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

 6 months to
24 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 +57 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,719 2,662 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.53% 16.17% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.12% 17.35% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,700 720 660
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,405 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.56% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,313 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,625
UK median annual salary £70,752 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.72% -5.29% -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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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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 24 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 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.73%) Confluence
3 39 (1.43%) CMS
4 21 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.66%) Apache
6 17 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.37%) WordPress
9 9 (0.33%) SAS
10 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.11%) Camunda
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.074%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.074%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.074%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.037%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.037%) Moodle
13 1 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.037%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.62%) UserZoom
2 33 (1.21%) Chatbot
3 27 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.48%) InDesign
7 13 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.15%) 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 (0.074%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.074%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 37 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (1.03%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.88%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.15%) Sage 50
6 3 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.037%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.037%) HFM
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.037%) Shopify
7 1 (0.037%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 808 (29.72%) Azure
2 480 (17.65%) AWS
3 260 (9.56%) SaaS
4 246 (9.05%) Azure AI
5 220 (8.09%) GCP
6 197 (7.25%) Power Platform
7 190 (6.99%) GitHub
8 188 (6.91%) Adobe Analytics
9 167 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
10 120 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
11 115 (4.23%) Figma
12 113 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
12 113 (4.16%) Snowflake
13 103 (3.79%) Serverless
14 95 (3.49%) Entra ID
15 92 (3.38%) Anthropic Claude
16 87 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
17 85 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
18 81 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 70 (2.57%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 334 (12.28%) Broadband
2 32 (1.18%) Internet
3 29 (1.07%) Firewall
3 29 (1.07%) VPN
4 15 (0.55%) DNS
5 14 (0.51%) VoIP
6 13 (0.48%) HTTP
7 11 (0.40%) CTI
7 11 (0.40%) Network Security
8 10 (0.37%) DHCP
9 8 (0.29%) WPA
10 7 (0.26%) Wireless
11 6 (0.22%) 5G
11 6 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.18%) VLAN
12 5 (0.18%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.15%) DMZ
14 3 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (7.98%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 116 (4.27%) SQL Server
4 111 (4.08%) Power BI
5 92 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 82 (3.02%) Metadata
7 63 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (1.66%) Tableau
9 44 (1.62%) Big Data
10 39 (1.43%) NoSQL
11 38 (1.40%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
13 31 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 31 (1.14%) Redis
14 27 (0.99%) Delta Lake
15 24 (0.88%) Relational Database
16 22 (0.81%) MySQL
17 18 (0.66%) Pinecone
18 16 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 105 (3.86%) Git
2 55 (2.02%) Claude Code
3 54 (1.99%) JIRA
4 40 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 26 (0.96%) Snyk
6 23 (0.85%) GitLab
7 17 (0.63%) Selenium
8 15 (0.55%) MLflow
9 11 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.33%) Postman
10 9 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.22%) JUnit
11 6 (0.22%) Maven
11 6 (0.22%) Mockito
11 6 (0.22%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.18%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.15%) Appium
13 4 (0.15%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.15%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 750 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 528 (19.42%) Finance
3 313 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (11.47%) Marketing
5 298 (10.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 281 (10.33%) Games
7 220 (8.09%) Legal
8 167 (6.14%) Law
9 154 (5.66%) Public Sector
10 97 (3.57%) Retail
11 90 (3.31%) Banking
12 72 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (2.02%) Advertising
15 41 (1.51%) Automotive
16 39 (1.43%) Legal Technology
17 32 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
18 30 (1.10%) Manufacturing
19 23 (0.85%) Telecoms
20 15 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 535 (19.68%) Senior
2 390 (14.34%) Developer
3 379 (13.94%) Lead
4 255 (9.38%) Architect
5 189 (6.95%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.14%) .NET Developer
7 113 (4.16%) Analyst
8 112 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 110 (4.05%) Engineering Manager
10 107 (3.94%) Consultant
11 83 (3.05%) Data Engineer
11 83 (3.05%) Designer
12 78 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
13 74 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 72 (2.65%) Data Scientist
14 72 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
15 71 (2.61%) Python Engineer
16 66 (2.43%) Senior Developer
17 65 (2.39%) Product Manager
17 65 (2.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (9.16%) React
2 244 (8.97%) .NET
3 165 (6.07%) ASP.NET
4 161 (5.92%) .NET Core
4 161 (5.92%) RESTful
5 157 (5.77%) ASP.NET Core
6 154 (5.66%) ML.NET
7 143 (5.26%) CSS
8 136 (5.00%) HTML
9 118 (4.34%) Node.js
10 112 (4.12%) Blazor
11 91 (3.35%) REST
12 78 (2.87%) LangChain
13 62 (2.28%) PyTorch
14 58 (2.13%) Next.js
15 53 (1.95%) TensorFlow
16 48 (1.77%) Vue
17 47 (1.73%) FastAPI
18 41 (1.51%) LangGraph
19 36 (1.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 239 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 232 (8.53%) Social Media
3 185 (6.80%) AI Agents
4 135 (4.97%) Product Ownership
5 106 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 74 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 66 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 66 (2.43%) Low-Code
9 59 (2.17%) Blog
10 57 (2.10%) Mobile App
10 57 (2.10%) Video\Live Streaming
10 57 (2.10%) Virtual Team
11 53 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
12 44 (1.62%) Data Centre
13 40 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
13 40 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
14 39 (1.43%) Security Posture
15 38 (1.40%) Management Information System
16 34 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.24%) Windows
2 54 (1.99%) Android
3 48 (1.77%) Linux
4 27 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.44%) VMS
7 9 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.037%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (28.72%) Agile
2 697 (25.63%) Machine Learning
3 689 (25.34%) Analytics
4 657 (24.16%) Roadmaps
5 570 (20.96%) CI/CD
6 455 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 438 (16.11%) Mentoring
8 422 (15.52%) Software Engineering
9 413 (15.19%) Decision-Making
10 369 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 369 (13.57%) LLM
11 345 (12.69%) DevOps
12 336 (12.36%) Customer Experience
13 335 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
14 248 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
15 242 (8.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 241 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
16 241 (8.86%) Product Roadmap
17 235 (8.64%) Generative AI
18 234 (8.61%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 624 (22.95%) Python
2 478 (17.58%) SQL
3 272 (10.00%) C#
4 241 (8.86%) JavaScript
5 180 (6.62%) TypeScript
6 120 (4.41%) Java
7 60 (2.21%) Go
8 55 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.69%) Bicep
10 45 (1.66%) Bash
10 45 (1.66%) C++
11 26 (0.96%) Scala
12 19 (0.70%) R
13 18 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.51%) PHP
15 13 (0.48%) C
16 11 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.29%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 214 (7.87%) Degree
2 143 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 99 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 69 (2.54%) CISSP
5 63 (2.32%) CISM
6 55 (2.02%) A+ Certification
6 55 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
7 54 (1.99%) ACCA
8 46 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 35 (1.29%) CIMA
11 35 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (1.25%) AWS Certification
13 30 (1.10%) PhD
14 28 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.44%) SnowPro
18 10 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (11.18%) Accessibility
2 155 (5.70%) Data Quality
3 97 (3.57%) QA
4 93 (3.42%) GDPR
5 69 (2.54%) WCAG
6 59 (2.17%) GRC
7 40 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (1.25%) NIST
9 25 (0.92%) SLA
10 21 (0.77%) IFRS
11 14 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.48%) PMO
13 12 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 12 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.18%) NCSC
16 5 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 204 (7.50%) Docker
2 92 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 92 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.44%) vSphere
6 6 (0.22%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.074%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.037%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 187 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 127 (4.67%) Terraform
3 74 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (0.74%) Ansible
4 20 (0.74%) Grafana
5 17 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.26%) Argo
6 7 (0.26%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.18%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.18%) Puppet
7 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.15%) Istio
8 4 (0.15%) Nmap
8 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.11%) linkerd
10 2 (0.074%) Podman
10 2 (0.074%) Salt
11 1 (0.037%) Cilium
11 1 (0.037%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.037%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 691 (25.41%) Microsoft
2 248 (9.12%) Adobe
3 158 (5.81%) Databricks
4 128 (4.71%) Google
5 87 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 78 (2.87%) Cisco
7 65 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 55 (2.02%) CyberArk
9 49 (1.80%) Dell
10 46 (1.69%) Apple
10 46 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 37 (1.36%) Facebook
11 37 (1.36%) Foundry
12 33 (1.21%) HubSpot
13 31 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
14 28 (1.03%) Palo Alto
15 27 (0.99%) Tenable
16 24 (0.88%) Oracle
17 23 (0.85%) VMware
18 21 (0.77%) Yahoo!
2,035 hybrid/remote AI jobs