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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 56 70
Rank change year-on-year +52 +14 +36
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,766 836 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.47% 5.23% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.18% 5.53% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 924 487 758
10th Percentile £22,491 £45,000 £39,741
25th Percentile £44,688 £60,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -8.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £90,411 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,750 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +8.21% -

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 13,709 15,109 25,560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.58% 94.52% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,711 8,865 21,104
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £58,885
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +6.61% -5.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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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 3 February 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 47 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.01%) Confluence
3 25 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.69%) CMS
6 17 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.47%) JBoss
8 13 (0.47%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.25%) WordPress
10 6 (0.22%) Apache
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 5 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.11%) Luigi
13 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.072%) Mendix
13 2 (0.072%) SAS
13 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.036%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,181 (42.70%) Chatbot
2 76 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.14%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.14%) UserZoom
6 3 (0.11%) Notion
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.072%) InDesign
7 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.072%) Weka
8 1 (0.036%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.072%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.036%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 501 (18.11%) Azure
2 298 (10.77%) AWS
3 219 (7.92%) SaaS
4 190 (6.87%) Power Platform
5 156 (5.64%) GCP
6 148 (5.35%) GitHub
7 121 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
9 78 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 50 (1.81%) Serverless
12 47 (1.70%) Entra ID
13 42 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 37 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
15 32 (1.16%) Adobe Analytics
15 32 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 31 (1.12%) Azure AI
16 31 (1.12%) dbt
17 29 (1.05%) Power Automate
18 27 (0.98%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.92%) Broadband
2 14 (0.51%) Firewall
3 13 (0.47%) HTTP
4 11 (0.40%) Unified Communications
5 10 (0.36%) Network Security
6 7 (0.25%) DMZ
6 7 (0.25%) Internet
6 7 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.22%) DHCP
7 6 (0.22%) InfiniBand
7 6 (0.22%) RTP
7 6 (0.22%) VoIP
7 6 (0.22%) VPN
8 5 (0.18%) DNS
9 4 (0.14%) Intranet
9 4 (0.14%) WAN
10 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.11%) DSL
10 3 (0.11%) IPv4
10 3 (0.11%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (3.69%) Power BI
2 77 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (1.99%) Tableau
4 39 (1.41%) NoSQL
5 37 (1.34%) Big Data
5 37 (1.34%) Metadata
5 37 (1.34%) MongoDB
5 37 (1.34%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 25 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 24 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (0.69%) MySQL
11 17 (0.61%) Looker
12 16 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.43%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (2.53%) JIRA
2 53 (1.92%) Git
3 21 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
5 15 (0.54%) MLflow
6 14 (0.51%) GitLab
7 9 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.29%) Subversion
8 8 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.22%) ERwin
9 6 (0.22%) Selenium
10 5 (0.18%) GitBook
10 5 (0.18%) Storybook
11 4 (0.14%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.11%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 625 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
2 499 (18.04%) Social Skills
3 467 (16.88%) Finance
4 317 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 182 (6.58%) Marketing
6 161 (5.82%) Public Sector
7 117 (4.23%) Retail
8 110 (3.98%) Legal
9 96 (3.47%) Law
10 50 (1.81%) Games
10 50 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.16%) Banking
14 31 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.83%) Aerospace
17 16 (0.58%) Advertising
17 16 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,161 (41.97%) Trainer
2 276 (9.98%) Senior
3 211 (7.63%) Developer
4 155 (5.60%) Content Editor
5 152 (5.50%) Lead
6 115 (4.16%) Architect
7 98 (3.54%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.54%) Support Specialist
8 86 (3.11%) Analyst
9 78 (2.82%) Research Scientist
10 75 (2.71%) Consultant
11 67 (2.42%) Software Engineer
12 62 (2.24%) Data Engineer
13 53 (1.92%) Sales Executive
14 52 (1.88%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (1.66%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 45 (1.63%) Microsoft Specialist
17 42 (1.52%) .NET Developer
17 42 (1.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 41 (1.48%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (3.43%) React
2 93 (3.36%) .NET
3 84 (3.04%) REST
4 65 (2.35%) Node.js
5 61 (2.21%) RESTful
6 41 (1.48%) Kafka
6 41 (1.48%) PyTorch
7 39 (1.41%) SOAP
8 38 (1.37%) TensorFlow
9 37 (1.34%) OAuth
10 35 (1.27%) OAuth2
10 35 (1.27%) Spring
11 26 (0.94%) AngularJS
11 26 (0.94%) CSS
12 24 (0.87%) gRPC
12 24 (0.87%) HTML
13 23 (0.83%) Middleware
13 23 (0.83%) Vue
14 22 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 22 (0.80%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 139 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 111 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 108 (3.90%) Blog
4 97 (3.51%) Molecular Biology
5 66 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 50 (1.81%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (1.45%) Social Media
10 39 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 38 (1.37%) Low-Code
11 38 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
13 32 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (0.83%) Management Information System
16 23 (0.83%) Social Network
17 20 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.37%) Android
2 31 (1.12%) Windows
3 29 (1.05%) Linux
4 23 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.036%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (43.13%) Conversational UI
2 402 (14.53%) Agile
3 393 (14.21%) Chemistry
4 333 (12.04%) Analytics
5 311 (11.24%) Roadmaps
6 297 (10.74%) Machine Learning
7 283 (10.23%) CI/CD
8 275 (9.94%) DevOps
9 255 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
11 210 (7.59%) Content Writing
12 208 (7.52%) Software Engineering
13 193 (6.98%) Customer Service
14 180 (6.51%) Customer Experience
15 169 (6.11%) Mentoring
16 164 (5.93%) Coaching
17 163 (5.89%) Decision-Making
18 133 (4.81%) Business Intelligence
19 129 (4.66%) Data Modelling
19 129 (4.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 348 (12.58%) Python
2 263 (9.51%) SQL
3 114 (4.12%) Java
4 111 (4.01%) TypeScript
5 104 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 55 (1.99%) C#
7 42 (1.52%) Go
8 38 (1.37%) Bash
8 38 (1.37%) C++
9 37 (1.34%) PowerShell
10 23 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 23 (0.83%) R
11 22 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 19 (0.69%) PHP
12 19 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 18 (0.65%) C
14 17 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.58%) Scala
16 11 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,439 (52.02%) Degree
2 587 (21.22%) Master's Degree
3 572 (20.68%) PhD
4 78 (2.82%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 25 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.87%) PMP
11 23 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.76%) ACCA
13 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.58%) CISA
15 14 (0.51%) CISSP
16 13 (0.47%) DV Cleared
17 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 10 (0.36%) CISM
19 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
20 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 46 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 41 (1.48%) GDPR
4 32 (1.16%) QA
5 31 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.87%) IFRS
7 20 (0.72%) WCAG
8 18 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.58%) GAAP
10 14 (0.51%) GRC
11 13 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.43%) NIST
13 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 9 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.29%) NCSC
15 7 (0.25%) EU AI Act
15 7 (0.25%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.18%) PMO
17 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 97 (3.51%) Docker
2 32 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.072%) Ceph
9 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (3.33%) Terraform
2 82 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (0.76%) Ansible
4 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.36%) Grafana
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 6 (0.22%) Argo
9 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.11%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.072%) Control-M
10 2 (0.072%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.072%) Puppet
11 1 (0.036%) Cilium
11 1 (0.036%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.036%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,161 (41.97%) PayPal
2 425 (15.37%) Microsoft
3 83 (3.00%) Adobe
4 63 (2.28%) Google
5 60 (2.17%) Cisco
6 58 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.06%) Databricks
8 52 (1.88%) Dell
9 51 (1.84%) Oracle
10 45 (1.63%) Blue Prism
11 31 (1.12%) Apple
12 27 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 20 (0.72%) SAP
14 19 (0.69%) HubSpot
15 15 (0.54%) Foundry
16 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.47%) Palantir
17 10 (0.36%) IBM
18 9 (0.33%) Informatica
18 9 (0.33%) VMware