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

 6 months to
15 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 24 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 +14
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,857 1,179 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.63% 9.00% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.78% 9.49% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 666 809
10th Percentile £24,570 £25,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £66,215 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.94% -13.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,616 £82,500
90th Percentile £121,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14,527 12,420 29,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.78% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,146 8,885 23,513
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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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 15 April 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 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.21%) CMS
3 37 (1.99%) Confluence
4 24 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.65%) JBoss
5 12 (0.65%) WebSphere
6 11 (0.59%) WordPress
7 10 (0.54%) Apache
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.22%) SAS
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
13 1 (0.054%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.054%) Mendix
Applications
1 57 (3.07%) Chatbot
2 53 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.62%) UserZoom
4 21 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.22%) CapCut
7 3 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) Weka
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.48%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.11%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 491 (26.44%) Azure
2 336 (18.09%) AWS
3 214 (11.52%) SaaS
4 172 (9.26%) Adobe Analytics
5 163 (8.78%) GCP
6 140 (7.54%) GitHub
7 124 (6.68%) Power Platform
8 96 (5.17%) Snowflake
9 93 (5.01%) Azure Machine Learning
10 92 (4.95%) Figma
11 91 (4.90%) GitHub Copilot
12 89 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
13 86 (4.63%) Azure AI
14 83 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 64 (3.45%) Serverless
16 60 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
17 50 (2.69%) Contentsquare
18 48 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
19 40 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
20 35 (1.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 241 (12.98%) Broadband
2 20 (1.08%) Firewall
3 19 (1.02%) HTTP
4 11 (0.59%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.43%) Network Security
5 8 (0.43%) VPN
6 6 (0.32%) DHCP
6 6 (0.32%) DNS
7 5 (0.27%) DMZ
7 5 (0.27%) RTP
7 5 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.27%) VoIP
7 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.22%) Modbus
9 3 (0.16%) Internet
9 3 (0.16%) Wireless
9 3 (0.16%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.11%) DOCSIS
10 2 (0.11%) DSL
10 2 (0.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 80 (4.31%) Power BI
3 54 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.80%) Metadata
5 51 (2.75%) MongoDB
6 39 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 38 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.99%) Tableau
9 33 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 31 (1.67%) Big Data
11 26 (1.40%) Data Lake
12 21 (1.13%) BigQuery
13 20 (1.08%) Looker
14 18 (0.97%) Redis
15 17 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.65%) Delta Lake
19 11 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
20 10 (0.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 47 (2.53%) Git
1 47 (2.53%) JIRA
2 20 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.02%) MLflow
4 16 (0.86%) Claude Code
4 16 (0.86%) GitLab
5 11 (0.59%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.59%) Snyk
6 10 (0.54%) Selenium
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.43%) Subversion
9 7 (0.38%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.38%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.32%) Storybook
11 4 (0.22%) GitBook
12 3 (0.16%) Appium
12 3 (0.16%) ESLint
12 3 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 490 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 455 (24.50%) Finance
3 286 (15.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 273 (14.70%) Analytical Skills
5 205 (11.04%) Games
6 189 (10.18%) Marketing
7 162 (8.72%) Public Sector
8 159 (8.56%) Legal
9 136 (7.32%) Law
10 79 (4.25%) Retail
11 60 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (3.12%) Banking
13 47 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 39 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.18%) Automotive
18 13 (0.70%) Back Office
19 12 (0.65%) Advertising
20 10 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 343 (18.47%) Senior
2 269 (14.49%) Lead
3 156 (8.40%) Architect
4 155 (8.35%) Developer
5 90 (4.85%) Software Engineer
6 81 (4.36%) Consultant
7 73 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
8 67 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
9 66 (3.55%) Analyst
10 64 (3.45%) Designer
11 51 (2.75%) Data Engineer
12 50 (2.69%) Product Manager
13 46 (2.48%) Senior Software Engineer
14 45 (2.42%) Lead Designer
15 44 (2.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 43 (2.32%) Sales Executive
16 43 (2.32%) Trainer
17 42 (2.26%) Corporate Sales Executive
18 39 (2.10%) Digital Designer
19 38 (2.05%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (6.46%) React
2 89 (4.79%) REST
3 73 (3.93%) .NET
4 69 (3.72%) RESTful
5 67 (3.61%) Node.js
6 49 (2.64%) PyTorch
7 42 (2.26%) CSS
8 41 (2.21%) TensorFlow
9 39 (2.10%) HTML
10 37 (1.99%) Kafka
11 33 (1.78%) OAuth
12 32 (1.72%) SOAP
12 32 (1.72%) Vue
13 31 (1.67%) Spring
14 29 (1.56%) LangChain
15 28 (1.51%) FastAPI
16 27 (1.45%) Next.js
17 25 (1.35%) OAuth2
17 25 (1.35%) React Native
18 23 (1.24%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.05%) Social Media
2 137 (7.38%) Cloud Native
3 116 (6.25%) Blog
4 103 (5.55%) Product Ownership
5 86 (4.63%) Onboarding
6 62 (3.34%) AI Agents
7 51 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 47 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (2.42%) Mobile App
10 42 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 39 (2.10%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
13 27 (1.45%) Social Network
14 26 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (1.35%) Data Centre
16 22 (1.18%) Podcast
17 21 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
18 20 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
18 20 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.58%) Android
2 30 (1.62%) Apple iOS
3 28 (1.51%) Linux
4 21 (1.13%) Windows
5 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.27%) Unix
6 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.054%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (28.33%) Agile
2 498 (26.82%) Analytics
3 481 (25.90%) Roadmaps
4 379 (20.41%) Machine Learning
5 333 (17.93%) Customer Experience
6 319 (17.18%) CI/CD
7 295 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 251 (13.52%) Decision-Making
9 239 (12.87%) DevOps
10 234 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
11 230 (12.39%) Software Engineering
12 226 (12.17%) Mentoring
13 210 (11.31%) Product Roadmap
14 208 (11.20%) Storytelling
15 185 (9.96%) Generative AI
16 172 (9.26%) LLM
17 171 (9.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 168 (9.05%) User Experience
19 166 (8.94%) Digital Customer Experience
20 154 (8.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 344 (18.52%) Python
2 261 (14.05%) SQL
3 116 (6.25%) Java
4 89 (4.79%) TypeScript
5 72 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.72%) C#
7 54 (2.91%) Go
8 28 (1.51%) C++
9 23 (1.24%) Bash
10 18 (0.97%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 17 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.92%) R
12 15 (0.81%) Scala
13 12 (0.65%) PHP
14 11 (0.59%) Bicep
15 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.48%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.43%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (15.40%) Degree
2 60 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 55 (2.96%) Master's Degree
4 48 (2.58%) ACCA
4 48 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.37%) PhD
6 40 (2.15%) SC Cleared
7 38 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 37 (1.99%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.35%) CIMA
9 25 (1.35%) PMP
10 19 (1.02%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (0.59%) CISSP
14 9 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.43%) CISA
15 8 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.27%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (13.46%) Accessibility
2 65 (3.50%) WCAG
3 49 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.32%) QA
5 42 (2.26%) GDPR
6 34 (1.83%) GRC
7 28 (1.51%) IFRS
8 24 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.65%) GAAP
11 11 (0.59%) NIST
11 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.59%) PMO
12 8 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (0.38%) EU AI Act
14 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.27%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.27%) NCSC
16 4 (0.22%) ISO 26262
16 4 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (5.39%) Docker
2 73 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.16%) 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 (0.054%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.28%) Terraform
3 22 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.02%) Ansible
5 13 (0.70%) Grafana
6 12 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.38%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.27%) Argo
9 5 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) Salt
11 1 (0.054%) Podman
Vendors
1 361 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 223 (12.01%) Adobe
3 123 (6.62%) Databricks
4 73 (3.93%) Google
5 52 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.64%) Dell
7 48 (2.58%) Cisco
8 39 (2.10%) PayPal
9 36 (1.94%) Apple
10 28 (1.51%) Oracle
11 26 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 25 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 18 (0.97%) Foundry
13 18 (0.97%) SAP
14 14 (0.75%) Palantir
15 13 (0.70%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
16 11 (0.59%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.59%) Instagram
16 11 (0.59%) Wrike
1,195 hybrid/remote AI jobs