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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 68
Rank change year-on-year -2 +61 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,448 2,544 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.76% 15.93% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.28% 16.99% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,545 717 835
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £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 17,138 14,975 29,784
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.33% 93.80% 89.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,509 8,834 22,919
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £75,662
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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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 2 July 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 60 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.59%) CMS
2 39 (1.59%) Confluence
3 20 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.53%) Apache
6 12 (0.49%) WordPress
7 11 (0.45%) SAS
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) Camunda
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
9 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.082%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.082%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.041%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 46 (1.88%) UserZoom
2 25 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
6 13 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 11 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 11 (0.45%) InDesign
7 11 (0.45%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.16%) CapCut
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) Productboard
11 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.082%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.041%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.98%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.16%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.082%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.041%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.041%) HFM
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.041%) Shopify
6 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 726 (29.66%) Azure
2 438 (17.89%) AWS
3 246 (10.05%) SaaS
4 232 (9.48%) Azure AI
5 206 (8.42%) GCP
6 194 (7.92%) Adobe Analytics
7 176 (7.19%) Power Platform
8 170 (6.94%) GitHub
9 152 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (4.41%) Figma
11 107 (4.37%) GitHub Copilot
12 101 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
13 98 (4.00%) Serverless
14 96 (3.92%) Snowflake
15 92 (3.76%) Azure Machine Learning
16 76 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 75 (3.06%) Anthropic Claude
18 71 (2.90%) Contentsquare
18 71 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
19 53 (2.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 339 (13.85%) Broadband
2 31 (1.27%) VPN
3 28 (1.14%) Firewall
4 27 (1.10%) Internet
5 15 (0.61%) DNS
6 14 (0.57%) HTTP
7 11 (0.45%) VoIP
8 10 (0.41%) DHCP
9 9 (0.37%) Network Security
10 8 (0.33%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.29%) CTI
12 6 (0.25%) 5G
12 6 (0.25%) WPA
13 5 (0.20%) DMZ
13 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.20%) VLAN
13 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (8.21%) MongoDB
2 161 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 108 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 100 (4.08%) Power BI
5 83 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 74 (3.02%) Metadata
7 57 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.84%) Tableau
9 42 (1.72%) Big Data
10 33 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 31 (1.27%) NoSQL
11 31 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
12 28 (1.14%) Data Lake
12 28 (1.14%) Redis
13 24 (0.98%) Delta Lake
14 22 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (0.90%) MySQL
14 22 (0.90%) Relational Database
15 18 (0.74%) Pinecone
16 14 (0.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (3.15%) Git
2 46 (1.88%) Claude Code
3 36 (1.47%) JIRA
4 34 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.02%) Snyk
6 18 (0.74%) GitLab
7 17 (0.69%) MLflow
8 13 (0.53%) Selenium
9 11 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.33%) Postman
11 6 (0.25%) Maven
11 6 (0.25%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.20%) JUnit
12 5 (0.20%) Mockito
12 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.20%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.12%) Appium
13 3 (0.12%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.12%) Metasploit
General
1 626 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 457 (18.67%) Finance
3 279 (11.40%) Games
4 261 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 252 (10.29%) Marketing
6 150 (6.13%) Legal
7 144 (5.88%) Law
8 142 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 82 (3.35%) Retail
10 70 (2.86%) Banking
11 64 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
12 53 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (2.04%) Advertising
14 39 (1.59%) Automotive
15 38 (1.55%) Legal Technology
16 29 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 29 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.74%) Telecoms
18 12 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 476 (19.44%) Senior
2 376 (15.36%) Lead
3 355 (14.50%) Developer
4 219 (8.95%) Architect
5 156 (6.37%) Software Engineer
6 151 (6.17%) .NET Developer
7 108 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 104 (4.25%) Engineering Manager
9 103 (4.21%) Analyst
10 95 (3.88%) Consultant
11 84 (3.43%) Designer
12 80 (3.27%) Data Engineer
13 75 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.66%) Data Scientist
14 65 (2.66%) Python Engineer
15 63 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
16 62 (2.53%) Product Manager
17 60 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (2.41%) Data Manager
19 56 (2.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (9.03%) .NET
2 218 (8.91%) React
3 151 (6.17%) RESTful
4 150 (6.13%) ASP.NET
5 148 (6.05%) .NET Core
6 144 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (5.76%) ML.NET
8 129 (5.27%) CSS
9 122 (4.98%) HTML
10 104 (4.25%) Blazor
11 98 (4.00%) Node.js
12 81 (3.31%) REST
13 67 (2.74%) LangChain
14 66 (2.70%) PyTorch
15 57 (2.33%) TensorFlow
16 46 (1.88%) Vue
17 45 (1.84%) FastAPI
18 43 (1.76%) Next.js
19 32 (1.31%) Spring
20 30 (1.23%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 235 (9.60%) Social Media
2 224 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 149 (6.09%) AI Agents
4 136 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 94 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.61%) Low-Code
8 61 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 57 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 57 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
10 53 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 53 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 43 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 35 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 33 (1.35%) Social Network
15 32 (1.31%) Podcast
16 31 (1.27%) Management Information System
16 31 (1.27%) Public Cloud
17 25 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.17%) Windows
2 51 (2.08%) Android
3 40 (1.63%) Linux
4 27 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.49%) VMS
7 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (29.49%) Agile
2 636 (25.98%) Machine Learning
3 618 (25.25%) Roadmaps
4 617 (25.20%) Analytics
5 516 (21.08%) CI/CD
6 380 (15.52%) Software Engineering
7 372 (15.20%) Mentoring
8 347 (14.17%) Decision-Making
9 345 (14.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 336 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 335 (13.68%) Customer Experience
12 321 (13.11%) LLM
13 320 (13.07%) DevOps
14 295 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
15 247 (10.09%) Generative AI
16 244 (9.97%) Product Roadmap
17 235 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
18 220 (8.99%) Storytelling
19 205 (8.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 204 (8.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 572 (23.37%) Python
2 430 (17.57%) SQL
3 243 (9.93%) C#
4 213 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 157 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 111 (4.53%) Java
7 67 (2.74%) Go
8 52 (2.12%) PowerShell
9 48 (1.96%) Bash
10 41 (1.67%) Bicep
11 33 (1.35%) C++
12 25 (1.02%) Scala
13 21 (0.86%) R
14 18 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.65%) PHP
16 11 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.37%) C
18 8 (0.33%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.29%) Ruby
20 6 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 196 (8.01%) Degree
2 106 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 66 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 54 (2.21%) ACCA
5 44 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.27%) CIMA
10 30 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.23%) PhD
11 27 (1.10%) CISSP
11 27 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (1.02%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.78%) CISM
14 16 (0.65%) A+ Certification
14 16 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.37%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (11.89%) Accessibility
2 135 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 79 (3.23%) GDPR
4 78 (3.19%) QA
5 70 (2.86%) WCAG
6 55 (2.25%) GRC
7 30 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.23%) NIST
8 24 (0.98%) IFRS
9 22 (0.90%) SLA
10 14 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.57%) PMO
11 13 (0.53%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.25%) NCSC
16 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
17 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 185 (7.56%) Docker
2 91 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
3 53 (2.17%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.49%) vSphere
7 6 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 169 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.62%) Terraform
3 33 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.78%) Ansible
5 17 (0.69%) Grafana
6 16 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.33%) Argo
7 8 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.29%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Nmap
12 2 (0.082%) linkerd
12 2 (0.082%) Podman
12 2 (0.082%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.082%) Salt
13 1 (0.041%) CASB
13 1 (0.041%) Cilium
13 1 (0.041%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 595 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 253 (10.33%) Adobe
3 140 (5.72%) Databricks
4 113 (4.62%) Google
5 78 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 75 (3.06%) Cisco
7 60 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.08%) Dell
9 45 (1.84%) Apple
9 45 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 39 (1.59%) Foundry
11 33 (1.35%) Facebook
12 31 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (1.10%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.10%) Tenable
14 23 (0.94%) Oracle
14 23 (0.94%) VMware
15 18 (0.74%) SAP
16 16 (0.65%) Sony
2,504 hybrid/remote AI jobs