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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 66 60
Rank change year-on-year +62 -6 +49
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,705 774 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.66% 4.71% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.28% 5.01% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 902 433 664
10th Percentile £21,600 £45,000 £41,121
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,033
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.33% -8.40%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £77,000 £70,875
% change year-on-year -7.79% +8.64% +1.25%

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 13,337 15,436 21,353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.10% 93.91% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 9,087 17,391
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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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 18 January 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 43 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.07%) Confluence
3 24 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.74%) CMS
5 17 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.44%) JBoss
7 12 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.26%) Apache
8 7 (0.26%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.18%) WordPress
10 3 (0.11%) Luigi
11 2 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.074%) Mendix
11 2 (0.074%) SAS
11 2 (0.074%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.037%) Camunda
12 1 (0.037%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,182 (43.70%) Chatbot
2 78 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.15%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) InDesign
6 3 (0.11%) Notion
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.074%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.074%) Weka
8 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.037%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.074%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.074%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.074%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.074%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.074%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.037%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.037%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 483 (17.86%) Azure
2 297 (10.98%) AWS
3 209 (7.73%) SaaS
4 190 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 153 (5.66%) GCP
6 144 (5.32%) GitHub
7 126 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
8 99 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
9 68 (2.51%) Snowflake
10 66 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
11 47 (1.74%) Serverless
12 46 (1.70%) Entra ID
13 39 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (1.29%) dbt
14 35 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
15 31 (1.15%) Azure AI
16 28 (1.04%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
17 27 (1.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.85%) Broadband
2 11 (0.41%) HTTP
2 11 (0.41%) Network Security
3 9 (0.33%) Firewall
4 8 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (0.26%) Internet
5 7 (0.26%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.22%) DMZ
6 6 (0.22%) DNS
6 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
6 6 (0.22%) VPN
6 6 (0.22%) WAN
7 5 (0.18%) DHCP
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 4 (0.15%) RTP
8 4 (0.15%) VoIP
8 4 (0.15%) Wireless
9 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.11%) DSL
9 3 (0.11%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.10%) Power BI
2 78 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (2.22%) Tableau
4 41 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 41 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 37 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 35 (1.29%) Big Data
7 29 (1.07%) Metadata
8 28 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.00%) BigQuery
9 27 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 25 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (0.74%) Looker
13 17 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (0.59%) MySQL
15 15 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.41%) Redis
18 10 (0.37%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 72 (2.66%) JIRA
2 56 (2.07%) Git
3 22 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (0.48%) GitLab
5 13 (0.48%) MLflow
6 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.30%) Subversion
8 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.22%) ERwin
10 5 (0.18%) GitBook
10 5 (0.18%) Selenium
10 5 (0.18%) Storybook
11 4 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) ESLint
12 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.074%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.074%) WebDriver
General
1 623 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
2 489 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 461 (17.04%) Finance
4 331 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (6.65%) Marketing
6 155 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 118 (4.36%) Retail
8 105 (3.88%) Legal
9 88 (3.25%) Law
10 51 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (1.15%) Banking
14 27 (1.00%) Games
15 23 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 23 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 17 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.59%) Advertising
18 14 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,160 (42.88%) Trainer
2 254 (9.39%) Senior
3 200 (7.39%) Developer
4 155 (5.73%) Content Editor
5 118 (4.36%) Lead
6 113 (4.18%) Architect
7 98 (3.62%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.62%) Support Specialist
8 94 (3.48%) Analyst
9 80 (2.96%) Research Scientist
10 71 (2.62%) Consultant
11 67 (2.48%) Software Engineer
12 61 (2.26%) Data Engineer
13 54 (2.00%) Sales Executive
14 45 (1.66%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 45 (1.66%) Microsoft Specialist
15 44 (1.63%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (1.52%) .NET Developer
16 41 (1.52%) Customer Service Representative
17 39 (1.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (3.36%) .NET
2 89 (3.29%) React
3 81 (2.99%) REST
4 65 (2.40%) Node.js
5 58 (2.14%) RESTful
6 44 (1.63%) Kafka
7 38 (1.40%) SOAP
8 34 (1.26%) Spring
9 33 (1.22%) OAuth
9 33 (1.22%) OAuth2
10 30 (1.11%) PyTorch
11 28 (1.04%) TensorFlow
12 26 (0.96%) gRPC
13 24 (0.89%) AngularJS
14 23 (0.85%) GraphQL
14 23 (0.85%) Middleware
15 22 (0.81%) CSS
15 22 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
16 21 (0.78%) FastAPI
16 21 (0.78%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 138 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 114 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 105 (3.88%) Blog
4 97 (3.59%) Molecular Biology
5 62 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 51 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 38 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 38 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 35 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 32 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 32 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 25 (0.92%) Mobile App
14 23 (0.85%) Data Centre
14 23 (0.85%) Management Information System
15 22 (0.81%) Social Network
16 20 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.26%) Android
2 27 (1.00%) Windows
3 25 (0.92%) Linux
4 19 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.074%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.037%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (44.21%) Conversational UI
2 395 (14.60%) Chemistry
3 379 (14.01%) Agile
4 304 (11.24%) Analytics
5 294 (10.87%) Machine Learning
6 287 (10.61%) Roadmaps
7 280 (10.35%) DevOps
8 263 (9.72%) CI/CD
9 244 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
11 209 (7.73%) Content Writing
12 201 (7.43%) Software Engineering
13 193 (7.13%) Customer Service
14 163 (6.03%) Coaching
15 159 (5.88%) Customer Experience
16 158 (5.84%) Mentoring
17 150 (5.55%) Decision-Making
18 141 (5.21%) Business Intelligence
19 130 (4.81%) Cybersecurity
20 127 (4.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 333 (12.31%) Python
2 270 (9.98%) SQL
3 108 (3.99%) Java
3 108 (3.99%) TypeScript
4 97 (3.59%) JavaScript
5 49 (1.81%) C#
6 38 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 36 (1.33%) Go
8 35 (1.29%) C++
9 34 (1.26%) Bash
10 26 (0.96%) R
11 25 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 22 (0.81%) Apex Code
13 20 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 18 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.63%) Scala
15 17 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.59%) C
17 15 (0.55%) PHP
18 13 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,446 (53.46%) Degree
2 590 (21.81%) Master's Degree
3 571 (21.11%) PhD
4 76 (2.81%) Security Cleared
5 65 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.04%) DBS Check
9 25 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (0.89%) PMP
11 21 (0.78%) ACCA
12 19 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.59%) CISA
14 12 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 11 (0.41%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.37%) CISM
16 10 (0.37%) CISSP
17 7 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 46 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.48%) GDPR
4 29 (1.07%) QA
5 26 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (0.85%) IFRS
7 19 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 18 (0.67%) GAAP
9 17 (0.63%) WCAG
10 12 (0.44%) NIST
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
12 10 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 8 (0.30%) EU AI Act
15 7 (0.26%) NCSC
16 6 (0.22%) JSP 440
17 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.074%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 92 (3.40%) Docker
2 27 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.15%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.074%) Ceph
8 2 (0.074%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.037%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.037%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.037%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (3.40%) Terraform
2 80 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.74%) Ansible
4 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.30%) Grafana
6 8 (0.30%) SCCM
7 4 (0.15%) Argo
8 2 (0.074%) Control-M
8 2 (0.074%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.074%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.074%) Puppet
9 1 (0.037%) Cilium
9 1 (0.037%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.037%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.037%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.037%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,161 (42.92%) PayPal
2 422 (15.60%) Microsoft
3 72 (2.66%) Adobe
4 64 (2.37%) Cisco
5 62 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 60 (2.22%) Google
7 55 (2.03%) Databricks
8 52 (1.92%) Dell
9 51 (1.89%) Oracle
10 45 (1.66%) Blue Prism
11 40 (1.48%) Apple
12 25 (0.92%) HubSpot
12 25 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 21 (0.78%) SAP
14 16 (0.59%) Foundry
15 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.44%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.37%) IBM
17 10 (0.37%) Palantir
18 9 (0.33%) Informatica