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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 +55 +19
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,936 2,819 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.92% 16.97% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.63% 18.25% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,847 650 604
10th Percentile £41,150 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £29,125 £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 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £102,500
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 18,782 15,445 21,829
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.64% 92.96% 87.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,537 8,945 15,559
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £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 £77,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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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 13 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 84 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.81%) Confluence
3 43 (1.46%) CMS
4 23 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.72%) Apache
6 20 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.31%) WordPress
9 8 (0.27%) SAS
10 7 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Camunda
12 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.068%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.068%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.034%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.034%) Moodle
14 1 (0.034%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.034%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.46%) UserZoom
3 39 (1.33%) Chatbot
4 29 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 14 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.48%) InDesign
7 14 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.14%) CapCut
9 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.14%) Moqups
9 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) Productboard
10 3 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 36 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.95%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.82%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.14%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 855 (29.12%) Azure
2 553 (18.84%) AWS
3 270 (9.20%) SaaS
4 254 (8.65%) Azure AI
5 246 (8.38%) GCP
6 223 (7.60%) Power Platform
7 212 (7.22%) GitHub
8 174 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
9 160 (5.45%) Adobe Analytics
10 134 (4.56%) GitHub Copilot
11 131 (4.46%) Snowflake
12 130 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
13 115 (3.92%) Figma
14 113 (3.85%) Serverless
15 106 (3.61%) Anthropic Claude
15 106 (3.61%) Microsoft Copilot
16 100 (3.41%) Entra ID
17 85 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 83 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
19 69 (2.35%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 294 (10.01%) Broadband
2 33 (1.12%) Internet
3 29 (0.99%) VPN
4 28 (0.95%) Firewall
5 19 (0.65%) 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%) BGP
14 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.17%) OSPF
14 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (7.46%) MongoDB
2 176 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 129 (4.39%) Power BI
4 122 (4.16%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 87 (2.96%) Metadata
7 65 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 48 (1.63%) Tableau
10 43 (1.46%) Big Data
11 41 (1.40%) Data Lake
12 34 (1.16%) Redis
13 32 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
14 31 (1.06%) BigQuery
14 31 (1.06%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.02%) Relational Database
16 23 (0.78%) MySQL
17 17 (0.58%) Data Vault
17 17 (0.58%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.58%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 119 (4.05%) Git
2 67 (2.28%) JIRA
3 63 (2.15%) Claude Code
4 44 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.92%) Snyk
6 25 (0.85%) GitLab
7 18 (0.61%) Selenium
8 16 (0.54%) MLflow
9 12 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.34%) JUnit
11 10 (0.34%) Maven
11 10 (0.34%) Mockito
11 10 (0.34%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) Appium
13 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (0.14%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 820 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 637 (21.70%) Finance
3 364 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 334 (11.38%) Marketing
5 331 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (8.45%) Games
7 235 (8.00%) Legal
8 179 (6.10%) Public Sector
9 168 (5.72%) Law
10 107 (3.64%) Banking
11 105 (3.58%) Retail
12 91 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
13 75 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
14 59 (2.01%) Advertising
15 39 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 36 (1.23%) Legal Technology
18 33 (1.12%) Automotive
19 27 (0.92%) Telecoms
20 21 (0.72%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 562 (19.14%) Senior
2 406 (13.83%) Developer
3 366 (12.47%) Lead
4 287 (9.78%) Architect
5 214 (7.29%) Software Engineer
6 170 (5.79%) .NET Developer
7 134 (4.56%) Analyst
8 121 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 119 (4.05%) Consultant
10 114 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
11 82 (2.79%) Data Engineer
11 82 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 82 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
12 81 (2.76%) Data Scientist
13 78 (2.66%) Python Engineer
14 75 (2.55%) Senior Developer
15 73 (2.49%) Senior Manager
16 69 (2.35%) Product Manager
17 66 (2.25%) Designer
18 64 (2.18%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (9.43%) React
2 258 (8.79%) .NET
3 168 (5.72%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.62%) .NET Core
5 163 (5.55%) RESTful
6 159 (5.42%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.31%) ML.NET
8 144 (4.90%) CSS
9 135 (4.60%) HTML
10 133 (4.53%) Node.js
11 116 (3.95%) Blazor
12 113 (3.85%) REST
13 92 (3.13%) LangChain
14 71 (2.42%) Next.js
15 60 (2.04%) PyTorch
16 53 (1.81%) Vue
17 51 (1.74%) LangGraph
18 48 (1.63%) FastAPI
19 47 (1.60%) TensorFlow
20 42 (1.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 261 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 231 (7.87%) AI Agents
3 207 (7.05%) Social Media
4 142 (4.84%) Product Ownership
5 113 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 94 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
7 93 (3.17%) Blog
8 70 (2.38%) Algorithms
8 70 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 66 (2.25%) Low-Code
10 58 (1.98%) Mobile App
11 56 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
11 56 (1.91%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
13 53 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 50 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
15 49 (1.67%) Management Information System
16 47 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
16 47 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
17 40 (1.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (2.18%) Windows
2 55 (1.87%) Linux
3 49 (1.67%) Android
4 24 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.41%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.17%) Unix
10 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (27.52%) Agile
2 784 (26.70%) Machine Learning
3 728 (24.80%) Analytics
4 669 (22.79%) Roadmaps
5 607 (20.67%) CI/CD
6 508 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 472 (16.08%) Mentoring
8 466 (15.87%) Software Engineering
9 427 (14.54%) Decision-Making
10 421 (14.34%) LLM
11 394 (13.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 371 (12.64%) DevOps
13 370 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
14 322 (10.97%) Customer Experience
15 286 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
16 271 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 267 (9.09%) Data Science
18 263 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
19 262 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
20 240 (8.17%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 678 (23.09%) Python
2 539 (18.36%) SQL
3 295 (10.05%) C#
4 266 (9.06%) JavaScript
5 206 (7.02%) TypeScript
6 138 (4.70%) Java
7 59 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.84%) Go
9 53 (1.81%) C++
10 47 (1.60%) Bicep
11 45 (1.53%) Bash
12 31 (1.06%) Scala
13 21 (0.72%) R
14 18 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 17 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.58%) PHP
16 15 (0.51%) C
17 12 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.34%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 241 (8.21%) Degree
2 193 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 135 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 71 (2.42%) CISSP
5 66 (2.25%) CISM
6 62 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 57 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.84%) A+ Certification
8 54 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
9 50 (1.70%) ACCA
10 47 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 41 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 35 (1.19%) CIMA
13 33 (1.12%) Master's Degree
14 32 (1.09%) AWS Certification
14 32 (1.09%) PhD
15 25 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.65%) DBS Check
17 16 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
18 15 (0.51%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (9.54%) Accessibility
2 188 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 112 (3.81%) QA
4 105 (3.58%) GDPR
5 67 (2.28%) WCAG
6 59 (2.01%) GRC
7 49 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.23%) NIST
9 28 (0.95%) SLA
10 18 (0.61%) IFRS
11 14 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.37%) PMO
15 8 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 5 (0.17%) NCSC
17 5 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 224 (7.63%) Docker
2 92 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 91 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.44%) vSphere
6 12 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.31%) Firmware
8 6 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 206 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 138 (4.70%) Terraform
3 75 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (0.82%) Grafana
5 18 (0.61%) Ansible
6 17 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.17%) Argo
8 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
8 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.14%) Istio
9 4 (0.14%) Nmap
10 3 (0.10%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.10%) linkerd
10 3 (0.10%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.068%) Podman
11 2 (0.068%) Salt
12 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.034%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 731 (24.90%) Microsoft
2 225 (7.66%) Adobe
3 173 (5.89%) Databricks
4 142 (4.84%) Google
5 95 (3.24%) OpenAI
6 78 (2.66%) Cisco
7 68 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.87%) CyberArk
9 53 (1.81%) Apple
10 48 (1.63%) Dell
11 47 (1.60%) Salesforce
12 39 (1.33%) Foundry
13 38 (1.29%) Facebook
14 37 (1.26%) HubSpot
15 30 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
15 30 (1.02%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.99%) Oracle
17 27 (0.92%) Tenable
18 26 (0.89%) SAP
19 24 (0.82%) VMware