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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 66 61
Rank change year-on-year +62 -5 +49
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,760 763 980
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.37% 4.57% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.84% 4.90% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 866 432 536
10th Percentile £21,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,438 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.27% +0.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.67% +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 13,242 15,566 19,692
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.14% 93.33% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,377 9,229 15,874
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
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 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 4 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 42 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.09%) Confluence
3 24 (0.87%) CMS
4 23 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 10 (0.36%) JBoss
8 10 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.22%) Apache
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.11%) Luigi
11 3 (0.11%) WordPress
12 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.072%) Mendix
12 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.036%) Camunda
13 1 (0.036%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,244 (45.07%) Chatbot
2 86 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.18%) Sketch
6 4 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.11%) InDesign
7 3 (0.11%) Notion
7 3 (0.11%) Simulink
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.072%) Weka
9 1 (0.036%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.072%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.072%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.072%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.036%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 478 (17.32%) Azure
2 292 (10.58%) AWS
3 200 (7.25%) SaaS
4 189 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 149 (5.40%) GCP
6 141 (5.11%) GitHub
7 125 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
8 96 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 77 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
10 65 (2.36%) Snowflake
11 47 (1.70%) Entra ID
12 44 (1.59%) Serverless
13 37 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (1.27%) dbt
15 34 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (1.01%) Azure AI
17 27 (0.98%) Power Automate
18 26 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
19 25 (0.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.76%) Broadband
2 10 (0.36%) Network Security
3 9 (0.33%) HTTP
4 8 (0.29%) Internet
5 7 (0.25%) Firewall
5 7 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.22%) DNS
6 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
6 6 (0.22%) WAN
7 5 (0.18%) DHCP
7 5 (0.18%) DMZ
7 5 (0.18%) VPN
8 4 (0.14%) Intranet
9 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.11%) DSL
9 3 (0.11%) IPv4
9 3 (0.11%) IPv6
9 3 (0.11%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.11%) PPP
9 3 (0.11%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.09%) Power BI
2 77 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (1.99%) Tableau
4 43 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 41 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 36 (1.30%) Big Data
7 32 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 31 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 26 (0.94%) Metadata
11 24 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (0.87%) BigQuery
12 23 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.62%) Looker
13 17 (0.62%) MySQL
13 17 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.40%) Redis
17 9 (0.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 72 (2.61%) JIRA
2 59 (2.14%) Git
3 24 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (0.47%) GitLab
6 11 (0.40%) MLflow
7 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.29%) Subversion
9 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.22%) ERwin
10 6 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.18%) GitBook
11 5 (0.18%) Selenium
11 5 (0.18%) Storybook
12 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) ESLint
13 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.072%) WebDriver
General
1 659 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
2 506 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 449 (16.27%) Finance
4 353 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 183 (6.63%) Marketing
6 151 (5.47%) Public Sector
7 120 (4.35%) Retail
8 102 (3.70%) Legal
9 87 (3.15%) Law
10 53 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (1.01%) Banking
15 26 (0.94%) Aerospace
16 25 (0.91%) Games
17 24 (0.87%) Manufacturing
18 19 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.54%) Agriculture
20 14 (0.51%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,224 (44.35%) Trainer
2 235 (8.51%) Senior
3 188 (6.81%) Developer
4 155 (5.62%) Content Editor
5 130 (4.71%) Architect
6 106 (3.84%) Lead
7 98 (3.55%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.55%) Support Specialist
8 95 (3.44%) Analyst
9 86 (3.12%) Research Scientist
10 67 (2.43%) Consultant
11 64 (2.32%) Software Engineer
12 57 (2.07%) Microsoft Specialist
13 54 (1.96%) Sales Executive
14 51 (1.85%) Data Engineer
15 47 (1.70%) Solutions Architect
16 45 (1.63%) Corporate Sales Executive
17 41 (1.49%) Customer Service Representative
18 40 (1.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 39 (1.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (3.08%) .NET
2 84 (3.04%) React
3 75 (2.72%) REST
4 64 (2.32%) Node.js
5 56 (2.03%) RESTful
6 46 (1.67%) Kafka
7 36 (1.30%) SOAP
8 32 (1.16%) OAuth
8 32 (1.16%) OAuth2
9 30 (1.09%) Spring
10 28 (1.01%) gRPC
11 27 (0.98%) PyTorch
12 26 (0.94%) TensorFlow
13 25 (0.91%) GraphQL
14 23 (0.83%) FastAPI
15 22 (0.80%) CSS
15 22 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
16 21 (0.76%) Middleware
16 21 (0.76%) Next.js
17 20 (0.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (4.93%) Cloud Native
2 111 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 104 (3.77%) Blog
4 97 (3.51%) Molecular Biology
5 65 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 52 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 48 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 48 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
7 48 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
9 38 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 35 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 33 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 25 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 22 (0.80%) Reinsurance
15 21 (0.76%) Management Information System
15 21 (0.76%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.20%) Android
2 30 (1.09%) Windows
3 27 (0.98%) Linux
4 20 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.036%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.036%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,260 (45.65%) Conversational UI
2 427 (15.47%) Chemistry
3 375 (13.59%) Agile
4 293 (10.62%) Roadmaps
5 287 (10.40%) Analytics
6 286 (10.36%) Machine Learning
7 276 (10.00%) DevOps
8 266 (9.64%) CI/CD
9 242 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 227 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.57%) Content Writing
12 206 (7.46%) Customer Service
13 196 (7.10%) Software Engineering
14 166 (6.01%) Coaching
15 161 (5.83%) Mentoring
16 154 (5.58%) Customer Experience
17 142 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
18 141 (5.11%) Business Intelligence
19 140 (5.07%) Decision-Making
20 139 (5.04%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 327 (11.85%) Python
2 267 (9.67%) SQL
3 103 (3.73%) Java
4 101 (3.66%) TypeScript
5 94 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 45 (1.63%) C#
7 38 (1.38%) PowerShell
8 33 (1.20%) Bash
9 31 (1.12%) C++
10 29 (1.05%) Go
11 26 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 24 (0.87%) R
13 22 (0.80%) Apex Code
14 20 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 18 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.62%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.54%) C
17 15 (0.54%) Scala
17 15 (0.54%) Swift
18 14 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,528 (55.36%) Degree
2 652 (23.62%) Master's Degree
3 634 (22.97%) PhD
4 74 (2.68%) Security Cleared
5 65 (2.36%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 25 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 24 (0.87%) PMP
10 23 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 22 (0.80%) ACCA
12 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.43%) CISA
13 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.36%) CISM
14 10 (0.36%) CISSP
15 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (0.25%) DV Cleared
16 4 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 35 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 35 (1.27%) GDPR
3 29 (1.05%) QA
4 24 (0.87%) IFRS
4 24 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.76%) GAAP
6 19 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 17 (0.62%) WCAG
8 11 (0.40%) NIST
9 10 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.33%) GRC
11 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
11 8 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.22%) NCSC
13 5 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 94 (3.41%) Docker
2 27 (0.98%) 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%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (3.15%) Terraform
2 84 (3.04%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.69%) Ansible
6 9 (0.33%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 6 (0.22%) Grafana
9 3 (0.11%) 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%) Puppet
11 1 (0.036%) Cilium
11 1 (0.036%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.036%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,225 (44.38%) PayPal
2 443 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 78 (2.83%) Adobe
4 64 (2.32%) Cisco
5 58 (2.10%) Google
6 57 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 52 (1.88%) Dell
8 51 (1.85%) Databricks
8 51 (1.85%) Oracle
9 48 (1.74%) Apple
10 45 (1.63%) Blue Prism
11 25 (0.91%) HubSpot
12 22 (0.80%) Palo Alto
12 22 (0.80%) SAP
13 21 (0.76%) OpenAI
14 17 (0.62%) Foundry
15 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.47%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.40%) IBM
17 10 (0.36%) Workday