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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 66 61
Rank change year-on-year +62 -5 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,701 765 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.94% 4.64% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.52% 4.97% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 876 432 562
10th Percentile £21,500 £45,000 £39,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £71,538
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.84% +2.20%
75th Percentile £92,813 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
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 13,165 15,405 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.51% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,370 9,087 16,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £46,000
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 10 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 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.11%) Confluence
3 23 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (0.74%) CMS
5 19 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.41%) JBoss
8 11 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.22%) Apache
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) Luigi
14 2 (0.074%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.074%) Mendix
14 2 (0.074%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.037%) Camunda
15 1 (0.037%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,193 (44.17%) Chatbot
2 82 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.19%) Sketch
6 4 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.11%) InDesign
7 3 (0.11%) Notion
7 3 (0.11%) Simulink
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.074%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.074%) Weka
9 1 (0.037%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.037%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.074%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.074%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.074%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.074%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.074%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.037%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.037%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 482 (17.85%) Azure
2 292 (10.81%) AWS
3 204 (7.55%) SaaS
4 188 (6.96%) Power Platform
5 147 (5.44%) GCP
6 142 (5.26%) GitHub
7 128 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
8 98 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
9 71 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
10 66 (2.44%) Snowflake
11 47 (1.74%) Entra ID
12 45 (1.67%) Serverless
13 37 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (1.30%) dbt
14 35 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
15 34 (1.26%) Azure AI
15 34 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 27 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.00%) Power Automate
17 25 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.78%) Broadband
2 11 (0.41%) Network Security
3 10 (0.37%) HTTP
4 8 (0.30%) Firewall
4 8 (0.30%) Internet
5 7 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.22%) DMZ
6 6 (0.22%) DNS
6 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
6 6 (0.22%) WAN
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) VPN
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 4 (0.15%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.11%) DSL
9 3 (0.11%) GPON
9 3 (0.11%) IPv4
9 3 (0.11%) IPv6
9 3 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.11%) Power BI
2 77 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.11%) Tableau
4 41 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 40 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 36 (1.33%) Big Data
7 35 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 28 (1.04%) Data Lake
8 28 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (1.00%) Metadata
10 26 (0.96%) BigQuery
11 21 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (0.70%) Looker
13 17 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
14 15 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.52%) MySQL
16 13 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (0.37%) Redis
18 9 (0.33%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 72 (2.67%) JIRA
2 56 (2.07%) Git
3 23 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (0.48%) GitLab
6 11 (0.41%) MLflow
7 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.30%) Subversion
9 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.22%) ERwin
10 6 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.19%) GitBook
11 5 (0.19%) Selenium
11 5 (0.19%) Storybook
12 4 (0.15%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.11%) ESLint
13 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.074%) SpecFlow
General
1 639 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
2 493 (18.25%) Social Skills
3 454 (16.81%) Finance
4 341 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 181 (6.70%) Marketing
6 153 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 119 (4.41%) Retail
8 103 (3.81%) Legal
9 86 (3.18%) Law
10 53 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.11%) Banking
14 29 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (0.93%) Games
16 24 (0.89%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.85%) Aerospace
18 18 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
19 15 (0.56%) Advertising
20 12 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,174 (43.47%) Trainer
2 245 (9.07%) Senior
3 195 (7.22%) Developer
4 155 (5.74%) Content Editor
5 123 (4.55%) Architect
6 107 (3.96%) Lead
7 98 (3.63%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.63%) Support Specialist
8 95 (3.52%) Analyst
9 80 (2.96%) Research Scientist
10 69 (2.55%) Consultant
11 62 (2.30%) Software Engineer
12 55 (2.04%) Data Engineer
13 54 (2.00%) Sales Executive
14 51 (1.89%) Microsoft Specialist
15 46 (1.70%) Solutions Architect
16 45 (1.67%) Corporate Sales Executive
17 42 (1.55%) .NET Developer
18 41 (1.52%) Customer Service Representative
19 39 (1.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.37%) .NET
2 88 (3.26%) React
3 76 (2.81%) REST
4 65 (2.41%) Node.js
5 60 (2.22%) RESTful
6 45 (1.67%) Kafka
7 37 (1.37%) SOAP
8 32 (1.18%) OAuth
8 32 (1.18%) OAuth2
9 31 (1.15%) Spring
10 26 (0.96%) gRPC
10 26 (0.96%) PyTorch
11 25 (0.93%) TensorFlow
12 24 (0.89%) GraphQL
13 23 (0.85%) CSS
14 22 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (0.81%) Middleware
15 21 (0.78%) HTML
15 21 (0.78%) Next.js
16 20 (0.74%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 137 (5.07%) Cloud Native
2 113 (4.18%) Product Ownership
3 105 (3.89%) Blog
4 97 (3.59%) Molecular Biology
5 63 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 53 (1.96%) AI Agents
7 48 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 48 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 39 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 39 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 36 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 29 (1.07%) Data Centre
14 26 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 23 (0.85%) Social Network
16 22 (0.81%) Management Information System
16 22 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.22%) Android
2 27 (1.00%) Windows
3 24 (0.89%) Linux
4 20 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.037%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.037%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,209 (44.76%) Conversational UI
2 410 (15.18%) Chemistry
3 379 (14.03%) Agile
4 294 (10.88%) Analytics
5 290 (10.74%) Machine Learning
6 289 (10.70%) Roadmaps
7 276 (10.22%) DevOps
8 260 (9.63%) CI/CD
9 241 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 226 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.74%) Content Writing
12 199 (7.37%) Customer Service
13 191 (7.07%) Software Engineering
14 163 (6.03%) Coaching
15 159 (5.89%) Mentoring
16 155 (5.74%) Customer Experience
17 143 (5.29%) Decision-Making
18 139 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
19 135 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
20 124 (4.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 321 (11.88%) Python
2 268 (9.92%) SQL
3 105 (3.89%) Java
4 104 (3.85%) TypeScript
5 96 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.85%) C#
7 38 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 32 (1.18%) Bash
9 31 (1.15%) C++
10 30 (1.11%) Go
11 25 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 25 (0.93%) R
12 22 (0.81%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 18 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.59%) Scala
17 15 (0.56%) C
17 15 (0.56%) Swift
18 14 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,469 (54.39%) Degree
2 602 (22.29%) Master's Degree
3 584 (21.62%) PhD
4 74 (2.74%) Security Cleared
5 65 (2.41%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 26 (0.96%) DBS Check
9 25 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.89%) PMP
11 22 (0.81%) ACCA
12 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.59%) CISA
14 12 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 10 (0.37%) CISM
15 10 (0.37%) CISSP
16 8 (0.30%) DV Cleared
17 7 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
18 4 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 40 (1.48%) GDPR
3 39 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 30 (1.11%) QA
5 25 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.89%) IFRS
7 20 (0.74%) GAAP
8 19 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.59%) WCAG
10 12 (0.44%) NIST
11 10 (0.37%) GRC
11 10 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.30%) EU AI Act
14 7 (0.26%) NCSC
15 6 (0.22%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (3.30%) Docker
2 27 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) Lustre
6 4 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.074%) Ceph
8 2 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.037%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (3.26%) Terraform
2 79 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.70%) Ansible
6 9 (0.33%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.30%) SCCM
8 6 (0.22%) Grafana
9 3 (0.11%) Argo
10 2 (0.074%) Control-M
10 2 (0.074%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.074%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.074%) Puppet
11 1 (0.037%) Cilium
11 1 (0.037%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.037%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.037%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,175 (43.50%) PayPal
2 433 (16.03%) Microsoft
3 75 (2.78%) Adobe
4 64 (2.37%) Cisco
5 60 (2.22%) Google
6 58 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 52 (1.93%) Databricks
7 52 (1.93%) Dell
8 51 (1.89%) Oracle
9 45 (1.67%) Blue Prism
10 44 (1.63%) Apple
11 25 (0.93%) HubSpot
12 22 (0.81%) OpenAI
12 22 (0.81%) SAP
13 18 (0.67%) Foundry
14 17 (0.63%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.41%) IBM
17 9 (0.33%) Palantir
17 9 (0.33%) ServiceNow