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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +44 +29
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,138 3,031 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.02% 18.66% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.98% 20.03% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,987 668 563
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,142 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,438 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,752 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £104,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 19,632 15,135 20,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.43% 93.17% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,097 8,610 12,632
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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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 16 September 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
1 102 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.63%) Confluence
3 37 (1.18%) CMS
4 28 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.73%) Apache
6 20 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.32%) SAS
8 10 (0.32%) WordPress
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.13%) Camunda
12 3 (0.096%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
13 2 (0.064%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.032%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.032%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.032%) Moodle
14 1 (0.032%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 70 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.80%) UserZoom
5 21 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.45%) InDesign
8 13 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
9 9 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 6 (0.19%) Moqups
10 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
11 5 (0.16%) Trello
12 3 (0.096%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.096%) Productboard
12 3 (0.096%) Sketch
13 2 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.064%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.89%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.76%) Cloudability
4 11 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) Primavera
7 4 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 3 (0.096%) Shopify
9 2 (0.064%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.064%) SAP PSCD
10 1 (0.032%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.032%) HFM
10 1 (0.032%) Magento
10 1 (0.032%) Maximo
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 896 (28.55%) Azure
2 602 (19.18%) AWS
3 300 (9.56%) SaaS
4 268 (8.54%) Power Platform
5 264 (8.41%) GCP
6 251 (8.00%) Azure AI
7 228 (7.27%) GitHub
8 182 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
9 164 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
10 154 (4.91%) Snowflake
11 138 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 128 (4.08%) Anthropic Claude
13 126 (4.02%) Microsoft Copilot
14 112 (3.57%) Entra ID
15 111 (3.54%) Serverless
16 91 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 80 (2.55%) Figma
18 77 (2.45%) Adobe Analytics
19 74 (2.36%) Azure Machine Learning
19 74 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 167 (5.32%) Broadband
2 37 (1.18%) Internet
3 33 (1.05%) Firewall
3 33 (1.05%) VPN
4 30 (0.96%) Network Security
5 23 (0.73%) 5G
5 23 (0.73%) DNS
6 16 (0.51%) HTTP
7 14 (0.45%) DHCP
8 13 (0.41%) VoIP
9 11 (0.35%) CTI
10 8 (0.25%) Wireless
10 8 (0.25%) WPA
11 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.19%) WAN
11 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.16%) BGP
12 5 (0.16%) DMZ
12 5 (0.16%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (6.44%) MongoDB
2 172 (5.48%) Power BI
3 171 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 125 (3.98%) SQL Server
5 97 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (3.00%) Metadata
7 75 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 55 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 51 (1.63%) Tableau
10 44 (1.40%) Big Data
11 41 (1.31%) Data Lake
12 37 (1.18%) Relational Database
13 35 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
14 34 (1.08%) Redis
15 33 (1.05%) Delta Lake
16 32 (1.02%) BigQuery
17 23 (0.73%) MySQL
18 20 (0.64%) Data Vault
18 20 (0.64%) DynamoDB
19 17 (0.54%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 119 (3.79%) Git
2 83 (2.64%) JIRA
3 81 (2.58%) Claude Code
4 38 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.86%) Snyk
6 26 (0.83%) GitLab
7 17 (0.54%) MLflow
8 16 (0.51%) Selenium
9 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.41%) Postman
10 13 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.32%) JUnit
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
12 10 (0.32%) Mockito
13 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.16%) Poetry
13 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 948 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 777 (24.76%) Finance
3 421 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 367 (11.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 357 (11.38%) Marketing
6 232 (7.39%) Legal
7 220 (7.01%) Public Sector
8 166 (5.29%) Law
9 149 (4.75%) Games
10 140 (4.46%) Banking
11 114 (3.63%) Retail
12 113 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
13 109 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
14 57 (1.82%) Advertising
15 50 (1.59%) Manufacturing
16 43 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 40 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (1.02%) Legal Technology
19 28 (0.89%) Automotive
19 28 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 583 (18.58%) Senior
2 404 (12.87%) Developer
3 343 (10.93%) Lead
4 341 (10.87%) Architect
5 244 (7.78%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.19%) .NET Developer
7 157 (5.00%) Analyst
8 133 (4.24%) Consultant
9 127 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 100 (3.19%) Engineering Manager
11 94 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
12 85 (2.71%) Data Engineer
13 80 (2.55%) Python Engineer
13 80 (2.55%) Senior Manager
14 79 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 71 (2.26%) Data Scientist
16 70 (2.23%) Data Architect
16 70 (2.23%) Finance Manager
17 69 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
18 68 (2.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (8.80%) React
2 249 (7.93%) .NET
3 161 (5.13%) ASP.NET
4 160 (5.10%) Terraform
5 158 (5.04%) RESTful
6 154 (4.91%) .NET Core
7 152 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 152 (4.84%) Node.js
8 149 (4.75%) ML.NET
9 135 (4.30%) CSS
10 126 (4.02%) HTML
11 115 (3.66%) REST
12 111 (3.54%) Blazor
13 101 (3.22%) LangChain
14 73 (2.33%) Next.js
15 60 (1.91%) LangGraph
16 55 (1.75%) PyTorch
17 53 (1.69%) PySpark
18 50 (1.59%) Vue
19 47 (1.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 274 (8.73%) AI Agents
2 273 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 137 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 131 (4.17%) Social Media
5 120 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 112 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 98 (3.12%) Blog
8 81 (2.58%) Management Information System
9 76 (2.42%) Low-Code
10 74 (2.36%) Onboarding
11 65 (2.07%) Algorithms
11 65 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
12 63 (2.01%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
14 54 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
15 52 (1.66%) Virtual Team
16 50 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
17 49 (1.56%) Mobile App
18 45 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
19 42 (1.34%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 79 (2.52%) Windows
2 66 (2.10%) Linux
3 37 (1.18%) Android
4 21 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.38%) VMS
7 11 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.22%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Debian
11 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.096%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.064%) AIX
12 2 (0.064%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (24.41%) Machine Learning
2 747 (23.80%) Agile
3 679 (21.64%) Analytics
4 622 (19.82%) Roadmaps
5 609 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 596 (18.99%) CI/CD
7 502 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 499 (15.90%) Mentoring
9 469 (14.95%) Decision-Making
10 427 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
11 411 (13.10%) LLM
12 383 (12.21%) DevOps
13 371 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
14 369 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 329 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
16 328 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 284 (9.05%) Coaching
18 269 (8.57%) Data Science
19 264 (8.41%) Customer Experience
20 263 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 699 (22.28%) Python
2 565 (18.01%) SQL
3 292 (9.31%) C#
4 276 (8.80%) JavaScript
5 225 (7.17%) TypeScript
6 138 (4.40%) Java
7 72 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.10%) C++
9 49 (1.56%) Go
10 48 (1.53%) Bash
11 46 (1.47%) Bicep
12 30 (0.96%) Scala
13 26 (0.83%) R
14 19 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.54%) C
15 17 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.51%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.51%) PHP
17 12 (0.38%) Ruby
17 12 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 259 (8.25%) Degree
2 232 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 169 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.64%) CISSP
5 75 (2.39%) CISM
6 64 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 61 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (1.85%) ACCA
9 54 (1.72%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
10 50 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 48 (1.53%) CIMA
12 37 (1.18%) DBS Check
13 31 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.67%) PhD
16 18 (0.57%) SnowPro
17 16 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 203 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 132 (4.21%) GDPR
4 121 (3.86%) QA
5 67 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (2.04%) GRC
7 50 (1.59%) NIST
8 34 (1.08%) WCAG
9 33 (1.05%) SLA
10 19 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.54%) PMO
12 16 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 14 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.45%) IFRS
13 14 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.32%) EU AI Act
16 8 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 232 (7.39%) Docker
2 101 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 89 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.41%) vSphere
6 12 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.32%) Firmware
7 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.096%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.096%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.032%) HDFS
9 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 210 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (1.02%) Grafana
4 18 (0.57%) Ansible
4 18 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.19%) Argo
6 6 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.16%) Istio
7 5 (0.16%) Nmap
7 5 (0.16%) Puppet
8 3 (0.096%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.096%) linkerd
8 3 (0.096%) Podman
9 2 (0.064%) Cilium
9 2 (0.064%) Salt
10 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) Kibana
10 1 (0.032%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 808 (25.75%) Microsoft
2 187 (5.96%) Databricks
3 155 (4.94%) Google
4 142 (4.53%) Adobe
5 108 (3.44%) OpenAI
6 101 (3.22%) YouTube
7 80 (2.55%) Cisco
8 63 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 61 (1.94%) Apple
10 55 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 55 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 47 (1.50%) Dell
12 42 (1.34%) SAP
13 41 (1.31%) HubSpot
14 38 (1.21%) Foundry
15 36 (1.15%) Facebook
16 34 (1.08%) Oracle
17 30 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
17 30 (0.96%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.92%) VMware