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

 6 months to
28 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 39 76
Rank change year-on-year +33 +37 +23
Permanent jobs citing AI 2,513 968 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 15.27% 6.47% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.81% 6.80% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 934 562 746
10th Percentile £24,570 £37,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £43,250 £56,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +1.96% -7.47%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £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 14,107 14,225 25,790
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.74% 95.08% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 8,743 21,428
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
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 28 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 40 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.07%) CMS
3 26 (1.03%) Confluence
4 23 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (0.52%) JBoss
7 13 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.36%) WordPress
10 7 (0.28%) Apache
11 6 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
13 4 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.12%) SAS
15 2 (0.080%) Mendix
15 2 (0.080%) Umbraco
16 1 (0.040%) Camunda
16 1 (0.040%) Kinematics
Applications
1 874 (34.78%) Chatbot
2 67 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.52%) UserZoom
6 3 (0.12%) Simulink
6 3 (0.12%) Sketch
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.080%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.080%) CapCut
7 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.080%) Weka
8 1 (0.040%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (0.60%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.080%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.080%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.080%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 464 (18.46%) Azure
2 302 (12.02%) AWS
3 218 (8.67%) SaaS
4 182 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 153 (6.09%) GCP
6 144 (5.73%) GitHub
7 107 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
9 80 (3.18%) Adobe Analytics
10 70 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
11 57 (2.27%) Snowflake
12 55 (2.19%) Serverless
13 48 (1.91%) Figma
14 43 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 39 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
16 38 (1.51%) Entra ID
17 33 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
18 29 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 27 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
19 27 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 119 (4.74%) Broadband
2 16 (0.64%) Firewall
3 13 (0.52%) HTTP
4 11 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.32%) Network Security
6 7 (0.28%) DMZ
6 7 (0.28%) Internet
7 6 (0.24%) RTP
7 6 (0.24%) VoIP
7 6 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.20%) DHCP
8 5 (0.20%) VPN
9 3 (0.12%) DNS
9 3 (0.12%) DOCSIS
9 3 (0.12%) DSL
9 3 (0.12%) IPv4
9 3 (0.12%) IPv6
9 3 (0.12%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.12%) PPP
9 3 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (3.74%) Power BI
2 70 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (1.91%) Tableau
4 47 (1.87%) Metadata
5 41 (1.63%) Big Data
6 37 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 37 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 33 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 26 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.96%) BigQuery
10 22 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 18 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.72%) Looker
12 15 (0.60%) Redis
12 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
14 13 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.44%) Delta Lake
15 11 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 59 (2.35%) JIRA
2 50 (1.99%) Git
3 22 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.72%) MLflow
5 16 (0.64%) GitLab
6 15 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.44%) Selenium
8 9 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.32%) Subversion
9 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.28%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.28%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.24%) ERwin
12 5 (0.20%) GitBook
12 5 (0.20%) Storybook
13 4 (0.16%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.16%) Postman
13 4 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 560 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
2 519 (20.65%) Social Skills
3 454 (18.07%) Finance
4 292 (11.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 177 (7.04%) Marketing
6 165 (6.57%) Public Sector
7 122 (4.85%) Legal
8 118 (4.70%) Retail
9 110 (4.38%) Games
10 104 (4.14%) Law
11 54 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 51 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 45 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.27%) Banking
15 31 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (1.19%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.92%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.68%) Automotive
19 16 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
20 14 (0.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 857 (34.10%) Trainer
2 293 (11.66%) Senior
3 208 (8.28%) Lead
4 203 (8.08%) Developer
5 115 (4.58%) Architect
6 102 (4.06%) Content Editor
7 84 (3.34%) Consultant
8 77 (3.06%) Analyst
9 76 (3.02%) Research Scientist
10 75 (2.98%) Customer Support Specialist
10 75 (2.98%) Support Specialist
11 71 (2.83%) Software Engineer
12 58 (2.31%) Data Engineer
13 55 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
14 50 (1.99%) Sales Executive
15 48 (1.91%) Corporate Sales Executive
16 46 (1.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 40 (1.59%) Designer
18 37 (1.47%) Lead Developer
19 36 (1.43%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (3.90%) React
2 85 (3.38%) .NET
3 84 (3.34%) REST
4 63 (2.51%) RESTful
5 62 (2.47%) Node.js
6 46 (1.83%) PyTorch
7 44 (1.75%) TensorFlow
8 39 (1.55%) Kafka
8 39 (1.55%) SOAP
9 35 (1.39%) OAuth
9 35 (1.39%) Spring
10 32 (1.27%) CSS
10 32 (1.27%) OAuth2
11 30 (1.19%) HTML
12 25 (0.99%) AngularJS
13 24 (0.96%) LangChain
13 24 (0.96%) Vue
14 22 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (0.88%) Middleware
15 20 (0.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 131 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 111 (4.42%) Blog
3 101 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 89 (3.54%) Molecular Biology
5 88 (3.50%) Social Media
6 71 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.07%) AI Agents
8 51 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
9 50 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 42 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 41 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 34 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
15 32 (1.27%) Low-Code
16 27 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
17 26 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
17 26 (1.03%) Social Network
18 22 (0.88%) Management Information System
19 20 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.99%) Android
2 33 (1.31%) Apple iOS
3 30 (1.19%) Linux
4 25 (0.99%) Windows
5 8 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.28%) Unix
7 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) OpenWrt
8 3 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.040%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (35.26%) Conversational UI
2 428 (17.03%) Agile
3 397 (15.80%) Analytics
4 370 (14.72%) Roadmaps
5 326 (12.97%) Chemistry
6 305 (12.14%) Machine Learning
7 299 (11.90%) CI/CD
8 269 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 258 (10.27%) DevOps
10 236 (9.39%) Customer Experience
10 236 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
11 204 (8.12%) Software Engineering
12 196 (7.80%) Mentoring
13 188 (7.48%) Decision-Making
14 156 (6.21%) Coaching
15 144 (5.73%) Project Management
16 143 (5.69%) Customer Service
17 142 (5.65%) Generative AI
18 136 (5.41%) User Experience
19 133 (5.29%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 343 (13.65%) Python
2 249 (9.91%) SQL
3 117 (4.66%) Java
4 102 (4.06%) TypeScript
5 86 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 60 (2.39%) C#
7 45 (1.79%) Go
8 36 (1.43%) C++
9 33 (1.31%) Bash
10 27 (1.07%) PowerShell
11 24 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 22 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 21 (0.84%) R
14 18 (0.72%) PHP
15 17 (0.68%) C
16 16 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.52%) Scala
19 9 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,130 (44.97%) Degree
2 506 (20.14%) Master's Degree
3 493 (19.62%) PhD
4 83 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 64 (2.55%) SC Cleared
6 54 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.51%) DBS Check
8 30 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 27 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 25 (0.99%) PMP
11 24 (0.96%) ACCA
12 23 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.64%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.56%) CISSP
16 12 (0.48%) CISA
16 12 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
17 10 (0.40%) CISM
18 6 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.89%) Accessibility
2 42 (1.67%) GDPR
3 41 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 39 (1.55%) QA
5 32 (1.27%) WCAG
6 28 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.07%) IFRS
8 17 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (0.68%) GRC
9 15 (0.60%) GAAP
10 14 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.52%) NIST
12 9 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.28%) EU AI Act
14 7 (0.28%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.28%) NCSC
14 7 (0.28%) PMO
15 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 101 (4.02%) Docker
2 29 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.16%) Firmware
6 3 (0.12%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.080%) Ceph
7 2 (0.080%) Lustre
7 2 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.080%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 81 (3.22%) Terraform
3 26 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (0.84%) Ansible
5 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.48%) Grafana
8 5 (0.20%) Argo
8 5 (0.20%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.20%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.080%) Control-M
10 2 (0.080%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.040%) Cilium
11 1 (0.040%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.040%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 854 (33.98%) PayPal
2 396 (15.76%) Microsoft
3 127 (5.05%) Adobe
4 66 (2.63%) Databricks
5 65 (2.59%) Google
6 57 (2.27%) Cisco
7 55 (2.19%) Dell
8 54 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 47 (1.87%) Oracle
10 45 (1.79%) Blue Prism
11 28 (1.11%) Apple
12 26 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.72%) Foundry
13 18 (0.72%) SAP
14 17 (0.68%) HubSpot
15 15 (0.60%) Palantir
16 13 (0.52%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.48%) ServiceNow
18 11 (0.44%) Informatica
18 11 (0.44%) Instagram
939 hybrid/remote AI jobs