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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +58 +15
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,810 2,647 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.69% 16.06% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.29% 17.26% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,779 697 622
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £29,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,752 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.82% -3.57% -6.67%

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 18,379 15,333 23,410
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.97% 93.03% 88.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13,361 9,055 17,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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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 31 July 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 75 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.78%) Confluence
3 41 (1.46%) CMS
4 22 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.75%) Apache
6 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.32%) SAS
8 9 (0.32%) WordPress
9 5 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.14%) Camunda
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.071%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.071%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.071%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.036%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.036%) Moodle
12 1 (0.036%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.036%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.57%) UserZoom
2 33 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 33 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
5 15 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 13 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
6 13 (0.46%) InDesign
6 13 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.14%) CapCut
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.11%) Productboard
10 3 (0.11%) Sketch
10 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Trello
11 2 (0.071%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.00%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.85%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.14%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.036%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.036%) HFM
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.036%) Shopify
7 1 (0.036%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 828 (29.47%) Azure
2 509 (18.11%) AWS
3 266 (9.47%) SaaS
4 250 (8.90%) Azure AI
5 229 (8.15%) GCP
6 213 (7.58%) Power Platform
7 201 (7.15%) GitHub
8 172 (6.12%) Adobe Analytics
8 172 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
10 118 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
10 118 (4.20%) Snowflake
11 109 (3.88%) Figma
12 107 (3.81%) Serverless
13 99 (3.52%) Anthropic Claude
14 97 (3.45%) Entra ID
15 92 (3.27%) Microsoft Copilot
16 84 (2.99%) Azure Machine Learning
17 83 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 70 (2.49%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 307 (10.93%) Broadband
2 32 (1.14%) Internet
3 28 (1.00%) VPN
4 26 (0.93%) Firewall
5 15 (0.53%) DNS
6 14 (0.50%) HTTP
7 13 (0.46%) VoIP
8 12 (0.43%) Network Security
9 11 (0.39%) CTI
10 9 (0.32%) DHCP
11 8 (0.28%) WPA
12 7 (0.25%) Wireless
13 6 (0.21%) 5G
13 6 (0.21%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.18%) VLAN
14 5 (0.18%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (0.14%) DMZ
16 3 (0.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (7.83%) MongoDB
2 175 (6.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 121 (4.31%) Power BI
4 119 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 95 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 81 (2.88%) Metadata
7 65 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (1.64%) Tableau
9 43 (1.53%) Big Data
10 42 (1.49%) NoSQL
11 38 (1.35%) Data Lake
12 31 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 31 (1.10%) Redis
12 31 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
13 29 (1.03%) Delta Lake
14 26 (0.93%) Relational Database
15 22 (0.78%) MySQL
16 18 (0.64%) Pinecone
17 15 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (0.50%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 113 (4.02%) Git
2 61 (2.17%) JIRA
3 58 (2.06%) Claude Code
4 44 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.96%) Snyk
6 25 (0.89%) GitLab
7 18 (0.64%) Selenium
8 16 (0.57%) MLflow
9 11 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (0.32%) Postman
12 8 (0.28%) JUnit
12 8 (0.28%) Maven
12 8 (0.28%) Mockito
13 5 (0.18%) Appium
13 5 (0.18%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.14%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 776 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 574 (20.43%) Finance
3 331 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (11.53%) Marketing
5 306 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 261 (9.29%) Games
7 226 (8.04%) Legal
8 168 (5.98%) Law
9 162 (5.77%) Public Sector
10 104 (3.70%) Retail
11 97 (3.45%) Banking
12 77 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
13 69 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 57 (2.03%) Advertising
15 40 (1.42%) Automotive
16 37 (1.32%) Legal Technology
17 36 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
18 31 (1.10%) Manufacturing
19 23 (0.82%) Telecoms
20 18 (0.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 544 (19.36%) Senior
2 399 (14.20%) Developer
3 370 (13.17%) Lead
4 268 (9.54%) Architect
5 200 (7.12%) Software Engineer
6 170 (6.05%) .NET Developer
7 122 (4.34%) Analyst
8 114 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 111 (3.95%) Consultant
10 110 (3.91%) Engineering Manager
11 83 (2.95%) Data Engineer
12 81 (2.88%) Data Scientist
12 81 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
13 76 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 76 (2.70%) Python Engineer
14 75 (2.67%) Senior Manager
15 73 (2.60%) Designer
16 70 (2.49%) Senior Developer
17 65 (2.31%) Product Manager
18 64 (2.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (9.36%) React
2 252 (8.97%) .NET
3 168 (5.98%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.87%) .NET Core
5 163 (5.80%) RESTful
6 159 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.55%) ML.NET
8 146 (5.20%) CSS
9 138 (4.91%) HTML
10 123 (4.38%) Node.js
11 117 (4.16%) Blazor
12 103 (3.67%) REST
13 82 (2.92%) LangChain
14 67 (2.38%) Next.js
15 57 (2.03%) PyTorch
16 49 (1.74%) FastAPI
17 48 (1.71%) Vue
18 46 (1.64%) TensorFlow
19 44 (1.57%) LangGraph
20 38 (1.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 247 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 217 (7.72%) Social Media
3 201 (7.15%) AI Agents
4 137 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 108 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 84 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 71 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 71 (2.53%) Blog
8 69 (2.46%) Onboarding
9 68 (2.42%) Low-Code
10 57 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 54 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
12 53 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.85%) Mobile App
14 45 (1.60%) Data Centre
15 44 (1.57%) Management Information System
16 43 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
16 43 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
17 42 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
18 39 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.21%) Windows
2 52 (1.85%) Linux
3 48 (1.71%) Android
4 21 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.43%) VMS
7 9 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.071%) Unix
11 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (27.90%) Agile
2 733 (26.09%) Machine Learning
3 704 (25.05%) Analytics
4 652 (23.20%) Roadmaps
5 583 (20.75%) CI/CD
6 486 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 442 (15.73%) Mentoring
8 441 (15.69%) Software Engineering
9 413 (14.70%) Decision-Making
10 389 (13.84%) LLM
11 381 (13.56%) Full-Stack Development
12 362 (12.88%) DevOps
13 351 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
14 326 (11.60%) Customer Experience
15 256 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
16 255 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 249 (8.86%) Data Science
18 247 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
19 233 (8.29%) Generative AI
20 228 (8.11%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 646 (22.99%) Python
2 501 (17.83%) SQL
3 286 (10.18%) C#
4 250 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 190 (6.76%) TypeScript
6 127 (4.52%) Java
7 58 (2.06%) Go
8 57 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.67%) Bicep
9 47 (1.67%) C++
10 45 (1.60%) Bash
11 28 (1.00%) Scala
12 20 (0.71%) R
13 18 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.53%) PHP
16 14 (0.50%) C
17 11 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.32%) T-SQL
19 8 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 221 (7.86%) Degree
2 159 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 110 (3.91%) SC Cleared
4 68 (2.42%) CISSP
5 64 (2.28%) CISM
6 54 (1.92%) A+ Certification
6 54 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
7 53 (1.89%) ACCA
8 50 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 47 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.25%) CIMA
12 33 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 30 (1.07%) PhD
14 29 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.68%) DBS Check
17 13 (0.46%) SnowPro
18 11 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (10.21%) Accessibility
2 166 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 102 (3.63%) QA
4 98 (3.49%) GDPR
5 68 (2.42%) WCAG
6 58 (2.06%) GRC
7 45 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.25%) NIST
9 26 (0.93%) SLA
10 20 (0.71%) IFRS
11 14 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 12 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.43%) PMO
13 12 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 217 (7.72%) Docker
2 93 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
3 91 (3.24%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.46%) vSphere
6 12 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.25%) Firmware
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.036%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.036%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 197 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 135 (4.80%) Terraform
3 74 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (0.82%) Grafana
5 19 (0.68%) Ansible
6 18 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.25%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.21%) Argo
9 5 (0.18%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.18%) Puppet
10 4 (0.14%) Istio
10 4 (0.14%) Nmap
10 4 (0.14%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.11%) linkerd
12 2 (0.071%) Podman
12 2 (0.071%) Salt
13 1 (0.036%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.036%) Nessus
13 1 (0.036%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 711 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 231 (8.22%) Adobe
3 164 (5.84%) Databricks
4 135 (4.80%) Google
5 89 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 78 (2.78%) Cisco
7 67 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.96%) CyberArk
9 50 (1.78%) Dell
10 49 (1.74%) Apple
11 48 (1.71%) Salesforce
12 38 (1.35%) Facebook
13 37 (1.32%) Foundry
14 34 (1.21%) HubSpot
15 30 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
16 28 (1.00%) Palo Alto
17 27 (0.96%) Oracle
17 27 (0.96%) Tenable
18 23 (0.82%) SAP
19 22 (0.78%) VMware