM
6 58 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.86%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (1.76%) ACCA
10 48 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 41 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 35 (1.21%) CIMA
13 32 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 32 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.10%) PhD
14 25 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (0.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (9.81%) Accessibility
2 182 (6.27%) Data Quality
3 111 (3.82%) QA
4 105 (3.62%) GDPR
5 67 (2.31%) WCAG
6 58 (2.00%) GRC
7 49 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 38 (1.31%) NIST
9 26 (0.90%) SLA
10 19 (0.65%) IFRS
11 14 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.38%) PMO
15 7 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.21%) SOC 2
17 5 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 226 (7.78%) Docker
2 93 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 92 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.45%) vSphere
6 12 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.28%) Firmware
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.069%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 205 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 138 (4.75%) Terraform
3 75 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (0.79%) Grafana
5 19 (0.65%) Ansible
6 17 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.17%) Argo
8 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
8 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.14%) Istio
9 4 (0.14%) Nmap
10 3 (0.10%) linkerd
10 3 (0.10%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.069%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.069%) Podman
11 2 (0.069%) Salt
12 1 (0.034%) Nessus
12 1 (0.034%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 722 (24.86%) Microsoft
2 224 (7.71%) Adobe
3 169 (5.82%) Databricks
4 138 (4.75%) Google
5 93 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 77 (2.65%) Cisco
7 68 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.89%) CyberArk
9 54 (1.86%) Apple
10 48 (1.65%) Dell
11 47 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.31%) Facebook
12 38 (1.31%) Foundry
12 38 (1.31%) HubSpot
13 30 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
14 29 (1.00%) Oracle
14 29 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 27 (0.93%) Tenable
16 26 (0.90%) SAP
17 22 (0.76%) VMware
3,129 hybrid/remote AI jobs