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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 66 65
Rank change year-on-year +62 -1 +44
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,730 791 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.56% 4.82% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.21% 5.13% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 919 450 697
10th Percentile £21,600 £45,000 £39,738
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.49% +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 13,505 15,416 22,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.89% 94.03% 93.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,586 9,080 18,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £45,000
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 £101,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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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 23 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 45 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.03%) Confluence
3 25 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.73%) CMS
6 17 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.44%) JBoss
8 12 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.11%) Luigi
12 2 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.073%) Mendix
12 2 (0.073%) SAS
12 2 (0.073%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.037%) Camunda
13 1 (0.037%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,182 (43.30%) Chatbot
2 77 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.15%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) InDesign
6 3 (0.11%) Notion
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.073%) Weka
8 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.037%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.073%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.073%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.073%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.073%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.037%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 494 (18.10%) Azure
2 299 (10.95%) AWS
3 212 (7.77%) SaaS
4 192 (7.03%) Power Platform
5 156 (5.71%) GCP
6 144 (5.27%) GitHub
7 127 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
9 70 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
10 68 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 48 (1.76%) Entra ID
12 47 (1.72%) Serverless
13 40 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 37 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 35 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 34 (1.25%) dbt
17 31 (1.14%) Azure AI
18 29 (1.06%) Power Automate
19 28 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
20 26 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (0.88%) Broadband
2 11 (0.40%) HTTP
2 11 (0.40%) Network Security
3 10 (0.37%) Firewall
4 8 (0.29%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.26%) DMZ
5 7 (0.26%) Internet
5 7 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 5 (0.18%) DHCP
7 5 (0.18%) DNS
7 5 (0.18%) VPN
7 5 (0.18%) WAN
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 4 (0.15%) RTP
8 4 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.11%) DSL
9 3 (0.11%) IPv4
9 3 (0.11%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (3.99%) Power BI
2 81 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.12%) Tableau
4 41 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 40 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 35 (1.28%) Big Data
6 35 (1.28%) MongoDB
7 28 (1.03%) BigQuery
7 28 (1.03%) Metadata
8 27 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 27 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (0.73%) Looker
12 17 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (0.59%) MySQL
14 15 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 11 (0.40%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (2.60%) JIRA
2 54 (1.98%) Git
3 21 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (0.51%) GitLab
5 14 (0.51%) MLflow
6 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.29%) Subversion
8 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.22%) ERwin
10 5 (0.18%) GitBook
10 5 (0.18%) Selenium
10 5 (0.18%) Storybook
11 4 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) ESLint
12 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.073%) Postman
13 2 (0.073%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 621 (22.75%) Analytical Skills
2 500 (18.32%) Social Skills
3 466 (17.07%) Finance
4 327 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 182 (6.67%) Marketing
6 160 (5.86%) Public Sector
7 118 (4.32%) Retail
8 111 (4.07%) Legal
9 92 (3.37%) Law
10 51 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 34 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.14%) Banking
15 28 (1.03%) Games
16 24 (0.88%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
19 16 (0.59%) Advertising
20 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,160 (42.49%) Trainer
2 262 (9.60%) Senior
3 202 (7.40%) Developer
4 155 (5.68%) Content Editor
5 125 (4.58%) Lead
6 113 (4.14%) Architect
7 98 (3.59%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.59%) Support Specialist
8 93 (3.41%) Analyst
9 80 (2.93%) Research Scientist
10 75 (2.75%) Consultant
11 68 (2.49%) Software Engineer
12 63 (2.31%) Data Engineer
13 56 (2.05%) Sales Executive
14 47 (1.72%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 47 (1.72%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (1.65%) Microsoft Specialist
16 43 (1.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 42 (1.54%) .NET Developer
18 41 (1.50%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (3.37%) .NET
2 90 (3.30%) React
3 80 (2.93%) REST
4 64 (2.34%) Node.js
5 59 (2.16%) RESTful
6 42 (1.54%) Kafka
7 38 (1.39%) SOAP
8 35 (1.28%) Spring
9 34 (1.25%) OAuth
9 34 (1.25%) PyTorch
10 33 (1.21%) OAuth2
11 31 (1.14%) TensorFlow
12 25 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 24 (0.88%) CSS
13 24 (0.88%) gRPC
14 23 (0.84%) Middleware
15 22 (0.81%) HTML
15 22 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
15 22 (0.81%) Next.js
15 22 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 138 (5.05%) Cloud Native
2 113 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 106 (3.88%) Blog
4 97 (3.55%) Molecular Biology
5 62 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 53 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.25%) Algorithms
13 32 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (0.92%) Mobile App
16 23 (0.84%) Management Information System
17 22 (0.81%) Social Network
18 20 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
19 19 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.25%) Android
2 29 (1.06%) Windows
3 25 (0.92%) Linux
4 19 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (43.81%) Conversational UI
2 395 (14.47%) Chemistry
3 380 (13.92%) Agile
4 309 (11.32%) Analytics
5 300 (10.99%) Machine Learning
6 291 (10.66%) Roadmaps
7 283 (10.37%) DevOps
8 266 (9.74%) CI/CD
9 244 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 222 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.66%) Content Writing
12 203 (7.44%) Software Engineering
13 194 (7.11%) Customer Service
14 164 (6.01%) Customer Experience
15 163 (5.97%) Coaching
16 162 (5.93%) Mentoring
17 149 (5.46%) Decision-Making
18 140 (5.13%) Business Intelligence
19 128 (4.69%) Data Modelling
20 126 (4.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 338 (12.38%) Python
2 272 (9.96%) SQL
3 110 (4.03%) Java
4 108 (3.96%) TypeScript
5 100 (3.66%) JavaScript
6 51 (1.87%) C#
7 38 (1.39%) PowerShell
8 37 (1.36%) Go
9 35 (1.28%) Bash
9 35 (1.28%) C++
10 25 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 25 (0.92%) R
11 22 (0.81%) Apex Code
12 20 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 19 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.66%) Scala
15 17 (0.62%) PHP
15 17 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.59%) C
17 13 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,444 (52.89%) Degree
2 589 (21.58%) Master's Degree
3 572 (20.95%) PhD
4 79 (2.89%) Security Cleared
5 66 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 54 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.10%) DBS Check
8 29 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 26 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.88%) PMP
11 21 (0.77%) ACCA
12 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.59%) CISA
14 13 (0.48%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.44%) CISSP
15 12 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 10 (0.37%) CISM
17 7 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 46 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 41 (1.50%) GDPR
4 30 (1.10%) QA
5 28 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.84%) IFRS
7 18 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (0.66%) WCAG
8 17 (0.62%) GAAP
9 13 (0.48%) GRC
9 13 (0.48%) NIST
10 11 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 10 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
12 8 (0.29%) NCSC
13 7 (0.26%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.11%) PMO
14 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (3.41%) Docker
2 30 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.073%) Ceph
8 2 (0.073%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.037%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.037%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (3.33%) Terraform
2 80 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.70%) Ansible
6 11 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.29%) Grafana
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 4 (0.15%) Argo
9 2 (0.073%) Control-M
9 2 (0.073%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.073%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.073%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.073%) Puppet
10 1 (0.037%) Cilium
10 1 (0.037%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.037%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.037%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,161 (42.53%) PayPal
2 425 (15.57%) Microsoft
3 70 (2.56%) Adobe
4 65 (2.38%) Cisco
5 62 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 61 (2.23%) Google
7 58 (2.12%) Databricks
8 54 (1.98%) Dell
9 51 (1.87%) Oracle
10 45 (1.65%) Blue Prism
11 36 (1.32%) Apple
12 27 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 25 (0.92%) HubSpot
14 20 (0.73%) SAP
15 16 (0.59%) Foundry
16 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.40%) Palantir
18 10 (0.37%) IBM
19 9 (0.33%) Informatica
20 8 (0.29%) ServiceNow