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

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +60 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,304 2,459 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.47% 15.93% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.01% 16.86% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,401 685 902
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £29,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £66,200 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% +4.25% -15.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,274 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -5.32% -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 16,449 14,587 30,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 94.52% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,886 8,474 23,847
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 19 June 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 54 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.61%) CMS
2 37 (1.61%) Confluence
3 21 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.56%) Apache
5 12 (0.52%) WordPress
6 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.43%) SAS
7 4 (0.17%) JBoss
7 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.087%) Camunda
9 2 (0.087%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.087%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.043%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 45 (1.95%) UserZoom
2 28 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.74%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
6 12 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 12 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.43%) InDesign
7 10 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.17%) CapCut
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.13%) Productboard
10 3 (0.13%) Sketch
10 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.13%) Trello
11 2 (0.087%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.043%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.17%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.087%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.043%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.043%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.043%) HFM
6 1 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.043%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.043%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 643 (27.91%) Azure
2 428 (18.58%) AWS
3 236 (10.24%) SaaS
4 198 (8.59%) GCP
5 194 (8.42%) Adobe Analytics
6 189 (8.20%) Azure AI
7 166 (7.20%) Power Platform
8 143 (6.21%) GitHub
9 123 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (4.86%) Figma
11 93 (4.04%) GitHub Copilot
11 93 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
12 91 (3.95%) Serverless
12 91 (3.95%) Snowflake
13 89 (3.86%) Azure Machine Learning
14 73 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 70 (3.04%) Contentsquare
16 67 (2.91%) Anthropic Claude
17 66 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
18 36 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 338 (14.67%) Broadband
2 26 (1.13%) Firewall
3 22 (0.95%) VPN
4 19 (0.82%) Internet
5 14 (0.61%) HTTP
6 12 (0.52%) DNS
7 10 (0.43%) Unified Communications
8 9 (0.39%) Network Security
9 8 (0.35%) DHCP
10 6 (0.26%) 5G
10 6 (0.26%) DMZ
11 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.22%) VoIP
11 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.22%) WPA
12 4 (0.17%) RTP
12 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.13%) Wireless
13 3 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (7.16%) MongoDB
2 120 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 103 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 95 (4.12%) Power BI
5 78 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (2.95%) Metadata
7 52 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (2.00%) Tableau
9 41 (1.78%) Big Data
10 34 (1.48%) BigQuery
11 32 (1.39%) NoSQL
12 30 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
13 25 (1.09%) Redis
14 24 (1.04%) Data Lake
15 22 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 22 (0.95%) Relational Database
16 20 (0.87%) Delta Lake
17 19 (0.82%) MySQL
18 16 (0.69%) Looker
19 15 (0.65%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 71 (3.08%) Git
2 43 (1.87%) Claude Code
3 36 (1.56%) JIRA
4 33 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.09%) Snyk
6 19 (0.82%) MLflow
7 18 (0.78%) GitLab
8 10 (0.43%) Selenium
9 9 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.30%) Postman
12 6 (0.26%) Maven
12 6 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.22%) JUnit
13 5 (0.22%) Mockito
13 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.22%) WebDriver
14 3 (0.13%) Appium
15 2 (0.087%) JMeter
15 2 (0.087%) NUnit
General
1 560 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 437 (18.97%) Finance
3 276 (11.98%) Games
4 270 (11.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 261 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
6 243 (10.55%) Marketing
7 136 (5.90%) Legal
8 133 (5.77%) Public Sector
9 121 (5.25%) Law
10 80 (3.47%) Retail
11 68 (2.95%) Banking
12 63 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (1.82%) Advertising
15 39 (1.69%) Automotive
15 39 (1.69%) Legal Technology
16 28 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (1.09%) Manufacturing
18 16 (0.69%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 440 (19.10%) Senior
2 366 (15.89%) Lead
3 312 (13.54%) Developer
4 210 (9.11%) Architect
5 139 (6.03%) Software Engineer
6 113 (4.90%) .NET Developer
7 100 (4.34%) Analyst
7 100 (4.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 97 (4.21%) Engineering Manager
9 91 (3.95%) Consultant
10 85 (3.69%) Designer
11 78 (3.39%) Data Engineer
12 76 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (2.82%) Python Engineer
14 63 (2.73%) Data Scientist
15 62 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
16 61 (2.65%) Product Manager
17 58 (2.52%) Data Manager
18 54 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
19 53 (2.30%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (8.42%) React
2 178 (7.73%) .NET
3 133 (5.77%) RESTful
4 113 (4.90%) .NET Core
5 109 (4.73%) ASP.NET
5 109 (4.73%) CSS
6 106 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
7 104 (4.51%) ML.NET
8 102 (4.43%) HTML
9 93 (4.04%) Node.js
10 83 (3.60%) Blazor
11 79 (3.43%) REST
12 66 (2.86%) PyTorch
13 63 (2.73%) LangChain
14 56 (2.43%) TensorFlow
15 44 (1.91%) FastAPI
16 41 (1.78%) Vue
17 38 (1.65%) Next.js
18 32 (1.39%) Spring
19 27 (1.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 229 (9.94%) Social Media
2 213 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 134 (5.82%) Product Ownership
4 125 (5.43%) AI Agents
5 78 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 61 (2.65%) Low-Code
8 58 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
9 56 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
10 54 (2.34%) Algorithms
11 50 (2.17%) Virtual Team
12 48 (2.08%) Mobile App
13 41 (1.78%) Data Centre
14 36 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.56%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 30 (1.30%) Social Network
16 29 (1.26%) Security Posture
17 27 (1.17%) Podcast
18 24 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.91%) Android
2 39 (1.69%) Windows
3 36 (1.56%) Linux
4 27 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.30%) VMS
7 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.087%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (28.95%) Agile
2 596 (25.87%) Roadmaps
3 582 (25.26%) Analytics
4 580 (25.17%) Machine Learning
5 472 (20.49%) CI/CD
6 349 (15.15%) Software Engineering
7 331 (14.37%) Customer Experience
8 318 (13.80%) Mentoring
9 312 (13.54%) Decision-Making
10 299 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 292 (12.67%) LLM
12 289 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 286 (12.41%) DevOps
14 274 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
15 244 (10.59%) Generative AI
16 242 (10.50%) Product Roadmap
17 221 (9.59%) Storytelling
18 211 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
19 204 (8.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 198 (8.59%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 548 (23.78%) Python
2 384 (16.67%) SQL
3 199 (8.64%) C#
4 179 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 142 (6.16%) TypeScript
6 112 (4.86%) Java
7 68 (2.95%) Go
8 44 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.87%) Bash
10 33 (1.43%) Bicep
11 29 (1.26%) C++
12 22 (0.95%) Scala
13 21 (0.91%) R
14 15 (0.65%) PHP
15 13 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.39%) C
18 7 (0.30%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.30%) Ruby
18 7 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (7.81%) Degree
2 98 (4.25%) Security Cleared
3 61 (2.65%) SC Cleared
4 53 (2.30%) ACCA
5 43 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 41 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 35 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (1.35%) CIMA
8 31 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.17%) PhD
10 26 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.52%) CISSP
13 10 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.26%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (12.37%) Accessibility
2 121 (5.25%) Data Quality
3 76 (3.30%) GDPR
4 72 (3.13%) WCAG
5 67 (2.91%) QA
6 54 (2.34%) GRC
7 31 (1.35%) NIST
8 29 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.04%) IFRS
10 22 (0.95%) SLA
11 14 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.61%) PMO
12 13 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.30%) NCSC
15 6 (0.26%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 165 (7.16%) Docker
2 91 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.30%) vSphere
7 4 (0.17%) Firmware
7 4 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 144 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.30%) Terraform
3 19 (0.82%) Ansible
4 17 (0.74%) Grafana
5 16 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.39%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.30%) Argo
8 7 (0.30%) Proxmox
8 7 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.17%) Puppet
10 3 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.087%) linkerd
11 2 (0.087%) Podman
11 2 (0.087%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.087%) Salt
12 1 (0.043%) CASB
12 1 (0.043%) Cilium
12 1 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.043%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 524 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 258 (11.20%) Adobe
3 132 (5.73%) Databricks
4 102 (4.43%) Google
5 69 (2.99%) Cisco
5 69 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 55 (2.39%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.30%) Dell
8 47 (2.04%) Apple
9 46 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
10 31 (1.35%) Foundry
11 27 (1.17%) HubSpot
11 27 (1.17%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.17%) Tenable
12 25 (1.09%) Facebook
13 21 (0.91%) Oracle
14 18 (0.78%) VMware
15 17 (0.74%) SAP
16 12 (0.52%) Sony
1,349 hybrid/remote AI jobs