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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +54 +18
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,277 3,692 975
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 13.15% 22.34% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.31% 23.81% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,048 700 522
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,438 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,752 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,250 £108,198
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 20,087 15,504 18,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.59% 93.81% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,255 8,362 11,176
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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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 12 October 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
1 103 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.62%) Confluence
3 33 (1.01%) CMS
4 32 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (0.85%) Apache
6 22 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.37%) WordPress
9 11 (0.34%) SAS
10 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.092%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.092%) nginx
14 2 (0.061%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.061%) IIS
15 1 (0.031%) JBoss
15 1 (0.031%) WebLogic
Applications
1 83 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.68%) Chatbot
3 34 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.52%) UserZoom
6 15 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.43%) InDesign
8 13 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
8 13 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 11 (0.34%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.21%) Moqups
11 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
12 4 (0.12%) Notion
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Trello
13 3 (0.092%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.092%) Productboard
13 3 (0.092%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 42 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
3 19 (0.58%) Cloudability
4 14 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.15%) SAP PSCD
7 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.12%) Primavera
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
7 4 (0.12%) Shopify
8 3 (0.092%) FastStats
8 3 (0.092%) FastStats PeopleStage
8 3 (0.092%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.061%) Maximo
10 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
10 1 (0.031%) Actimize
10 1 (0.031%) HFM
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.031%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 891 (27.19%) Azure
2 644 (19.65%) AWS
3 317 (9.67%) SaaS
4 312 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 289 (8.82%) GCP
6 260 (7.93%) GitHub
7 200 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
8 199 (6.07%) Azure AI
9 166 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
10 155 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
11 153 (4.67%) GitHub Copilot
12 145 (4.42%) Anthropic Claude
13 122 (3.72%) Snowflake
14 114 (3.48%) Entra ID
15 112 (3.42%) Serverless
16 82 (2.50%) Power Automate
17 81 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
18 69 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
19 61 (1.86%) Figma
20 57 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 125 (3.81%) Broadband
2 38 (1.16%) Internet
3 34 (1.04%) VPN
4 32 (0.98%) Network Security
5 31 (0.95%) Firewall
6 26 (0.79%) 5G
7 24 (0.73%) DNS
8 14 (0.43%) DHCP
9 13 (0.40%) HTTP
9 13 (0.40%) VoIP
10 11 (0.34%) CTI
11 9 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.24%) WAN
12 8 (0.24%) WPA
13 7 (0.21%) Wireless
14 6 (0.18%) DMZ
14 6 (0.18%) TCP/IP
15 5 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.15%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (6.29%) Power BI
2 200 (6.10%) MongoDB
3 162 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 111 (3.39%) Metadata
4 111 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 84 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 84 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 57 (1.74%) Big Data
6 57 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 56 (1.71%) Tableau
8 45 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 43 (1.31%) BigQuery
10 41 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 37 (1.13%) Redis
12 36 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
13 34 (1.04%) Delta Lake
14 29 (0.88%) MySQL
15 25 (0.76%) Looker
16 23 (0.70%) DynamoDB
17 21 (0.64%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 126 (3.84%) Git
2 101 (3.08%) Claude Code
3 90 (2.75%) JIRA
4 43 (1.31%) GitLab
5 42 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 20 (0.61%) MLflow
6 20 (0.61%) Snyk
7 17 (0.52%) Selenium
8 16 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.46%) Postman
10 14 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 10 (0.31%) Maven
12 10 (0.31%) Mockito
13 6 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
14 5 (0.15%) Burp Suite
14 5 (0.15%) Metasploit
14 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,047 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 797 (24.32%) Finance
3 471 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
4 390 (11.90%) Marketing
5 369 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 237 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 233 (7.11%) Legal
8 166 (5.07%) Banking
9 156 (4.76%) Law
10 127 (3.88%) Retail
11 124 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
12 119 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
13 109 (3.33%) Games
14 74 (2.26%) Advertising
15 56 (1.71%) Manufacturing
16 48 (1.46%) Telecoms
17 38 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
18 32 (0.98%) Front Office
19 31 (0.95%) Legal Technology
20 30 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 606 (18.49%) Senior
2 446 (13.61%) Developer
3 360 (10.99%) Lead
4 345 (10.53%) Architect
5 302 (9.22%) Software Engineer
6 171 (5.22%) Analyst
7 162 (4.94%) .NET Developer
8 160 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 144 (4.39%) Consultant
10 108 (3.30%) Python Engineer
11 102 (3.11%) Data Engineer
12 100 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
13 87 (2.65%) Senior Manager
14 81 (2.47%) Data Scientist
14 81 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 74 (2.26%) Senior Developer
16 64 (1.95%) Enterprise Architect
16 64 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
17 63 (1.92%) Data Architect
18 61 (1.86%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (8.73%) React
2 267 (8.15%) .NET
3 187 (5.71%) Terraform
4 165 (5.04%) Node.js
5 160 (4.88%) ASP.NET
6 158 (4.82%) RESTful
7 156 (4.76%) .NET Core
8 151 (4.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 148 (4.52%) ML.NET
10 137 (4.18%) CSS
11 129 (3.94%) REST
12 128 (3.91%) HTML
13 116 (3.54%) LangChain
14 110 (3.36%) Blazor
15 74 (2.26%) LangGraph
16 71 (2.17%) Next.js
17 58 (1.77%) PySpark
18 57 (1.74%) Vue
19 56 (1.71%) PyTorch
20 48 (1.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 306 (9.34%) AI Agents
2 277 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 134 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 133 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 115 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 105 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 102 (3.11%) Social Media
8 101 (3.08%) Blog
9 89 (2.72%) Onboarding
10 87 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
11 73 (2.23%) Low-Code
12 68 (2.08%) Algorithms
13 62 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
14 61 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
15 58 (1.77%) Hedge funds
16 53 (1.62%) Data Centre
17 52 (1.59%) Virtual Team
18 50 (1.53%) Mobile App
19 45 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
20 43 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 86 (2.62%) Windows
2 76 (2.32%) Linux
3 39 (1.19%) Android
4 25 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 22 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.55%) macOS
7 12 (0.37%) VMS
8 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.24%) Unix
9 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.092%) Debian
10 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.092%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.061%) AIX
11 2 (0.061%) Solaris
11 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.031%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (22.40%) Machine Learning
2 685 (20.90%) Analytics
3 680 (20.75%) Agile
4 659 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 628 (19.16%) CI/CD
6 594 (18.13%) Software Engineering
7 531 (16.20%) Roadmaps
8 523 (15.96%) Mentoring
9 493 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
10 475 (14.49%) Decision-Making
11 443 (13.52%) LLM
12 437 (13.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 398 (12.15%) DevOps
14 370 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 356 (10.86%) Coaching
16 353 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
17 348 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 289 (8.82%) Data Science
19 278 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
20 264 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 810 (24.72%) Python
2 567 (17.30%) SQL
3 322 (9.83%) C#
4 303 (9.25%) JavaScript
5 255 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 159 (4.85%) Java
7 84 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 76 (2.32%) C++
9 62 (1.89%) Go
10 53 (1.62%) Bash
11 50 (1.53%) R
12 44 (1.34%) Bicep
13 34 (1.04%) Scala
14 25 (0.76%) Rust
15 24 (0.73%) C
15 24 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.73%) PHP
16 20 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
17 19 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 279 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 273 (8.33%) Degree
3 210 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 83 (2.53%) CISSP
5 76 (2.32%) CISM
6 70 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 69 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 65 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 56 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.65%) A+ Certification
10 54 (1.65%) Network+ Certification
11 44 (1.34%) ACCA
12 43 (1.31%) DBS Check
13 35 (1.07%) CIMA
14 29 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 21 (0.64%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.64%) PhD
16 20 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.55%) SnowPro
18 17 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 158 (4.82%) GDPR
4 132 (4.03%) QA
5 75 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (1.80%) GRC
7 55 (1.68%) NIST
8 33 (1.01%) SLA
9 26 (0.79%) WCAG
10 22 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 20 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.55%) PMO
13 16 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 15 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 10 (0.31%) IFRS
17 10 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 8 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 262 (8.00%) Docker
2 103 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 31 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.40%) vSphere
8 12 (0.37%) Firmware
9 3 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.092%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.061%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.061%) NFS
11 1 (0.031%) HDFS
11 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 225 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (1.22%) Grafana
4 18 (0.55%) Ansible
4 18 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.15%) Istio
6 5 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 5 (0.15%) Nmap
7 4 (0.12%) Argo
7 4 (0.12%) Kibana
8 3 (0.092%) linkerd
8 3 (0.092%) Puppet
9 2 (0.061%) Cilium
9 2 (0.061%) Podman
10 1 (0.031%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.031%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.031%) Opsview
Vendors
1 794 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 200 (6.10%) Google
3 142 (4.33%) Databricks
4 134 (4.09%) YouTube
5 113 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 100 (3.05%) Adobe
7 78 (2.38%) Cisco
8 60 (1.83%) Apple
8 60 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.68%) CyberArk
11 54 (1.65%) SAP
12 45 (1.37%) HubSpot
13 44 (1.34%) Dell
13 44 (1.34%) Foundry
14 39 (1.19%) Oracle
15 35 (1.07%) Facebook
16 32 (0.98%) VMware
17 24 (0.73%) Sage
18 23 (0.70%) Palo Alto