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

 6 months to
12 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 52 73
Rank change year-on-year +48 +21 +28
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,790 897 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 17.13% 5.70% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.82% 6.02% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 938 565 744
10th Percentile £24,570 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £58,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,296 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +1.99% -10.34%
75th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,750 £113,950 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -

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 14,077 14,907 25,461
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.44% 94.73% 92.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8,964 8,917 21,050
10th Percentile £30,325 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +8.31% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
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% -12.00%

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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 12 February 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 44 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.08%) Confluence
3 26 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 20 (0.72%) CMS
6 17 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.47%) JBoss
8 13 (0.47%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.32%) WordPress
10 7 (0.25%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.22%) Apache
12 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
12 5 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Luigi
13 3 (0.11%) SAS
14 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.072%) Mendix
14 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
15 1 (0.036%) Camunda
Applications
1 1,172 (42.01%) Chatbot
2 75 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.14%) UserZoom
6 3 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.11%) Simulink
6 3 (0.11%) Sketch
6 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.072%) Notion
7 2 (0.072%) Weka
8 1 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.036%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.036%) InDesign
8 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.072%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.072%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.072%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.036%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.036%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.036%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 500 (17.92%) Azure
2 303 (10.86%) AWS
3 230 (8.24%) SaaS
4 191 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 158 (5.66%) GCP
6 150 (5.38%) GitHub
7 122 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
8 100 (3.58%) GitHub Copilot
9 78 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
10 66 (2.37%) Snowflake
11 51 (1.83%) Serverless
12 48 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 43 (1.54%) Adobe Analytics
14 42 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 34 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
16 31 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 30 (1.08%) dbt
18 29 (1.04%) Azure AI
19 28 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (1.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.33%) Broadband
2 15 (0.54%) Firewall
3 13 (0.47%) HTTP
4 11 (0.39%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.29%) Network Security
6 7 (0.25%) DMZ
6 7 (0.25%) Internet
7 6 (0.22%) DHCP
7 6 (0.22%) RTP
7 6 (0.22%) VoIP
7 6 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.18%) InfiniBand
8 5 (0.18%) VPN
9 4 (0.14%) DNS
9 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.11%) DSL
10 3 (0.11%) IPv4
10 3 (0.11%) IPv6
10 3 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (3.73%) Power BI
2 79 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.08%) Tableau
4 40 (1.43%) Metadata
5 38 (1.36%) Big Data
5 38 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 36 (1.29%) MongoDB
6 36 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 27 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 24 (0.86%) Data Lake
10 23 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (0.65%) Looker
13 17 (0.61%) MySQL
14 16 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.47%) Redis
17 12 (0.43%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 73 (2.62%) JIRA
2 53 (1.90%) Git
3 21 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
5 17 (0.61%) MLflow
6 14 (0.50%) GitLab
7 9 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.29%) Subversion
8 8 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.25%) Selenium
10 6 (0.22%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.22%) ERwin
11 5 (0.18%) GitBook
11 5 (0.18%) Storybook
12 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.14%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.14%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.11%) ESLint
General
1 620 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 510 (18.28%) Social Skills
3 474 (16.99%) Finance
4 309 (11.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 190 (6.81%) Marketing
6 160 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 124 (4.44%) Retail
8 114 (4.09%) Legal
9 99 (3.55%) Law
10 64 (2.29%) Games
11 51 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 39 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.25%) Banking
15 26 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 26 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 16 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.54%) Advertising
19 12 (0.43%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,153 (41.33%) Trainer
2 287 (10.29%) Senior
3 216 (7.74%) Developer
4 168 (6.02%) Lead
5 155 (5.56%) Content Editor
6 114 (4.09%) Architect
7 98 (3.51%) Customer Support Specialist
7 98 (3.51%) Support Specialist
8 88 (3.15%) Analyst
9 77 (2.76%) Consultant
9 77 (2.76%) Research Scientist
10 69 (2.47%) Software Engineer
11 60 (2.15%) Data Engineer
12 54 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
13 51 (1.83%) Sales Executive
14 47 (1.68%) Corporate Sales Executive
15 45 (1.61%) Microsoft Specialist
16 44 (1.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 42 (1.51%) .NET Developer
18 41 (1.47%) Customer Service Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (3.48%) React
2 94 (3.37%) .NET
3 84 (3.01%) REST
4 65 (2.33%) Node.js
5 62 (2.22%) RESTful
6 41 (1.47%) Kafka
6 41 (1.47%) PyTorch
7 39 (1.40%) SOAP
8 38 (1.36%) TensorFlow
9 37 (1.33%) OAuth
10 35 (1.25%) OAuth2
10 35 (1.25%) Spring
11 29 (1.04%) CSS
12 27 (0.97%) HTML
13 25 (0.90%) AngularJS
14 24 (0.86%) gRPC
15 23 (0.82%) Middleware
16 22 (0.79%) GraphQL
16 22 (0.79%) Next.js
16 22 (0.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 138 (4.95%) Cloud Native
2 110 (3.94%) Blog
2 110 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.48%) Molecular Biology
4 69 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 53 (1.90%) Social Media
6 50 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
7 49 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 39 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 38 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 37 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
11 37 (1.33%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (0.86%) Management Information System
15 24 (0.86%) Social Network
16 20 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.43%) Android
2 31 (1.11%) Linux
2 31 (1.11%) Windows
3 25 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 11 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.25%) Unix
6 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
7 3 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.036%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (42.44%) Conversational UI
2 413 (14.80%) Agile
3 384 (13.76%) Chemistry
4 355 (12.72%) Analytics
5 325 (11.65%) Roadmaps
6 298 (10.68%) Machine Learning
7 290 (10.39%) CI/CD
8 276 (9.89%) DevOps
9 266 (9.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 227 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
11 217 (7.78%) Software Engineering
12 211 (7.56%) Content Writing
13 192 (6.88%) Customer Service
14 190 (6.81%) Customer Experience
15 170 (6.09%) Coaching
15 170 (6.09%) Mentoring
16 169 (6.06%) Decision-Making
17 138 (4.95%) Generative AI
18 136 (4.87%) Business Intelligence
19 131 (4.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 357 (12.80%) Python
2 261 (9.35%) SQL
3 117 (4.19%) Java
4 114 (4.09%) TypeScript
5 103 (3.69%) JavaScript
6 57 (2.04%) C#
7 45 (1.61%) Go
8 40 (1.43%) Bash
9 38 (1.36%) C++
9 38 (1.36%) PowerShell
10 24 (0.86%) R
11 23 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 22 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 19 (0.68%) PHP
13 19 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 18 (0.65%) C
15 17 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.57%) Scala
17 11 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,435 (51.43%) Degree
2 579 (20.75%) Master's Degree
3 564 (20.22%) PhD
4 78 (2.80%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.29%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (1.18%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 27 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.86%) PMP
11 23 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.79%) ACCA
13 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.57%) CISA
15 14 (0.50%) CISSP
16 13 (0.47%) DV Cleared
17 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
18 10 (0.36%) CISM
19 6 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 6 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 44 (1.58%) Data Quality
3 42 (1.51%) GDPR
4 33 (1.18%) QA
5 30 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (0.90%) IFRS
7 20 (0.72%) WCAG
8 18 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 16 (0.57%) GAAP
9 16 (0.57%) GRC
10 14 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.43%) NIST
12 9 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 9 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.25%) EU AI Act
13 7 (0.25%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.25%) NCSC
14 6 (0.22%) PMO
15 4 (0.14%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 99 (3.55%) Docker
2 33 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.14%) Firmware
5 4 (0.14%) Lustre
6 3 (0.11%) Kamailio
6 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.072%) Ceph
7 2 (0.072%) GPFS
8 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (3.33%) Terraform
2 85 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (0.79%) Ansible
5 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.39%) Grafana
8 8 (0.29%) SCCM
9 6 (0.22%) Argo
10 4 (0.14%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.072%) Control-M
12 2 (0.072%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.072%) Puppet
13 1 (0.036%) Cilium
13 1 (0.036%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.036%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,153 (41.33%) PayPal
2 425 (15.23%) Microsoft
3 89 (3.19%) Adobe
4 66 (2.37%) Google
5 61 (2.19%) Databricks
6 58 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 54 (1.94%) Cisco
8 52 (1.86%) Dell
8 52 (1.86%) Oracle
9 45 (1.61%) Blue Prism
10 29 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.00%) Apple
12 20 (0.72%) SAP
13 19 (0.68%) HubSpot
14 15 (0.54%) Foundry
15 14 (0.50%) Palantir
16 13 (0.47%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.39%) Informatica
17 11 (0.39%) Pardot
18 10 (0.36%) IBM
1,171 hybrid/remote AI jobs