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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 78
Rank change year-on-year +31 +41 +17
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,494 984 1,164
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.00% 7.05% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.61% 7.40% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 926 608 789
10th Percentile £23,085 £25,313 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,253 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +6.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £104,399
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,716 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.73% +3.88% -

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 14,163 13,299 27,577
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.18% 95.33% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,242 8,824 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,415 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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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 11 March 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 38 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.24%) CMS
3 28 (1.12%) Confluence
4 24 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.52%) JBoss
6 13 (0.52%) WebSphere
7 11 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.36%) WordPress
9 7 (0.28%) Apache
10 6 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 2 (0.080%) Mendix
13 2 (0.080%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.040%) Camunda
14 1 (0.040%) Kinematics
Applications
1 874 (35.04%) Chatbot
2 61 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.60%) UserZoom
5 12 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.12%) CapCut
6 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.080%) Simulink
7 2 (0.080%) Weka
8 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.080%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.080%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 436 (17.48%) Azure
2 298 (11.95%) AWS
3 212 (8.50%) SaaS
4 157 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 145 (5.81%) GCP
6 139 (5.57%) GitHub
7 111 (4.45%) Adobe Analytics
8 101 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
10 66 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
11 64 (2.57%) Figma
12 56 (2.25%) Serverless
13 50 (2.00%) Snowflake
14 45 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
16 34 (1.36%) Entra ID
17 33 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
18 28 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
19 27 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
19 27 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 156 (6.26%) Broadband
2 16 (0.64%) Firewall
3 13 (0.52%) HTTP
4 11 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 7 (0.28%) Network Security
6 6 (0.24%) DMZ
6 6 (0.24%) Internet
6 6 (0.24%) RTP
6 6 (0.24%) VoIP
6 6 (0.24%) VPN
6 6 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.20%) DHCP
7 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.12%) DNS
8 3 (0.12%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.12%) DSL
8 3 (0.12%) IPv4
8 3 (0.12%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.12%) PPP
8 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (3.49%) Power BI
2 64 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (1.88%) Metadata
4 42 (1.68%) Tableau
5 38 (1.52%) Big Data
6 35 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 34 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 29 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (1.00%) Data Lake
11 24 (0.96%) BigQuery
12 22 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 19 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (0.72%) Looker
15 17 (0.68%) Redis
16 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.48%) Delta Lake
19 11 (0.44%) MySQL
19 11 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (2.09%) Git
2 50 (2.00%) JIRA
3 20 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.72%) MLflow
5 16 (0.64%) GitLab
6 12 (0.48%) Claude Code
6 12 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (0.48%) Selenium
7 11 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.32%) Subversion
9 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.28%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.24%) ERwin
12 5 (0.20%) GitBook
12 5 (0.20%) Storybook
13 4 (0.16%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.16%) Postman
13 4 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 555 (22.25%) Analytical Skills
2 506 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 415 (16.64%) Finance
4 271 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 169 (6.78%) Marketing
6 163 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 143 (5.73%) Games
8 136 (5.45%) Legal
9 118 (4.73%) Retail
10 111 (4.45%) Law
11 53 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 50 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 33 (1.32%) Banking
16 31 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
17 19 (0.76%) Automotive
18 18 (0.72%) Aerospace
19 16 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
20 13 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 857 (34.36%) Trainer
2 306 (12.27%) Senior
3 237 (9.50%) Lead
4 186 (7.46%) Developer
5 123 (4.93%) Architect
6 102 (4.09%) Content Editor
7 82 (3.29%) Consultant
8 76 (3.05%) Research Scientist
9 75 (3.01%) Customer Support Specialist
9 75 (3.01%) Support Specialist
10 70 (2.81%) Software Engineer
11 63 (2.53%) Analyst
12 60 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (1.96%) Data Engineer
13 49 (1.96%) Designer
14 46 (1.84%) Sales Executive
15 45 (1.80%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 44 (1.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 40 (1.60%) Lead Developer
18 34 (1.36%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (4.17%) React
2 84 (3.37%) REST
3 75 (3.01%) .NET
4 68 (2.73%) Node.js
5 64 (2.57%) RESTful
6 45 (1.80%) PyTorch
7 43 (1.72%) TensorFlow
8 38 (1.52%) Kafka
8 38 (1.52%) SOAP
9 36 (1.44%) CSS
10 35 (1.40%) Spring
11 34 (1.36%) HTML
11 34 (1.36%) OAuth
12 29 (1.16%) OAuth2
12 29 (1.16%) Vue
13 25 (1.00%) AngularJS
14 24 (0.96%) GraphQL
14 24 (0.96%) Next.js
15 23 (0.92%) LangChain
16 22 (0.88%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 129 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 114 (4.57%) Social Media
3 112 (4.49%) Blog
4 97 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 89 (3.57%) Molecular Biology
6 76 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 50 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (1.92%) Mobile App
10 44 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 40 (1.60%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 34 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (1.36%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.08%) Social Network
16 26 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (0.76%) Management Information System
19 18 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.09%) Android
2 35 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 30 (1.20%) Linux
4 23 (0.92%) Windows
5 7 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.040%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (35.53%) Conversational UI
2 426 (17.08%) Agile
3 423 (16.96%) Analytics
4 371 (14.88%) Roadmaps
5 326 (13.07%) Chemistry
6 312 (12.51%) CI/CD
7 306 (12.27%) Machine Learning
8 281 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 262 (10.51%) Customer Experience
10 253 (10.14%) DevOps
11 230 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
12 206 (8.26%) Mentoring
13 203 (8.14%) Software Engineering
14 198 (7.94%) Decision-Making
15 152 (6.09%) Generative AI
16 147 (5.89%) Project Management
17 143 (5.73%) Customer Service
18 142 (5.69%) Storytelling
19 141 (5.65%) Coaching
20 140 (5.61%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 331 (13.27%) Python
2 219 (8.78%) SQL
3 113 (4.53%) Java
4 99 (3.97%) TypeScript
5 77 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 61 (2.45%) C#
7 48 (1.92%) Go
8 31 (1.24%) C++
9 30 (1.20%) Bash
10 22 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 21 (0.84%) Apex Code
12 20 (0.80%) PowerShell
13 19 (0.76%) R
14 18 (0.72%) PHP
15 17 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.56%) Scala
17 13 (0.52%) C
18 12 (0.48%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.44%) Shell Script
20 10 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,109 (44.47%) Degree
2 506 (20.29%) Master's Degree
3 496 (19.89%) PhD
4 69 (2.77%) Security Cleared
5 55 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.00%) SC Cleared
7 38 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 29 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.04%) ACCA
11 25 (1.00%) PMP
12 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.60%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.52%) CISSP
15 12 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 11 (0.44%) CISA
17 8 (0.32%) CISM
18 7 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
19 6 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (7.46%) Accessibility
2 45 (1.80%) WCAG
3 41 (1.64%) QA
4 40 (1.60%) GDPR
5 39 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 28 (1.12%) IFRS
7 26 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.72%) GRC
9 17 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.56%) GAAP
11 12 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.44%) NIST
13 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.28%) EU AI Act
14 7 (0.28%) PMO
15 6 (0.24%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.24%) NCSC
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (3.85%) Docker
2 27 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.12%) Firmware
5 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.080%) Ceph
6 2 (0.080%) Lustre
6 2 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.080%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 76 (3.05%) Terraform
3 24 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (0.92%) Ansible
5 14 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.52%) Grafana
7 12 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.24%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.20%) Argo
10 4 (0.16%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.12%) SCCM
12 2 (0.080%) Control-M
12 2 (0.080%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.040%) Cilium
13 1 (0.040%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 854 (34.24%) PayPal
2 345 (13.83%) Microsoft
3 155 (6.21%) Adobe
4 66 (2.65%) Databricks
5 61 (2.45%) Google
6 54 (2.17%) Dell
7 53 (2.13%) Cisco
8 46 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.56%) Oracle
10 27 (1.08%) Apple
11 26 (1.04%) Blue Prism
12 25 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.72%) Foundry
14 17 (0.68%) SAP
15 15 (0.60%) Palantir
16 13 (0.52%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.52%) ServiceNow
17 12 (0.48%) HubSpot
17 12 (0.48%) Informatica
18 11 (0.44%) Instagram
1,496 hybrid/remote AI jobs