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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +60 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,253 2,424 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.32% 15.81% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.83% 16.71% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 685 895
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,200 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +4.25% -15.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £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 16,294 14,504 30,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 94.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,745 8,418 23,751
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £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% -8.00%
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% -9.54%

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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 16 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 49 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.64%) CMS
2 37 (1.64%) Confluence
3 22 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.53%) Apache
5 12 (0.53%) WordPress
6 10 (0.44%) SAS
7 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.18%) JBoss
8 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.089%) Camunda
10 2 (0.089%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.089%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.044%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.044%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (2.00%) UserZoom
2 26 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (0.71%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
5 12 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.44%) 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 (0.089%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.044%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.07%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.53%) 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 (0.089%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.089%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.044%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.044%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.044%) HFM
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.044%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 621 (27.56%) Azure
2 420 (18.64%) AWS
3 230 (10.21%) SaaS
4 198 (8.79%) GCP
5 194 (8.61%) Adobe Analytics
6 174 (7.72%) Azure AI
7 158 (7.01%) Power Platform
8 136 (6.04%) GitHub
9 114 (5.06%) Figma
10 113 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
11 92 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
11 92 (4.08%) Serverless
12 90 (3.99%) Snowflake
13 88 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
14 86 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
15 73 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 70 (3.11%) Contentsquare
17 65 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
18 59 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
19 34 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 339 (15.05%) Broadband
2 25 (1.11%) Firewall
3 21 (0.93%) VPN
4 16 (0.71%) Internet
5 14 (0.62%) HTTP
6 12 (0.53%) DNS
7 10 (0.44%) 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%) VLAN
12 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (6.79%) MongoDB
2 109 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 100 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 91 (4.04%) Power BI
5 77 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (2.84%) Metadata
7 49 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (2.09%) Tableau
9 42 (1.86%) Big Data
10 33 (1.46%) BigQuery
11 31 (1.38%) NoSQL
12 30 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
13 24 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 24 (1.07%) Redis
14 22 (0.98%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.98%) Relational Database
15 20 (0.89%) Delta Lake
16 18 (0.80%) MySQL
17 17 (0.75%) Looker
18 16 (0.71%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 68 (3.02%) Git
2 42 (1.86%) Claude Code
3 34 (1.51%) JIRA
4 33 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.11%) Snyk
6 20 (0.89%) MLflow
7 17 (0.75%) GitLab
8 10 (0.44%) Selenium
9 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.31%) Postman
12 6 (0.27%) Maven
12 6 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.22%) JUnit
13 5 (0.22%) Mockito
13 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.22%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.18%) Storybook
15 3 (0.13%) Appium
16 2 (0.089%) JMeter
General
1 546 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 433 (19.22%) Finance
3 277 (12.29%) Games
4 261 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 257 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
6 233 (10.34%) Marketing
7 135 (5.99%) Legal
8 131 (5.81%) Public Sector
9 119 (5.28%) Law
10 80 (3.55%) Retail
11 67 (2.97%) Banking
12 62 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.73%) Advertising
14 39 (1.73%) Automotive
14 39 (1.73%) Legal Technology
15 28 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.67%) Telecoms
18 9 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 436 (19.35%) Senior
2 361 (16.02%) Lead
3 296 (13.14%) Developer
4 203 (9.01%) Architect
5 136 (6.04%) Software Engineer
6 101 (4.48%) .NET Developer
7 98 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 96 (4.26%) Analyst
9 95 (4.22%) Engineering Manager
10 88 (3.91%) Consultant
11 83 (3.68%) Designer
12 79 (3.51%) Data Engineer
13 75 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
14 64 (2.84%) Python Engineer
15 63 (2.80%) Data Scientist
16 61 (2.71%) Product Manager
17 60 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
18 58 (2.57%) Data Manager
19 52 (2.31%) Sales Executive
19 52 (2.31%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (8.43%) React
2 162 (7.19%) .NET
3 126 (5.59%) RESTful
4 102 (4.53%) .NET Core
5 100 (4.44%) CSS
6 96 (4.26%) ASP.NET
7 94 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
8 93 (4.13%) HTML
8 93 (4.13%) Node.js
9 92 (4.08%) ML.NET
10 80 (3.55%) REST
11 72 (3.20%) Blazor
12 67 (2.97%) PyTorch
13 61 (2.71%) LangChain
14 58 (2.57%) TensorFlow
15 44 (1.95%) FastAPI
16 41 (1.82%) Vue
17 38 (1.69%) Next.js
18 33 (1.46%) Spring
19 26 (1.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 228 (10.12%) Social Media
2 205 (9.10%) Cloud Native
3 133 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 120 (5.33%) AI Agents
5 74 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 61 (2.71%) Low-Code
8 58 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
9 54 (2.40%) Algorithms
9 54 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 49 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 48 (2.13%) Mobile App
12 40 (1.78%) Data Centre
13 36 (1.60%) Public Cloud
14 34 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.33%) Social Network
16 29 (1.29%) Management Information System
17 27 (1.20%) Security Posture
18 26 (1.15%) Podcast
19 25 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.86%) Android
2 35 (1.55%) Windows
3 33 (1.46%) Linux
4 27 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.27%) VMS
7 2 (0.089%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.089%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (28.98%) Agile
2 592 (26.28%) Roadmaps
3 577 (25.61%) Analytics
4 566 (25.12%) Machine Learning
5 460 (20.42%) CI/CD
6 341 (15.14%) Software Engineering
7 332 (14.74%) Customer Experience
8 311 (13.80%) Mentoring
9 303 (13.45%) Decision-Making
10 286 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 284 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 282 (12.52%) LLM
13 273 (12.12%) DevOps
14 272 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
15 243 (10.79%) Generative AI
15 243 (10.79%) Product Roadmap
16 222 (9.85%) Storytelling
17 206 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
18 205 (9.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 198 (8.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 542 (24.06%) Python
2 369 (16.38%) SQL
3 184 (8.17%) C#
4 169 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 138 (6.13%) TypeScript
6 114 (5.06%) Java
7 70 (3.11%) Go
8 43 (1.91%) Bash
9 40 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 32 (1.42%) Bicep
11 26 (1.15%) C++
12 22 (0.98%) Scala
13 21 (0.93%) R
14 15 (0.67%) PHP
15 12 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.40%) C
18 8 (0.36%) Rust
19 7 (0.31%) PL/SQL
19 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (7.90%) Degree
2 94 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 57 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.31%) ACCA
5 42 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 39 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.38%) CIMA
10 27 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 27 (1.20%) PhD
11 25 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.49%) CISSP
13 10 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (12.69%) Accessibility
2 115 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 74 (3.28%) GDPR
4 71 (3.15%) WCAG
5 65 (2.89%) QA
6 54 (2.40%) GRC
7 30 (1.33%) NIST
8 27 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.07%) IFRS
10 22 (0.98%) SLA
11 15 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.62%) PMO
13 13 (0.58%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.44%) 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
1 161 (7.15%) Docker
2 90 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.27%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) Firmware
7 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 136 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 98 (4.35%) Terraform
3 19 (0.84%) Ansible
4 17 (0.75%) Grafana
5 16 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.40%) Kubeflow
8 8 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.31%) Argo
9 7 (0.31%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.18%) Puppet
11 3 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.089%) linkerd
12 2 (0.089%) Podman
12 2 (0.089%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.089%) Salt
13 1 (0.044%) CASB
13 1 (0.044%) Cilium
13 1 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.044%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 504 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 256 (11.36%) Adobe
3 132 (5.86%) Databricks
4 98 (4.35%) Google
5 68 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 66 (2.93%) Cisco
7 55 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.31%) Dell
9 46 (2.04%) Apple
9 46 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
11 28 (1.24%) HubSpot
12 27 (1.20%) Foundry
12 27 (1.20%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.20%) Tenable
13 22 (0.98%) Oracle
14 21 (0.93%) Facebook
15 18 (0.80%) SAP
16 16 (0.71%) VMware
17 11 (0.49%) Sony