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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 68
Rank change year-on-year +9 +49 +24
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,906 1,328 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.52% 9.83% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.69% 10.38% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 688 842
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,212 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.94% -10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.84% -

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 15,017 12,797 29,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.92% 94.76% 91.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,508 8,900 23,578
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,599 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -11.29%

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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 27 April 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 52 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.47%) CMS
3 41 (2.15%) Confluence
4 25 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.63%) WordPress
7 11 (0.58%) JBoss
7 11 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.52%) Apache
9 8 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) SAS
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.10%) Camunda
14 1 (0.052%) Kinematics
Applications
1 55 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (2.62%) Chatbot
3 30 (1.57%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 4 (0.21%) CapCut
7 3 (0.16%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.73%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.10%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.10%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 498 (26.13%) Azure
2 346 (18.15%) AWS
3 208 (10.91%) SaaS
4 184 (9.65%) Adobe Analytics
5 169 (8.87%) GCP
6 138 (7.24%) GitHub
7 125 (6.56%) Power Platform
8 105 (5.51%) Figma
9 93 (4.88%) Snowflake
10 92 (4.83%) Azure Machine Learning
11 91 (4.77%) GitHub Copilot
12 87 (4.56%) Azure AI
13 84 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
14 82 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 66 (3.46%) Serverless
16 65 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
17 55 (2.89%) Contentsquare
18 47 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
19 46 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
20 35 (1.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 260 (13.64%) Broadband
2 23 (1.21%) Firewall
3 21 (1.10%) HTTP
4 11 (0.58%) Unified Communications
5 9 (0.47%) VPN
6 8 (0.42%) Network Security
7 7 (0.37%) DNS
8 6 (0.31%) DHCP
9 5 (0.26%) DMZ
9 5 (0.26%) RTP
9 5 (0.26%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.26%) VoIP
9 5 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.21%) Modbus
10 4 (0.21%) WAN
11 3 (0.16%) Internet
11 3 (0.16%) Wireless
11 3 (0.16%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.10%) NGN
12 2 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 78 (4.09%) Power BI
3 54 (2.83%) Metadata
4 53 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 51 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (1.89%) Tableau
9 32 (1.68%) Big Data
9 32 (1.68%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 21 (1.10%) Looker
12 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 19 (1.00%) Redis
13 17 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (0.68%) Delta Lake
16 12 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (0.58%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 50 (2.62%) Git
2 45 (2.36%) JIRA
3 22 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.05%) MLflow
5 18 (0.94%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.79%) GitLab
6 15 (0.79%) Snyk
7 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.52%) Selenium
8 9 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
8 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.37%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.37%) Subversion
9 7 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.31%) Storybook
11 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.16%) Appium
12 3 (0.16%) ESLint
12 3 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 494 (25.92%) Social Skills
2 442 (23.19%) Finance
3 275 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (14.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 215 (11.28%) Games
6 189 (9.92%) Marketing
7 160 (8.39%) Legal
8 156 (8.18%) Public Sector
9 131 (6.87%) Law
10 74 (3.88%) Retail
11 61 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (2.99%) Banking
13 48 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
15 42 (2.20%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.47%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.21%) Automotive
18 13 (0.68%) Back Office
19 12 (0.63%) Advertising
20 9 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 363 (19.05%) Senior
2 280 (14.69%) Lead
3 164 (8.60%) Developer
4 158 (8.29%) Architect
5 100 (5.25%) Software Engineer
6 75 (3.93%) Consultant
7 74 (3.88%) Engineering Manager
8 73 (3.83%) Analyst
9 71 (3.73%) Designer
10 65 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
11 53 (2.78%) Product Manager
12 52 (2.73%) Data Engineer
13 49 (2.57%) Lead Designer
13 49 (2.57%) Senior Software Engineer
14 46 (2.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 44 (2.31%) Sales Executive
16 43 (2.26%) Corporate Sales Executive
17 42 (2.20%) Data Scientist
17 42 (2.20%) Digital Designer
18 41 (2.15%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (6.45%) React
2 87 (4.56%) REST
3 75 (3.93%) .NET
4 71 (3.73%) Node.js
5 70 (3.67%) RESTful
6 49 (2.57%) PyTorch
7 46 (2.41%) CSS
8 43 (2.26%) HTML
9 41 (2.15%) TensorFlow
10 38 (1.99%) Kafka
11 33 (1.73%) OAuth
12 32 (1.68%) Vue
13 31 (1.63%) LangChain
14 30 (1.57%) Spring
15 29 (1.52%) SOAP
16 28 (1.47%) FastAPI
17 27 (1.42%) Next.js
18 25 (1.31%) OAuth2
19 24 (1.26%) AngularJS
19 24 (1.26%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 187 (9.81%) Social Media
2 138 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 103 (5.40%) Blog
3 103 (5.40%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.52%) AI Agents
6 54 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 53 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (2.36%) Mobile App
9 43 (2.26%) Virtual Team
10 40 (2.10%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.78%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.68%) Data Centre
13 29 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
14 27 (1.42%) Social Network
15 21 (1.10%) Podcast
16 20 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.47%) Android
2 29 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 24 (1.26%) Linux
4 18 (0.94%) Windows
5 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.26%) Unix
6 3 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.10%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.052%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (28.07%) Agile
2 514 (26.97%) Analytics
3 502 (26.34%) Roadmaps
4 386 (20.25%) Machine Learning
5 342 (17.94%) Customer Experience
6 327 (17.16%) CI/CD
7 295 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 251 (13.17%) Decision-Making
9 243 (12.75%) DevOps
10 236 (12.38%) Software Engineering
11 233 (12.22%) Mentoring
12 232 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
13 226 (11.86%) Product Roadmap
14 222 (11.65%) Storytelling
15 188 (9.86%) Generative AI
16 184 (9.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 182 (9.55%) LLM
18 178 (9.34%) Digital Customer Experience
18 178 (9.34%) User Experience
19 157 (8.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 360 (18.89%) Python
2 262 (13.75%) SQL
3 119 (6.24%) Java
4 100 (5.25%) TypeScript
5 76 (3.99%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.93%) C#
7 55 (2.89%) Go
8 30 (1.57%) C++
9 21 (1.10%) Bash
10 19 (1.00%) R
11 18 (0.94%) Scala
12 17 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 17 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.73%) PHP
14 13 (0.68%) Bicep
14 13 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.52%) PowerShell
15 10 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 266 (13.96%) Degree
2 64 (3.36%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.83%) Master's Degree
4 49 (2.57%) ACCA
5 46 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.26%) PhD
7 41 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 41 (2.15%) SC Cleared
8 38 (1.99%) DBS Check
9 26 (1.36%) CIMA
10 25 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.10%) PMP
12 20 (1.05%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.63%) CISSP
15 12 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
16 8 (0.42%) CISA
16 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.31%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (13.85%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.73%) WCAG
3 51 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.41%) QA
5 41 (2.15%) GDPR
6 38 (1.99%) GRC
7 29 (1.52%) IFRS
8 22 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.73%) PMO
11 12 (0.63%) GAAP
11 12 (0.63%) NIST
12 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.31%) NCSC
14 6 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.26%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.21%) SLA
17 3 (0.16%) ISO 26262
17 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 106 (5.56%) Docker
2 77 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.16%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 86 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.20%) Terraform
3 21 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (1.05%) Ansible
5 13 (0.68%) Grafana
6 12 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.26%) Argo
8 5 (0.26%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.10%) Podman
9 2 (0.10%) Puppet
9 2 (0.10%) Salt
Vendors
1 374 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 241 (12.64%) Adobe
3 122 (6.40%) Databricks
4 79 (4.14%) Google
5 51 (2.68%) Cisco
6 50 (2.62%) Dell
7 49 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.20%) Apple
9 33 (1.73%) PayPal
10 32 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 30 (1.57%) ServiceNow
12 24 (1.26%) Oracle
13 20 (1.05%) Foundry
14 17 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (0.89%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.84%) SAP
15 16 (0.84%) Tenable
16 14 (0.73%) Palantir
17 12 (0.63%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.63%) HubSpot