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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +59 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,223 2,374 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.26% 15.58% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.73% 16.46% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 677 900
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,206 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +4.26% -15.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £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 16,195 14,419 30,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.01% 94.61% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11,649 8,373 23,770
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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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 13 June 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 50 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.71%) CMS
3 37 (1.66%) Confluence
4 22 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.54%) Apache
6 12 (0.54%) WordPress
7 10 (0.45%) SAS
8 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.18%) JBoss
9 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.090%) Camunda
11 2 (0.090%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.090%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.045%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (1.66%) UserZoom
2 30 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.54%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.36%) InDesign
7 8 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.18%) CapCut
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Productboard
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.090%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.045%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.08%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.18%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.090%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.090%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.045%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.045%) HFM
6 1 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 607 (27.31%) Azure
2 419 (18.85%) AWS
3 231 (10.39%) SaaS
4 192 (8.64%) GCP
5 185 (8.32%) Adobe Analytics
6 165 (7.42%) Azure AI
7 157 (7.06%) Power Platform
8 131 (5.89%) GitHub
9 114 (5.13%) Figma
10 109 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (4.09%) Azure Machine Learning
11 91 (4.09%) Serverless
12 90 (4.05%) Snowflake
13 83 (3.73%) GitHub Copilot
13 83 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
14 72 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 63 (2.83%) Anthropic Claude
16 62 (2.79%) Contentsquare
17 58 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
18 33 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 326 (14.66%) Broadband
2 25 (1.12%) Firewall
3 19 (0.85%) VPN
4 15 (0.67%) HTTP
5 14 (0.63%) Internet
6 12 (0.54%) DNS
7 10 (0.45%) Unified Communications
8 8 (0.36%) DHCP
8 8 (0.36%) Network Security
9 6 (0.27%) 5G
9 6 (0.27%) DMZ
10 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.18%) RTP
11 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.18%) VoIP
11 4 (0.18%) WPA
12 3 (0.13%) Wireless
12 3 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.48%) MongoDB
2 98 (4.41%) SQL Server
3 97 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 90 (4.05%) Power BI
5 77 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
6 62 (2.79%) Metadata
7 47 (2.11%) Tableau
8 46 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (1.89%) Big Data
10 31 (1.39%) BigQuery
11 30 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 28 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
13 24 (1.08%) Redis
14 23 (1.03%) Data Lake
14 23 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (0.90%) Relational Database
16 18 (0.81%) Delta Lake
17 17 (0.76%) Looker
17 17 (0.76%) MySQL
18 15 (0.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 64 (2.88%) Git
2 41 (1.84%) Claude Code
3 33 (1.48%) JIRA
4 30 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.12%) Snyk
6 20 (0.90%) MLflow
7 14 (0.63%) GitLab
8 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.40%) Selenium
9 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.27%) Maven
10 6 (0.27%) Postman
10 6 (0.27%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.22%) JUnit
11 5 (0.22%) Mockito
11 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.22%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.18%) Storybook
13 3 (0.13%) Appium
13 3 (0.13%) ESLint
General
1 539 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 430 (19.34%) Finance
3 269 (12.10%) Games
4 267 (12.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 259 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
6 232 (10.44%) Marketing
7 137 (6.16%) Legal
8 133 (5.98%) Public Sector
9 118 (5.31%) Law
10 80 (3.60%) Retail
11 68 (3.06%) Banking
12 60 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.80%) Legal Technology
15 39 (1.75%) Automotive
16 37 (1.66%) Advertising
17 28 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
18 24 (1.08%) Manufacturing
19 14 (0.63%) Telecoms
20 10 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 434 (19.52%) Senior
2 352 (15.83%) Lead
3 283 (12.73%) Developer
4 202 (9.09%) Architect
5 133 (5.98%) Software Engineer
6 98 (4.41%) Analyst
7 97 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 94 (4.23%) Engineering Manager
9 93 (4.18%) .NET Developer
10 87 (3.91%) Consultant
11 83 (3.73%) Designer
12 77 (3.46%) Data Engineer
13 74 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
14 64 (2.88%) Python Engineer
15 63 (2.83%) Data Scientist
16 61 (2.74%) Product Manager
17 58 (2.61%) Data Manager
18 57 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
19 53 (2.38%) Senior Architect
20 52 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (8.37%) React
2 150 (6.75%) .NET
3 122 (5.49%) RESTful
4 96 (4.32%) CSS
5 94 (4.23%) .NET Core
5 94 (4.23%) Node.js
6 88 (3.96%) HTML
7 87 (3.91%) ASP.NET
8 86 (3.87%) ASP.NET Core
9 84 (3.78%) ML.NET
10 81 (3.64%) REST
11 69 (3.10%) Blazor
12 66 (2.97%) PyTorch
13 60 (2.70%) LangChain
14 57 (2.56%) TensorFlow
15 44 (1.98%) FastAPI
16 39 (1.75%) Next.js
16 39 (1.75%) Vue
17 32 (1.44%) Spring
18 26 (1.17%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 219 (9.85%) Social Media
2 198 (8.91%) Cloud Native
3 132 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 117 (5.26%) AI Agents
5 78 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 73 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 61 (2.74%) Low-Code
8 57 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
9 52 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 51 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (2.11%) Mobile App
11 47 (2.11%) Virtual Team
12 41 (1.84%) Public Cloud
13 40 (1.80%) Data Centre
14 32 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.26%) Management Information System
15 28 (1.26%) Social Network
16 25 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
16 25 (1.12%) Security Posture
17 24 (1.08%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.80%) Android
2 33 (1.48%) Linux
3 32 (1.44%) Windows
4 27 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.18%) VMS
8 2 (0.090%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.090%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (28.43%) Agile
2 578 (26.00%) Roadmaps
3 566 (25.46%) Analytics
4 556 (25.01%) Machine Learning
5 445 (20.02%) CI/CD
6 336 (15.11%) Software Engineering
7 323 (14.53%) Customer Experience
8 305 (13.72%) Mentoring
9 294 (13.23%) Decision-Making
10 281 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 277 (12.46%) LLM
12 275 (12.37%) Full-Stack Development
13 268 (12.06%) DevOps
13 268 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
14 241 (10.84%) Generative AI
15 236 (10.62%) Product Roadmap
16 214 (9.63%) Storytelling
17 202 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
18 197 (8.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 195 (8.77%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 529 (23.80%) Python
2 353 (15.88%) SQL
3 171 (7.69%) C#
4 164 (7.38%) JavaScript
5 139 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 113 (5.08%) Java
7 68 (3.06%) Go
8 39 (1.75%) Bash
9 37 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 28 (1.26%) Bicep
11 26 (1.17%) C++
12 20 (0.90%) R
12 20 (0.90%) Scala
13 15 (0.67%) PHP
14 10 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.40%) C
16 8 (0.36%) Rust
17 7 (0.31%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (7.96%) Degree
2 93 (4.18%) Security Cleared
3 56 (2.52%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.34%) ACCA
5 45 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 38 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.39%) CIMA
10 27 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.17%) PhD
12 24 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.49%) CISSP
14 10 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (12.46%) Accessibility
2 110 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 74 (3.33%) GDPR
4 71 (3.19%) WCAG
5 65 (2.92%) QA
6 54 (2.43%) GRC
7 30 (1.35%) NIST
8 27 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.08%) IFRS
10 19 (0.85%) SLA
11 15 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.63%) PMO
13 13 (0.58%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.31%) NCSC
16 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.27%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 153 (6.88%) Docker
2 89 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.18%) Firmware
6 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 129 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.05%) Terraform
3 19 (0.85%) Ansible
4 15 (0.67%) Grafana
5 14 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.36%) Kubeflow
7 8 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.31%) Argo
8 7 (0.31%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.13%) Puppet
10 2 (0.090%) Istio
10 2 (0.090%) Podman
10 2 (0.090%) Salt
11 1 (0.045%) CASB
11 1 (0.045%) Cilium
11 1 (0.045%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.045%) linkerd
11 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.045%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 496 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 253 (11.38%) Adobe
3 129 (5.80%) Databricks
4 96 (4.32%) Google
5 68 (3.06%) OpenAI
6 63 (2.83%) Cisco
7 55 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.34%) Apple
8 52 (2.34%) Dell
9 46 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (1.26%) HubSpot
12 27 (1.21%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.21%) Tenable
13 26 (1.17%) Foundry
14 22 (0.99%) Oracle
15 21 (0.94%) Facebook
16 18 (0.81%) SAP
17 15 (0.67%) VMware
18 11 (0.49%) Sony