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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 59 69
Rank change year-on-year +55 +10 +40
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,763 837 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.53% 5.13% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.18% 5.43% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 927 489 728
10th Percentile £23,382 £45,000 £39,720
25th Percentile £43,750 £58,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,125 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,400 £104,474
UK median annual salary £71,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.79% +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 13,689 15,415 23,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.83% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,688 9,091 19,584
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 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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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 29 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 24 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (0.76%) 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
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.18%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Luigi
13 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.072%) Mendix
13 2 (0.072%) SAS
13 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.036%) Camunda
14 1 (0.036%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,182 (42.78%) Chatbot
2 77 (2.79%) 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
1 500 (18.10%) Azure
2 301 (10.89%) AWS
3 213 (7.71%) SaaS
4 190 (6.88%) Power Platform
5 155 (5.61%) GCP
6 145 (5.25%) GitHub
7 123 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
9 75 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
10 63 (2.28%) Snowflake
11 50 (1.81%) Serverless
12 48 (1.74%) Entra ID
13 41 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 37 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
15 34 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 31 (1.12%) Adobe Analytics
16 31 (1.12%) Azure AI
16 31 (1.12%) dbt
17 29 (1.05%) Power Automate
18 27 (0.98%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.88%) Broadband
2 12 (0.43%) Firewall
2 12 (0.43%) HTTP
3 11 (0.40%) Network Security
4 10 (0.36%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.25%) DMZ
6 7 (0.25%) Internet
7 6 (0.22%) DHCP
7 6 (0.22%) DNS
7 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 6 (0.22%) VPN
8 5 (0.18%) RTP
8 5 (0.18%) VoIP
8 5 (0.18%) WAN
9 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.11%) DSL
10 3 (0.11%) IPv4
10 3 (0.11%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.76%) Power BI
2 77 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (1.95%) Tableau
4 39 (1.41%) NoSQL
5 38 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 37 (1.34%) Big Data
7 36 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 34 (1.23%) Metadata
9 28 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 24 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (0.87%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.65%) MySQL
14 16 (0.58%) Looker
14 16 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.43%) Redis
17 11 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.40%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 70 (2.53%) JIRA
2 54 (1.95%) Git
3 21 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.65%) 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
7 8 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.22%) ERwin
9 5 (0.18%) GitBook
9 5 (0.18%) Selenium
9 5 (0.18%) Storybook
10 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.11%) ESLint
11 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.072%) Postman
General
1 625 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
2 506 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 461 (16.68%) Finance
4 323 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 181 (6.55%) Marketing
6 162 (5.86%) Public Sector
7 115 (4.16%) Retail
8 109 (3.94%) Legal
9 94 (3.40%) Law
10 50 (1.81%) Games
10 50 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.12%) Banking
14 28 (1.01%) 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 1,160 (41.98%) Trainer
2 273 (9.88%) 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 87 (3.15%) Analyst
9 79 (2.86%) Research Scientist
10 74 (2.68%) Consultant
11 67 (2.42%) Software Engineer
12 64 (2.32%) Data Engineer
13 56 (2.03%) Sales Executive
14 51 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (1.70%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 45 (1.63%) Microsoft Specialist
17 44 (1.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 42 (1.52%) .NET Developer
19 41 (1.48%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (3.40%) React
2 93 (3.37%) .NET
3 82 (2.97%) REST
4 65 (2.35%) Node.js
5 61 (2.21%) RESTful
6 41 (1.48%) Kafka
7 40 (1.45%) PyTorch
8 39 (1.41%) SOAP
9 36 (1.30%) OAuth
9 36 (1.30%) Spring
9 36 (1.30%) TensorFlow
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
2 114 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 107 (3.87%) Blog
4 97 (3.51%) Molecular Biology
5 66 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 51 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 50 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 38 (1.38%) Social Media
11 37 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 37 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 37 (1.34%) Low-Code
12 32 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 30 (1.09%) Mobile App
14 23 (0.83%) Management Information System
14 23 (0.83%) Social Network
15 20 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.41%) Android
2 30 (1.09%) Windows
3 27 (0.98%) 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 1,194 (43.21%) Conversational UI
2 404 (14.62%) Agile
3 394 (14.26%) Chemistry
4 328 (11.87%) Analytics
5 314 (11.36%) Roadmaps
6 299 (10.82%) Machine Learning
7 281 (10.17%) CI/CD
8 280 (10.13%) DevOps
9 252 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 231 (8.36%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.56%) Content Writing
12 208 (7.53%) Software Engineering
13 194 (7.02%) Customer Service
14 177 (6.41%) Customer Experience
15 174 (6.30%) Mentoring
16 161 (5.83%) Coaching
17 158 (5.72%) Decision-Making
18 135 (4.89%) Business Intelligence
19 131 (4.74%) User Experience
20 128 (4.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 346 (12.52%) Python
2 267 (9.66%) SQL
3 111 (4.02%) Java
3 111 (4.02%) TypeScript
4 104 (3.76%) JavaScript
5 53 (1.92%) C#
6 38 (1.38%) Go
7 37 (1.34%) C++
7 37 (1.34%) PowerShell
8 36 (1.30%) Bash
9 24 (0.87%) Kotlin
9 24 (0.87%) R
10 22 (0.80%) Apex Code
11 19 (0.69%) PHP
11 19 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.62%) C
12 17 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (0.62%) Scala
12 17 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,439 (52.08%) Degree
2 588 (21.28%) Master's Degree
3 573 (20.74%) PhD
4 80 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 66 (2.39%) SC Cleared
6 54 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 26 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.87%) PMP
11 21 (0.76%) ACCA
11 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.58%) CISA
13 14 (0.51%) CISSP
14 13 (0.47%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 10 (0.36%) CISM
17 8 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 46 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.45%) GDPR
4 30 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (1.09%) QA
5 24 (0.87%) IFRS
6 20 (0.72%) WCAG
7 18 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (0.62%) GAAP
9 14 (0.51%) GRC
10 13 (0.47%) NIST
11 12 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 9 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
14 8 (0.29%) NCSC
15 7 (0.25%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.14%) PMO
17 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (3.44%) 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
8 2 (0.072%) Ceph
8 2 (0.072%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.072%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (3.33%) 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 11 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.33%) Grafana
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 5 (0.18%) Argo
9 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.072%) Control-M
10 2 (0.072%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.072%) Proxmox
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 62 (2.24%) Cisco
5 58 (2.10%) 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 11 (0.40%) Palantir
16 10 (0.36%) IBM
17 9 (0.33%) Informatica
18 8 (0.29%) Instagram