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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 44 71
Rank change year-on-year +39 +27 +30
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,582 949 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.85% 6.11% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.38% 6.44% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 936 560 748
10th Percentile £24,570 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,295 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +1.99% -10.34%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £119,375 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 14,049 14,744 25,721
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.24% 94.88% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,091 8,753 21,329
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,758
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,080
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,504 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -12.00%

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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 17 February 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 43 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.05%) Confluence
3 24 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.77%) CMS
5 16 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.50%) JBoss
6 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.35%) WordPress
8 7 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.23%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.12%) SAS
12 2 (0.077%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.077%) Mendix
12 2 (0.077%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.039%) Camunda
13 1 (0.039%) Kinematics
Applications
1 964 (37.34%) Chatbot
2 73 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.19%) UserZoom
6 3 (0.12%) Simulink
6 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.077%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.077%) Weka
8 1 (0.039%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.039%) InDesign
8 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.039%) Notion
Business Applications
1 18 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.077%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.077%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.077%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.077%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.039%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.039%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 497 (19.25%) Azure
2 304 (11.77%) AWS
3 230 (8.91%) SaaS
4 190 (7.36%) Power Platform
5 157 (6.08%) GCP
6 149 (5.77%) GitHub
7 118 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (3.80%) GitHub Copilot
9 76 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
10 63 (2.44%) Snowflake
11 54 (2.09%) Serverless
12 51 (1.98%) Adobe Analytics
13 45 (1.74%) Entra ID
14 42 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
15 36 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
16 34 (1.32%) Figma
17 31 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 29 (1.12%) dbt
18 29 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
18 29 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.18%) Broadband
2 16 (0.62%) Firewall
3 13 (0.50%) HTTP
4 11 (0.43%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.31%) Network Security
6 7 (0.27%) DMZ
6 7 (0.27%) Internet
7 6 (0.23%) DHCP
7 6 (0.23%) RTP
7 6 (0.23%) VoIP
7 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.19%) VPN
9 4 (0.15%) DNS
9 4 (0.15%) Intranet
10 3 (0.12%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.12%) DSL
10 3 (0.12%) IPv4
10 3 (0.12%) IPv6
10 3 (0.12%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (3.91%) Power BI
2 77 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (2.13%) Tableau
4 45 (1.74%) Metadata
5 39 (1.51%) Big Data
6 37 (1.43%) SQL Server
7 35 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 31 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 25 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 24 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 23 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (0.70%) Looker
14 15 (0.58%) MySQL
14 15 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.50%) Redis
16 12 (0.46%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 68 (2.63%) JIRA
2 52 (2.01%) Git
3 21 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) MLflow
5 17 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (0.54%) GitLab
7 10 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.35%) Selenium
9 8 (0.31%) Subversion
9 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.23%) ERwin
12 5 (0.19%) GitBook
12 5 (0.19%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.19%) Storybook
12 5 (0.19%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.15%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
14 3 (0.12%) JMeter
General
1 583 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
2 514 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 471 (18.24%) Finance
4 296 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 179 (6.93%) Marketing
6 162 (6.27%) Public Sector
7 119 (4.61%) Legal
8 117 (4.53%) Retail
9 105 (4.07%) Law
10 77 (2.98%) Games
11 52 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 51 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 41 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.36%) Banking
15 28 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (0.89%) Aerospace
18 16 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.58%) Advertising
20 14 (0.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 946 (36.64%) Trainer
2 285 (11.04%) Senior
3 218 (8.44%) Developer
4 182 (7.05%) Lead
5 122 (4.73%) Content Editor
6 116 (4.49%) Architect
7 85 (3.29%) Analyst
8 81 (3.14%) Consultant
9 78 (3.02%) Customer Support Specialist
9 78 (3.02%) Support Specialist
10 77 (2.98%) Research Scientist
11 70 (2.71%) Software Engineer
12 59 (2.29%) Data Engineer
13 55 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
14 49 (1.90%) Sales Executive
15 47 (1.82%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 44 (1.70%) Engineering Manager
17 43 (1.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 42 (1.63%) .NET Developer
19 40 (1.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (3.72%) React
2 95 (3.68%) .NET
3 83 (3.21%) REST
4 64 (2.48%) Node.js
5 62 (2.40%) RESTful
6 45 (1.74%) PyTorch
7 43 (1.67%) TensorFlow
8 39 (1.51%) SOAP
9 38 (1.47%) Kafka
10 36 (1.39%) OAuth
11 35 (1.36%) Spring
12 34 (1.32%) OAuth2
13 30 (1.16%) CSS
14 28 (1.08%) HTML
15 25 (0.97%) AngularJS
16 23 (0.89%) Middleware
16 23 (0.89%) Vue
17 22 (0.85%) gRPC
17 22 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
18 21 (0.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 138 (5.34%) Cloud Native
2 110 (4.26%) Blog
3 107 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 91 (3.52%) Molecular Biology
5 73 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 61 (2.36%) Social Media
7 52 (2.01%) AI Agents
8 50 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 49 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.51%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 36 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 35 (1.36%) Virtual Team
14 34 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
14 34 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
15 30 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 25 (0.97%) Social Network
17 24 (0.93%) Management Information System
18 20 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.74%) Android
2 32 (1.24%) Linux
3 30 (1.16%) Windows
4 29 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.039%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (37.80%) Conversational UI
2 420 (16.27%) Agile
3 367 (14.21%) Analytics
4 346 (13.40%) Roadmaps
5 344 (13.32%) Chemistry
6 305 (11.81%) Machine Learning
7 299 (11.58%) CI/CD
8 277 (10.73%) DevOps
9 267 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 229 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
11 214 (8.29%) Software Engineering
12 201 (7.78%) Customer Experience
13 182 (7.05%) Mentoring
14 175 (6.78%) Decision-Making
15 167 (6.47%) Coaching
16 157 (6.08%) Content Writing
17 156 (6.04%) Customer Service
18 141 (5.46%) Generative AI
19 134 (5.19%) Project Management
20 133 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 354 (13.71%) Python
2 255 (9.88%) SQL
3 115 (4.45%) Java
4 111 (4.30%) TypeScript
5 102 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 57 (2.21%) C#
7 46 (1.78%) Go
8 38 (1.47%) C++
9 37 (1.43%) Bash
10 35 (1.36%) PowerShell
11 24 (0.93%) R
12 23 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 22 (0.85%) Apex Code
14 20 (0.77%) PHP
15 18 (0.70%) C
15 18 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.62%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.50%) Scala
18 10 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,226 (47.48%) Degree
2 527 (20.41%) Master's Degree
3 512 (19.83%) PhD
4 81 (3.14%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.48%) SC Cleared
6 53 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 27 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.93%) PMP
11 23 (0.89%) ACCA
11 23 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.54%) CISA
13 14 (0.54%) CISSP
13 14 (0.54%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.39%) CISM
16 6 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 44 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 43 (1.67%) GDPR
4 35 (1.36%) QA
5 31 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.01%) IFRS
7 19 (0.74%) WCAG
8 18 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.62%) GAAP
9 16 (0.62%) GRC
10 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.50%) NIST
12 9 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 9 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.27%) EU AI Act
13 7 (0.27%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.27%) NCSC
13 7 (0.27%) PMO
14 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 100 (3.87%) Docker
2 32 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
6 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
6 3 (0.12%) Lustre
6 3 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.077%) Ceph
7 2 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.039%) GPFS
8 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.039%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (3.52%) Terraform
2 86 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (0.85%) Ansible
5 19 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.46%) Grafana
8 7 (0.27%) SCCM
9 5 (0.19%) Argo
9 5 (0.19%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.12%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.077%) Control-M
11 2 (0.077%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.039%) Cilium
12 1 (0.039%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.039%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 945 (36.60%) PayPal
2 409 (15.84%) Microsoft
3 96 (3.72%) Adobe
4 65 (2.52%) Google
5 63 (2.44%) Databricks
6 58 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 52 (2.01%) Cisco
8 51 (1.98%) Oracle
9 50 (1.94%) Dell
10 45 (1.74%) Blue Prism
11 28 (1.08%) Apple
12 27 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 20 (0.77%) SAP
14 19 (0.74%) HubSpot
15 15 (0.58%) Foundry
16 14 (0.54%) Palantir
17 13 (0.50%) Atlassian
18 11 (0.43%) Informatica
19 10 (0.39%) IBM
19 10 (0.39%) Pardot
1,177 hybrid/remote AI jobs