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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 +29
Permanent jobs citing AI 3,220 3,361 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 12.99% 20.35% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.02% 21.78% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,043 685 551
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,203 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £74,830 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -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 20,104 15,435 20,155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.13% 93.44% 87.99%
Number of salaries quoted 14,351 8,541 12,114
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,460 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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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 26 September 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
1 103 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.58%) Confluence
3 35 (1.09%) CMS
4 29 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (0.78%) Apache
6 21 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.34%) WordPress
9 10 (0.31%) SAS
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.12%) Camunda
12 4 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.093%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.031%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.031%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.031%) nginx
14 1 (0.031%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.031%) Umbraco
Applications
1 77 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.65%) Chatbot
3 33 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (0.75%) UserZoom
5 22 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 15 (0.47%) Photoshop
7 14 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
7 14 (0.43%) InDesign
8 13 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 8 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.22%) Moqups
12 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (0.16%) Trello
13 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.093%) Productboard
13 3 (0.093%) Revit
13 3 (0.093%) Sketch
14 2 (0.062%) Weka
Business Applications
1 39 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
3 24 (0.75%) Cloudability
4 12 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.12%) Primavera
6 4 (0.12%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.093%) SAP PSCD
7 3 (0.093%) Shopify
8 2 (0.062%) Maximo
9 1 (0.031%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.031%) HFM
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.031%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.031%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 907 (28.17%) Azure
2 633 (19.66%) AWS
3 312 (9.69%) SaaS
4 284 (8.82%) GCP
5 282 (8.76%) Power Platform
6 243 (7.55%) GitHub
7 237 (7.36%) Azure AI
8 189 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
9 164 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
10 148 (4.60%) Snowflake
11 145 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
12 138 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
13 135 (4.19%) Anthropic Claude
14 114 (3.54%) Serverless
15 112 (3.48%) Entra ID
16 76 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 76 (2.36%) Power Automate
17 75 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 69 (2.14%) Figma
19 64 (1.99%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 137 (4.25%) Broadband
2 37 (1.15%) Internet
3 34 (1.06%) Firewall
3 34 (1.06%) VPN
4 31 (0.96%) Network Security
5 23 (0.71%) 5G
5 23 (0.71%) DNS
6 16 (0.50%) HTTP
7 14 (0.43%) DHCP
8 13 (0.40%) VoIP
9 11 (0.34%) CTI
10 9 (0.28%) Wireless
11 8 (0.25%) WPA
12 6 (0.19%) DMZ
12 6 (0.19%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.19%) WAN
12 6 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) Ethernet
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (6.24%) MongoDB
2 181 (5.62%) Power BI
3 168 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 117 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 106 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 102 (3.17%) Metadata
7 77 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 56 (1.74%) NoSQL
9 53 (1.65%) Tableau
10 48 (1.49%) Big Data
11 45 (1.40%) Data Lake
12 40 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 37 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 37 (1.15%) Redis
14 35 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
15 34 (1.06%) Delta Lake
16 26 (0.81%) MySQL
17 21 (0.65%) Data Vault
17 21 (0.65%) DynamoDB
18 20 (0.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 126 (3.91%) Git
2 90 (2.80%) JIRA
3 89 (2.76%) Claude Code
4 40 (1.24%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.96%) GitLab
6 27 (0.84%) Snyk
7 20 (0.62%) MLflow
8 17 (0.53%) Selenium
9 15 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 15 (0.47%) Postman
10 14 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.31%) JUnit
12 10 (0.31%) Maven
12 10 (0.31%) Mockito
13 5 (0.16%) Burp Suite
13 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.16%) Poetry
13 5 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 993 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 803 (24.94%) Finance
3 432 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 382 (11.86%) Marketing
5 231 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 230 (7.14%) Legal
7 162 (5.03%) Law
8 153 (4.75%) Banking
9 121 (3.76%) Games
10 119 (3.70%) Retail
11 118 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
12 117 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
13 64 (1.99%) Advertising
14 54 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 45 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 37 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
17 35 (1.09%) Legal Technology
18 29 (0.90%) Financial Institution
19 26 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 606 (18.82%) Senior
2 424 (13.17%) Developer
3 346 (10.75%) Architect
4 342 (10.62%) Lead
5 269 (8.35%) Software Engineer
6 164 (5.09%) Analyst
7 162 (5.03%) .NET Developer
8 145 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 135 (4.19%) Consultant
10 97 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (2.95%) Python Engineer
12 88 (2.73%) Data Engineer
13 85 (2.64%) Senior Manager
14 81 (2.52%) Engineering Manager
14 81 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 74 (2.30%) Data Scientist
16 71 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
17 70 (2.17%) Senior Developer
18 68 (2.11%) Data Architect
19 66 (2.05%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (8.85%) React
2 261 (8.11%) .NET
3 168 (5.22%) Terraform
4 162 (5.03%) RESTful
5 160 (4.97%) ASP.NET
6 156 (4.84%) Node.js
7 155 (4.81%) .NET Core
8 151 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
9 148 (4.60%) ML.NET
10 136 (4.22%) CSS
11 127 (3.94%) HTML
12 125 (3.88%) REST
13 110 (3.42%) Blazor
14 108 (3.35%) LangChain
15 74 (2.30%) Next.js
16 66 (2.05%) LangGraph
17 55 (1.71%) PySpark
18 54 (1.68%) PyTorch
19 53 (1.65%) Vue
20 46 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 285 (8.85%) AI Agents
2 277 (8.60%) Cloud Native
3 137 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 129 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
5 112 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 110 (3.42%) Social Media
7 99 (3.07%) Blog
8 93 (2.89%) Management Information System
9 74 (2.30%) Low-Code
9 74 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 70 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
11 66 (2.05%) Algorithms
12 63 (1.96%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
14 59 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
15 51 (1.58%) Mobile App
16 50 (1.55%) Virtual Team
17 48 (1.49%) Hedge funds
18 47 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
19 43 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 81 (2.52%) Windows
2 72 (2.24%) Linux
3 38 (1.18%) Android
4 21 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.37%) VMS
8 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.25%) Unix
10 5 (0.16%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Debian
11 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.093%) Robot Operating System
12 2 (0.062%) AIX
12 2 (0.062%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (23.42%) Machine Learning
2 715 (22.20%) Agile
3 677 (21.02%) Analytics
4 623 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 615 (19.10%) CI/CD
6 577 (17.92%) Roadmaps
7 542 (16.83%) Software Engineering
8 510 (15.84%) Mentoring
9 466 (14.47%) Decision-Making
10 451 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
11 427 (13.26%) LLM
12 397 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 391 (12.14%) DevOps
14 376 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 338 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 337 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
17 308 (9.57%) Coaching
18 274 (8.51%) Data Science
19 267 (8.29%) Technical Leadership
20 249 (7.73%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 743 (23.07%) Python
2 568 (17.64%) SQL
3 310 (9.63%) C#
4 286 (8.88%) JavaScript
5 235 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 147 (4.57%) Java
7 75 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 72 (2.24%) C++
9 51 (1.58%) Go
10 49 (1.52%) Bash
11 45 (1.40%) Bicep
12 35 (1.09%) R
13 32 (0.99%) Scala
14 22 (0.68%) C
15 19 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.59%) PHP
16 17 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.47%) Rust
19 12 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 263 (8.17%) Degree
2 255 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 188 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 82 (2.55%) CISSP
5 75 (2.33%) CISM
6 66 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 56 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 54 (1.68%) A+ Certification
9 54 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 54 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
10 53 (1.65%) ACCA
11 43 (1.34%) CIMA
12 38 (1.18%) DBS Check
13 32 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 22 (0.68%) Master's Degree
16 19 (0.59%) PhD
17 18 (0.56%) SnowPro
18 16 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 147 (4.57%) GDPR
4 127 (3.94%) QA
5 74 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (1.99%) GRC
7 54 (1.68%) NIST
8 35 (1.09%) SLA
9 25 (0.78%) WCAG
10 20 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 16 (0.50%) PMO
13 15 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 14 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 12 (0.37%) IFRS
15 12 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.31%) EU AI Act
17 9 (0.28%) SOC 2
18 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 246 (7.64%) Docker
2 102 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 73 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.40%) vSphere
6 11 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.31%) Firmware
8 3 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.093%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) NFS
9 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 218 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 79 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (1.15%) Grafana
4 19 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.53%) Ansible
6 7 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.16%) Istio
8 5 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.16%) Nmap
9 4 (0.12%) Argo
10 3 (0.093%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.093%) linkerd
10 3 (0.093%) Podman
10 3 (0.093%) Puppet
11 2 (0.062%) Cilium
11 2 (0.062%) Kibana
12 1 (0.031%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.031%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 816 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 177 (5.50%) Databricks
3 173 (5.37%) Google
4 116 (3.60%) Adobe
5 112 (3.48%) OpenAI
6 108 (3.35%) YouTube
7 83 (2.58%) Cisco
8 62 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 60 (1.86%) Apple
10 58 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.71%) CyberArk
12 49 (1.52%) Dell
13 47 (1.46%) SAP
14 44 (1.37%) HubSpot
15 42 (1.30%) Foundry
16 37 (1.15%) Oracle
17 35 (1.09%) Facebook
18 31 (0.96%) VMware
19 30 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
19 30 (0.93%) Palo Alto