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

 6 months to
6 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 35 76
Rank change year-on-year +24 +41 +14
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,811 988 1,218
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.64% 7.66% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.76% 8.08% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 655 788
10th Percentile £24,570 £25,000 £37,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,219 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +5.95% -13.79%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +3.57% -3.45%

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 14,197 12,222 28,738
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.45% 94.81% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,911 8,883 23,314
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,375 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -10.57%

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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 6 April 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 39 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.99%) CMS
3 31 (1.71%) Confluence
4 24 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.72%) JBoss
6 13 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.55%) Apache
8 9 (0.50%) WordPress
9 8 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.22%) SAS
12 2 (0.11%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) Mendix
12 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.055%) Kinematics
Applications
1 60 (3.31%) Chatbot
2 56 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.66%) UserZoom
4 21 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.22%) CapCut
7 3 (0.17%) Sketch
7 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.28%) Cloudability
5 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 471 (26.01%) Azure
2 328 (18.11%) AWS
3 215 (11.87%) SaaS
4 160 (8.83%) Adobe Analytics
5 159 (8.78%) GCP
6 140 (7.73%) GitHub
7 133 (7.34%) Power Platform
8 91 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (4.91%) GitHub Copilot
10 79 (4.36%) Figma
10 79 (4.36%) Snowflake
11 75 (4.14%) Azure Machine Learning
12 67 (3.70%) Azure AI
13 65 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 59 (3.26%) Serverless
15 55 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
17 45 (2.48%) Contentsquare
18 38 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
19 32 (1.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 229 (12.64%) Broadband
2 17 (0.94%) Firewall
2 17 (0.94%) HTTP
3 11 (0.61%) Unified Communications
4 7 (0.39%) Network Security
4 7 (0.39%) VPN
5 6 (0.33%) DMZ
5 6 (0.33%) RTP
5 6 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.33%) VoIP
5 6 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.28%) DHCP
7 4 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.17%) DNS
8 3 (0.17%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.17%) DSL
8 3 (0.17%) GPON
8 3 (0.17%) Internet
8 3 (0.17%) PPP
8 3 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.58%) Power BI
2 71 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 58 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (2.82%) Metadata
5 49 (2.71%) MongoDB
6 39 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (2.10%) Tableau
8 35 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (1.77%) NoSQL
10 31 (1.71%) Big Data
11 29 (1.60%) Data Lake
12 23 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.99%) Looker
14 17 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.94%) Redis
15 15 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.66%) Delta Lake
18 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
19 10 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (2.48%) Git
1 45 (2.48%) JIRA
2 21 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.05%) MLflow
4 16 (0.88%) Claude Code
4 16 (0.88%) GitLab
5 12 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.61%) Selenium
7 9 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.44%) Subversion
8 8 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.33%) Snyk
10 6 (0.33%) Storybook
11 5 (0.28%) ERwin
11 5 (0.28%) GitBook
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
12 3 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 492 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 445 (24.57%) Finance
3 281 (15.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 275 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (10.88%) Games
6 185 (10.22%) Marketing
7 163 (9.00%) Public Sector
8 154 (8.50%) Legal
9 132 (7.29%) Law
10 83 (4.58%) Retail
11 59 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (2.93%) Banking
13 51 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.66%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.16%) Automotive
18 13 (0.72%) Back Office
19 12 (0.66%) Advertising
19 12 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 327 (18.06%) Senior
2 274 (15.13%) Lead
3 170 (9.39%) Developer
4 148 (8.17%) Architect
5 85 (4.69%) Consultant
6 80 (4.42%) Software Engineer
7 65 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
8 64 (3.53%) Analyst
9 60 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
10 59 (3.26%) Designer
11 51 (2.82%) Data Engineer
12 45 (2.48%) Product Manager
13 43 (2.37%) Sales Executive
13 43 (2.37%) Trainer
14 42 (2.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 42 (2.32%) Corporate Sales Executive
14 42 (2.32%) Senior Software Engineer
15 41 (2.26%) Lead Designer
16 36 (1.99%) Digital Designer
16 36 (1.99%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (6.79%) React
2 90 (4.97%) REST
3 73 (4.03%) .NET
4 68 (3.75%) Node.js
4 68 (3.75%) RESTful
5 49 (2.71%) PyTorch
6 47 (2.60%) CSS
7 44 (2.43%) HTML
8 42 (2.32%) TensorFlow
9 40 (2.21%) Kafka
10 34 (1.88%) OAuth
10 34 (1.88%) SOAP
10 34 (1.88%) Spring
11 30 (1.66%) Vue
12 27 (1.49%) LangChain
13 26 (1.44%) OAuth2
14 25 (1.38%) FastAPI
14 25 (1.38%) Next.js
14 25 (1.38%) React Native
15 23 (1.27%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 158 (8.72%) Social Media
2 137 (7.56%) Cloud Native
3 114 (6.29%) Blog
4 100 (5.52%) Product Ownership
5 88 (4.86%) Onboarding
6 55 (3.04%) AI Agents
7 49 (2.71%) Mobile App
7 49 (2.71%) Public Cloud
8 45 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (2.32%) Virtual Team
10 41 (2.26%) Low-Code
11 37 (2.04%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.44%) Social Network
14 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (1.21%) Podcast
16 21 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
17 20 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
18 17 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.82%) Android
2 33 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 28 (1.55%) Linux
4 18 (0.99%) Windows
5 5 (0.28%) Unix
6 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.17%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (28.00%) Agile
2 482 (26.62%) Analytics
3 451 (24.90%) Roadmaps
4 365 (20.15%) Machine Learning
5 321 (17.73%) Customer Experience
6 315 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 295 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 243 (13.42%) Decision-Making
9 242 (13.36%) DevOps
10 237 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
11 222 (12.26%) Mentoring
12 218 (12.04%) Software Engineering
13 196 (10.82%) Product Roadmap
14 192 (10.60%) Storytelling
15 185 (10.22%) Generative AI
16 162 (8.95%) LLM
17 159 (8.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 154 (8.50%) Digital Customer Experience
19 153 (8.45%) User Experience
20 145 (8.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 339 (18.72%) Python
2 249 (13.75%) SQL
3 118 (6.52%) Java
4 92 (5.08%) TypeScript
5 81 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.81%) C#
7 55 (3.04%) Go
8 28 (1.55%) C++
9 23 (1.27%) Bash
10 21 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 18 (0.99%) Apex Code
11 18 (0.99%) R
12 17 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (0.83%) PHP
13 15 (0.83%) Scala
14 12 (0.66%) Bicep
15 9 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.50%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.44%) Rust
16 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 284 (15.68%) Degree
2 56 (3.09%) Security Cleared
3 53 (2.93%) Master's Degree
4 48 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.48%) ACCA
6 44 (2.43%) PhD
7 36 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 35 (1.93%) SC Cleared
9 34 (1.88%) AWS Certification
10 28 (1.55%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.38%) PMP
12 23 (1.27%) CIMA
13 19 (1.05%) DV Cleared
14 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.61%) CISSP
17 8 (0.44%) CISA
17 8 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
18 5 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 5 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (13.20%) Accessibility
2 61 (3.37%) WCAG
3 51 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 41 (2.26%) QA
5 40 (2.21%) GDPR
6 30 (1.66%) GRC
7 27 (1.49%) IFRS
7 27 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.66%) GAAP
9 12 (0.66%) NIST
9 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.55%) PMO
11 9 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 7 (0.39%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.33%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.33%) NCSC
13 6 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 26262
15 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (5.63%) Docker
2 50 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.17%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.11%) Ceph
6 2 (0.11%) Lustre
6 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.055%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.59%) Terraform
3 22 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.05%) Ansible
5 13 (0.72%) Grafana
6 12 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.39%) Proxmox
8 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.28%) Argo
9 5 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) Salt
11 1 (0.055%) Control-M
11 1 (0.055%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 342 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 206 (11.37%) Adobe
3 106 (5.85%) Databricks
4 70 (3.87%) Google
5 49 (2.71%) Dell
6 48 (2.65%) Cisco
7 47 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.15%) PayPal
9 36 (1.99%) Oracle
10 32 (1.77%) Apple
11 28 (1.55%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 19 (1.05%) Foundry
14 18 (0.99%) SAP
15 14 (0.77%) Palantir
16 13 (0.72%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.66%) Informatica
18 11 (0.61%) Hootsuite
18 11 (0.61%) Instagram
18 11 (0.61%) Wrike
1,250 hybrid/remote AI jobs