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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 +49 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,216 3,193 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.05% 19.52% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.06% 20.91% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,044 686 546
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,203 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 20,023 15,273 20,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.27% 93.38% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,327 8,588 12,171
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,600 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 24 September 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
1 103 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.65%) Confluence
3 36 (1.12%) CMS
4 29 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.78%) Apache
6 21 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.31%) SAS
8 10 (0.31%) WordPress
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.093%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.031%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.031%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.031%) nginx
13 1 (0.031%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.031%) Umbraco
Applications
1 78 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.78%) UserZoom
5 23 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.44%) InDesign
8 13 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.22%) Moqups
12 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (0.16%) Trello
13 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.093%) Productboard
13 3 (0.093%) Sketch
14 2 (0.062%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.062%) Notion
Business Applications
1 39 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.12%) Primavera
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.093%) SAP PSCD
8 3 (0.093%) Shopify
9 2 (0.062%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.031%) HFM
10 1 (0.031%) Magento
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 904 (28.11%) Azure
2 628 (19.53%) AWS
3 318 (9.89%) SaaS
4 282 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 277 (8.61%) GCP
6 243 (7.56%) GitHub
7 239 (7.43%) Azure AI
8 188 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
9 164 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
10 149 (4.63%) Snowflake
11 146 (4.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 137 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 134 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
14 114 (3.54%) Serverless
15 112 (3.48%) Entra ID
16 77 (2.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 76 (2.36%) Power Automate
18 75 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
19 71 (2.21%) Figma
20 61 (1.90%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 140 (4.35%) Broadband
2 37 (1.15%) Internet
3 34 (1.06%) Firewall
3 34 (1.06%) VPN
4 31 (0.96%) Network Security
5 23 (0.72%) 5G
5 23 (0.72%) DNS
6 17 (0.53%) HTTP
7 14 (0.44%) DHCP
8 13 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.34%) CTI
10 9 (0.28%) Wireless
11 8 (0.25%) WPA
12 6 (0.19%) DMZ
12 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.19%) WAN
12 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 181 (5.63%) Power BI
3 170 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 119 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 105 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (3.14%) Metadata
7 76 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (1.74%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.65%) Tableau
10 48 (1.49%) Big Data
11 44 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 40 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 37 (1.15%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.12%) Redis
15 35 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
16 34 (1.06%) Delta Lake
17 26 (0.81%) MySQL
18 21 (0.65%) Data Vault
18 21 (0.65%) DynamoDB
19 20 (0.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 124 (3.86%) Git
2 90 (2.80%) JIRA
3 88 (2.74%) Claude Code
4 40 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.93%) GitLab
6 27 (0.84%) Snyk
7 19 (0.59%) MLflow
8 17 (0.53%) Selenium
9 15 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.47%) Postman
10 14 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 10 (0.31%) Maven
12 10 (0.31%) Mockito
13 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.16%) Poetry
13 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 987 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 808 (25.12%) Finance
3 431 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 377 (11.72%) Marketing
6 234 (7.28%) Public Sector
7 229 (7.12%) Legal
8 163 (5.07%) Law
9 152 (4.73%) Banking
10 124 (3.86%) Games
11 121 (3.76%) Retail
12 117 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
13 116 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
14 62 (1.93%) Advertising
15 53 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 44 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.03%) Legal Technology
19 29 (0.90%) Financial Institution
20 26 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 605 (18.81%) Senior
2 422 (13.12%) Developer
3 345 (10.73%) Architect
4 338 (10.51%) Lead
5 264 (8.21%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.07%) Analyst
7 162 (5.04%) .NET Developer
8 140 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 135 (4.20%) Consultant
10 98 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
11 92 (2.86%) Python Engineer
12 88 (2.74%) Data Engineer
13 85 (2.64%) Senior Manager
14 82 (2.55%) Engineering Manager
15 81 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
16 74 (2.30%) Data Scientist
17 70 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
17 70 (2.18%) Senior Developer
18 66 (2.05%) Data Architect
18 66 (2.05%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (8.83%) React
2 262 (8.15%) .NET
3 168 (5.22%) Terraform
4 161 (5.01%) RESTful
5 160 (4.98%) ASP.NET
6 155 (4.82%) .NET Core
6 155 (4.82%) Node.js
7 151 (4.70%) ASP.NET Core
8 148 (4.60%) ML.NET
9 136 (4.23%) CSS
10 127 (3.95%) HTML
11 125 (3.89%) REST
12 110 (3.42%) Blazor
13 104 (3.23%) LangChain
14 74 (2.30%) Next.js
15 63 (1.96%) LangGraph
16 55 (1.71%) PySpark
17 54 (1.68%) PyTorch
18 53 (1.65%) Vue
19 46 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 284 (8.83%) AI Agents
2 278 (8.64%) Cloud Native
3 138 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 129 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
5 112 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 109 (3.39%) Social Media
7 97 (3.02%) Blog
8 91 (2.83%) Management Information System
9 77 (2.39%) Onboarding
10 75 (2.33%) Low-Code
11 69 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
12 65 (2.02%) Algorithms
13 63 (1.96%) Data Centre
14 61 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
15 59 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
16 51 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
16 51 (1.59%) Mobile App
17 50 (1.55%) Virtual Team
18 45 (1.40%) Hedge funds
19 43 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 82 (2.55%) Windows
2 71 (2.21%) Linux
3 38 (1.18%) Android
4 21 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.37%) VMS
8 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.25%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Debian
11 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.062%) AIX
12 2 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (23.51%) Machine Learning
2 718 (22.33%) Agile
3 680 (21.14%) Analytics
4 624 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 611 (19.00%) CI/CD
6 585 (18.19%) Roadmaps
7 536 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 512 (15.92%) Mentoring
9 475 (14.77%) Decision-Making
10 448 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
11 425 (13.22%) LLM
12 391 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 390 (12.13%) DevOps
14 375 (11.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 339 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 336 (10.45%) Cybersecurity
17 308 (9.58%) Coaching
18 273 (8.49%) Data Science
19 267 (8.30%) Technical Leadership
20 249 (7.74%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 737 (22.92%) Python
2 567 (17.63%) SQL
3 310 (9.64%) C#
4 285 (8.86%) JavaScript
5 234 (7.28%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.57%) Java
7 75 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 70 (2.18%) C++
9 50 (1.55%) Go
10 49 (1.52%) Bash
11 45 (1.40%) Bicep
12 32 (1.00%) R
12 32 (1.00%) Scala
13 20 (0.62%) C
14 19 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.59%) PHP
15 17 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 15 (0.47%) Rust
18 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 261 (8.12%) Degree
2 252 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 186 (5.78%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.58%) CISSP
5 75 (2.33%) CISM
6 66 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 60 (1.87%) ACCA
9 56 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 54 (1.68%) A+ Certification
10 54 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
11 50 (1.55%) CIMA
12 38 (1.18%) DBS Check
13 32 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 23 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.59%) PhD
17 18 (0.56%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 182 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 144 (4.48%) GDPR
4 127 (3.95%) QA
5 73 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (1.99%) GRC
7 53 (1.65%) NIST
8 35 (1.09%) SLA
9 27 (0.84%) WCAG
10 20 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 16 (0.50%) PMO
13 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 14 (0.44%) IFRS
15 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 11 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
18 8 (0.25%) SOC 2
19 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 244 (7.59%) Docker
2 102 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.40%) vSphere
6 11 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.093%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) NFS
9 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 217 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (1.15%) Grafana
4 19 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 18 (0.56%) Ansible
6 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.16%) Argo
7 5 (0.16%) Istio
7 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.16%) Nmap
8 4 (0.12%) Puppet
9 3 (0.093%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.093%) linkerd
9 3 (0.093%) Podman
10 2 (0.062%) Cilium
10 2 (0.062%) Kibana
11 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.031%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.031%) Salt
Vendors
1 816 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 180 (5.60%) Databricks
3 170 (5.29%) Google
4 119 (3.70%) Adobe
5 111 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 108 (3.36%) YouTube
7 83 (2.58%) Cisco
8 64 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.87%) Apple
10 59 (1.83%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.71%) CyberArk
12 49 (1.52%) Dell
13 47 (1.46%) SAP
14 43 (1.34%) HubSpot
15 42 (1.31%) Foundry
16 38 (1.18%) Oracle
17 35 (1.09%) Facebook
18 31 (0.96%) VMware
19 30 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
19 30 (0.93%) Palo Alto