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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 +53 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,009 2,894 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.93% 17.51% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.76% 18.83% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 676 608
10th Percentile £40,200 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -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 19,089 15,370 21,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 92.98% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,792 8,913 14,844
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 28 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 95 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.66%) Confluence
3 38 (1.26%) CMS
4 23 (0.76%) Apache
4 23 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.33%) WordPress
8 9 (0.30%) SAS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.17%) Camunda
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.100%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.066%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.066%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.033%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.033%) Moodle
14 1 (0.033%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.033%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 56 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.56%) Chatbot
3 34 (1.13%) UserZoom
4 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.47%) InDesign
7 14 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.17%) Moqups
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Trello
11 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.100%) Productboard
11 3 (0.100%) Sketch
12 2 (0.066%) CapCut
Business Applications
1 36 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.80%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.100%) Shopify
8 1 (0.033%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.033%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.033%) HFM
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.033%) Primavera
8 1 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 873 (29.01%) Azure
2 577 (19.18%) AWS
3 287 (9.54%) SaaS
4 258 (8.57%) Azure AI
5 257 (8.54%) GCP
6 238 (7.91%) Power Platform
7 222 (7.38%) GitHub
8 172 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
9 149 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
10 139 (4.62%) GitHub Copilot
11 138 (4.59%) Snowflake
12 123 (4.09%) Adobe Analytics
13 113 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 112 (3.72%) Anthropic Claude
15 109 (3.62%) Serverless
16 107 (3.56%) Entra ID
17 96 (3.19%) Figma
18 89 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 77 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
20 68 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 239 (7.94%) Broadband
2 33 (1.10%) Internet
3 31 (1.03%) VPN
4 29 (0.96%) Firewall
5 26 (0.86%) Network Security
6 20 (0.66%) DNS
7 15 (0.50%) HTTP
8 12 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.37%) CTI
9 11 (0.37%) DHCP
10 8 (0.27%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.27%) WPA
11 7 (0.23%) Wireless
12 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.17%) BGP
13 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.17%) OSPF
13 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (7.15%) MongoDB
2 177 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 143 (4.75%) Power BI
4 123 (4.09%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (2.79%) Metadata
7 71 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 54 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 51 (1.69%) Tableau
10 42 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 41 (1.36%) Big Data
12 34 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
13 33 (1.10%) Redis
13 33 (1.10%) Relational Database
14 32 (1.06%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 22 (0.73%) MySQL
17 19 (0.63%) Data Vault
17 19 (0.63%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 121 (4.02%) Git
2 73 (2.43%) JIRA
3 66 (2.19%) Claude Code
4 40 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.90%) Snyk
6 25 (0.83%) GitLab
7 16 (0.53%) MLflow
8 15 (0.50%) Selenium
9 13 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.37%) Postman
10 11 (0.37%) 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 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
14 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.13%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.13%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 869 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 664 (22.07%) Finance
3 382 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 350 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 324 (10.77%) Marketing
6 234 (7.78%) Legal
7 203 (6.75%) Games
8 197 (6.55%) Public Sector
9 173 (5.75%) Law
10 121 (4.02%) Banking
11 100 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 100 (3.32%) Retail
12 93 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.86%) Advertising
14 43 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 42 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.26%) Legal Technology
17 28 (0.93%) Automotive
18 27 (0.90%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 568 (18.88%) Senior
2 410 (13.63%) Developer
3 349 (11.60%) Lead
4 310 (10.30%) Architect
5 224 (7.44%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.65%) .NET Developer
7 143 (4.75%) Analyst
8 128 (4.25%) Consultant
9 120 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 112 (3.72%) Engineering Manager
11 90 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 82 (2.73%) Data Engineer
12 82 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 76 (2.53%) Senior Developer
14 75 (2.49%) Python Engineer
14 75 (2.49%) Senior Manager
15 74 (2.46%) Data Scientist
16 67 (2.23%) Product Manager
17 66 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
18 65 (2.16%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (9.37%) React
2 259 (8.61%) .NET
3 168 (5.58%) ASP.NET
4 164 (5.45%) .NET Core
5 161 (5.35%) RESTful
6 159 (5.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.18%) ML.NET
8 149 (4.95%) Terraform
9 147 (4.89%) Node.js
10 142 (4.72%) CSS
11 132 (4.39%) HTML
12 116 (3.86%) Blazor
13 115 (3.82%) REST
14 97 (3.22%) LangChain
15 77 (2.56%) Next.js
16 58 (1.93%) PyTorch
17 55 (1.83%) LangGraph
18 53 (1.76%) Vue
19 47 (1.56%) PySpark
20 45 (1.50%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 268 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 244 (8.11%) AI Agents
3 172 (5.72%) Social Media
4 139 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 120 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
6 98 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
7 96 (3.19%) Blog
8 73 (2.43%) Algorithms
9 72 (2.39%) Low-Code
10 70 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 58 (1.93%) Data Centre
12 56 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
13 55 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
13 55 (1.83%) Virtual Team
14 52 (1.73%) Management Information System
14 52 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
15 51 (1.69%) Mobile App
16 48 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
17 47 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
18 41 (1.36%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 70 (2.33%) Windows
2 59 (1.96%) Linux
3 40 (1.33%) Android
4 18 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 18 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.40%) VMS
6 9 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.23%) Unix
9 4 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.066%) Debian
11 2 (0.066%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (26.15%) Agile
2 782 (25.99%) Machine Learning
3 693 (23.03%) Analytics
4 630 (20.94%) Roadmaps
5 602 (20.01%) CI/CD
6 549 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 487 (16.18%) Software Engineering
8 472 (15.69%) Mentoring
9 443 (14.72%) Decision-Making
10 424 (14.09%) LLM
11 398 (13.23%) Full-Stack Development
12 384 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
13 380 (12.63%) DevOps
14 303 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
15 301 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 296 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
17 295 (9.80%) Customer Experience
18 268 (8.91%) Data Science
19 259 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
20 243 (8.08%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 692 (23.00%) Python
2 553 (18.38%) SQL
3 296 (9.84%) C#
4 270 (8.97%) JavaScript
5 215 (7.15%) TypeScript
6 137 (4.55%) Java
7 63 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 57 (1.89%) C++
9 55 (1.83%) Go
10 50 (1.66%) Bicep
11 47 (1.56%) Bash
12 32 (1.06%) Scala
13 24 (0.80%) R
14 19 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.53%) C
17 15 (0.50%) PHP
18 13 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 10 (0.33%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 251 (8.34%) Degree
2 201 (6.68%) Security Cleared
3 142 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 75 (2.49%) CISSP
5 69 (2.29%) CISM
6 65 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 60 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.79%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
9 50 (1.66%) ACCA
9 50 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.23%) CIMA
12 33 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 31 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 30 (1.00%) PhD
15 25 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.56%) SnowPro
17 16 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (7.88%) Accessibility
2 205 (6.81%) Data Quality
3 119 (3.95%) QA
4 112 (3.72%) GDPR
5 63 (2.09%) GRC
6 57 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 54 (1.79%) WCAG
8 42 (1.40%) NIST
9 30 (1.00%) SLA
10 17 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.53%) IFRS
12 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 14 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.43%) PMO
15 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.20%) EU AI Act
18 6 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 228 (7.58%) Docker
2 96 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 92 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.43%) vSphere
6 12 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.33%) Firmware
8 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.100%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.100%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 210 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 76 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (0.90%) Grafana
4 17 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.47%) Ansible
6 7 (0.23%) Kubeflow
6 7 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.20%) Argo
8 5 (0.17%) Istio
8 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
9 4 (0.13%) Nmap
10 3 (0.100%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.100%) linkerd
11 2 (0.066%) Cilium
11 2 (0.066%) Podman
11 2 (0.066%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.066%) Salt
12 1 (0.033%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.033%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 760 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 187 (6.21%) Adobe
3 178 (5.92%) Databricks
4 146 (4.85%) Google
5 103 (3.42%) OpenAI
6 77 (2.56%) Cisco
7 61 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 56 (1.86%) Apple
8 56 (1.86%) YouTube
9 55 (1.83%) CyberArk
10 50 (1.66%) Salesforce
11 44 (1.46%) Dell
12 38 (1.26%) Facebook
12 38 (1.26%) Foundry
13 36 (1.20%) HubSpot
14 30 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
14 30 (1.00%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.00%) SAP
15 29 (0.96%) Oracle
16 27 (0.90%) Tenable