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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 58 69
Rank change year-on-year +54 +11 +35
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,763 841 1,152
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.48% 5.19% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.15% 5.49% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 924 490 740
10th Percentile £22,491 £45,000 £39,623
25th Percentile £43,500 £58,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.47%
75th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,750 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,500 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.44% +10.00% -

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 13,710 15,305 24,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.71% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,709 9,023 20,101
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

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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 31 January 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 46 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.01%) Confluence
3 25 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.69%) CMS
6 17 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.47%) JBoss
8 13 (0.47%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.22%) Apache
10 6 (0.22%) WordPress
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Luigi
14 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.072%) Mendix
14 2 (0.072%) SAS
14 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.036%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,181 (42.74%) Chatbot
2 75 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.11%) InDesign
6 3 (0.11%) Notion
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.072%) Weka
8 1 (0.036%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.072%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.036%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 501 (18.13%) Azure
2 299 (10.82%) AWS
3 215 (7.78%) SaaS
4 188 (6.80%) Power Platform
5 156 (5.65%) GCP
6 146 (5.28%) GitHub
7 122 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
9 77 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (2.32%) Snowflake
11 50 (1.81%) Serverless
12 48 (1.74%) Entra ID
13 41 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
15 33 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 31 (1.12%) Adobe Analytics
16 31 (1.12%) Azure AI
16 31 (1.12%) dbt
17 28 (1.01%) Power Automate
18 27 (0.98%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.88%) Broadband
2 14 (0.51%) Firewall
3 12 (0.43%) HTTP
4 10 (0.36%) Network Security
4 10 (0.36%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.25%) DMZ
5 7 (0.25%) Internet
5 7 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.22%) DHCP
6 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
6 6 (0.22%) VPN
7 5 (0.18%) DNS
7 5 (0.18%) RTP
7 5 (0.18%) VoIP
8 4 (0.14%) Intranet
8 4 (0.14%) WAN
9 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.11%) DSL
9 3 (0.11%) IPv4
9 3 (0.11%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (3.69%) Power BI
2 77 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (1.99%) Tableau
4 39 (1.41%) NoSQL
5 37 (1.34%) SQL Server
6 36 (1.30%) Big Data
6 36 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.27%) Metadata
8 29 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.94%) Data Lake
10 25 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 24 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (0.65%) MySQL
14 17 (0.62%) Looker
15 16 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.43%) Pinecone
17 12 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (2.53%) JIRA
2 53 (1.92%) Git
3 21 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.54%) MLflow
6 14 (0.51%) GitLab
7 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.29%) Subversion
8 8 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.22%) ERwin
9 6 (0.22%) Selenium
10 5 (0.18%) GitBook
10 5 (0.18%) Storybook
11 4 (0.14%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 624 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
2 500 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 463 (16.76%) Finance
4 319 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 182 (6.59%) Marketing
6 163 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 116 (4.20%) Retail
8 111 (4.02%) Legal
9 96 (3.47%) Law
10 49 (1.77%) Games
10 49 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 36 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.16%) Banking
14 30 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.83%) Aerospace
17 16 (0.58%) Advertising
17 16 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,161 (42.02%) Trainer
2 275 (9.95%) Senior
3 210 (7.60%) Developer
4 155 (5.61%) Content Editor
5 148 (5.36%) Lead
6 115 (4.16%) Architect
7 98 (3.55%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.55%) Support Specialist
8 84 (3.04%) Analyst
9 79 (2.86%) Research Scientist
10 74 (2.68%) Consultant
11 68 (2.46%) Software Engineer
12 62 (2.24%) Data Engineer
13 56 (2.03%) Sales Executive
14 52 (1.88%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (1.70%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 45 (1.63%) Microsoft Specialist
17 42 (1.52%) .NET Developer
17 42 (1.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 41 (1.48%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (3.40%) .NET
1 94 (3.40%) React
2 83 (3.00%) REST
3 65 (2.35%) Node.js
4 61 (2.21%) RESTful
5 41 (1.48%) Kafka
5 41 (1.48%) PyTorch
6 39 (1.41%) SOAP
7 37 (1.34%) TensorFlow
8 36 (1.30%) OAuth
9 35 (1.27%) Spring
10 34 (1.23%) OAuth2
11 26 (0.94%) AngularJS
11 26 (0.94%) CSS
12 24 (0.87%) gRPC
12 24 (0.87%) HTML
13 23 (0.83%) Middleware
13 23 (0.83%) Vue
14 22 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 22 (0.80%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 138 (4.99%) Cloud Native
2 113 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 107 (3.87%) Blog
4 97 (3.51%) Molecular Biology
5 67 (2.42%) Onboarding
6 50 (1.81%) AI Agents
6 50 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 38 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 38 (1.38%) Social Media
10 37 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 37 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 36 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 32 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (0.83%) Management Information System
16 22 (0.80%) Social Network
17 20 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.41%) Android
2 30 (1.09%) Windows
3 28 (1.01%) Linux
4 24 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.072%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.036%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (43.18%) Conversational UI
2 402 (14.55%) Agile
3 394 (14.26%) Chemistry
4 329 (11.91%) Analytics
5 312 (11.29%) Roadmaps
6 297 (10.75%) Machine Learning
7 282 (10.21%) CI/CD
8 278 (10.06%) DevOps
9 253 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 228 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.56%) Content Writing
11 209 (7.56%) Software Engineering
12 193 (6.99%) Customer Service
13 179 (6.48%) Customer Experience
14 172 (6.23%) Mentoring
15 162 (5.86%) Coaching
16 161 (5.83%) Decision-Making
17 133 (4.81%) Business Intelligence
18 129 (4.67%) Data Modelling
18 129 (4.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 347 (12.56%) Python
2 265 (9.59%) SQL
3 113 (4.09%) Java
4 111 (4.02%) TypeScript
5 104 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 54 (1.95%) C#
7 41 (1.48%) Go
8 38 (1.38%) Bash
9 37 (1.34%) C++
9 37 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 24 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 24 (0.87%) R
11 22 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 19 (0.69%) PHP
12 19 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.62%) C
13 17 (0.62%) Scala
13 17 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,440 (52.12%) Degree
2 587 (21.25%) Master's Degree
3 572 (20.70%) PhD
4 79 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 65 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 25 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 24 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.87%) PMP
10 20 (0.72%) ACCA
10 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.58%) CISA
12 14 (0.51%) CISSP
13 13 (0.47%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.36%) CISM
16 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 48 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 41 (1.48%) GDPR
4 31 (1.12%) QA
5 30 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.83%) IFRS
7 20 (0.72%) WCAG
8 18 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.58%) GAAP
10 14 (0.51%) GRC
11 12 (0.43%) NIST
11 12 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 9 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.29%) NCSC
14 7 (0.25%) EU AI Act
14 7 (0.25%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.18%) PMO
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (3.47%) Docker
2 32 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.072%) Ceph
8 2 (0.072%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (3.29%) Terraform
2 82 (2.97%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (0.76%) Ansible
4 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.36%) Grafana
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 5 (0.18%) Argo
9 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.072%) Control-M
10 2 (0.072%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.072%) Puppet
11 1 (0.036%) Cilium
11 1 (0.036%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.036%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,161 (42.02%) PayPal
2 423 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 83 (3.00%) Adobe
4 61 (2.21%) Cisco
5 59 (2.14%) Google
6 57 (2.06%) Databricks
6 57 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 53 (1.92%) Dell
8 51 (1.85%) Oracle
9 45 (1.63%) Blue Prism
10 31 (1.12%) Apple
11 26 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.72%) HubSpot
12 20 (0.72%) SAP
13 15 (0.54%) Foundry
14 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.43%) Palantir
16 10 (0.36%) IBM
17 9 (0.33%) Informatica
17 9 (0.33%) VMware