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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 69 67
Rank change year-on-year +65 -2 +55
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,945 796 933
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 19.26% 4.23% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.38% 4.64% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 852 468 486
10th Percentile £21,510 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £39,377 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £92,813 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,000 £75,250
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.33% +7.50%

All Process and 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 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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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 8 December 2025.

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 41 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 29 (0.98%) Confluence
3 28 (0.95%) CMS
4 22 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.44%) Apache Solr
8 9 (0.31%) Apache
8 9 (0.31%) JBoss
8 9 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.20%) WordPress
10 4 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.10%) Luigi
12 2 (0.068%) Mendix
12 2 (0.068%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.034%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.034%) Camunda
13 1 (0.034%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,495 (50.76%) Chatbot
2 82 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
5 6 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.14%) Sketch
6 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.10%) InDesign
7 3 (0.10%) Notion
7 3 (0.10%) Simulink
8 2 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.068%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.068%) Weka
9 1 (0.034%) Blender
9 1 (0.034%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.034%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.034%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.10%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.068%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.068%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.068%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.068%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.068%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.068%) Shopify
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.034%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.034%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.034%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 431 (14.63%) Azure
2 259 (8.79%) AWS
3 189 (6.42%) Power Platform
4 186 (6.32%) SaaS
5 133 (4.52%) GCP
6 125 (4.24%) GitHub
7 119 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
9 81 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 61 (2.07%) Snowflake
11 45 (1.53%) Entra ID
12 39 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 36 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 35 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (1.19%) dbt
15 31 (1.05%) Power Automate
16 28 (0.95%) Serverless
17 25 (0.85%) Azure AI
17 25 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
18 23 (0.78%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.51%) Broadband
2 12 (0.41%) Internet
3 9 (0.31%) Network Security
4 7 (0.24%) HTTP
4 7 (0.24%) WAN
4 7 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.20%) InfiniBand
6 5 (0.17%) DNS
6 5 (0.17%) VPN
7 4 (0.14%) DHCP
7 4 (0.14%) DMZ
7 4 (0.14%) Firewall
7 4 (0.14%) Intranet
7 4 (0.14%) VoIP
7 4 (0.14%) Wireless
8 3 (0.10%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.10%) DSL
8 3 (0.10%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.10%) LAN
8 3 (0.10%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (3.97%) Power BI
2 75 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (1.70%) Tableau
4 44 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 38 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 36 (1.22%) Big Data
7 35 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 29 (0.98%) Data Lake
8 29 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (0.81%) MySQL
11 20 (0.68%) Metadata
12 18 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (0.58%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 12 (0.41%) Looker
16 10 (0.34%) Redis
17 9 (0.31%) Hadoop
18 8 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 74 (2.51%) JIRA
2 59 (2.00%) Git
3 21 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (0.37%) GitLab
6 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.24%) Subversion
8 6 (0.20%) ERwin
9 5 (0.17%) GitBook
9 5 (0.17%) Selenium
10 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.14%) MLflow
10 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.10%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.068%) JUnit
12 2 (0.068%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.068%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.068%) WebDriver
General
1 739 (25.09%) Analytical Skills
2 510 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 448 (15.21%) Finance
4 325 (11.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (6.86%) Marketing
6 141 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 121 (4.11%) Retail
8 100 (3.40%) Legal
9 86 (2.92%) Law
10 58 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 28 (0.95%) Banking
13 28 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.81%) Games
16 20 (0.68%) Agriculture
16 20 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,475 (50.08%) Trainer
2 201 (6.83%) Senior
3 185 (6.28%) Developer
4 167 (5.67%) Content Editor
5 121 (4.11%) Architect
6 105 (3.57%) Customer Support Specialist
6 105 (3.57%) Support Specialist
7 98 (3.33%) Lead
8 97 (3.29%) Research Scientist
9 88 (2.99%) Analyst
10 65 (2.21%) Consultant
11 63 (2.14%) Microsoft Specialist
12 62 (2.11%) Sales Executive
13 55 (1.87%) Software Engineer
14 51 (1.73%) Corporate Sales Executive
15 49 (1.66%) Data Engineer
16 45 (1.53%) Biostatistician
17 44 (1.49%) Solutions Architect
18 41 (1.39%) Customer Service Representative
19 40 (1.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (2.65%) .NET
1 78 (2.65%) React
2 66 (2.24%) REST
3 51 (1.73%) Node.js
4 45 (1.53%) RESTful
5 42 (1.43%) Kafka
6 31 (1.05%) SOAP
7 28 (0.95%) OAuth
7 28 (0.95%) OAuth2
8 27 (0.92%) Spring
9 26 (0.88%) GraphQL
9 26 (0.88%) Next.js
10 24 (0.81%) gRPC
10 24 (0.81%) HTML
11 22 (0.75%) FastAPI
12 21 (0.71%) Middleware
12 21 (0.71%) PyTorch
12 21 (0.71%) TensorFlow
13 20 (0.68%) CSS
14 19 (0.65%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 130 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 119 (4.04%) Molecular Biology
3 102 (3.46%) Blog
4 100 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 53 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 50 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
8 49 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 38 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 36 (1.22%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.19%) Low-Code
13 34 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 32 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 31 (1.05%) Data Centre
16 24 (0.81%) Management Information System
17 23 (0.78%) Reinsurance
18 22 (0.75%) Social Network
19 19 (0.65%) Mobile App
20 18 (0.61%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.12%) Windows
2 29 (0.98%) Android
2 29 (0.98%) Linux
3 20 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 16 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.14%) Unix
6 3 (0.10%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.034%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.034%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.034%) VMS
7 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,513 (51.38%) Conversational UI
2 525 (17.83%) Chemistry
3 368 (12.50%) Agile
4 299 (10.15%) Analytics
5 286 (9.71%) Roadmaps
6 268 (9.10%) Machine Learning
7 260 (8.83%) DevOps
8 241 (8.18%) CI/CD
9 230 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
10 225 (7.64%) Content Writing
11 220 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 213 (7.23%) Customer Service
13 212 (7.20%) Mathematics
14 181 (6.15%) Software Engineering
15 175 (5.94%) Physics
16 160 (5.43%) Decision-Making
17 158 (5.37%) Computer Science
18 156 (5.30%) Coaching
18 156 (5.30%) Customer Experience
19 146 (4.96%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 312 (10.59%) Python
2 262 (8.90%) SQL
3 97 (3.29%) JavaScript
3 97 (3.29%) TypeScript
4 88 (2.99%) Java
5 42 (1.43%) PowerShell
6 34 (1.15%) C#
7 29 (0.98%) C++
8 28 (0.95%) Bash
9 24 (0.81%) Kotlin
10 21 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (0.65%) R
12 18 (0.61%) Apex Code
12 18 (0.61%) PHP
13 17 (0.58%) Go
14 16 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.54%) Shell Script
15 15 (0.51%) C
15 15 (0.51%) Swift
16 11 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,780 (60.44%) Degree
2 856 (29.07%) Master's Degree
3 834 (28.32%) PhD
4 73 (2.48%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.17%) SC Cleared
6 48 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (0.92%) ACCA
8 26 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 24 (0.81%) PMP
10 15 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.44%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (0.34%) CISA
14 8 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.27%) CISM
14 8 (0.27%) CISSP
14 8 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (1.80%) Accessibility
2 37 (1.26%) Data Quality
2 37 (1.26%) GDPR
3 31 (1.05%) QA
4 24 (0.81%) GAAP
5 22 (0.75%) IFRS
6 20 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.34%) WCAG
9 9 (0.31%) NIST
10 8 (0.27%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 6 (0.20%) GRC
12 6 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.17%) NCSC
14 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 81 (2.75%) Docker
2 22 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.17%) Lustre
5 4 (0.14%) Firmware
6 3 (0.10%) GPFS
6 3 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.068%) Ceph
8 1 (0.034%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (2.72%) Terraform
2 78 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 22 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.65%) Ansible
6 9 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.27%) SCCM
8 5 (0.17%) Grafana
9 3 (0.10%) Argo
10 2 (0.068%) Control-M
10 2 (0.068%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.068%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.068%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.068%) Puppet
11 1 (0.034%) AppManager
11 1 (0.034%) Cilium
11 1 (0.034%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.034%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.034%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,476 (50.12%) PayPal
2 442 (15.01%) Microsoft
3 77 (2.61%) Cisco
4 71 (2.41%) Google
5 61 (2.07%) Dell
6 57 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 56 (1.90%) Adobe
8 46 (1.56%) Databricks
8 46 (1.56%) Oracle
9 45 (1.53%) Blue Prism
10 39 (1.32%) Apple
11 24 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 23 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 20 (0.68%) SAP
14 18 (0.61%) OpenAI
15 17 (0.58%) Foundry
16 13 (0.44%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.41%) IBM
18 11 (0.37%) Alteryx
19 8 (0.27%) Pardot