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

 6 months to
30 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 36 76
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 +16
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,773 976 1,174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.65% 7.55% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.71% 7.96% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 985 645 781
10th Percentile £24,570 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,225 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +5.96% -13.79%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

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 13,955 12,263 28,441
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.82% 94.83% 91.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,706 8,874 23,206
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,868
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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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 30 March 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 39 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.03%) CMS
3 31 (1.75%) Confluence
4 24 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.73%) JBoss
5 13 (0.73%) WebSphere
6 10 (0.56%) Apache
7 9 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 9 (0.51%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
8 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) Camunda
10 2 (0.11%) Mendix
10 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.056%) Kinematics
Applications
1 60 (3.38%) Chatbot
2 58 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.30%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.23%) CapCut
7 3 (0.17%) Sketch
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) Weka
9 1 (0.056%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.11%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.056%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 471 (26.57%) Azure
2 316 (17.82%) AWS
3 211 (11.90%) SaaS
4 153 (8.63%) Adobe Analytics
5 152 (8.57%) GCP
6 141 (7.95%) GitHub
6 141 (7.95%) Power Platform
7 96 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
9 80 (4.51%) Snowflake
10 77 (4.34%) Figma
11 72 (4.06%) Azure Machine Learning
12 66 (3.72%) Azure AI
13 61 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 57 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
15 53 (2.99%) Serverless
16 46 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 39 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
18 38 (2.14%) Contentsquare
19 32 (1.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 222 (12.52%) Broadband
2 16 (0.90%) Firewall
3 15 (0.85%) HTTP
4 11 (0.62%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.39%) Network Security
6 6 (0.34%) DMZ
6 6 (0.34%) RTP
6 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.34%) VoIP
6 6 (0.34%) VPN
6 6 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.28%) DHCP
8 4 (0.23%) Modbus
9 3 (0.17%) DNS
9 3 (0.17%) DSL
9 3 (0.17%) GPON
9 3 (0.17%) IPv4
9 3 (0.17%) IPv6
9 3 (0.17%) PPP
9 3 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (4.91%) Power BI
2 69 (3.89%) SQL Server
3 62 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (2.82%) Metadata
5 48 (2.71%) MongoDB
6 41 (2.31%) Tableau
7 37 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 33 (1.86%) Big Data
8 33 (1.86%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 24 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 21 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.02%) Looker
12 18 (1.02%) Redis
13 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.68%) MySQL
16 11 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.62%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (2.76%) Git
2 44 (2.48%) JIRA
3 22 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.07%) MLflow
5 16 (0.90%) Claude Code
5 16 (0.90%) GitLab
6 12 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.68%) Selenium
7 10 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.45%) Subversion
9 8 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.34%) ERwin
11 6 (0.34%) Storybook
12 5 (0.28%) GitBook
13 4 (0.23%) JMeter
13 4 (0.23%) Postman
13 4 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
General
1 493 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 439 (24.76%) Finance
3 274 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (15.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 190 (10.72%) Games
6 177 (9.98%) Marketing
7 163 (9.19%) Public Sector
8 151 (8.52%) Legal
9 126 (7.11%) Law
10 79 (4.46%) Retail
11 59 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (2.65%) Banking
14 45 (2.54%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
16 31 (1.75%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.24%) Automotive
18 14 (0.79%) Back Office
18 14 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 313 (17.65%) Senior
2 263 (14.83%) Lead
3 180 (10.15%) Developer
4 137 (7.73%) Architect
5 84 (4.74%) Consultant
6 75 (4.23%) Software Engineer
7 63 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
8 59 (3.33%) Analyst
9 58 (3.27%) Designer
10 57 (3.21%) Engineering Manager
11 52 (2.93%) Data Engineer
12 45 (2.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 44 (2.48%) Trainer
14 43 (2.43%) Sales Executive
15 42 (2.37%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 41 (2.31%) Lead Designer
17 39 (2.20%) Product Manager
17 39 (2.20%) Senior Software Engineer
18 37 (2.09%) Lead Developer
19 36 (2.03%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (6.49%) React
2 89 (5.02%) REST
3 74 (4.17%) .NET
4 71 (4.00%) Node.js
5 68 (3.84%) RESTful
6 49 (2.76%) PyTorch
7 45 (2.54%) CSS
8 43 (2.43%) Kafka
9 42 (2.37%) HTML
9 42 (2.37%) TensorFlow
10 35 (1.97%) OAuth
10 35 (1.97%) SOAP
11 34 (1.92%) Spring
12 29 (1.64%) Vue
13 27 (1.52%) OAuth2
14 26 (1.47%) LangChain
15 23 (1.30%) AngularJS
15 23 (1.30%) FastAPI
15 23 (1.30%) Next.js
15 23 (1.30%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.57%) Social Media
2 135 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 114 (6.43%) Blog
4 101 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 89 (5.02%) Onboarding
6 53 (2.99%) AI Agents
7 49 (2.76%) Mobile App
8 47 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 46 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (2.31%) Virtual Team
11 40 (2.26%) Low-Code
12 37 (2.09%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.52%) Social Network
15 25 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
16 21 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 21 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
17 20 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
18 19 (1.07%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 53 (2.99%) Android
2 35 (1.97%) Apple iOS
3 32 (1.80%) Linux
4 24 (1.35%) Windows
5 7 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.34%) Unix
7 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.056%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (28.48%) Agile
2 469 (26.45%) Analytics
3 440 (24.82%) Roadmaps
4 366 (20.64%) Machine Learning
5 313 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 312 (17.60%) Customer Experience
7 293 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 246 (13.87%) DevOps
9 240 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
10 232 (13.09%) Decision-Making
11 222 (12.52%) Mentoring
12 213 (12.01%) Software Engineering
13 183 (10.32%) Product Roadmap
13 183 (10.32%) Storytelling
14 180 (10.15%) Generative AI
15 159 (8.97%) LLM
16 152 (8.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 149 (8.40%) User Experience
18 147 (8.29%) Digital Customer Experience
19 144 (8.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 343 (19.35%) Python
2 256 (14.44%) SQL
3 118 (6.66%) Java
4 90 (5.08%) TypeScript
5 82 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.89%) C#
7 54 (3.05%) Go
8 27 (1.52%) C++
9 25 (1.41%) Bash
10 22 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 19 (1.07%) Apex Code
12 18 (1.02%) PHP
12 18 (1.02%) R
13 17 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.85%) Scala
15 13 (0.73%) Bicep
16 10 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.56%) PowerShell
17 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (16.19%) Degree
2 53 (2.99%) Master's Degree
3 52 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 51 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.37%) PhD
6 38 (2.14%) ACCA
6 38 (2.14%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.80%) SC Cleared
8 29 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.41%) PMP
11 18 (1.02%) DV Cleared
12 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.85%) CIMA
14 12 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (0.62%) CISSP
16 8 (0.45%) CISA
16 8 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.28%) CISM
17 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (12.97%) Accessibility
2 61 (3.44%) WCAG
3 51 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.20%) GDPR
4 39 (2.20%) QA
5 29 (1.64%) IFRS
6 26 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.30%) GRC
8 19 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.73%) GAAP
10 12 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.62%) NIST
12 9 (0.51%) PMO
13 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.39%) EU AI Act
14 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.34%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.34%) NCSC
16 4 (0.23%) ISO 26262
17 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 104 (5.87%) Docker
2 43 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.17%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.11%) Ceph
6 2 (0.11%) Lustre
6 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (4.68%) Kubernetes
2 70 (3.95%) Terraform
3 23 (1.30%) Ansible
3 23 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.73%) Grafana
5 12 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.34%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.28%) Argo
8 5 (0.28%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.11%) Puppet
9 2 (0.11%) Salt
10 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 350 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 195 (11.00%) Adobe
3 103 (5.81%) Databricks
4 69 (3.89%) Google
5 50 (2.82%) Dell
6 48 (2.71%) Cisco
7 47 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.20%) PayPal
9 37 (2.09%) Oracle
10 27 (1.52%) Apple
11 25 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.07%) Foundry
13 18 (1.02%) SAP
14 16 (0.90%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.79%) Palantir
16 13 (0.73%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.73%) Informatica
17 11 (0.62%) Blue Prism
17 11 (0.62%) Instagram
17 11 (0.62%) Wrike
1,250 hybrid/remote AI jobs