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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +58 +17
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,777 2,631 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.67% 15.99% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.28% 17.18% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,742 685 625
10th Percentile £40,533 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £28,750 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £104,500
UK median annual salary £70,752 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.82% -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 18,171 15,314 23,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.92% 93.05% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,195 9,035 17,591
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%

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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 28 July 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 70 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.73%) Confluence
3 40 (1.44%) CMS
4 22 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.72%) Apache
6 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.36%) WordPress
9 9 (0.32%) SAS
10 5 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.14%) Camunda
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.072%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.072%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.072%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.036%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.036%) Moodle
13 1 (0.036%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.036%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.58%) UserZoom
2 33 (1.19%) Chatbot
3 28 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.61%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.47%) InDesign
7 13 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.14%) CapCut
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Productboard
11 3 (0.11%) Sketch
11 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.11%) Trello
12 2 (0.072%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.072%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 37 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.01%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.86%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.14%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.036%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.036%) HFM
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.036%) Shopify
7 1 (0.036%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 825 (29.71%) Azure
2 495 (17.82%) AWS
3 261 (9.40%) SaaS
4 247 (8.89%) Azure AI
5 227 (8.17%) GCP
6 205 (7.38%) Power Platform
7 195 (7.02%) GitHub
8 180 (6.48%) Adobe Analytics
9 168 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
10 123 (4.43%) GitHub Copilot
11 117 (4.21%) Snowflake
12 115 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
13 114 (4.11%) Figma
14 105 (3.78%) Serverless
15 98 (3.53%) Anthropic Claude
16 95 (3.42%) Entra ID
17 88 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
18 85 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
19 82 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 70 (2.52%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 324 (11.67%) Broadband
2 32 (1.15%) Internet
3 29 (1.04%) VPN
4 28 (1.01%) Firewall
5 15 (0.54%) DNS
6 13 (0.47%) HTTP
6 13 (0.47%) VoIP
7 11 (0.40%) CTI
7 11 (0.40%) Network Security
8 9 (0.32%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) WPA
10 7 (0.25%) Wireless
11 6 (0.22%) 5G
11 6 (0.22%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.18%) VLAN
12 5 (0.18%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.14%) DMZ
14 3 (0.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.81%) MongoDB
2 173 (6.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 118 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 116 (4.18%) Power BI
5 94 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (3.02%) Metadata
7 66 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (1.69%) Tableau
9 42 (1.51%) Big Data
10 41 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 38 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
13 31 (1.12%) BigQuery
13 31 (1.12%) Redis
14 28 (1.01%) Delta Lake
15 26 (0.94%) Relational Database
16 22 (0.79%) MySQL
17 19 (0.68%) Pinecone
18 16 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 111 (4.00%) Git
2 59 (2.12%) Claude Code
3 56 (2.02%) JIRA
4 41 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.94%) Snyk
6 23 (0.83%) GitLab
7 18 (0.65%) Selenium
8 16 (0.58%) MLflow
9 11 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.32%) Postman
10 9 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (0.29%) JUnit
11 8 (0.29%) Maven
11 8 (0.29%) Mockito
12 6 (0.22%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.18%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.14%) Appium
14 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.14%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 765 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 558 (20.09%) Finance
3 321 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (11.31%) Marketing
5 300 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 274 (9.87%) Games
7 226 (8.14%) Legal
8 167 (6.01%) Law
9 156 (5.62%) Public Sector
10 101 (3.64%) Retail
11 97 (3.49%) Banking
12 72 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (2.02%) Advertising
15 40 (1.44%) Automotive
16 39 (1.40%) Legal Technology
17 33 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
18 30 (1.08%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.86%) Telecoms
20 16 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 545 (19.63%) Senior
2 396 (14.26%) Developer
3 372 (13.40%) Lead
4 264 (9.51%) Architect
5 196 (7.06%) Software Engineer
6 168 (6.05%) .NET Developer
7 117 (4.21%) Analyst
8 114 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 112 (4.03%) Engineering Manager
10 110 (3.96%) Consultant
11 82 (2.95%) Data Engineer
12 80 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
13 79 (2.84%) Designer
14 76 (2.74%) Data Scientist
15 75 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
15 75 (2.70%) Senior Manager
16 74 (2.66%) Python Engineer
17 70 (2.52%) Senior Developer
18 65 (2.34%) Product Manager
18 65 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (9.22%) React
2 247 (8.89%) .NET
3 166 (5.98%) ASP.NET
4 162 (5.83%) RESTful
5 161 (5.80%) .NET Core
6 157 (5.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 154 (5.55%) ML.NET
8 145 (5.22%) CSS
9 138 (4.97%) HTML
10 120 (4.32%) Node.js
11 114 (4.11%) Blazor
12 99 (3.56%) REST
13 81 (2.92%) LangChain
14 62 (2.23%) Next.js
14 62 (2.23%) PyTorch
15 51 (1.84%) TensorFlow
16 49 (1.76%) Vue
17 48 (1.73%) FastAPI
18 44 (1.58%) LangGraph
19 37 (1.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 242 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 221 (7.96%) Social Media
3 197 (7.09%) AI Agents
4 136 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 108 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
6 80 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 69 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 67 (2.41%) Low-Code
10 64 (2.30%) Blog
11 58 (2.09%) Virtual Team
12 57 (2.05%) Video\Live Streaming
13 56 (2.02%) Mobile App
14 53 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.58%) Data Centre
16 42 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
17 41 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
18 40 (1.44%) Management Information System
19 39 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
19 39 (1.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.20%) Windows
2 53 (1.91%) Android
3 52 (1.87%) Linux
4 26 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.43%) VMS
7 9 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.072%) Unix
11 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (28.38%) Agile
2 716 (25.78%) Machine Learning
3 696 (25.06%) Analytics
4 662 (23.84%) Roadmaps
5 584 (21.03%) CI/CD
6 464 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 451 (16.24%) Mentoring
8 434 (15.63%) Software Engineering
9 415 (14.94%) Decision-Making
10 384 (13.83%) LLM
11 375 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 355 (12.78%) DevOps
13 341 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
14 332 (11.96%) Customer Experience
15 251 (9.04%) Technical Leadership
16 248 (8.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 246 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
18 245 (8.82%) Data Science
19 235 (8.46%) Product Roadmap
20 233 (8.39%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 642 (23.12%) Python
2 497 (17.90%) SQL
3 282 (10.15%) C#
4 250 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 184 (6.63%) TypeScript
6 126 (4.54%) Java
7 60 (2.16%) Go
8 56 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 47 (1.69%) Bash
10 46 (1.66%) Bicep
11 45 (1.62%) C++
12 27 (0.97%) Scala
13 19 (0.68%) R
14 18 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.54%) PHP
16 14 (0.50%) C
16 14 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.32%) T-SQL
19 8 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (7.78%) Degree
2 154 (5.55%) Security Cleared
3 110 (3.96%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.48%) CISSP
5 64 (2.30%) CISM
6 54 (1.94%) A+ Certification
6 54 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
7 53 (1.91%) ACCA
8 47 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 35 (1.26%) CIMA
11 35 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (1.22%) AWS Certification
13 29 (1.04%) PhD
14 27 (0.97%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.68%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.43%) SnowPro
18 11 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (10.73%) Accessibility
2 161 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 99 (3.56%) QA
4 96 (3.46%) GDPR
5 68 (2.45%) WCAG
6 59 (2.12%) GRC
7 40 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.26%) NIST
9 26 (0.94%) SLA
10 20 (0.72%) IFRS
11 14 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.47%) PMO
13 12 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 12 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.18%) EU AI Act
16 5 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 212 (7.63%) Docker
2 93 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 91 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 18 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.43%) vSphere
6 7 (0.25%) Firmware
7 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.036%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.036%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 195 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 129 (4.65%) Terraform
3 73 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.72%) Ansible
4 20 (0.72%) Grafana
5 17 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.22%) Argo
6 6 (0.22%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.18%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.18%) Puppet
8 4 (0.14%) Istio
8 4 (0.14%) Nmap
8 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.11%) linkerd
10 2 (0.072%) Podman
10 2 (0.072%) Salt
11 1 (0.036%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.036%) Nessus
11 1 (0.036%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 699 (25.17%) Microsoft
2 237 (8.53%) Adobe
3 164 (5.91%) Databricks
4 132 (4.75%) Google
5 88 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 79 (2.84%) Cisco
7 65 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 55 (1.98%) CyberArk
9 50 (1.80%) Dell
10 48 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 46 (1.66%) Apple
12 37 (1.33%) Facebook
12 37 (1.33%) Foundry
13 34 (1.22%) HubSpot
14 31 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
15 28 (1.01%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.97%) Oracle
16 27 (0.97%) Tenable
17 23 (0.83%) VMware
18 21 (0.76%) Yahoo!