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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 54
Rank change year-on-year -3 +50 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,289 3,682 969
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.16% 22.32% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.32% 23.79% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,061 700 515
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,752 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,250 £107,965
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +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 20,151 15,479 18,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.63% 93.83% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14,312 8,360 11,026
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 13 October 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
1 104 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 54 (1.64%) Confluence
3 33 (1.00%) CMS
3 33 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (0.85%) Apache
5 22 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 20 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.36%) WordPress
8 11 (0.33%) SAS
9 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.12%) Camunda
11 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.091%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.091%) nginx
13 2 (0.061%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.061%) IIS
14 1 (0.030%) JBoss
14 1 (0.030%) WebLogic
Applications
1 82 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.70%) Chatbot
3 34 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.52%) UserZoom
6 15 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.43%) InDesign
8 13 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
8 13 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.21%) Moqups
11 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.12%) Notion
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Trello
13 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.091%) Productboard
13 3 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
3 15 (0.46%) Cloudability
4 14 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.15%) SAP PSCD
7 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) Primavera
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.12%) Shopify
8 3 (0.091%) FastStats
8 3 (0.091%) FastStats PeopleStage
8 3 (0.091%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.061%) Maximo
10 1 (0.030%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.030%) Actimize
10 1 (0.030%) HFM
10 1 (0.030%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 892 (27.12%) Azure
2 643 (19.55%) AWS
3 323 (9.82%) SaaS
4 313 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 285 (8.67%) GCP
6 261 (7.94%) GitHub
7 201 (6.11%) Azure AI
7 201 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
8 166 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
9 156 (4.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 154 (4.68%) GitHub Copilot
11 145 (4.41%) Anthropic Claude
12 122 (3.71%) Snowflake
13 115 (3.50%) Entra ID
14 109 (3.31%) Serverless
15 83 (2.52%) Power Automate
16 81 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
17 69 (2.10%) Amazon Bedrock
18 61 (1.85%) Figma
19 57 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 125 (3.80%) Broadband
2 39 (1.19%) Internet
3 35 (1.06%) VPN
4 32 (0.97%) Firewall
4 32 (0.97%) Network Security
5 26 (0.79%) 5G
6 25 (0.76%) DNS
7 15 (0.46%) DHCP
8 13 (0.40%) HTTP
8 13 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.33%) CTI
10 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.24%) WAN
11 8 (0.24%) WPA
12 7 (0.21%) Wireless
13 6 (0.18%) DMZ
13 6 (0.18%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.15%) BGP
14 5 (0.15%) Ethernet
14 5 (0.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (6.29%) Power BI
2 201 (6.11%) MongoDB
3 163 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 111 (3.37%) Metadata
4 111 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
5 85 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (2.55%) SQL Server
7 57 (1.73%) Big Data
7 57 (1.73%) NoSQL
8 56 (1.70%) Tableau
9 45 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 43 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 41 (1.25%) Relational Database
12 37 (1.12%) Redis
13 36 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
14 34 (1.03%) Delta Lake
15 29 (0.88%) MySQL
16 25 (0.76%) Looker
17 23 (0.70%) DynamoDB
18 21 (0.64%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 128 (3.89%) Git
2 102 (3.10%) Claude Code
3 93 (2.83%) JIRA
4 43 (1.31%) GitLab
5 42 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 20 (0.61%) MLflow
7 17 (0.52%) Selenium
8 16 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.49%) Snyk
9 15 (0.46%) Postman
10 14 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.30%) JUnit
12 10 (0.30%) Maven
12 10 (0.30%) Mockito
13 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.18%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
14 5 (0.15%) Metasploit
14 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,050 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 804 (24.45%) Finance
3 474 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 395 (12.01%) Marketing
5 362 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 238 (7.24%) Public Sector
7 234 (7.11%) Legal
8 166 (5.05%) Banking
9 156 (4.74%) Law
10 128 (3.89%) Retail
11 126 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
12 122 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
13 110 (3.34%) Games
14 74 (2.25%) Advertising
15 56 (1.70%) Manufacturing
16 48 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (0.97%) Front Office
19 31 (0.94%) Legal Technology
20 30 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 603 (18.33%) Senior
2 448 (13.62%) Developer
3 364 (11.07%) Lead
4 340 (10.34%) Architect
5 307 (9.33%) Software Engineer
6 168 (5.11%) Analyst
7 163 (4.96%) .NET Developer
8 161 (4.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 145 (4.41%) Consultant
10 109 (3.31%) Python Engineer
11 104 (3.16%) Data Engineer
12 99 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
13 89 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 82 (2.49%) Data Scientist
15 81 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
16 74 (2.25%) Senior Developer
17 64 (1.95%) Enterprise Architect
18 63 (1.92%) Data Architect
19 60 (1.82%) Sales Executive
20 59 (1.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (8.70%) React
2 268 (8.15%) .NET
3 187 (5.69%) Terraform
4 165 (5.02%) Node.js
5 161 (4.90%) ASP.NET
6 158 (4.80%) RESTful
7 157 (4.77%) .NET Core
8 152 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
9 149 (4.53%) ML.NET
10 138 (4.20%) CSS
11 131 (3.98%) REST
12 129 (3.92%) HTML
13 117 (3.56%) LangChain
14 110 (3.34%) Blazor
15 74 (2.25%) LangGraph
16 71 (2.16%) Next.js
17 60 (1.82%) PySpark
18 57 (1.73%) PyTorch
18 57 (1.73%) Vue
19 48 (1.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 308 (9.36%) AI Agents
2 278 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 134 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 115 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 106 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 102 (3.10%) Blog
6 102 (3.10%) Social Media
7 92 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 87 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
9 73 (2.22%) Low-Code
10 68 (2.07%) Algorithms
11 64 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
12 62 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
13 58 (1.76%) Hedge funds
14 52 (1.58%) Virtual Team
15 50 (1.52%) Mobile App
16 47 (1.43%) Data Centre
17 46 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
18 43 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 87 (2.65%) Windows
2 76 (2.31%) Linux
3 39 (1.19%) Android
4 26 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.55%) macOS
7 12 (0.36%) VMS
8 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.24%) Unix
9 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.091%) Debian
10 3 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.091%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.061%) AIX
11 2 (0.061%) Solaris
11 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.030%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.030%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (22.41%) Machine Learning
2 685 (20.83%) Analytics
3 681 (20.71%) Agile
4 664 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 628 (19.09%) CI/CD
6 599 (18.21%) Software Engineering
7 534 (16.24%) Roadmaps
8 524 (15.93%) Mentoring
9 497 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
10 477 (14.50%) Decision-Making
11 444 (13.50%) LLM
11 444 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 398 (12.10%) DevOps
13 371 (11.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 361 (10.98%) Coaching
15 348 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 347 (10.55%) Cybersecurity
17 291 (8.85%) Data Science
18 279 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
19 265 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 815 (24.78%) Python
2 572 (17.39%) SQL
3 325 (9.88%) C#
4 305 (9.27%) JavaScript
5 256 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 163 (4.96%) Java
7 85 (2.58%) PowerShell
8 76 (2.31%) C++
9 63 (1.92%) Go
10 53 (1.61%) Bash
11 50 (1.52%) R
12 44 (1.34%) Bicep
13 34 (1.03%) Scala
14 26 (0.79%) Rust
15 25 (0.76%) Kotlin
16 24 (0.73%) C
16 24 (0.73%) PHP
17 20 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
18 19 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 280 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 276 (8.39%) Degree
3 210 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.52%) CISSP
5 76 (2.31%) CISM
6 71 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 69 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 66 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 56 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.64%) A+ Certification
10 54 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
11 44 (1.34%) ACCA
11 44 (1.34%) DBS Check
12 35 (1.06%) CIMA
13 26 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 22 (0.67%) PhD
15 21 (0.64%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.55%) SnowPro
17 17 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (8.09%) Data Quality
2 180 (5.47%) Accessibility
3 160 (4.86%) GDPR
4 133 (4.04%) QA
5 75 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.67%) GRC
6 55 (1.67%) NIST
7 33 (1.00%) SLA
8 26 (0.79%) WCAG
9 22 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 18 (0.55%) PMO
12 16 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 15 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 12 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.30%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.30%) IFRS
16 10 (0.30%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.24%) COPPA
System Software
1 264 (8.03%) Docker
2 104 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.40%) Firmware
7 13 (0.40%) vSphere
8 3 (0.091%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.091%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.061%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.061%) NFS
10 1 (0.030%) HDFS
10 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 227 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 84 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.22%) Grafana
4 18 (0.55%) Ansible
4 18 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.15%) Istio
6 5 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.15%) Nmap
7 4 (0.12%) Argo
7 4 (0.12%) Kibana
8 3 (0.091%) linkerd
8 3 (0.091%) Puppet
9 2 (0.061%) Cilium
9 2 (0.061%) Podman
10 1 (0.030%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.030%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.030%) Opsview
Vendors
1 792 (24.08%) Microsoft
2 201 (6.11%) Google
3 142 (4.32%) Databricks
4 134 (4.07%) YouTube
5 114 (3.47%) OpenAI
6 97 (2.95%) Adobe
7 77 (2.34%) Cisco
8 63 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 56 (1.70%) Apple
10 55 (1.67%) CyberArk
11 54 (1.64%) SAP
11 54 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 46 (1.40%) HubSpot
13 45 (1.37%) Foundry
14 43 (1.31%) Dell
15 39 (1.19%) Oracle
16 35 (1.06%) Facebook
17 33 (1.00%) VMware
18 26 (0.79%) Sage
19 22 (0.67%) Workday