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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 62
Rank change year-on-year 0 +55 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,950 2,801 1,038
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.93% 16.87% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.69% 18.15% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,864 653 608
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,625
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%

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 18,803 15,435 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.40% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,575 8,949 15,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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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 17 August 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 88 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.83%) Confluence
3 43 (1.46%) CMS
4 23 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.71%) Apache
5 21 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.31%) SAS
7 9 (0.31%) WordPress
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.17%) Camunda
10 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.068%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.068%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.034%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.034%) Moodle
12 1 (0.034%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.034%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
Applications
1 47 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.49%) Chatbot
3 42 (1.42%) UserZoom
4 29 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 14 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.47%) InDesign
7 14 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.14%) CapCut
10 4 (0.14%) Moqups
10 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.14%) Trello
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) Productboard
11 3 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.95%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.81%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.14%) Sage 50
6 4 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.068%) Shopify
9 1 (0.034%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.034%) HFM
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.034%) Primavera
9 1 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 862 (29.22%) Azure
2 557 (18.88%) AWS
3 275 (9.32%) SaaS
4 254 (8.61%) Azure AI
5 251 (8.51%) GCP
6 226 (7.66%) Power Platform
7 213 (7.22%) GitHub
8 173 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (5.15%) Adobe Analytics
10 134 (4.54%) GitHub Copilot
10 134 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
11 132 (4.47%) Snowflake
12 112 (3.80%) Serverless
13 109 (3.69%) Figma
14 106 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
14 106 (3.59%) Microsoft Copilot
15 103 (3.49%) Entra ID
16 87 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 82 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
18 68 (2.31%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 277 (9.39%) Broadband
2 33 (1.12%) Internet
3 28 (0.95%) VPN
4 27 (0.92%) Firewall
5 21 (0.71%) Network Security
6 18 (0.61%) DNS
7 15 (0.51%) HTTP
8 12 (0.41%) VoIP
9 11 (0.37%) CTI
10 10 (0.34%) DHCP
11 8 (0.27%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.27%) WPA
12 7 (0.24%) Wireless
13 6 (0.20%) 5G
13 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.17%) OSPF
14 5 (0.17%) VLAN
14 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (7.39%) MongoDB
2 177 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 133 (4.51%) Power BI
4 124 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (2.85%) Metadata
7 67 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (1.76%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.69%) Tableau
10 43 (1.46%) Big Data
11 41 (1.39%) Data Lake
12 35 (1.19%) Redis
13 33 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
14 31 (1.05%) BigQuery
14 31 (1.05%) Delta Lake
14 31 (1.05%) Relational Database
15 23 (0.78%) MySQL
16 18 (0.61%) Data Vault
16 18 (0.61%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.58%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 121 (4.10%) Git
2 69 (2.34%) JIRA
3 62 (2.10%) Claude Code
4 43 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.92%) Snyk
6 26 (0.88%) GitLab
7 17 (0.58%) Selenium
8 15 (0.51%) MLflow
9 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.37%) Postman
10 11 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.34%) JUnit
11 10 (0.34%) Maven
11 10 (0.34%) Mockito
12 5 (0.17%) Appium
12 5 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.14%) Metasploit
General
1 825 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 643 (21.80%) Finance
3 367 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 329 (11.15%) Marketing
6 236 (8.00%) Games
7 233 (7.90%) Legal
8 181 (6.14%) Public Sector
9 167 (5.66%) Law
10 107 (3.63%) Banking
11 101 (3.42%) Retail
12 94 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
13 79 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
14 58 (1.97%) Advertising
15 40 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
16 35 (1.19%) Legal Technology
17 31 (1.05%) Automotive
18 26 (0.88%) Telecoms
19 23 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 565 (19.15%) Senior
2 409 (13.86%) Developer
3 355 (12.03%) Lead
4 289 (9.80%) Architect
5 218 (7.39%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.76%) .NET Developer
7 135 (4.58%) Analyst
8 123 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 120 (4.07%) Consultant
10 110 (3.73%) Engineering Manager
11 84 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 83 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
13 82 (2.78%) Data Engineer
14 79 (2.68%) Data Scientist
15 78 (2.64%) Python Engineer
16 75 (2.54%) Senior Developer
17 73 (2.47%) Senior Manager
18 68 (2.31%) Product Manager
19 65 (2.20%) Data Architect
20 64 (2.17%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (9.53%) React
2 258 (8.75%) .NET
3 168 (5.69%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.59%) .NET Core
5 162 (5.49%) RESTful
6 159 (5.39%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.29%) ML.NET
8 144 (4.88%) CSS
9 139 (4.71%) Node.js
10 135 (4.58%) HTML
11 116 (3.93%) Blazor
12 114 (3.86%) REST
13 94 (3.19%) LangChain
14 75 (2.54%) Next.js
15 56 (1.90%) PyTorch
16 52 (1.76%) Vue
17 51 (1.73%) LangGraph
18 48 (1.63%) FastAPI
19 43 (1.46%) PySpark
19 43 (1.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 261 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 231 (7.83%) AI Agents
3 198 (6.71%) Social Media
4 141 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 116 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
6 95 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
7 94 (3.19%) Blog
8 71 (2.41%) Algorithms
9 70 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 68 (2.31%) Low-Code
11 56 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
12 55 (1.86%) Virtual Team
13 54 (1.83%) Data Centre
13 54 (1.83%) Mobile App
14 52 (1.76%) Video\Live Streaming
15 50 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (1.69%) Management Information System
16 47 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
16 47 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
17 40 (1.36%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 66 (2.24%) Windows
2 58 (1.97%) Linux
3 44 (1.49%) Android
4 20 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.41%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.24%) Unix
9 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.034%) Debian
11 1 (0.034%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (26.98%) Agile
2 777 (26.34%) Machine Learning
3 717 (24.31%) Analytics
4 654 (22.17%) Roadmaps
5 601 (20.37%) CI/CD
6 521 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 474 (16.07%) Software Engineering
8 464 (15.73%) Mentoring
9 430 (14.58%) Decision-Making
10 429 (14.54%) LLM
11 400 (13.56%) Full-Stack Development
12 378 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
13 370 (12.54%) DevOps
14 317 (10.75%) Customer Experience
15 291 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
16 279 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 272 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 262 (8.88%) Data Science
19 253 (8.58%) Technical Leadership
20 239 (8.10%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 682 (23.12%) Python
2 545 (18.47%) SQL
3 296 (10.03%) C#
4 268 (9.08%) JavaScript
5 212 (7.19%) TypeScript
6 141 (4.78%) Java
7 60 (2.03%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.86%) C++
9 53 (1.80%) Go
10 48 (1.63%) Bicep
11 46 (1.56%) Bash
12 32 (1.08%) Scala
13 21 (0.71%) R
14 18 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 18 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.54%) C
15 16 (0.54%) PHP
16 12 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 242 (8.20%) Degree
2 195 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 139 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 74 (2.51%) CISSP
5 68 (2.31%) CISM
6 63 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.83%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (1.73%) ACCA
10 48 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 42 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 36 (1.22%) CIMA
13 34 (1.15%) Master's Degree
14 32 (1.08%) PhD
15 31 (1.05%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
17 16 (0.54%) DBS Check
17 16 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (9.12%) Accessibility
2 194 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 114 (3.86%) QA
4 109 (3.69%) GDPR
5 67 (2.27%) WCAG
6 60 (2.03%) GRC
7 52 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 39 (1.32%) NIST
9 29 (0.98%) SLA
10 18 (0.61%) IFRS
11 14 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 12 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.34%) PMO
14 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.17%) NCSC
16 5 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 226 (7.66%) Docker
2 92 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.44%) vSphere
5 12 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.31%) Firmware
7 6 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 207 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.81%) Terraform
3 75 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (0.85%) Grafana
5 17 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.54%) Ansible
7 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.20%) Argo
8 6 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.17%) Istio
9 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.14%) Nmap
11 3 (0.10%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.10%) linkerd
12 2 (0.068%) Cilium
12 2 (0.068%) Podman
12 2 (0.068%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.068%) Salt
13 1 (0.034%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 737 (24.98%) Microsoft
2 216 (7.32%) Adobe
3 173 (5.86%) Databricks
4 146 (4.95%) Google
5 100 (3.39%) OpenAI
6 78 (2.64%) Cisco
7 68 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.86%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.80%) Apple
10 48 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.56%) Dell
12 40 (1.36%) Foundry
13 38 (1.29%) Facebook
14 37 (1.25%) HubSpot
15 30 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
15 30 (1.02%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.98%) Oracle
17 28 (0.95%) SAP
18 27 (0.92%) Tenable
19 23 (0.78%) VMware