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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,237 3,820 989
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.98% 22.73% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.10% 24.23% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,048 699 530
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,750 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £105,250
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 20,103 15,768 19,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.63% 93.81% 88.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,356 8,416 11,421
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,026
25th Percentile £44,652 £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 £78,500 £80,000
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 7 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
1 103 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.70%) Confluence
3 37 (1.14%) CMS
4 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (0.80%) Apache
6 22 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.37%) WordPress
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.062%) IIS
14 2 (0.062%) nginx
15 1 (0.031%) JBoss
15 1 (0.031%) WebLogic
Applications
1 81 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.67%) Chatbot
3 34 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.53%) UserZoom
6 15 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.43%) InDesign
8 13 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
9 10 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.22%) Moqups
11 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
11 5 (0.15%) Trello
12 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.093%) Notion
12 3 (0.093%) Productboard
12 3 (0.093%) Revit
12 3 (0.093%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.86%) Dynamics GP
3 19 (0.59%) Cloudability
4 14 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) 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
8 3 (0.093%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.093%) Shopify
9 2 (0.062%) FastStats
9 2 (0.062%) FastStats PeopleStage
9 2 (0.062%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.031%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.031%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 896 (27.68%) Azure
2 637 (19.68%) AWS
3 313 (9.67%) SaaS
4 294 (9.08%) Power Platform
5 283 (8.74%) GCP
6 251 (7.75%) GitHub
7 217 (6.70%) Azure AI
8 194 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
9 162 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 150 (4.63%) GitHub Copilot
11 147 (4.54%) Microsoft Copilot
12 140 (4.32%) Anthropic Claude
13 132 (4.08%) Snowflake
14 112 (3.46%) Entra ID
15 107 (3.31%) Serverless
16 81 (2.50%) Power Automate
17 78 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
18 67 (2.07%) Figma
19 65 (2.01%) Amazon Bedrock
20 54 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 131 (4.05%) Broadband
2 37 (1.14%) Internet
3 34 (1.05%) Firewall
3 34 (1.05%) VPN
4 33 (1.02%) Network Security
5 25 (0.77%) DNS
6 23 (0.71%) 5G
7 15 (0.46%) DHCP
8 14 (0.43%) HTTP
9 13 (0.40%) VoIP
10 11 (0.34%) CTI
11 9 (0.28%) Wireless
12 8 (0.25%) WAN
12 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.25%) WPA
13 6 (0.19%) DMZ
13 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.15%) BGP
14 5 (0.15%) Ethernet
14 5 (0.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (6.24%) MongoDB
2 192 (5.93%) Power BI
3 165 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 111 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
5 106 (3.27%) Metadata
6 100 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 80 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
8 57 (1.76%) NoSQL
9 54 (1.67%) Tableau
10 52 (1.61%) Big Data
11 43 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 41 (1.27%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.24%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.11%) Redis
14 36 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
15 33 (1.02%) Delta Lake
16 27 (0.83%) MySQL
17 22 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 21 (0.65%) Data Vault
18 21 (0.65%) Looker
Development Applications
1 127 (3.92%) Git
2 98 (3.03%) Claude Code
3 93 (2.87%) JIRA
4 41 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.14%) GitLab
6 21 (0.65%) Snyk
7 20 (0.62%) MLflow
8 17 (0.53%) Selenium
9 15 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.46%) Postman
10 14 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 10 (0.31%) Maven
12 10 (0.31%) Mockito
13 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.15%) Burp Suite
14 5 (0.15%) Metasploit
14 5 (0.15%) Poetry
14 5 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,017 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 792 (24.47%) Finance
3 447 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 386 (11.92%) Marketing
5 369 (11.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (7.29%) Public Sector
7 231 (7.14%) Legal
8 158 (4.88%) Law
9 156 (4.82%) Banking
10 121 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
11 120 (3.71%) Retail
12 119 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
13 114 (3.52%) Games
14 70 (2.16%) Advertising
15 55 (1.70%) Manufacturing
16 47 (1.45%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (1.02%) Legal Technology
19 30 (0.93%) Financial Institution
20 27 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 601 (18.57%) Senior
2 434 (13.41%) Developer
3 349 (10.78%) Lead
4 337 (10.41%) Architect
5 286 (8.84%) Software Engineer
6 163 (5.04%) Analyst
7 162 (5.00%) .NET Developer
8 152 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 140 (4.32%) Consultant
10 101 (3.12%) Python Engineer
11 99 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
12 97 (3.00%) Data Engineer
13 88 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 81 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (2.38%) Data Scientist
16 70 (2.16%) Senior Developer
17 66 (2.04%) Engineering Manager
18 64 (1.98%) Data Architect
19 63 (1.95%) Enterprise Architect
19 63 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (8.74%) React
2 264 (8.16%) .NET
3 178 (5.50%) Terraform
4 162 (5.00%) Node.js
4 162 (5.00%) RESTful
5 160 (4.94%) ASP.NET
6 155 (4.79%) .NET Core
7 151 (4.66%) ASP.NET Core
8 148 (4.57%) ML.NET
9 137 (4.23%) CSS
10 128 (3.95%) HTML
11 126 (3.89%) REST
12 112 (3.46%) LangChain
13 110 (3.40%) Blazor
14 73 (2.26%) Next.js
15 71 (2.19%) LangGraph
16 57 (1.76%) Vue
17 56 (1.73%) PyTorch
18 55 (1.70%) PySpark
19 48 (1.48%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 294 (9.08%) AI Agents
2 275 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 135 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 130 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
5 116 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
6 107 (3.31%) Social Media
7 102 (3.15%) Blog
7 102 (3.15%) Management Information System
8 83 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
9 81 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 74 (2.29%) Low-Code
11 68 (2.10%) Algorithms
12 61 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 61 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
13 55 (1.70%) Data Centre
14 53 (1.64%) Hedge funds
15 50 (1.54%) Virtual Team
16 49 (1.51%) Mobile App
17 43 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
18 42 (1.30%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 85 (2.63%) Windows
2 74 (2.29%) Linux
3 39 (1.20%) Android
4 23 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 20 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.37%) VMS
8 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.25%) Unix
10 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Debian
11 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.062%) AIX
12 2 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (22.83%) Machine Learning
2 691 (21.35%) Agile
3 674 (20.82%) Analytics
4 640 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 620 (19.15%) CI/CD
6 572 (17.67%) Software Engineering
7 548 (16.93%) Roadmaps
8 508 (15.69%) Mentoring
9 473 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
10 463 (14.30%) Decision-Making
11 436 (13.47%) LLM
12 416 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 392 (12.11%) DevOps
14 369 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
15 346 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
16 338 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 333 (10.29%) Coaching
18 279 (8.62%) Data Science
19 268 (8.28%) Technical Leadership
20 249 (7.69%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 771 (23.82%) Python
2 571 (17.64%) SQL
3 314 (9.70%) C#
4 291 (8.99%) JavaScript
5 243 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 151 (4.66%) Java
7 80 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 76 (2.35%) C++
9 55 (1.70%) Go
10 52 (1.61%) Bash
11 44 (1.36%) Bicep
12 40 (1.24%) R
13 33 (1.02%) Scala
14 22 (0.68%) C
14 22 (0.68%) PHP
15 20 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 19 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 19 (0.59%) Rust
17 18 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 273 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 271 (8.37%) Degree
3 206 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 82 (2.53%) CISSP
5 75 (2.32%) CISM
6 68 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 61 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 55 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.67%) A+ Certification
10 54 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
11 45 (1.39%) ACCA
12 40 (1.24%) DBS Check
13 35 (1.08%) CIMA
14 29 (0.90%) AWS Certification
15 21 (0.65%) Master's Degree
16 20 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 20 (0.62%) PhD
17 18 (0.56%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 157 (4.85%) GDPR
4 127 (3.92%) QA
5 74 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (1.82%) GRC
7 54 (1.67%) NIST
8 35 (1.08%) SLA
9 25 (0.77%) WCAG
10 21 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 16 (0.49%) PMO
12 15 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.34%) IFRS
16 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
16 10 (0.31%) SOC 2
17 8 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 257 (7.94%) Docker
2 104 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 50 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.40%) vSphere
7 11 (0.34%) Firmware
8 3 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.093%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.062%) NFS
10 1 (0.031%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.031%) HDFS
10 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 223 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 81 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (1.17%) Grafana
4 18 (0.56%) Ansible
4 18 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.15%) Istio
7 5 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.15%) Nmap
8 4 (0.12%) Argo
8 4 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.093%) Kibana
9 3 (0.093%) linkerd
9 3 (0.093%) Podman
9 3 (0.093%) Puppet
10 2 (0.062%) Cilium
11 1 (0.031%) CASB
11 1 (0.031%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.031%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 800 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 189 (5.84%) Google
3 157 (4.85%) Databricks
4 122 (3.77%) YouTube
5 111 (3.43%) OpenAI
6 106 (3.27%) Adobe
7 79 (2.44%) Cisco
8 60 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.79%) Apple
10 57 (1.76%) ServiceNow
11 55 (1.70%) CyberArk
12 51 (1.58%) SAP
13 45 (1.39%) Dell
13 45 (1.39%) HubSpot
14 42 (1.30%) Foundry
15 38 (1.17%) Oracle
16 35 (1.08%) Facebook
17 32 (0.99%) VMware
18 25 (0.77%) Sage
19 24 (0.74%) Palo Alto