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

 6 months to
31 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 +58 +19
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,126 2,226 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.08% 14.90% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.39% 15.72% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 671 885
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £34,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,056 £66,206 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +4.26% -9.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -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 15,882 14,159 29,959
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.77% 89.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,378 8,323 23,497
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,250 £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% -9.69%

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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 31 May 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 50 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.83%) Confluence
3 38 (1.79%) CMS
4 22 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.56%) Apache
7 10 (0.47%) SAS
7 10 (0.47%) WordPress
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.19%) JBoss
9 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.094%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.047%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.047%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.047%) Umbraco
Applications
1 38 (1.79%) UserZoom
2 36 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.33%) InDesign
8 7 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
9 5 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) CapCut
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.14%) Productboard
11 3 (0.14%) Trello
12 2 (0.094%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.047%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.13%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.094%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.047%) HFM
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 573 (26.95%) Azure
2 406 (19.10%) AWS
3 224 (10.54%) SaaS
4 191 (8.98%) Adobe Analytics
5 189 (8.89%) GCP
6 147 (6.91%) Power Platform
7 139 (6.54%) Azure AI
8 125 (5.88%) GitHub
9 118 (5.55%) Figma
10 92 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (4.28%) Azure Machine Learning
12 86 (4.05%) Serverless
13 85 (4.00%) Snowflake
14 80 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
15 76 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
16 69 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 63 (2.96%) Contentsquare
18 50 (2.35%) Anthropic Claude
19 49 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
20 36 (1.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 311 (14.63%) Broadband
2 25 (1.18%) Firewall
3 16 (0.75%) HTTP
4 13 (0.61%) VPN
5 12 (0.56%) DNS
6 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
7 9 (0.42%) Network Security
8 8 (0.38%) DHCP
8 8 (0.38%) Internet
9 6 (0.28%) 5G
9 6 (0.28%) DMZ
9 6 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (0.19%) Modbus
10 4 (0.19%) RTP
10 4 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.19%) VoIP
10 4 (0.19%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.14%) Wireless
11 3 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.17%) MongoDB
2 91 (4.28%) SQL Server
3 86 (4.05%) Power BI
4 71 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 66 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
6 57 (2.68%) Metadata
7 45 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (2.07%) Tableau
9 42 (1.98%) Big Data
10 30 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 28 (1.32%) NoSQL
12 24 (1.13%) Data Lake
12 24 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
13 23 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (0.94%) Redis
15 18 (0.85%) Looker
15 18 (0.85%) Relational Database
16 16 (0.75%) MySQL
17 14 (0.66%) Delta Lake
17 14 (0.66%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 59 (2.78%) Git
2 36 (1.69%) Claude Code
3 33 (1.55%) JIRA
4 30 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.18%) Snyk
6 23 (1.08%) MLflow
7 15 (0.71%) GitLab
8 10 (0.47%) Selenium
8 10 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.33%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.28%) Maven
11 6 (0.28%) Storybook
11 6 (0.28%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.24%) JUnit
12 5 (0.24%) Mockito
12 5 (0.24%) Postman
12 5 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
14 3 (0.14%) Appium
General
1 503 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 426 (20.04%) Finance
3 271 (12.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 264 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
5 256 (12.04%) Games
6 217 (10.21%) Marketing
7 145 (6.82%) Legal
8 141 (6.63%) Public Sector
9 124 (5.83%) Law
10 77 (3.62%) Retail
11 58 (2.73%) Banking
12 53 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.83%) Automotive
15 28 (1.32%) Advertising
16 27 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
17 25 (1.18%) Manufacturing
18 22 (1.03%) Telecoms
19 11 (0.52%) Back Office
20 9 (0.42%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 425 (19.99%) Senior
2 328 (15.43%) Lead
3 238 (11.19%) Developer
4 188 (8.84%) Architect
5 127 (5.97%) Software Engineer
6 97 (4.56%) Analyst
7 88 (4.14%) Engineering Manager
8 87 (4.09%) Consultant
9 83 (3.90%) Designer
10 78 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 75 (3.53%) Data Engineer
12 74 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (3.06%) .NET Developer
14 64 (3.01%) Product Manager
15 61 (2.87%) Data Scientist
16 56 (2.63%) Data Manager
17 54 (2.54%) Python Engineer
18 52 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
19 51 (2.40%) Senior Architect
20 49 (2.30%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (7.67%) React
2 121 (5.69%) .NET
3 106 (4.99%) RESTful
4 91 (4.28%) Node.js
5 85 (4.00%) REST
6 80 (3.76%) CSS
7 73 (3.43%) HTML
8 68 (3.20%) .NET Core
9 60 (2.82%) ASP.NET
9 60 (2.82%) ASP.NET Core
9 60 (2.82%) PyTorch
10 59 (2.78%) ML.NET
11 53 (2.49%) TensorFlow
12 50 (2.35%) Blazor
13 47 (2.21%) LangChain
14 38 (1.79%) FastAPI
15 35 (1.65%) Next.js
16 34 (1.60%) Spring
16 34 (1.60%) Vue
17 32 (1.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 212 (9.97%) Social Media
2 168 (7.90%) Cloud Native
3 129 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 95 (4.47%) AI Agents
5 88 (4.14%) Onboarding
6 54 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (2.40%) Low-Code
8 49 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 49 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 47 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 47 (2.21%) Video\Live Streaming
10 44 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.93%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.46%) Blog
13 28 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 27 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.27%) Social Network
15 26 (1.22%) Management Information System
16 21 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.07%) Android
2 30 (1.41%) Linux
3 27 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.22%) Windows
5 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.19%) Unix
7 3 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (28.50%) Agile
2 559 (26.29%) Analytics
3 557 (26.20%) Roadmaps
4 507 (23.85%) Machine Learning
5 403 (18.96%) CI/CD
6 319 (15.00%) Customer Experience
7 298 (14.02%) Software Engineering
8 290 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 277 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 266 (12.51%) Decision-Making
11 265 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
12 249 (11.71%) DevOps
12 249 (11.71%) LLM
13 242 (11.38%) Product Roadmap
14 223 (10.49%) Full-Stack Development
15 220 (10.35%) Generative AI
15 220 (10.35%) Storytelling
16 199 (9.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 185 (8.70%) Digital Customer Experience
18 183 (8.61%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 480 (22.58%) Python
2 321 (15.10%) SQL
3 139 (6.54%) C#
4 131 (6.16%) JavaScript
5 124 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 114 (5.36%) Java
7 62 (2.92%) Go
8 35 (1.65%) Bash
9 32 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 28 (1.32%) C++
11 23 (1.08%) R
12 20 (0.94%) Bicep
13 18 (0.85%) Scala
14 15 (0.71%) PHP
15 10 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.42%) C
16 9 (0.42%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.42%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.38%) Rust
17 8 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (8.51%) Degree
2 95 (4.47%) Security Cleared
3 59 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.45%) AWS Certification
5 51 (2.40%) ACCA
6 33 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 33 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 30 (1.41%) CIMA
8 30 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (1.13%) PhD
10 19 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.61%) CISSP
12 8 (0.38%) CISA
12 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (13.41%) Accessibility
2 94 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 74 (3.48%) WCAG
4 63 (2.96%) QA
5 58 (2.73%) GDPR
6 54 (2.54%) GRC
7 24 (1.13%) IFRS
7 24 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.03%) NIST
9 14 (0.66%) PMO
10 13 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.56%) SLA
12 9 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (0.33%) NCSC
14 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
17 3 (0.14%) GxP
System Software
1 145 (6.82%) Docker
2 89 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.14%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 79 (3.72%) Terraform
3 19 (0.89%) Ansible
4 14 (0.66%) Grafana
5 13 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.33%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.28%) Argo
10 3 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.094%) Podman
11 2 (0.094%) Salt
12 1 (0.047%) CASB
12 1 (0.047%) Istio
12 1 (0.047%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.047%) linkerd
12 1 (0.047%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 471 (22.15%) Microsoft
2 269 (12.65%) Adobe
3 124 (5.83%) Databricks
4 90 (4.23%) Google
5 59 (2.78%) Apple
6 57 (2.68%) OpenAI
7 54 (2.54%) Cisco
7 54 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 49 (2.30%) Dell
9 47 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (1.27%) HubSpot
11 27 (1.27%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.22%) Oracle
12 26 (1.22%) Tenable
13 21 (0.99%) Foundry
14 19 (0.89%) SAP
15 12 (0.56%) Facebook
15 12 (0.56%) Palantir
16 11 (0.52%) VMware
1,672 hybrid/remote AI jobs