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

 6 months to
19 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 79
Rank change year-on-year +31 +42 +15
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,395 994 1,141
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 14.21% 7.41% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.73% 7.78% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 924 636 785
10th Percentile £22,491 £25,313 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +5.96% -13.79%
75th Percentile £91,563 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £103,549
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

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 14,314 12,772 27,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.91% 95.24% 92.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 8,783 22,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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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 March 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 40 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.29%) CMS
3 27 (1.13%) Confluence
4 24 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.54%) JBoss
5 13 (0.54%) WebSphere
6 10 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 9 (0.38%) Apache
7 9 (0.38%) WordPress
8 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.17%) SAS
11 2 (0.084%) Camunda
11 2 (0.084%) Mendix
11 2 (0.084%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.042%) Kinematics
Applications
1 759 (31.69%) Chatbot
2 59 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (0.92%) UserZoom
4 12 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (0.17%) CapCut
6 3 (0.13%) Sketch
6 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.084%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.084%) Weka
8 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 12 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.084%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.084%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.084%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.084%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.084%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.042%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.042%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.042%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 440 (18.37%) Azure
2 305 (12.73%) AWS
3 207 (8.64%) SaaS
4 149 (6.22%) GCP
5 148 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 142 (5.93%) GitHub
7 126 (5.26%) Adobe Analytics
8 99 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 92 (3.84%) GitHub Copilot
10 65 (2.71%) Figma
11 63 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
12 53 (2.21%) Serverless
13 47 (1.96%) Snowflake
14 46 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
15 44 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
16 36 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
17 33 (1.38%) Entra ID
18 32 (1.34%) Azure AI
18 32 (1.34%) Contentsquare
19 28 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 193 (8.06%) Broadband
2 16 (0.67%) Firewall
3 13 (0.54%) HTTP
4 11 (0.46%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.29%) Network Security
6 6 (0.25%) DMZ
6 6 (0.25%) RTP
6 6 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.25%) VoIP
6 6 (0.25%) VPN
6 6 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.21%) DHCP
8 4 (0.17%) Modbus
9 3 (0.13%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.13%) DSL
9 3 (0.13%) GPON
9 3 (0.13%) Internet
9 3 (0.13%) IPv4
9 3 (0.13%) IPv6
9 3 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (3.63%) Power BI
2 64 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (1.96%) Metadata
4 46 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 42 (1.75%) Tableau
6 36 (1.50%) Big Data
7 35 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (1.46%) SQL Server
8 32 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 24 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 20 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (0.75%) Looker
14 17 (0.71%) Redis
15 15 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.50%) MySQL
18 11 (0.46%) Delta Lake
19 10 (0.42%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 50 (2.09%) Git
2 47 (1.96%) JIRA
3 23 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.79%) MLflow
5 15 (0.63%) Claude Code
5 15 (0.63%) GitLab
6 12 (0.50%) Selenium
7 11 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.33%) Subversion
9 8 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.25%) ERwin
12 5 (0.21%) GitBook
12 5 (0.21%) Storybook
13 4 (0.17%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.17%) Postman
13 4 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 495 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 459 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
3 401 (16.74%) Finance
4 267 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 173 (7.22%) Marketing
6 165 (6.89%) Public Sector
7 162 (6.76%) Games
8 142 (5.93%) Legal
9 120 (5.01%) Law
10 119 (4.97%) Retail
11 56 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (1.59%) Banking
15 34 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 32 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (0.88%) Automotive
18 16 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (0.54%) Back Office
20 12 (0.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 743 (31.02%) Trainer
2 316 (13.19%) Senior
3 248 (10.35%) Lead
4 185 (7.72%) Developer
5 124 (5.18%) Architect
6 102 (4.26%) Content Editor
7 85 (3.55%) Consultant
8 75 (3.13%) Customer Support Specialist
8 75 (3.13%) Support Specialist
9 71 (2.96%) Software Engineer
10 69 (2.88%) Research Scientist
11 61 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (2.51%) Analyst
13 53 (2.21%) Data Engineer
14 49 (2.05%) Designer
15 45 (1.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 44 (1.84%) Sales Executive
17 43 (1.80%) Corporate Sales Executive
18 39 (1.63%) Lead Developer
19 36 (1.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (4.55%) React
2 88 (3.67%) REST
3 76 (3.17%) .NET
4 69 (2.88%) Node.js
5 67 (2.80%) RESTful
6 48 (2.00%) PyTorch
7 42 (1.75%) CSS
8 41 (1.71%) Kafka
8 41 (1.71%) TensorFlow
9 40 (1.67%) HTML
10 36 (1.50%) SOAP
11 35 (1.46%) OAuth
12 34 (1.42%) Spring
13 29 (1.21%) OAuth2
13 29 (1.21%) Vue
14 26 (1.09%) LangChain
15 23 (0.96%) AngularJS
16 22 (0.92%) GraphQL
16 22 (0.92%) Middleware
16 22 (0.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 134 (5.59%) Cloud Native
2 129 (5.39%) Social Media
3 112 (4.68%) Blog
4 98 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 81 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 73 (3.05%) Molecular Biology
7 57 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 48 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 47 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 38 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.50%) Low-Code
13 35 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
14 28 (1.17%) Social Network
15 26 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
16 25 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
17 21 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
18 20 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
19 18 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (2.25%) Android
2 36 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 32 (1.34%) Linux
4 22 (0.92%) Windows
5 7 (0.29%) Unix
5 7 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.13%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 776 (32.40%) Conversational UI
2 445 (18.58%) Agile
3 436 (18.20%) Analytics
4 377 (15.74%) Roadmaps
5 327 (13.65%) Machine Learning
6 316 (13.19%) CI/CD
7 291 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 280 (11.69%) Customer Experience
9 247 (10.31%) DevOps
10 234 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
11 226 (9.44%) Chemistry
12 214 (8.94%) Decision-Making
13 213 (8.89%) Mentoring
14 204 (8.52%) Software Engineering
15 168 (7.01%) Generative AI
16 156 (6.51%) Storytelling
17 152 (6.35%) Product Roadmap
18 151 (6.30%) LLM
19 143 (5.97%) Project Management
20 142 (5.93%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 340 (14.20%) Python
2 226 (9.44%) SQL
3 116 (4.84%) Java
4 88 (3.67%) TypeScript
5 77 (3.22%) JavaScript
6 67 (2.80%) C#
7 53 (2.21%) Go
8 28 (1.17%) Bash
9 27 (1.13%) C++
10 23 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 20 (0.84%) Apex Code
12 18 (0.75%) PHP
12 18 (0.75%) R
13 16 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (0.67%) PowerShell
14 14 (0.58%) Scala
15 11 (0.46%) Bicep
15 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 987 (41.21%) Degree
2 397 (16.58%) Master's Degree
3 386 (16.12%) PhD
4 53 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (2.17%) Security Cleared
6 38 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.34%) SC Cleared
8 29 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.13%) ACCA
11 25 (1.04%) PMP
12 17 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.50%) CISSP
13 12 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.42%) CISA
15 7 (0.29%) CISM
15 7 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (8.43%) Accessibility
2 52 (2.17%) WCAG
3 46 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 43 (1.80%) QA
5 40 (1.67%) GDPR
6 27 (1.13%) IFRS
7 26 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.88%) GRC
9 17 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.50%) GAAP
10 12 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.46%) NIST
12 8 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.29%) EU AI Act
13 7 (0.29%) PMO
14 6 (0.25%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.25%) NCSC
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 26262
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 103 (4.30%) Docker
2 26 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.13%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.084%) Ceph
6 2 (0.084%) Lustre
6 2 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.084%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 74 (3.09%) Terraform
3 23 (0.96%) Ansible
3 23 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (0.54%) Grafana
4 13 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.25%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.17%) Argo
7 4 (0.17%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.084%) Control-M
8 2 (0.084%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.084%) SCCM
9 1 (0.042%) Puppet
9 1 (0.042%) Salt
Vendors
1 738 (30.81%) PayPal
2 335 (13.99%) Microsoft
3 171 (7.14%) Adobe
4 66 (2.76%) Databricks
5 65 (2.71%) Google
6 52 (2.17%) Dell
7 49 (2.05%) Cisco
8 48 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.59%) Oracle
10 26 (1.09%) Apple
11 24 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.84%) Foundry
13 17 (0.71%) Blue Prism
13 17 (0.71%) SAP
14 14 (0.58%) Palantir
14 14 (0.58%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.54%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.50%) HubSpot
16 12 (0.50%) Informatica
17 11 (0.46%) Instagram
1,326 hybrid/remote AI jobs