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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 69
Rank change year-on-year +8 +51 +22
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,983 1,612 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.76% 11.15% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.00% 11.73% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,136 709 856
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,206 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.93% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 15,256 13,742 29,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.79% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,828 8,906 23,443
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,354 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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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 10 May 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 53 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.27%) CMS
3 38 (1.92%) Confluence
4 24 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.50%) Apache
6 10 (0.50%) SAS
6 10 (0.50%) WordPress
7 9 (0.45%) JBoss
7 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.10%) Camunda
13 1 (0.050%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.050%) Moodle
Applications
1 41 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.92%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.51%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.20%) CapCut
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.10%) Productboard
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (1.16%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.10%) Sage 50
6 2 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.10%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 529 (26.68%) Azure
2 368 (18.56%) AWS
3 209 (10.54%) SaaS
4 183 (9.23%) Adobe Analytics
5 172 (8.67%) GCP
6 134 (6.76%) GitHub
7 133 (6.71%) Power Platform
8 117 (5.90%) Azure AI
9 105 (5.30%) Figma
10 91 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
10 91 (4.59%) Azure Machine Learning
10 91 (4.59%) Snowflake
11 89 (4.49%) GitHub Copilot
12 72 (3.63%) Serverless
13 69 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 68 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (2.77%) Contentsquare
16 47 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
17 33 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
18 32 (1.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 286 (14.42%) Broadband
2 25 (1.26%) Firewall
3 19 (0.96%) HTTP
4 11 (0.55%) Unified Communications
5 10 (0.50%) Network Security
6 9 (0.45%) VPN
7 7 (0.35%) DMZ
7 7 (0.35%) DNS
8 6 (0.30%) 5G
9 5 (0.25%) Internet
10 4 (0.20%) DHCP
10 4 (0.20%) Modbus
11 3 (0.15%) RTP
11 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.15%) VoIP
11 3 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.15%) Wireless
11 3 (0.15%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.10%) NGN
12 2 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.49%) MongoDB
2 85 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 78 (3.93%) Power BI
4 57 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 51 (2.57%) Metadata
7 47 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (1.92%) Tableau
9 32 (1.61%) Big Data
10 26 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.21%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.11%) Redis
13 20 (1.01%) Looker
14 19 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (0.71%) Delta Lake
16 13 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (0.55%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 53 (2.67%) Git
2 36 (1.82%) JIRA
3 25 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.11%) Claude Code
4 22 (1.11%) MLflow
4 22 (1.11%) Snyk
5 14 (0.71%) GitLab
6 10 (0.50%) Selenium
7 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.35%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.30%) Storybook
11 5 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.25%) Subversion
12 4 (0.20%) Postman
13 3 (0.15%) Appium
13 3 (0.15%) ESLint
13 3 (0.15%) Maven
General
1 468 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 409 (20.63%) Finance
3 272 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
3 272 (13.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 247 (12.46%) Games
5 201 (10.14%) Marketing
6 140 (7.06%) Public Sector
7 137 (6.91%) Legal
8 115 (5.80%) Law
9 67 (3.38%) Retail
10 54 (2.72%) Banking
11 47 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (1.92%) Automotive
14 31 (1.56%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.76%) Advertising
18 13 (0.66%) Back Office
19 8 (0.40%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 401 (20.22%) Senior
2 294 (14.83%) Lead
3 207 (10.44%) Developer
4 172 (8.67%) Architect
5 103 (5.19%) Software Engineer
6 93 (4.69%) Analyst
7 81 (4.08%) Consultant
8 78 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
9 72 (3.63%) Designer
10 71 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 58 (2.92%) Data Engineer
12 55 (2.77%) Product Manager
13 49 (2.47%) Lead Designer
13 49 (2.47%) Senior Architect
14 47 (2.37%) Data Manager
14 47 (2.37%) Data Scientist
14 47 (2.37%) Python Engineer
14 47 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
15 46 (2.32%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (6.86%) React
2 106 (5.35%) .NET
3 95 (4.79%) RESTful
4 87 (4.39%) REST
5 74 (3.73%) Node.js
6 64 (3.23%) CSS
7 59 (2.98%) HTML
8 49 (2.47%) PyTorch
9 47 (2.37%) .NET Core
10 42 (2.12%) ASP.NET
10 42 (2.12%) ASP.NET Core
11 41 (2.07%) TensorFlow
12 40 (2.02%) ML.NET
13 36 (1.82%) LangChain
14 35 (1.77%) Blazor
15 33 (1.66%) Vue
16 31 (1.56%) Spring
17 30 (1.51%) FastAPI
17 30 (1.51%) Kafka
18 29 (1.46%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 191 (9.63%) Social Media
2 150 (7.56%) Cloud Native
3 109 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 76 (3.83%) AI Agents
6 65 (3.28%) Blog
7 55 (2.77%) Low-Code
8 53 (2.67%) Public Cloud
9 48 (2.42%) Mobile App
10 45 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
11 44 (2.22%) Virtual Team
12 43 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.97%) Algorithms
14 37 (1.87%) Data Centre
15 36 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
16 32 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
17 29 (1.46%) Social Network
18 21 (1.06%) Podcast
19 20 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
20 19 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.27%) Android
2 27 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 23 (1.16%) Linux
4 18 (0.91%) Windows
5 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.20%) Unix
7 3 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (28.34%) Agile
2 516 (26.02%) Analytics
3 499 (25.16%) Roadmaps
4 446 (22.49%) Machine Learning
5 360 (18.15%) CI/CD
6 308 (15.53%) Customer Experience
7 269 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 256 (12.91%) Software Engineering
9 251 (12.66%) Mentoring
10 245 (12.36%) DevOps
11 232 (11.70%) Decision-Making
12 229 (11.55%) Product Roadmap
13 228 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (10.54%) Storytelling
15 203 (10.24%) LLM
16 198 (9.98%) Generative AI
17 196 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
18 187 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 177 (8.93%) Digital Customer Experience
20 171 (8.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 401 (20.22%) Python
2 287 (14.47%) SQL
3 116 (5.85%) Java
4 109 (5.50%) C#
5 104 (5.24%) JavaScript
5 104 (5.24%) TypeScript
6 64 (3.23%) Go
7 29 (1.46%) C++
8 25 (1.26%) Bash
9 20 (1.01%) R
10 17 (0.86%) Bicep
10 17 (0.86%) Scala
11 15 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.61%) PHP
14 10 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 230 (11.60%) Degree
2 76 (3.83%) Security Cleared
3 52 (2.62%) Master's Degree
4 50 (2.52%) ACCA
5 49 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 46 (2.32%) SC Cleared
7 41 (2.07%) PhD
8 38 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.41%) CIMA
11 27 (1.36%) Azure Certification
12 26 (1.31%) DV Cleared
13 23 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.61%) CISSP
16 9 (0.45%) PMP
17 8 (0.40%) CISA
17 8 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
18 6 (0.30%) CISM
19 5 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (13.77%) Accessibility
2 70 (3.53%) WCAG
3 67 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.67%) QA
5 50 (2.52%) GDPR
5 50 (2.52%) GRC
6 29 (1.46%) IFRS
7 25 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.71%) NIST
8 14 (0.71%) PMO
9 13 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.50%) GAAP
11 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.40%) NCSC
13 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.35%) SLA
14 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 121 (6.10%) Docker
2 84 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.15%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 97 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.23%) Terraform
3 19 (0.96%) Ansible
4 18 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.55%) Grafana
6 10 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.35%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.30%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.25%) Argo
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.10%) Podman
11 2 (0.10%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 423 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 253 (12.76%) Adobe
3 124 (6.25%) Databricks
4 80 (4.03%) Google
5 54 (2.72%) Apple
6 51 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.52%) Cisco
8 48 (2.42%) Dell
9 43 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 39 (1.97%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
12 24 (1.21%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.16%) Oracle
13 23 (1.16%) Tenable
14 21 (1.06%) PayPal
15 20 (1.01%) Foundry
15 20 (1.01%) HubSpot
16 18 (0.91%) SAP
17 14 (0.71%) Palantir
18 11 (0.55%) Instagram
1,655 hybrid/remote AI jobs