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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +54 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,873 2,643 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.75% 16.04% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.39% 17.26% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,818 689 605
10th Percentile £40,500 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £28,750 £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 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £71,121 £68,750 £71,996
% change year-on-year +3.45% -4.51% -4.01%

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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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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 6 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 78 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.78%) Confluence
3 41 (1.43%) CMS
4 23 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.73%) Apache
6 20 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.35%) WordPress
9 9 (0.31%) 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 (0.070%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.070%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.035%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.035%) Moodle
14 1 (0.035%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.035%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.035%) Umbraco
Applications
1 43 (1.50%) UserZoom
2 35 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.18%) Chatbot
4 26 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.49%) InDesign
7 14 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 6 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.14%) CapCut
10 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) Moqups
11 3 (0.10%) Productboard
11 3 (0.10%) Sketch
11 3 (0.10%) Trello
12 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.97%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.84%) 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 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.070%) Shopify
8 1 (0.035%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.035%) HFM
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.035%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 840 (29.24%) Azure
2 531 (18.48%) AWS
3 267 (9.29%) SaaS
4 252 (8.77%) Azure AI
5 233 (8.11%) GCP
6 220 (7.66%) Power Platform
7 207 (7.21%) GitHub
8 174 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 170 (5.92%) Adobe Analytics
10 131 (4.56%) GitHub Copilot
11 126 (4.39%) Snowflake
12 123 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
13 113 (3.93%) Serverless
14 112 (3.90%) Figma
15 103 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
16 99 (3.45%) Entra ID
17 97 (3.38%) Microsoft Copilot
18 84 (2.92%) Azure Machine Learning
18 84 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 69 (2.40%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 306 (10.65%) Broadband
2 33 (1.15%) Internet
3 29 (1.01%) VPN
4 27 (0.94%) Firewall
5 18 (0.63%) Network Security
6 17 (0.59%) DNS
7 13 (0.45%) HTTP
8 12 (0.42%) VoIP
9 11 (0.38%) CTI
10 10 (0.35%) DHCP
11 8 (0.28%) WPA
12 7 (0.24%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.24%) Wireless
13 6 (0.21%) 5G
13 6 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.17%) VLAN
14 5 (0.17%) VXLAN
15 4 (0.14%) BGP
15 4 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (7.59%) MongoDB
2 175 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 126 (4.39%) Power BI
4 121 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 99 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 83 (2.89%) Metadata
7 65 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (1.67%) Tableau
9 45 (1.57%) NoSQL
10 44 (1.53%) Big Data
11 41 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.11%) Redis
13 31 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.04%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
15 28 (0.97%) Relational Database
16 23 (0.80%) MySQL
17 17 (0.59%) Pinecone
18 16 (0.56%) Data Vault
19 15 (0.52%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (4.07%) Git
2 63 (2.19%) JIRA
3 62 (2.16%) Claude Code
4 44 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.94%) Snyk
6 25 (0.87%) GitLab
7 19 (0.66%) Selenium
8 17 (0.59%) MLflow
9 12 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (0.35%) JUnit
11 10 (0.35%) Maven
11 10 (0.35%) Mockito
11 10 (0.35%) Postman
12 5 (0.17%) Appium
12 5 (0.17%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.14%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 796 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 604 (21.02%) Finance
3 345 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (11.45%) Marketing
5 321 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 259 (9.01%) Games
7 230 (8.01%) Legal
8 169 (5.88%) Law
9 164 (5.71%) Public Sector
10 105 (3.65%) Retail
11 101 (3.52%) Banking
12 85 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
14 58 (2.02%) Advertising
15 37 (1.29%) Automotive
15 37 (1.29%) Legal Technology
15 37 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (1.18%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.70%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 559 (19.46%) Senior
2 404 (14.06%) Developer
3 367 (12.77%) Lead
4 275 (9.57%) Architect
5 208 (7.24%) Software Engineer
6 169 (5.88%) .NET Developer
7 124 (4.32%) Analyst
8 118 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 113 (3.93%) Consultant
10 112 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
11 83 (2.89%) Data Engineer
12 82 (2.85%) Data Scientist
13 81 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
13 81 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
14 77 (2.68%) Python Engineer
15 75 (2.61%) Senior Developer
15 75 (2.61%) Senior Manager
16 72 (2.51%) Designer
17 67 (2.33%) Product Manager
18 65 (2.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (9.57%) React
2 256 (8.91%) .NET
3 168 (5.85%) ASP.NET
4 165 (5.74%) .NET Core
5 163 (5.67%) RESTful
6 159 (5.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 156 (5.43%) ML.NET
8 145 (5.05%) CSS
9 137 (4.77%) HTML
10 126 (4.39%) Node.js
11 116 (4.04%) Blazor
12 113 (3.93%) REST
13 89 (3.10%) LangChain
14 70 (2.44%) Next.js
15 57 (1.98%) PyTorch
16 50 (1.74%) Vue
17 49 (1.71%) FastAPI
18 48 (1.67%) LangGraph
19 45 (1.57%) TensorFlow
20 41 (1.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 256 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 221 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 216 (7.52%) Social Media
4 136 (4.73%) Product Ownership
5 112 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 90 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 78 (2.71%) Blog
8 71 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 70 (2.44%) Algorithms
10 66 (2.30%) Low-Code
11 57 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 56 (1.95%) Mobile App
13 54 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
14 53 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
15 51 (1.78%) Data Centre
16 50 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
17 48 (1.67%) Management Information System
18 46 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
19 43 (1.50%) Marketing Technology
20 40 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (2.19%) Windows
2 56 (1.95%) Linux
3 49 (1.71%) Android
4 22 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.14%) Unix
10 2 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (27.92%) Agile
2 752 (26.17%) Machine Learning
3 713 (24.82%) Analytics
4 661 (23.01%) Roadmaps
5 605 (21.06%) CI/CD
6 498 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 459 (15.98%) Mentoring
8 454 (15.80%) Software Engineering
9 421 (14.65%) Decision-Making
10 406 (14.13%) LLM
11 389 (13.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 372 (12.95%) DevOps
13 364 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
14 330 (11.49%) Customer Experience
15 270 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
16 263 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 258 (8.98%) Data Science
18 257 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
19 239 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
20 237 (8.25%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 660 (22.97%) Python
2 522 (18.17%) SQL
3 293 (10.20%) C#
4 262 (9.12%) JavaScript
5 201 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 137 (4.77%) Java
7 59 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.91%) Go
9 49 (1.71%) C++
10 47 (1.64%) Bicep
11 46 (1.60%) Bash
12 30 (1.04%) Scala
13 20 (0.70%) R
14 18 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.56%) PHP
16 14 (0.49%) C
17 12 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.35%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 234 (8.14%) Degree
2 176 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 123 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.40%) CISSP
5 65 (2.26%) CISM
6 57 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 54 (1.88%) A+ Certification
7 54 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
8 52 (1.81%) ACCA
9 51 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 48 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 40 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 35 (1.22%) CIMA
13 33 (1.15%) AWS Certification
14 30 (1.04%) PhD
15 29 (1.01%) Master's Degree
16 25 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.63%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (0.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (10.16%) Accessibility
2 176 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 106 (3.69%) QA
4 102 (3.55%) GDPR
5 67 (2.33%) WCAG
6 57 (1.98%) GRC
7 47 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.25%) NIST
9 26 (0.90%) SLA
10 20 (0.70%) IFRS
11 14 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 13 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.42%) PMO
13 12 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 222 (7.73%) Docker
2 93 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 91 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.45%) vSphere
6 12 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.24%) Firmware
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.070%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 203 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 139 (4.84%) Terraform
3 75 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (0.80%) Grafana
5 20 (0.70%) Ansible
6 18 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.17%) Argo
8 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.17%) Puppet
9 4 (0.14%) Istio
9 4 (0.14%) Nmap
9 4 (0.14%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.10%) linkerd
11 2 (0.070%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.070%) Podman
11 2 (0.070%) Salt
12 1 (0.035%) Nessus
12 1 (0.035%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 719 (25.03%) Microsoft
2 230 (8.01%) Adobe
3 171 (5.95%) Databricks
4 137 (4.77%) Google
5 91 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 77 (2.68%) Cisco
7 68 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.91%) CyberArk
9 51 (1.78%) Apple
10 49 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 48 (1.67%) Dell
12 38 (1.32%) Facebook
12 38 (1.32%) Foundry
13 37 (1.29%) HubSpot
14 30 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
15 29 (1.01%) Oracle
15 29 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.94%) Tenable
17 26 (0.90%) SAP
18 23 (0.80%) VMware