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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +59 +20
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,158 2,251 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.09% 14.91% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.52% 15.76% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 677 899
10th Percentile £41,250 £24,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,300 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,206 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +1.86% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,296 £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 15,967 14,283 30,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.63% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 8,372 23,637
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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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 9 June 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 46 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.71%) CMS
2 37 (1.71%) Confluence
3 23 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.56%) Apache
6 11 (0.51%) WordPress
7 10 (0.46%) SAS
8 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.19%) JBoss
8 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.093%) Camunda
10 2 (0.093%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.046%) Moodle
11 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.046%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (1.71%) UserZoom
2 27 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
7 9 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
8 7 (0.32%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.19%) CapCut
10 4 (0.19%) Sketch
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.14%) Productboard
11 3 (0.14%) Trello
12 2 (0.093%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
13 1 (0.046%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.11%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.19%) Sage 50
4 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.093%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.093%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.046%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.046%) HFM
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 575 (26.65%) Azure
2 404 (18.72%) AWS
3 226 (10.47%) SaaS
4 190 (8.80%) GCP
5 186 (8.62%) Adobe Analytics
6 152 (7.04%) Power Platform
7 143 (6.63%) Azure AI
8 123 (5.70%) GitHub
9 117 (5.42%) Figma
10 94 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (4.22%) Azure Machine Learning
12 89 (4.12%) Serverless
13 86 (3.99%) Snowflake
14 79 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
15 77 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
16 69 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 62 (2.87%) Contentsquare
18 58 (2.69%) Anthropic Claude
19 53 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
20 34 (1.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 321 (14.87%) Broadband
2 25 (1.16%) Firewall
3 15 (0.70%) HTTP
3 15 (0.70%) VPN
4 12 (0.56%) DNS
5 10 (0.46%) Unified Communications
6 9 (0.42%) Internet
7 8 (0.37%) DHCP
7 8 (0.37%) Network Security
8 6 (0.28%) 5G
8 6 (0.28%) DMZ
8 6 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.19%) RTP
10 4 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.19%) VoIP
11 3 (0.14%) Wireless
11 3 (0.14%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (5.61%) MongoDB
2 94 (4.36%) SQL Server
3 90 (4.17%) Power BI
4 76 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 72 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
6 58 (2.69%) Metadata
7 48 (2.22%) Tableau
8 45 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (1.95%) Big Data
10 32 (1.48%) BigQuery
11 27 (1.25%) NoSQL
12 25 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
13 23 (1.07%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (0.93%) Redis
14 20 (0.93%) Relational Database
15 19 (0.88%) Looker
16 16 (0.74%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.74%) MySQL
17 14 (0.65%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 61 (2.83%) Git
2 38 (1.76%) Claude Code
3 32 (1.48%) JIRA
4 30 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 25 (1.16%) Snyk
6 21 (0.97%) MLflow
7 14 (0.65%) GitLab
8 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.42%) Selenium
8 9 (0.42%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.28%) Maven
9 6 (0.28%) Postman
9 6 (0.28%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.23%) JUnit
10 5 (0.23%) Mockito
10 5 (0.23%) Storybook
10 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.14%) Appium
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 514 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 427 (19.79%) Finance
3 265 (12.28%) Games
4 262 (12.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 260 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
6 225 (10.43%) Marketing
7 139 (6.44%) Legal
8 133 (6.16%) Public Sector
9 118 (5.47%) Law
10 78 (3.61%) Retail
11 67 (3.10%) Banking
12 57 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
13 43 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.81%) Automotive
15 33 (1.53%) Advertising
16 27 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.11%) Manufacturing
18 18 (0.83%) Telecoms
19 10 (0.46%) Back Office
20 9 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 431 (19.97%) Senior
2 340 (15.76%) Lead
3 249 (11.54%) Developer
4 196 (9.08%) Architect
5 126 (5.84%) Software Engineer
6 95 (4.40%) Analyst
7 92 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
8 88 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 86 (3.99%) Consultant
10 82 (3.80%) Designer
11 76 (3.52%) Data Engineer
12 73 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
13 70 (3.24%) .NET Developer
14 65 (3.01%) Data Scientist
15 63 (2.92%) Product Manager
16 60 (2.78%) Python Engineer
17 58 (2.69%) Data Manager
18 54 (2.50%) Senior Architect
19 51 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
19 51 (2.36%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.83%) React
2 125 (5.79%) .NET
3 111 (5.14%) RESTful
4 90 (4.17%) Node.js
5 84 (3.89%) CSS
6 83 (3.85%) REST
7 77 (3.57%) HTML
8 72 (3.34%) .NET Core
9 64 (2.97%) ASP.NET
9 64 (2.97%) ASP.NET Core
9 64 (2.97%) PyTorch
10 63 (2.92%) ML.NET
11 56 (2.59%) TensorFlow
12 53 (2.46%) Blazor
12 53 (2.46%) LangChain
13 43 (1.99%) FastAPI
14 36 (1.67%) Vue
15 35 (1.62%) Next.js
16 32 (1.48%) Spring
17 30 (1.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 214 (9.92%) Social Media
2 183 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 134 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 109 (5.05%) AI Agents
5 76 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 66 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
7 57 (2.64%) Low-Code
8 54 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
9 51 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 49 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (2.22%) Mobile App
12 45 (2.09%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.95%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.90%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
16 27 (1.25%) Management Information System
16 27 (1.25%) Social Network
17 26 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
18 24 (1.11%) Blog
19 23 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.99%) Android
2 32 (1.48%) Linux
3 29 (1.34%) Windows
4 27 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.14%) Unix
8 2 (0.093%) Robot Operating System
8 2 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (28.04%) Agile
2 572 (26.51%) Roadmaps
3 559 (25.90%) Analytics
4 523 (24.24%) Machine Learning
5 420 (19.46%) CI/CD
6 321 (14.87%) Customer Experience
7 315 (14.60%) Software Engineering
8 297 (13.76%) Mentoring
9 281 (13.02%) Decision-Making
10 272 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 264 (12.23%) LLM
12 262 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
13 253 (11.72%) DevOps
14 240 (11.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 237 (10.98%) Product Roadmap
16 229 (10.61%) Generative AI
17 216 (10.01%) Storytelling
18 196 (9.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 192 (8.90%) Data Science
20 187 (8.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 511 (23.68%) Python
2 328 (15.20%) SQL
3 145 (6.72%) C#
4 141 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 127 (5.89%) TypeScript
6 114 (5.28%) Java
7 69 (3.20%) Go
8 38 (1.76%) Bash
9 35 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 26 (1.20%) C++
11 24 (1.11%) Bicep
12 22 (1.02%) R
13 19 (0.88%) Scala
14 15 (0.70%) PHP
15 10 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.42%) C
17 8 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.37%) Rust
18 7 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 173 (8.02%) Degree
2 89 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.41%) ACCA
5 45 (2.09%) AWS Certification
6 36 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.44%) CIMA
7 31 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.20%) PhD
11 24 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.56%) CISSP
14 10 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.28%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (12.93%) Accessibility
2 105 (4.87%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.34%) WCAG
4 68 (3.15%) GDPR
5 63 (2.92%) QA
6 55 (2.55%) GRC
7 28 (1.30%) NIST
8 26 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.11%) IFRS
10 18 (0.83%) SLA
11 16 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.65%) PMO
13 13 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.32%) NCSC
16 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
18 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 145 (6.72%) Docker
2 89 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.14%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.093%) vSphere
8 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 120 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 85 (3.94%) Terraform
3 19 (0.88%) Ansible
4 15 (0.70%) Grafana
5 14 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.37%) Kubeflow
8 7 (0.32%) Argo
8 7 (0.32%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.14%) Puppet
10 2 (0.093%) Istio
10 2 (0.093%) Podman
10 2 (0.093%) Salt
11 1 (0.046%) CASB
11 1 (0.046%) Cilium
11 1 (0.046%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.046%) linkerd
11 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.046%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 466 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 253 (11.72%) Adobe
3 125 (5.79%) Databricks
4 90 (4.17%) Google
5 63 (2.92%) Cisco
6 62 (2.87%) OpenAI
7 53 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.41%) Dell
9 48 (2.22%) Apple
10 47 (2.18%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
12 29 (1.34%) HubSpot
13 27 (1.25%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.25%) Tenable
14 24 (1.11%) Oracle
15 22 (1.02%) Foundry
16 18 (0.83%) SAP
17 13 (0.60%) Facebook
17 13 (0.60%) VMware
18 12 (0.56%) Palantir