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

 6 months to
24 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 +24
Permanent jobs citing AI 1,897 1,285 1,306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 10.57% 9.63% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.72% 10.17% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 690 833
10th Percentile £26,875 £25,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,212 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.94% -13.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £81,250
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 14,918 12,640 29,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.13% 94.72% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,427 8,943 23,621
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -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% -10.57%

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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 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 50 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.48%) CMS
3 41 (2.16%) Confluence
4 25 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.63%) WordPress
7 11 (0.58%) JBoss
7 11 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.53%) 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 (0.11%) Camunda
14 1 (0.053%) Kinematics
Applications
1 56 (2.95%) Chatbot
2 54 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.58%) UserZoom
4 22 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.79%) 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 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.63%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP SCM
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 494 (26.04%) Azure
2 343 (18.08%) AWS
3 206 (10.86%) SaaS
4 184 (9.70%) Adobe Analytics
5 166 (8.75%) GCP
6 138 (7.27%) GitHub
7 124 (6.54%) Power Platform
8 105 (5.54%) Figma
9 92 (4.85%) Azure Machine Learning
9 92 (4.85%) Snowflake
10 91 (4.80%) GitHub Copilot
11 87 (4.59%) Azure AI
12 84 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
13 82 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 64 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
14 64 (3.37%) Serverless
15 55 (2.90%) Contentsquare
16 46 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 46 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
17 35 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 260 (13.71%) Broadband
2 22 (1.16%) Firewall
3 21 (1.11%) 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 (0.32%) 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
11 3 (0.16%) Internet
11 3 (0.16%) WAN
11 3 (0.16%) Wireless
11 3 (0.16%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.11%) DOCSIS
12 2 (0.11%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (4.74%) SQL Server
2 77 (4.06%) Power BI
3 53 (2.79%) Metadata
3 53 (2.79%) MongoDB
4 52 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 36 (1.90%) Tableau
8 32 (1.69%) Big Data
8 32 (1.69%) NoSQL
9 23 (1.21%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.11%) Looker
11 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 19 (1.00%) Redis
12 17 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.69%) Delta Lake
15 12 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.58%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 50 (2.64%) Git
2 45 (2.37%) JIRA
3 22 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.05%) MLflow
5 17 (0.90%) Claude Code
6 15 (0.79%) GitLab
7 13 (0.69%) Snyk
8 10 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.53%) Selenium
9 9 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
9 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.37%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.37%) Subversion
10 7 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.32%) Storybook
12 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.16%) Appium
13 3 (0.16%) ESLint
13 3 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 491 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 440 (23.19%) Finance
3 272 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (14.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 215 (11.33%) Games
6 187 (9.86%) Marketing
7 164 (8.65%) Legal
8 158 (8.33%) Public Sector
9 136 (7.17%) Law
10 74 (3.90%) Retail
11 60 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (3.00%) Banking
13 48 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
15 42 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.48%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.16%) Automotive
18 13 (0.69%) Back Office
19 12 (0.63%) Advertising
20 9 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 356 (18.77%) Senior
2 280 (14.76%) Lead
3 164 (8.65%) Developer
4 155 (8.17%) Architect
5 97 (5.11%) Software Engineer
6 77 (4.06%) Consultant
7 74 (3.90%) Engineering Manager
8 70 (3.69%) Analyst
8 70 (3.69%) Designer
9 64 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (2.79%) Product Manager
11 52 (2.74%) Data Engineer
12 49 (2.58%) Lead Designer
12 49 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 46 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 44 (2.32%) Sales Executive
15 43 (2.27%) Corporate Sales Executive
15 43 (2.27%) Trainer
16 42 (2.21%) Data Scientist
16 42 (2.21%) Digital Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (6.38%) React
2 87 (4.59%) REST
3 75 (3.95%) .NET
4 70 (3.69%) Node.js
4 70 (3.69%) RESTful
5 49 (2.58%) PyTorch
6 46 (2.42%) CSS
7 43 (2.27%) HTML
8 41 (2.16%) TensorFlow
9 38 (2.00%) Kafka
10 33 (1.74%) OAuth
11 31 (1.63%) LangChain
11 31 (1.63%) Vue
12 29 (1.53%) SOAP
12 29 (1.53%) Spring
13 28 (1.48%) FastAPI
13 28 (1.48%) Next.js
14 25 (1.32%) OAuth2
15 24 (1.27%) React Native
16 23 (1.21%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 186 (9.80%) Social Media
2 138 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 104 (5.48%) Blog
4 103 (5.43%) Product Ownership
5 84 (4.43%) Onboarding
6 65 (3.43%) AI Agents
7 54 (2.85%) Public Cloud
8 50 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (2.37%) Mobile App
10 43 (2.27%) Virtual Team
11 39 (2.06%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
13 29 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.48%) Data Centre
15 27 (1.42%) Social Network
16 21 (1.11%) Podcast
17 20 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
17 20 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
17 20 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.48%) Android
2 29 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 24 (1.27%) Linux
4 18 (0.95%) 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 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.11%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (28.20%) Agile
2 514 (27.10%) Analytics
3 500 (26.36%) Roadmaps
4 383 (20.19%) Machine Learning
5 342 (18.03%) Customer Experience
6 325 (17.13%) CI/CD
7 295 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (13.18%) Decision-Making
9 242 (12.76%) DevOps
10 232 (12.23%) Software Engineering
11 231 (12.18%) Mentoring
11 231 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
12 226 (11.91%) Product Roadmap
13 221 (11.65%) Storytelling
14 187 (9.86%) Generative AI
15 184 (9.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 180 (9.49%) LLM
17 179 (9.44%) User Experience
18 178 (9.38%) Digital Customer Experience
19 157 (8.28%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 357 (18.82%) Python
2 262 (13.81%) SQL
3 118 (6.22%) Java
4 99 (5.22%) TypeScript
5 76 (4.01%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.95%) C#
7 55 (2.90%) Go
8 29 (1.53%) C++
9 21 (1.11%) Bash
10 19 (1.00%) R
11 18 (0.95%) Scala
12 17 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 17 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.74%) PHP
14 13 (0.69%) Bicep
14 13 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.53%) PowerShell
16 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 273 (14.39%) Degree
2 61 (3.22%) Security Cleared
3 54 (2.85%) Master's Degree
4 49 (2.58%) ACCA
5 46 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (2.27%) PhD
7 39 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 39 (2.06%) SC Cleared
8 38 (2.00%) DBS Check
9 26 (1.37%) CIMA
10 25 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.11%) PMP
12 19 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.63%) CISSP
14 12 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 8 (0.42%) CISA
15 8 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.32%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (13.92%) Accessibility
2 71 (3.74%) WCAG
3 50 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.37%) QA
5 41 (2.16%) GDPR
6 36 (1.90%) GRC
7 29 (1.53%) IFRS
8 22 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.74%) 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 (0.32%) NCSC
14 6 (0.32%) 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 (5.59%) Docker
2 75 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.16%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 86 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.27%) Terraform
3 21 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (1.05%) Ansible
5 13 (0.69%) 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 (0.11%) Podman
9 2 (0.11%) Puppet
9 2 (0.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 372 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 239 (12.60%) Adobe
3 122 (6.43%) Databricks
4 78 (4.11%) Google
5 50 (2.64%) Cisco
5 50 (2.64%) Dell
6 49 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 40 (2.11%) Apple
8 39 (2.06%) PayPal
9 32 (1.69%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.27%) Oracle
12 20 (1.05%) Foundry
13 17 (0.90%) SAP
14 15 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.74%) Palantir
15 14 (0.74%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.74%) Tenable
16 12 (0.63%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.58%) Hootsuite
1,326 hybrid/remote AI jobs