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

 6 months to
5 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +59 +24
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,473 2,559 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.81% 15.79% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.34% 16.86% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 723 838
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,351 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +1.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £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 17,250 15,174 29,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.39% 93.66% 88.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,607 8,984 22,543
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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

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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 5 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 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.62%) Confluence
3 39 (1.58%) CMS
4 19 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.53%) Apache
7 12 (0.49%) WordPress
8 11 (0.44%) SAS
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Camunda
10 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 3 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.081%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.081%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
Applications
1 46 (1.86%) UserZoom
2 26 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
6 14 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 12 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 12 (0.49%) InDesign
7 12 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.28%) 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 (0.081%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.040%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (0.97%) 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 (0.081%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.040%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.040%) HFM
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.040%) Shopify
6 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 732 (29.60%) Azure
2 441 (17.83%) AWS
3 247 (9.99%) SaaS
4 234 (9.46%) Azure AI
5 206 (8.33%) GCP
6 193 (7.80%) Adobe Analytics
7 176 (7.12%) Power Platform
8 171 (6.91%) GitHub
9 155 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
10 109 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
11 107 (4.33%) Figma
12 102 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
13 99 (4.00%) Serverless
14 98 (3.96%) Snowflake
15 90 (3.64%) Azure Machine Learning
16 77 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 76 (3.07%) Anthropic Claude
18 72 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
19 71 (2.87%) Contentsquare
20 53 (2.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 339 (13.71%) Broadband
2 31 (1.25%) VPN
3 28 (1.13%) Firewall
3 28 (1.13%) Internet
4 15 (0.61%) DNS
5 14 (0.57%) HTTP
6 11 (0.44%) VoIP
7 10 (0.40%) DHCP
8 9 (0.36%) Network Security
9 8 (0.32%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.28%) CTI
10 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.28%) Wireless
10 7 (0.28%) WPA
11 6 (0.24%) 5G
12 5 (0.20%) DMZ
12 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.20%) VLAN
12 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (8.21%) MongoDB
2 163 (6.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 110 (4.45%) SQL Server
4 101 (4.08%) Power BI
5 83 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (3.11%) Metadata
7 59 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (1.78%) Tableau
9 41 (1.66%) Big Data
10 31 (1.25%) BigQuery
10 31 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
11 30 (1.21%) NoSQL
12 29 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 29 (1.17%) Redis
13 24 (0.97%) Delta Lake
14 22 (0.89%) MySQL
14 22 (0.89%) Relational Database
15 21 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
16 17 (0.69%) Pinecone
17 13 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 83 (3.36%) Git
2 47 (1.90%) Claude Code
3 43 (1.74%) JIRA
4 34 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.01%) Snyk
6 18 (0.73%) GitLab
7 15 (0.61%) MLflow
8 13 (0.53%) Selenium
9 11 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.32%) Postman
11 6 (0.24%) Maven
11 6 (0.24%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.24%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.20%) JUnit
12 5 (0.20%) Mockito
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
1 634 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 461 (18.64%) Finance
3 279 (11.28%) Games
4 266 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 265 (10.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (10.35%) Marketing
7 151 (6.11%) Legal
8 148 (5.98%) Law
9 143 (5.78%) Public Sector
10 84 (3.40%) Retail
11 72 (2.91%) Banking
12 67 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
13 52 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
14 51 (2.06%) Advertising
15 40 (1.62%) Automotive
16 38 (1.54%) Legal Technology
17 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 29 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (0.81%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 478 (19.33%) Senior
2 379 (15.33%) Lead
3 361 (14.60%) Developer
4 228 (9.22%) Architect
5 160 (6.47%) Software Engineer
6 155 (6.27%) .NET Developer
7 108 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 104 (4.21%) Engineering Manager
9 102 (4.12%) Analyst
10 95 (3.84%) Consultant
11 84 (3.40%) Designer
12 80 (3.23%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.63%) Data Scientist
14 65 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
15 64 (2.59%) Python Engineer
16 63 (2.55%) Product Manager
17 60 (2.43%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (2.39%) Data Manager
19 58 (2.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (9.10%) .NET
2 223 (9.02%) React
3 154 (6.23%) ASP.NET
3 154 (6.23%) RESTful
4 149 (6.03%) .NET Core
5 147 (5.94%) ASP.NET Core
6 144 (5.82%) ML.NET
7 132 (5.34%) CSS
8 125 (5.05%) HTML
9 107 (4.33%) Blazor
10 100 (4.04%) Node.js
11 81 (3.28%) REST
12 66 (2.67%) LangChain
13 65 (2.63%) PyTorch
14 57 (2.30%) TensorFlow
15 48 (1.94%) Vue
16 45 (1.82%) FastAPI
17 43 (1.74%) Next.js
18 32 (1.29%) Spring
19 30 (1.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 237 (9.58%) Social Media
2 225 (9.10%) Cloud Native
3 150 (6.07%) AI Agents
4 134 (5.42%) Product Ownership
5 97 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 75 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 64 (2.59%) Low-Code
7 64 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (2.35%) Algorithms
9 57 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
10 53 (2.14%) Mobile App
10 53 (2.14%) Virtual Team
11 44 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.66%) Data Centre
13 36 (1.46%) Security Posture
14 35 (1.42%) Management Information System
15 32 (1.29%) Podcast
15 32 (1.29%) Social Network
16 31 (1.25%) Public Cloud
17 26 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.22%) Windows
2 51 (2.06%) Android
3 46 (1.86%) Linux
4 27 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.49%) VMS
7 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.081%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (29.68%) Agile
2 644 (26.04%) Machine Learning
3 625 (25.27%) Analytics
4 623 (25.19%) Roadmaps
5 519 (20.99%) CI/CD
6 386 (15.61%) Software Engineering
7 375 (15.16%) Mentoring
8 351 (14.19%) Decision-Making
9 350 (14.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 340 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 335 (13.55%) Customer Experience
12 327 (13.22%) LLM
13 324 (13.10%) DevOps
14 298 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
15 245 (9.91%) Generative AI
15 245 (9.91%) Product Roadmap
16 238 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
17 220 (8.90%) Storytelling
18 206 (8.33%) Data Science
19 205 (8.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 576 (23.29%) Python
2 438 (17.71%) SQL
3 247 (9.99%) C#
4 219 (8.86%) JavaScript
5 160 (6.47%) TypeScript
6 111 (4.49%) Java
7 66 (2.67%) Go
8 53 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.90%) Bash
10 42 (1.70%) Bicep
11 35 (1.42%) C++
12 25 (1.01%) Scala
13 20 (0.81%) R
14 18 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.65%) PHP
16 14 (0.57%) C
17 11 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.32%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.32%) Rust
19 7 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 200 (8.09%) Degree
2 115 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 75 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.14%) ACCA
5 44 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 34 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.25%) CIMA
9 31 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.21%) PhD
11 28 (1.13%) CISSP
12 27 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (1.01%) DBS Check
14 20 (0.81%) CISM
15 16 (0.65%) A+ Certification
15 16 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
16 10 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.36%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (11.77%) Accessibility
2 142 (5.74%) Data Quality
3 84 (3.40%) GDPR
4 80 (3.23%) QA
5 70 (2.83%) WCAG
6 55 (2.22%) GRC
7 33 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.25%) NIST
9 23 (0.93%) IFRS
10 22 (0.89%) SLA
11 15 (0.61%) PMO
12 14 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.53%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.24%) NCSC
18 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
19 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
19 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 185 (7.48%) Docker
2 91 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
3 53 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.49%) vSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Firmware
7 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 172 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 114 (4.61%) Terraform
3 33 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.77%) Ansible
5 17 (0.69%) Grafana
6 16 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.32%) Argo
7 8 (0.32%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.28%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.16%) Puppet
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Nmap
12 2 (0.081%) linkerd
12 2 (0.081%) Podman
12 2 (0.081%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.081%) Salt
13 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.040%) Nessus
13 1 (0.040%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 610 (24.67%) Microsoft
2 253 (10.23%) Adobe
3 139 (5.62%) Databricks
4 118 (4.77%) Google
5 81 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 75 (3.03%) Cisco
7 61 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.06%) Dell
9 46 (1.86%) Apple
10 45 (1.82%) Salesforce
11 38 (1.54%) Foundry
12 35 (1.42%) Facebook
13 31 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (1.13%) HubSpot
15 27 (1.09%) Palo Alto
15 27 (1.09%) Tenable
16 23 (0.93%) Oracle
16 23 (0.93%) VMware
17 21 (0.85%) Yahoo!
18 18 (0.73%) SAP
2,538 hybrid/remote AI jobs