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

 6 months to
18 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 +66 +12
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,604 2,671 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.12% 16.26% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.64% 17.43% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,644 734 693
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £39,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,100 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% -2.07% -3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,625 £115,000 £104,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,295 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% -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 17,786 15,322 27,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 93.26% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,956 9,066 20,494
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £34,000
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 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -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 18 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 64 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.69%) Confluence
3 39 (1.50%) CMS
4 18 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.61%) Apache
5 16 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.38%) WordPress
8 9 (0.35%) SAS
9 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.12%) Camunda
10 3 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.077%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.038%) Moodle
12 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.73%) UserZoom
2 30 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 25 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
6 15 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 13 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.50%) InDesign
7 13 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.15%) CapCut
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) Productboard
11 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.077%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.038%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 24 (0.92%) Cloudability
1 24 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.15%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.038%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.038%) HFM
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.038%) Shopify
5 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 791 (30.38%) Azure
2 460 (17.67%) AWS
3 250 (9.60%) SaaS
4 245 (9.41%) Azure AI
5 212 (8.14%) GCP
6 190 (7.30%) Adobe Analytics
7 186 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 181 (6.95%) GitHub
9 163 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
10 116 (4.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 110 (4.22%) Figma
12 108 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
13 103 (3.96%) Snowflake
14 100 (3.84%) Serverless
15 87 (3.34%) Azure Machine Learning
16 85 (3.26%) Anthropic Claude
16 85 (3.26%) Entra ID
17 80 (3.07%) Microsoft Copilot
18 79 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 70 (2.69%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 337 (12.94%) Broadband
2 32 (1.23%) Internet
3 30 (1.15%) VPN
4 29 (1.11%) Firewall
5 15 (0.58%) DNS
6 14 (0.54%) VoIP
7 12 (0.46%) HTTP
8 11 (0.42%) CTI
9 10 (0.38%) DHCP
9 10 (0.38%) Network Security
10 8 (0.31%) WPA
11 7 (0.27%) Wireless
12 6 (0.23%) 5G
12 6 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.19%) DMZ
13 5 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.19%) VLAN
13 5 (0.19%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (8.26%) MongoDB
2 172 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 112 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 105 (4.03%) Power BI
5 88 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 77 (2.96%) Metadata
7 61 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (1.61%) Tableau
9 40 (1.54%) Big Data
10 35 (1.34%) NoSQL
11 34 (1.31%) Data Lake
12 32 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
13 29 (1.11%) Redis
14 28 (1.08%) BigQuery
15 26 (1.00%) Delta Lake
16 24 (0.92%) Relational Database
17 22 (0.84%) MySQL
18 18 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
19 17 (0.65%) Pinecone
20 13 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 93 (3.57%) Git
2 54 (2.07%) Claude Code
3 48 (1.84%) JIRA
4 35 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 25 (0.96%) Snyk
6 22 (0.84%) GitLab
7 14 (0.54%) Selenium
8 12 (0.46%) MLflow
9 11 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.35%) Postman
11 7 (0.27%) Maven
12 6 (0.23%) JUnit
12 6 (0.23%) Mockito
12 6 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.19%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.15%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.15%) Metasploit
15 3 (0.12%) Appium
General
1 705 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 486 (18.66%) Finance
3 284 (10.91%) Marketing
4 282 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
5 281 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 279 (10.71%) Games
7 194 (7.45%) Legal
8 167 (6.41%) Law
9 150 (5.76%) Public Sector
10 89 (3.42%) Retail
11 82 (3.15%) Banking
12 67 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 60 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 54 (2.07%) Advertising
15 41 (1.57%) Legal Technology
16 40 (1.54%) Automotive
17 30 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
18 29 (1.11%) Manufacturing
19 22 (0.84%) Telecoms
20 14 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 516 (19.82%) Senior
2 383 (14.71%) Developer
3 379 (14.55%) Lead
4 253 (9.72%) Architect
5 180 (6.91%) Software Engineer
6 167 (6.41%) .NET Developer
7 113 (4.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 107 (4.11%) Engineering Manager
9 106 (4.07%) Analyst
10 103 (3.96%) Consultant
11 84 (3.23%) Designer
12 80 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
13 79 (3.03%) Data Engineer
14 70 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
15 68 (2.61%) Python Engineer
16 67 (2.57%) Data Scientist
17 65 (2.50%) Senior Developer
18 64 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
19 63 (2.42%) Senior Manager
20 61 (2.34%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (9.22%) React
2 239 (9.18%) .NET
3 164 (6.30%) ASP.NET
4 160 (6.14%) RESTful
5 159 (6.11%) .NET Core
6 157 (6.03%) ASP.NET Core
7 154 (5.91%) ML.NET
8 143 (5.49%) CSS
9 136 (5.22%) HTML
10 112 (4.30%) Blazor
11 109 (4.19%) Node.js
12 83 (3.19%) REST
13 74 (2.84%) LangChain
14 62 (2.38%) PyTorch
15 54 (2.07%) TensorFlow
16 51 (1.96%) Next.js
17 48 (1.84%) Vue
18 47 (1.80%) FastAPI
19 39 (1.50%) LangGraph
20 33 (1.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 235 (9.02%) Social Media
2 230 (8.83%) Cloud Native
3 167 (6.41%) AI Agents
4 134 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 103 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 70 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 62 (2.38%) Low-Code
8 60 (2.30%) Algorithms
9 57 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
10 55 (2.11%) Virtual Team
11 53 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 52 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 39 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
14 39 (1.50%) Security Posture
15 36 (1.38%) Blog
16 35 (1.34%) Management Information System
17 32 (1.23%) Podcast
18 30 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (2.30%) Windows
2 51 (1.96%) Android
3 47 (1.80%) Linux
4 25 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.46%) VMS
7 9 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (29.30%) Agile
2 663 (25.46%) Machine Learning
3 651 (25.00%) Analytics
4 635 (24.39%) Roadmaps
5 551 (21.16%) CI/CD
6 424 (16.28%) Mentoring
7 407 (15.63%) Software Engineering
8 406 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 373 (14.32%) Decision-Making
10 364 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
11 349 (13.40%) LLM
12 338 (12.98%) DevOps
13 334 (12.83%) Customer Experience
14 318 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
15 244 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
16 241 (9.25%) Product Roadmap
17 240 (9.22%) Generative AI
18 222 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
19 221 (8.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 220 (8.45%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 599 (23.00%) Python
2 463 (17.78%) SQL
3 267 (10.25%) C#
4 235 (9.02%) JavaScript
5 171 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 117 (4.49%) Java
7 60 (2.30%) Go
8 54 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 46 (1.77%) Bash
10 44 (1.69%) Bicep
11 41 (1.57%) C++
12 25 (0.96%) Scala
13 18 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.61%) R
15 15 (0.58%) PHP
16 13 (0.50%) C
17 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.27%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 202 (7.76%) Degree
2 131 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 89 (3.42%) SC Cleared
4 61 (2.34%) CISSP
5 54 (2.07%) CISM
6 53 (2.04%) ACCA
7 46 (1.77%) A+ Certification
7 46 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
8 44 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 35 (1.34%) DV Cleared
11 33 (1.27%) CIMA
12 32 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 29 (1.11%) PhD
14 25 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (0.96%) Master's Degree
15 22 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (11.37%) Accessibility
2 145 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 89 (3.42%) GDPR
4 86 (3.30%) QA
5 70 (2.69%) WCAG
6 58 (2.23%) GRC
7 39 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (1.31%) NIST
9 23 (0.88%) SLA
10 21 (0.81%) IFRS
11 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.58%) PMO
12 14 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 12 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.23%) NCSC
17 5 (0.19%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 190 (7.30%) Docker
2 91 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
3 85 (3.26%) Active Directory
4 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.46%) vSphere
7 6 (0.23%) Firmware
7 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 179 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.45%) Terraform
3 64 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (0.73%) Ansible
5 18 (0.69%) Grafana
6 16 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.31%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.27%) Argo
9 6 (0.23%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.15%) Nmap
10 4 (0.15%) Puppet
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.077%) linkerd
12 2 (0.077%) Podman
12 2 (0.077%) Salt
13 1 (0.038%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.038%) Nessus
13 1 (0.038%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 672 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 251 (9.64%) Adobe
3 147 (5.65%) Databricks
4 121 (4.65%) Google
5 85 (3.26%) OpenAI
6 78 (3.00%) Cisco
7 63 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.92%) Dell
9 46 (1.77%) Apple
9 46 (1.77%) CyberArk
10 43 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 37 (1.42%) Facebook
11 37 (1.42%) Foundry
12 31 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
12 31 (1.19%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.04%) Tenable
14 25 (0.96%) Oracle
15 22 (0.84%) VMware
16 21 (0.81%) Yahoo!
1,363 hybrid/remote AI jobs