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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 69 64
Rank change year-on-year +65 -5 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,795 783 927
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 18.27% 4.52% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.58% 4.87% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 866 457 482
10th Percentile £21,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 13,584 16,079 18,719
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.80% 92.89% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,677 9,729 15,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.88% -2.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.84%

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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 21 December 2025.

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 45 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.07%) Confluence
3 26 (0.93%) CMS
4 23 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.36%) Apache Solr
8 10 (0.36%) JBoss
8 10 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.25%) Apache
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 3 (0.11%) Luigi
12 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.072%) Mendix
12 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.036%) Camunda
13 1 (0.036%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1,296 (46.37%) Chatbot
2 87 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
5 6 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.18%) Sketch
7 4 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.11%) InDesign
8 3 (0.11%) Notion
8 3 (0.11%) Simulink
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.072%) Weka
10 1 (0.036%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.036%) Blender
10 1 (0.036%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.25%) 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
8 3 (0.11%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.072%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Shopify
10 1 (0.036%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.036%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 468 (16.74%) Azure
2 271 (9.70%) AWS
3 193 (6.91%) SaaS
4 191 (6.83%) Power Platform
5 143 (5.12%) GCP
6 135 (4.83%) GitHub
7 127 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 78 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
10 65 (2.33%) Snowflake
11 48 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 38 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 38 (1.36%) Serverless
13 37 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 37 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 35 (1.25%) dbt
15 29 (1.04%) Power Automate
16 26 (0.93%) Azure AI
17 25 (0.89%) OCI
18 24 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.72%) Broadband
2 10 (0.36%) Internet
3 9 (0.32%) Network Security
4 8 (0.29%) HTTP
5 7 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.21%) DNS
6 6 (0.21%) InfiniBand
6 6 (0.21%) WAN
7 5 (0.18%) DHCP
7 5 (0.18%) Firewall
7 5 (0.18%) VPN
8 4 (0.14%) DMZ
8 4 (0.14%) Intranet
8 4 (0.14%) VoIP
9 3 (0.11%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.11%) DSL
9 3 (0.11%) IPv4
9 3 (0.11%) IPv6
9 3 (0.11%) LAN
9 3 (0.11%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.19%) Power BI
2 75 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (1.90%) Tableau
4 43 (1.54%) NoSQL
5 40 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 36 (1.29%) Big Data
7 33 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 31 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 31 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (0.86%) Metadata
11 21 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (0.72%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.64%) MySQL
14 17 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.50%) Looker
17 11 (0.39%) Redis
18 10 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
19 9 (0.32%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 72 (2.58%) JIRA
2 55 (1.97%) Git
3 24 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (0.43%) GitLab
6 9 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.29%) Subversion
8 7 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.25%) MLflow
9 6 (0.21%) ERwin
10 5 (0.18%) GitBook
10 5 (0.18%) Selenium
11 4 (0.14%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.14%) Storybook
12 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.072%) LoadRunner
13 2 (0.072%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.072%) WebDriver
General
1 700 (25.04%) Analytical Skills
2 505 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 462 (16.53%) Finance
4 348 (12.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 193 (6.91%) Marketing
6 148 (5.30%) Public Sector
7 124 (4.44%) Retail
8 103 (3.69%) Legal
9 91 (3.26%) Law
10 57 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (0.97%) Games
15 26 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 26 (0.93%) Banking
15 26 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.57%) Advertising
18 15 (0.54%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 1,275 (45.62%) Trainer
2 226 (8.09%) Senior
3 181 (6.48%) Developer
4 155 (5.55%) Content Editor
5 129 (4.62%) Architect
6 98 (3.51%) Customer Support Specialist
6 98 (3.51%) Support Specialist
7 97 (3.47%) Lead
8 95 (3.40%) Analyst
9 87 (3.11%) Research Scientist
10 67 (2.40%) Consultant
11 62 (2.22%) Software Engineer
12 57 (2.04%) Microsoft Specialist
12 57 (2.04%) Sales Executive
13 49 (1.75%) Data Engineer
14 48 (1.72%) Corporate Sales Executive
15 45 (1.61%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (1.47%) Customer Service Representative
17 40 (1.43%) Software Developer
18 38 (1.36%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (2.90%) .NET
2 79 (2.83%) React
3 75 (2.68%) REST
4 59 (2.11%) Node.js
5 54 (1.93%) RESTful
6 45 (1.61%) Kafka
7 36 (1.29%) SOAP
8 33 (1.18%) OAuth
8 33 (1.18%) OAuth2
9 29 (1.04%) gRPC
10 28 (1.00%) Spring
11 26 (0.93%) GraphQL
12 25 (0.89%) Next.js
12 25 (0.89%) TensorFlow
13 24 (0.86%) FastAPI
13 24 (0.86%) PyTorch
14 22 (0.79%) HTML
14 22 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (0.79%) Middleware
15 21 (0.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 134 (4.79%) Cloud Native
2 107 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 104 (3.72%) Blog
4 103 (3.69%) Molecular Biology
5 63 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 52 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 49 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 49 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 49 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.29%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 33 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 32 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 29 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 24 (0.86%) Mobile App
15 23 (0.82%) Management Information System
15 23 (0.82%) Reinsurance
16 21 (0.75%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 33 (1.18%) Android
2 30 (1.07%) Windows
3 27 (0.97%) Linux
4 20 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.11%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.036%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.036%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,314 (47.01%) Conversational UI
2 466 (16.67%) Chemistry
3 379 (13.56%) Agile
4 293 (10.48%) Analytics
4 293 (10.48%) Roadmaps
5 281 (10.05%) Machine Learning
6 277 (9.91%) DevOps
7 261 (9.34%) CI/CD
8 235 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 228 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
10 209 (7.48%) Content Writing
11 206 (7.37%) Customer Service
12 190 (6.80%) Software Engineering
13 168 (6.01%) Coaching
14 159 (5.69%) Customer Experience
15 154 (5.51%) Mentoring
16 153 (5.47%) Decision-Making
17 144 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
18 141 (5.04%) Mathematics
19 139 (4.97%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 317 (11.34%) Python
2 263 (9.41%) SQL
3 97 (3.47%) Java
3 97 (3.47%) TypeScript
4 93 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 40 (1.43%) PowerShell
6 39 (1.40%) C#
7 33 (1.18%) C++
8 31 (1.11%) Bash
9 26 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 25 (0.89%) Go
11 22 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 22 (0.79%) R
12 20 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 18 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 17 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 15 (0.54%) C
15 15 (0.54%) PHP
15 15 (0.54%) Swift
16 13 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,577 (56.42%) Degree
2 705 (25.22%) Master's Degree
3 685 (24.51%) PhD
4 71 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 62 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 53 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (0.93%) ACCA
8 25 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 24 (0.86%) PMP
10 22 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (0.68%) Azure Certification
13 12 (0.43%) CISA
13 12 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.36%) CISM
14 10 (0.36%) CISSP
15 7 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.21%) DV Cleared
17 4 (0.14%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 38 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 35 (1.25%) GDPR
4 28 (1.00%) QA
5 23 (0.82%) GAAP
6 22 (0.79%) IFRS
6 22 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.47%) WCAG
9 10 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.32%) NIST
11 8 (0.29%) EU AI Act
12 7 (0.25%) GRC
12 7 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.18%) NCSC
15 4 (0.14%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (3.22%) Docker
2 27 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.18%) Lustre
6 4 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) GPFS
7 3 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.072%) Ceph
8 2 (0.072%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.036%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (3.11%) Terraform
2 83 (2.97%) Kubernetes
3 27 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (0.68%) Ansible
6 10 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.29%) SCCM
8 6 (0.21%) Grafana
9 3 (0.11%) Argo
10 2 (0.072%) Control-M
10 2 (0.072%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.072%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.072%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.072%) Puppet
11 1 (0.036%) Cilium
11 1 (0.036%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.036%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,276 (45.65%) PayPal
2 445 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 73 (2.61%) Adobe
4 67 (2.40%) Cisco
5 62 (2.22%) Google
6 60 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 55 (1.97%) Dell
8 51 (1.82%) Oracle
9 49 (1.75%) Databricks
10 45 (1.61%) Blue Prism
11 44 (1.57%) Apple
12 25 (0.89%) HubSpot
13 23 (0.82%) SAP
14 22 (0.79%) Palo Alto
15 20 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.57%) Foundry
17 13 (0.47%) ServiceNow
18 12 (0.43%) Atlassian
19 11 (0.39%) IBM
20 10 (0.36%) Alteryx